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THE
CUMULATIVE BOOK
REVIEW DIGEST
EVALUATION OF
LITERATURE
]
Volume I.
1905
Complete in a single alphabet
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
MINNEAPOLIS
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Cumulative Book Review Digest
VOL. I. DECEMBER, 1905 NO. 10
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
_The_ H. W. WILSON COMPANY
MINNEAPOLIS
New York office
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_THE CUMULATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY._
_SETS OF MAGAZINES FOR SALE._
We have purchased two large stocks of miscellaneous magazines which we
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_The Need._
THE READERS’ GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1900-1904, and the current
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and the student can not use the material as advantageously as though it
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_The Cost._
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_Incidentally._
We shall collect many duplicate magazines and we propose to make up sets
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GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1900-1904. We hope to be able to supply
odd numbers, volumes, or sets and shall be glad to receive lists of
wants and also lists of duplicates which libraries may wish to dispose
of.
Lists of duplicates for sale should be accompanied by lists of wants
since we can pay more in exchange than in cash.
Announcements
The University of Chicago Press announces the addition to its list of
publications of two new journals, to be devoted to the interests of the
Ancient Classics; viz. Classical Philology, published for the University
of Chicago, and the Classical Journal, published for the newly formed
Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The former will
contain scientific articles and critical reviews; the latter, articles
and reviews of a more general nature, with special reference to the
needs of teachers.
As usual, The Outlook’s illustrated Magazine Number for December is also
its Annual Book Number, and this is in fact the seventeenth year of the
appearance of such a yearly survey of the books of the season. In
addition to a large number of pages devoted to a classified review of
recent literature in its more important departments, there are special
features dealing with notable literary personalities, and an article
dealing with the American publisher and including a dozen or more
portraits of the heads of the most famous American publishing houses.
Half a dozen or more authors of note have been chosen as the subjects of
personal articles, accompanied in each case with a portrait.
“Russia under the Great Shadow,” by Luigi Villari, is not only one of
the most readable of the recent books on the realm of the Czar, but
decidedly valuable. In Mr. Villari’s handsome and generously illustrated
volume the reader will find a most interesting and temperate account of
existing conditions in Russia, based on the author’s recent journey
throughout the empire. It is comprehensive, impartial, well-reasoned and
trustworthy, and will undoubtedly attract wide attention.
In the December issue of the “Political Science Quarterly” (Ginn &
Company) Professor George H. Haynes of Worcester, Mass., discusses the
tendency toward popular control of senatorial elections, and the methods
taken in the various commonwealths for limiting the choice of the
legislature in the selection of United States senators. Professor Frank
Haigh Dixon of Dartmouth College describes recent attempts on the part
of the states to regulate railways; and Mr. Royal Meeker analyzes the
arguments advanced by supporters of the pending shipping subsidy bill.
Other leading articles in the December Quarterly are “The Municipal Code
of Indiana,” by Professor Fairlie of the University of Michigan;
“Communistic Societies in the United States,” by Professor Bushe of
Clark College; “Berlin’s Tax Problem,” by Professor Brooks of Swarthmore
College; and “Private Property in Maritime War” by Giulio Marchetti
Ferrante, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Berne, Switzerland.
List of Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Acad.—Academy, London.
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $6. Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. London, England.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120-122 W. 60th St., New York.
Critic.—Critic. $2. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
University, N. Y.
El. Sch. T.—Elementary School Teacher. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago.
Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. 220 Broadway, N. Y.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. Williams & Norgate, London, England.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics, 1415 Locust St.,
Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44-60 East 23d Street, New York.
Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition),
London, England.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review. New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca. N, Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. Princeton, New Jersey.
Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion, 44-60 East 23d St., New York.
Reader.—Reader Magazine. $3. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $2.50. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor
Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review (London).
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Spec.—Spectator (London).
Yale R.—Yale Review, New Haven, Conn.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
=Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
=An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to
the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a
double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the
list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20
and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.
=The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines
indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
=In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the
volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
=In cumulated numbers=, the new entries for that number are indicated
by an asterisk (*).
* * * * *
The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews
of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for
all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the
periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the
digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places
at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable
information about books, which would not otherwise be available.
We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and
the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access
to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially
correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.
This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which
are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall
endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will
be little occasion to refer to the original publications.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cumulative Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines
A
=Abbey, Henry.= Poems. 4th ed. *$1.15. Appleton.
“The content-matter consists for the most part of simple ballads,
lyrics and poems for special occasions. In the present edition the
author has brought together all his verse that he cares to preserve
from previous editions and to these poems he has added a number of new
compositions.”—Arena.
“The charm of his work lies rather in the pleasing lines that appeal
rather to those who love the simple and quiet lays. Many of them are
delightfully-told legends and ballads that will linger in the memory.”
+ =Arena.= 33: 341. Mr. ‘05. 460w.
=Abbot, Henry L.= Problems of the Panama canal. $1.50. Macmillan.
Dating this discussion from the failure of the De Lesseps company,
Gen. Abbot who is consulting engineer of the new Panama company, makes
a technical study of the whole problem. He includes a “summary
comparison of the routes of the old and new companies, a description
of the physical conditions existing on the isthmus, the Chagres river
problem, the disposal of rainfall in the basin of the stream, and the
last chapter explains the plans proposed for the canal by the French
company and by the former Isthmian canal commission, and the
construction of a sea-level canal.” (N. Y. Times). Everything relating
to the best possible canal construction is covered, and to aid in
clearness, there are added a number of tables, maps, diagrams, &c.
“It would be difficult to find anywhere one better qualified to
discuss the Panama problems than General Abbot.”
+ + =Engin.= N. 53: 645. Je. 15, ‘05. 340w.
=Nation.= 80: 459. Je. 8, ‘05. 120w.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 394. Ag. 24, ‘05. 860w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 100w. (Statement of
contents.)
“Gen. Abbot has made a valuable contribution to the technical
literature of the Panama canal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.
=Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 300w.
=Abbott, Jacob.= Rollo books. 14v. ea. 50c. Crowell.
An attractive, new popular priced edition which retains the original
“Rollo” illustrations and includes Rollo learning to talk; Rollo
learning to read; Rollo at work; Rollo at play; Rollo at school;
Rollo’s vacation; Rollo’s experiments; Rollo’s museum; Rollo’s
travels; Rollo’s correspondence; Rollo’s philosophy—Water; Air; Fire;
Sky.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Christian ministry. **$1.50. Houghton.
This new book of essays is based on two courses of lectures given by
Dr. Abbott before the Yale and Pacific Theological seminaries. It
answers the question, Why do people go to church?
“Dr. Abbott writes with vision, power, tact, and rare literary
felicity.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 180w.
“It is a liberal view of the ministry and of the church, arising from
a profound faith in Christianity, not merely as a form of teaching but
as a power derived from a Person.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w.
“The book is pervaded by that newer and higher conception of religion
that is becoming more and more prevalent, viz.: that religion is not
ecclesiastical or dogmatic, but a living power in the heart of every
individual.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 380w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 160w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Industrial problem. **$1. Jacobs.
The William Levi Bull lectures for 1905. “The first lecture endeavors
to define the industrial problem: the other three propose as the
political solution, regulation; as the economic solution,
reorganization; and as the ethical solution, regeneration.” (Outlook.)
=Ind.= 59: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 240w.
=Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Personality of God. **30c. Crowell.
A widely discussed sermon preached before the Harvard students, in
which Dr. Abbott gives his definition of God. He aims to show the
honest, sincere and rational man who is confused by the difference of
opinion between a certain school of theologians and a certain school
of scientists, that a belief in the Fatherhood of God is consistent
with an acceptance of a thoroly modern scientific conception of the
universe. The binding is uniform with the “What is worth while
series.”
=Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“The combined simplicity and the power of this address are great. It
is interpretative to a rare degree. One breathes ‘an ampler ether, a
diviner air’ while reading it.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
* =Abraham, Rev. W. H.= Church and state in England. *$1.40. Longmans.
This history of the relation of church and state is written to aid the
student of their present relations. The period preceding the conquest
is first treated and the chapters which follow cover the Norman
period, the troubles with the papacy from Henry II to Richard II, the
beginning of constitutional church government, the growth of abuses,
the beginning of reform, the subjection of the church to the state and
later temporarily to the papacy, the Elizabethan settlement, the
Puritans, Latitudinarian troubles, and the growth of Erastian ideas.
In a final chapter entitled, The next step, Dr. Abraham makes
suggestions for the future.
* “On the whole we cannot commend this book; it ministers to prejudice
rather than to tolerance, and its author cannot be said to be inspired
by the spirit of true historical investigation.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 180w.
* “There is a little fault to be found with Dr. Abraham’s narrative of
the past. The point at which we should part company with Dr. Abraham
is to be found in his proposals for the future.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 240w.
=Acworth, William Mitchell.= Elements of railway economics. *70c.
Oxford.
A preface states that this book is but a fragment of a complete work
which the author has in mind, and is issued to meet the present need
of an English text-book in railway economics. It deals with railways
and railway business from an economic point of view and considers
railway capital, expenditure, income, charges and rates, closing with
a chapter upon the interference of parliament. Altho English
experience furnishes the illustrations the discussion is applicable to
all railways however owned or managed.
“The ordinary reader, if he will take the trouble really to master the
figures here tabulated and the close reasoning to which they lead,
will find the admirable little book now at his disposal make him quite
sufficiently conversant with the subject.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 430w.
=Adam, Juliette Lamber (Mme. Edmond).= My literary life, **$2.50.
Appleton.
There is a fascination about Madam Adam’s intense, vivacious
interpretation of the meanings of things that is not easily resisted.
Her literary career, outlined here from the time of her unfortunate
marriage to the founding of her salon, is linked with the life of
France during the stormy days of the second empire, and reflects the
temper of French society, thought and politics of the day. She rambles
on delightfully about the personal qualities of George Sand, Daniel
Stern, Edmond About, Gustave Flaubert, Madam Viardot, Jules Simon, and
hosts of other notables, revealing ever and anon her own radical
notions and violent tendencies. There are a number of full-page
pictures of men and women of the times.
“Altogether this is a most delightful, inspiring and informative book,
worth all the recent volumes of memoirs put together; the translation
is quite excellent; in fact, it does not read like a translation at
all.” Frank Schloesser.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 34. Ja. 14, ‘05. 510w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 310w.
“Chief defect (or excellence) is its haphazard garrulity.
Reminiscences give the book its value, apart from our interest in the
very communicative lady who writes it.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 21. Ja. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“A very readable book. In parts jerky and incoherent.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 240w.
=Adams, Andy.= The outlet. †$1.50. Houghton.
The author, who saw the beginning of the custom of wintering Texan
cattle in the Northwest, the measure which brought the extermination
of the bison and the confinement of the Indians to their reservations,
and who had some experience with railway companies and their methods
of caring for cattle, and their prices with contractors, and with the
Congressional lobbyist has woven all these things into his story.
“The book needs a glossary if it is to be thoroughly understood by
English readers.”
— =Acad.= 68: 665. Je. 24, ‘05. 390w.
“Not the least effective part of the book consists of the dialogue.
The success of this book is the more notable from the entire absence
of anything resembling a love story.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + + =Forum.= 37: 112. Jl. ‘05. 410w.
“He tells of the dangers of the great drive, from stampedes, from
alkali water, from drought, from flood and from men, in a
straightforward and convincing way.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is an out-door book, with no pretense to style or philosophy—a
plain story that takes you into the herd and its daily happenings. The
book is admirable of its kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 820w.
“A genuine American story. There is no fiction in ‘The outlet,’ but a
true, well-defined and entertainingly written narrative.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 500w.
“It is a fine picture of life on the plains, the relations of the men
towards each other, episodes of treachery and sharp practices, and the
fights against these evils.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“This is a striking foot-note to the study of conditions in the far
West.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 180w.
“‘The outlet’ is first and foremost, a capital story; after that, it
is a genuine contribution to the history of a typical American
industry.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 330w.
* “The story is somewhat colourless and lacking in breadth of
interest.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 70w.
=Adams, Frederick Upham.= John Henry Smith, a humorous romance of
outdoor life. †$1.50. Doubleday.
John Henry Smith tells his own story in diary form and also the story
of other members of the golf club and their play, among them the
heroine’s millionaire father, who becomes a golf enthusiast and
partner with Smith in a Wall street operation, and farmer Bishop’s
remarkable hired man who wins an heiress. There are various
adventures, in one an automobile gets the better of a mad bull and in
another it outraces a tornado.
“An effective antidote to insomnia.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 880. Ag. 26, ‘05. 480w.
“Mr. Adams has other qualities besides humour and characterization.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 202. Ag. 12, 140w.
“The story, told in Mr. John Henry Smith’s delightful and hearty
style, is particularly suitable for summer reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 670w.
=Adams, Oscar Fay.= Dictionary of American authors. $3.50. Houghton.
An outgrowth of the writer’s “Handbook of American authors,” published
in 1884. This fifth edition contains over eight thousand five hundred
names of recognized contributors to American literature, nearly three
thousand more names than the first edition and over one thousand more
than the fourth. The work is intended for critics, editors, and
publishers, who have to do with contemporary literature, as well as
for students of American literature and librarians.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams; ed. by H. A. Cushing. *$5.
Putnam.
“The editor of this volume properly says in the preface that the
writings of no one of the leaders of the American revolution form a
more complete expression of the causes and justification of that
movement than do the writings of Samuel Adams. Such a collection has
long been needed.... The present volume covers the period from 1765 to
1769, inclusive.... Nearly all the papers are of a distinctly public
character.... Brought together from many places, from the manuscript
collections of the Earl of Dartmouth, the collections in the Lenox
library, the Massachusetts state papers, the Life by Wells, the Prior
documents and other printed sources.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Everything included here is so desirable for an understanding of the
Revolutionary movement that the reviewer has not the courage to advise
the omission of papers the authenticity of which is in doubt, but he
does express the desire that succeeding volumes will make plain the
basis of inclusion and that work of such importance as this should not
be subjected to so serious a criticism.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 654. Ap. ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L.= Labor problems: a text
book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. *$1.60. Macmillan.
The following extract from the preface of this work shows the author’s
purpose: “The principal aim of this book is to furnish a convenient
collection of facts that will facilitate the study and the teaching of
the American labor problem.... Where it was necessary we have
sacrificed both interest and general social philosophy in order to
present concrete facts. We believe that the gravest differences of
opinion about the labor problem and the most dangerous
misapprehensions are caused by the failure to view the problem
broadly, to consider its many phases and ramifications. The labor
problem is greater than the problem of industrial peace. Impelled by
this conviction, we have preferred to cover a broad field imperfectly
rather than a narrow field in detail.”
“It is written in a broad and sympathetic way, with every effort to
state the facts fairly and clearly.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 586. My. ‘05. 190w.
“It is professionally designed for undergraduates and teachers, but
the general public may find in it also a range of subject-matter and a
felicity of treatment which should make it popular.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 300w.
* “Is comprehensive in scope and thoro in treatment, and will be found
indispensable to all students of industrial questions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 63. Ja. 28, ‘05. 220w. (Statement of aim and
scope.)
“This last chapter ... is probably the one which is most open to the
charge of providing students with ready-made opinions, though a
similar charge may also be made in connection with Dr. Adams’s
treatment of trade-unionism. It is, however, impossible to expect a
treatise like this to be exhaustive, and nothing but praise can be
given for the painstaking accuracy and wide research of the authors.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 460w.
“Text-book on labor problems, whose existence is its own
justification. The discussion is sane and necessarily inconclusive.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 215. F. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“Contains much valuable information.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
=Adamson, Rev. Robert M.= Christian doctrine of the Lord’s supper.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“This volume is historical, not dogmatic. It is written in a
historical but not an indifferent spirit; it traces the history of the
Lord’s supper, as a symbol of faith, in all the various changes
through which it has passed—Primitive, Roman, Greek, Lutheran,
Zwinglian, Anglican, Puritan, Quaker.”—Outlook.
“In general the author’s historical treatment appears to be always
fair and generally adequate. Without agreeing with all that the author
says ... we recall no monograph on the subject so generally
satisfactory.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Addison, Daniel D.= Episcopalians. **$1. Baker.
Uniform with “The story of the churches” series, this presentation of
the Episcopalians is offered by a fair-minded student of the
denomination’s history, in which are set forth the best elements of
the religious life and character of the denomination.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 714. Ap. ‘05. 30w.
“Is written with more than average literary power. The essential facts
relative to the origin and growth of the body are to be found in this
volume in an interesting narrative.”
+ + — =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
=Addison, Joseph.= Selections from the writings of; ed. by Barrett
Wendell and Chester Noyes Greenough. *80c. Ginn.
Representative selections from Addison’s most characteristic works in
prose and verse for use in the schools, for advanced students, or for
the general reader. The text is that of Tickell’s edition of 1721
except for the correction of misprints. An introduction, full notes,
and a bibliography are provided.
* =Addison, Mrs. Julia de Wolf.= Art of the National gallery: a critical
survey of the schools and painters as represented in the British
collection. **$2. Page.
“A plan of the gallery, showing the location of the different schools,
follows the index. The pictures are discussed in the text as they are
hung,—that is according to schools in their historic order ... the
limitation in space and particularly in number of illustrations
precludes this manual’s being a complete history of any school. It is
rather a guide to the treasures of the gallery, almost every picture
being at least briefly mentioned.” (Dial.) The author’s method is
descriptive rather than technically critical. The volume contains
nearly fifty illustrations in duo-gravure.
* “A book that will be particularly welcome to those who are
contemplating a visit to London’s art treasures, but one that has also
plenty to offer the general reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 20w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 468. D. 7, ‘05. 620w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 70w.
* =Adler, Cyrus, and Szold, Henrietta.= American Jewish year-book
(1905-1906). *75c. Jewish pub.
“This is the seventh annual issue of this work, and its regular
appearance is henceforth assured. The special feature of the present
issue is a sort of ‘who’s who’ compilation of biographical sketches of
Jewish communal workers in the United States. The review of the past
year, by Mr. Max L. Margolis, is a record of melancholy
interest.”—Dial.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 359. N. 2, ‘05. 100w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.
* + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
=Adler, Elkin Nathan.= Jews in many lands. $1.25. Jewish pub.
The author has made a study of his coreligionists in many countries,
at first visiting them professionally as an agent of the Holy Land
relief fund, later to investigate their conditions for personal
reasons. He went to Egypt in 1888, and later to Persia, the Holy Land,
Russia and Argentina, where he studied the Hirsch colonies. He gives a
full account of his people as he found them.
“The author has made extensive travels and tells his story well,
though omitting many details which would give greater value to his
account.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 587. S. ‘05. 50w.
“The work of a trained observer, and rich in curious interest for both
Jews and Gentiles.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 391. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Adler’s book has much interest to others besides Jews.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 360w.
“Is both interesting and enlightening.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
“He has the journalist’s instinct, and knows how to describe what he
has seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
=Adler, Felix.= Essentials of spirituality. **$1. Pott.
Dr. Adler says: “In the region of mental activity, which is called the
spiritual life, vagueness is apt to prevail, the outlines of thought
are apt to be blurred, the feelings aroused are apt to be indistinct
and transitory. The word ‘spiritual’ becomes a synonym of muddy
thought and misty emotionalism.” So its purpose is first to show the
twentieth century need for the development of the spiritual sense, and
to define clearly with illustrations drawn from Savonarola,
Washington, John Howard and others the meaning of “spiritual.” (N. Y.
Times.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
“We commend the volume as one of very practical and very genuine
spiritual value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 440w.
=Adler, Felix.= Marriage and divorce. **50c. McClure.
Two lectures delivered before the Society for ethical culture of New
York city. They set forth Dr. Adler’s views upon the obligations of
marriage and his strong opposition to divorce.
“The subjects have been carefully considered, and are treated
judicially and temperately.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 60w.
“Dr. Adler holds higher ground than is taken even in the churches.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 40w.
=Adler, Felix.= Religion of duty. **$1.20. McClure.
A preface states that in response to a growing demand for a book
setting forth the results of Prof. Adler’s work along ethical and
religious lines, some of his lectures and papers have been gathered
into this volume. They deal with such subjects as: First steps toward
religion; Changes in the conception of God; Teachings of Jesus in the
modern world; Standards of conduct, based on the religion of duty; The
ethical attitude towards others; Pleasure; Suffering, and The
essential differences between ethical societies and the churches.
“An occasional good thing appears amid the long stretches of very
ordinary paragraphs, and the general trend of the whole is toward
noble and unselfish modes of thinking and living.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 696. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
“Dr. Adler speaks in clear voice and gives satisfactory answers in
clear and concise language, that pulsates with the fire of a soul in
earnest.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 260w.
“Some of Dr. Adler’s most characteristic and vital lectures.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 320w.
=Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 100w.
“Stimulating and delightful book.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
Adventures of King James the Second of England, by the author of “A life
of Sir Kenelm Digby,” “Rochester,” etc. *$4.80. Longmans.
An informal history which takes for granted the reader’s knowledge of
the political events of the time, and presents in a wealth of
anecdotes a characterization of the unfortunate James. His early
military career on the continent under Condé and Turenne, his service
to the English navy, his genuine religious convictions, are set forth,
and he is shown to have been “a straightforward English gentleman, a
courageous soldier, a skilful admiral, and an excellent man of
business.” This may go far toward mitigating the world’s judgment of
him, based on his three years of disastrous kingship. There are
several beautiful portraits.
“While it keeps James’s best side uppermost, and while it exhibits
frankly Roman Catholic sympathies, the facts, except here and there
where Restoration politics come in, are presented accurately and
fairly. A book which, if not strikingly interesting, is nevertheless
useful for bringing out features of James’s character which are not in
general adequately recognized.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 648. Ap. ‘05. 860w.
“We laid the book down with the conviction established that it is one
of the most fascinating and withal instructive, historical works that
have appeared for the past few years. For, notwithstanding its
somewhat flippant title, it is a piece of serious work, though not
precisely history. The narrative runs on, from first to last, in a
brisk and lucid flow, upon the surface of which bubbles up from time
to time a flash of the humor and good-natured sarcasm that we should
expect from the pen that has given us the ‘Life of a prig.’ A fine
introduction by Dom Gasquet adds another charm to the book.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 80: 684. F. ‘05. 500w.
“The work is slightly tinged with a Catholic bias, but is on the whole
very fair in its statement of events and impartial, if sometimes
original, in its judgment of men.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 159. Mr. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“A pleasantly written life of King James, intended for the general
reader and possessing no historical value.” C. H. F.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 827. O. ‘05. 320w.
“Uncommonly interesting throughout but unconvincing.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 454. Ag. 24, ‘05. 190w.
“While less convincing than Dr. Airy’s life of Charles II. this volume
has the merits which are represented by a fulness of information and
incisive writing.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 570w.
* =Aesop.= Fables. *$2. Moffat.
Miss Elizabeth Luther Cary furnishes a pleasing introduction to this
new holiday edition of Æsop’s fables for which J. M. Condé has made
many drawings, both in color and black and white.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 10w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “On the whole we find the spirit of the artist too burlesque,
especially for an edition in which the moral is carefully preserved
and printed in boldface type.”
— =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 30w.
=Aflalo, Moussa.= Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British
foreign office; with introd by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$1.50. Lane.
This book “is in the main, an attack upon Lord Lansdowne’s policy in
respect to Morocco and England’s commercial interests there, and
devotes itself to showing how great the loss will be when France has
assumed control, and how thoroughly everything done to raise British
prestige through a long series of years has been overturned by a
scratch of the pen.”—Dial.
“The book presents a thorough statement of the attitude of Morocco
toward the outer world, by one in possession of the facts.” Wallace
Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 90. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
=Ainger, Alfred.= Gospel and human life: sermons. $2. Macmillan.
“The dominant note of Canon Ainger’s posthumous book is sadness.... As
we lay the book down we feel that in the eyes of the author the times
are religiously out of joint. For while he cannot be said to
dogmatise, he deplores deeply the ever-increasing disregard for dogma
and what he calls ‘the decay of worship.’”—Spec.
“These sermons are distinctly better than the average.”
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 598. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
“There is much which is beautiful in these sermons, both from a
literary and a religious point of view, much which must add warmth to
the affectionate memory cherished by so many of this scholar and man
of God.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1260w.
=Akers, Charles Edmond.= History of South America, 1854-1904. *$6.
Dutton.
The author, who has lived in South America for fourteen years and has
had wide experience on the continent as a journalist, gives an account
of the South American republics and their troubled history. He shows
us the men who have made the politics of these states for the last
fifty years and the general movements and tendencies which have been
felt in the entire continent. Aside from his own observations he has
drawn upon Spanish and Portuguese chroniclers for earlier history.
There are interesting illustrations.
“Thirty-four pages of historical introduction, in which the uninformed
reader will be dismayed at the array of names and dates and misled by
the generalizations. In fact the chief value of the book is that it
can be used as a trustworthy contemporary history. It has the defects
that the account of an eye-witness must have, even when he has been
able to get the perspective of a few years and to hear the other side.
But it has the advantage of being written by a writer trained to see
clearly. The most welcome feature of the book is the comprehensive
treatment of important events. Yet scarcely less valuable are the
comments on existing conditions. Rarely does one find a book at once
so useful to the specialist and so interesting to the tyro.” Hiram
Bingham.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 770w.
“The author tells his story clearly and with spirit, and adds some
well condensed information about the present state of these
countries.” E. M. Ll.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 615. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“There is nothing extant on this subject either so comprehensive or so
reliable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1189. My. 25. ‘05. 390w.
“A useful and comprehensive volume. This is the first comprehensive
history in English of the last half-century of the South American
states—since they attained independence from Spanish control.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 190w.
“A most readable, impartial, clear-sighted appreciation of political
leaders and their motives.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 112. Ja. 28, ‘05. 730w.
=Alcott, Louisa M.= Jack and Jill. $2. Little.
This new volume in the “Little women” series, is quite as attractive
as its predecessors and contains eight full-page illustrations by
Harriet Roosevelt Richards which show us Jack and Jill just as Miss
Alcott must have wished us to see them.
=Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 40w.
=Alcott, Louisa M.= Under the lilacs. $2. Little.
Uniform with the other volumes of this new and elaborate edition of
Miss Alcott’s famous stories, the “Little women” series, “Under the
lilacs” contains eight full-page pictures by Alice Barber Stephens,
which make Sancho and his friends seem, if possible, more real than
ever before.
=Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 40w.
* =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
* + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 120w.
* =Alden, Isabella Macdonald (Mrs. George R.) (Pansy, pseud.).= David
Ransom’s watch. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“When Ben Ransom, David’s younger brother, left the old farm, he took
$700 ... and he took his father’s old silver watch as well. David
could ill spare the money. He had to wait another year before he could
get married. And he was particularly sorry to part with the watch....
Ben’s life thereafter was full of ups and downs. His restlessness and
fickleness were his ruin.... David and the old watch both figured
conspicuously in his later misadventures.... Two threads of
self-sacrifice run through the tale to meet at last, making ideal
happiness for the group, from which all the unpleasant folk have been
eliminated by chances which the unregenerate reader will call
blessed.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It has the best plot that she has ever devised.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
* “Is a well-told, pleasing story of commonplace, likable people, with
plenty of wholesome sentiment flavored with the humor of the soil. It
is a good book for old and young alike.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 180w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Alden, William Livingston.= Jimmy Brown trying to find Europe. 60c.
Harper.
“This new book of Jimmy’s adventures ... deals with the travels of
James and his friend Mike ... from West Thompsonville, somewhere in
New York state, to Paris, by way of the fields and country roads, the
railroad, the canal, a steamboat, and finally a freighter from
Montreal to Havre. Jimmy is in search of his father and mother, whose
address, he knows, is ‘Grand Hotel, Europe.’”—N. Y. Times.
=Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 70w.
“Jimmy does not age or grow tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 398. Je. 17, ‘05. 710w.
“Jimmy Brown’s fortunes and the manner of telling, while quite frothy,
are excellent vacation reading.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
* =Aldrich, Richard.= Guide to The ring of the Nibelung. $1.25. Ditson.
A trustworthy guide to Wagner’s trilogy for the student and music
lover. Part I. touches upon Wagner, the man and composer, and the
circumstances leading to the composition; also gives a resume of the
legendary sources from which material was drawn; Part II. is an
authoritative essay upon Wagner’s musico-dramatic system; Part III.
presents a careful analysis of the three dramas of the trilogy.
=Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.= Judith of Bethulia; a tragedy. $1. Houghton.
A drama in four acts, written for Nance O’Neil, whose photograph
appears as the frontispiece. Mr. Aldrich builds the drama from his
poem, “Judith,” in which the heroine, a strong, just, refined woman,
is impelled by her religion and patriotism to a deed of unwonted
daring. He introduces here and there new portions which “show no
decline of the power to evoke pictorial images and touch deep sources
of feeling by which the early work of Mr. Aldrich was distinguished.”
(N. Y. Times).
“In its compact dramatic action, set forth in verse of a firm yet
delicate beauty, it has the perennial significance that attaches to
sincere and masterly workmanship.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ‘05. 80w.
“As a play, ‘Judith of Bethulia’ fails to hold the interest, and as a
poem it fails to reach inspired heights. But it is well worth reading
in a quiet hour, because of its simplicity, its chasteness and its
serenity.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 101. Mr. ‘05. 520w.
“A book that is dignified and impressive throughout, a book not
unworthy of the trained artistic hand which brings it to us as a
gift.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 48. Ja. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Aldrich’s mastery of poetic atmosphere is so easy, his metrical
gift so constant, that he accomplishes a feat difficult for most
writers of modern poetic drama, and weaves his melody and color around
speeches of mere theatric necessity, and even around broken lines of
swift dialogue.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 520w.
“We are the richer for a truly poetic drama, not quite so felicitous
in imagery and expression as the earlier version and without the swift
dramatic movement of inevitable events that marks the perfectly
successful play upon the theatrical side, but dignified and
imaginative and with the author’s unfailing insight into the
passionate emotions of human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w.
=Alexander, Lucia.= Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the
Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander.
*$2. Little.
A collection of a hundred and twenty-four miracle stories and sacred
legends written by fathers of the church and published in Italy during
the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The four
divisions are: I. Selections from the lives of the holy fathers
together with the spiritual field; II. Selections from the lives of
the saints and Beati of Tuscany; III. Selections from the wonders of
God in His saints, Bologna, 1593; IV. Flowers of sanctity, Venice,
1726.
=Alexander, Thomas, and Thomson, A. W.= Graphic statics; a graduated
series of problems and practical examples, with numerous diagrams, all
drawn to scale. *50c. Macmillan.
“The authors first give a set of sixteen graduated problems on
coplanar forces, solved by means of force and link polygons.... Then
follows a set of seventeen examples showing application to roof
trusses, girders, wall, and masonry arches.... The book is intended
more particularly as an introduction to the author’s Elementary
applied mechanics.”—Nature.
=Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“The treatment is somewhat fragmentary and arbitrary, but, if
supplemented by the teacher, the course would prepare a student for a
systematic study of graphic statics.”
+ =Nature.= 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 100w.
=Alexander, William.= Life insurance company. **$1.50. Appleton.
A book adapted “to the needs of the average business or professional
man.... It is a simple, straightforward exposition of the principles
on which all sound insurance is conducted, including a fair and
impartial statement of those facts in the history and present
management of the great American companies which every prospective
policy-holder should know.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is certainly informing. It is not altogether solemn either.
It has its humors, both intentional and unintentional.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 339. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w.
“A careful and informative treatise on the general subject of life
insurance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 50w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 130w.
=Algue, Jose.= Cyclones of the Far East. 2d (rev.) ed. Bureau of public
printing, Manila, P. I.
This pamphlet issued from the Manila Central observatory, “is printed
in both English and Spanish, and contains data for the month of July
upon atmospheric pressure, rainfall, relative humidity, winds,
magnetic disturbances, earthquakes (including microseismic movements),
and crop-service reports from four districts and about twenty-five
towns.” (Nation.)
“A valuable pamphlet.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 94. F. 2, ‘05. 520w.
=Allaben, Frank.= Concerning genealogies. **50c. Grafton press.
Suggestions of value for all who are interested in tracing their
family history. As stated in the preface, the book aims to cover every
phase of the subject, the sources of information, the methods of
research, the compiling, the printing, and the publishing of a
genealogy.
“It is a volume of practical suggestions, pleasantly worded, and
embodies the results of much experience in the work.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“One finds little that is new or striking in these rather cleverly
written pages.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 80w.
=Allbutt, Thomas Clifford.= Historical relations of medicine and surgery
to the end of the 16th century: an address delivered at the St. Louis
congress, 1904. *$1. Macmillan.
A plea for the “unity of medicine,” especially in England where
medicine and surgery “have been so radically separated as to be
regarded as two professions.”
“The address is well written and interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 788. Je. 24, 430w.
“The lectures are, of course, largely technical in their treatment ...
but the general purport is clear enough.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 210w.
=Allen, Charles Dexter.= American bookplates. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A new and less expensive edition of a work which appeared ten years
ago. It is hoped that its reappearance will revive and increase
interest in book-plate collecting, which fashion has waned
perceptibly. The book contains the bibliography of Eben Newell Hewins,
and the rare and interesting book-plate, with few omissions, that
appeared in the first edition.
“A work of permanent value for guidance and reference, and freely
illustrated with examples.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 120w.
“The book is simply a reprint, with all the imperfections of the first
edition reproduced.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w.
=Allen, Frank Waller.= Back to Arcady. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
The Kentucky rose-garden which furnishes the setting for this
June-time idyl is a fit place for the day dreams of a lonely man who
had “gone softly” all his days. One day he welcomes to his garden his
“Lady of Roses,” the daughter of the only woman he had ever loved.
Here under the jacqueminots he guards with a fatherly eye the
love-making of this fair Marcia and his neighbor Louis. The very
summer sunshine and rose garden perfume pervade the story thruout.
* “It is a tender, graceful little love-story, quaintly told by a
third person.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 150w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “A sentimental romance which depends for much of its effect upon
annoying and artificial phrases.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Allen, Gardner W.= Our navy and the Barbary corsairs. **$1.50.
Houghton.
An account of this interesting period of American history written from
original sources. The events which are scattered over a period of
forty years (1778-1818) are brought together and tell the story of how
the United States, in the first years of her national existence,
rebelled at paying the tribute which all Europe paid to the Mohammedan
states of north Africa. The story of the success of our little navy,
the wars with Tripoli and Algiers, the deeds of Preble and Decatur,
and the adventures of our seamen with the famous pirates is all the
more romantic because it is true.
“A good example of a book that is scientific and at the same time
popular. It is popular by reason of the dramatic quality of the
information that it contains. Its interest lies in the intrinsic
interest of its facts. The narrative is plain, simple and
straightforward.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ + + =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 174. O. ‘05. 770w.
“Dr. Allen has made his work thorough and authoritative, but betrays a
needless distrust of his own descriptive powers, leaving the more
dramatic events to be described almost entirely in the words of
eye-witnesses.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 359. My. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“Dr. Allen’s story is really as engrossing as a romance. It is safe to
say that, for the history of the movement as a whole, Dr. Allen is not
likely to have a successor.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 420. My. 25, ‘05. 1870w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 197. Ap. 1, ‘05. 970w.
“It is also a historical treatise of no small value, colligating
clearly and compactly the results of much original as well as
secondary research, and embodying a survey of astonishingly wide
range. The work is well written and well balanced throughout.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Alston, Leonard.= Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory
study in political science. *90c. Longmans.
“Mr. Alston, who is Deputy professor of history in Elphinstone college
at Bombay, has written a brief but lucid sketch of the constitutions
of the chief political communities of the modern world. His little
book was planned to meet the needs of university students; but it will
have a wider field.... [It] consists of three opening chapters dealing
respectively with Federalism, and the Two-chamber system, Party
government, and the Demarcation of powers; and of a second part in
which a special and more detailed account is given of the
constitutions of the chief powers of the world.”—Spec.
“Mr. Alston has done a useful piece of work, which, in its brevity and
clearness, is a model of the expository functions of a professor.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 620. Ap. 29, ‘05. 410w.
=Altsheler, Joseph A.= The candidate. †$1.50. Harper.
In this political novel the hero, who is a presidential candidate, is
accompanied by his niece on a speech-making tour through the West. A
newspaper correspondent, also in attendance, loves the girl, and is
largely responsible for the triumph of the candidate. The path of love
is not smooth, however, for the girl is the betrothed of a
distinguished politician, whose enmity her uncle has no wish to incur.
“Mr. Altsheler has given us a thoroughly readable story.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 391. Je. 1, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 135. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w.
“‘The candidate’ is by no means an unreadable book, but it is not in
Mr. Altsheler’s previous best style, nor is it up to his usual level
of interest. The various elements of plot somehow lack the cohesion
necessary to weld them into a convincing whole.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 570w.
“From a literary point of view there is little to be said of the book,
which merits attention chiefly through giving publicity to campaign
methods from apparently authentic ‘inside’ information.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 60w.
“There are certain crudities of plot and language, but one readily
pardons them because it is a good story and does not turn out in the
last chapter to be a brief for political reform.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
“That story is told with an almost prodigal display of intelligence
and power.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 180w.
=Altsheler, Joseph A.= Guthrie of the Times: a story of success. $1.50.
Doubleday.
“Mr. Joseph A. Altsheler has deserted the field of warfare for that of
present-day journalism and politics, and has given us in his ‘Guthrie
of the Times,’ an interesting and straightforward story of modern
life—‘a story of success,’ he calls it, and the description is true in
more senses than one. The scene of the novel is a state unnamed, but
easily identifiable as Kentucky; the hero is a newspaper writer of
resource and high ideals; the heroine is a young woman who has to
become re-Americanized after a life spent mainly abroad. How the hero
defeats the attempt to impeach a public officer in the interests of a
corrupt financial enterprise, how the heroine witnessing, admires, and
how in the end he wins both her love and an unexpected nomination for
congress, are the chief matters which enlist our interest.”—Dial.
“One cannot criticize this type of story, however. It is to be enjoyed
or laid aside, according to taste and temperament. It is very
American.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 555. My. 6. 370w.
“The whole story is told to direct and workmanlike effect.” W. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“Admirable story of southern life. The fresh sane optimism of the book
is very appealing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
=Ames, Joseph Sweetman.= Text-book of general physics, for high schools
and colleges. *$3.50. Am. bk.
“The general plan of treatment appears to be a general popular
enunciation of the matter of a section, followed by the more detailed
discussion of the experiments, apparatus, etc., and ending with a
historical review and bibliography. This excellent plan has, however,
at times fallen into the natural mistake of making the popular
introduction so full as to result in an unnecessary and rather
confusing repetition of matter, often leaving the reader uncertain as
to whether he has read all on a given topic or not.”—Educ. R.
“In spite of the shortcomings in many of the details, the book
contains very much valuable matter and will prove a desirable addition
to the library of every physicist.” William Hallock.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 319. Mr. ‘05. 1640w. (Detailed review of
contents.)
“The combination of simplicity with accuracy of statement is the
essential feature of a practicable book for use with beginners in
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possesses this combination of qualities to an unusual degree.” E. L.
N.
+ + + =Phys. R.= 20: 63. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
“A distinct defect in this otherwise excellent book is the complete
absence of illustrative problems.” W. Le Conte Stevens.
+ + — =Science.= n. s. 22: 175. Ag. 11, ‘05. 630w.
=Ames, Oakes.= Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family
orchidaceae, issuing from the Ames botanical laboratory, North Easton,
Mass. **$3. Houghton.
“This fascicle includes descriptions and plates of five new and
fourteen old species, a descriptive list of orchids collected in the
Philippine islands by the United States government botanists, a
description and figure of a hitherto unrecorded orchid in the United
States, and a paper entitled ‘Contributions toward a monograph of the
American species of spiranthes.’”—Science.
=Bot. G.= 39: 431. Je. ‘05. 160w.
+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 50w.
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commended.” Charles E. Bessey.
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=Ames, V. B.= Matrimonial primer; with a pictorial matrimonial
mathematics and decorations by Gordon Ross. *75c. Paul Elder.
Humorous, epigrammatic bits of advice for husband and wife are found
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one may both laugh and profit by them.
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more objectionable.”
+ =Dial.= 39:384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=Amsden, Dora.= Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of Japanese
colour-print artists. **$1.50. Elder.
“This study treats of the whole school of Japanese color-print
artists, and is appropriately illustrated with half-tone reproductions
of famous paintings. The whole is printed on Japanese paper, and an
appendix shows facsimiles of the most famous signatures of color-print
artists, presented in this volume for the benefit of collectors.”—R.
of Rs.
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form much information useful to those who are becoming interested in
Ukiyo-ye prints.”
— — + =Dial.= 39: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 520w.
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+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 445. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1630w.
“A sympathetic, suggestive analysis of Japanese paintings.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
* =Andersen, Hans Christian.= Ugly duckling. *75c. Moffat.
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Macmillan.
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=Anderson, Frank Maloy.= Constitutions and other select documents,
illustrative of the history of France, 1789-1901. *$2. Wilson, H. W.
Professor Anderson says: “The practice of studying documents in
connection with the history courses given in American universities,
colleges and high schools, has now become so general, and the results
attained so satisfactory, that the method no longer requires any
defense.” This document-book has been the outgrowth of personal need
with classes in the University of Minnesota, when work has been
hampered by the lack of a convenient collection of documents; also the
suggestion of compiling such a work was stimulated by the fact that
French documents are more attractive than any others, and that the
period of the French Revolution “deserves a volume in English
presenting as large a portion as possible of the important documents.”
The book is well printed and strongly bound.
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volume. Professor Anderson’s selection has been made with special
reference to the requirements of practical work.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 407. Ja. ‘05. 530w.
=Andrews, Rev. Samuel James.= Man and the Incarnation; or, Man’s place
in the universe as determined by his relations to the Incarnate Son.
**$1.50. Putnam.
The author’s discussion of the creation of man, his fall, and his
redemption through the Incarnate Son of God, is based upon “Premises
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back from its tomb.” The outlook for inharmonious man according to the
author is nothing short of the “great tribulation” which marks the end
of the world.
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— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 190w.
=Angell, James Rowland.= Psychology: an introductory study of the
structure and function of human consciousness. *$1.50. Holt.
Professor Angell sets forth first of all in an elementary way the
generally accepted facts and principles bearing upon the functional
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consciousness with the functional interpretation of those contents
which alone can give them rational organization and meaning. The
influence of Dewey is most evident in the general standpoint, and that
of James in many of the details of treatment. In comparison with
James’s classic textbook, it has, however, two advantages—in its
completeness and in its systematic unity. The affective processes,
which James nowhere mentions, here receive due treatment, and many
minor omissions in the older textbook are filled in. The unity of all
conscious processes is made a central idea in the treatment of each
one.” Helen Bradford Thompson.
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+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
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+ + + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“One of the very best of elementary textbooks of the subject.” R. S.
Woodworth.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 30: 312. O. ‘05. 860w.
“Numerous works on psychology have appeared in recent years, but this,
in our opinion, is not only the latest but also the most satisfactory
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so familiar with these results that apparently without effort he
expresses them in words that are simple and in sentences that are
clear. Technical readers will not object to this, and untechnical
readers will especially appreciate it.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 255. F. 18, ‘05. 540w.
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cross-references.”
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note in detail the many excellent features in content and form or the
few cases of questionable facts and methods of presentation.” Edward
L. Thorndike.
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=Angus, D. C.= Japan: the eastern wonderland. $1. Cassell.
“Supposedly ‘Japan, the eastern wonderland,’ was written by a Japanese
for the amusement and instruction of his friends in England where he
had received the finishing touches of his education.” (N. Y. Times).
The narrator, Kotaro, and his sister Hana furnish representative
Japanese types, in the portrayal of whose lives from infancy up, the
reader gains a clear idea of conditions, customs and methods of
Japanese education. “The past of Japan and much of its history is
dwelt upon in this volume. Wonderful have been the changes made during
the second half of the last century. There has been the regeneration
of Japan, feudalism has been abolished, the samurai have had their
privileges curtailed.... There are no tortures for petty crimes. All
religions are tolerated. The school children learn their lessons from
Japanese translations of foreign text books. Native literature is not
neglected, but it is no longer used as a guide.” (N. Y. Times).
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 45. Ja. 21, ‘05. 540w.
=Angus, Joseph.= Cyclopedic handbook to the Bible: an introduction to
the study of the Scriptures. *$2. Revell.
“Originally published in 1853, this has been an eminently useful book.
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added from the gains acquired by a half-century of increasing
knowledge, while the original plan, with some rearrangement, remains
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next as a series of books taken separately, go into manifold
details.”—Outlook.
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seems likely to remain for long a favorite.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 80w.
=Annandale, Nelson.= Faroes and Iceland. *$1.50. Oxford.
This book is “occupied chiefly with natural history and ethnology ...
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isolated and rather primitive though civilized communities. As such it
has exceptional interest and value, especially since the communities
selected for study are of ancient establishment, and have not, in
recent years, been the subject of any analogous description.”—Nation.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26, 700w.
“Instructive little volume on these islands of the Far North.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 282. S. 8, ‘05. 1100w.
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+ + =Nation.= 81: 225. S. 14, ‘05. 1010w.
“A most admirable little work,” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 506. S. 21, ‘05. 580w.
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observations.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
=Annesley, Charles.= Standard opera glass. $1.50. Brentano’s.
A new and revised edition of a useful book of reference. It contains
sketches of the plots of 123 famous operas, with critical and
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the preface, James Huneker, says: “‘The standard opera glass’ is much
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the classics, admires Wagner, and is liberal to the younger men. What
more can one ask?”
“A useful book of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 140w.
=Anthony, Gardner C.= Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.50. Heath.
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drawing in Tufts college and dean of the department of engineering;
his textbook, first issued ten years ago as a strictly elemental work,
is now revised and changed for use in evening drawing schools and
technical colleges.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 230w.
=Antrim, Mrs. Minna Thomas (Titian, pseud.).= Knocks—witty, wise and—.
*75c. Jacobs.
Cynical observations and “dark glass” digs based upon men and women’s
foibles and weaknesses.
=Apperson, G. L.= Bygone London life: pictures from a vanished past.
*$1.50. Pott.
“An industrious collection of odds and ends illustrative of the life
of London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... The
restaurants and coffeehouses, and their frequenters, the swells and
beaus and macaronies, are depicted by aid of the memoirs, letters, and
society verse of that day. The effect is much like that of a visit to
one of the quaint old museums described in chapter IV.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The especial value of Apperson’s treatment is the literary point of
view.” Katharine Coman.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 687. Ap. ‘05. 320w.
=Archbald, Anna, and Jones, Georgiana.= Fusser’s book. 75c. Fox.
An enlarged edition of the “Fusser’s book” which gives advice to
fussers or flirts in epigrammatic phrases. “Angle for a lady’s hobby,
and when you’ve hooked it play her. If the lady in turn angles for
yours, don’t jump at the bait.”
=Aristotle.= Politics; tr. by B. Jowett. *$1. Oxford.
In an introductory discussion, Aristotle’s relation to his “Politics”
is clearly defined as that of the utilitarian philosopher, and student
of human nature, with due emphasis on ethical values as he “treats of
the state as one of the chief means thru which the individual obtains
to happiness.” “The object of the ‘Politics’ is both practical and
speculative; to explain the nature of the ideal city in which the end
of happiness may be fully realized; to suggest some methods of making
existent states more useful to the individual citizen than they were
in Aristotle’s time, or had been in the past.”
“The analysis and the index are well done.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 463. Ap. 15, 130w.
“The reprint, which is in a small and convenient volume, will be found
especially useful by students of political science who are not
students of Greek.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 430w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Gainsborough and his place in English art.
$3.50. Scribner.
A biography which furnishes in nine short chapters a well-ordered
analysis of the work of perhaps the greatest painter technically.
“Best of all parts of the book for public guidance is the
introduction, in which much of the best modern thought on esthetics is
presented in a concise and clear form. There is discussion of the idea
that ‘art is the use for subjective expression of a power which
displays itself objectively in what we call beauty,’ and we are
reminded that ‘mere correctness of imitation holds no higher place in
a picture than grammar does in a poem.’ ... An interesting chapter on
the precursors of Gainsborough traces some characteristics of British
art back through the seventeenth century to miniaturists of a time
even before Holbein.... The landscapes and portraits are, properly,
treated together, for Gainsborough’s art was always that of the
impressionist who paints hotly under the stimulus of any vision fitted
to appeal, whether in the shape of a lovely scene in nature or a
beautiful woman.” (Ind.)
+ + =Ind.= 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 390w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Peel collection and the Dutch school. $2.
Dutton.
As director of the National gallery of Ireland, the author knows well
how to interpret and value the ideals and success of a school of
painting. The artists represented in the Peel collection “give to him
an opportunity of writing a monograph on Dutch painting which, we are
glad to note, includes several Flemings directly affected by Holland.”
(Outlook). He uses for illustration the works of Metsu, Terborch,
Vermeer, Hooghe, Jan Steen, Ostade, Willem and Adrien van de Velde,
Wouwerman, Hobbema, Ruisdael, Cuijp, Koninck, and Hals. The book is
interesting in itself, and of value to those who wish a better
understanding of Dutch art.
“An acute and valuable critical essay on the Dutch school.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 670w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 591. S. 9, ‘05. 440w.
“A particularly important contribution to the better understanding of
Dutch art.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.
* =Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the
Royal academy. *$3.50. Scribner.
“A popular reprint of a monumental work on the English portrait
painter, first published five years ago, by the greatest living
authority on the subject.... Particularly is Sir Walter Armstrong to
be congratulated for his fine sense of selection, by which he has
drawn what is truthful and distinctive from the early biographies;
also for his critical estimates, which have stood the most searching
and eager tests of five years of criticism.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Presents in conclusion to a thorough and interesting biography a
sympathetic picture of an unsympathetic man, a guarded estimate of a
deliberate artist.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 220w.
* “The public is to be congratulated on having so authoritative a work
thus brought within reasonable reach while maintaining a high standard
of manufacture.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 230w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* =Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp) gräfin von.= Princess Priscilla’s
fortnight. †$1.50. Scribner.
The author of “Elizabeth and her German garden” has written of an
experience in the life of her grand ducal highness, the Princess
Priscilla. “Aided and accompanied by the good old ducal librarian,
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ragged plot and occasional heaviness of phrase.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1229. N. 25, ‘05. 570w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 230w.
* “This volume is highly characteristic of its writer. We get the
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of narration and dialogue, and, it must be confessed, the usual
absurdities and exaggerations. The characters, though overdrawn, are
full of interest.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 370w.
* “Is well worth reading, not only for the genuine enjoyment it will
give, but for its sensible and logical ‘conclusion of the whole
matter.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 650w.
* “The story, although slight and farcical, is very amusing and good
reading for a leisure hour.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Asakawa, Kanichi.= Early institutional life of Japan. *$1.75. Scribner.
“The author devotes his first and longest chapter to a description of
Japanese institutions as they existed about 500 A. D. Then follow two
chapters, one on the events leading up to the reform, the other, a
particularly good one, on the political doctrine of the Chinese by
which the reformers were so strongly influenced. Next comes a long
chapter on the new institutions introduced under Kotoku and his
successor; and lastly a short chapter sketches the subsequent
development.”—Nation.
“Next to Mr. Chamberlain’s translation of the ‘Kojiki’ with its
invaluable introduction and notes, this volume by Dr. Asakawa is first
in importance of works in English upon the period of which it treats.”
George William Knox.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 128. O. ‘05. 590w.
“It seems hardly too much to say that he has here laid the foundation
stone for the critical study of early Japanese institutions. The
author’s style is clear for the most part. The author is to be
congratulated on having successfully accomplished a difficult piece of
pioneer work.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 57. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1060w.
=Asakawa, K.= Russo-Japanese conflict: its causes and issues. **$2.
Houghton.
Dr. Asakawa “has made a most illuminating and complete statement of
the needs and aspirations of the Japanese people, which led them to
take up arms against Russia.” (R. of Rs.) “He accepts tacitly the
economic interpretation of history upon which Karl Marx and his
followers insist, proving that the vast increase in the population of
Japan requires an outlet on the Asiatic mainland, and setting forth
the right and interests recently acquired by Japan in both Manchuria
and Korea.... The book contains portraits of the statesmen who figure
in its pages and may be taken as a valuable contribution to
contemporary history from the end of the war with China through the
diplomatic correspondence immediately following the outbreak of
hostilities.” (Dial). The author is lecturer on the civilization and
history of East Asia at Dartmouth college.
“No subject of a neutral power could have written a more impartial
account of the long diplomatic engagement which preceded the outbreak
of hostilities in the far East. The special and quite unusual virtue
of this book is the elimination of moral standards and patriotic
sentiment from the discussion of a present-day conflict.” Ferdinand
Schwill.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 701. Mr. ‘05. 170w.
“His whole statement is cool, temperate, and wonderfully free from
heat or special pleading.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
“A clear and logical presentation of the cause of his native land,
with an endeavor to make an unprejudiced statement of the side of its
adversaries also. In the latter effort he is as successful as anyone
could reasonably expect, his desire to quote from Russian authorities
wherever they have spoken amounting to solicitude. Of the broad causes
leading up to hostilities, Dr. Asakawa tells us little not already
known. But in details and the marshalling of facts he is far fuller
than anyone preceding him.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 9. Ja. 1, ‘05. 760w.
“It is a statement ... remarkable for both its brevity and its
restraint. The book is so dispassionately written that the nationality
of the author if not disclosed would hardly have been guessed. It is
one of the strong points of Dr. Asakawa’s argument that he does not
take very high moral ground. His statement of causes leading to the
war is rather political than moral.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 1060w.
“Another thoughtful philosophical work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
* “His book should be indispensable to all who study the outbreak of
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history tells us.”
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“A real and permanent contribution to historical and political
science, as well as an interesting and timely book. The map leaves
much to be desired.” Amos S. Hershey.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 92. My. ‘05. 940w.
=Asbury, Francis.= Heart of Asbury’s journal; ed. by Ezra Squier Tipple.
*$1.50. Eaton.
“The memory of this main pioneer and organizer of American Methodism
is now honored by substantial extracts, covering the forty-five years
of his ministry in this country, in a revised and corrected text....
The author wrote by fits and starts, under all the difficulties of a
laborious and constant itinerary, and the compiler has not improved
his unpretentious jottings beyond recognition, but one may find items
of antique or curious interest.”—Nation.
“Its chief interest is in connection with a history of early
Methodism, with side-lights on manners and customs.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 716. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“It is a fascinating ecclesiastical romance which all Christian folk
will enjoy.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 153. F. 23, ‘05. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 99. F. 18, ‘05. 540w.
“The best and almost the only record of the infancy of his church on
this continent.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 100w.
=Ascham, Roger.= English works of Roger Ascham: ed. by William Aldis
Wright. $1.50. Macmillan.
Included in the “Cambridge English classics,” this volume contains
“Toxophilus,” “Report of the affaires and state of Germany,” and “The
scholemaster,” all of which appear in the original spelling. “The
scholemaster” has long been “one of the original documents” in
educational literature, but the most popular portion of the volume is
“Toxophilus,” a treatise on archery.
“No better edition of Ascham’s text is ever likely to be printed.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 144. F. 4. 250w.
“Mr. Wright’s task has been to ensure the purity of the text. The
curious and readable part of this collection is in the teaching of bow
shooting; the immortal part lies in the chapters on education.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 340w.
“The name on the title-page is sufficient guarantee of the care with
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the volume.”
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“Edited by a true scholar.”
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=Ashe, Sydney Whitmore, and Keiley, J. D.= Electric railways
theoretically and practically treated. **$2.50. Van Nostrand.
The plan of this text-book is “to cover first a few essential
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in detail.” (Engin. N.) There are six folding plates and 172 text
illustrations.
“A general criticism which may be made on all parts of the work is
that every subject is treated too briefly, in fact, one might almost
say hurriedly. The material is excellent, and it is well arranged for
general reading and for reference. It is undoubtedly more complete
than any other concise treatment of the subject.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 950w.
=Ashley, Percy.= Modern tariff history: Germany, United States, France.
*$3. Dutton.
The tariff histories of Germany, France, and the United States are
offered in brief form “for the purpose of showing how these countries
have met the problems of free trade and protection. It is the work of
a politician and an economist, who felt the necessity of coming to a
clear and unprejudiced understanding of the great problem.” (N. Y.
Times). The tariff history of Germany is outlined from the formation
of the Zollverein to the present time. The lesson which the author
draws from his investigation of the experience of Germany is
summarized as follows: “Changes in tariff policy have been only one,
and commonly not the most important, among the many causes of her
economic progress.” “Of the French tariff legislation,” says Mr.
Ashley, “it can be said with some confidence that, whatever it may
have done to maintain agriculture—and even there it is arguable that
it has encouraged the continuance of old fashioned methods—it has
wrought little good and in various ways much harm to industry and
commerce.” The tariff legislation in the United States is traced from
its beginning, and in conclusion he argues that while America has in
the past benefited by a protective policy, the time has come when the
abandonment promises greater results.
“Mr. Ashley’s style is remarkable for a certain freshness and vitality
which makes his book easy reading in spite of the abstruseness of the
subject. Taking it altogether the book is well worth while.” J. E.
Conner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 598. S. ‘05. 330w.
“Derived almost wholly from secondary sources intelligently selected,
they afford in short compass a good sketch of the history of the
tariff during the past century in the three countries. It suffices to
say that Mr. Ashley employs the historical method judiciously and
effectively, with an evident knowledge of its limitations. Instructive
as is this comparative tariff history in many other respects, it is
peculiarly excellent as affording an insight into what is called
neo-mercantilism, and its correlative—which might perhaps be called
neo-libertarianism.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 138. F. 16, ‘05. 1040w.
“He has given an interesting history of the tariff in three great
countries, but we cannot see how the results of his studies are going
to enlighten his countrymen very much.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 7. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1480w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
=Ashley, William James.= Progress of the German working classes in the
last quarter of a century. *60c. Longmans.
A good economic monograph written in a spirit of moderation and of
especial value to those who are interested in the fiscal controversy.
“It is very readable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 587. My. ‘05. 170w.
=Nation.= 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 550w.
“In a small compass he has collected most of the facts bearing on the
question, and he has handled his statistics with the skill and the
fairness which are to be expected from him.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 618. Ap. 29, ‘05. 440w.
=Ashmore, Sidney Gillespie.= Classics and modern training. **$1.25.
Putnam.
“A series of addresses suggestive of the value of classical studies to
education, published in the hope of interesting the general reader in
a few matters connected with the study of Greek and Latin, and, if
possible, to call attention to the value of the ancient language and
literature to education.”—Bookm.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 587. My. ‘05. 30w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Professor Ashmore’s plea for the classics in modern training is well
considered and presented, but, naturally, does not contribute anything
very novel to the discussion.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 20w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 119. Ag. 10, ‘05. 610w.
“Taken together, the papers have more to do with Greek than with
Latin.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 85. F. 11, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 219. Ap. 8, ‘05. 650w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“Mr. Ashmore’s attitude is philosophic rather than polemic.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 360w.
At the sign of the fox, by the author of The garden of a commuter’s
wife. †$1.50. Macmillan.
At the Sign of the fox a girl who has been an art student tries to
retrieve her father’s shattered fortunes by serving tea to travelers
passing in carriage or motor car. Two men enter into the story, an
artist who had painted the heroine’s portrait unknown to her, and a
silent sad man with a haunting past, a dog and a gun. There are other
characters and other dogs, and much that is chatty and domestic.
“The author has a strong love of nature, and her sketches of outdoor
life have atmosphere and charm.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 397. S. 23. 230w.
“The book is one of those that leave a pleasant taste behind them.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 134. O. ‘05. 280w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“In short, a very feminine sentimental book, but not nearly so good
reading as, say, the same author’s ‘Woman errant.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 476. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
“But, apart from plot, there is much to admire and enjoy in this
spirited and cleverly written book—notably its honest thrusts at
social pretentiousness and humbug.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
“It is all very sweet and wholesome, though we find parts of it a
heavy tax on credulity.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 150w.
“The story is eminently readable, although it has not, perhaps, quite
the subtle charm which distinguished the first book by this author.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 140w.
=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Bell in the fog, and
other stories. †$1.25. Harper.
Ten stories which deal with both the natural and the supernatural.
Besides the title story they include: ‘The striding place,’ ‘The dead
and the countess,’ ‘The greatest good of the greatest number,’ ‘A
monarch of a small survey,’ ‘The tragedy of a snob,’ ‘Crowned with one
crest,’ ‘Death and the woman,’ ‘A prologue (to an unwritten play),’
‘Talbot of Ursula.’
“The stories are not bad, considered as magazine stories. They show,
most of them, something of Mrs. Atherton’s characteristic qualities—a
certain rough power of presentation and an insight into character,
especially feminine character. But there is no unifying thought
running through all this miscellany. In some we are taken to that
mysterious borderland, the ‘great pale world.’ But Mrs. Atherton’s art
is not delicate enough for such a theme; neither, to speak plainly, is
her mastery over the English language sufficient.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 127. F. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“All are characterized by the sort of passionate virility, the
picturesque materialism, with which Mrs. Atherton’s previous books
have made us familiar. Its faults are want of balance, judgment and
restraint.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 238. F. 25. 390w.
“The dominant note of the book is—uncanny. The stories, needless to
say, are told by one who can tell them well, but they are the result
of introspection rather than of observation.”
+ =Cath. World.= 29: 129. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“The method is careless, there is no delicacy of touch, and the
dialogue in almost all the stories is preposterous.”
— — =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 150w.
“[The first is] a charming tale, having that touch of the occult
always so fascinating—a faraway suggestion of Poe’s ‘Lady Ligeia.’ The
other nine stories vary in everything save in the artistic manner of
their handling.... Like Mr. Howells, Mrs. Atherton gives such
imaginings the perfect touch by leaving everything vague and
unexplained, and by placing them in a setting of real people and
things thrown upon her canvas with her own surpassing skill.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 600w.
=Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 40w.
“If anyone can tell what they are all about or why they were written
it is Mr. James, and professional ethics will probably seal his lips.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 140w.
=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Travelling thirds.
†$1.25. Harper.
Mr. Moulton, the reader for a publishing house, with his wife and two
daughters, who have become accustomed to a literary atmosphere, and
his niece, Catalina, a madcap California girl, decide to tour the
continent. The story concerns the romances which they meet with and
the grand passion which comes to Catalina, who finally quarrels with
her relatives and is left the sole interest of the closing pages of
the book. The story derives its name from the fact that the party
traveled third class thru Spain.
* “The story as a story is of no importance. As an invitation to
travel in Spain it is persuasive and alluring.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1263. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.”
Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ‘05. 190w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 370w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 390w.
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
Athlete’s garland. Rice, W., comp. **80c. McClurg.
The compiler has gathered together from many sources, verses relating
exclusively to athletic sports. There are no restrictions as to
authorship, and the volume includes translations from Homer, Pindar
and Virgil, verses by Byron, Swinburne, Emerson, Stevenson, Kipling,
Whitman and many others, and several anonymous selections.
“Good taste and judgment characterize this selection throughout.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 160w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.
=Atkins, James.= Kingdom in the cradle. $1.25. Pub. house of M. E.
church S.
After a preliminary discussion of the problems confronting the
Christian world, the author shows that ultimate spiritual triumph will
result only from proper “growth of the seed.” Chapters follow
outlining the course of child development spiritually, including
Christ’s doctrine of the child and the kingdom, The child as the
subject of religious education, The church and the home, The child in
the home and The Sunday school as a field of training.
=Atkinson, Edward.= Facts and figures: the basis of economic science.
**$1.50. Houghton.
“In a volume published under the title ‘Facts and figures,’ Mr. Edward
Atkinson has collected several essays on the protective tariff and the
cost of war and warfare.”—R. of Rs.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
— =Atlan.= 95: 561. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
“It may also be doubted whether the science of economics will be
greatly advanced by papers which the author admits were sent to press
without such complete revision and condensation as would have been
suitable.” Arthur B. Woodford.
— =Dial.= 39: 111. S. 1, ‘05. 400w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 455. Jl. 8, ‘05. 720w.
=Atkinson, Fred Washington.= Philippine islands. *$3. Ginn.
“The material for this book was gathered by the author when he was at
the head of public education in the Philippine islands. Its
information is of the encyclopaedic sort, conveyed clearly and
pleasantly. About a quarter of the book is given to a brief summary of
the geography and history of the islands. The rest of the book is
devoted to an account of the people and the conditions under which
they live. The author’s views of the character of the people and of
the proper mode of government for them are in harmony with the present
administration. The book is illustrated with half-tone reproductions
of photographs.”—Outlook.
“It is a sort of popular presentation of the subject that the ordinary
reader will find intelligible.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 180w.
* “Professor Willis and Doctor Atkinson complement each other’s work.
Profit may be drawn from both books. More specifically, however, we
are compelled to admit that Dr. Atkinson is too complaisant as to
present administrative tendencies.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
* “Of recent publications on the Philippines, one of the most useful
from the point of view of the general reader is the work by Fred W.
Atkinson.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 130w.
=Atkinson, George Francis.= College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.
In expanding his elementary botany of 1898 into a college text, Prof.
Atkinson leaves many chapters on the physiological part practically
untouched, while others are thoroughly revised especially on the
subjects of nutrition and digestion. One subject elaborated for the
purpose of bringing it abreast of the times is morphology of
fertilization in the gymnosperms and angiosperms. Chapters on the
classification of algæ and fungi, and on ecology have also been
changed and added to. The treatment falls into five parts, Physiology,
Morphology and life history of representative plants, Plant members in
relation to environment, Vegetation in relation to environment, and
Representative families of angiosperms.
“Professor Atkinson has covered the whole general field in a way that
indicates an unusually wide familiarity with the various divisions of
the subject.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. G.= 39: 424. Je. ‘05. 310w.
“It is certainly an excellent text-book for a general introductory
course in college.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=Atkinson, Thomas D.= English architecture. $1.25. Dutton.
The author aims to give the mere elements or grammar of the great
subject of English architecture. There are chapters on Romanesque,
Gothic and Renaissance art, on churches, monasteries, and houses; each
subject is treated historically. A conclusion deals with the French
influence. There are 200 tiny illustrations.
“Succinct outline to the vast subject of English architecture, on its
structural and what may be called its actual aspects.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 89. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“This book is notably sensible in its historical and critical
remarks.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 291. Ap. 13, ‘05. 620w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Auchincloss, W. S.= Book of Daniel unlocked. *$1. Van Nostrand.
A new edition of this study of the book of Daniel which shows the
sidereal year to be God’s own standard of time and thereby “vindicates
the statements of Daniel and fixes on them the seal of truth.” The
text of the book of Daniel is given, interspersed with comments in
red.
“Is an interesting specimen of ingenious exegesis.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 110w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 190w.
* =Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).= Garden that I love. *$2. Macmillan.
A new edition of the poet laureate’s sketches and poetical essays
first published ten years ago. “This is an illustrated edition, the
pictures being reproductions in colour of work by Mr. George S.
Elgood, R. I. These are sixteen in number, and are for the most part
what we may call ‘flower landscapes.’ ... But whatever their
character, the pictures are most attractive.” (Spec.)
* + + =Acad.= 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
* “The binding is not wholly to our taste.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 475. O. 7. 70w.
* “The color designs of George S. Elgood, R. I., are quite out of the
common—exquisite, indeed; and in the end the purchaser may prefer them
to the touch-and-go discursiveness of the text.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
* “This edition is illustrated in color with drawings that are as
delightful as the text.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 50w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 573. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
=Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).= Poet’s diary. $2. Macmillan.
“Italy and things Italian—a fertile theme—are the principal topics
discussed; and well does the diarist know his Rome and Florence....
Changing one word of the poet’s warning to orators, we may say, ‘The
gift of diary-writing, like the gift of writing mellifluous poetry, is
a sorry and dangerous one unless inspired, sustained and restrained by
‘Reason in her most exalted moods.’’”—Dial.
“Dexterously spinning out sentence after sentence and paragraph after
paragraph with a facile grace of composition, a deft interweaving of
literary allusion and quotation, a ready succession of pleasing ideas,
that cannot but excite our admiration. The diarist’s manner is
winsome, and it seems ungracious to damn his book with faint praises;
but not even the most gifted of us, not even a poet laureate, can
always attain perfection.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 129. F. 16, ‘05. 330w.
+ =Westminster Review.= 163: 115. Ja. ‘05. 400w.
=Austin, Martha Waddill.= Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.
“Instead of the German legend which pictures the character of Mark as
a mild, noble, benign old man,” Mrs. Austin uses the text of Mallory
which views King Mark as a “base, crafty, false-hearted scheming
coward,” and “tells how, wearied in the struggle against Mark’s
unremitting treachery Sir Tristam after the vile betrayal and battle
behind the chapel on the rocks, in which he came so near to losing his
life, bore Queen Isoult into her Launcelot’s country, and there lived
with her in the castle of Joyous Garde.”
=Austin, Mary. Isidro.= †$1.50. Houghton.
“A tale of love and spring in Old California,” and of Isidro, whose
proud determined father had vowed his son to the church while still in
his cradle. The boy on his way to begin his novitiate with the fathers
of St. Francis, meets a shepherd lad who proves to be “the one woman
in the world.” He suffers hardships thru a series of adventures into
which a delightful old priest, a fugitive, and a halfbreed of wild
passion and heroic spirit enter.
“The story is well imagined and told with a delightful swing in a
style that is vigorous, though at times too mannered.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 810. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“Mary Austin has achieved that admirable success, which is none too
common, of telling a romantic tale with such vivid realism, a tale of
bygone years with such graphic assurance of detail, as to make even
the most melodramatic of her episodes seem quite within the range of
credibility.” F. T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 530w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 90w.
* “Is a masterpiece in the particulars of literary style, and time-old
spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“That language has a character of its own and a fitness to the
honorable service of the romance of old California. Mary Austin has
the gift of the witchcraft of romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 285. Ap. 29, ‘05. 570w.
“Not a great piece of fiction, but carefully written, and presenting
interesting types of character well-drawn, and a charming background
of landscape.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 50w.
“A novel that will have a permanent place, not as a masterpiece, but
as a well-wrought story of another ‘phase of American existence that,
within the touch of present time, has passed away.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.
“Aside from the considerable charm of the story, the account given of
the relation existing between the missions and their converts, and of
the breaking up of these religious settlements, is well worth while.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 340w.
“The story is pleasantly told with a wealth of local colour, and will
please lovers of romantic adventure.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 122. Jl. 22, ‘05. 170w.
Auto fun. **$1. Crowell.
A collection of drawings and skits, jibes and jests taken from “Life.”
The artists contributing are Gibson, Kemble, Cushing, Bayard Jones, C.
F. Taylor, and others. It is a novelty and sure to please the motor
car devotees.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“The level of these caricatures is uncommonly high in respect of
invention and artistic technique.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people.
In 12 vol. Vol. 1., $6.25. Burrows.
Mr. Avery aims to cover the entire ground of American history from the
earliest records to the present time. It is intended as a popular
history, but there is supplied an abundance of bibliographical data
which all students and those who wish to pursue historical
investigations will find particularly useful. The maps, also, are more
satisfactory than those which commonly appear in American works of
this character. The style is easy, flowing, sometimes conversational.
Graphic anecdotes or storiettes enliven the serious matter. Among the
features demanding special praise the technical make-up must not be
forgotten. The size is convenient, the paper excellent, the type clear
and large, and there is a broad margin with notes.
“Both in statement and conclusion, furthermore, the text is generally
in accord with the best literature of the subjects treated. Some
obscurities, errors, and other defects have escaped detection.”
William R. Shepherd.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 852. Jl. ‘05. 2140w.
“While the style has a certain pleasing smoothness, the reluctance of
the author to interrupt this compels him to fail, at crucial points,
to state explicitly what he is talking about, and the result for the
reader is perplexity. Our verdict regarding Dr. Avery’s bibliography
must also be that it might be improved.” Edward S. Corwin.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 596. My. ‘05. 1000w.
“We incline to the belief that on the whole no treatment of the period
of discovery has been more satisfactorily prepared. If the succeeding
volumes equal in excellence the present book, this history will be the
best complete history of our country yet written.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 447. Ap. ‘05. 2160w.
=Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 120w.
“In a general way Dr. Avery is fully abreast of modern scholarship. Of
really serious errors in the book there are none. The great weakness
of the book lies in the absence of page references. Dr. Avery’s style
of writing is smooth and flowing. It is altogether too flowery either
for a permanent classic or for a serious piece of historical work.”
Anna Heloise Abel.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 262. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“The advance sheets have been submitted to special students on the
subjects treated. But they could not, without rewriting his book,
correct his point of view. Rarely takes the trouble to come to a
conclusion of his own. On the whole the book is well and attractively
written and is accurate as to fact.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 380. F. 16, ‘05. 800w.
* “While accuracy of detail has been secured thru several revisions by
specialists, the emphasis is bad and the literary style is often
stilted.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Dr. Avery’s text stands well the test of critical examination. The
narrative ... is systematically compressed, but it is well
proportioned, and gives evidence throughout of careful use of
authorities and of intelligent and restrained judgment. From a
literary point of view, the history is eminently readable, though the
style shows a tendency to ornateness.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 69. Ja. 26, ‘05. 360w.
“Reasonably full, critical, and even iconoclastic in many respects. To
judge then, from vol. I. this history bids fair to become popular in
the best sense of the term. It is certainly not dry—parts of it
reading like a stirring romance. Now and then he goes perhaps a trifle
too far in his impartiality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1420w.
“He is, then, accurate. He is also the possessor of a very agreeable
style.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 41. S. 2, ‘05. 580w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 230w.
B
=B., T.= Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.
“To those of us who, with Stevenson, pray for the quiet mind, ‘The
Upton letters’ by ‘T. B.’ are a help in that direction. Simple and
natural, sane and human, these reflective utterances on literary,
moral, and educational themes, and on the commonplaces of daily life,
have the charm that belongs to the genuine expression of a good mind
and heart. They are the letters of a master in an English public
school to a friend (’Herbert’) sojourning in Madeira for his health;
and they run through the year 1904, being brought to a close by the
friend’s death.”—Dial.
“For all its timidity the book is a bugle-call.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 703. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1420w.
“The comments on certain aspects of modern life are always very
readable, sometimes valuable; but the book is notable mainly for its
poetical outlook and unfailing facility of expression.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 1280w.
* “The book is delightful enough to stand on its own merits.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 849. D. ‘05. 580w.
“It is an intimate narrative, but the intimacy is of a highly
self-respecting sort, and the picture of the writer which the book
leaves upon the reader’s mind is very winning.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.
“The little volume will create no sensation (heaven forbid!), but it
will greatly content a choice few among the readers of books.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.
* “The letters are truly literature, and every page gives evidence of
broad and careful scholarship, wide reading and a soul concerned with
high and serious things. As a whole the volume is intensely
satisfactory and is one that may be read and read again by those who
care to think and know how to think.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 530. N. ‘05. 310w.
“‘The Upton letters’ makes excellent quiet reading for those to whom
such a mind as the author’s is attractive.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“These letters depend solely upon their intrinsic merit. This is
unquestionably high. Without literary affectation, the style is that
of a literary man.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Barring a slight stiffness and an occasional assumption of weariness
and ennui, the letters are as good as anything of the kind that have
appeared since Huxley’s were given to the world.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 289. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1740w.
=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.= Story of St. Paul. **$1.50. Houghton.
This book is the outgrowth of a series of university extension
lectures delivered at Providence, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. It is a
comparison of the accounts of the life of St. Paul, as found in the
acts and the epistles, and Professor Bacon’s object is to point out
the differences in these two sources in order that the records may
later be harmonized.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 542. Jl. ‘05. 920w.
“Excellent book.”
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 704. My. ‘05. 390w.
“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great
apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies
connected with his life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 80: 540. Ja. ‘05. 550w.
* “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by
an American.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr.
Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is
analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get
the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has
to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his
Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but
it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its
appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 192. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w.
“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s
treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of
constructive biography and scientific criticism.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 120w.
“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to
be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted;
while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the
history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very
serious objection to his theory.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 532. O. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“His book will make the student think, and so far will be of service;
but he is not a safe guide.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘04. 420w.
=Bacon, Dolores M.=, ed. Diary of a musician. †$1.50. Holt.
A record of the experiences, hopes, and longings which lie all the way
from the depths to the heights of a genius’ career. Short, terse
sentences that sum up a heart full of joy or anguish, characterized
all thru by Bohemian irresponsibility, are no more brief than were the
moods of this interesting Hungarian. With all his musical power, he is
human enough to say: “I adore my father; but who could keep faith with
his father when such a woman smiles.... It is Marie Alexeievna. There
is no superior allegiance.”
“A decidedly clever and piquant tour de force. In very few books is
the note struck at the beginning successfully kept up to the end, as
here. Of its not ambitious order, the book is admirable.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 110w.
=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= Narragansett bay; its historic and romantic
associations and picturesque setting. **$3.50. Putnam.
This sumptuous volume is “illustrated by the author’s sketches and a
few photographs, and is well indexed. As the title implies, it is a
collection of superficial descriptions and colonial legends woven into
readable form.” (Nation.)
“Is a worthy successor to the author’s attractive work in a similar
style on the Hudson river.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 100w.
“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful
influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the
state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 299. Ap. 13, ‘05. 540w.
=Bacon, Gertrude.= Balloons, airships and flying machines. *50c. Dodd.
“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the
airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any
purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to
the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon
the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such
a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.
“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the
headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in
the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 330w.
“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is
interesting as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 320w.
=Baddeley, St. Clair.= Recent discoveries in the Forum. $1.25.
Macmillan.
Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing
technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and
spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American
traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but
more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones
and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr.
Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch
with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give
us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the
scenes of transition.” (Dial).
“He is wanting in style and scholarship; almost every page is
disfigured by odd mistakes in English or inaccuracies of reference.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 598. My. 13. 270w.
“The book is interesting beyond the rule of guide books.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 129. F. 16, ‘05. 520w.
“The expression is so poor that one rarely reads so small a book with
such great difficulty.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Baedeker, Karl.= London and its environs: a handbook for travellers.
*$1.80. Scribner.
“The fourteenth edition, fortified with four maps and twenty-four
plans, its list of the principal streets, public buildings, etc. The
total bulk has been but slightly increased. It is almost a pity that
these successive editions could not graphically record the chief
changes in the general aspect of the metropolis, which of late have
been as imposing as they are extensive.”—Nation.
=Nation.= 80: 228. Mr. 23, ‘05. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.
=Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 20w.
=Baedeker, Karl.= Northern France: handbook for travellers. *$2.10.
Scribner.
“A new edition (the fourth) of this well-known handbook, brought up to
date with such revision regarding hotels, routes, and places of
interest to travelers as has been made necessary by the changes of the
last four or five years.”—Outlook.
=Nation.= 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 40w.
=Bagley, William Chandler.= Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A lucid exposition of the basal principles of pedagogy with
illustrative matter showing the limits and methods of the application.
“Its fundamental theses are, that the function of the educative
process is to secure the transmission to each generation of the
experience of the race, and that its end in view is to secure the
development of socially efficient individuals—an end inclusive, as
here defined, of livelihood, knowledge, culture, harmonious
development, and morality.” (Outlook.)
“His exposition of the responsibilities and duties of parents and
teachers can be accepted with little or no reservation, but some of
his illustrative statements and subsidiary generalizations are open to
question.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1080w.
“All in all, it must be considered one of the best contributions of
its kind to the literature of educational theory and should find an
extensive use as a text-book in normal schools and colleges for
covering the ground of general method.” Guy Montrose Whipple.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 418. N. ‘05. 1650w.
“While Dr. Bagley is mainly concerned to teach the principles of
pedagogy he has not failed in adequately illustrating the limits and
methods of their rational application.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
“In spite of these and some other less important mistakes and
misplacements of emphasis, the book is a fresh, stimulating and
generally correct organization of the principles of education.” Wilbur
S. Jackman.
+ + — =Science.= n.s. 22: 565. N. 3, ‘05. 1730w.
* =Bagot, Richard.= Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by
Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.
“In the pages of this beautiful book there have been gathered enough
pictures of the Italian lakes ... to make those who read ... realize
at least somewhat of the wonderful beauty of the lakes of Italy, even
when they have not seen them.” (Ind.) “The lakes of Como, Lugano,
Lecco, Maggiore, Orta, Isco, and others of northern Italy are
described and painted.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The illustrator ... has given us a series of pictures which, though
quite pretty, do not help the reader to realise the general character
of the North Italian lakes. The material with which Mr. Bagot had to
deal was far too extensive for the space at his disposal; and on the
whole he has made a wise selection.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1236. N. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ‘05. 470w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Passport. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Richard Bagot has written a stirring melodrama of love and
intrigue. He has laid on his colours with a trowel. He gives us the
lovely maiden wooed by the handsome lover whose suit is forbidden by
the stern stepmother. He tells of wicked priests, cynical and scheming
villains, faithful servants, secret hiding-places and sliding
panels—all the stock-in-trade of regulation melodrama.... The scene of
the book is laid in Rome and the ‘local colouring’ is admirable.”—Sat.
R.
“It is a pleasure to read so well-conceived and well executed a tale
as this. This is a book that will certainly bear reading twice.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 200w.
“Frankly, the story makes rather better reading than an epitome of it
would warrant one to expect.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 280w.
* “A conscientious, elaborate and able narrative. Within certain
limits, ‘The passport’ may be honestly commended.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The characters in ‘The passport’ stand out very well in the Italian
‘atmosphere’ which Mr. Bagot has the secret of portraying.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 330w.
“The book is one of much interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 420w.
“Is unusual in the strength of its plot and the artistic and
continuous development of the story. Here, as in former books, Mr.
Bagot occasionally offends the taste of his readers quite
unnecessarily.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization,
although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 90w.
* =Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin.= Peter Newell Mother Goose. †$1.50. Holt.
A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby,
“a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and
sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She
meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie;
Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are
modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children.
There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.
* “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way
first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the
combination forms a most happy volume for children.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to
picture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 540w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for
nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to
modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what
is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing
text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and
city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.
“They exhort to public-spirited endeavor in the cause of rural
education and they tend to foster a wholesome love of the soil and to
replace the restlessness and discouragement of the country-bred boy
and girl with a reasonable contentment and an impulse to improve
existing opportunities.”
+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 330. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Some of the passages are delightful. Nor is it a one-sided view of
life that is presented.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 250w.
* “If there is nothing altogether new in the book, there is nothing
that is not sensible, and very little that is not also inspiring.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 500w.
“His exhortations ... are hearty, spontaneous, and optimistic, and
full of the love of nature which he wants all the world to share.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 120w.
=Bain, Alexander.= Autobiography. *$5. Longmans.
“The autobiography, as Professor Bain left it, ended with an account
of the events of the year 1890; a supplementary chapter, relating to
the last thirteen years of his life, has been added by his literary
executor, Prof. W. L. Davidson. The chief feature of interest in this
volume is its clear and candid account of the stages in the writer’s
mental growth, under the circumstances of the time.” (Int. J. Ethics).
His early religious life was one of unrest and doubt, but coming under
the influence of Comte’s teachings, he soon rejected all theology, and
found himself a thorogoing empiricist. His greatest originality lies
in the realm of analytic psychology, and his works on this subject are
among the classics. In logic, he was a close follower of Mill, also
his two volumes show some important advances on the Mill method. In
ethics, too, he is consistently empirical and utilitarian, believing
that “General happiness or welfare is a sufficient statement of the
final end.”
“The plan is logically formed and elaborately carried out.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for
literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a
dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about
the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a
record of his intellectual history first of all.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 94. F. 1, ‘05. 440w.
“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university
education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in
the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the
author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his
native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H.
Mellone.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 241. Ja. ‘05. 1600w. (Abstract of book.)
“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is
overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 720w.
=Bain, F. W.= Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.
$1.50. Putnam.
“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the
sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this
volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to
have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat
greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds
in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)
“The fascination of the stories lies in their almost hypnotic slowness
of movement, their lavish use of color, and the delicate mixture of
wit and sentiment that animate them.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 90w.
“The native atmosphere has been rather cleverly caught, and the author
has adopted several Hindu tricks of story-telling. Many persons will
deem his stories charming. At any rate, they are touchingly
sentimental and written in extra-florid English.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 453. Jl. 8, ‘05. 380w.
“The stories have an undeniable charm both of matter and of language.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w.
“Are characteristically Eastern in delicacy, tenderness, vividness,
gorgeousness of imagination, and floridity of language.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Bain has made us all his debtors by presenting us with this
book.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= First Romanovs, 1613-1725. *$3.50. Dutton.
An account of “the rise of socialism in Russia in its early days,
coming down to the end of the reign of Peter the Great. So far as we
know, the book takes new ground in that it is less a history of war
and political convulsions than of the underlying conditions—social,
racial, and moral as well as political—which give shape and form to
the Muscovite civilization. Dramatic episodes and incidents have large
place in the narrative.... There are several portraits and
maps.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Nisbet Bain is too faithful a chronicler. He tells his story in
such detail that we miss the broad features and lack some perspective
of Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 799. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1010w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 940. Jl. ‘05. 40w.
“But is perhaps unfair to carp at these minor inaccuracies (as they
seem to us), and it is a more congenial task to praise this
interesting book for the many pictures of old Russian life with which
it abounds.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 133. Jl. 29. 1770w.
“It is seldom that a book combines in so high a degree the charm of
imaginative writing with the graver interest of history.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 246. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2040w.
“‘The first Romanovs’ is a work which covers less ground than is
traversed in the Scandinavian volume, and is marked not only by a
greater fulness of detail, but by greater concentration of purpose.
The present volume is in many respects the best he has given us.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 390w.
“It is a conscientious, well-balanced history of that remarkable
century. The whole story is well and interestingly told in fluent and
often pictorial English.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w.
“The work is essentially readable. Such a book as this is valuable as
affording insight into what was really a formative period of European
history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w.
“Upon the reader’s acceptance or rejection of Peter’s role as a mighty
regenerator will necessarily depend the value and interest of Mr.
Bain’s work. At the same time we fail to find that he brings any
really new light to bear upon the subject.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1330w.
=Bain, Robert Nisbet.= Scandinavia: a political history of Denmark,
Norway, and Sweden. $2. Macmillan.
The period from 1513 to 1900 is treated in this volume which deals
with the rise, decline, and fall of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as
powers.
“The most comprehensive that has yet been written.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 1000w.
“In his conclusions he frequently differs from earlier writers, but,
though his generalizations are often dangerously bold, his statements,
as a rule, are well supported.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 190. O. ‘05. 470w.
“We have found Mr. Bain’s narrative clear and very readable. It is
throughout a scholarly production.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 773. Je. 24, 2120w.
“Mr. Bain’s narrative, however, is usually vivid and sometimes even
eloquent. Inaccuracy rather than obscurity is the fault of the book.
As is natural when the scope of the work is so wide, many of the
author’s views are open to question.” W. F. R.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 608. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
“His epitome of Scandinavian annals is clear and well arranged giving
about equal prominence to Denmark and Sweden.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w.
“Mistakes are rare, and those that may be found are too insignificant
for exposure. And he tells a good story. This failure of Mr. Bain to
enter into the spirit of the time is glaringly apparent in his
treatment of Christian II. of Denmark. On the whole his judgments of
present-day men and measures are correct and well balanced.” Edwin
Bjorkman.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 508. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1760w.
“Keen insight into causation is manifest; social as well as political
movements are studied, not a little light being thrown on hitherto
neglected phases of Scandinavian history; and the facts presented have
been carefully verified. The style, without being impressive, is
fluent and agreeable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 290w.
“A very useful historical volume.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“Mr. Bain’s story is, by force of circumstances, highly compressed,
but he has succeeded in making it both clear and attractive.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 170w.
=Baker, Cornelia.= Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.
This story is all about Pedro and Petronilla, twins of Béarne, who at
the start could not understand why when Aunt Catalina said that they
had some blue blood in their veins should see only red blood start
from a knife wound. They themselves thus remind the reader that they
are very much flesh-and-blood little mortals. Their experiences at the
court of Francis the First, and their travels and adventures are full
of interest for the young reader. The illustrations are the clever
work of Fanny Y. Cory.
“A pleasant way for any boy or girl to get acquainted with the
sixteenth century is to read ‘The queen’s page.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
=Baker, George P.= Forms of public address. **$1.12. Holt.
This little volume is offered by Mr. Baker as a needed supplement to
the ordinary oratorical work done in colleges. It is designed for
school use, and sets forth its purpose in an introduction addressed to
teachers. The book consists of famous historical letters, both private
and open, editorials, inaugural addresses, speeches of eulogy,
commemoration, dedication, welcome and farewell, and after-dinner
speeches. There are an appendix and explanatory notes.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 550w.
“The selections presented as models give a value to the volume that
the general reader, as well as instructors and students, will
appreciate for their historical or personal as well as literary
worth.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 50w.
=Baker, Henry B.= Relation of preventable disease to taxation. Michigan
State board of health.
“We have here a valuable analytical study of local expenditures in
Michigan during 1903 on account of indigent sufferers from dangerous
communicable diseases: also computations of the money values of the
lives apparently saved in 1903 through the lowered death rate from
smallpox, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and consumption since the
organization of the State board of health.”—Engin. N.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 210w.
=Baker, Louise R.= Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.
A pretty story of a little orphan, Mary Daingerfield, who is separated
from her sister and brothers and adopted by the rich and kind-hearted
Pinners. Thru her sweet unselfishness she succeeds in bringing home to
them their son, Dave, and also in reuniting her orphaned family—Kit,
Buz, the baby, and their faithful old black Aunty.
=Baker, Moses Nelson.= Sewerage and sewage purification. 50c. Van
Nostrand.
A second revised and enlarged edition of this valuable little volume
which was first published in 1895.
=Baker, Rev. P.= Short instructions; or, Meditations on the Gospels for
each day in Lent; ed. by Rev. W: T. Conklin. 75c. Christian press.
“These instructions were first published in 1834 ... [and] are based
on the holy Gospels for every day in Lent. The Gospel for the day is
given; then follows a short instruction on the same, concluding with a
prayer.”—Cath. World.
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 691. F. ‘05. 180w.
=Baker, William Henry.= Cement-worker’s handbook. 50c. W. H. Baker,
Wadsworth, O.
More than 50 most important subjects on cement and its uses in
construction are covered in this volume, which is compiled to meet the
requirements of the common workman.
“The description of the proper way to make cement walks is the best
that we have seen in print.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 200w.
=Baldwin, Charles Sears,= ed. American short stories. See Wampum library
of American literature, v. I.
=Baldwin, Charles Sears.= How to write, *50c. Macmillan.
Taking the English Bible as a model of style, the author has written a
practical little book which tells “plain people” how to prepare
essays, how to tell stories, and how to describe.
“The book will be very useful as a practical rhetoric.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 150w.
“The author has succeeded in making his directions practical and
untechnical enough really to help the people for whom they are
designed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
* =Baldwin, May.= Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.
“A sprightly story of the experiences of an English girl of fourteen,
who spent two years at a convent school in the north of France, on the
Belgian frontier.... The heroine’s interests were varied by the
neighborhood of a French uncle with a haunted château.... There are
illustrations and a good deal of minor detail of the life of a French
country house.”—Nation.
* “The tale has incident enough to make it good reading for any girl
under eighteen.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 130w.
* “The theme is a good one, and well worked out.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
=Baldwin, Simeon Eben.= American judiciary and judicial system. *$1.25.
Century.
This is the sixth volume in the “American state series” whose object
is to describe “comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental
agencies of the American state are organized and administered.” The
subject matter falls under two heads: Part 1. The nature and scope of
the judicial power in the United States, and Part 2. The organization
and practical working of American courts.
* “So far as description goes, it is here and there loosely written.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 310w.
“His work maintains the high standard set by the other published
volumes of the ‘American state series.’” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 600w.
“Is characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and readableness. Laymen
and jurists alike will find this book interesting and helpful.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“He has accomplished his difficult task admirably.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 140w.
=Balmforth, Ramsden.= Bible from the standpoint of higher criticism. 2v.
ea. *$1.25. Dutton.
Two volumes devoted respectively to the Old and New Testament, which
discuss in popular and non-technical form the results of the higher
criticism. “The true basis of religious union is shown to be where
Jesus put it, not in the speculative doctrines which divide men, but
in the moral effect which unites them.” (Outlook.) Illustrations are
drawn from the various classes of literature and periods of history.
“Its object is to show that, after all, the Bible is worth studying.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 742. O. ‘05. 190w.
“Some of the principal facts brought to light in recent study are
presented fearlessly and with no little skill.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mr. Balmforth’s discussions are bold, almost blunt, but they are
reverent and well considered, and they will do good service in
promoting familiarity with the achievements of Biblical scholarship in
its most important field.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A lucid and popularly written account of the results of modern
critical study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Bandelier, Fanny,= tr. Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. **$1. Barnes.
A new volume in the “Trail-makers library” which narrates the
experiences and adventures of the first white man to cross the
continent. “His journey begun in Florida in 1528 ended on the Pacific
in 1536. The translator and editor have had a valuable idea in
extracting from the original confused and garrulous narrative what was
essential and important.” (Outlook.)
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w.
=Nation.= 80: 458. Je. 8, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.
“The work is edited by no less an authority than Ad. F. Bandelier, the
foremost in this line, and the translation is by his wife, whose quick
intelligence and absolute familiarity with the Spanish language has
enabled her to fathom many intricacies of the vague and confused
record.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 509. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2070w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
* =Bangs, John Kendrick.= Mrs. Raffles; being the adventures of an
amateur cracks-woman narrated by Bunny. †$1.25. Harper.
“In his well-known humorous style Mr. Bangs has portrayed
Mrs. Raffles, the widow of the famous cracksman, and her
never-to-be-consoled admirer ‘Bunny.’ The yarns ... contain material
for detective stories that quite surpass the plots invented for the
original thief by Mr. Hornung.”—Critic.
* “The yarns one and all are amusing.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur
cracksman, very badly done.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. †50c.
Harper.
Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get
even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They
construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A
certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he
becomes an unmanageable flirt.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 349. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 80w.
=Banks, Nancy Huston.= Little hills. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in
a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to
her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her
husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother
“austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all
around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a
triumphant turn out into the open.
“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an
interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs.
Banks introduces us are not convincing.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 260w.
“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are
quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or
burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole
together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile
delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an
almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 599. Ag. ‘05. 510w.
“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an
over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its
characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read
with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the
freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 230w.
“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and
always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is
rather faint.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation
is not very successful.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry (Richard Stillman Powers, pseud.).= Orchard
princess. †$2. Lippincott.
How Miles Fallon, bachelor, becomes a ready target for Cupid’s dart
when April sunshine and the scent of apple blossoms lure him on to the
orchard princess is lightly sketched in this love tale with a pastoral
setting. The man is a novelist, and the girl is an artist, yet these
two idealists are very human in the “little nothingnesses” that pave
the way for their romance.
* =Critic.= 47:577. D. ‘05. 10w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 160w.
* “The heroine is a real girl, which cannot always be said of romantic
heroines.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 10w.
=Bard, Emile.= Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
Viewing China and the Chinese “with the eyes of a man of affairs,” and
avoiding “exaggerated optimism”, the author has treated of Chinese
traits, customs and character, of their religions, education,
government, history and economic and social life. The book is concise
and interesting, and contains over a dozen illustrations and a good
index.
“Altogether this is a clever and readable book.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 266. S. ‘05. 160w.
“The book has no air of hasty generalization; the chapters, though
brief, are full of information, set forth in the clearest possible
manner.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“The characteristic and chief value of the book is its freedom from
bias. The little volume is singularly free from inaccuracies.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 753. S. 28, ‘05. 210w.
“The translation, or rather adaptation, is one that takes away all
stiffness and puts the reader at his ease. With index and
illustrations, this makes one of the books on China most pleasant for
reference and reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 227. S. 14, ‘05. 1210w.
“He is a kindly, though just, observer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 2100w.
“The translation seems well done.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w.
“He has come as near to an understanding of the Chinese character as
is possible for an occidental.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=Barnes, James.= Blockaders. 60c. Harper.
Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is
a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the
Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are
stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa,
where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story
of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to
save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently
inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others
equally varied.
“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the
boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style
is crisp, direct, and natural.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 408. Je. ‘05. 130w.
“The sort of thing boys like to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.
“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all
good.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w.
=Barr, Martin W.= Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and
training. *$4. Blakiston.
An interesting and practical treatment of the subject by one who has
had long and successful experience in the training of the mentally
deficient. The modern methods of sifting and classifying these
children, are given in detail, and the work suitable for each class is
described. It is an interesting book for everyone, but is intended
primarily for teachers and parents. There are 152 illustrations.
“In his interesting study, Dr. Barr has spoken to an audience of
teachers and parents, rather than to scientists.” Albert Warren
Ferris.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 65. Mr. ‘05. 700w. (Abstract of book.)
“It is by all odds the most thorough and well written treatise upon
the subject with which we are familiar, not excepting those of
Ireland, Doun, or Seguin; besides it is modern.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 210w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 524. Je. 29, ‘05. 460w.
=School R.= 13: 649. O. ‘05. 10w.
=Barr, Robert.= Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.
John Steele, the hero of this story, runs the entire gamut of
financial adventure. He starts as station master in the “lone shanty”
known as Hitchen’s Siding where his bravery in side-tracking a freight
train without the dispatcher’s orders, thus averting a collision, was
the beginning of a series of promotions. He becomes the owner of a
railroad, dabbles in wheat, loses a fortune, wins it again with the
woman he loves thru a coup de force.
=Barrett, Mrs. Charlotte,= ed. See =Burney, Frances.= Diary and letters
of Madame D’Arblay.
=Barrington, Mrs. Russell.= Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5.
Macmillan.
Conversational reminiscences of the sculptor-artist jotted down by one
who was his friend and neighbor. Many interesting details are given,
which reveal his character and his attitude toward his own work and
the work of other artists.
“An extremely readable story of her long and intimate friendship with
Watts.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 790. Je. 24. 1820w.
“Comprehensive volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 170w.
“At times it must be admitted she rather overloads her pages with
minor details. The book is written pleasantly, interestingly, tho
without any great distinction of style—but it is only fair to add that
there is no pretension to style.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 809. O. 5, ‘05. 800w.
* “The most important book about that painter yet published.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* “Mrs. Barrington combines in an unusual degree the literary and
artistic gift.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 181. D. ‘05. 390w.
“We cannot help thinking that the author would have done better to
hand over her notes to the biographer who, under the general direction
of Mrs. Watts and with access to the painter’s private papers, is at
work upon a complete biography.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 720w.
“Mrs. Barrington’s book, with all its enthusiastic fervor and intimate
outpourings, adds practically little to what has already been
published.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 367. N. 2, ‘05. 830w.
“Mrs. Barrington’s is not a biography, but a personal work, which
incidentally reveals a good deal of the writer’s personality.” Charles
de Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 2230w.
* “A noble biography of a noble man.”
+ =Outlook.= 81:703. N. 25, ‘05. 420w.
* “This volume, while perhaps not exhaustive, is certainly accurate.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 150. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1110w.
=Spec.= 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 210w.
=Barritt, Leon.= How to draw. **$2. Harper.
The author “here sets forth, in a simple and practical manner, the
basic principles of illustration in pen and ink and pencil.” After
describing fully the materials necessary, he outlines the steps of
procedure. The first lesson is on a block letter alphabet. Next are
rules for drawing the human head and features, the hands, feet, and
the human figure. “How to measure an object by the eye” is followed by
an explanation of how to draw from life, studies in expression, animal
drawing, perspective, landscape drawing, spatter work, water studies,
comics, cartoons, wash lampblack drawing, drawing on silver prints,
distemper drawings, lettering, foliage study, and the reproduction of
drawings. The last part of the book is devoted to the well-known
American illustrators and cartoonists.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 22. Ja. 14, ‘05. 260w.
=Barren, Leonard,=, ed. Roses and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.
Omitting everything that does not bear directly upon the subject of
practical rose growing, this manual teaches the American amateur all
that is necessary for him to know “in order that he may intelligently
make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow a harvest of bloom.”
A number of half-tone illustrations accompany the text. The book
belongs to the “Garden library.”
“The book is freely and attractively illustrated, most of the
inscriptions being amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures.”
Edith Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“To those who desire roses and know nothing about them this little
volume will be an especial boon, so precise and unveiled by the
drapery of unnecessary words are the instructions.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 537. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.
=Barry, Richard.= Port Arthur: a monster heroism. *$1.50. Moffat.
Under such chapter headings as, The city of silence, A battle in a
storm, Cost of taking Port Arthur, and A contemporary epic, are told
the horrid things, pitiless and true, which the author saw in the East
on the field and in the trenches where the little brown men fought so
bravely.
“Barry knows how to tell a story in words and sentences that seem part
of the war itself.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.
“This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly and sympathetically
impressed, still young enough to have every impression deep and clear,
and old enough to set it down justly and vividly.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 900w.
“Not strictly a well-written book, this is nevertheless full of the
vitality of the field, and the impression that it gives of a record
made on the spot is heightened by the numerous illustrations from the
author’s own camera.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 520w.
“The book is on the whole more to be commended for its material than
the manner in which the material is used.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 470w.
“He gives a series of vivid pictures of Japanese methods of warfare,
of life in the besieging trenches, of the characteristics of the
Japanese soldier and his commanding officers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 120w.
=Barry, William (Francis).= Life of Ernest Renan. **$1. Scribner.
Beginning with a chapter which discusses the widely known scholar and
writer as “The Breton peasant,” Mr. Barry traces the career of Renan,
describing his youthful struggles to understand the Catholic faith,
his giving up the priesthood, his lectures as a teacher of Hebrew, the
influence of his sister, his travels and his work upon his “Life of
Jesus,” and his other books.
“Is in many respects an excellent and most instructive biography, but
he is somewhat too prone to argue with Renan’s opinions without trying
to ‘place’ him amid the powerful influences of the nineteenth
century.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w.
“It chiefly consists of translation or paraphrase of books within
reach of every one, and the moment Dr. Barry essays to be original he
falls into blunders.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26, 1000w.
“This work is finely wrought as a piece of literature, is judicious,
brave, and reverent.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 527. Jl. ‘05. 1220w.
“From the able pen of a keen and sympathetic critic.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w.
“He has written a superficial book on a subject worthy of more
intelligent treatment.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 169. My. 26, ‘05. 650w.
“The thesis is cleverly maintained, and the book, in spite of its
obvious dogmatic purpose, is interesting throughout.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w.
“Falls several points short of being satisfactory as an exposition of
the reality behind the man who was an atheist, ‘devoutly and with a
sort of unction.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1220w.
“Interesting, well written, appreciatively critical.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 100: 278. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1290w.
“It says much for the wealth and variety of Dr. Barry’s resources,
both as a scholar and as a literary artist, that he has achieved this
task with eminent success.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 526. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w.
=Barton, George Aaron.= Year’s wandering in Bible lands. *$2. Ferris.
This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the
American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry
archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the
author and his party, and a description of the localities visited,
including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land,
Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in
half-tone, from views taken during the trip.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 901. Ap. 20, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 350w. (Survey of
contents).
“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a
pictorial companion book to the Bible.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 40w.
=Barton, Samuel Marx.= Elements of plane surveying. *$1.50. Heath.
To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught
in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the
author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into
the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses;
(2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas;
(5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111
pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of
squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia
tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric
functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary
table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion
of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time
and labor.
“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose
interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the
strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels
he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are
supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s
point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of
the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.
+ + =School R.= 13: 85. Ja. ‘05. 550w. (Detailed statement of
contents.)
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.
“This little volume tells simply and clearly how to locate and build a
country house to insure the most healthful conditions, how to provide
a pure water supply, and how to dispose of the waste in an economical
and sanitary manner.”—Outlook.
“The suggestions that he offers to the prospective builder of a
country house are eminently practical, based on a scientific study of
rural conditions.”
+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 40w.
* =Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone.= Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“A French romance of the time of Louis XIII. The scene is partly
placed in a retired garden belonging to the King and entered by a
‘little green door.’ The book is not of the swashbuckling type,
although there is an occasional clash of swords.”—Outlook.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 557. Ag. 25, ‘05. 220w.
* “The attempt is for quiet charm rather than for strenuous dramatic
effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 50w.
=Bate, Percy.= English table glass. *$2.50. Scribner.
“The early pages tell of the author’s own proceedings as a collector
and his growth as a connoisseur.... There are 254 separate glasses
illustrated, all arranged upon the black backgrounds of sixty-seven
half-tone plates.... There are many historical curiosities among these
pieces, and of course Jacobitism in abundance.” (Nation.) 1586 is the
date of the earliest glass shown.
“A book at once pleasing and packed with information, personal and yet
of broadest application.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 440w.
“The author is very enthusiastic, and has much knowledge of his
subject, and his guidebook will be a welcome help to the large body of
students of an attractive subject. We rarely find Mr. Bate at fault.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 510w.
“As far as it goes, however, the book is a careful account, rather by
way of classification than of historical or technical discussion, of
English table glass up to 1800.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 219. Jl. 7, ‘05. 260w.
“Full of the knowledge and the insight of the enthusiastic collector.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 530. Je. 29, 05. 1130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.
=Bates, Oric.= Madcap cruise. †$1.50. Houghton.
The story of a young Harvard man whose uncle refused to supply him
with funds for a trip to Europe. As the girl he loves is already
there, nothing can stop him, so he takes his chum with him, steals his
uncle’s yacht, cruises from Maine to the Mediterranean, wins the girl
and comes home to be forgiven. There are many amusing and stirring
adventures, such as a race with an English yacht, smuggling art
treasures out of Italy, and a storm at sea.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“Lively narrative and clearcut description, written for the most part
in excellent English. A thoroughly wholesome and readable book.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“It is light, but simple and pretty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 460w.
“The story is cleverly told, remarkably so for the author’s first
attempt, and is entertaining in spite of the superabundance of slang.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
“The author’s style is buoyant, and he rides blithely over choppy seas
that have brought to grief many an older writer.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
=Batten, Rev. Loring W.= Hebrew prophet. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Batten seeks to realise the actual conditions under which the
Jewish prophets lived and worked. He inquires how they gained a
subsistence, what they did for their countrymen, what was thought and
expected of them, and whether they wrote down their utterances in
advance.... These and other questions are discussed with an
open-mindedness and sobriety which are not always in evidence on
either side of the ‘Higher criticism controversy.’”—Spec.
“An excellent handbook for the use of intelligent Bible students. The
method of presentation is clear and simple, and the underlying
principles are scholarly and safe.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 239. S. ‘05. 30w.
“The book is popular yet critical, neglecting neither the problems of
scholars nor the practical applications of the history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 140w.
“A very sensible and seasonable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 229. Ag. 12, ‘05. 110w.
=Battine, Cecil.= Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and
the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.
“This volume is substantially a history of the American civil war,
though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June
27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant’s operations in the Wilderness in
May and June, 1864.... The story of years of serious fighting is
compressed into something less than four hundred pages. Then comes a
chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very
instructive way.” (Spec.) There are six maps in the book, and a
colored frontispiece showing the battle flags of the confederacy.
“Captain Battine has done faithful and able work in his book, and it
must remain a permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of
the Confederacy.” J. P. S.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 178. O. ‘05. 1330w.
“If he has nothing very new to say on the subject, he has the gift of
writing a clear narrative. Would be improved by a better index and by
more references to authorities.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“Capt. Battine tries to be fair, and is on the whole.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1270w.
“Excellently lucid narrative. Our readers can hardly find a more
satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderate a space.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 411. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w.
Battle of Maldon, and short poems from the Saxon chronicle, ed. by
Walter John Sedgefield. 40c. Heath.
A volume in section I. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The text of The
battle of Maldon has been collated with Hearne’s transcript of the
lost Cotton MS. and the variants noted. Notes, bibliography and
glossary are provided.
=Bauer, G.= Marine engines and boilers; their design and construction: a
handbook for the use of students, engineers and naval constructors,
based on the work, “Berechnung und konstruktion der schiffsmachinen und
kessel.” *$9. Henley.
“The work as a whole is divided into eight parts.... Part 1. deals
with the main engine.... Part 2. deals with pumps.... Part 3 takes up
shafting, resistance of ships and propulsion.... Part 4. treats of
piping and connections.... Part 5. deals with steam boilers.... Part
6. is occupied with measuring instruments.... Part 7. deals with
various details.... Part 8. comprises a large collection of tables and
tabular matter.... Illustrative material has also been most generously
furnished.”—Engin. N.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 115. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1040w.
“This work constitutes an addition of the highest value to the
available literature on the subject.” W. F. Durand.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 1270w.
“The book has been excellently and competently translated. The general
arrangement of the book is convenient.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 453. S. 7, ‘05. 1100w.
=Baum, Lyman Frank.= Queen Zixi of Ix. †$1.50. Century.
Printed in large type, which will attract child readers, and profusely
illustrated in color by Frederick Richardson, this story of the magic
cloak which gave to each of its wearers the fulfilment of one wish
will delight all who read about the fairy-folk, the witch queen, Bud,
the little boy who became king of Noland, his charming sister, the
invading Roly-rogues, Aunt Rivette, who wished for wings and got them,
and all the rest.
* “Is more of real fairy-tale than the ‘Wizard’ but just as
delightful.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
“It bids fair to be a popular holiday book for children.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 100w.
* =Bayliss, Sir Wyke.= Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.
“The ‘Angels,’ or messengers, are: Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael
Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Correggio and Claude. The author opens his
book where his earlier volume, ‘Likeness of Christ Rex Regum,’
closed.... Each chapter has prefixed to it a portrait of the artist
discussed, with a facsimile of his signature. The other illustrations
(all are, by the way, in half-tone) are reproductions of some of the
works of the masters.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “It is also a pity that he clings to convention and regards Cimabue
as ‘the first painter of the renaissance,’ when that honor rightly
belongs to Giotto.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 470w.
=Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd.= Under the she-oaks. †$1.25. Union press.
Opening with a bushman’s hut and ending with a heaven sent rain which
delivers the parched country from the great drought, this love story
of Australia tells of the hardships which the gently-bred English
gallantly encounter in that new country, where the wind wails drearily
thru the long spines of the she-oaks.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Pardners. †$1.50. McClure.
Ten stories of life in Alaska and the West, including besides the
title story, The test, North of forty-three, The scourge, The shyness
of Shorty, The thaw at Silsco’s and others.
“There is no faint-hearted mincing of words in them, the pictures they
present are sometimes repulsive, but always virile.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 560w.
“Strenuous tales of the wild West and the frozen North, ranging from
the grimly tragic to the grimly humorous.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 20w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w.
* =Beach, Seth Curtis.= Daughters of the Puritans. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
The group of women whose biographies are sketched here includes
Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child,
Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher
Stowe and Louisa May Alcott.
* “In writing about them, therefore, the author assumes a frankly New
England point of view, judges men, women, and things by New England
standards, and takes all his saints seriously.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 420w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 140w.
=Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of.= Endymion; with a critical
introd. on his writings by Edmund Gosse. $1.50. Cambridge soc., 135 5th
av., N. Y.
“In ‘Endymion’ ... the hand of the author has dealt with matters with
which he was more than familiar, the political complications and
developments of the thirties and forties of the last century. It is in
reality an autobiography, and the figures which move through the
varied scenes of the story are thinly disguised personages of high
rank and great importance.”—Pub. Opin.
“Despite its priggish tone and frequent sneers, the book has a human
quality which is likely to give it a life that even the great fame of
its author could not have assured it had those qualities been
wanting.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 290w.
=Beale, Joseph Henry, jr.= Law of foreign corporations and taxation of
corporations both foreign and domestic. sh. *$6. W: J. Nagel, 6
Ashburton place, Boston.
“In this country alone of great modern commonwealths, every state
jurisdiction is a ‘foreign’ jurisdiction in every other state; and
every corporation chartered by one state is a foreign corporation in
every other.... It is made more complicated still by the concurrent
existence of still a third (federal) jurisdiction.... The subject of
taxation is naturally involved.... The author has devoted considerable
space to the statutory provisions of states and territories, as well
as of Great Britain and Canada.”—Nation.
“There is, we believe, no other which covers the field explored by Mr.
Beale, to the exclusion of other topics, and this fact alone would
make the work professionally important.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 590w.
=Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia.= Indoor and outdoor handicraft and
recreation for girls. **$1.60. Scribner.
“When the eye and hand can be trained, the mind informed, and the
child at the same time entertained, a needed work is indeed being
accomplished; and in ‘Handicraft and recreation for girls,’ the
parents will find a valuable aid in accomplishing this triple task.
The first half of the volume ... is devoted to the handicrafts. Here
the most explicit directions are given for spinning, weaving, ... as
well as for making complete miniature copies of a Japanese village, a
Russian village, an Indian village and an old colonial kitchen....
Besides these there are numerous suggestions for the very tiny
folk.... The second half ... contains many delightful suggestions for
Easter and Hallowe’en games as well as for simple amusements for very
small children.”—Arena.
“All the directions in the book are so detailed and simple, and the
illustrations are so copious that the work is far more valuable than
many similar volumes. One would search far to find a book of this kind
so varied in its interests and so clear and explicit in its practical
directions.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 440w.
=Beardsley, Aubrey.= Last letters of Aubrey Beardsley: with an
introductory note by the Rev. John Gray. *$1.50. Longmans.
“A series of notes and letters written by Aubrey Beardsley during the
last three years of his life.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Cath. World.= 81: 250. My. ‘05. 240w.
“In a sketchy way, these indicate something of the writer’s mind and
tastes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether the book seems to throw some light on the artistic
temperament in general, as well as upon the character and ways of
thought of the young artist. For all that, it is quite impossible to
see how the inclusion of many of the utterly trivial notes of thanks
or regret adds to the light the book affords, and the trouble is that
such idle conclusions are apt to make the reader scoff at the rest,
much of which is not matter for scoffing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 660w.
“These letters are interesting as throwing side-lights upon that
remarkably sensitive, artistic soul.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Becke, (George) Louis.= Tom Gerrard. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A series of episodes in the life of an Australian stockman who, after
many and varied misfortunes, finds happiness thru a lovely girl whom
he has rescued from an alligator. The setting is Queensland, and there
is much local color.
“His new manner, because of its inequality, is inferior to the old:
here and there he climbs almost to the heights; a moment later he has
fallen into the mud of the ridiculous.”
— =Acad.= 68: 857. Ag. 19, ‘05. 320w.
“If his people are stereotyped, the incidents of Mr. Becke’s tale are
numerous, and mostly picturesque.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 74. Jl. 15. 300w.
“The story contains the usual Australian elements of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“But for the local colour, in fact, the novel would be entirely
commonplace.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 251. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w.
=Becke, Louis.= Under tropic skies. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Becke, like Mr. Kipling, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, Mr. Norman Duncan,
and some few other fortunate ones in this generation, discovered a new
corner of the earth with which he had a special talent for making the
rest of mankind acquainted.... His element is, without doubt, the
throwing of just such flashlights upon the far Paumotos, the
Carolines, Fiji, and other fascinating dots in the Pacific solitudes
as fill the pages of the volume which is called ‘Under tropic
skies.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Has returned to the writing of those delightful sketches of life in
the remote islands of the South Pacific that first brought him into
favorable notice. But one cannot read through to the end of this
volume without coming to the conclusion that Mr. Becke still writes
very good stories, that his store of incidents is simply enormous, and
that he knows the South Sea Islands—natives, traders, and all their
ways, past and present. He makes us know them too.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 27. Ja. 14, ‘05. 500w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Two bird-lovers in Mexico. **$3. Houghton.
These two bird-lovers, the writer and his wife, spent a winter camping
in the Mexican interior and here they found not only birds, but
mammals, insects, flowers, and scenery worth observing. This record of
the things they saw includes ornithological information, new material
upon the food-habits of the Mexican species, and also incidents of
travel and camp life and glimpses of the natives whom they met while
“roughing it.”
* “His observations and his pictures will be of great value to the
scientist as well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.” May Estelle
Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“He has aimed at an interesting running narrative and commentary,
rather than an exhaustive study. He may justly be proud of the
information gathered on the habits of birds.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 270w.
“The whole story is told with much good humor and with evident
enthusiasm.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 940w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. 1, ‘05. 130w.
=Beecher, Willis Judson.= Prophets and the promise. **$2. Crowell.
The substance of this theological text-book is that of the lectures
delivered by the author 1902-03 on the L. P. Stone foundation in the
Princeton theological seminary. It presents a scholarly study of the
prophets of the Old Testament and their messages relating to the
coming of the Messiah. The author has searched for the truth
unhampered by considerations of the orthodoxy of the results; but he
feels that the truth as he found it while it contains some new
elements is “simply the old orthodoxy, to some extent transposed into
the forms of modern thought.”
“The point of view is essentially conservative.”
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ‘05. 40w.
“Among recent books adverse to the modern critical view of the Old
Testament, Dr. Beecher’s work has the rare and distinctive merit of
commanding the respect of the critics whom he opposes.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 80w.
* =Beeson, Rebecca Katharine,= comp. Child’s calendar beautiful. $1.
Burt-Terry-Wilson co., La Fayette, Ind.
A collection of poems and prose selections to be memorized by
children. The selections are arranged to cover the eight years of the
grammar school course and each of these years is divided into months
beginning with the first school month, September. This arrangement
makes the book ideal for a teacher’s use. The selections are not only
appropriate to the time of year but they include the thoughts of our
best English writers upon subjects which appeal to the child’s
patriotism, love of nature, human sympathy, and ideals.
=Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B.= Great batsmen: their methods at
a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.
A series of six hundred instantaneous photographs illustrating the
stages by which the best cricket batsmen make their most
characteristic strokes.
“It is the most scientific work and the most practical work on batting
that has yet appeared, a combination of example and precept which
could not be bettered.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 1036. O. 7, ‘05. 260w.
* “An intensely interesting book, and it will be found invaluable by
all who are concerned with the higher philosophy of cricket.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 683. N. 18, 680w.
“The cricketers of the future, when the present giants of the game are
but memories, may find in Mr. Beldam’s marvellous photographs and Mr.
Fry’s concise and lucid descriptions much fascination.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 275. S. 1, ‘05. 440w.
* “The book is full of a great variety of most interesting and
instructive points.” C. G. K.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 82. N. 23, ‘05. 1680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
=Beldam, George W., and Vaile, P. A.= Great lawn-tennis players. *$4.
Macmillan.
A book of action photographs illustrating the positions taken by
players for particular strokes, with comments by Mr. Vaile, who calls
attention to their good or bad points. There is a chapter on “advanced
tactics of the single game,” by Mr. E. G. Meers, and one upon “The
half-volley,” by Mr. C. A. Caridia.
“Mr. Vaile can play lawn-tennis and can talk about it, but he
certainly cannot write. However, Mr. Beldam’s photographs make an
excellent album.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 148. F. 18, ‘05. 790w.
* “The book is in fact spoilt by the text.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 683. N. 18, 420w.
“Valuable contribution to the literature of lawn tennis. The lawn
tennis reader will find, therefore, much to think over in these pages,
and particular attention is drawn to the first chapter, in which the
racket, per se, and the methods of holding it are discussed.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 186. F. 4, ‘05. 160w.
=Bell, Archie.= Scarlet repentance. 50c. Broadway pub.
A beautiful Italian woman plays upon the weakness of a young American
whom she meets in a sleeping car in the Rockies, “where the mountains
cover their sins.” They spend one day at Banff together, a day in
which the young man learns much, and, having eaten of this tree of
good and evil, he returns to the East where, at the written command of
the woman he has left, he confesses all to his innocent young fiancee,
and receives her forgiveness and, incidentally, an Italian estate.
=Bell, John Joy.= Mr. Pennycook’s boy, and other stories, †$1.25.
Harper.
A dozen short stories of Scottish child life. Wee Macgreegor himself
reappears in this volume, and there are others as wee and canny as he.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 80w.
“They are very good stories of their kind—informed by the appropriate
sentiment and not too much obscured by dialect—humorous also in the
sad Scottish fashion of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 220w.
“The undercurrent of tenderness serves to bring out in higher relief
the sometimes unconscious humor of the sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“It would be difficult to find a volume more refreshing than ‘Mr.
Pennycook’s boy.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 130w.
=Bell, Lilian Lida.= At home with the Jardines. †$1.50. Page.
“In this volume the heroine of ... ‘Abroad with the Jimmies’ appears
in the role of a young matron seeking to establish a home in New York
city. The efforts of herself and her husband to secure ... peace and
quiet amid the vicissitudes of flat-life in the great metropolis prove
so futile that at last they conceive the idea of withdrawing to a
beautiful little town on the Hudson, where they find a delightful
old-fashioned house which they transform into an ideal country
home.”—Arena.
“The book is written in a bright, breezy style and abounds in humorous
situations. It is just the volume for an idle summer afternoon.” Amy
C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 33: 455. Ap. ‘05. 180w.
=Bell, Malcolm.= Sir Edward Burne-Jones. $1.25. Warne.
A volume in the “Newnes’ art library.” The book contains a tinted
half-tone frontispiece and fifty-seven plates in black and white
illustrating Burne-Jones’ work. There is an introductory essay by
Malcolm Bell, who describes the pictures and tells of the artist’s
struggles for public recognition.
=Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“In his undoubtedly triumphant accomplishment of the difficult task of
writing with freshness on a subject he has already treated
exhaustively, the author ... assumes, perhaps, rather too much
knowledge on the part of his readers. But for this small drawback, ...
the brief account of the prolific artist must satisfy his most ardent
admirers.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 181. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“... Ten page preface, lightly but clearly, sketching his life and
work.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 190w.
“As the text is the work of Mr. Malcolm Bell, however, it bears the
marks of the same authority and illumination which we find in his
other and larger volumes. The execution of the illustrations is of
rather unequal merit, but they are well chosen and are deeply
interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 80w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.).= Paolo
Veronese. $1.25. Warne.
An addition to the “Newnes’ art library.” The volume contains a sketch
of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, and his works, a list of his
paintings and their present locations, and sixty-four illustrations in
half-tone, reproduced from photographs.
“Here the introduction by Mrs. Bell is clear and direct. The
half-tones do not average as well as in other volumes.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“Is typical of that writer’s clear insight into the salient
characteristics of the painter.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 130w.
“This text is much above the average of these publications, and gives
some real idea of the range and force of Paolo’s genius, though Mrs.
Bell seems entirely to have missed the humor of the artist’s defence
of himself before the Inquisition, and to sympathize altogether with
the inquisitors.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“Interesting text. We could wish that the many illustrations in the
present volume were more adequate in quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 230w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.)=
Tintoretto, bds. $1.25. Warne.
About sixty illustrations well reproduced, with an introductory essay
on the painter and his work.
“In the introductory essay Mrs. Arthur Bell, from her extensive
knowledge of Italian painting, throws much light on the surroundings
of the painter, giving, by her interesting way of writing, a chapter
which adds greatly to the value of the book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
“The text is of no value.”
— =Nation.= 80: 523. Je. 29, ‘05. 470w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= Emmanuel Burden, †$1.50. Scribner.
The days of Butler and his memorial “Hudibras” are suggested thruout
Mr. Belloc’s brilliant satire with its exaggerated gravity. It
satirizes the speculative methods developed by the modern
imperialistic movement in England. “No small part of the humor of his
satire lies in its travesty of many contemporary biographies, in which
the values of small incidents is greatly exaggerated, uninteresting
details of family are furnished, and insignificant pedigrees traced
back as if they led to royal sources.” (Outlook).
“Mr. Belloc has drawn his characters with a delicate irony.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 407. Je. ‘05. 310w.
“No piece of social and political satire was ever more elaborately
worked out in each incident, reference and detail, even to the titles
of the amusing pencil sketches.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 100w.
“A brilliantly written satire. An Englishman would appreciate the
satire much more than an American, because of more intimate knowledge
of the conditions with which it deals; but the story is sufficiently
distinct in its satirical outlines to make the purpose of the author
clear to an American reader and to give the story, for an American,
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 120w.
=Bennet, Robert Ames.= For the white Christ; a story of the days of
Charlemagne. $1.50. McClurg.
Oliver the northman, and his foster brother, Roland, are the heroes of
this dramatic story, which is filled with stirring scenes and wartime
adventures. The Danes, joining with the Franks in their cry of “Christ
and the king,” repulse the Saracens; and Oliver, by his chivalrous
daring, wins King Karl’s daughter, in spite of the beautiful and
wicked Fastrada, who, by means of spells and poisons, succeeds in
making herself a queen. It is a story true to those rough times in all
details, and is an old time romance rather than an historical novel.
“The author has taken pains over his work, and should content readers
who enjoy that kind of fare. The delineation of character is
conventional. A defect ... is the tendency to force the heroic note
too insistently.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 75. Jl. 15. 280w.
“All this portentous historical material, blended with much intrigue
and passion, together with some of the gentler elements of romance, is
skilfully brought into a tale of much action and dramatic vigor,
couched in language that makes a fair pretense of archaism (of the
conventional type, naturally), and brought to a satisfactory issue.”
Wm. Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 390. Je. 1, ‘05. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 237. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“This story is somewhat high-flown and super-romantic in style, but
its intensity is not without dramatic force.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 50w.
“He has covered dry bones with rosy flesh.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 788. My. ‘05. 610w.
=Benson, Allan L.= Socialism made plain. Social Democratic publishing
company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“A simple explanation of the principles of socialism as advocated by
American socialists—a work suited for the busy man on the farm, in the
shop, the factory and the store, who has little time to give to
abstract treatises.... This work contains fifteen chapters” in which
“the various phases of socialism are so elucidated as to be easily
grasped by the individual.”—Arena.
“The treatment of the subject is so admirable that we take pleasure in
recommending it to our readers.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 454. Ap. ‘05. 350w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.).= Life of Edward
FitzGerald. **75c. Macmillan.
A volume recently added to the “English men of letters” series. The
life of the man known to the world mainly thru his “Omar Khayyám” is a
“fair subject of public discussion, not only because he was a poet of
special charm and fineness, but also because he was a peculiarly
interesting specimen of human nature.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Benson has analyzed the mind of FitzGerald with rare
penetration.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 677. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1390w.
“Mr. Benson has perhaps made of the brief biography required by the
scheme of this series all that could be made of it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 198. Ag. 12. 1610w.
“Mr. A. C. Benson was a capital choice for the writing of this book.
Not only is he sympathetic with FitzGerald, but he is a delightful
writer.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 158. Ag. ‘05. 1090w.
“This new life of FitzGerald ... meets no crying need. The literary
strictures, however just, seem not exactly called for in ‘Old Fitz’s’
case; and all else is a twice-told tale.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“The biographical sketch and general characterization are excellent,
the specific criticisms of FitzGerald’s writings sound and fair.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 697. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“If he is not quite a satisfying biographer, he is certainly a
satisfying editor, and often a very clever commentator upon
FitzGerald’s literary achievements.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 197. Je. 23, ‘05. 2760w.
“Mr. Benson’s book will be found to contain all that any reader needs
to know about FitzGerald, and it is an excellent cheap substitute for
those who cannot afford Mr. Wright’s massive illustrated volumes.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1340w.
“His treatment on the whole, scarcely touches us with quite that
personal and affectionate feeling for FitzGerald that doubtless most
of us have involuntarily formed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 560. Ag. 26, ‘05. 840w.
“A literary portrait simple and direct in its method of treatment, but
full of expression and character.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Benson sets forth very clearly and succinctly the noteworthy
facts in a career that was decidedly lacking in the spectacular,
whatever may be said of its deeper notes.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 120w.
“We do not of course deny to Mr. Benson’s work such merits as may
always be found in his biographical efforts—care in the weighing of
facts, an educated taste, and a practised hand in the manipulation of
phrases.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 500. O. 14, ‘05. 1410w.
“He has marshalled the facts which are already known with considerable
skill; he has criticised FitzGerald’s few works with sound judgment
and surprising moderation.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 48. Ag. 8, ‘05. 1540w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.).= Peace and other
poems. *$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s not only in its
culture, but in its gentle brooding over the dark and mysterious facts
of life, and in the strong resolution which confronts the mischances
of human experience.... Most of the poems in this volume [about forty
in number] record Mr. Benson’s own reflections upon nature and
life.”—Forum.
“The longer poems as a rule are the most successful, elegy and not
epigram being Mr. Benson’s forte.”
+ =Ath.= 1905: 2: 107. Jl. 22. 300w.
“Tender, sincere, and refined, Mr. Benson’s verse appeals to our
highest spiritual nature, and delivers its message with persuasive
grace.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s: there is in it a
warmth of sympathy redeeming it from austerity and even imparting to
it a tone of friendliness and geniality.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ =Forum.= 37: 247. O. ‘05. 560w.
“Mr. Benson maintains a deliberately chosen level of good verse. He is
always correct, always perfectly plain.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 267. Ag. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“Maintains the even comfortable level of his earlier books.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 380w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Act in a backwater. $1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study of life in a
small cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle
there, and introduce a novel element into the placid life of the place
which gives many opportunities for comedy. The son of a canon, an
artist, and therefore a rebel against the tyranny of the close, falls
in love with the sister, and the progress of their romance is the main
interest of the book.”—Spec.
“All this has the makings of a capital light comedy, which no one
could have done better than Mr. Benson. But for some obscure reason he
has seen fit to introduce episodes entirely out of all harmony that
ruin his effect. They give the impression of heartlessness and, what
is worse, are bad art.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 106. F. 4, ‘05. 300w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 203. F. 18. 590w.
“A flat little story without construction or sustained interest.”
— =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 80w.
“As an example, not of Mr. Benson’s power, but of his wit, cleverness,
and knowledge of human nature, ‘An act in a backwater’ is a delightful
bit of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1030w.
“It has some pleasant bits of human nature and one or two lovable
characters, but, considered as a novel, it is wretchedly constructed.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 60w.
“A novel which starts out admirably and ends in sheer vacuity.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 100w.
“It is a pleasant, wholesome story.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 184. F. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Image in the sand. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A love story dealing with the occult. “It is in fact the old story of
the struggle between the powers of light and darkness, the black magic
and the white for the possession of a girl’s soul—a Faust legend in
effect, or its parallel expressed in terms of ancient and modern
occultism.” (Acad.)
“The climax, itself, however, the struggle of Ida’s friends and
household with the demoniac, has a vivid force, and, if the tale is to
stand by its power to conjure up horror, Mr. Benson must be credited
with a considerable success in a difficult ‘genre.’ His detail is
effective, his society sketches are admirable.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 710. Jl. 8, ‘05. 520w.
“The story is carefully conceived and well written, and with excellent
restraint. Mr. Benson wanted to ‘make our flesh creep,’ and he has
not.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15. 200w.
“That he has failed ludicrously, pathetically, merely marks his
limitations by proclaiming his total innocence of the one quality that
would make success possible. The machinery of the story is clumsy, its
progress slow, and its conclusion an absurd evasion of whatever
problem might conceivably be raised. Whether from carelessness or
sheer ignorance, the book is a storehouse of weak, awkward, slovenly
writing.” Edward Clark Marsh.
— — =Bookm.= 22: 69. S. ‘05. 1560w.
“The reason why Mr. Benson has not succeeded better is that he lets us
too much behind the scenes.”
— =Ind.= 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 190w.
“In the would-be serious parts the author carries no conviction, and
in lighter passages he is far below his own best level.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
“The quiet, intense conviction of Mr. Benson’s pages cannot fail
entirely of a certain impressiveness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1100w.
“This tale is cleverly written, but disappointing.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“His quick, vivacious talent is not well adapted for a tale of
intangible mystery, which wants an atmosphere beyond Mr. Benson’s
powers. The second part of the story would be convincing and powerful
were the reader properly impressed by the first.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= By what authority? *$1.60. imp. Benziger.
“Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality,
abandons the attempt, and frankly turns his novel into a Roman
Catholic historical pamphlet.... [He] takes for his subject the
religious persecutions of the Roman Catholics in the reign of
Elizabeth.... The greater part of the novel is occupied by theological
discussions.... Mr. Benson has a gift of word-painting which enables
him to give vividly lifelike pictures of the court of Elizabeth, and
particularly of the queen herself.”—Spec.
“Is an unusually fine piece of work. In fact we regard it as one of
the most excellent Catholic stories that we possess in English, and by
far the best that has appeared for a long time.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 403. Je. ‘05. 970w.
“On the whole, the book is well worth reading, though spoilt, if
judged from the standpoint of a work of fiction, by the intrusion of
too much theology.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 221. F. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=Benton, Josiah H.= Notable libel case: the criminal prosecution of
Theodore Lyman, jr., by Daniel Webster, in the Supreme judicial court of
Massachusetts, November term, 1828. **$3.50. Goodspeed.
“The trial here described was on an indictment alleging that Lyman had
charged Webster with having conspired with other leading Federalists
in 1807-‘08 to break up the union on account of the Embargo acts, and
to re-annex the New England states to the mother country.” (Dial). The
case was submitted to the grand jury in the supreme judicial court,
and an indictment returned. It was then tried with the result that the
jury disagreed, and when the solicitor-general proclaimed that every
resource had been exhausted, the case was dropped. The trial, based as
it was upon political rather than personal motives, did not disturb
the relation of friendship between the two men.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 718. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“The history of the episode is well worked out by Mr. Benton, and the
letters and other documentary materials are so skillfully employed in
the text that the story almost tells itself from the records.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 128. F. 16, ‘05. 590w.
=Berenson, Bernard.= Lorenzo Lotto: an essay on constructive art
criticism. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A reprint of a book which was first published ten years ago. It
catalogs and describes Lotto’s paintings and attempts to present the
man, Lotto, altho there is little material available for his
re-construction. There are a large number of full-page reproductions
of Lotto’s works.
+ =Acad.= 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“A model of systematic investigation.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 398. My. 18, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.
=Bernheimer, Charles Seligman,= ed. Russian Jew in the United States:
studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with
a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.
A series of papers contributed by well-known Jewish writers who
“present the rise and development of the Russian Jews who have come to
the United States during the past twenty-odd years, to show the
qualities they brought with them, to present the facts as to their
adjustment to the conditions here, and to look a little into the
future.”
“The manner of presentation of the papers is not uniformly happy, and
for the whole we wish for a specific statement of dates. In spite of
this, however, Dr. Bernheimer has undoubtedly done a service in
bringing out this book. Considering its structure, he is to be
congratulated on having it so free of injudicious statements and as
complete as it is in the important matter on this serious subject of
the assimilation of so alien a people.” Walter E. Kruesi.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 598. S. ‘05. 560w.
=Critic.= 47: 380. O. 90w.
“It is a splendid argument for the Jew.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 240w.
* “Naturally, the authors speak from the inside, and as each deals
with conditions which have come within his own observation and
experience, there is a variety of intimate information not easily
obtainable by alien investigators.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 300w.
=Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 70w.
* =Bernstein, Hermann.= Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.
The life of a group of Russian Jews is here pictured in a fashion
simple to the point of crudeness. The two daughters of the orthodox
cantor, Isroel Lambert, follow their own hearts and become outcasts
from both the faith and the home of their father. Later, contrite in
heart and chastened in spirit, they are reunited with him in America.
Thruout the book strict observance of Jewish rites seems to bring a
happiness denied to those who merely love.
=Berry, Charles William.= Temperature-entropy diagram. $1.25. Wiley.
“Mr. Berry’s book ... presupposes a knowledge of thermodynamics, also
of the working and behavior of the various kinds of heat engines, ...
it ... is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter treats of
reversible processes and cycles, and in the following eleven chapters
the T Phi diagram is applied to the following processes and engines:
perfect gases, saturated steam, superheated vapors, the flow of
fluids, hot-air engines, the liquefaction of gases, compressors and
refrigeration, the actual steam-engine cycle as recorded by the
indicator.”—Engin. N.
“The book is very clearly written. The author has covered quite an
extensive field, and on the whole he has done it very well.” Storm
Bull.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 420w.
=Berton, Guy.= Art thou the man? †$1.50. Dodd.
A Denver murderer who daintily strangles a trio of women and in each
case leaves behind thirteen carnations as a clue is sought thruout
this detective story. The adventures of a “cub reporter” who becomes
involved in the search, the clearing of an innocent man by a skilful
lawyer who holds a mob at bay to protect his client, and the influence
of Elise, the wicked and beautiful woman of the French quarter, are
vividly drawn.
“The gloom is not lightened by any gleam of humor, but the style has
the force which comes from a lurid intensity of feeling.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 140w.
“Local color has been laid on here in great crimson splashes.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 237. Ap. 8, ‘05. 380w.
“A rather clever detective story couched in somewhat overwrought
language.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
“The tale is lacking in action, compactness, and sequence.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 110w.
“Lacks neither freshness nor power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 110w.
=Bertouch, Beatrice, Baroness de.= Life of Father Ignatius, O. S. B.
*$3. Dutton.
The life of this “devout but pugnacious Anglican monk” is interwoven
with questions of church doctrine and church union so as to represent
an episode in church history. His biographer reveals him as “a son of
thunder,” “magnificently human,” and with an “oceanic personality.”
“Will be received with grains by those not of the fold.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 750w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w.
“The story of his life is a curious episode in the history of the
modern church, an interesting study for the psychologist, and an
instructive commentary on the worth of a formal sort of church union
that is too much thought of.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 150w.
“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition
of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its
way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious
vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 170w.
=Besant, Walter.= London in the time of the Tudors. *$7.50. Macmillan.
“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally
in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are
naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that
interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on
‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our
curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s
‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the
most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a
panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book,
originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well
illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and
being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.
“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a
story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and
dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their
weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down
to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.”
Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + =Dial.= 88: 121. F. 16, ‘05. 1230w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 143. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1450w.
=Best, Kenelm Digby.= Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most
holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary. *$6. Herder.
A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is
illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary
frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.
“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have
discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely
false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general
method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it
with either profit or patience.”
— — — =Cath. World.= 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 220w.
=Bevan, Edwyn Robert.= Jerusalem under the high priests. $2.50.
Longmans.
Five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament.
“Into his attractive narrative of political events Mr. Bevan weaves a
sketch of the development of Jewish thought, including therein notices
of the Book of Daniel and of all the great Apocryphal works of the
time except the Wisdom of Solomon.... One of the most noteworthy works
of the period is Ben-Sira or Ecclesiasticus.... Mr. Bevan’s account of
the book is full and interesting. He properly devotes much space to
the invasion of Jewish society by Hellenism, including the attempt of
Antiochus Epiphanes to Hellenize his realm.... Other important points
forcibly brought out are: the character of Judas Maccabæus, the
results of the Hasmonean rule, the conflicts between the Pharisees and
the Sadducees, and the policy and character of Herod. The volume is
provided with an index and tables of the Hasmoneans and the
Seleucids.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Bevan’s picture of the period, while popular in style, is
thorough and accurate in matter.” C. H. Toy.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 681. Ap. ‘05. 320w.
“The style is clear and sympathetic, and occasionally even brilliant.
The topics dealt with by Mr. Bevan are so successfully worked out that
we should have liked to see the book enlarged so as to embrace other
pertinent points as well.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 522. Ap. 29. 610w.
“It is not a comprehensive work; but a scholar who knows a period of
history deeply and scientifically, can put a great deal of information
into a small book. And beyond doubt, Mr. Bevan’s acquaintance with his
subject is thorough and methodical. We only regret that he did not add
a little bibliographical detail to his interesting pages.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 829. Mr. ‘05. 230w.
“The author has certainly succeeded in his purpose of giving ‘in a few
strokes the general outline and colour’ of the period.” G. B. G.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
=Beveridge, Albert J.= Young man and the world. **$1.50. Appleton.
“The young Indiana senator writes of young men from the point of view
of a young man who has found success coming his way. These papers are
collected from the periodical in which they first appeared.... Learn
your limitations, and start out in the direction for which you are
fitted, is his first suggestion. Also keep working, and working hard,
and don’t worry. Read, and mingle with people, and cultivate nature.
Take vacations. Courage, nerve, faith in one’s self are necessary. Mr.
Beveridge has given a great deal of good advice that ... will
stimulate and help to strengthen.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 669. O. 14, ‘05. 530w.
* “It is all on good, safe, and sound commonplace ground.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 370w.
* “His book covers a great deal of ground, and covers it well; it
contains sayings to think over, sayings to remember, sayings to
follow; it is a book decidedly worth having.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
“The writer’s terse, vigorous style is well suited to his text.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* “Will occupy a permanent place with books of their general
character.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Beveridge, W.= History of the Westminster assembly. *$1. imp. Scribner.
“In a very clear and orderly manner, within a brief compass, this
volume sets forth the events leading up to the calling of the
assembly, its character, deliberations, and findings.”—Bib. World.
“The calling, the personnel, and proceedings of the assembly are
concisely related.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 376. Ap. ‘05. 170w.
“Of the many histories of the assembly this seems to us best suited to
the needs of the general reader.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Bharati, Baba Premanand.= Sree Krishna, the Lord of love. *$2. Lane.
This work prepared by the distinguished Brahman of Calcutta, who was
recently elected vice-president of the Peace congress, is intended to
interpret the Hindu belief as to the origin and meaning of life and
the evolution of the universe. It purports to be “the history of the
universe from its birth to its dissolution. Baba Bharati has aimed to
impress his readers with the substance of Hindu thought on religion
and philosophy, in purely Eastern dress. The volume is really a clear
history of the origin, nature, and evolution of the universe as the
Oriental mind perceives it; it is a clear statement of the doctrine of
Karma; an exposition of the caste system; a beautiful story of the
Oriental Christ, and perhaps the clearest statement ever published of
the Hindu cosmogony.” (R. of Rs.)
“Style is direct, simple, and clear, and his thinking high and sane.
It is an extraordinary book,—the fascinating exposition of an exalted
philosophy.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 250w.
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an
introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“A rhythmical rendering and rearrangement of the contents of
Ecclesiastes, involving many transpositions of verses and many
excisions of glosses. The notes are numerous and suggestive. The book
belongs to the ‘Polychrome’ series.”—Bib. World.
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ‘05. 30w.
“A highly valuable companion to the popular versions.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 170w.
Bible, Twentieth century New Testament *$1. Revell.
“‘The twentieth century Testament’ is a translation into modern
English made from the original Greek by a company of about twenty
scholars representing the various sections of the Christian church.”
(N. Y. Times). In spite of the radical efforts of religious and
literary formalists the world over to oppose modernizing the form of
the Scriptures, “the demand of the people for a Gospel in their own
tongue is too strong to be checked.” (Ind.)
“There can be no question that this work is equaled by few, if any, in
its earnestness, scholarship, and success. It deserves to be studied
and publicly read, not in the place of, but along side of, the
American standard revision.” C. W. V.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 76. Jl. ‘05. 350w.
“The most popular [modernized translations], and in our opinion
deservedly so, is the Twentieth century New Testament. It is not an
old version patched up so as to last a little longer, but a new
rendering expressed in words and style such as might be used if it
were written for us of to-day, as, indeed, we believe it was. The
translators write idiomatically, not pedantically.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 435. F. 23, ‘05. 360w.
“There need, we suppose, be no real fear that this book will make any
progress in displacing that of which it is in effect a part burlesque,
or that it will be otherwise valued than as a literary curiosity.”
— — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 143w.
=Bicknell, Edward.= Territorial acquisitions of the United States,
1787-1904: an historical review. 3d ed. rev. and enl. **50c. Small.
“A clear and concise statement of the superficial facts concerning our
accessions of territory.”—Am. Hist. R.
“It contains a few errors. The style is too colloquial, but as a whole
the book is better than many more pretentious ones.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 445. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
* =Bigelow, Poultney.= History of the German struggle for liberty. v. 4.
**$2.25. Harper.
With the appearance of this fourth volume of its series the “History
of the German struggle for liberty” stands complete from the battle of
Jena in 1806, to the rebirth of national spirit in 1848. This latest
volume contains a spirited account of the stirring events in Germany
during 1844-1848, culminating in the declaration of Frederick William
IV. and the meeting of the German national assembly at Frankfort. It
brings out the similarity in the character of the Vienna, Berlin, and
Munich revolutions, and discusses the growth of the influence of the
laboring classes, and of socialistic doctrines.
* “Is refreshingly unconventional, spasmodically clever, and
interesting throughout. Taken as a whole, this latest piece of work of
Poultney Bigelow’s is most stimulating, breezy, entertaining, and yet
instructive as well.” Wolf Von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 846. D. 2, ‘05. 1600w. (Review of v. 4.)
* “Comprises a succession of vivid pictures of persons and events
rather than a sober, detailed, and connected history.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
* “A return to the orderly arrangement of the earlier volumes of the
history would afford a deserved relief to those who have been forced
to flounder about in the disorder, back tracks, and false leads of Mr.
Bigelow’s fourth volume.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Bigg, Charles.= Church’s task under the Roman empire. *$1.75. Oxford.
The four lectures brought together here are “Education under the
empire,” two on “Religion under the empire,” and “Moral and social
conditions of the empire.” The object is the directing of attention
“to the extreme importance of studying the relation between the Empire
and the Church even in those days which preceded the recognition of
Christianity by Constantine, and further, of ascertaining as clearly
as possible the conditions, intellectual, moral and material of the
people who filled the rank of the church.”
“Written with an ease of style which at times almost disguises the
author’s profound knowledge and with a charm that rarely falls to the
lot of scholarly writers.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 262. Ag. 26. 1010w.
“Dr. Bigg is, of course, master of his subject, and able to handle it
with lightness of touch, breadth of sympathy, and gentle humour.”
Alice Gardner.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 547. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
=Bilse, Oswald Fritz (Fritz von der Kryburg, pseud.).= Dear fatherland.
$1.50. Lane.
“The story of a young lieutenant in the German army, from the time he
entered the service to his downfall, the result of a debt brought upon
him by the false standard of living prescribed by army life. The novel
is a pen picture of the evil social and moral effects of army life
existing in Germany.”—Bookm.
“Besides being an interesting story of the realistic school, the work
has a two-fold value. It presents a striking picture of present-day
garrison-life in Germany and illustrates how degrading and subversive
of all that is worthiest in man is such an existence.”
+ =Arena.= 33: 673. Je. ‘05. 350w.
“The chief interest and the strongest conviction are found less in the
story than in the talk.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 400w.
“Its revelations are sordid and sickening to the last degree, and
there is no obvious excuse for its English publication, except as that
of giving an awful warning to the English-speaking nations to guard
their own war machines from ever sinking into such abysmal depths of
immorality and inefficiency as are here charged against the soldiery
of Germany. The book seems to be written by a man of devoted and
intelligent patriotism, who has risked what he prized most in order to
remedy the evils which he deplores. To say that the narrative is of
any value as an example of the novelist’s art would be a decided
stretching of the truth.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 50. Ja. 28, ‘05. 740w.
=Bingham, Joel Foote,= tr. See =Manzoni, Allessandro.= Sacred hymns and
Napoleonic ode.
* =Birrell, Augustine.= Andrew Marvell. **75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, contains a
biography of the man who is remembered as “a colleague and friend of
Milton, a wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and a member of Parliament from
the Stuart Restoration until his death in 1678.... But ... ‘a more
elusive non-recorded character,’ laments Mr. Birrell, ‘is hardly to be
found.’ Consequently, it is not surprising to find the biographer
dwelling mainly on his subject’s writings, quoting from them freely,
and relating much of the history of the day necessary to explain them
and assist in forming some idea of the writer’s personality.”
(Outlook.)
* “On the whole, it may be said that ‘Andrew Marvell’ holds its own
successfully against any other volume in the new series of Messrs.
Macmillan’s ‘English men of letters.’”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 976. S. 23, ‘05. 1440w.
* “We have not space here to enter into his treatment of Marvell; it
is admirable; we should end by quoting too much from Mr. Birrell
himself, as a delightful performer in the intimate style.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “But the book is not a good one for it falls between two stools. If
it was to deal only with the permanent part of Marvell’s charming
poetry it is nearly two hundred pages too long; if it was really to
explain the politics of his day (which heaven forbid!) it is not long
enough. And we resent some of the conversational ease of Mr. Birrell’s
manner.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 303. S. 22. ‘05. 840w.
* “Whatever may be thought of the truth of this style of biographical
writing, it must be admitted that Mr. Birrell is master of its art,
and that when provided with a favorable opportunity he is at least
invariably entertaining.” Wm. A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 842. D. 2, ‘05. 3010w.
* “A study which is not so much a biography as a contribution to the
history of English politics and literature. As such it deserves a
cordial greeting, for it is scholarly and sound.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 714. N. 2, ‘05. 260w.
* “A pleasant ramble with an intelligent and illuminating guide
through a time of great interest.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 34: 765. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold von.= Bismarck’s speeches and
letters; by Herman Schoenfeld. *$1.50. Appleton.
A worthy addition to historical literature. The introduction is a
biography and a philosophic interpretation of the character of
Bismarck, and is supplemented by a chronology and a bibliography. The
book is indispensable to the study of contemporary history as affected
by Germany, but especially to the study of the unification of Germany
itself, an accomplishment due, in most part, to Bismarck’s genius.
Much has been learned about Bismarck’s personality thru the various
biographies by Lowe, Headlam, Stearns, and Jacks by M. Adler, by Herr
Busch, thru Mr. Ford’s edition of “The correspondence of William and
Bismarck.” and thru Bismarck’s own “Reflections and reminiscences,”
above all thru his “Love letters,” but no one serves to sum up
Bismarck’s life work as does Schoenfeld’s.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* =Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Elements of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
This working manual for students is divided into seven parts: Nature
and import of sociology; Social evolution; Socialization and social
control; Social ideals; Social pathology, dealing with practical
subjects such as charity, poverty, crime, social degeneration; Methods
of investigation; and History of sociology, in which are brought out
the ideas found in the works of Spencer, Gumplowicz, Schaeffle,
Lilienfeld, Mackenzie, Tarde, Le Bon, Letourneau, De Greef, Giddings,
Small, Ward, Ross, Ely, Mill, Malthus, Warner, Henderson and others.
* “The chief merit of the book from the theoretical side is that it
gives an intelligent statement of the view-points of all the leading
sociological writers. The chief merit from the practical side is that
it touches upon a variety of vital and interesting problems in such a
way as to tempt the student to go forward and specialize. The style of
the book is easy, and free from any ambitious flights or phrasing, but
clear and agreeable.” Jerome Dowd.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 422. N. ‘05. 720w.
* “It is comprehensive in scope, is written in simple and direct
diction, and the arrangement of its parts is sequential and orderly.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 30w.
=Blackmore, Richard D.= Lorna Doone. $1.25. Crowell.
This tale of the deeds of the outlaw Doones sheltered in the depths of
the Bagworthy Forest appears in new dress almost every year. Here the
reader has it in handy volume form, bound in limp leather, with clear
type and thin paper.
=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander,= eds. Philippine
islands, 1493-1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
The purpose of these 55 volumes is to set forth as briefly as possible
from original sources the whole history of the Philippine islands and
their people, that all who are interested in their future may be able
to form their own opinions with a full understanding of the conditions
that exist to-day and that have existed since the discovery of the
islands. To this end the volumes are mainly devoted to exact
translations from rare original manuscripts, Spanish, French, Italian,
Latin, etc., illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts, portraits,
maps, and views. There is an analytical index, and notes and an
historical introduction have been provided by Edward Gaylord Bourne,
and special contributions by well known scholars and bibliographers.
The whole covers the history of the islands from their discovery to
the present time, including explorations by early navigators,
descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history, and
records of the Catholic missions as related in contemporaneous books
and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and
religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations
with European nations to the end of the nineteenth century.
“The work of the editors has ... shown steady improvement. The
translating staff is, ... as nearly as one may judge without having
the original texts for comparison, doing more effective work than at
the beginning.” James A. Le Roy.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 392. Ja. ‘05. 1230w. (Review of XVI, XVII
and XVIII.)
Reviewed by James A. Le Roy.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 875. Jl. ‘05. 1140w. (Review of v. 19 and
20.)
“It is an indispensable addition to every large library and collection
of American or Spanish history.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“Much of this matter is by no means light reading, but it is all a
valuable contribution to the early history of the islands.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 21.)
=Ind.= 58: 264. F. 2, ‘05. 650w. (Review of vols. XVIII, XIX
and XX.)
=Nation.= 80: 231. Mr. 23, ‘05. 430w. (Review of v. 19.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 510w. (Survey of contents
of vols. XIX and XX.)
* =Blake, J. M.= Reasonable view of life. *35c. Meth. bk.
Essays towards the understanding of the methods and working of eternal
love. A late addition to the “Freedom of faith” series.
=Blake, Katherine Evans.= Heart’s haven. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The Rappite community of celibates first in Pennsylvania and later in
Indiana furnishes the setting for this story. It portrays the struggle
between the Rappite conscience which repudiates all sentiment relating
to ties of flesh, and the natural cravings of the human heart. First
in the love of a parent for her child, later in this son’s love for a
fair girl, is shown the triumph of governable sanity over religious
fanaticism.
* “There are a number of flaws easily apparent in Miss Blake’s scheme
of the Harmonists. The author has made the mistake of padding too
heavily in spots.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 857. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Frontier knight. †$1.50. Wilde.
Miss Blanchard’s new “Pioneer series” story follows the fortunes of a
young man and his two sisters who emigrate from Kentucky to Texas
shortly before the Mexican war breaks out. There is excellent use made
of the opportunities to portray border life, in which the Mexican
peasant, the rancher, and the Texas ranger all have part.
=Blanchard, Amy E.= Little grandmother Jo. $1. Jacobs.
A story of school life fifty years ago, when a grandmother of to-day
left a happy southern home to endure the hardships of the
old-fashioned boarding-school where the methods were cruel, the
teachers unjust, and many of the little girls, the products of this
system, were spiteful.
=Blanden, Charles Granger.= Chorus of leaves. **$1.25. Elder.
In this gift-book, artistic and attractive in both print and binding,
are to be found some fifty verses very slight and very sentimental.
* “It strikes no lofty note, but it is singularly graceful in rhythm
and dainty in conceit, and makes no pretension to be more.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 60w.
* “Has written some pleasing verse under the title of ‘A chorus of
leaves.’”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Blind, Mathilde.= George Eliot. $1.25. Little.
This new edition of Mathilde Blind’s “George Eliot” “has been greatly
enhanced in value by the introduction of able and carefully prepared
chapters by Frank Waldo, and G. A. Tarkington, in which we have a
charming description of the friends and home-life of George Eliot, and
a critical estimate of her place in literature, together with an
exhaustive bibliography.” (Arena).
“The excellent life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind, will remain a
standard biography. It is a volume that we take pleasure in
recommending to our readers as a book which should find a place in all
well-ordered libraries and a work that every young person should read
as a part of his general culture.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 109. Ja. ‘05. 260w.
“The very full bibliography, filling some thirty pages, is to be
particularly noted and commended.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 90w.
=Blondlot, (Prosper) Rene.= “N” rays, tr. by J. Garcin. *$1.20.
Longmans.
A collection of papers communicated to the academy of sciences; with
additional notes and instructions for the construction of
phosphorescent screens.
=Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 400w.
Reviewed by John G. McKendrick.
=Nature.= 72: 195. Je. 29, ‘05. 780w.
=Spec.= 94: 780. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
=Bloomfield, Maurice.= Cerberus, the dog of hades: the history of an
idea. 50c. Open ct.
“This essay ... is concerned with the origin and meaning, judged by
comparative mythology, of Cerberus.”—Acad.
“Interesting and suggestive little essay.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 337. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 227. Jl. 14, ‘05. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w.
=Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis,
pseud.).= Dorset dear: idylls of country life. $1.50. Longmans.
“The seventeen tales reprinted here from various periodicals ...
embrace a variety of incidents and emotions, grave and gay, no one
trenching upon the borders of another; and the characters are distinct
types of Dorset-folk.... ‘Witch Ann’ gives a pretty and touching
account of the way a harmless old woman came to be considered a
witch.... ‘The spur of the moment,’ and ‘The worm that turned,’
present amusing pictures of unromantic rustic wooings. ‘A woodland
idyll’ and ‘Postman Chris’ are charming love-stories.”—Acad.
“There is something in it better than cleverness and skill: the truth,
charm, and goodness of it leave a grateful memory of pleasant hours in
delightful company.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 494. My. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“All the stories are well worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 200w.
“They are fascinating from their unpretending simplicity, their pure
goodness, and their warm, human interests.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w.
“The movement of the tale is slight, but not without its dramatic
incidents and occasional tragedies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“It has a charm and interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 70w.
“It is a book into which one may dip with pleasure, but the stories
are for the most part so slight that it is unwise to handle the whole
string of beads at once.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Seldom has it been the present writer’s fate to read so delightful a
collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell’s new volume of
short stories, ‘Dorset dear.’ ... The characters in the little
sketches are vividly drawn.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 789. My. 27, ‘05. 170w.
=Bocock, John Paul.= Book treasures of Maecenas. $1. Putnam.
“It is rather startling to pick up a volume with this title and open
immediately to a poem on ‘Funston of Kansas.’ It appears, however,
that the book’s title is that of the first poem, and that the volume
includes many fugitive verses on all sorts of topics, which have been
welcome to the columns of many newspapers and magazines.”—Outlook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 280w.
=Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25. ‘05. 60w.
* =Bölsche, Wilhelm.= Evolution of man; tr. by Ernest Untermann. 50c.
Kerr.
“This is a little work of real value in which an able German scholar
gives a succinct, graphic and general outline of the evolution of man.
It contains in the briefest possible compass a summary of the
demonstrations brought out by the revolutionary school of physical
scientists.”—Arena.
* “The subject matter is presented in lucid style, easy of
comprehension, and the book is valuable as a short exposition of a
subject about which no well-informed man of the present day can afford
to be ignorant.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 553. N. ‘05. 80w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 40w.
=Bolton, Charles E.= Harris-Ingram experiment. $1.50. Burrows.
By far the greater portion of Mr. Bolton’s book is devoted to an
account of the domestic, social and financial affairs of the Harris
and Ingram families. The process of accumulating millions, descriptive
journeys thru Europe, matrimonial schemes, a strike which involves the
use of dynamite and firebrands furnish subjects for the first 395
pages. The remaining forty pages are occupied with the “Experiment,” a
Utopian scheme for establishing mills on the co-operative plan to
demonstrate that capital and labor can unite on a common basis. The
reader is introduced to a “Utopian mill in a Utopian village where
there were no politicians, no saloons, no graft, no crime, nothing but
that which was serene and restful and frightfully educational and
instructive ... in that land of Somewhere to which there are no
railroad guides.” (N. Y. Times).
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 112. F. 18, ‘05. 690w.
=Bolton, Henry Carrington.= The follies of science at the court of
Rudolph II., 1576-1612. *$2. Pharmaceutical review pub. co., Milwaukee.
A book which “occupies itself with a medley of charlatans and
charlatanism in the sixteenth century and with the most splendid
patron of such matters, Rudolph II., King of Bohemia and Hungary, and
Emperor of Germany.” (N. Y. Times). This ruler, a contemporary of
Queen Elizabeth, neglecting his royal duties, drew around him a
strange company of men, more or less learned in the occult sciences.
These various personages, couched in the oriental luxury of the court,
work amazing tricks of alchemy, discover formulas for wonderful
elixirs, and claim a recipe for the philosopher’s stone. Incidentally,
there is given much information concerning the manners of the time,
the people, and their mental characteristics.
=Ind.= 58: 1073. My. 11, ‘05. 160w.
“Rather extraordinary volume. Altogether the book contains a deal of
queer information about queer people and things of a time (in some
ways) more credulous than ours. Readers with a taste for the
out-of-the-way, for historical junk, in short, will find much to
entertain them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 350w.
* =Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton).= Famous American
authors. $2. Crowell.
These essays were first published in 1887, and they are now re-issued
“in a handsomely bound volume with two dozen illustrations portraying
in fine half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes of six
representatives of the old New England school, ... Emerson, Hawthorne,
Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.” (Dial.)
* “Aside from its literary interest, it ought to be popular as a
holiday gift-book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “She manages to tell the familiar facts in a genial, lively way,
interlarding them with anecdotes or personal impressions, and making
her main theme in every case the essential quality of the author
discussed.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 160w.
* =Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= Facts and fancies for the curious from
the harvest-fields of literature. **$3 Lippincott.
“Forty-five years ago Dr. Bombaugh published the first edition of his
famous book, ‘Gleanings for the curious.’ ... An entertaining
collection of curious things in letters. His book lasted for nearly
fifty years; it would have lasted longer had not its plates been
destroyed by fire. Instead of merely resetting the book, Dr. Bombaugh
has made a second volume along the same lines only with more recent
matter.... The new volume contains the results of the most recent
discoveries in many branches of literature ... and presents various
jokes that have a very recent ring.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The total amount of curious information is so vastly greater than
the amount compressible within a single volume that a book of this
type is more useful for random reading than for reference purposes.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Bonner, Geraldine.= Pioneer. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the early days of California and Nevada when fortunes were
made and unmade daily among the mines. There are many characters
typical of those mixed times, but the real hero is the old colonel,
who for the sake of his love for the woman who jilted him twenty years
before, devotes himself to her two daughters, and allows their weak
father to unscrupulously rob him. He finds happiness in serving the
girl who resembles her mother, and seeing her safely thru a heart
crisis.
“Though her treatment is perhaps too conventional to please the
realist the story is thoroughly unhackneyed, while the human interest
is strong throughout.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 420w.
“It is an unpleasant and rather sensational narrative.”
— + =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 50w.
* =Bonner, Robert John.= Evidence in Athenian courts. *75c. Univ. of
Chicago press.
“Mr. R. J. Bonner, ‘formerly of the Ontario bar,’ deals with the
subject from the point of view of a man trained in English law. The
material is classified accordingly under such heads as Irrelevant,
Hearsay, Written, Oral, Real, and Expert evidence, Evidence of slaves,
Competency of witnesses, Challenges, Oaths, etc. In a number of cases
the view presented in Meier-Schömann’s ‘Der Attische process’ is
disputed.”—Am. Hist. R.
* “The work is carefully done, and will be found interesting and
suggestive by teachers who have not had the advantage of a legal
training.” A. G. L.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 187. O. ‘05. 180w.
* “Mr. Bonner seems to have exhausted his sources, both original and
secondary. He has shown acuteness in his deductions. The only real
doubt as to his conclusions arises from the fear that he was
overzealous in his search for a body of law on evidence in Athens.”
Clarke B. Whittier.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 424. N. ‘05. 880w.
=Boole, Mrs. Mary E.= Preparation of the child for science. *50c.
Oxford.
The author’s purpose thruout this volume is to offer “suggestions as
to the means by which the scientific condition of mind can be induced”
in children. Five chapters deal respectively with the scientific mind,
the unconscious mind, hygienic sequence in development, mathematical
imagination, and ethical and logical preparation.
“Information and salutary wisdom are to be drawn from it everywhere.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 18. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1570w.
“Her book may be warmly recommended to parents anxious to adopt sane
methods of educating their children and to teachers responsible for
the training of the lowest classes of schools.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 316. F. 2, ‘05. 300w.
=Booth, William H.= Steam pipes: their design and construction. $2.
Henley.
“This book ... is a compilation of various formulas and tables having
to do with steam piping, together with such individual practice or
designs as have been adopted by several large English corporations or
manufacturers.... The author does not attempt to give any but English
practice, and the book would not necessarily meet the exact demands of
American engineers.”—Engin. N.
“For the American engineer the perusal of the book, considering that
the title seems to promise well, leaves a keen sense of
disappointment, and a feeling that little of value has been added to
our scanty knowledge of steam piping.” Charles K. Stearns.
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 340. Je. 15, ‘05. 970w.
=Borrow, George.= Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or
English-Gypsy language. $2. Putnam.
“‘Romano lavo-lil’ contains not only Borrow’s remarks on the history
of Romany, and his vocabulary of the language, occupying fifty-odd
pages, but a batch of Gypsy proverbs, in Romany and English, some
scraps of the scriptures rendered into Gypsy, the “Book of wisdom of
the Egyptians,” a list of favored Gypsy names of countries and towns,
and many quaint odds and ends of folk-lore.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =Acad.= 68: 751. Jl. 22, ‘05. 2260w.
“It is in fact, a book in which the admirer of Isopel Berners may find
much to entertain him for an hour or so.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
“A very serviceable edition in size, weight, and typography.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 170w.
=Bosanquet, Rev. Bernard Hugh, and Wenham, Reginald A.= Outlines of the
synoptic record. *$1.70. Longmans.
This volume “sets forth present opinion as to the synoptic question,
and gives an outline of the life of Jesus and a summary of his
teaching according to the first three gospels.”—Ind.
* “The object of the writers of the book was to prepare a narrative
based strictly on the three gospels which would embody the results of
recent investigations in England unobtrusively and impartially, and
their efforts have been successful.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 460. Ap. 15. 470w.
=Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 40w.
“A reticence is observable in dealing with miraculous narratives which
contrasts with the freedom exercised in the non-miraculous. With this
limitation, the book, while not professing to be a life of Jesus, is a
good critical outline of his career as exhibited in the first three
Gospels.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 196. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w.
=Bosworth, Edward Increase.= Studies in the life of Jesus Christ. 90c;
pa. 60c. Y. M. C. A.
“In two parts: the first based on the synoptic Gospels, following Mark
with supplementary references to the other two Gospels; the second
based on the fourth Gospel, well planned, neglectful neither of the
historical growth of Judaism nor of the literary character of the
different Gospels.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w.
* =Boulton, William B.= Sir Joshua Reynolds. **$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Boulton’s work is the fullest in biographical interest of any of
those which have appeared since Leslie and Taylor in 1865. To the
students of technical processes of Reynolds’ art the book makes but
slight appeal.... Reynolds entered very fully into the social and
intellectual life of his time, and the wealth of anecdote of
contemporary diarists and letter-writers has been aptly laid under
contribution.... The illustrations ... are well selected and
excellently reproduced.”—Ath.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 1180w.
* “Mr. Boulton has written a most useful handbook, entirely
trustworthy and keen on the elaboration of what others have suggested.
Of a wealth of material he has also made splendid and always
proportionate use.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
* “In saying that the present volume is less interesting than Sir
Walter’s we do not say that it is less valuable. More people probably
will agree with Mr. Boulton’s critical estimate of the great president
of the Royal academy than with Sir Walter Armstrong’s estimate. Sir
Walter’s book is only the more interesting of the two because it is
less conventional and more original.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Bourget, Paul (Charles Joseph).= Divorce. $1.50. Scribner.
“The scenes of this novel are laid in France. It concerns Gabrielle, a
woman divorced from her husband, whose remarriage to another man is
one of highest ideals. Owing to religious fervor, however, Gabrielle
becomes estranged from her second husband. The other thread in the
story deals with the love affair of the heroine’s son, who has been as
thoroughly educated and cared for by his mother’s second husband as by
an own father.”—Bookm.
“M. Bourget has constructed a diagram to illustrate his view of the
sacredness of marriage, and has called it a novel.”
— =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“M. Bourget sketches his characters and states their opinions with
great fairness.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1005. My. 4, ‘05. 1490w.
“Distinctly the strongest piece of fiction which M. Bourget has
written. Whether the reader agrees with its extreme position or not,
he cannot fail to be impressed by its sincerity of conviction, its
powerful analysis, and its admirable style. It is a piece of fiction
of very unusual strength and dignity.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 142. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w.
“There is a certain finesse about the plot that is commendable with
the mental reservation that only a Frenchman will commend it. There is
not enough beef and iron in Paul Bourget’s psychology to commend him
to the average American.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 25. Ja. 5, ‘05. 410w.
“Paul Bourget’s latest work is ostensibly a novel, but to English
readers it will appear as a purely pathological presentation of the
relation between the Roman church and its adherents in the matter of
divorce. It is really the story of an intense mental and moral
struggle between religion and love.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Bourne, Robert William (John Wright, pseud.).= Home mechanic: a manual
for industrial schools and amateurs. *$2.50. Dutton.
An English book, the usefulness of which in the United States is
qualified by the necessity of making allowances for the difference in
prices, measures, and shop practice. It teaches the use of tools and
the construction of machines. There are many diagrams and cuts.
“Very comprehensive and practical work.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 270. F. 2, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w. (Survey of scope).
“Carefully designed to teach the use of tools and the construction of
machines.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 245. Ja. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Boutmy, Emile.= English people: a study of their political psychology
from the French by E. English; with an introd. by J: E: Courtenay
Bodley. *$2.50. Putnam.
“This work is divided into five distinct parts: (1) the national type,
(2) the human environment, (3) the Englishman—moral and social, (4)
the Englishman as a politician, (5) the individual and the state. At
the very outset the author sounds the keynote of his book in pointing
out the disdain of the English people for abstractions and their love
of fact.... While primarily a psychological analysis of the English
people, at the same time the author gives a considerable insight into
French character.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“While there is too much of generalization, which detracts greatly
from the scientific value, the book is full of interest, and possesses
an easy flowing style which will commend it to the majority of
readers.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 335. Mr. ‘05. 350w.
“It is piquant, varied, plausible in spots, interesting all over,—and
fatally unconvincing. The solution is too neat to be true. The English
dress which the work bears is fair on the whole, but the translator’s
unsure foothold in the region of idiom occasionally reminds one of its
Gallic origin.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ — =Atlan.= 95: 551. Ap. ‘05. 390w.
=Bouton, Archibald Lewis.= See Lincoln and Douglas debates.
=Boyd, James E.= Differential equations, 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus,
O.
A little book well adapted to serve as a basis for the study at home
of this branch of calculus which is often not fully covered in the
engineering courses of the technical colleges.
“It is clear in its exposition.”
+ + + =Engin.= N. 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 200w.
* =Boyesen, Bayard.= Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R. G.
A tragedy in poem-drama form. A gaunt mother and an aged father are
left alone in the castle of Nyarva by Luxander, their only son, who,
followed by Nyassa, “a vague faint flower on a waving stem” who loves
him, goes out into the darkness accursed of God at the call of the
“blind marsh and restless surge,” led by a spirit within him “stronger
than life, or Christ, or love.”
=Boyle, Mrs. Virginia (Fraser).= Serena †$1.50. Barnes.
“A story of the South during the Civil war, thoroughly provincial. The
plot turns upon the cowardice of the twin brother of the heroine. The
latter takes her brother’s place in the Confederate army, leading his
deserted men to victory. This is the one blot upon Southern chivalry
in the tale, while the author evidently holds that both civilians and
soldiers north of Mason and Dixon’s line were knaves and coarse
mercenaries.”—Outlook.
“Is written in a spirit that few readers nowadays will find
sympathetic.”
— =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 40w.
— =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 16: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 70w.
“The plot is conventional, the love affair ordinary, and the whole
story commonplace. Its atoning feature is its easy wording.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w.
... “The amateurish plot construction, the lack of connection between
parts, the absence of a well-defined story motive.”
— + =Reader.= 6: 596. O. ‘05. 220w.
=Brace, Benjamin.= Sunrise acres. †$1.50. Dodd.
A young athlete and football player is made heir to half a million
dollars by his uncle on condition that he seek out and thrash a man
who had once beaten this uncle in fair fight for a lady. The nephew
finds his man and also finds him to be the father of a pretty
daughter, but the fight takes place nevertheless with amusing
complications.
“The author has an excellent idea for a farce comedy. He has
unfortunately lacked some skill in execution.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 190w.
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. John Maxwell).= Rose of life. †$1.50.
Brentano’s.
“Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human
being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is
introduced in the very first line, is a remarkable creation, and a
creation which would only have been possible in the present day....
Indeed, readers of the book will almost be persuaded that they are
familiar with his personal appearance, so intimately will they seem
acquainted with the huge man whose delicate tact, colossal
selfishness, unfailing amiability, and atrocious greed make him such
an amusing companion.... The book, beyond the figure of the poet, is a
little commonplace, and the beautiful but unscrupulous Lady
Beauminster is entirely conventional and melodramatic. But the novel
as a whole is a not uninteresting background to its principal figure,
and is worth reading solely for the one admirable piece of
character-drawing which it contains.”—Spec.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 210w.
“This latest of many canvases is as big as any.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 161. My. 19. 490w.
“The merit of the story lies in the first part, and particularly in
the artistic perfection of the character of Daniel Lester.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 350w.
+ — =Spec.= 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Bradford, Amory H.= Inward light. **$1.20. Crowell.
The author says: “The teaching of the book may be condensed as
follows: There is in every man light sufficient to disclose all the
truth that is needed for the purpose of life: that light is from God
who dwells in humanity as He is immanent in the universe; therefore
the source of authority is to be formed within the soul and not in
external authority of church, or creed or book: that light being
divine must be continuous; it will never fail; it will lead to all
truth and show things to come; and it may be implicitly trusted.”
* “The analytical critic will pass it by because it is neither
analytical nor polemical, but the devout soul will find spiritual
nutriment in it, and for the devout soul it has been written.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Pageant of life. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Poems for book lovers grouped under the headings: A pageant of life;
The villa of Hadrian; Song of the sirens to Ulysses; A verse of
Isaiah; Leopardi; Sonnets; Songs and lyrics; Prologue and lyrics from
a mad world; Translations.
“Besides these, and other sonnets, Mr. Bradford’s volume gives us some
charming lyrics, a deeply-sympathetic poem placed upon the lips of
Leopardi, and two successful translations from that world-wearied
singer.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“‘A pageant of life’ ... is the intelligent verse of a scholarly man
of fine sensibilities, who has meditated the literary history of the
world long and minutely.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 130w.
“Although he occasionally sinks into ... banality ... his muse is on
the whole sturdy and self-respecting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 390w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Private tutor. †$1.50. Houghton.
“An artist manqué” accompanied by “the graceless son of an American
millionaire,” makes a tour thru Europe, and records his experiences in
a manner to call forth the following statement from the Dial:
“‘Glorified Baedeker or Hare’ would do fairly well as a
characterization of these pages, which are the result of a sympathetic
intimacy with the scenes described.”
“Is an amateurish production, without much to tell in the way of a
story, but having some very pretty pages descriptive of Rome, where
the action is laid. The author exhibits no power of characterization
worth mentioning, and therein is the essential failure of his novel.
This defect is hardly to be offset by style and observation, which
qualities are in fair measure his.” W. M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 38: 128. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
“It is a very good story, told with sufficient humor to make it almost
a comedy.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.
=Bradley, A. C.= Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello,
King Lear, Macbeth. $3.25. Macmillan.
“Besides the lectures on the tragedies themselves, Prof. Bradley, of
the University of Oxford, writes on ‘The substance of Shakespearean
tragedy,’ ‘Construction in Shakespeare’s tragedies,’ and
‘Shakespeare’s tragic period.’ His purpose in presenting these four
tragedies is, as he states, ‘to increase our understanding and
enjoyment of these works as dramas; to learn to apprehend the action
and some of the personages of each with a somewhat greater truth and
intensity, so that they may assume in our imagination a shape little
less unlike the shape they wore in the imagination of their creator.’
“To the single task of interpretation he accordingly devoted himself,
examining each of the tragedies individually, after a preliminary
inquiry into such questions germane to all four as Shakespeare’s
conception of tragedy and the form in which he expressed that
conception.”” (Outlook).
“Every question, every controversy, theory, view, or supposition which
arises, he subjects to the same test. It is another merit of the book
that every question is submitted to common-sense argumentation. The
arrangement of the book is admirable.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 229. Mr. 11, ‘05. 2240w.
“In our opinion a book like that which is before us is not much less
essential for the complete comprehension of Shakespeare’s tragedies
than an atlas is for the fruitful study of geography.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 266. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1350w.
“In thoroughness of workmanship the book recalls German models.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 602. My. 13. 2270w.
“But there can be no doubt as to the gratitude which every student who
has been puzzled by these familiar problems must feel to Professor
Bradley for the help afforded by his careful and sympathetic volume.”
R. W. Chambers.
+ + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 213. O. ‘05. 1630w.
“Is an excellent example of sedate English critical scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 440w.
* “It is the best piece of Shakespearean criticism published for some
time.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
“The book is worthy of its theme; and it will carry the reader deeper
into the mind of Shakespeare—deeper, I believe, than of any other
commentator.” Henry Jones.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 99. O. ‘05. 2920w.
“A great mass of erudition, thoroughly digested, reasoned, and
ordered, is brought to bear not merely on the four tragedies
professedly dealt with, but incidentally on the other plays as well;
the ideas are expressed in a style always admirably clear and often of
a finely restrained eloquence.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 506. Je. 22, ‘05. 1890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 24. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
“An intellectual treat. The originality, the analytical ability, the
poetic perception.... Into all phases of his task he throws himself
with enthusiasm. If he is not always convincing, he is always helpful,
the sum total of his efforts being to produce a work which is really a
welcome and distinctly useful addition to the already voluminous
literature on the subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.
“From the beginning to the end the level is sustained, exact criticism
never sinks, and at times there is in the interpretation an
imagination and a poetry which make the book in the truest sense a
work of creation. His explanations are so lucid, so compelling that,
novel though many of them are, we are almost invariably convinced. We
have no hesitation in putting Professor Bradley’s book far above any
modern Shakespearean criticism that we know, worthy to rank very near
the immortal work of Lamb and Coleridge.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 138. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2120w.
=Bradley, Henry.= Making of English. *$1. Macmillan.
The avowed object of this book is “to give educated readers unversed
in philology some notions of the excellencies and defects of modern
English as an instrument of expression.” The author discusses first
the grammar, second the vocabulary, of our language. The history of
the decay of inflection and the development of the new machinery which
took its place is given, and the principles of composition, derivation
and root creation are discussed at length. The closing chapter deals
with the contribution of individual writers.
“English-speaking people, especially Americans, whose interest in
their own language has always been conspicuous, will ask nothing
better than to study its history under Dr. Bradley’s guidance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1054. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2060w.
=Bradley, William Aspenwall.= William Cullen Bryant. **75c. Macmillan.
A volume in the “English men of letters series.” While he deals
particularly with Bryant as the “poet and man of letters, Mr. Bradley
touches upon his qualities as a man of affairs and his participation
in the politics of the time; and as the beloved citizen and foremost
figure at the civic celebrations of New York city.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is what seems a perfectly reasonable estimate of Bryant as a poet.”
H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 275. Ag. ‘05. 600w.
“The story of Bryant’s life is told plainly and succinctly,
accompanied by very sensible comment on his writings and a not
illiberal estimate of his position in literature.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 246. S. ‘05. 480w.
“A convenient, clear, and thoroughly readable biography.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 560w.
“Is more critical than sympathetic.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18. ‘05. 150w.
“While his story lacks something of the ‘detailed verisimilitude of
his predecessors,’ it does present a view of Bryant the poet that is,
perhaps, a little more integral and impressive. No one has yet written
at length of Bryant with a firmer hold on the American origins of his
poetry or a wider perspective of general literature.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1. ‘05. 1010w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 200. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 1280w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“Little that is valuable or striking is added to the sum total of
estimates of Bryant’s place in American literature. From the
biographical side the book deserves great praise.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 90w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Conquest of the Southwest: the story of a great
spoliation. **$1.50. Appleton.
“A story of the struggle for independence in Texas, also, of the
Mexican war, beginning with the Treaty of 1819 and concluding with the
Compromise of 1850. The volume, which is well illustrated with
drawings and maps, is an addition to ‘The expansion of the republic
series.’”—Bookm.
“The author has made a careful study of the vast literature bearing
upon the subject.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“It is written simply and effectively, and with less elaboration of
detail than previous works from the same hand.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 60w.
“The book is written in an easy, pleasant, and decidedly popular
style. It is, indeed, a popular account of the Mexican war and events
leading up to it, rather than what the author insists on calling it—a
monograph.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1050w.
“... An outline narrative in which shall be presented, lucidly,
impartially, and in proper proportion, the salient aspects, episodes,
and personalities. Such a presentation may fairly be said to be
embodied in Dr. Brady’s book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Indian fights and fighters. **$1.30. McClure.
“The material for this book has been secured from various documents,
and from officers and men who were in the engagements. It is divided
into two parts: Protecting the Frontier, and the War with the Sioux.
An account of Custer’s defeat is given in the appendix. It is an
addition to the ‘American fights and fighters’ series.” (Bookm.) “Mr.
Brady seems a bit hampered as a story teller in many of the chapters
by the wealth of facts he has to deal with and cling to, but is at his
best in the description of the battle of the Wichita, where Custer led
his troops against the Cheyennes under the leadership of Black
Kettle.” (N. Y. Times).
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“The book, like its three predecessors, is fairly authentic history,
and every endeavor has been made to set down the facts without fear or
favor.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1160w.
* =Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= My lady’s slipper. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Francis Burnham, an American midshipman, finds himself in the power
of the villainous Marquis du Tremigon, and is forced to assume a
disguise and enter the apartments of the beautiful Comtesse de Villars
to steal a token for the Marquis—a slipper worn by her, if
possible, ... and because he refuses to do the Marquis’s bidding there
are dark days in prison and other dangers in store for him. But the
slipper is a talisman of good fortune, and ... the Comtesse is made
happy for life, and so is Burnham. The book is in a pretty binding of
blue and gold, the illustrations are gracefully designed by Charlotte
Weber Ditzler.”—N. Y. Times.
* =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “The story of their love affairs is a pretty trifle, well adapted to
its ornate setting.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 3, ‘05. 180w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Three daughters of the Confederacy. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
The history and romance of three Southern girls with the Civil war
setting which Mr. Brady is past master of. The adventures of the first
take place on the Atlantic coast during the blockade at the beginning
of the war, while the Mississippi river furnishes the background for
the experiences of the second who marries a Yankee non-combatant and
straightway rues it. The third is a girl of such great daring that she
faces the enemy with her lover on the battlefield during “Stonewall
Jackson’s greatest day.”
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Two captains. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“A story of Nelson and Bonaparte in the troubled times of France’s
struggle to free herself from monarchy. The long, detailed accounts of
sea fights and naval maneuvers will doubtless interest some readers,
but the popular taste will find more gratification in the love story
of the bold young Irish sea captain and the unhappy French countess
whom he rescues from many perils and finally wins for his
wife.”—Outlook.
“A brightly contrived romance of an interesting period, which suffers
somewhat from the intrusion of the two gigantic historical figures.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 460. Ap. 15. 310w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 390. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
— + =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 250w.
“A very creditable and entertaining book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 126. F. 25, ‘05. 560w.
=Outlook.= 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 70w.
“The story itself is not of great significance. Mr. Brady has a sure
touch in his pictures of battles, whatever one may think of his
romantic passages. Nelson, too, is impressively presented. If it does
nothing else, the book may at least inspire some of its readers with
the desire to study in sober history the progress of the events which
are here so rapidly but glowingly sketched.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 391. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
=Brain, Belle Marvel.= All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told
for little folks. **$1. Revell.
“Miss Brain is already favorably known as a writer of ‘missionary’
stories for children, and in her present volume she manages to
incorporate, in a style peculiarly adapted to the juvenile mind, a
great variety of interesting facts concerning the history, life,
customs and manners of the Japanese, as well as brief biographies of
some of the most successful of those who have given themselves to the
task of spreading the gospel of Christ throughout the islands.”—Lit.
D.
“An excellent gift-book in every sense.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 110w.
“In it we have not only a capital book for little folks but a welcome
volume for their elders.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 110w.
=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Concerning Belinda. $1.50. Doubleday.
The experiences of an attractive western girl as “Youngest teacher” in
a fashionable New York finishing school for girls are most
entertainingly narrated here. Belinda’s initiation into the mysteries
of responsibility took place the night of her arrival when she was
delegated to chaperone twelve strange maidens to the theatre, whom at
the close she utterly forgot when Jack Wendell dropped into the midst
of her homesick gloom. The chapters all furnish disconnected bits
taken from life in a fashionable school, with now and then the least
suggestion of romance.
“Is written with the same lightness and sprightly humor that
characterized the author’s previous stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 150w.
* “There are a number of other stories, all equally bright and
entertaining, and a private love affair or two for the pretty Belinda
herself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
=Brainerd, Henry C.= Old family doctor. *$1. Clark, A. H.
It might be fancied that this family doctor is some kin to Dr.
McLaren’s much beloved old Scotch doctor. At least there are
characteristics, sacrifices and experiences in common. One chapter of
the six, “Views,” showing the superstitious beliefs of a quack
concocter of unheard-of remedies, is exceedingly clever.
=Braithwaite, William Stanley.= Lyrics of life and love. **$1. Turner,
H. B.
“The poems of that rising young negro poet, William Stanley
Braithwaite have been collected under the general title ‘Lyrics of
life and love.’”—R. of Rs.
“A poet of the race in which both the gloom of life and its wildest
joys meet with prompt response. Neither his metres nor his moods are
classic in suggestion, and his wayward rhythms have the attractiveness
of undisciplined grace, but his melody is unmistakable and his images
are haunting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 50. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w.
“Verse is musical, clear, and forceful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 759. D. ‘04. 30w.
=Branch, Anna Hempstead.= Shoes that danced and other poems. **$1.10.
Houghton.
“In the present volume ... there are sinewy dramatic sketches,
meditative monologues, child verses, lyric odes, and fragments of
dramatic narrative, all marked by fluent, unconventional music, and
strong, unconventional phrase. Yet the mood of wonder that underlies
all of it is singularly integral.”—Nation.
“Poetry that is at once full, sometimes a little too full, of
temperament, and in the truest sense of the word, ‘significant’, both
in its own quality, and in its relation to some of the deeper moods of
the hour.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 421. S. ‘05. 680w.
“Miss Branch’s work exhibits a mind saturated with English
poetry—particularly its naive older forms—and prettily echoes a
variety of manners. It is touched with mysticism, and has considerable
imaginative reach. Many of the pieces are marred by obscurity and an
obvious straining for effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 64. Ag. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“For all the intellectual energy and sincerity of Miss Branch’s work,
and its frank preoccupation with the more passionate issues of life,
it never ceases to be finely feminine in a certain lurking wistfulness
and tenderness in little things.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 16. Jl. 6, ‘05. 750w.
“Miss Branch is extremely fortunate in her descriptions of life in
studios and courts, and strikes a deeply poetic note in her
unpretentious drama of the time of Watteau which she calls ‘The shoes
that danced.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w.
=Brandenburg, Broughton.= Imported Americans: the story of the
experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the
immigration question. **$1.60. Stokes.
“The author, a newspaper correspondent, with his wife, lived for a
time in the Italian quarter of New York. Thence they go in the
steerage to Italy, and make a study of the districts from which
emigration is most pronounced.... Then with a group of Sicilians, Mr.
and Mrs. Brandenburg return in the guise of immigrants, observing the
snares laid for the credulous incomer whose great fear is that he may
be kept out of America, suffering the ill treatment meted out to
steerage passengers on board ship, and learning the laws of this
country are constantly evaded.... The revelations made of the
debasement of our naturalization papers furnish food for thought.”
(Ann. Am. Acad.)
“The most interesting and important study yet made of present-day
immigration into the United States.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 125. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
“A most interesting narrative of, really, the epitomized experiences
of thousands of Italian wayfarers.”
+ + + =Charities.= 14: 641. Ap. 1, ‘05. 880w.
“The book is not remarkable either in a sensational or a scientific
sense.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“The most earnest efforts to provide proper laws for the exclusion of
undesirable aliens, with an efficient system for securing the
enforcement of such laws, has resulted in little more than an evasion
of them by the least desirable emigrants. Mr. Brandenburg traces the
causes of this failure by an investigation as thorough and complete as
it perhaps is possible to make.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“Is of special interest for the reason that it offers a radical remedy
for existing immigration evils.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 625. Ap. ‘05. 270w.
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Main currents in nineteenth century
literature. 6v. v. 4. Naturalism in England. *$3. Macmillan.
The period known as the romantic movement in English poetry at the
beginning of the nineteenth century is treated in this volume. “Mr.
Brandes seems to approach literature not wholly from the side of
art.... He is concerned rather with the moral and spiritual progress
of the world ... he ... takes poet after poet, and, with a skilful
handling of biographical material and an ardent critical appreciation
makes a rapid and interesting sketch of the motives and performances
of the particular writer.” (Acad.)
“As one reads one becomes aware that the volume is rather a
sympathetic interpretation of certain great figures, from Mr. Brandes’
point of view, than a piece of masterly generalisation. It is a mine
of apposite biographical illustration, of delicate appreciation and of
felicitous criticism of a high order.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 583. Je. 3, ‘05. 1260w.
“Dr. Brandes is marvelously well read, illuminating in analysis,
comprehensive and balanced in his historic outlook. Always searching
for the leading idea, he is guilty at times of reading into an author
what he is determined to find.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905 2: 168. Ag. 5, 1040w.
“It is one of its author’s most brilliant performances.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“There is no attempt in Mr. Brandes’ case to suppress the personal
equation, or to conceal the bias.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 157. My. 19, ‘05. 2290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 290w.
“It is as candid as the ‘tendenz’ will allow, very well informed,
highly entertaining, frequently striking, and even useful.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w.
“As a proof of Prof. Brandes’s specific judgments of poets and of
poems which are chosen for individual mention, they do not always
commend themselves as agreeing with the opinion which English critics
have given authority.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 461. Jl. 15, ‘05. 3010w.
“The chapters on Byron are the best part of Dr. Brandes’s book; they
will be read with pleasure by Byron’s countrymen.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 429. S. 23, ‘05. 1970w.
=Brastow, Lewis Orsmond.= Representative modern preachers. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
“Nine notable men are considered ... five broad churchmen,
Schleiermacher, Robertson, Beecher, Bushnell, and Brooks; two high
churchmen, Newman and Mozley; two low churchmen, Guthrie and Spurgeon.
The book is the result of repeated studies of these men with classes
of students of the Yale Divinity school.”—Atlan.
“The estimates of these various masters are made with deep sympathy
and substantial justice.”
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 180w.
=Breal, Auguste.= Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. *75c; lea. *$1.
Dutton.
This volume declares itself to be merely an invitation to visit Madrid
and see the works of the great Spanish painter, but it also serves as
an inspiration for the journey. There are many illustrations.
“He does succeed in giving a clear idea of the nature of Velazquez’s
genius, of what he was, and what he was not, together with all that is
necessary of biographical information regarding an entirely uneventful
life. Mme Bussy is as accurate as readable.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 210w.
“A good little guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 20w.
* =Breasted, James Henry.= History of Egypt from the earliest times to
the Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.
This volume, designed for the general reader as well as the scholar,
traces the history of Egypt from earliest times thru the days of the
Old kingdom, the Middle kingdom, and the New empire, down to the
Persian conquest. There are many new translations from original
documents in the book and two hundred illustrations and maps. “Nowhere
can we find a clearer account of the general history of Egypt, as
known to us by the latest studies and excavations carried on by the
numerous societies and individuals at work in the Nile valley.” (Ind.)
* “This is a most valuable and interesting work.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1109. N. 9, ‘05. 660w.
* “A history that may fairly claim to be, for the immense period which
it covers, more close to facts than any of its predecessors.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ‘05. 490w.
=Brewer, David Josiah.= United States: a Christian nation. *$1. Winston.
The first of these three lectures, “The United States a Christian
nation,” shows that our Republic should be so called because it has
been so declared by the Supreme court of the United States, by many of
the highest state courts, by colonial charters, by nearly all of the
state constitutions, by state legislatures, and by popular sentiment
and practice: the second, “Our duty as citizens,” discusses the
compatibility between Christianity and patriotism, and the reasons why
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect: the third, “The
promise and the possibilities of the future,” is an eloquent appeal to
young men to temper their devotion to country with fidelity to the
teachings of the Gospel.
“We do not think, however, that these addresses represent the eminent
jurist at his best.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 280w.
“The three chapters of this volume are three lectures delivered at
Haverford college. We are glad that they now command a wider
audience.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 140w.
=Brewster, H. Pomeroy.= Saints and festivals of the Christian church.
**$2. Stokes.
“This single volume of hagiology is conveniently arranged in calendar
form, giving for each day in the year some details of the life and
legends of the saints whose festivals are celebrated according to the
Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches. A great deal of curious
information, difficult to find elsewhere, is here given on sacred art
and the symbols, ceremonies, superstitions, stones and colors
associated with saints and their days.”—Ind.
“Mr. Brewster is not a Catholic, but he endeavors to tell the story of
the saints in a devout spirit, and he succeeds.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 256. My. ‘05. 130w.
“Is an unusually terse and at the same time comprehensive church
year-book. The greatest merits of the work are its entire freedom from
denominational bias, and the wide knowledge which it shows of profane
and ecclesiastical history and canon law.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 70w.
=Brewster, William Tenney,= ed. See =Representative= essays on the
theory of style.
=Briggs, Le Baron Russell.= Routine and ideals. **$1. Houghton.
Perhaps no man in America is better fitted to write authoritatively on
the subject of college routine than Dean Briggs of Harvard and
Radcliffe. There are included in the volume with the title essay, A
school and college address, Harvard and the individual, Address to the
school children of Concord, Commencement address at Wellesley college,
Discipline in school and college, The mistakes of college life, and
Mater fortissima.
“Admiration of the author’s style should not blind the reader to his
essentially one-sided presentation of an intricate subject.” Henry D.
Sheldon.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w.
“The essays and addresses that compose his little volume are therefore
more than they seem: they state his creed; they are the guiding laws
of one of the most powerful influences brought to bear, within our
generation, on college students in the United States.” G. R.
Carpenter.
+ + + =Educ.= R. 29: 422. Ap. ‘05. 640w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 95. Jl. 13, ‘05. 830w.
“One that all who have to do in any way with college or school
administration may profitably read.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
=Bright, James Wilson,= ed. Gospel of St. John in West-Saxon. 60c.
Heath.
A volume in the Belles-lettres series. The text of the gospel of St.
John, based upon the original manuscripts, also an exhaustive
introduction, full notes, and a glossary.
=Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1. ‘05. 70w.
=Bright, James Wilson,= ed. Gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon. 60c.
Heath.
This little volume belongs to section I, English literature from its
beginning to 1100, of the Belles-letters series. It contains the text
of the gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon, as found in the copy of
the version preserved in Ms. CXL of the library of Corpus Christi
college, Cambridge; the rubrics have been carried into the text from
Ms. A. The variant readings of all other surviving copies of the
version are subjoined to the text.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 150w.
=Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Bromley, George Tisdale.= Long ago and later on; or, Recollections of
eighty years. *$1.50. Robertson.
The autobiography of a happy-go-lucky soul, who began work at the age
of ten in his father’s ropewalk. His callings were many and varied, he
worked on whalers, steam boats, and railroads, dabbled in politics and
ran a hotel. Born in Connecticut, he made his home on the Pacific
coast, and spent two years in China as consul to Tien-Tsin. The story
of his long and eventful career is full of interesting detail and
anecdote.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1030w. (Abstract of book).
=Bronson, Walter Cochrane=, ed. See =English= essays.
=Brontë, Charlotte.= Jane Eyre. $1.25. Crowell.
“Jane Eyre” proves a better companion than ever in the handy form of
the “Thin paper classics” series.
* =Brooke, Stopford Augustus.= On ten plays of Shakespeare. *$2.25.
Holt.
A delightful discussion of ten plays of Shakespeare in which is
reflected a wealth of suggestion from extended research and sound
judgment. The author’s side light revelations of Shakespeare himself
are suggestively framed in the following: “Deeply as Shakespeare felt
the woe, wickedness and weakness of humanity, he was still their
master.... This power to stand outside as well as inside of human
sorrow belonged to Shakespeare, because at the deepest root of him,
was, I repeat, delight of life; even rapture—the word is not too
strong—with the playfulness of its spring and the fulness of its
summer.”
* “Will be sure of a welcome when he comes forward with these acute,
thoughtful, sympathetic studies in the plays of Shakespeare.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 406. N. 24, ‘05. 970w.
* =Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances.= Mrs. Brookfield and
her circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.
Mrs. Brookfield, the charming, witty and beautiful niece of Hallam,
the historian, and her well known husband, William Henry Brookfield,
fashionable preacher and ready writer, were the center of an exclusive
intellectual circle and numbered among their friends Thackeray,
Carlyle, FitzGerald, Tennyson, Mrs. Proctor, Lady Ashburton and many
other interesting people. In this account of them which has been
prepared by their son Charles and his wife, extracts from letters and
diaries aid in furnishing much chatty information and many anecdotes
concerning the social and literary London of their time.
* “This is one of the most delightful books of memoirs which we have
seen for many years.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 1143. N. 4, ‘05. 1740w.
* “As illustrative of a great and vigorous age which has passed away,
these letters possess no inconsiderable value.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 678. N. 18. 1030w.
* “We close the volumes, feeling that it is well to have been
admitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and joyous company of a
merry-hearted husband and wife and their brilliant circle of
high-souled friends.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 370. D. 1, ‘05. 2070w.
* “The letters and anecdotes which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brookfield
have here collected are so rich and abundant that the most copious
extracts must give an inadequate idea of what they contain.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 382. N. 10, ‘05. 1760w.
* “Whether it be grave or gay, the book is always interesting, and we
are peculiarly grateful to it, for it has added to our literary
acquaintance one of the best men who ever published a book, and a lady
whose charm of manner and quick sensibility are evident in every
letter she wrote, in every line of her diary.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 929. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.
=Brooks, Elisabeth Willard.= As the world goes by. †$1.50. Little.
Bohemia with much of its usual abandon is pictured here, but there is
reared in its surroundings a clever, philosophical girl who after
eighteen years of loyal devotion to her worldly actress mother none
the less finds it natural to fit into the cultured corner of her
father’s world. Her romance forms the undercurrent of the story—a
romance of the intense subjective order which thru its
misunderstandings tries and purifies.
“It’s rather a dim, inconclusive sort of story, the heroine being
particularly dim.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w.
“The author ... keeps a quiet control over her material, and produces
a decidedly interesting and valuable study of character development.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 190. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
“The lack of a villain, the complex psychology and rarefied philosophy
carry no great appeal to the multitude, but the reflections will
attract the thoughtful, and the musical interpretations charm the
initiated.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 210w.
=Brooks, Geraldine.= Dames and daughters of the French court. **$1.50.
Crowell.
These women, who for brilliancy, courage, charm, and occasionally
intrigue, cannot be surpassed have been much written about as
salonists, and literary successes, but the personal side of their
lives has been omitted. These sketches aim to supply the inner view,
and trace the motives and formative influences from their source. In
the group are Madame de Sevigné, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame
Roland, Madame de Staël, Madame de Rémussat, Madame Le Brun, Madame de
Lafayette, Madame Geoffrin, Madame Recamier, and Madame Valmore.
“About these women ... much has already been written, and better
written than in the present volume.”
— =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Readable sketches of Mesdames de Staël, de Lafayette, Récamier, Le
Brun, and other notable French women. Charmingly written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 70w.
“Interesting and instructive volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 140w.
=Brooks, Rt. Rev. Phillips.= Christ the life and light. **$1. Dutton.
“A group of selections from the writings of Phillips Brooks, chosen
and arranged with reference to their use for Lenten readings, the
whole collection having as its keynote Christ as the life and light of
the world.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w.
=Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 320w.
=Brooks, Sarah Warner.= Garden with house attached. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
It is of a Cambridge garden that the author writes which “for twenty
years was the property of one who had in the Harvard botanical garden
‘a friend at court,’ and was able thus to obtain choice shrubs and
herbaceous plants. The author describes the rose, foxglove, iris,
Canterbury bells, violets, hollyhock, and other plants in this
garden.” (N. Y. Times). “The general theme is plant and plant-life. It
contains good suggestions in regard to the cultivation of flowers.”
(Bookm.)
“The style is somewhat diffuse and parenthetical, except where direct
advice is given, in which case it is clear enough.” Edith Granger.
+ =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Writes in a semi-practical, semi-meditative manner in regard to the
comforts and enjoyments of a small country home.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Instructive and entertaining. The healthy love of nature which
outdoor life awakens in most of us has pervaded it and has transferred
itself to the reader.”
+ =South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 95. Ja. ‘05. 180w.
* =Brooks, William Keith.= Oyster, The; a popular summary of a
scientific study. *$1. Hopkins.
“Fourteen years ago Prof. Brooks made a rational appeal to Marylanders
on the subject of oyster culture, in the hope of reviving a decaying
and contentious industry. His tract ... failed, as he sorrowfully
admits in his preface to a second and revised edition, to penetrate
the ignorant conservatism of a State ruled hitherto by Gorman.
However, in returning to the fray, he adds a chapter on the peril of
the oyster as a vehicle of collection for cholera and typhoid germs,
and perhaps this aspect will do something to help the economic
reform.”—Nation.
* =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* =Nation.= 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is written in an interesting manner. An index would increase the
value of the book many times; it deserves to have one.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 871. D. 9, ‘05. 940w.
=Broughton, Rev. Leonard Gaston.= Soul-winning church. **50c. Revell.
Some of the most effective addresses of the well-known revivalist are
found in this volume. They have been delivered here and in England,
and concern the work and workers of the church to-day, its doctrine
and its hope.
“They are plain, pungent, and spiritually quickening, though blended
with archaic matter that is intellectually offensive to the educated.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 50w.
* =Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
The waif is a young minx of eighteen who, learned in the ways of the
French demi-monde, is brought to England on her mother’s death and
saddled upon the relatives of her father, a lax lord. She creates
havoc in the straight-laced families which shelter her, but the end of
all her schemes being to win a permanent home or to make a creditable
match, she finally marries a peer, the widower of her first hostess.
* “Her new novel shows the old daring and spirit in the dialogue,
though not quite the old raciness and spontaneity that kept everything
and everybody alive.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 503. O. 14. 400w.
* “Miss Broughton herself is more puzzled to know what to make of her
and what to do with her than all the people in the book put together.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 360w.
* “While not up to her best work, it is still Rhoda Broughton—and that
is a guarantee of interest and of quality unusual and piquant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 370w.
* “A good many of the details introduced to complete the picture are
frankly repellant. It is rather melancholy to see Miss Broughton’s
fine talent wasted on the conscientious delineation of ineffectual or
uncomely types of goodness and decadence.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 531. O. 7, ‘05. 1000w.
=Brouner, Walter Brooks, and Fung Yuet Mow.= Chinese made easy; with an
introd. by Herbert A. Giles. *$6. Macmillan.
“This is a handsomely got-up book, with a red cloth cover and a gilt
dragon impressed on it. The title-page is on the right hand and the
pages of the book follow from right to left as in a Chinese book....
What ‘Chinese made easy’ teaches is one of the dialects spoken in the
Canton province.... To be pronounced useful the book should have for
title ‘Cantonese made easy,’ and the spelling should be made to
correspond with that adopted in all other works on the subject, local
deviations and solecisms being changed into their proper equivalents
in standard Cantonese.”—Nation.
“Only those who are to work among the Cantonese natives, including
many of the Chinese residents in the United States, may find it of
some use.” F. Hirth.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 457. Ja. ‘05. 1160w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 510w.
* =Brown, Abbie Farwell.= Star jewels, and other wonders. †$1. Houghton.
“A collection of original, modern fairy stories, with the starfish as
the theme—five stories, five little poems, and five pictures, like the
points of the starfish.”—Critic.
* “Will be liked by children.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “A collection of wonder stories told in a simple and familiar way,
but with a touch of poetry, a little play of imagination, and a
refinement of feeling which separate them from most works of the same
kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* =Brown, Alice.= Paradise. †$1.50. Houghton.
“Here, in a little story of country life and country character, we
have at least five personalities clearly and entertainingly sketched,
with a story of love, disappointment, and sacrifice, at times poignant
in its depth of feeling, but nevertheless always treated with an
underlying sense of humor.... Almost all of the characters are quaint
and in a gentle way queer.” (Outlook.) The heroine is an orphan, who,
after a varied experience is trying to train herself as a nurse.
* “The end rallies to a justification of the beginning, and stamps the
whole as a little human document of fine quality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 280w.
* “The present story is not quite as ambitious to fill the place of a
fully rounded-out novel as some of its predecessors, but it is perhaps
none the less acceptable for that reason.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
=Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.).= Wine-press. †$1.50.
Appleton.
The daughter of a New England mother and an Italian poet who deserted
his wife for an actress who could interpret his dramas, meets her
irresponsible half sister, the child of her father and this actress,
at a woman’s college, and after graduation takes charge of her and
witnesses her tragic end. Disillusioned, disgusted with both men and
women, she is brought back to a normal attitude thru the influence of
a nice young doctor.
“It is a study in feminine psychology carried out with uncommon
insight, and deserves to be read with attentive interest.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 38. S. ‘05. 230w.
“The book is unconventional in its interest, and above the average of
contemporary fiction.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
=Ind.= 59: 208. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“It is due to Miss Brown to say that she has been most conspicuously
successful where her task has been hardest; namely, where the homely
and the tragic confront one another. Where weakness chiefly lies is in
the limp into commonplace situation which all her ability has not
averted.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 750w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 362. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w.
“The author has developed an idea, not novel in itself, in a striking
and unusual way.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3. ‘05. 100w.
=Brown, Arthur Judson.= New forces in old China: an unwelcome but
inevitable awakening. **$1.50. Revell.
A study of the new forces now developing in China. The work “has for
its object the description of those features which he thinks are to
effect changes in China, and this will be due to Western trade,
Western politics, and Western religion. D. C. Boulger’s words are:
‘the grip of the outer world has tightened around China. It will
either strangle her or galvanize her into fresh life.’” (N. Y. Times).
“Dr. Brown deals with many timely points in this book. Among them are
the stupendous proportions of the economic revolution in China; the
growth of the newspaper, of which there were none a decade ago and
nearly a hundred to-day; Japan’s plan to arouse, organize and lead
China; a question as to the responsibility of the missionaries for the
trouble in China; the rapid development of American trade with China;
an up-to-date statement of the Chinese railway system, and many other
salient points.” (Bookm.)
“In rapid and highly interesting style, and in compact form, he arrays
the evidences that make for the preservation, on a nobler plane, of
the best ideas and the nobler outlook of the oldest of empires.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 91. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Brown’s volume deserves general reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1280w. (Summary of ideas of
book.)
“This is a volume which will well repay careful study.”
+ + =Spec.= 94:23. Ja. 7. ‘05. 550w.
=Brown, E. Burton-.= Roman Forum, *$1. Scribner.
“A popular account of the excavations in the Roman Forum from 1898 to
1904 in handy form.... The book is intended not only to present
information concerning the excavations, but also an account of the
light they have thrown upon the religion and history of the Romans and
through these upon the character of the people.... Well-known facts
contained in the many previous publications about the Forum have been
omitted; but the monuments that were not recently excavated have been
noticed in their place, in order to make the little volume a complete
handbook.”—N. Y. Times.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 350w.
“Summarises in a clear, methodical and scholarly way all the latest
discoveries.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 602. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
=Brown, G. Baldwin.= William Hogarth. *$1.25. Scribner.
“A fresh and independent treatment of Hogarth’s life and art.” As his
life was spent at his work save for his runaway marriage, his French
visit and arrest at Calais, and some sharp political controversy, the
book deals chiefly with his paintings, their value, influence and
humor. There are many illustrations.
“Mr. Brown gives a fairly satisfactory and correct summary of the
leading incidents in the painter’s life but he has little that is
original or enlightening to say concerning his art.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 839. Ag. 12, ‘05. 220w.
“Concise, yet, within its necessary limits, really admirable
monograph.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 248. Ag. 19. 1780w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 70w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 150w.
“Professor Baldwin Brown has written a very good book on Hogarth, and
one which, in spite of its moderate size and price, will give the
general reader a juster understanding of the true nature of Hogarth’s
art than he is likely to get elsewhere.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 249. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1760w.
“The volume is much better than the average of the series to which it
belongs.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 187. Ag. 31, ‘05. 1860w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 600w.
=Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes.= In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Brown’s new volume has characteristics in common with his “Life on
the lagoons,” viz., full sympathy with the people, love for their
customs, their legends and their life. “The short papers vary as
widely in subject as in treatment. Here one finds a careful account of
the Campanile of San Marco and the loggetta of Sansovino, followed by
a diagrammed description of the columns of the Piazzetta, which an
architect might prize.... His trips to the mainland, including a
voyage to Istria, furnish several papers on out-of-the-way places,
which one is glad to see through his eyes.” (Nation.)
* “His book is compact enough to be taken abroad as a companion to the
ordinary guidebooks, and may be heartily commended to the tourist as
well as the general reader.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Has made a charming book out of a number of facts about Venice,
soberly told.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 339. O. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“Some of his papers are slight, and in others there are repetitions;
but, taken as a whole, this volume is a worthy successor to ‘Life on
the lagoons.’”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 189. Ag. 31, ‘05. 490w.
“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents,
its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 160w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 432. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.
=Brown, John.= See =MacBean, L.=, jt. auth. Marjorie Fleming.
=Brown, Katharine Holland.= Diane. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a
small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been
brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most
of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the
commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American
abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert
Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet
is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the
Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side.
Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.
“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and
to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous
issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery.
The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so
near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment
and surroundings. They have charm.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 240w.
“But the tale, though full of faults, is a creation, and not a mere
echo.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 237. F. 25. 330w.
“Diane is thoroughly lovable; other characters are vividly drawn and
full of genuine pathos. The book is well written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“There is, altogether, a great deal to read in ‘Diane,’ and although
it suffers a little from faults of construction, it is on the whole a
very good story.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w.
=Browne, George Waldo.= St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary,
picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.
The great river is described from the ocean to the lake, and the men
who were connected with it are brought in in chronological order,
Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, LaSalle, Wolfe, Montcalm, and the early
voyageurs. There is an account of Indian wars, and a fine blending of
past scenes and present scenery. There are one-hundred full page
illustrations.
“The text appears not to be inadequate, ... but no one can think the
style good or graceful.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 949. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
“Within its limits the book is satisfactory, and a good map adds to
its value.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“The author of the book before us has told the story of the St.
Lawrence and of early Canada in a most interesting manner.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Browne manifests no great originality or literary power, but he
weaves together history and geography, legend and description with
sufficient skill to make it all readable to one who has any interest
in the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a choice company of readers who will hail its appearance with
cordial greetings.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 800w.
“Of course in a book of 365 pages there are some good things; the
index, for example, so far as it goes, is one of them.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 375. Ja. 10, ‘05. 620w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
=Browne, Henry.= Handbook of Homeric study. *$2. Longmans.
Opening with a discussion of the Homeric poems this volume contains
commentaries on the Homeric bards; historical outlines of the Homeric
controversy, chapters on Homeric life, the Homeric people, and “The
epic art of Homer.” There are twenty-two illustrations in half-tone,
an “approximate” chronology, and an index.
“It is an honest, candid, careful, and within its limits, it is a
lucidly arranged book.” Andrew Lang.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 487. My. 6, ‘05. 1540w.
“The book would have gained greatly had the author waited a few years
to digest his material. We also complain that there is no
bibliography.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8, 840w.
“Deserves the highest commendation.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 842. S. ‘05. 350w.
“An eminently modern, although probably not final, word on the study
of Homer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 410w.
“Treated with conspicuous judgment and moderation the complex topic of
the Homeric literature.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.
=Browne, John Hutton Balfour.= South Africa: a glance at current
conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.
A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and
Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and
political questions.
“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions,
deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as
superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate.
Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”
— — — =Acad.= 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 210. Ap. 8, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 459. Jl. 8, ‘05. 670w.
“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails
either in observation or in accurate description.”
— — + =Sat. R.= 99: 743. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w.
* “Whatever he says is forcible and lucid.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 503. O. 7, ‘05. 560w.
=Browne, Mary.= Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by
Euphemia Stewart Browne. *$2.50. Dutton.
The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl,
who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for
all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times
her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do,
and she could not discover the fact herself.
“This is a perfectly irresistible book, a pure delight to all lovers
of children and quaintness.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 708. Jl. 8, ‘05. 740w.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5. 510w.
* “Incidentally the book is an interesting picture of French life
almost a century ago as seen through juvenile British eyes.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 90w.
“Since Marjorie Fleming wrote the ill-spelled pages of her delightful
journal, no child’s diary has been published more fascinating, because
none have been more unconscious or sincere, than ‘The diary of a girl
in France in 1821.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 300w.
“Little Mary is an accomplished grumbler.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 211. Je. 30, ‘05. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 609. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=Brownell, Leverett White.= Photography for the sportsman naturalist.
**$2. Macmillan.
A book describing hunting with a camera in all its details, and
illustrated with pictures made from life. There is much practical
information concerning camera plates, the best methods to use in
taking pictures, and the best processes to employ after they are
taken.
“In the present work Mr. Brownell has gone into the subject
thoroughly. The book may be called a first-rate guide to hunting with
the camera.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8. ‘05. 440w.
“This book is packed full of practical directions.”
+ + =Country Calendar.= 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“It is essentially a book for the novice.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.
“The book is by no means dry reading, the technical details being
enlivened with numerous and appropriate anecdotes. Mr. Brownell has,
in fact, succeeded in producing a treatise on practical field
photography which it will be very hard to beat.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 483. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 30w.
=Brownell, William Crary.= French art; classic and contemporary painting
and sculpture. $1.50. Scribner.
This new and enlarged edition contains a chapter on “Rodin and the
institute” and the identical text of the illustrated edition of 1901.
=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
=Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.= Sonnets from the Portuguese. $1. Century.
These sonnets which have had so large a share in immortalizing one of
the “most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge,”
once more make their appearance with a few of the love poems of Robert
Browning, and this time in the dainty workmanship of the “Thumb nail
series.” A frontispiece of Mrs. Browning, and an introduction by
Richard Watson Gilder add to the value of the volume.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Browning, Oscar.= Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the
boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769-1793. *$3.50. Lane.
Napoleon’s boyhood in Corsica, his education at Brienne and Paris, his
relations with Paoli, and his career down to Toulon are given in
detail. Appendices contain three selections from Napoleon’s writings
and some original documents from the British museum concerning the
siege of Toulon. The illustrations are largely taken from old
paintings and drawings.
“Comparison is inevitable, and recent Napoleonic literature has
established so high a standard in this branch of history that Mr.
Oscar Browning suffers by being inopportune.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 694. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“In regard to historical accuracy as distinct from literary
presentment, the volume is, on the whole meritorious.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 774. Je. 24. 1140w.
“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of
Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and
presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B.
Bourne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 241. O. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no
superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he
leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young
Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the
picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those
who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the
narrative and in Appendix I.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 930w.
“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note
of the book.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been
told earlier and told better.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 50w.
“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such
extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight,
but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep
interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already
attained in this field of historical inquiry.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 811. Je. 17. ‘05. 1610w.
“Presenting his results in a readable and lively style which marked
his ‘Age of the Condottieri’ and his notable little biography of
‘Swedish Charles.’”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 495. O. 7, ‘05. 2780w.
=Browning, Robert.= Select poems; ed. with introd. and notes,
biographical and critical, by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
The poems selected here range from “Pauline” to “Asolando”, and are so
chosen as to reveal the principles which formed the mind and fashioned
the art of Browning.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Browning has everything to gain and nothing to lose from such
intelligent editorship as that shown in this volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Browning, Robert.= Blot in the ‘scutcheon, Colombe’s birthday, A soul’s
tragedy, and In a balcony. 60c. Heath.
This is a volume in section 3, “the English drama from its beginning
to the present day,” in the Belles-lettres series. The texts are those
of the latest editions, and there is a scholarly introduction and
brief biography, bibliography, and glossary.
“If Browning is to be considered as a dramatist, and by an editor who
is willing to accept him as a dramatist, perhaps the present edition
is all that we have the right to expect.” Brander Matthews.
+ — =Educ. R.= 29: 198. F. ‘05. 340w.
=Browning, Robert.= Pied piper of Hamelin. $1.25. Wessels.
Browning’s poem made attractive for children by numerous ingenious
colored illustrations, the work of Van Dyck.
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Brudno, Ezra Selig.= Little conscript. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The little conscript is a Jew pledged to the synagogue whose life is
devoted against his will to the service of the czar. A truthful
picture of Russia of to-day is presented, including military and
peasant life. There is sidelight information on the methods of force
and fraud employed in organizing and maintaining the army.
“Throughout his book, Mr. Brudno’s style is deliberately simple at
times to the verge of crudeness. It would have been improved by a
certain amount of relentless pruning.”
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 37. S. ‘05. 280w.
=Ind.= 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 90w.
“He is a Russian who has much English yet to learn. Is not a novel,
though it may contain some ugly chapters of Russian history.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“The end is black and depressing but the value of the book as a great
human document and as a strong indictment of the political and
military methods of a great nation remains with the reader.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Is a much more appealing piece of literature than ‘The white terror
and the red,’ but not, we suspect, so trustworthy an account of actual
conditions.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 140w.
=Brumbaugh, Martin Grove.= Making of a teacher. $1. S. S. times co.
“This book is on ‘How to teach.’ Its emphasis all through is where the
emphasis needs to be laid, upon the trained teacher. The first part of
the book is a simple, clear series of lessons on pedagogy; then follow
chapters on the Teacher, the Courses of study, the Educational
principles of Jesus; and finally several wise chapters on the scope of
religious education. The illustrative materials, the captions, and the
arrangement are excellent, and the book is made admirable as a
text-book for normal classes by suggestive questions at the close of
each chapter.”—Bib. World.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the book by Dr. Brumbaugh is just
now the one most needed in the Sunday-school world.” Wm. Byron
Forbush.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 26: 395. N. ‘05. 170w.
“He has done his work well.”
+ + + =Ind. 59=: 811. O. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Bryan, Michael.= Dictionary of painters and engravers. 5v. subs. *$30;
hf. mor. *$50. Macmillan.
The present volume (S-Z) is the fifth and last of the 1904-5 edition
of this valuable reference work, and contains over a hundred full-page
illustrations. This is the fourth edition of the work which has
appeared since 1816 when it was first published, and it includes 1200
new biographies.
“The revision has been very thorough throughout the volume.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“The dictionary is now as complete as it can be made, and the work has
been done with the greatest care.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“A work which should be absolutely indispensable to every one
interested in art or artists.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 300w.
* “Another great and invaluable work of historical narrative and
critical comment, ranking in its field with Grove in the field of
music.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 87. Je. ‘05. 340w.
“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient
characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible
mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 88. N. ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well
and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained.
In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of
painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 488. Je. 15, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise
already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in
regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical
sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are
meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 401. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w.
“The fifth volume has the merits and defects of the rest.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Bryce, James.= Constitutions. *$1.25. Oxford.
This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published
in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The
essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of
centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions;
Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in
the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the
commonwealth of Australia.
=Nation.= 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 613. S. 16, ‘05. 560w.
=Bryce, James.= Holy Roman empire. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“Not only has Mr. Bryce rewritten the work with a view to a clearer
presentation of the theories it elaborates, but he has met and
admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed—the
seeming neglect of certain striking personalities and events, the
inadequate treatment of the Byzantine empire, and the expression of
views rendered untenable by the political developments of the past
quarter of a century.... The more important changes ... of his work
may be briefly summarized. In chapter V. Mr. Bryce, discussing the
reluctance of Charles the Great to assume the imperial title,
incorporates the theories of Dahn and Hodgkin; in chapter VII, he
enters into a broader explanation of the theories that went to sustain
the empire through the middle ages; chapter XIII., on ‘The fall of the
Hohenstaufen,’ he considerably enlarges by the inclusion of a fuller
account of the momentous struggle between Louis IV. and Pope John
XXII.; in chapter XIV. he develops the early electoral system under
the Germanic constitution; in chapter XV. the theories regarding the
source of civil authority, a vexed question subsequent to the struggle
of the investitures, are discussed more largely; chapter XVI., ‘The
city of Rome in the middle ages,’ contains new studies of Arnold of
Brescia and Cola di Rienzo. Chapter XVII. is entirely new, embodying
an account of the Eastern empire and affording a comprehensive idea of
the impress made on history by the people and rulers of New Rome;
finally, in Chapter XVIII., the attempts to reform the Germanic
constitution are disclosed in greater detail. To this it should be
added that the text is more fully annotated, that greatly needed maps
are supplied, and that, in addition to the chronological list of popes
and emperors found in previous editions, there is a compact and
helpful table of salient events connected with the empire.”—Outlook.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“The two new chapters exhibit Mr. Bryce’s capacity for brilliant
historical generalisation at its best.” H. A. L. F.
+ + + =Eng. Hist.= R. 20: 605. Jl. ‘05. 320w.
“The identity of the book is by no means lost in the revision, for the
changes have not been such as to alter the general mode of treatment,
nor to increase the size of the work beyond the limits of a single
volume.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“But not since the edition of 1873 has it shown such changes as are
now apparent—changes which, while not materially affecting the main
argument, are nevertheless of a character and extent that make the
present edition completely supersede its predecessors. He has met and
has admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly
exposed. The revision he has found it necessary to make in his
exposition of the rise, decline, and fall of the ancient empire is of
an elucidatory rather than a corrective nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 443. F. 18, ‘05. 2010w.
“Now more than ever before deserves high rank as a text-book. It is
still centered upon a single idea and institution, empire and popedom
in the middle ages. On this subject it is the standard English
authority.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 250w.
“This latest edition has taken into account fully the results of
modern historical research. A concluding chapter, sketching the
constitution of the new German empire and the forces which have given
it strength and cohesion, has been appended. A chronological table and
three maps have also been added, and the book has been revised
throughout. Typographically it is very satisfactory.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 100w.
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 408. Mr. 18. ‘05. 2120w.
=Buchanan, Thompson.= Judith triumphant. †$1.50. Harper.
The siege of the Assyrians under Holofernes against the Jews of
Bethulia is the field of this romance. Judith, its heroine, goes forth
into the camp of the enemy at the risk of her life and honor, in the
hope of saving her people. The dangers she encountered, the brutality
of Holofernes, the intrigues of Nin-Gul, the dancing girl, whom she
has supplanted in the affections of Holofernes and her love for the
Ammonite captain, who devotes himself to her interests, form the theme
of the story.
“Appears to possess no unusual or particular qualities to distinguish
it from the vast number of other equally interesting and entertaining
narratives of the same period. For quick and easy reading, however,
with plenty of spirit and no little action it can be highly
commended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 279. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w.
“Told with some skill and much vigor.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1. ‘05. 120w.
=Buckham, James.= Wayside altar. *$1. Meth. bk.
A collection of poems which contain a mellow philosophy and treat of
the hereafter, and the deep contentment attending true Christian
living.
=Buckmaster, Martin A.= Descriptive handbook of architecture. *$1.25.
Dutton.
There is a strong plea in Mr. Buckmaster’s preface for the study of
historical architecture in our elementary schools. “Though this
historian of architecture does no more than merely to outline the
various styles and briefly to trace their development, he does this in
such untechnical, though not over-picturesque language, that those who
read his text to the end will wish to learn more about architecture
and in greater detail.” (Outlook.)
* “As a popular elementary text-book on the history of architecture
this little book is certainly welcome. It is brightly and clearly
written.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 475. O. 7. 550w.
* “It would probably have been better had the author dealt with one
period of architecture, and have done that thoroughly, rather than
have taken up so large a field. It has resulted in an essay which is
‘scrappy.’”
+ — — =Nature.= 73: 52. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
* “A valuable vade mecum for the student of the history of
architecture.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 330w.
“To the average reader Mr. Buckmaster’s text is particularly useful;
first, because he has appended thereto a glossary of architectural
terms, and secondly, because he has illustrated that glossary.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 270w.
=Buell, Augustus C.= History of Andrew Jackson, pioneer, patriot,
soldier, politician, president. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
A comprehensive biography based upon public and private documents, and
personal recollections of eminent men and women. The long life of the
man of many-sided character and varied activities is given in full
with the history of his time in the background.
“Against Mr. Buell’s style of expression one cannot bring the charge
of dullness. He has written with alertness and clearness. He has given
us a personal biography in which an abundance of incident and many
amusing anecdotes are introduced. Mr. Buell’s facile narrative is full
of errors great and small. There are in the book serious omissions of
facts.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Buell gives the fullest and most elaborate description [of the
battle of New Orleans] which we have seen.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 540w.
“From such tokens—as from laxities of style sufficient to rouse a
suspicion that every statement will not bear scrutiny—the reader finds
his confidence in the historical value of the book impaired. To the
author’s credit it must also be said that he has performed with marked
success the difficult task of giving a fairly intelligible account of
the two great battles of Jackson’s life,—the battle of New Orleans,
and the fight against the United States bank. This is manifestly one
of the works to which future students of the man and period must have
recourse.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 132. Ja. ‘05. 710w.
“The work is written in a spirit that may well be characterized as
judicial, although in places the author leans far too heavily on
Parton. We are inclined to class the work, at this writing, as the
best biography of Jackson that has appeared.”
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 810w.
“As a mass of biographical material, pleasantly and honestly
presented, these volumes have a real value, especially to the student
who can remove the chaff.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 710w.
“There are occasions also, it is to be feared, where Mr. Buell suffers
his personal Anglo-phobism to interfere with his facts.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 231. Jl. 21, ‘05. 460w.
“It is not a balanced work in execution. It exhibits a singular
incapacity to weigh testimony and to judge the contemporaries. It
would be a fruitless task to follow Mr. Buell in his many errors of
statement, for no chapter is free from them.”
— — — =Nation.= 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1460w.
=Bullen, Frank Thomas.= Denizens of the deep. **$1.75. Revell.
“A study-built book.... The subjects of Mr. Bullen’s collection of
short stories are animals that cause the reader to have a vivid
conception of the life of the inhabitants of the deep. There are many
different specimens of these denizens considered, whales and sharks
and seals and sea lions, or sea elephants, as Mr. Bullen calls them,
and the birds of the sea as well as the fishes. We find that there is
a story about every one of the more important birds.... And the
narratives are not all fictional.”—Baltimore Sun.
“When the narrative is not fiction it is full of information conveyed
in a delightful manner. The author writes easily and accurately, and
his work, whether taken as a collection of interesting stories of fish
and of bird life or as contribution to popular natural history, is
deserving of praise.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 242. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“Is certainly as charming in style and graphic in description. All
sorts of representatives of the reptilian and finny tribes are
introduced and made as familiar as men we know.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
* =Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.
“This volume is a detailed account of the architectural features of a
number of English cathedral churches, prefaced by a sketch of the
general characteristics of cathedrals and of the development of
cathedral building in England and Wales. It is, of course, copiously
illustrated from photographs of the exteriors and interiors of the
edifices treated, and the author takes up each cathedral
historically.... The book is intended for students (or at any rate
connoisseurs) of cathedral architecture.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The book has all the marks of close observation and a real
knowledge of what is and what is not good art and good archaeology.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 430w.
* “It is not a popular but a serious work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Mr. Bumpus’ style has a refreshing air of the gossiping antiquary.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Bunyan, John.= Pilgrim’s progress: from this world to that which is to
come. $2. Macmillan.
Just the text and Gertrude Hammond’s eight pictures, “good in
themselves, and excellent examples of modern processes of color
printing” make up this new edition of “The Pilgrim’s progress.”
“We are inclined to doubt whether Mr. White, in his otherwise
admirable monograph, need have given a fifth of his space to what is
really an abridgement of the famous narrative.”
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 460w.
“Attractive edition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 87. F. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“This is an admirable edition, so far as paper type, and size go.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 40w.
=Burdett, Sir Henry.= Hospital and charities annual, 1905; being the
year book of philanthropy and the hospital annual. *$2. Scribner.
An account of the hospitals and charities of the United Kingdom,
India, the British colonies and the United States. The work of various
branches, such as free dispensaries and military hospitals is
described, and hospital administration, officials, details of staff,
the number of patients and the income of each institution are given. A
copious index renders the book convenient for reference.
“A wonderfully complete record of hospitals and charitable
undertakings.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 144, Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.
=Burgoyne, Frank J.=, ed. History of Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, and
the Earl of Leicester: being a reprint of “Leycester’s commonwealth,”
1641. *$2.50. Longmans.
This work, of unknown authorship, was first printed 1584, it was
translated into French and Latin, was proscribed by the queen in
England and burned whenever found, by the officers of the law. It
depicted Leicester as an “inhuman monster” and charged him with many
crimes among them the murder of Amy Robsart. The queen officially
denied the charges and Leicester’s nephew, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an
indignant answer to them.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
=Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“The editor has done little beside write a necessary introduction.”
+ =South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 93. Ja. ‘05. 260w.
=Burke, Edmund.= American taxation: ed. by James Hugh Moffatt. 25c.
Ginn.
A fully annotated copy of Burke’s speech for class room use.
=Burkitt, F. Crawford.= Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s
lectures, 1904, on the Syriac speaking church. *$2. Dutton.
“It is far Eastern Christianity with which these lectures are
concerned, not that of the Greek and other Eastern churches within the
ancient Roman world. Its chief seat was Edessa, in the Euphrates
valley, the ancient ‘Ur of the Chaldees, the fatherland of
Abraham.’ ... Into this unfamiliar field these lectures conduct the
reader, through an interesting account of the Bible, the theology, and
the internal life of a long extinct but once flourishing and
distinctively characterized church.”—Outlook.
=Ind.= 58: 1367. Je. 15, ‘05. 90w.
“It is, then, especially in this fertility of ideas and suggestion
that the value of Mr. Burkitt’s book lies.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1360w.
“The task is difficult, and despite the careful study made by Prof.
Burkitt the result leaves much to be desired. The data is uncertain
and mixed up with legend and fable. Lectures have their value, if only
to make comparisons between the beliefs of to-day and those of the
past.”
+ — =N. Y Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 580w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 245. Ja. 28, ‘05. 120w.
=Burland, Harris.= Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting story of a man who, when young, stole some money for a
woman’s sake and on the death of his neglected wife turned against
her. She in anger betrayed him to the police. He serves his term in
prison, and twenty years later builds the black motor car, commits
burglaries and murders, captures and tortures a man who turns out to
be his own son, and seeks out the woman who had ruined his life to
kill her, but is foiled in his revenge, for she is already dead. The
whole thing culminates one night in a race for life, he in his black
car, the whole country aroused and armed and waiting for him. The
criminal maniac escapes them all, however, but meets his death in a
quicksand.
“Mr. Burland does not waste words in his story. He has a good yarn to
tell, and does not stand on art to do it.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 197. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“It is a story with thrills and shivers.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“For those who love horrors and melodrama, this book will furnish a
feast.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
“May be characterized as a freak tale.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
=Burnaby, Andrew.= Travels through the middle settlements of North
America; ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. **$2. Wessels.
“Another volume of the ‘Source books of American history,’ and a
notable one; first published in 1775, reprinted the next year, soon
translated into French and German, and reissued in enlarged form in
1798, from which this new reprint is made. It is hardly necessary to
say that a book with such a history, and long out of print, richly
deserves to be rescued from the obscurity into which it had fallen in
the lapse of more than a century.”—Critic.
“Of critical notes there are none, which seems unfortunate. The form
of the book is, however, very attractive, and the narrative was well
worth reprinting even without editorial annotations.” F. H. H.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 445. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
=Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 130w.
=Nation.= 80: 51. Ja. 19, ‘05. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 220w.
=Burne-Jones, Georgiana.= Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. 2v. **$6.
Macmillan.
While the attitude of the real man towards his thoroly idealized art
fills the pages of Lady Burne-Jones’s “Memorials,” “it is not the
painter to whom we are introduced so much as the man, and a very
straightforward, single-minded and lovable character we find him.” (N.
Y. Times). “The author has very wisely avoided any artistic
appreciation of her husband’s work as a painter, but has taken great
pains to collect all the facts relating to his family, its origin, his
education and early tendencies, his friendships and ideas, often
quoting his own words from letters to friends.” (Nation).
“The whole book is filled with the poet’s personality, and little
anecdotes of his sayings and doings. G. B.-J. has worthily carried out
her task, and the world is the richer for the story of a great artist
and a lovable and much-loved man.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 24. Ja. 7. 2290w.
“She presents him in a wise Boswellian way, mainly by the record of
his daily speech and acts. The result is a very clear impression of a
personality of great, of surprising power and charm.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 423. Mr. ‘05. 1130w.
“It is a wonderful revelation of an intensely interesting and lovable
personality. A striking feature of these volumes is the never-failing
humour of Burne-Jones’s letters and of the many comic sketches that
enliven the text. Lady Burne-Jones has given us a biography that is at
once a life record of deep human interest and an invaluable
contribution to the history of English painting in the Victorian era.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 294. F. ‘05. 1980w.
“It is a true and an appreciative record of the man and his
life-work.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 118. F. ‘05. 1090w.
“It is only fair to Lady Burne-Jones to say at once that she has
avoided every pitfall that lay along her path, and has made the most
of every pleasure that the excursion afforded.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 1930w.
“She reveals in this book a skill in construction and a charm of style
that would do credit to a writer of established reputation.” Herbert
W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 553. Ap. ‘05. 2170w.
“She would have shown a finer devotion to his memory had she reduced
the bulk of these two volumes to one. Having made our own abridgement,
we have little but praise for Mrs. Burne-Jones’s work. To our mind the
best part of the narrative is that which contains the experiences of
Burne-Jones at Oxford and during the first years in London, while the
Oxford influence was still upon him. Mrs. Burne-Jones has a happy
knack, all the more artful for its extreme simplicity, of hitting off
the great men of the day as they come into her circle.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 263. F. 2, ‘05. 720w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“No more deeply interesting biography has appeared of late years than
this tribute to the memory of Sir Edward Burne-Jones from the pen of
his widow. Its one drawback is the fact that the illustrations are not
in the least representative of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 367. F. ‘05. 420w.
“Lady Burne-Jones seems especially endowed with the qualities needed
for the task; she writes with convincing sincerity and a sense of
humor, and has the gift of literary style. Her readers cannot fail to
get a vivid impression of Burne-Jones’s fascinating personality.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 115. F. 9, ‘05. 2780w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 140w.
“Lady Burne-Jones writes from a standpoint of knowledge and sympathy
impossible to anyone else, and we can but admire the skill with which
she has arranged the material. The narrative is full, but never
confused, and the characters of the men and women who pass through the
pages are drawn with rare ease and distinctness.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 111. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1920w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend).= In the closed room.
†$1.50. McClure.
The father and mother of Judith, a strange visionary child of the
tenements, are called to be caretakers of the big empty house with the
closed room where a little girl has died. Judith mysteriously passes
thru the locked door and plays with the child who is dead and her toys
until this strange spiritual bond is tightened and little Judith is
drawn into the land of spirits.
“She is artistically vague and not dogmatic. The story is accomplished
with a fleeting, caressing touch; it has a considerable charm and is
very suggestive.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 785. My. ‘05. 370w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend).= Little princess:
being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time. †$2.
Scribner.
The story of Sara Crewe and what happened at Miss Minchen’s school,
which charmed its young readers years ago, appears once more in
holiday garb with a dozen beautiful colored plates by Ethel Franklin
Betts. The book has grown and the present volume includes all the new
matter which was put into the successful play called the “Little
princess,” and also much matter newer still which was inserted when
the play came to be transformed once more into a story.
* =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 380w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is the leading child’s book of the year.”
+ + + =R of Rs.= 32: 764. D. ‘05. 470w.
=Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay).= Diary and letters of Madame
D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
A new edition of the famous diary, with preface and notes by Austin
Dobson, photogravure portraits and other illustrations. It extends
from the issue of “Evelina” to the author’s death (1778-1840).
=Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. (Review of Vol I.)
=Acad.= 68: 331. Mr. 25, ‘05. 620w. (Review of Vols. II and
III.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 709. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 233. Ag. 19. 2870w.
=Nation.= 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 70w. (Reviews of vols. 1-3.)
=Nation.= 80: 317. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1510w. (Reviews of Vols.
I.-III.)
“The foot-notes are precisely what one must desire for such a text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 113. F. 25, ‘05. 1910w. (Reviews of v. 1 and
2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 640w. (Review of Vols. III.
and IV.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 343. My. 27. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 210w. (Reviews of v. 1 and 2.)
“The value of this edition is greatly increased by the complete
general index in the last volume, each volume having its own index as
well. On the mechanical side the edition leaves nothing to be desired,
while on the editorial side Mr. Austin Dobson has brought thorough
knowledge and ... sympathetic appreciation.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Madame D’Arblay’s diary is her masterpiece, and it is no exaggeration
to say that it is as good as a novel, for it is composed in all
respects like a work of fiction. The diary from beginning to end is
written in Miss Burney’s characteristic style; it is not marred in a
single page by Johnsonese, and we believe that it will be read even
when ‘Evelina’ itself has become a curiosity.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 141. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
* =Burr, William Hubert, and Falk, Myron Samuel.= Design and
construction of metallic bridges. $5. Wiley.
This book is based upon the ninth edition of Prof. Burr’s standard
work, “The stresses in bridge and roof trusses, arched ribs and
suspension bridges.” “The book consists of ten chapters, the first of
which is A historical sketch of bridge building.... Chapter II. is
devoted to the general types of trusses, loads and specifications, and
contains the most recent practice in railroad and highway bridges....
Chapter III. treats of moments and shears, and of the design of plate
girders.... Chapter IV. and V. treat of all kinds of trusses with
parallel and horizontal chords and with chords not parallel.... To the
chapter on swing bridges has been added the treatment of these bridges
by the method of deflections, with examples in each case.... The book
concludes with chapters on wind stresses and details of
construction.”—Engin. N.
* “It may be stated that the book reflects well the advance in the
design of metallic bridges, and is a worthy successor to the old
standard which it replaces.” Leon S. Moisseiff.
+ + =Engin.= N. 54: 531. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.
=Burrage, Champlin.= Church covenant idea: its origin and its
development. **$1. Am. Bapt.
“Mr. Burrage has reproduced a great many covenants of the early
Baptist and Congregational churches. They are, like the early
Christian oaths, pledges of loyalty to standards of right living to a
remarkable degree. The beginnings of the covenant idea are found among
the German Anabaptists of the reformation period. Mr. Burrage is very
modest in the claim he makes for any Anabaptist roots of the Scotch
covenants. These, culminating in the Solemn league and covenant of
1643, were quite apart from the main course of the development of the
covenant idea. They were all covenants to maintain a fixed order of
belief and worship. In conclusion, it is confessed that ‘the covenant
idea has ceased almost entirely to have for us the great significance
it had for the early New England colonists.’”—Nation.
“It is a splendid specimen of scholarly method and interest.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 370w.
=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= History of the Baptists in Maine. $2. Marks
ptg. house, Portland, Me.
This history “covers the period from about 1675 to the present time.
It treats freely the educational and temperance activities of the
denomination, its connection with the anti-slavery agitation, its
missionary labors, and the growth of its church organizations.”—Am. J.
of Theol.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Leaves little to be desired by persons interested in the Baptist
history of the state of Maine.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 383. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
=Burrill, Katharine.= Corner stones. *$1.25. Dutton.
A book which pleads for the old-time leisurely courtesy and a home
education for girls. “The volume is made up of essays, several of
which appeared in a London magazine, to girls on friendship,
cleanliness, duty to parents, letter writing, cooking, etc. In her
‘Foreword,’ the author speaks of the modern girl. She does not believe
in sending a girl away from home for her education. The mother is the
best teacher. ‘It is better,’ she writes, ‘to keep a girl at home, if
all she learns is spelling and simple arithmetic.’” (N. Y. Times).
While it appeals strongly to English girls, it is no less a book with
a mission for the American girl.
“The ethical purpose of the book and its pleadings for sweeter manners
are sufficiently plain, and are handled so wittily, with such lurking
fun and brimming humor, that their assimilation is an easy and
pleasant process. In its pages it never outsports discretion. As a
gospel of goodness it is eminently reasonable, and its style has the
charm of unconsciousness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 107. F. 18, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a series of monitory chapters upon all sorts of social and
moral observances delivered in slangy English.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Burroughs, John.= Far and near. **$1.50. Houghton.
“My life has gone on, my love of nature has continued, my habit of
observation has been kept up, and the combined result is another
collection of papers dealing with the old, inexhaustible, open-air
themes.” So says Mr. Burroughs. The “far” scenes described are those
in “green Alaska” and Jamaica. The “near” pictures are of the wild
life around his home on the Hudson river. Nearly half of the book is
devoted to an account of his Alaskan trip in 1899 as a member of the
Harriman expedition. The only heretofore unpublished essay of the
group is that in which he tells how he lost February and found August
in Jamaica. Mr. Burroughs’s northern soul however, takes little
pleasure in nature in her tropical aspect. He “cannot make love to her
there.” She “has little winsomeness or tenderness. She is barbaric;
she is painty and stiff; she has no sentiment; she does not touch the
heart.”
“Humdrum, undistinguished style. It is kindly wholesome stuff.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 271. F. 25. 180w.
* “He records impressions however slight and incidents however
trivial, but it is all done with that charming double gift of his for
seeing everything as if for the first and only time, and of making
others see it in the same way.” F. M. Colby.
+ + =Bookm.= 20: 475. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
“The records of far journeys in this new book may not add greatly to
his reputation, but they serve the gracious purpose of showing us an
old friend in new surroundings.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:5. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 757. D. ‘04. 100w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 300w.
* =Burroughs, John.= Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.
In these essays Mr. Burroughs, who has ranged himself upon the side of
those who protest against animal stories which humanize animal life,
not only sets forth his own views, in which he declares that animals
share our emotional but not our intellectual nature, but also defends
himself from recent attacks upon his theories and gives counter
arguments.
* “This book succeeds in presenting what may be judged as a rational
view of Nature’s methods.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘06. 70w.
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
* + =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 420w.
* “One reads the little volume with extreme pleasure, drawing from its
pages an uplifting sense of air and light.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
* “The whole discussion is pervaded by Mr. Burroughs’ well-known charm
of style and clearness of statement.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
=Burton, Charles Pierce.= Boys of Bob’s hill; adventures of Tom Chapin
and the “band” as told by the “secretary.” †$1.25. Holt.
The summer vacation of eight healthy-minded boy bandits who live at
home and are petted and disciplined by turns, like most everyday boys,
but when they climb Bob’s hill and enter their cave they are outlaws.
They do many plucky things, and incidentally they start a forest fire,
almost wreck a train, call out the fire department on the Fourth of
July, and try to smoke real tobacco. The reader, whether he be boy or
a grown-up, will follow their adventures with interest and will agree
with the band that the hermit’s gold rightfully belongs to Tom.
=Outlook.= 79: 1012. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.
=Burton, E. D.= Short introduction to the Gospels. *$1. Univ. of Chicago
press.
An introduction to Biblical literature which may become a distinct
treasure to the student. Dr. Burton’s work is concise, and reveals a
careful examination of the four gospels. There is added a chapter on
the synoptic problem. “The chapter of ‘the gospel according to
Matthew’ closing with a table of contents which exhibits excellently
its general plan, will be welcome to all students of that difficult
New Testament book.... The notes appended to the chapter on Luke’s
gospel merit particular attention. Note II is on ‘The enrolment in the
governorship of Quirinius.’ ... Dr. Burton’s view of the Johannine
problem will command attention.” (Bib. World).
“Has a definite aim, and without superfluous words goes straight to
its mark. It uses chiefly internal evidence, and asks each gospel to
disclose its own secret. To expound the synoptic problem in less than
twenty small pages of English is to do the impossible. No other book
that the reviewer knows of does it so well as this.” Wm. Arnold
Stevens.
+ =Bib. World.= 25: 150. F. ‘05. 610w.
=Burton, E. D.= Studies in the Gospel according to Mark. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
The “Studies” in Mark’s gospel is a book “for secondary classes.”
“The lessons have already borne the test of actual use by experienced
teachers, and all the material appears to be admirably arranged. The
appended dictionary, filling twelve pages, is an important feature.”
Wm. Arnold Stevens.
+ =Bib. World.= 25: 150. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 40w.
=Bury, John B.= Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“The book opens with a chapter on the diffusion of Christianity beyond
the Roman empire, followed by the story of the life of St. Patrick.
The appendices contain the descriptions of the writings of St. Patrick
and other documents from which the author drew the material for his
biography; notes on the different chapters, and an excursus.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Speaking generally, what chiefly impresses us in narrative and
appendices alike is the constant presence of a wide and just sense of
historical perspective which should not in the least dwarf the
particular interest of the book.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 899. S. 2, ‘05. 2250w.
“A life of St. Patrick in which careful and minute research has not
quenched a bold and vivid imagination. The index ... is wholly
insufficient and not prepared with a fraction of the care required.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 101. Jl. 22. 2360w.
“Although, as we have seen, the Professor is absolutely beyond
suspicion of any religious bias in favor of his hero, he gives us a
picture of Patrick which may be called sympathetic.” James J. Fox.
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 145. N. ‘05. 5550w.
“Perhaps some readers regret that Professor Bury has found it
necessary to reject so much picturesque material, but students of the
middle ages are likely to agree that in writing this biography the
author has done a real service to the cause of Irish history.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“The appendix ... is in many respects better reading than the body of
the book. For the main portion is a little confusing from the way in
which it gives all the legends and no clear criticism of them.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 239. Jl. 28, ‘05. 2390w.
“The volume is built of hypotheses.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 980w.
“A work whose technical merit is commensurate with its intrinsic
interest. The main part of the work spreads before the general reader
the sifted results of historical criticism.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 100w.
“The sources are meagre, and Dr. Bury’s examination of them is
masterly.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 438. S. 30, ‘05. 2270w.
=Butcher, S. H.= Harvard lectures on Greek subjects. *$2.25. Macmillan.
If in the intense modernism of the present century we sometimes
vaingloriously forget the debt we owe to the ancients, such scholars
as Mr. Butcher do a real service in commanding a mindful attitude.
While given at Harvard, the author addresses himself not only to
scholars but to a mixed audience. “The first lecture compared in a
singularly able and effective fashion the Greek spirit with the Jewish
spirit, the Greek influence and the one other comparable with it....
Then he passes in the next lecture to a comparison of the Hellenes and
the Phoenicians. These represent the pure commercial spirit. The next
lecture deals specifically and enlighteningly with the quality of the
Greek passion for knowledge. Still further lectures deal with ‘Greek
art and inspiration,’ and with ‘Greek literary criticism.’” (N. Y.
Times).
“These lectures are not only full of thought, they are also written,
it is superfluous to say, in admirable English.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 48. Ja. 14, ‘05. 320w.
* “The style throughout is admirable. It would be difficult to say too
much in praise of this most scholarly book.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1500w.
“Mr. Butcher’s own style is admirably suited to such essays as these.
No one can read them without recognizing how desirable it is that a
synthetic mind like his should handle these larger questions of
classical scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 233. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1700w.
“The title of Greek to retain its ancient place in education of the
broader kind is convincingly supported by Mr. Butcher in this volume.
The book needs no recommendation to Hellenists. It may be cordially
commended to the attention of the more open-minded and liberal of
those who consider Greek a cumberer of the modern stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 600w.
“So illuminating an interpretation of the Greek spirit. Knows his
subject, and he deals with it in the freshest way and in the most
human spirit.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“It is their naturalness, their contagious freshness and vivacity,
rather than their learning, which strike the reader first.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 1630w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot.= Ancient world: outlines of ancient history for
the middle form schools. *$1. Dutton.
A “wonderful story” of the civilization of bygone days. The “author
writes about the first ages of man, the history of Egypt, ancient
Babylonia, the Medes and Persians, Phoenicia, the land of the merchant
carriers, the Hebrews, the story of Carthage, the Hindu people, China,
the story of Alexander, and of Parthia, and gives some glimpses of the
ancient Romans and Greeks.... For those who wish for a bird’seye view
of the great landmarks of the history of the ancient world, the author
has provided a full summary, with approximate dates, embracing the
period from 4400 B.C. to the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Gives a striking picture of the mind, manners, customs, myths and
legends of the different ancient nations and describes the influence
exercised by these nations on one another.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 265. Ag. 3, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
=Byles, C. E.= Life and letters of Robert Stephen Hawker. *$5. Lane.
“A visionary, a poet, a humorist, a priest.... His love of fighting
was perhaps the only quality in which he differed from the gentlest of
the saints. There are still some who believe that modern science is a
tool the devil has put into the hands of sinners, but Hawker’s
certainty of that is only equalled by his belief in witchcraft,
charms, pixies, mermaids, evil eyes, the immediate answer of prayers,
the damnableness of dissent, and much else allied to these. But he
made his parish of Morwenstow. He rescued and tended the shipwrecked,
he consoled the wicked, he spent his income on charity.... He was a
very wild, naughty boy, and, as a youth, full of practical jokes and
uncomfortable animal spirits.”—Acad.
“The Reverend R. S. Hawker has left behind him no literary remains
which point to the possession of any extraordinary genius, and yet a
baffling and beautiful soul leads us to examine every record and study
every poem for a key. In ‘The life and letters of R. S. Hawker’ just
published we turn page after page and only manage to catch the flying
skirts of the vicar. Of Hawker’s own poems, his fragment of the ‘San
Graal’ is worthy to be compared with Tennyson’s treatment of the
subject, and his ballads earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 168. F. 25, ‘05. 2310w.
“Mr. Byles has performed his task—by no means an easy one—with skill
and good taste.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1070w.
“Its contents are a product of unusual skill and discretion.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 710w.
“Must be regarded as one of the best biographies of recent years.” H.
W. Boynton.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 358. Je. ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Byles has given us an excellent presentment of a most interesting
and picturesque figure of the last century.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 100w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 308. My. 1, ‘05. 2260w.
“His ‘Life and letters,’ by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles, leaves
nothing to be desired.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 292. Ap. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“His book therefore, demands acceptance as the real biography of the
Vicar of Morwenstow.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 850w.
“This book, written by Hawker’s son-in-law with such fairness and
discretion as may well eradicate even the memory of an unhappy effort
by another hand.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 778. Je. 10, ‘05. 750w.
=Byron, George Gordon.= Complete poetical works; ed. by Paul Elmer More.
$3. Houghton.
For this Cambridge edition of Lord Byron’s poems, the editor has
chosen the text of 1832-33 in preference to that of 1831 because of
its more satisfactory use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks.
It is unexpurgated and contains the recently resurrected poems of
Byron.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 15w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“A thoughtful and scholarly estimate of Byron’s genius and character
introduces the volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Nation.= 81 :278. O. 5, ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Paul Elmer More edits the book with judgment and restraint.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Byron, George Gordon.= Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W.
A. Lewis Bettany. *$2.50. Scribner.
In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is
nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet
in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus
seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English
product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their
own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the
business seriously.”
“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary
‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very
clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised
to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr.
Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and
has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific
analysis of correspondence.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 653. Je. 24, ‘05. 1410w.
* “These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a
man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary
public.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 846. D. ‘05. 560W.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 235. O. 16, ‘05. 1530w.
“These editorial lapses are not, however, very numerous; and the
compilation is on the whole satisfactory and instructive.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 217. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1030w.
* “Mr. Bettany’s selections are, however, judicious, and, in spite of
frequent detachment from illuminating context, do the writer no
injustice.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 940w.
“The selections are full of interesting matter for those who wish to
approach Byron’s personality in this way.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 970w.
“Mr. Bettany has made an excellent arrangement of the matter with
which he deals.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=Byron, George G. N.= Love poems of Byron. 50c. Lane.
Among the sixty poems found in this group are “When we two parted,”
“She walks in beauty,” “Maid of Athens,” “Stanzas written on the road
between Florence and Pisa,” “She walks in beauty like the night,” and
“There be none of beauty’s daughters.” “This volume is one of a series
of little works entitled ‘The lover’s library’ which constitutes a
veritable treasure-house of poetry sentiment.” (Arena).
“Love poems of Byron is a dainty little volume, bound in flexible
violet cloth, stamped in gold, with gilt edge, and of vest-pocket
size, contains more than sixty poems and selections from Byron’s verse
devoted to love.”
+ =Arena.= 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w.
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* =Cabell, James Branch.= Line of love. †$2. Harper.
“The tales have been culled from French ‘romans’ and dull English
chronicles, and the mediaeval atmosphere has been preserved by the
quaintly, though never obscurely, archaic style of narration. Ten
pictures and cover vignette by Mr. Pyle, richly colored and ...
perfectly in keeping with the literary atmosphere, together with
conventional floral borders in color, make a singularly attractive
giftbook.”—Dial.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* “Is worthy of its predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are written in the richly colored, tapestry-like style.
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of being machine-made and a little threadbare.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* “A collection, told in exquisite poetical way, of some of the most
picturesque but less-known love-stories of history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32 :752. D. ‘05. 100w.
* =Cadogan, Edward.= Makers of modern history: three types: Louis
Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.
“The struggle between conservative principles and revolutionary forces
constitutes the framework of the history of the nineteenth century.
With this great movement are closely associated the names of Louis
Napoleon, Cavour, and Bismarck, the subjects of the three essays
included in this volume.... It is on the epoch making, the history
making, actions of these men that emphasis is here laid.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The volume contains no new materials, but it summarises the careers
of the three Machiavellian personages in question clearly and
sensibly.” W. M.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 615. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
* “In general, however, these essays may safely be recommended to the
unprofessional reader, who will be dull indeed if he does not discover
in them the absorbing interest of the three dissimilar men whom they
describe.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 492. D. 14, ‘05. 680w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 130w.
* “The faults of the book are greatly those of immaturity, and the
writer may possibly in time produce historical work of permanent
value.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 311. S. 2, ‘05. 860w.
* “The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear,
vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he
never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of
narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 123. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1820w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= How to study pictures. **$2. Century.
Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation
from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist
school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed,
contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the
twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of
different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity
for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes
of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the
individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one
to be an intelligent judge of merit.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 160w.
* “While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the
average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives,
the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of
feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the
direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* “Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much
information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “Except for this driving ideas in double harness, the material and
judgments are not unfamiliar; but the task is done thoroughly and many
things are happily put.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 190w.
“What Mr. Caffin has to say is always worth reading, for he puts each
painter’s character forcibly before one, and manages to be
entertaining as well as instructive.” Charles de Kay.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 570w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
* “It is the one most completely adapted to the needs of the person
entirely ignorant of art, its history and its development.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32 :640. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Caffyn, Mrs. Kathleen Mannington (Iota, pseud.).= Patricia, a mother.
†$1.50. Appleton.
Patricia, whose husband, a hypocrite and a humbug, leaves both his son
and his estate to the guardianship of his mother, goes to live with
her mother-in-law and sees her son slowly estranged from her because
she will not speak and blacken the character of her dead husband to
the mother who reveres his memory. There is much of gossipy country
society and in the end an old family servant sets things right and
Patricia comes to her own.
“A most moving story, full of feeling and insight into human
character. Certainly it is a story that ‘counts.’”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 397. Ap. 8, ‘05. 650w.
“The cleverness of the novel lies not so much in its plot as in the
graphic characterization. It is a piece of work of which the author
has reason to be proud.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 300w.
* “Her story makes a thoroughly interesting book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“There is considerable strength in this novel. There is some lack of
artistic proportion in the general working out of the story.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Cahan, Abraham.= White terror and the red. $1.50. Barnes.
A story of inner Russia by a member of the Revolutionary party who was
forced to flee from Russia to avoid Siberia. The plot concerns the
tragic events of a quarter of a century ago, when czar Alexander II.
was assassinated by the Nihilists and an antisemitic outbreak
followed, but it is the Russia of to-day that we see, drawn from a
practical knowledge of the subject. The hero of the book is a Russian
prince who steps out of his class to uphold the cause of the people,
marries a Hebrew woman and finally suffers imprisonment.
“The intelligent reader will find in it much sound workmanship and no
little insight into the psychology of the Russian intellectuals.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 430w.
“But the style has a curious impenetrability about it, which reminds
one of a bad translation.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 240w.
“In ‘The white terror and the red’ we have something far more
interesting than a narrative of sensational episodes, or a gallery of
interesting types, more valuable than a vivid picture of melodramatic
history in the making. We have a work of art of the highest class. As
a guide to the full understanding of Russian political and social life
it is probably the most valuable ever written in the English
language.” Edwin Lefevre.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 186. Ap. ‘05. 1380w.
“It is a sound, firm piece of work; and it shows an easy familiarity
with the subject and with the method. As an addition to its historical
importance, a sweet, fully realized piece of fiction.” Hutchins
Hapgood.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 860w.
“This book gives one a more realistic and vivid impression of the
Terrorist movement than any we have read. It has no definite plot or
literary coherency, but consists of a series of sketches written in an
unexaggerated and impassioned style.”
+ + =Ind.= 58 :502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w.
“To those who seek an education on underground’ Russia Mr. Cahan’s
latest novel can be recommended.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 450w.
“A well-constructed, forceful, and ably sustained piece of work. Has
given us a picture of Russian conditions which we may accept as
essentially correct. Of no small merit from the purely literary
standpoint.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“It would be more exact to characterize this book as a study of
Russian social conditions than as a work of fiction, although there is
a story as a whole.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 430. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“The book is written in an admirable style,—keen, quiet, full of
reserve power. The book is a valuable contribution to present-day
literature, considered either as fact or fiction. It tells with
judgment, with conviction, with emotion, the sad story of a sad
people.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 380w.
“A book that impresses one with its power, competence, and fairness.
It is a profoundly interesting sociological document that the public
may thank Mr. Cahan.”
+ + — =R. of Rs.= 31 :763. Je. ‘05. 90w.
=Caine, Hall.= Prodigal son. †$1.50. Appleton.
This latest of Hall Caine’s novels has all the strength and the heart
sadness found in his other works. Iceland is the home of the tragic
story and its characters are the simple folk of the Northland: the
factor and his daughters, Thora and Helga; the old governor and his
sons, Magnus and Oscar. Magnus resigns Thora, his promised wife, to
Oscar, his more fascinating brother, bearing the odium of the broken
betrothal that they may be happy. Helga, however, breaks in upon this
dearly bought joy, and wins Oscar’s love. The sad death of Thora and
the wanderings of the exiled Oscar are strong and dramatic, and his
final return home as the renowned Icelandic composer has not the joy
of that first prodigal’s home coming, but holds the full sorrow of the
years.
“The story shows a confused sense of moral values, and fairly reeks
with cheap sentimentality. Its style is common and its situations
theatrical. Altogether it is a poorer performance than was to be
expected even from the author of ‘The Christian’ and ‘The eternal
city.’” W. M. Payne.
— — =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Though the plot is horribly tragic, there are no melodramatic
climaxes to detract from the dignity of the style in which it is
written. There are exquisite touches of pathos in the descriptions,
and in the delineation of character the author shows a keen knowledge
of the various phases of human nature. It is intensely emotional, and
certainly the strongest book that Hall Caine has ever written.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
“Here, as in all his books, Mr. Caine has the power of wringing his
readers’ vitals, yet not the power of convincing them that he is
working out a tragedy rather than a melodrama.”
+ + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
=Caird, Edward.= Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers.
*$4.25. Macmillan.
This second course of Gifford lectures is closely allied to the first,
delivered ten years earlier at the university of St. Andrew’s, which
treated of the evolution of religion. This course treats of the
evolution of theology in its first great period. There are lectures
upon the relation of reason to religious faith; the three stages in
the evolution of theology; the precursors of Plato, the two
distinctive tendencies of Plato; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian
philosophies; Stoicism; Neo-Platonism; Philo; and Plotinus.
“The theology of the earlier Greek philosophers seems inadequately
treated. There is at times a tendency to interpretation which seems
formal and doctrinaire. The book is entirely free from pedantry.
Nevertheless statements occasionally occur which stand much in need of
a reference to authorities. It may be questioned whether the author’s
horror of mysticism does not lead him into misunderstanding and
exaggeration. The advantages of a point of view steadily maintained
throughout a discussion ... gives lucidity to the exposition and is a
constant challenge to investigation of its adequacy.” H. N. Gardiner.
+ + — =Philos.= R. 14: 204. Mr. ‘05. 3560w.
=Cajori, Florian.= Introduction to the modern theory of equations.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
“The present work falls into two nearly equal parts. The first 103
pages treat the following topics: Elementary properties and
transformation of equations; location and approximation of the roots
of numerical equations; solutions of cubic, biquadratic, binomial and
reciprocal equations; the linear and Tschirnhausian transformations.
The remaining 120 pages are devoted to substitution groups and
Galois’s theory of the solution of algebraic equations.”—Science.
“The work has much that may be praised; in particular, its very
moderate size, its choice of topics, copious references for further
study, and a large number of illustrative examples and problems. Lack
of explicitness is manifest.” James Pierpont.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 21: 101. Ja. 20, ‘05. 850w.
=Caldecott, Alfred, and Mackintosh, H. R., eds.= Selections from the
literature of theism. *$2.50. Scribner.
Professor Caldecott has edited selections from Anselm, Aquinas,
Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, Berkeley, Cousin, Comte,
and Janet. While the sections under Professor Caldecott’s care include
Kant, Schleiermacher, Mansel, and Latze. There are full notes and
references.
“A well-selected collection.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 401. Ap. ‘05. 30w.
“The plan of this book, therefore, is excellent, and the careful notes
and introductions show that it has been well carried out.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 616. Mr. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The editing of these selections fell into excellent hands. The
misgivings of the editors as to the wisdom of the selections made are
quite needless, for nothing better could have been desired. The notes
and biographical notices are very fine—fresh, scholarly, interesting.
Though I have deemed it necessary to say some things of more or less
critical character, yet, taking the work as a whole, it is a welcome
and highly useful addition to theological literature.” James Lindsay.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 247. Ja. ‘05. 1610w. (Survey of
contents.)
=Caldecott, Rev. W. Shaw.= Tabernacle—its history and structure; with a
preface by Rev. A. H. Sayce. *$1.75 Union press.
A study of the Old Testament itself has furnished the material for
this unconventional, original, and withal, scholarly work on the
history and architecture of the tabernacle. The book is divided into
four parts: The history of the tabernacle. The triple cubit of
Babylonia, The triple cubit of Babylonia as used in the construction
of the tabernacle. The triple cubit in Babylonia and in Palestine. The
index is complete and the illustrations are good.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 139. Jl. 29. 460w.
=Caldwell, Otis William.= Handbook of plant morphology. *$1. Holt.
This volume is based upon the handbook of plant dissection, by J. C.
Arthur, Chas. R. Barnes, and John M. Coulter, which Prof. Caldwell has
revised, rewritten and extended in order to bring it down to date.
There is a preliminary chapter for both teacher and students upon the
use and equipment of the laboratory. Eight lessons are devoted to the
cyanophyceæ and chlorophyceæ, five to the fungi and lichens, five to
the bryophyta, three to the pteridophyta and five to the
spermatophyta.
“The types selected illustrate very well the probable steps in the
evolution of plants, and the discussions are exceedingly clear and
suggestive.” R. B. Wylie.
+ + =Bot. G.= 39: 424. Je. ‘05. 260w.
“A preliminary chapter on the use and equipment of the laboratory
contains some very practical suggestions for the teacher and student.
The comparison of the morphological characters that appear in the
concise annotations attached to each exercise materially enhances the
value of the book.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 425. Ap. ‘05. 270w.
“It is an excellent guide for study of plant structures in a college
course.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=Calhoun, Alice J.= When yellow jasmine blooms. $1.50. Neale.
A story of the southland, with a heroine of the old-fashioned type, of
rare beauty and unyielding pride, and a hero who, when he is not
trusted without explanation, seeks to hide his wounded heart at the
ends of the earth. By the aid of an opal which foretells disaster, and
a railroad wreck, all is happily ended “when the jasmine blooms.”
=Calkins, Ernest Elmo, and Holden, Ralph.= Modern advertising. **$1.50.
Appleton.
“‘According to various estimates the amount of money spent to-day in
America for advertising ranges from six hundred to one thousand
million dollars a year.’ This statement gives some measure of the
important part which the art of advertising has come to play in the
methods of business in the twentieth century. This volume gives an
interesting account of the methods of modern advertising, and attempts
to formulate some of the principles which underlie successful
publicity.” (Outlook.) The volume belongs to Appleton’s “Business
series.”
“Is overloaded with a special plea for the general advertising agent.
Yet the authors have their subject practically and thoroughly in hand,
and supply an illustrated manual that will be of value particularly to
the business man who is planning a campaign of publicity.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 60w.
“It is as interesting to read as a novel.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 540w.
“Though the authors have not succeeded in supplying a concise and
altogether satisfactory definition of their subject, they have
certainly produced a very readable book.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 610w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w.
“The book is written primarily for the general reader, and as such it
will be found to be a most interesting exposition of the subject of
advertising and sales-management.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32:128. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
* =Calkins, Harvey Reeves.= Mind of Methodism. *25c. Meth. bk.
“This little tractate was written by a British Wesleyan missionary for
his people in India. It is an excellent description of a catholic
Christianity that in general is not particularly distinctive of
Methodism from other evangelical ‘isms’ as known among us.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w.
=Call, Annie Payson.= Freedom of life. **$1.25. Little.
“Interior freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all
things painful to our natural love of self,” sums the trend of Miss
Call’s arguments. Many of the chapters contain comfort, and good
advice, and are the result of sure insight: among them are
‘Self-consciousness,’ ‘Human sympathy,’ ‘Dependence and independence,’
‘Self-control,’ ‘About Christmas,’ and ‘To mothers.’
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 248. S. ‘05. 80w.
“Contains sound logic—and some sophistries; much good sense—and just a
little nonsense. Although we have entered a demurrer in regard to
certain parts of the book, be it understood that we criticise only the
universal application which the author makes of her fundamental
principle of non-resistance. The excellent little volume should be
widely and thoughtfully read; it is written in a style at once
succinct and limpid, and it holds much truth upon which it is safe to
build.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“‘The freedom of life’ is directed not so much against the bondage of
doing wrong as against the bondage of doing right in the wrong way.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 200w.
“It is a pity that a book always excellent in intention and usually in
performance should be marred by such absurdities.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 591. O. ‘05. 390w.
=Call, Annie Payson.= Man of the world. **50c. Little.
The man of the world as Miss Call characterizes him is one who must
know evil in order to renounce it, must be capable of understanding
all phases of life, must recognize the beauty and power of the things
of this world as servants to our highest law, must be in the process
of gaining freedom from the world’s evils, must be a citizen of the
world sustained by the mind and heart of God.
* “A little book, but sound and sensible as its larger predecessors.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 50w.
=Calthrop, Samuel R.= God and his world: sermons on evolution. *$1.25.
Ellis.
Eight scholarly sermons by this venerable Unitarian minister which set
forth the doctrine of evolution and “fill that idea full of God.” The
sermons are entitled: God, Religion and evolution, One Lord and His
name One, Jesus and the evolution of the kingdom of God, Experimental
theology and experimental religion, Fate and freedom, God minus man
and God in man, and Immortality.
“Dr. Calthrop is a theist, and more thoroughgoing than very many
theists. He is also a Christian theist, and distinct as such from many
who share with him the name of Unitarian.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 300w.
=Calvert, Albert F.= Life of Cervantes. $1.25. Lane.
This story of Cervantes’ romantic life and adventures was written for
the tercentenary of the publication of the first part of “Don
Quixote.” The illustrations of the first edition of that book are
reproduced, and there is a bibliography, a list of proverbs traceable
to Cervantes, and a table giving the editions of “Don Quixote” as
brought out in various countries.
“Is a little too obviously written for the tercentenary.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Calvert is evidently unacquainted with the recent literature of
his subject.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 366. Mr. 25. 500w.
“The first brief and satisfactory monograph to be written in English.
This narrative is compact and well considered.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“With some simulation of scholarship, however, this ‘Life’ lacks its
essence.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 355. My. 4, ‘05. 580w.
“It contains a good short account of Cervantes’s adventurous and
romantic life, about the only one of convenient size and real fullness
known to us.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. Ap. 15, ‘05. 450w.
Reviewed by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
* — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 3. O. 14, ‘05. 2650w.
* “The ‘Life’ is sufficiently well done.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 798. N. 18, ‘05. 210w.
* =Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.
A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula
with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and
decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated
with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white
illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to
illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of
Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of
Moorish art.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 280w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G.
W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in
twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in
two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I,
II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist
of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars
of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and
Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States;
vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X,
Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol.
XII, The latest age.
(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the
first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of
the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of
clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization
really clear.” J. H. Robinson.
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10:382. Ja. ‘05. 1420w.
(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of
the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it
supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions
which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound
scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 403. Ja. ‘05. 1770w.
“The length of some of the chapters and paragraphs is somewhat
disproportionate to the importance of the matters of which they treat.
And there are some rather startling omissions. There are moreover a
considerable number of misprints and minor errors. Despite all these
minor defects, however, there can be no doubt that the third volume of
this great work is in every way worthy of the high standard set by the
earlier ones.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 145. O. ‘05. 960w. (Review of v. 3.)
(Vol. VIII). “No single-volume history of the French revolution in the
English language, and possibly none in the French, contains so much
and such well-organized information as that embodied within the
compass of this book. In breadth and accuracy of treatment, in the
opinion of the reviewer, it is superior to any that has yet appeared
in the series.” James Westfall Thompson.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 139. Ja. ‘05. 2110w.
“Presents too much accidental selection and grouping. The paramount
excellence of some of the chapters is so evident that the weakness of
the others is made especially evident.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 598. My. ‘05. 1010w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The index of the present volume is, we are glad to see, a great
improvement on its predecessors.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 583. My. 13. 2520w. (Review of v. 3.)
“With one exception, beyond painstaking fidelity and unflagging
industry which gathers in every scrap of fact that can be crammed into
the work, there is nothing remarkable in the treatment of the
subjects. And the devotion to detail seems to have been carried too
far.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 82: 91. O. ‘05. 3900w. (Review of v. 8.)
“There is a certain lack of homogeneity, produced partly by
divergencies both in opinion and in style, and partly by repetitions
due to the treatment of a single subject in its different phases. A
graver objection is the absence, both from this volume and from that
devoted to ‘The reformation,’ of a sufficient statement of the Roman
Catholic side. The work would be indispensable to students for its
bibliographies alone.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 278. Mr. ‘05. 1280w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 165. S. 16, ‘05. 1140w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviews Vols. III and VIII.
=Ind.= 58: 669. Mr. 23, ‘05. 700w.
* “A fine, scholarly catalog of events, with little sense for literary
form or emphasis. It is learned and fair, but cold and unsympathetic;
useful as an encyclopedia, and having little dramatic interest.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is generally accurate; it is critical; it is clearly written; it
is dispassionate. The attitude of pure science is worthily
maintained.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 314. Ap. 20, ‘05. 2930w. (Review of Vol. III.)
“It is everywhere conscientious and never hurried.” Christian Gauss.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 209. Ap. 8, ‘05. 4100w. (Detailed review of
Vol. III.)
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 3.)
Cambridge natural history. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern
concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only
the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also
the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of
fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation
past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’
(leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’
(teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)
“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its
forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general
quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack;
in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of
acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions
better treated.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 423. My. 25, ‘05. 1140w.
“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be
congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The
psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters
of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 103. Je. 1, ‘05. 1990w.
“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of
the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have
thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology
and classification.” Theo. Gill.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 21: 653. Ap. 28, ‘05. 5080w.
=Campbell, Gerald=, comp. See =Fitz Gerald, Edward and Pamela.= Letters
and portraits of.
=Campbell, Reginald John.= Sermons addressed to individuals. **$1.25.
Armstrong.
As the author states in his preface, these eighteen sermons “are not
literature, they are extempore speech.” Each one was suggested by some
life story or called out by some confession, or some cry for pastoral
aid, and to the text of each sermon is prefixed a short account of the
particular case which it was designed to meet. Mr. Campbell is an
evangelist, and minister of the City Temple of London.
“But these occasional sermons are not sermons for an occasion merely.
Their appeal is a very wide one.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 154. Ag. ‘05. 130w.
=Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 220w.
=Candler, Edmund.= The unveiling of Lhasa. $5. Longmans.
An account of the Lhasa mission from the standpoint of the
correspondent of the Daily Mail. He relates the predetermining causes,
the diplomatic and historical matters bearing upon the expedition, and
a detailed account of the actual journey and of the encounters with
the Tibetans. A vivid description of Lhasa, of the monasteries, and of
the people follows.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 147. F. 4, 2320w.
“A series of clear-cut sketches depicting the every-day life of the
people ... form the most striking feature of that portion of Mr.
Candler’s book given over to Lhasa.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 490w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“There is in his pages a breezy personal element, which lends the
charm of reality to all he sees and does. His descriptions are brief,
and his summing up of the results of the mission clear and forcible.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 1080w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 427. Mr. 18, ‘05. 670w.
“A book of remarkable interest. The manner of writing is as admirable
as the matter. Other books on the expedition may be written fuller of
detailed information, but none can be more thoroughly imbued with its
romance. One of Mr. Candler’s most notable gifts is a power of vivid,
sympathetic delineation of scenery.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 178. F. 4. ‘05. 1260w.
=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Corneille and Racine in England: a study
of the English translations of the two Corneilles and Racine with
special reference to their presentation on the English stage. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
“A valuable feature of this book is the presentation of well-chosen
excerpts from the various translations, illustrative of the author’s
critical comments. These selections are accompanied by the original
text.... Pleasantly suggestive sketches are given of the writers who
figured as translators from the time of Charles I to the earlier years
of the nineteenth century. Among a crowd of obscure hacks may be noted
the names of Katharine Philips (the ‘Matchless Orinda’), Waller,
Cotton, Otway, Steele, Young (of the ‘Night thoughts’), and Colley
Cibber.”—N. Y. Times.
“A quiet, high-bred humor and a marked felicity of phrase brighten
many of these pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 50w.
=Canfield, William Walker.= Legends of the Iroquois: told by the
Cornplanter. **$1.50. Wessels.
The legends and bits of folk-lore here reproduced were told by the
Seneca chief, the Cornplanter, to a pioneer of western New York, whose
note-book with the valuable jottings came into the possession of Mr.
Canfield. Enough of the wild poetry, religious undertone, and
imagination was transmitted to enable the author to catch the spirit
of the tales, which he has preserved with full understanding and
sympathy.
“A valuable and entertaining edition to the literature of our
aboriginal folk-lore.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 30w.
“Present what is from several points of view the most fascinating side
of Indian character, the poetic and imaginative side. It has a
distinct value to the student of ethnology, or anyone who is
interested in the study of Indian life and character, it will also
appeal with equal force to the reader who seeks only entertainment;
for we venture to say that anyone who dips into this book of legends
will find them as fascinating as a book of verses or a metrical
romance.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 121. F. 16, ‘05. 290w.
=Canning, Albert Stratford George.= Literary influence in British
history. *$2.25. Wessels.
In a prefatory note the author states that “In this republished and
revised volume I endeavor to trace the influence of literature in
British history, with the hope that the book may be of use to readers
not familiar with larger works on the subject.” Then follows a review
of representative English literature in every period of England’s
history from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Scott and Froude. There is
much not only of historical and literary but also of biographical
interest.
=Cannon, Edwin=, ed. See Smith, Adam. Wealth of nations.
=Capart, Jean.= Primitive art in Egypt; tr. * by A. S. Griffith. *$5.
Lippincott.
“This exhaustive volume dealing with the early decorative work of the
Egyptians on implements and buildings, deals with its subject more
from an archaeological than from an artistic standpoint.” (Critic.)
The work is largely based upon the discoveries of Prof. Flinders
Petrie, and is richly illustrated.
* “Has been ably translated.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 599. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
* “M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly
confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this
task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation
by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w.
* “For the student of the problem of the origin of art the author has
probably made a valuable contribution, with his clear text, and
plentiful illustrations. For the casual reader, however, the often
insisted upon details are liable to become wearisome.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “A distinctive up-to-date book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
* “Is full of curious and interesting reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
=Capen, Edward Warren.= Historical development of the poor law of
Connecticut. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Volume XXII. of the “Columbia university studies.” An historical study
of the treatment of the poor in Connecticut from the earliest colonial
period to the present day, in which the town system of relief is
considered as opposed to the state and county systems. There is an
excellent bibliography, and there are indexes covering not only the
subjects treated but the decisions and statutes cited.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 496. My. 6, ‘05. 220w.
“The history is interestingly set forth, each statement of fact is
verified by references.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 587. My. ‘05. 140w.
=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 40w.
“In his present monograph Dr. Capen has provided us not only with a
most exhaustive exposition of the development of the law from early
colonial days, but also with a useful commentary on its workings,
pointing out clearly its advantages and defects.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w.
* =Capen, Oliver Bronson.= Country homes of famous Americans. **$5.
Doubleday.
“The profusion of pictures large and small with which the book is
embellished ... throws a welcome light upon the surroundings of many
of our celebrated men, representing, as Mr. T. W. Higginson says in
his introduction, ‘not merely the tastes and habits of the man’s
household, but the private background of his public life.’ Not all
the houses chosen are of equal interest, nor are their owners of
equal celebrity.... In all, the homes of eighteen men are chosen,
including those of Lee at Arlington, of Jefferson at Monticello,
Lowell’s Elmwood, Longfellow’s Craigie house, and Madison’s
Montpelier.”—Nation.
* “There has, of late, been much journeying (on paper) to the homes of
great men, but none of these journeys has ended in such a fortunate
meeting of text and pictures as have those of Mr. Capen.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 492. D. 14, ‘05. 460w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.
* =Capes, Bernard.= Lohengrin. $2. Page.
“This is the third of a series of romances founded on the themes of
grand operas.... The illustrations, in black and white, are by Sarcadi
Pogany, and fancifully, yet not without plenty of vigor and action,
depict the dramatic incidents of the legend, which is repeated in
description and dialogue and dramatic succession in the form of the
modern historical romance.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Mr. Capes tells his story well and strongly, his descriptions are
vivid and significant, and all the drama of the story clearly brought
out. But because you are writing of distant days, need your style be
such ‘genuine antique’ stuff as this?”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 833. Ag. 12, ‘05. 300w.
* “This is monstrous fine writing; so fine that for the life of us we
cannot tell whether it is meant to be in blank verse or not. Much of
it is; some of it is not; and the mixture is merely annoying. There
are, too, the inevitable lapses of one who sets out to play a part
without conviction.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ‘05. 400w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
=Capwell, Irene Stoddard.= Mrs. Alderman Casey. 75c. Fenno.
In rich Irish brogue the wife of Alderman Casey tells of her
experiences in trying to keep up with the social aspirations of her
pretty daughter, Mary Ann, who in the end forsakes tennis clubs,
Browning clubs, summer hotels and euchre parties for Tom Donovan, the
pride of the police force.
* =Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Household of Peter: a novel. (†)$1.50.
Lippincott.
“A story of life in a small English country town. Peter is a young
doctor, and his household consists of himself, his three sisters, and
a faithful serving-woman. There is the usual complement of nobility
and gentry.”—Outlook.
* “Altogether this is a soothing and cheerful story.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 130w.
* “Peter’s household is a wholesome, affectionate set of folks; but at
times they are tiresome, and their conversations are too long drawn
out.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Carl, Katherine A.= With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.
Miss Carl, thru the influence of Mrs. Conger, wife of the United
States minister, was called to Pekin in the summer of 1903 to paint a
portrait of the empress dowager. She remained eleven months, and
painted four portraits one of which was exhibited at the St. Louis
exposition, and during all this time she lived at the Chinese court,
and came in daily contact with the empress dowager and the court
ladies. She gives a simple, straightforward account of her unique
experiences, telling with frank enthusiasm all about her life and the
life of those around her in the summer and the winter palaces, until
her readers also come under the spell of the empress dowager’s
fascinating personality and come to see the Chinese social customs and
religious rites in all their picturesque dignity.
* =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “There is much entertaining tittle-tattle in the volume about
Chinese court life, but Her Majesty is lost in the distant
perspective.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 440w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“Unfortunately Miss Carl is not an observer or a writer; she was very
greatly affected by the divinity that hedges royalty; and her book of
more than 300 pages is much such a record as a school girl with an
easy pen might send to an admiring club of friends.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 752. N. 4, ‘05. 670w.
* “Her book is of great interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“It is believed that the present volume contains the first accurate
and satisfactory information concerning the personal appearance and
characteristics of an interesting imperial personage.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 190w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.
=Carling, John R.= Weird picture. (†)$1.50. Little.
A story concerned mainly with the machinations of an Italian artist
whose madness and villainy actuate him to follow the Giotto method of
stabbing his model to produce a realistic picture. There are some
weird effects, exciting discoveries, and thru it all runs the romance
of a matter-of-fact Englishman and his beautiful cousin.
“A well conceived and constructed story, which contains some crisp
dialogue and characterization.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 139. Jl. 29. 150w.
“Those whose blood is yet uncurdled and whose detective sense has
never been baffled by literary mystery might try this.”
— =Ind.= 59 :753. S. 28, ‘05. 40w.
=Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
“The plot is absorbing and well-concealed.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w.
=Carlyle, R. W., and Carlyle, A. J.= History of mediaeval political
theory in the West. 3v. v. I. **$3.50. Putnam.
“The object of the joint authors of the present work is to carry in
several volumes the history of political theory down to the early
seventeenth century.... It is to be strictly a ‘history of theory, not
of institutions.’ ... Part I or the introduction of the work devotes
two chapters to the political theory of Cicero and Seneca.... Part II
is devoted to the political theory of the Roman lawyers.... Part III
has for its subject the political theory of the New Testament and the
Fathers.... Part IV, the political theory of the ninth century....
Each chapter and each part is followed by a very useful summary, and
at the foot of each page are given very lengthy extracts from the
sources.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The author of the present volume has brought to his work a thorough
knowledge of the early church writers ... and has succeeded in
expressing himself in such admirable and lucid English, free from all
philosophical abstractions and obscurities, that at no time does his
exposition fail to instruct and to interest the reader. This clearness
is largely due to the admirable arrangement of the subject-matter and
to the method of treatment. No claim could be made that the author has
discovered any new theories or new theorists, but he has certainly put
many matters in a new light. Throughout his work he seldom shows any
familiarity with the researches of modern scholars in the field of
political theory, and with but few exceptions he never refers to any
secondary authorities. This is a glaring and inexcusable fault in an
otherwise highly meritorious work.” James Sullivan.
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 629. Ap. ‘05. 780w.
=Carlyle, Thomas.= French revolution. *$1.50. Macmillan.
Three volumes uniform with “Bohn’s historical library,” edited by John
Holland Rose. The text and foot notes of the author are reproduced
verbatim, and there are in addition notes by the editor which
supplement the text with more modern information. There is an
introduction, and there are appendices and numerous illustrations.
=Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 123. F. 25, ‘05. 260w.
“An excellent library edition.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 4w.
=Carlyle, Thomas.= Oliver Cromwell; with a selection from his letters
and speeches. *60c. McClurg.
“An abridged and newly edited volume of Carlyle’s Cromwell.” It is
uniform with “Standard biographies.”
=Carman, Albert Richardson.= Ethics of imperialism; an enquiry whether
Christian ethics and imperialism are antagonistic. **$1. Turner, H. B.
“This is a defense of imperialism by a very radical method of
discrediting altruism as an ethical ideal and extolling egoism,
personal and national, as the best of all possible principles. This,
of course, leads to extreme libertarian views of social policy.”—Ind.
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
=Dial.= 39: 270. N. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 340w.
* =Carman, (William) Bliss.= Poems. 2v. *$10. Page.
This sumptuous edition has been compiled from Mr. Carman’s various
published works, and includes a number of poems which have seen print
in magazines but have never before appeared in book form.
* “His work is done so much in the open, his qualities are so frankly
and immediately affirmed in it, he is so free from subtleties and
intricacies of meaning, that the province of the reviewer properly
ends with pointing the way to his books as a source of many kinds of
intellectual and emotional pleasure—all wholesome, rich, and strong.”
Elisabeth Luther Carey.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 849. D. 2, ‘05. 1140w.
* “He has a true gift of song, an artist’s joy in beautiful words, and
that passion for the moods of Nature which of itself transmutes verse
into poetry. His defect is to fall occasionally into facile jingles,
and now and then into inapposite conceits.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
* =Carman, (William) Bliss.= Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.
A volume of essays which contains besides the title essay, The purpose
of poetry; How to judge poetry; The poet in the commonwealth; The poet
in modern life; The defence of poetry; Distaste for poetry;
Longfellow; Emerson; Mr. Riley’s poetry; Mr. Swinburne’s poetry; The
rewards of poetry; Cheerful pessimism; Masters of the world; The
poetry of to-morrow; The permanence of poetry.
* “That Mr. Carman is a master of a stimulating style in verse and
prose alike is evidenced by this sane, hopeful, yet discriminating
study of varied phases of art and life.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 380w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 170w.
* “Its value is permanent by reason of the broadly comprehensive
treatment which he has given to the subject of poetry in its larger
aspects. I am not sure but he is at his best as a critic.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 910. D. 23, ‘05. 1290w.
=Carnegie, Andrew.= James Watt. **$1.40. Doubleday.
Mr. Carnegie has woven into his biography of the inventor of the
steam-engine, out of which he made his fortune, his own philosophy of
success, drawing upon his personal experience to point the morals
found in his hero’s life.
“In Mr. Carnegie he has found a worthy and sympathetic biographer.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:115. Jl. 22. 880w.
“The wonderful career of James Watt is here ably retold by a most
appreciative countryman with a wealth of comment bearing on or
suggested by Watt’s life or inventions, which is scarcely less
interesting than the narrative itself.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 625. Je. 15, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 350w.
“It is in the expression of the author’s views of life and the world
that the work’s value mainly lies, for as a biography, it adds naught
to the store of available information. Extremely interesting and
helpful.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 560w.
“Its lively, not to say jerky, style would hardly be a sufficient
inducement to read this book. The preface names two highly competent
engineers as having revised the technical passages, but here and there
a sentence may be found to which they can hardly have lent their
deliberate approval.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 527. Je. 29, ‘05. 1600w.
“Mr. Carnegie has written a really helpful book, and one which is
especially helpful to the young man entering into life’s battles.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.
“There is a good deal of useful information in the book, but the best
feature of it is the romantic cast that the author has given to an
intrinsically dry subject.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 837. My. 27, ‘05. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Carnegie’s book is of the kind to put in the hands of a promising
boy. It will stimulate him to work, but not at the expense of the
simple moralities and pleasures of a well-regulated life.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 396. S. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* =Carpenter, Joseph Estlin.= James Martineau: theologian and teacher.
*$2.50. Am. Unitar.
A book written “at the invitation of the British and Foreign Unitarian
association, to describe the life and work of Dr. Martineau in briefer
compass than was possible to his first biographers.... Professor
Carpenter has had the advantage of the use of certain additional
letters which have become available since the publication of the Life
and has utilized other papers and correspondence hitherto unused....
The result is an exceedingly valuable ‘study,’ in which the incidents
of the life and the characteristics of the man and the thinker are
made to throw light upon one another in a way which is possible only
to one who, having mastered every detail of his subject, is able to
select the essential and significant elements in every case.”—Hibbert
J.
* “It is difficult to imagine any class of readers who will easily set
down this biography when once they have opened it. The stress of
interest will indeed vary, but the admirable lucidity of Mr.
Carpenter’s arrangement will render the process of skipping easy and
comparatively safe.” Philip H. Wicksteed.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 560. My. 27, ‘05. 1530w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 150w.
* “The book is written in a style which, while it gives the impression
of perfect accuracy, is yet so clear and graceful that the reader is
never either puzzled or wearied.” James Seth.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 210. O. ‘05. 2150w.
* “It is an original study, based to some extent on new materials, and
everywhere showing care and ripe reflection.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 219. Jl. 7, ‘05. 910w.
* “Appearing in Dr. Martineau’s centenary year, it is a timely and
permanent memorial of a spiritual leader unsurpassed in the English
speaking world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 250w.
* “This admirable work is a worthy memorial of a great man. His
development is traced with such skill that Mr. Carpenter makes us
realize the continual interplay of the outer and inner life. We see in
these pages the organic growth, not only of a great intellect but of a
great moral force.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2340w.
=Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon.= Witness to the
influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904.
**$1.10. Houghton.
Six lectures entitled—Two aspects of Christ’s influence; Christ the
perfect type of consciousness; Christ the teacher of principles;
Christ the law of the soul; Christ verified in experience; Christ as
authority.
“The thought is worthy and is set forth with exceptional literary
skill, with recurring pregnant expressions of much suggestiveness.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.
* “Exhibits his well-known versatility and literary skill.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“A happy combination of poetic feeling and logical clearness
characterizes the entire argument.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=Carr, Clark.= Illini. $2. McClurg.
“A story of the prairies, written from the memories of over half a
century lived in Illinois. The author has endeavored to present his
views of the position and influence of Illinois among the states, to
give an estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were
conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, the year in which the
Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil
war.”—Bookm.
“Is a pleasant combination of history, biography, and romance.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“The story is not sufficiently interesting to have any advantage over
the ordinary historical form.”
— =Ind.= 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w.
=Carroll, John S.= Exiles of eternity: an exposition of Dante’s Inferno.
*$3. Gorham.
“‘Exiles of eternity’ is an exposition canto by canto, in a simple,
popular, yet thoroughly literary style, reaching the aim of bringing
before the reader, who may or not be acquainted with the Italian
language, the general scope of Dante’s ethical teaching as studied
from a broad Anglican point of view, not uncolored by an intense
poetical appreciation. This exposition is preceded by a brief sketch
of the poet.” (N. Y. Times). The book makes no attempt at special
research from original sources, hence there are reproduced several
errors of earlier commentators. The author states, however, that his
purpose is rather to present his subject in its “broad outlines” than
to go into those “mere niceties, ingenuities and intricacies of
interpretation” which too often lead Dante scholars astray.
“Characterized by broad general reading among English and American
commentators rather than by special research. An English reader who
wishes to make the acquaintance of the ‘Inferno’ through a broad and
pleasant way with Dante’s ethical rules of action brought strictly up
to date, cannot do better than to read Mr. Carroll’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w.
=Carryl, Guy Wetmore.= The garden of years, and other poems. **$1.50.
Putnam.
A volume of genuine poetic value, posthumously published, is the gift
of Guy Wetmore Carryl to the literature of our time. “In the long poem
which lends its title to the present collection, we have a true love
poem marked by exquisite feeling and rare felicitous grace of
execution. We may but say retrospectively, using Mr. Stedman’s so
fitly characterizing words,—‘Still in the strength of youth, he seemed
quite equal to either experiences or work, and likely to take his fill
of both.’” (Critic).
“Its varied but everywhere irrefragable proofs of poetship. There is
abundant evidence in ‘The garden of years’ that Guy Carryl had
received the muse’s accolade; and we might add, that, in his own range
of inspiration and execution, this young Lycidas ‘hath not left his
peer.’” E. M. T.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 182. F. ‘05. 220w.
“It is a volume of manly sentiment embodied in facile and vigorous
measures.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 270w.
=Carson, Thomas G.= Man’s responsibility; or, How and why the Almighty
introduced evil upon the earth. **$1. Putnam.
“All of Mr. Carson’s argument is to the effect that phrenology is an
exact and useful science, and that it should be used in the government
of the world and the reclamation of mankind.”—N. Y. Times.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 390w.
=Carter, A. Cecil=, ed. Kingdom of Siam. **$2. Putnam.
A volume prepared by native Siamese in connection with the commission
to the St. Louis exposition. “The materials used by the author are
largely furnished by high officials in different departments of
government service.” (N. Y. Times). The view of Siam includes a sketch
of King Chulalongkorn, and his son, the Prince Maha Vajiravudh, a
description of Siam itself,—“the Land of the White Elephant,” a
summary of its resources, and a glimpse of the capital city, Bangkok,
where modern invention has given crowning touches to the city’s
mechanism. The chapter on agriculture is perhaps the best in the book.
There are many illustrations, chiefly, however, of temples and public
buildings.
“The style will not interest the general reader.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 125. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
“Well-written and skilfully arranged work.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It contains everything that a stranger needs to know of a fascinating
country. The book has no literary endeavor manifest in its pages,
being rather a complete handbook of the kingdom, with numerous
illustrations of persons and places,—an encyclopedia in little.”
Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Jan. 21, ‘05. 620w.
=Carter, Thomas.= Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version
he used. *$3. Dutton.
“Following the plays of Shakespeare in the probable order of their
composition, Dr. Carter exhibits the extent to which Biblical ideas
and phraseology appear in them. Citations from Shakespeare are from
the text of the First folio, published in 1623; citations from the
Bible are from the Genevan version (edition of 1598), the popular
version of that time, and from the Genevan New Testament of 1557. ‘No
writer,’ says Dr. Carter, ‘has assimilated the thoughts and reproduced
the words of the Holy Scripture more copiously.’”—Outlook.
“In consequence of this fatal want of judgment, the book may be
pronounced to be practically valueless.”
— =Nation.= 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 600w.
“To say the best for it, it is a curious book and a monument of
industry.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 250w.
“Dr. Carter proves a parallelism between Shakespeare and the Bible
abundantly sufficient for his purpose, and need not have overloaded
his book with much that is conjectural and doubtful.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
“Dr. Carter’s book, in fact, though it displays a minute familiarity
with the text of the Bible and puts before the student the full
materials for judging for himself, is an absurd overstatement.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 437. S. 30, ‘05. 1560w.
* “Enough has been said to show that this large book, notwithstanding
the labour spent upon it, is entirely useless for its main purpose;
while for the further purpose of estimating Shakespeare’s knowledge of
the Bible it is almost as useless, since nine-tenths of the parallels
suggested are not parallels at all.”
— — =Spec.= 95: 687. N. 4, ‘05. 2010w.
=Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady).= Life and art of Botticelli. *$4.
Dutton.
This is an expansion of a study published a year or so ago, and is
copiously illustrated with reproductions from the famous works of the
painter. “This clear narrative restates the results of modern research
and gives a trustworthy account of the Florentine painter’s career.
What he owed to Savonarola and Dante is set forth in straightforward
fashion, and his works are surveyed in chronological order, one by
one.” (Atlan.)
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 278. F. ‘05. 90w.
“Her work forms ... a homogeneous whole, that is, however, somewhat
marred here and there by certain strange mannerisms.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 369. F. ‘05. 200w.
“A notable contribution to the descriptive literature of art. The
author is evidently steeped in artist-lore, and in this handsome
volume has presented a treatise of an art school as well as a
biography of Botticelli.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31 :252. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Carver, Thomas Nixon.= The distribution of wealth. **$1.50. Macmillan.
In treating the value-and-distribution problem, “Professor Carver has
earned high praise in that he has, with perfect clearness, defined
precisely his point of view, systematically presented his doctrinal
position, and carried it out with consistent argument.” The relation
between values and distributive shares is traced out by Professor
Carver as follows: “The value of the agent is determined by the value
of the product. But what determines the value of the product? The
relative want. And what determines the relative want? The relative
supply. And what determines the relative supply? The cost of
production. And what determines the cost of production? The value of
the agents employed. And what determines the value of the agents? The
value of the product; etc., etc.” The foregoing questions are
discussed and answered. The law of diminishing returns is made the
central feature of the theory of distribution. The author “pronounces
strongly in favor of preserving the distinction between land and
capital both for static and dynamic purposes; he sees, indeed, as
bearing upon the relations of land and capital to cost, no
significance in the distinction between static and dynamic.”
Quotations from J. Pol. Econ.
“The reader has only to study a few pages before the earnestness with
which the subjects are expounded infects him. The exposition is clear,
and occasionally graphic representations are given to make it
impossible for the student to escape comprehension.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 110w.
“The work under consideration is admirable as a theoretical discussion
in that it is centralized about the shares in distribution, preceded
by what the author considers necessary by way of introduction, namely
‘value,’ ‘diminishing returns,’ and ‘forms of wealth and income.’ The
concrete is everywhere uppermost throughout the book. The style is
characterized by a certain vivacity which greatly enlivens the
discussion and claims the attention of the reader whether he agrees or
disagrees with the conclusions.” J. E. Conner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 540w.
“The book is in the main a clear and careful restatement of the
prevalent ideas on the theory of distribution as now accepted. The
book is moderate in tone and in conclusions.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 266. Ap. 16, ‘05. 790w.
“The power and significance of the work. Too much can hardly be said
in commendation of the book for its clarity and simplicity of style,
its skill and effectiveness of statement, and its logical and
attractive arrangement of material. It seems worth while to express
forthwith the conviction that Professor Carver’s theoretical position
is untenable, for the reason that he attempts to make of value and
distribution two distinct problems.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 131. D. ‘04. 3050w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w.
* =Gary, Elisabeth Luther.= Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25.
Putnam.
“An attractive volume illustrated with a new portrait of Mr. James and
an etching of his home at Rye in England; and supplemented by a
bibliography zealously compiled by Mr. Frederick A. King.... Miss
Carey ... reviews all his work from the beginning; traces his
development step by step, and treats in separate chapters of the power
of his imagination and the value of his philosophy.”—N. Y. Times.
* “If there is weakness anywhere in this interesting and luminous
study it is in the chapter on ‘Philosophy.’ One wishes that more
expansion of Mr. James’s moral and psychologic messages had been
included.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 441. D. 16, ‘05. 820w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 782. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.
* “A remarkably interesting and well-rounded piece of contemporary
criticism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 290w.
=Castaigne, Andre.= Fata Morgana. †$1.50. Century.
This romance of art student life in Paris easily draws into one circle
a circus rider, the daughter of a Chicago millionaire, the Duke of
Morgana, the various critics, models, artists and poets of greater or
lesser degree. The setting is Bohemian rather than artistic, and the
characters are often coarse. The career of Phil Longwell, a young
American painter, is followed through years of struggle from the time
when he first falls in love with Hella, the pretty circus-girl friend
of his boyhood, to the time when he wins honors, success and the
admiration of the young American heiress. His paintings of the Fata
Morgana, its strange legend and the simple faith of the people of
Morgana, form striking contrast to the cynicism of Parisian life. The
book is illustrated by the author.
“Unquestionably the plot is thin and the construction faulty. Is a
typical artist’s book, full of life and colour.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 183. Ap. ‘05. 280w.
“Charming as is Monsieur Castaigne’s narrative, the chief interest
will probably centre in the illustrations. In it the layman ... will
find a rich store of interest and entertainment.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 104. F. ‘05. 400w.
“No less striking in plot than in title, it rests the reader wearied
of stereotyped and hackneyed situations.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 116. Je. ‘05. 320w.
* =Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton.= Heart of Lady
Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.
In the time of powder, masks and patches, Squire Day married the
spoiled beauty, Lady Anne, and the story of her heart is the story of
how she chafed at life on her young husband’s estate, how she went up
to London as guest of Lady Kilcroney, who was Kitty Bellairs, and how
she encountered the scheming, cruel world of fashion which taught her
that her husband, who knew how to reveal himself as an heroic figure
at the critical moment in each of her sad experiences, and who even
aroused her jealousy toward the last, was the real master of the
situation and of her heart.
* “A tale in Dresden china, so dainty and clever as fully to satisfy
the taste for Dresden, but arousing no very strong feeling.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1154. N. 4, ‘05. 510w.
* “No authors know better how to use romance than Mr. and Mrs. Castle,
and none can give the air of this artificial century with so excellent
a grace.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 680. N. 18. 340w.
* “Dainty bit of eighteenth century romancing.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “‘Tis a beguiling tale.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 250w.
* “Has quite the dash of the authors’ earlier stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “Has, in a less degree, the sparkle and liveliness of the authors’
former work.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.
=Castle, Agnes, and Castle, Egerton.= Rose of the world. †$1.50. Stokes.
“The story opens in India, where the reader has a glimpse of official
English life. The tragedy of widowhood descends upon a girl wife, who
lives to realize the meaning of her sorrow.”—Outlook.
“This is, perhaps, the finest book that Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle
have as yet produced—daring, original, moving. The plot is developed
with that reticence which is the soul of art; the tension is relieved
by delightful touches of humor, charming descriptions of scenery,
clever character-drawing.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 519. My. 13, ‘05. 1170w.
“If this is not the best of their novels, it takes high rank among
them.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 713. Je. 10. 500w.
“At one stroke a delicate psychological study is metamorphosed into a
Wilkie Collins melodrama.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 366. Je. ‘05. 710w.
“As a piece of story-telling, it is almost good. Only, unfortunately,
the heroine does not in the least belong to this era of the world.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 200w.
“The charm is essentially one of style, for the plot is not
remarkable, and the situations verge upon the melodramatic.” W. M.
Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“In this second and more critical reading the careful workmanship of
the writers is everywhere apparent.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + + =Forum.= 37: 109. Jl. ‘05. 670w.
“A tale which, had it but broken off 100 pages from the end, might
have ranked with the few things which bear reading more than once.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“In their latest book they have lost none of their brilliancy of
description.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“The tale is well written, with touches of comedy in minor
characters.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 40w.
“A story that is touched by a rosy glamor and strengthened by apt
characterization.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 190w.
“The story, in fact, for all its wildness, claims attention as a
serious study in character, while the events are sensational enough to
attract the unpsychological.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 778. Je. 10, ‘05. 310w.
— =Spec.= 94: 789. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
* =Castle, Frank.= Machine construction and drawing. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author first describes the necessary drawing instruments, and
explains their use. He then sets out in detail, with proportional
dimensions, various forms of common fastenings, such as rivets, bolts,
keys, etc. Then come some chapters containing examples of mill work,
followed by others dealing with steam-engine details. The final
chapter gives a short account of the physical properties of materials
used in construction. Sets of useful exercises occur at intervals, and
a few calculations of strengths are given.... The drawings which
abound throughout the work represent good practice, are fully
dimensioned, very clearly printed, and will be appreciated, by
teachers and students alike.”—Nature.
* + =Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
* “While not free from minor defects, the book can be cordially
recommended for use in drawing classes, and to young engineers who are
seeking after knowledge on which to base subsequent work in machine
design.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 533. S. 28, ‘05. 280w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 210w.
Casual essays of The Sun; editorial articles on many subjects, clothed
with the philosophy of the light side of things. $1.50. Priv. ptd.
Extracts from the editorial pages of the New York Sun, which “touch
lightly upon many subjects—upon the passing of the negro minstrel and
the banjo, upon mince pie, ... famous men and institutions ... upon
college yells, hairpins, Solomon, and the impropriety of addressing
the president of the United States as ‘Excellency.’ There is some
delectable and curious matter about poets old and new.... You may find
also essays on English and reformed manners of spelling it, ... essays
upon women of all ages, upon sweethearts and loves, essays upon
mothers-in-law, and even essays upon the cup that cheers.” (N. Y.
Times.)
“One likes to save it for the choice hours, when one is really alone.”
Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 280w.
“There is no evidence that the writer is restrained by any limitations
of conscience, consistency or charity from putting down anything
interesting or amusing that comes into his head.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 160w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“There is much excellent fooling here.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 130w.
Catch words of cheer, compiled by Sara A. Hubbard. **$1. McClurg.
Printed in dark green ink with green marginal decorations and a touch
of red in the headings, this attractive little volume pleases the eye,
while the catch words culled from St. Paul, Cicero, Maeterlinck,
Carlyle, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Helen Keller, Ruskin, Goethe,
Longfellow, and a host of other writers of all ages, are wisely chosen
to bring help and comfort. There is a quotation for each day of the
year.
* “An excellent combination of high seriousness and enlivening humor.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* “A collection of bright, comforting, helpful sayings.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 40w.
=Cather, Willa Sibert.= Troll garden. †$1.25. McClure.
Seven short stories of artist life, emotional psychological, and
pathetic, under the titles: Flavia and her artists, The sculptor’s
funeral, The garden lodge, A death in the desert, The marriage of
Phædra, A Wagner matinee, and Paul’s case.
“Is a collection of freak stories that are either lurid, hysterical or
unwholesome, and that remind one of nothing so much as the colored
supplement to the Sunday papers. The ‘purple patches’ of learning in
the book, like the thrills, seem sewed on here and there, with one eye
closed to get the effect.” Bessie du Bois.
— — + =Bookm.= 21: 612. Ag. ‘05. 1320w.
* “There is real promise in these half-dozen stories. Miss Cather has
sincerity and no small degree of insight.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 200w.
“Taken as a whole, the book indicates more than usual talent for close
delineation.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“There is promise of something greater in them all.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 260w.
“In this collection of seven stories the author has shown a great deal
of deep feeling and real ability, but many of the stories are too
ambitious, and seem to be more the work of promise than of
fulfillment.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 303. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
“They are singularly vivid, strong, true, original, and they have
withal a richness of quality one might almost say of timbre, like a
contralto voice.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w.
Catherine of Siena, St., tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.
Selections from the letters of Catherine for long counted among
Italian classics. “Mystics are not good letter writers, for mystics
are bound to be without humor, and Catherine’s are all religious
letters, full of obscure and jarring medieval imagery. But they are
human documents. She only learned to write by miracle three years
before her death, and until then she employed young aristocrats as
secretaries. Her correspondence was wonderfully varied. ‘She wrote to
prisoners and outcasts; to great nobles and plain business men; to
physicians, lawyers, soldiers of fortune; to kings and queens, and
cardinals and popes; to recluses ... and to men and women of the
world.’” (Lond. Times.)
“Excellent, too, are the small forewords to the various letters,
giving vivid glimpses of the young saint’s various correspondents, and
incidentally of the composite society of that time.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 681. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1880w.
“For once we are in the pleasant position of finding nothing to blame;
and this because the editor has not only done what was needful, but
also (a rarer thing in editors) refrained from doing what was
unneedful.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 430. S. 30. 1390w.
“Miss Scudder’s translation is finely made; and, in the passages we
have compared with the original, is perfectly faithful. A more
readable version could hardly have been attempted.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 82: 112. O. ‘05. 1430w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“Miss Scudder has done her task admirably both as translator and as
editor.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 1400w.
“The perfervid language of religious ecstacy in which they are couched
does not fit the English tongue.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 180w.
“It would be difficult to praise Miss Scudder’s work too highly.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95:497. O. 7, ‘05. 1630w.
=Cator, Dorothy.= Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other
experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.
“We needn’t pretend here to follow Mrs. Cator in her wanderings, but
she spent two years in Borneo and lived among the gruesome
‘head-hunters’ while her husband dealt with lawbreakers among them.
She visited China and Japan, (before the last war) and has spent
several years upon the worst parts of the African west coast, living
there much of the time in mud huts among the natives and seeing them
as they are.” (N. Y. Times.) Her narrative is of exceptional interest.
Many photographs illustrate the volume.
“Mrs. Cator writes simply and straightforwardly, just, we should
imagine, as she talks: and her book is not only chatty and amusing,
but contains some very fresh and clear-sighted comments on government,
civilization, foreign missions, etc.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* “Her narrative has sufficient charm and vivacity to justify its
publication.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 370w.
“Writes with a mixture of girlish simplicity and womanly shrewdness
which is nothing short of charming.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 840w.
=Cattell, Henry Ware.= Post-mortem pathology: a manual of post-mortem
examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom. *$3.
Lippincott.
A second revised and enlarged edition of this “practical treatise for
students and practitioners,” copiously illustrated. “Several
improvements over the first edition have been introduced, including
the chapter on the bones and joints, and nearly thirty new
illustrations. Important changes have also been made in various
chapters during the revision.” (Science.)
“There are but few things connected with autopsies that will not be
found mentioned in the volume.” Lewellys F. Barker.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 784. My. 19. ‘05. 1340w.
* =Cavendish, George.= Life and death of Cardinal Wolsey. *$7.50.
Houghton.
“A large and handsome quarto, printed on light, English made paper, in
large, clear type, and bound in green boards with buckram back, the
Wolsey arms being stamped in gold on the cover. The edition is
believed to be from the most authoritative text and contains the
full-page photogravures, reproduced in sepia and red chalk tints, of
Wolsey, Henry VIII., Thomas Cromwell, Catherine of Aragon, Anne
Boleyn, Mary Tudor, and Charles Brandon, and others mentioned in the
book, reproduced from paintings by Holbein and others.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + + =Atlan.= 96: 842. D. ‘05. 230w.
* “The volume is of interest not only as an unusually early
biographical attempt, but as well because of its dramatic presentation
of this great chapter in English history.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 110w.
Reviewed by Edward E. Hale, jr.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 375. D. 1, ‘05. 650w.
* “It is certainly a work of great interest for the historical
student, and is now presented in a most beautiful and appropriate
setting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 240w.
=Cawein, Madison Julius.= Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“‘The Vale of Tempe,’ by Madison Cawein is a volume which, along with
some crudities and weakness, has both the old glamour of poesy and an
individual tang, so to say, that is uncommon in contemporary verse.
Mr. Cawein draws his inspiration in equal draughts from the Kentucky
landscape and from the world of pagan poetry, and in at least two of
the aptitudes of the poet he stands pretty much by himself. His turn
for vivid imaginative phrase is of the first order.... His command of
the technique of tone-color is also exceptional.”—Nation.
* — =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Mr. Cawein is a ‘true poet,’ both in his art and in his
inspiration.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 560w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10:593. S. 9, ‘05. 280w.
=Chadwick, H. Munroe.= Studies on Anglo-Saxon institutions. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
Mr. Chadwick says that his book “makes no claim to offer a
comprehensive survey of the problems of ancient English sociology,”
that his object has been “to call attention to those branches of the
subject which seemed not to have been sufficiently regarded by
previous writers. For example, in sketching the history of the
kingdoms I have given special attention to the evidence relating to
Kent, Sussex, Essex, and the Hwicce. On the other hand Mercian and
Northumbrian history has been treated of more briefly, because I had
little or nothing to add to what had already been said.” Following a
discussion of the monetary system, he describes the coins, their
values, terms for money, etc. He also discusses the social system, the
administrative system, and the origin of the nobility.
“Too many of his conclusions are based on very little or very
questionable evidence; some are probabilities merely. Mr. Chadwick’s
work is a remarkably suggestive study: new interpretations are
proposed and the possibilities of certain neglected materials are
clearly indicated.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 135. O. ‘05. 660w.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 333. Ag. 10, ‘05. 340w.
“For the Heptarchic period in particular Mr. Chadwick’s results are of
real value.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81 :185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 580w.
“Great caution marks all of Mr. Chadwick’s work.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 380. F. 23, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 118. F. 25, ‘05. 340w.
“He has handled some of the most perplexing problems of ancient
English sociology with painstaking industry.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 210w.
“He investigates the subject with the most scrupulous care, accurately
weighing the evidence of various documents, and maintaining an
entirely scientific attitude. His book is a valuable contribution to
the study of historical origins.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Chadwick, John White.= Later poems. *$1.25. Houghton.
The best verses in this volume deal with the common weal and woe of
humanity, and the “deep things of God.” The poet also sings of the
lighter phases of human existence, “his thoughtful love of nature
finds charming expression in many fugitive pieces” (Outlook). In
others, especially in “Timeo Danaos,” a high and nobly exigent
patriotism shines forth.
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 130w.
“A pleasing addition to our store of occasional and memorial verse.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 370w.
“It is some compensation for the over-polemical character of Mr.
Chadwick’s verses that their serious thoughtfulness leaves an
impression of sobriety and dignity.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ — =Forum.= 37: 246. O. ‘05. 700w.
“His poetic product was of a ripeness which shows, if not genius, at
any rate talent of the first order.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 290w.
“As they stand, however, they represent the fine warm masculine
intellect of which they, with many other virtues and felicities, are
the fruit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“His poems are not without their singing quality, but this is never
merely the lilt of the care-free warbler. The mystery and wonder and
tragedy and spiritual meaning of life are ever with him.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 560w.
=Chadwick, Samuel.= Humanity and God. **$1.50. Revell.
“The author ... is known in England for his success as a Wesleyan
missioner.... A vein of mysticism runs through his thought, but his
speech is pointed and vigorous. He is a skillful Biblical expositor,
and his discourse on ‘The extra mile’ is one of the best in the
multitude of those on Jesus’ doctrine of non-resistance. The theology
underlying all is a blend of old and new, largely old, but on the
bed-rock of the new, the identity of the human and the divine. This
gives to the collection its title.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* =Chamberlain, Charles Joseph.= Methods in plant histology. *$2.25.
Univ. of Chicago press.
A two-part work which has grown out of a course in histological
technique conducted by the author at the University of Chicago. The
first part deals with the principles of fixing and staining, and the
various other processes of microtechnique; the second, with the
application of these principles to specific cases.
=Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia.= Mrs. Essington. †$1.50.
Century.
The scene of the little drama enacted in this story is a hospitable
California country house, and the actors are mainly the daughter of
the hostess, young, strong, athletic, and a charming widow, who side
by side run an altogether modest race for the affections of the one
ineligible young man of the party, a poor composer.
“‘Mrs. Essington’ is a book which commands the reader’s interest—nay,
more, his admiration.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“It is a story filled with dramatic possibilities, and of these the
authors ... have taken ample advantage.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“This is a clever book in several ways, with plenty of atmosphere and
nothing out of drawing, but this study of loss and renunciation
carries it beyond cleverness into quite another class.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w.
=Chamberlain, Georgia Louise.= Introduction to the Bible for teachers of
children: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“A most admirable elementary course in Biblical introduction,
designed to give children of the fourth grade, or about ten years of
age, familiar acquaintance with the various books of the Bible and
their varied character, and the ability to use the Bible
intelligently.”—Ind.
“The most prominent—and evidently the most purposeful—omission is that
of any reference to the inspiration of the Bible.”
— — =Cath. World.= 80: 820. Mr. ‘05. 780w.
“The lessons are well arranged, the suggestions to teachers are clear
and stimulating, and the entire work shows diligence and thoroughness
in preparation.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.
A rather gushy poet with soft white fingers brings up his eight lovely
daughters to roam the fields in pink pajamas, talk Greek, and keep
near to nature. When the mortgage on his home is to be foreclosed the
agent falls in love with the oldest daughter, the owner with the
second one, and they all leave nature for the city. The remaining
daughters also have romances.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 366. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“Originally a fantastical bit of extravaganza printed as a short
story, this has been expanded into a book, and thereby much of its
cleverness and freshness lost.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 140w.
* “Skipping boldly, now, from Japanese ancestor-worship to
contemporary satire, we hail Robert Chambers prince of the last
half-year’s production.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 760. D. ‘05. 190w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The city of New York, loyal at heart, and sorely besieged by the
English, within and without, is the scene of this romance.... A brave
youth is selected by his Excellency, Mr. Washington, acts as a spy in
the city, and finally escapes the peril of his position, to be
rewarded as a courageous soldier in open battle. The heroine, a belle
in the gay Tory circles, bewitches the hero, after much banter and
playing at love-making. Emerging from a tangle of cross-purposes, she
proves herself a noble woman, brave enough to sacrifice all for her
lover and his country.”—Outlook.
“This is emphatically the best work yet done by that very promising
author. But for one fatal blot it might almost be counted a
masterpiece, as in writing, vigour, interest and the other attributes
of a good novel it far excels any former attempt of the writer. But he
has had the perversity to make his hero a spy.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
“A stirring romance, full of action and of the savor of the period and
scenes described.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 504. O. 14. 260w.
* “The new work is as good as ‘Cardigan.’ He gives us historical
truth, wholesome excitement, and no small measure of literary art all
at once; and for so much of good it would be churlish not to give
thanks.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
“Incidents, after all, never make up for people; and the end of the
war, which ends the book, comes as a very considerable relief. The
tale is an anti-climax only because the author struggles too
frantically to urge the pace and exhausts our energies prematurely.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 341. O. 13, ‘05. 440w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 110w.
“In spite of unreality and preposterous over-coloring, he gives the
impression of reality. It is good reading for a quiet evening.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 310w.
* “Exceedingly good reading.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 240w.
* =Chamblin, Jean.= Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the
Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.
“A pleasant little romance told in letters to her friend by the girl
most involved. Incidentally some graphic descriptions of the Azores
and their inhabitants are introduced among the junketings of a group
of American and English visitors to the islands.”—Outlook.
* “Besides this pleasing little romance, however, the story has its
charm in witty descriptions and quaint turns of phrases.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Kate is a witty letter-writer and is capable of flashing out bits
of spontaneous humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Champlin, John Denison, and Lucas, Frederic Augustus.= Young folks’
cyclopaedia of natural history. $2.50. Holt.
Taking its place with the Champlin cyclopaedias of “Literature and
art,” “Common things,” “Persons and places,” and “Games and sports,”
this work “includes in a single compact volume, at a moderate price,
an outline of the entire animal kingdom, from the largest mammal down
to the tiniest insect that has to be studied under a magnifying
glass.”
“The book will be most useful to children, who will find it too
interesting to be considered mere study.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 50w.
* “A treasure-house for the young naturalist.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w.
“The text in general shows little systematic grasp in the arrangement
of facts, either in the articles as a whole or in any article in
particular. The text throughout bears testimony to painstaking
compilation rather than to ready knowledge.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 509. Je. 22, ‘05. 510w.
“Is a mine of information.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 491. Jl. 22, ‘05. 380w.
“The articles are clearly written and the subjects are treated in good
proportion as to relative importance.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20. ‘05. 100w.
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 70w.
=Champney, Elizabeth Williams.= Romance of the French abbeys. **$3.
Putnam.
Mrs. Champney gives the result of last summer’s wanderings among the
abbeys of France. She weaves into her descriptions the history and
romance that cling to these fast decaying relics of the life and
culture of the mediaeval times. The illustrations are many and
excellent, including photogravures from historical paintings, and
architectural half-tones.
* “The author is neither archaeologist nor sociologist, but a woman
who has placed her descriptions and told her stories with unusual
charm of manner.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 110w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“A pleasantly readable mixture of history and legend.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 815. O. 5, ‘05. 240w.
“The book, then, will hold its own as a collection of attractive and
instructive pictures, while the text is found to be just such a
collection of fantastical, pathetic, and half-humorous stories as
tradition associates with the monasteries of France.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.
“She tells fourteen stories.... All are picturesque and are told with
ingenuity and with a certain fidelity to the atmosphere and spirit of
the times to which they relate.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
* “The combination of Mrs. Champney’s art with history and romance is
beyond measure taking; the book is irresistible.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Mrs. Champney writes pleasantly and has a good subject—though
sometimes she is tiresome, especially in her treatment of legends in
the picturesque style.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=Chancellor, William E.= Our schools. $1.50. Heath.
“In this treatment of school management, the subject is defined, not
as the control and the instruction of individual pupils, but as the
organization, maintenance, administration, direction, and supervision
of schools, and the planning of schoolhouses. The book is designed for
all persons interested in the control of schools and school systems.”
“Mr. Chancellor’s style throughout the volume is direct and practical.
His composition is inelegant, if not occasionally ungrammatical.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 78. Jl. 15. 650w.
“As a guide to the novice, the work will undoubtedly prove useful. As
a study in social control, it is a masterpiece. Anyone interested in
knowing the schools as part of the social machinery of the country
will find the work profitable.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“All persons engaged in the practical work of administrating and
managing schools will be glad to get hold of this volume, and will be
grateful to its author for the vast wealth of concrete instances which
he has adduced to illustrate the attitudes and conduct of those with
whom school officers have to deal in their work of directing public
schools.” Samuel T. Dutton.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 195. F. ‘05. 1210w. (Survey of contents.)
“It is a book of high ideals and much common sense.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w.
“It impresses us as being crammed full of suggestive material that
will prove of great value for classroom use in departments of
education and in normal schools.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274.* Mr. ‘05. 110w.
“The greatest weakness is in the method of treatment. This is
strikingly unscientific. The second great weakness in this work is the
narrow point of view. A third characteristic weakness is seen in the
trivialities with which the book is loaded.” Junius L. Meriam.
— — — =School R.= 13: 517. Je. ‘05. 1350w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis.= United
States: a history of three centuries, 1607-1904; population, politics,
war, industry, civilization. 10 pts. pt. 1. **$3.50. Putnam.
The purpose of the joint authors in offering a new work on American
history is “to present in a comprehensive and carefully proportioned
narrative an account of the beginnings of the national existence and
of the successive stages in the evolution of our distinctive national
qualities and institutions.” Colonization, 1607-1697, forms the
subject matter of this first part, which is divided into four
sections: “Population and politics,” “War,” “Industry,” and
“Civilization.” “The second section presents the record of war and of
conquest, chiefly in their military phases,” while the fourth section
is devoted to “religion and morality, literature and art, education
and social life.”
“In none of the four divisions [of Vol. I] is anything like a serious
study of institutions attempted. The unique separateness of treatment
is so faithfully observed that the historical trains on this
four-track road of American development rarely graze one another in
passing. They appear to run quite free from any essential
interconnection. The Bibliography is a hodgepodge. The titles of the
‘authorities’ are frequently misquoted, none of the references cite
pages, and the notes are numbered consecutively. As the work
progresses the number of notes steadily decreases, but the grade of
intelligence displayed in their selection remains the same. The index
ranges itself alongside of the notes and references. As for literary
composition, whatever be the claims of the publishers, the book
abounds in cheap comments, efforts at fine writing and big words. Of
the making of positive errors, misstatements, and slipshod phrases
there is no end. Wrong dates, misspellings, and misuse of proper names
and places are so common as to call for no special remark.” William R.
Shepherd.
— — — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 642. Ap. ‘05. 1130w.
“It would hardly be correct to say that it makes no contribution to
historical literature; in parts three and four, ‘Industry’ and
‘Civilization,’ a good many interesting facts have been brought
together, but it would be difficult to say who will profit by them.”
David Y. Thomas.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 601. S. ‘05. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The ‘Perspectives’ at the close of certain chapters are more valuable
than the chapters themselves, being completer chronologies. Dark
sayings, easy verdicts, drippings of philosophy and misquotations in
the style of ‘popular lecturers’ are characteristic of the book.”
+ — — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 630w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
— — =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis.= United
States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union,
1698-1774. **$3.50. Putnam.
Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement
of the people and their political history, wars, industries and
agriculture, religions and social conditions, and contemporaneous
European history.
“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour,
written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better
than any other work yet produced the various phases and aspects of
that surprising development—the birth of a new race.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 851. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1230w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is to be regretted that a work so attractively got up should thus
far exhibit so slight intrinsic merit of either substance or form.”
— =Nation.= 80: 435. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In short, the style of Messrs. Chancellor and Hewes grows monotonous
and fatiguing. They occasionally get hopelessly entangled in the
meshes of inaccuracy and irrelevancy. Historical errors are extremely
common.”
— — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 750w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is defective in almost every essential.”
— — =Outlook.= 81: 42. S. 2, ‘05. 610w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“Full of great and varied interest.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 900. Je. 17. ‘05. 270w.
=Chandler, Mrs. Izora Cecilia, and Montgomery, Mary W.= Told in the
gardens of Araby. *75c. Meth. bk.
Nine stories translated from the Turkish. The emerald roc; The story
of the beautiful girl who had her wish; The story of the beautiful one
who did not have her desire; Story of the crying pomegranate and the
laughing bear; Story of the bird of affliction; Story of the
water-carrier; Story of the coffee-maker’s apprentice; The crystal
kiosk and the diamond ship. A prelude gives a description of the
manners and customs of the people with whom the stories deal.
“Told with varying success.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15. ‘05. 310w.
“Neither very good nor very bad.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3. ‘05. 290w.
=Chandler, Katherine.= In the reign of coyote. 40c. Ginn.
A little book of folk-lore from the Pacific coast, in which the
coyote, the wisest and most efficient of the four-footed creatures,
occupies the chief place. The setting of the book gives a glimpse of
child life in colonial California.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w.
=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. v. I, Planting of
a nation in the New world. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Volume I., of a history of the United States which is designed to
trace as one unbroken development the founding of the thirteen
colonies by immigrants, mainly from England, the achievement of
independence from English control, the Union under the Constitution,
the growth of the United States, territorially and socially, and the
final welding of the American people into a great nation. The present
volume carries the account down to 1660. At the end of each chapter
have been placed for advanced students in history technical
discussions and bibliographical matter.
“In scholarship the work easily leads any other attempt of the kind.
The style is clear, pleasing and admirably simple. If it lacks the
literary flavor of some of the more popular histories, there is the
compensating charm of deep knowledge and plain-spoken truth. The only
adequate estimate of this work is to state frankly that it stands in
the forefront of scholarly efforts to tell the history of this
country.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 602. S. ‘05. 420w.
“Professor Osgood’s ‘American colonies in the seventeenth century’ is
far more detailed on the institutional side, and upon some points
gives what seems to the reviewer a better interpretation of the
documents. On the other hand, President Tyler’s ‘The English in
America’ is richer in detail of narrative, but is by comparison much
less accurate in parts,—in the treatment, for example of the Dutch
colonies.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 83. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1580w.
“The scholarship easily surpasses that in any other undertaking of the
kind, and the clear, pleasing and simple style makes the book
eminently readable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1479. Je. 29, ‘05. 510w.
* “As a study of the growth of the nation, from the political,
institutional, industrial and social point of view, it stands without
a rival.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“We do not know of a better brief discussion of the discovery of
America, nor any so good of the intimate relation between the
English-Spanish commercial rivalry of the sixteenth century and the
English colonizing enterprises of the seventeenth.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“It is thoughtful and well written, and deserves the attention which
should be accorded to the work of any scholarly man whose writing is
the result of careful study and mature reflection.” Robert Livingston
Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1360w.
“It is in this constant striving to grasp the spirit of the times and
to assist to a better understanding of movements and events as they
appeared to those participating in them that the special significance
of Professor Channing’s work lies.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 41. S. 2, ‘05. 640w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
“Professor Channing’s treatment of the colonies and their social
institutions, is interesting throughout, but is especially strong in
those chapters which deal with New England.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 170w.
=Chapin, Anna Alice.= Makers of song. **$1.20. Dodd.
“A collection of sketches, the aim of which is to point out the men
who have in the most marked degree influenced the development and to
enable students to understand more thoroughly the history of
song.”—Bookm.
“Miss Chapin’s work is both statistical and narrative, and her
well-written story of the origin of song will be read with interest.”
Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 220w.
* =Chapin, Anna Alice.= True story of Humpty Dumpty, how he was rescued
by three mortal children in Make Believe Land. **$1.40. Dodd.
This brand new story of Humpty Dumpty is illustrated with “many
delightful full-page colored pictures and black and white sketches ...
by Ethel Franklin Betts. It is long, in prose, a history of the
experiences of Meg, Bab, and Dick. The three are not the best children
that ever were, they complain about always having eggs for tea—that is
where Humpty comes in—and through this they have many novel
experiences.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “It is a good modern fairy tale for very little folk.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “Marks an advance in matter and manner over her last year’s ‘Babes
in toyland.’”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.
* “A very nice new book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 210w.
=Chapin, Henry Dwight.= The theory and practice of infant feeding.
*$2.25. Wood.
“The second edition of Dr. Chapin’s book on infant feeding contains
what appears to the layman to be an extremely clear and sensible
exposition of the conditions which have to be met in providing a
proper diet for very young children.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book is plentifully provided with scientific data, tables, and
facts, but it is neither technical nor dull. On the contrary, it makes
rather good reading for anybody with an appetite for curious and
useful knowledge.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 103. F. 18, ‘05. 300w.
=Chapin, Henry Dwight.= Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.
Dr. Chapin’s prominence in the medical world argues much for the
authoritativeness of this little volume which in plain terms sets
forth some of the “vital questions” of society and the individual.
Among them are Inequality, The unfit, Poverty, Health, Education,
Success, Happiness, Religion and Death.
“Altogether, one must account the book exceedingly readable, earnest
and useful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 550w.
“Dr. Chapin’s book is a valuable help to the thoughtful living which
is the proper basis both of the simple and the strenuous life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Chapman, Edward Mortimer.= Dynamic of Christianity. **$1.25. Houghton.
This study of the vital and permanent elements in the Christian
religion takes the stand that an effort to reconcile science and
religion would be “like an attempt to harmonize the fact of sunrise
with the joy of walking and working in the light.” “The inevitable
conclusion of his study is the conviction of the truth and value of
Christ’s own doctrine of the spirit as the imminent and resident force
in the universe, the ground of phenomena, physical and spiritual.”
(Pub. Opin.)
“In the first place, its style is excellent, possessing the easy
dignity of true culture, and the simple directness of a finished
instrument of English expression; in the second place, the book shows
wide reading in the modern literature of religious experience and
criticism. Mr. Chapman’s philosophy is not solid enough, and his
history is totally inadequate.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 80: 541. Ja. ‘05. 780w.
“Is a valuable addition to current religious thinking.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 160w.
“While it appeals at the same time to the religious people and to the
men of science, is written with the assumption that there is no
quarrel between the two. Mr. Chapman develops his theme in an
interesting way through citations from the writings of famous men.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 130w.
=Chapman, George.= Bussy D’Ambois and The revenge of Bussy D’Ambois, ed.
by F: S: Boas. 60c. Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series, the English
drama. In it “an attempt is made for the first time” to edit these
plays “in a manner suitable to the requirements of modern
scholarship.” The texts are from the quartos of 1641, 1646, and 1657
collated with those of 1607, and 1608, with variants noted. A
biography of Chapman, an introduction, full notes, bibliography and
glossary are provided.
=Charlton, John.= Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and
religious. $2. Morang & co.
“John Charlton, member of the Canadian house of commons from 1872 to
1904 ... has collected some of his speeches and addresses on various
subjects. Those which will be of special interest here are those on
the National transcontinental railway; the Brown draft reciprocity
treaty of 1878, which failed to be ratified by the United States
senate; Self-protection, reciprocity and British preference. There is
also an able parliamentary speech on ‘Irredeemable currency,’ and in
the platform addresses there are two of interest as giving a
Canadian’s view of Washington and Lincoln.”—Ind.
* “His speeches are marked with vigor and common-sense argument.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 690w.
“Mr. Charlton is qualified to speak with authority on all matters
pertaining to the political and economic life of the country he has
served so well.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 320w.
=Chase, Arthur Wesley.= Elementary course in mechanical drawing for
manual training and technical schools; with chapters on machine
sketching and the blueprinting process. 2 pts. Pt. 1. $1.50. H.
Speakman, Congress and Honore sts., Chicago.
“As its title implies, this work presents in the usual style an
introduction to the elements of mechanical drawing. The problems have
been arranged so as to omit all finished sheets; the student is given
the layout of a drawing only; in this way any direct copying of
finished work is prevented. Specifications are fully given in every
case so the student receives a drill similar to the experienced in
practical work.”—Engin. N.
“The text is lucidly but not always concisely written.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 90w.
=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Facsimile reproduction of the first folio of
Chaucer, 1532; with an introduction by Prof. Skeat. *$50. Oxford.
“The folio of 1532, compiled by William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen
to Henry VIII, a man of means and an ardent admirer of Chaucer, was
the first collection which claimed on its title-page to be the works
of Geoffrey Chaucer; and this it is which is here reproduced. As the
First folio, it possesses great bibliographical interest.”—Nation.
=Nation.= 80: 251. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1530w.
“Dr. Walter Skeat has added largely to the literary value of the book
by his biographical introduction.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 140w.
* =Cheney, John Vance.= Poems, **$1.50. Houghton.
Mr. Cheney “has now brought together in a single volume of ‘Poems’ all
of his work that he wishes to preserve.... It is a limited
achievement, no doubt, for few of the pieces extend beyond a single
page, and many of them are but the briefest bits of song.... His
lyrics are of acceptance, coupled only with the gentlest and most
apologetical sort of questioning ... but they ... should endear the
author to us, at least in our less strenuous moods.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
* + =Dial.= 39: 274. N. 1, ‘05. 640w.
* “The selected collection of his ‘Poems’ is remarkable for its
variety and readability.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 240w.
=Cheney, Warren.= Way of the North: a romance of the days of Baranof.
$1.50. Doubleday.
A young Russian doctor, deported to Sitka, tells the story of life in
this Alaskan town while the country was still under Russian rule. He
falls in love with a girl who goes to Alaska to fulfil a childhood
betrothal, and in relating the events which lead up to his happiness,
he gives vivid descriptions of the lives of the settlers and of the
civil and military personages prominent in that wild country.
“Handling his material simply and unaffectedly, as befits the bold and
sturdy pioneer spirit, but not without a certain monotony of style.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 170w.
“The reader’s interest is awakened at the outset and fairly well
sustained. The characters are sharply drawn and the style is simple
and entertaining. As a whole, however, the book is not of unusual
interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 250w.
“A novel of unusual setting and some extraordinary power.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.
“Book that can be enjoyed for its style alone. ‘The way of the North’
is, beyond doubt, the best written American book of the season.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 150w.
=Chesebrough, Robert A.= Christmas guests and other poems. $1.50.
Little, J. J.
The author has dedicated these eighteen poems to his granddaughter,
but they are verses which appeal to his age rather than to hers, the
ghosts of the past flit thru them, regrets, happy memories, thoughts
of death and the hereafter, while they all breathe forth the mellow
philosophy which comes with years.
=Chesnut, Mary Boykin.= Diary from Dixie: being her diary from November
1861 to 1865; ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
**$2.50. Appleton.
The author was the wife of James Chesnut, jr., United States senator
1859-1861, and afterwards aide to Jefferson Davis, and a brigadier
general in the confederate army. The diary gives a clear picture of
the social life during the war, and of the events which took place in
Charlestown, Montgomery and Richmond.
“It is for the picture of social life in the South under the stress of
an unsuccessful struggle that this lively and fascinating book will be
chiefly read.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 90w.
“Her diary could not have been more entertainingly written if she had
intended it for publication.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 507. Je. ‘05. 460w.
“Full of vivid pictures of the social life of the time and of the
varied experiences of the war.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The style is crisp and bright, and the tone frank and good tempered.
It is on the subject of negroes and slavery that Mrs. Chesnut’s diary
will prove most valuable to historians, but the general reader will be
chiefly interested in the accounts of the home life of the beleaguered
people.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 347. My. 16, ‘05. 1060w.
+ — =Nation.= 80:485. Je. 15, ‘05. 2230w.
“This diary has decided historical value. Further, it is an intimate
record of an intelligent looker-on in Richmond during a greater
portion of the war. There are some discrepancies.” William E. Dodd.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10:260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1910w.
“The two editors of the book are to be congratulated on having
discovered and having thrown into such readable form this biographical
material.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 230w.
=Chesnutt, Charles Waddell.= Colonel’s dream. (†)$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of an ex-Confederate officer who when the war is ended,
seeks his fortune in New York, and twenty years after returns to the
South to enjoy life and incidentally to put into practice some of his
Northern business training. “It is frankly up to the times, with the
clash of race and the convict camp, and the decayed old gentry.”
(Ind.)
“The style is easy, apparently practised, and the story does not lack
for abundant incident.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 130w.
“It must be acknowledged that the author does not spare the faults of
the negro any more than he spares those of the white man—and in both
cases many of his pictures are true.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.
“Taken all in all, the book is not as successful as one could wish,
and certainly is distinctly inferior to the author’s earlier work.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81 :278. S. 30, ‘05. 140w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Club of queer trades. (†)$1.25. Harper.
No one is eligible to this club unless he has invented a brand new
occupation by which he earns a living. The members include a man who
offers himself to dinner hosts as a butt for repartee, another who
guarantees to provide any commonplace soul as well as the more gifted,
with a suitable romance. The founder of the club earns his livelihood
by seeking out new members and has all sorts of unique experiences.
“It is neither here nor there; neither veritable romantic
extravaganza, true detective literature, nor consistent satire upon
either of those forms of fiction.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 614. Ag. ‘05. 930w.
* “Clever and amusing as the stories are, the book is not altogether
happy.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 453. N. ‘05. 260w.
“Funmaking of the most fantastic kind characterizes the six short
stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05, 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Chesterton is undeniably clever. These stories are whimsical and
ingenious rather than humorous. The stories are uneven in merit.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 80w.
“Utter and unredeemed extravaganza.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“With the exception of the first episode the execution is hardly up to
the level of the conception. The book, in fine, gives one the
impression rather of a series of brilliant improvisations than of a
finished work of art.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 597. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1000w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Heretics. *$1.50. Lane.
Mr. Chesterton “has described nearly every strong man of our day,” and
in these essays “he is calling out from the housetops to happier
uncontemplative men, to come out and be sad, like himself, in thinking
of supreme happiness.... He praises an abstract Chestertonian man of
whom he is hopelessly and continually in pursuit. That everything he
recommends is right, we indeed believe; but he cries in the
wilderness, and with no human voice, no trace of suffering or
experience at all, but only an anchorite’s imagining.” (Acad.)
+ — =Acad.= 68: 655. Je. 24, ‘05. 930w.
* “‘Heretics’ goes farther than any of its forerunners toward
convincing us that the humorist really has something worth saying and
worth understanding. The trouble with his method is that while it is
infallible for getting the attention, it is not well calculated to
keep it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 848. D. ‘05. 500w.
“With all his daring, he succeeds in keeping to windward of sheer
silliness and mere sensationalism.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 165. O. ‘05. 1580w.
* “Between the covers of ‘Heretics’ there is not a little excellent
critical doctrine. Yet the writer ought to trust his readers to
understand him without preliminary shouts to attract their attention.”
Edward Fuller.
+ =Critic.= 47: 565. D. ‘05. 640w.
“One page amuses by its originality of conception and expression, the
next provokes by its insecurity of argument, the third charms by its
suggestiveness. It is a book to be relished, not as a whole, but in
snatches. With all its half-playful cynicism, it seems to be in the
main sincere.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 204. O. 1, ‘05. 1560w.
“The general comment on Mr. Chesterton is that he is extremely
ingenious, but so inordinately whimsical that it would be absurd to
take him seriously. The true account of him is that he is not
ingenious at all, but exceptionally straight forward and
matter-of-fact.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ =Forum.= 37: 255. O. ‘05. 1660w.
“Mr. Chesterton is quite as trenchant and exuberant as he was, and we
are, after all, not much older than we were; yet we join in the fun
with perceptibly less eagerness now. The truth is that Mr. Chesterton
has done in this book what he always did ostensibly, and always
avoided really; he has given himself away.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 1140w.
* “His ideas are sounder than many a casual reader will be willing to
admit. They are sound in spite of Mr. Chesterton’s perversity.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 490w.
“For in the things that really matter Mr. Chesterton is on the side of
the angels. He is orthodox. He handles his heretics sometimes like
Bishop Bonner, with firmness and jocosity; sometimes like Socrates,
turning their pet phrases inside out, and showing their hollowness;
but all are handled paradoxically.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 224. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1150w.
=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly.= Bible problems and the new material for their
solution. *$1.50. Putnam.
A lecture which “is in part a presentation of the new facts which
require better attention, and in part a plea for bolder Biblical
criticism, as justified by these facts, and as necessary to the now
imperative work of theological restatement.” (Outlook). Among the
strongly insisted upon “new facts” are the study of the New Testament
in the light of mythology, and due regard for Winckler’s discovery in
Assyrian inscriptions of North Arabian names that suggest numerous
corrections in our present text of the Old Testament. On the other
hand, Professor Cheyne states that his views “tend to increased
conservatism in the rendering of the text of the Jewish Old
Testament.”
Reviewed by A. Jeremias.
+ + — =Hibbert= J. 4: 217. O. ‘05. 1550w.
=Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Statement of Cheyne’s
position.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 40w.
=Cheyney, Edward Potts.= Short history of England. *$1.40. Ginn.
In making clear the fundamental facts of English history, Professor
Cheyney emphasizes full descriptions of early institutions and
conditions, the study of really great movements and influential men,
and the necessity of adhering to the thread of one’s country’s
history. Each chapter is followed by a list of works and portions of
works suggested for general reading.
“It has many good points, one of which is that Professor Cheyney has
very definite ideas of what a school-book should include.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14. ‘05. 240w.
“The book is well planned throughout. From printers’ and other errors
the work is remarkably free.” Norman MacLaren Trenholme.
+ + + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 851. Jl. ‘05. 650w.
“Apparently this one is better in the earlier than in the later
portions. The book ... must be regarded as a compendium, rather than
as an original inquiry, and, as such, it will be found useful.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 333. Ap. 27, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31:510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
Reviewed by W. H. Cushing.
+ + =School R.= 13: 356. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
Child and religion. See =Stephens, Thomas.= ed.
=Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene.= Uncooked foods and how
to use them. $1. Health culture.
The authors contend that “the application of heat in the cooking of
food destroys some of the important food elements that were vital and
organic by rendering them inorganic, including those that are needed
in the building up of the system and the maintenance of bodily and
mental health.” Recipes for the preparation of uncooked food,
healthful combinations and menus for the benefit of those who wish to
try the experiment, follow the arguments.
=Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 200w.
* Christmas carols, ancient and modern, ed. by Joshua Sylvestre. $1.
Wessels.
Illustrated from photographs of well known paintings, and with
marginal decorations of conventionalized Christmas greens, this
collection of carols, many of which are reprinted from old
broad-sides, begins with In excelsis gloria, and includes Welcome
yule, sung in the time of Henry VI; several Elizabethan carols;
Herrick’s Ode on the birth of our Saviour; The three kings, in the
version of Henry VII’s time; Joy to the world, a popular favorite in
Devon and Cornwall; and many popular carols whose time and authorship
are unknown. The explanatory note given at the head of each carol,
telling all that is known of its history adds much to the interest of
the collection as its value is historical rather than poetical.
* =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Christy, Robert=, comp. Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages;
classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically. **$3.50. Putnam.
In this new edition, the first since 1887, the two original volumes
have been compressed into one, the work is apparently otherwise
unchanged.
=Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“The collection needs careful revision, and is worth it even as it
stands; it contains the material for a good treasury of proverbial
sayings.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 350w.
Church of Christ. See =Phillips, Thomas W.=
Cincinnati southern railway (The): a history; edited by Charles G. Hall.
A novel municipal experiment is recorded in the history of the origin,
construction and financial organization of this railroad. As early as
1836 the need of a railway between Cincinnati and the South was felt
so strongly that at a mass meeting held in Cincinnati one million
dollars was subscribed for the enterprise. Before anything definite
could be accomplished, the Civil war came and checked all such
projects. After many delays, authority was secured from the
legislature of Ohio as well as from those of Kentucky and Tennessee,
and in 1873 the actual work of construction began, necessary funds
being lent by the trustees from their own pockets. In July, 1877, the
first division of the road was opened for business. Millions of
dollars were raised by the sale of bonds, and the road is at present
in the possession of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
railway co. as lessee, while the Cincinnati Southern holds the legal
title for the city of Cincinnati. The lease expires in 1906.
=Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 330w.
=Cipperly, John Albert.= Labor laws and decisions of the state of New
York. pa. *$1. Banks & co.
This compilation includes statutes as well as cases. “Besides its
value for purposes of reference, it shows almost at a glance what has
been done in this state for ‘Labor,’ and how far we have advanced (or
fallen away) from a state of society in which the laborer shifts for
himself. On paper our laws are very paternal.” (Nation.)
“A useful compilation.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 310w.
=Clark, Charles Heber (Max Adeler, pseud.).= Quakeress. †$1.50. Winston.
A pathetic story of a Quaker maid, living the quiet life of the
Friends and all but betrothed to a serious minded young neighbor. A
dashing southerner and his frivolous sister come into the peaceful
community, the sister to prove to the stern young Quaker that he has
his frailties, and her brother to win the heart of the little Quaker
maid. There is a description of a visit to their southern plantation,
and then comes the war—and heart break and disaster. An Anglican
minister and his devoted wife add humor to the story.
“Taken as a whole, the book is weak and commonplace. Max Adeler should
by all means go back to his old humorous methods.”
— =Acad.= 68: 880. Ag. 26, ‘05. 410w.
“The character drawing is excellent. There are some highly dramatic
passages and the story is replete with incidents and adventures.
Perhaps its greatest value lies in its worth as a careful, interesting
and faithful psychological study.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 108. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“One of the best novels of the season. This book is remarkable because
it is not viciously witty, altho it comes from the pen of a
professional wit.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1420. Je. 22, ‘05. 600w.
“About the book as a whole there is a kind of sweet, old-fashioned
fragrance which inclines one, no doubt for sentimental reasons, to
look back on it kindly.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 420w.
“The usual intermingling of joy and sorrow, love and life, appears in
the quiet story, simply told.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“It cannot be said that the story as a whole is evenly strong, or that
it realizes all the climaxes that its plot affords. It is never
dramatic, and it is often amateurish.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
“The book leaves a tranquilly sad impression on the reader’s mind, the
workmanship is highly finished and the plot is well thought out.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
=Clarke, James Langston.= Eternal Saviour-judge. *$3. Dutton.
“The familiar principle that the proper design of punishment is
reformatory, not vindictive, is here applied in a new line of argument
to the problem of retribution. Mr. Clarke works out a Biblical
doctrine that aims to avoid the objections made severally to the
theories of endless retribution, annihilation, and universalism.
Substantially, it is a purgatorial scheme. In this the Biblical
antithesis to ‘salvation’ is not ‘damnation’ but ‘judgment,’
corrective as well as punitive.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 160w.
“This thesis is stated with much ability.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 290w.
* =Clarke, William Newton.= Use of the Scriptures in theology; the
Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905.
**$1. Scribner.
The fundamental premise of this volume is “that a rationally sound
theology depends on the soundness of the method of using the Bible as
a source of theology. Dr. Clarke shows that the traditional method is
unsound, and what mischief has been done by it. He then discusses the
problem created by the search for a sound method, what this method is,
and what its results, both negative and positive.”—Outlook.
* “Dr. Clarke has written a book which every minister should buy or
beg or borrow.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 620w.
* “Though this is a small book, it may be reckoned equal to the best
productions of its author.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 240w.
* =Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Editorial wild oats.
†$1. Harper.
This volume contains half a dozen short stories all of which bear upon
the general subject of youthful journalistic experiences, which
Clemens has been pleased to call, Editorial wild oats. The sketches
are entitled: My first literary venture; Journalism in Tennessee;
Nicodemus Dodge—printer; Mr. Bloke’s item; How I edited an
agricultural paper; and The killing of Julius Caesar “localized.”
* “Mark Twain’s fund of humor seems inexhaustible, so here again it
remains at its old-time high level.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 60w.
* “Extravagant tales of newspaper life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 637. N. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Clement, Clara Erskine.= Women in the fine arts. **$2.50. Houghton.
“A compendium of miscellaneous information about all the women artists
that the author could discover between the seventh century B.C. and
the twentieth, A.D. Among the thousand names included, the late
nineteenth century is the most fully represented. As the greater part
of the material about contemporary painters was furnished by
themselves, we may assume that it is correct.... Being alphabetically
arranged, the book is a convenient manual from which to extract
information about artists who have not yet got into the encyclopedias.
A number of full-page illustrations add interest to the text, and a
fifty-page introduction gives a general idea of what women have
accomplished in art.”—Dial.
=Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ — =Spec.= 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w.
=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Christianity in modern Japan. **$1. Am. Bapt.
“Professor Clement ... here attempts a survey of the moral forces
which are now in full energy in Japan.” (Nation.) The book gives a
“bird’s-eye view of the work of Christianity in Japan. It is not
intended to cover the work in great detail; it is rather planned to be
a general outline with reference to books, pamphlets, and magazines,
where more complete information can be obtained on each special
topic.” (Pub. Opin.)
“With index, tables and other equipment for a book to be studied, this
has also a decided literary charm.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 200w.
* “Orderly arrangement, historical development, engagingly shown,
philosophical insight, and a brisk luminous style make this a model
handbook, pleasing and valuable.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 80w.
* + + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
“In literary proportion and breadth of view and in keenness of
insight, this book is a model. It is all the more likely to be
permanent in its influence because of its cool, judicial temper.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1090w.
“The book is intended for mission-study classes, and is interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Clement’s book is a comprehensive discussion of the development
of Christianity in Japan.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Handbook of modern Japan. **$1.40. McClurg.
The introduction states: “The book endeavors to portray Japan in all
its features as a modern world power: It cannot be expected to cover
in great detail all the ground outlined, because it is not intended to
be an exhaustive encyclopedia of ‘things Japanese.’ It is expected to
satisfy the specialist, not by furnishing all materials, but referring
for particulars to works where abundant materials may be found. It is
expected to satisfy the average reader, by giving a kind of bird’s-eye
view of modern Japan. It is planned to be a compendium of condensed
information, with careful references to the best sources of more
complete knowledge.”
* + =Nation.= 81: 945. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.
=Clement, Ernest W.= Japanese floral calendar. 50c. Open ct.
A prettily illustrated book showing the flowers popular each month of
the Japanese year. Descriptive bits, snatches of folk-lore, and poems
with a chapter on Japanese gardens make the whole a charming book. The
flowers for the months, beginning with January and ending with
December, are the pine, plum, peach, cherry, wistaria, iris,
morning-glory, lotus, “seven grasses,” maple, chrysanthemum, and
camellia.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 360w.
=Clements, Frederick E.= Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub.,
Neb.
“This work ... is intended ... as a handbook for investigators and for
advanced students of ecology, and not as a text book on the
subject.... The book is presented in four chapters ... the first of
which deals with the scope, historical development, present status and
important applications of ecology.... The second chapter is concerned
with the habitat and methods of its investigation.... The third
chapter has to do with the plant, the stimuli which it receives, the
nature of its response, its adjustment and adaptation especially to
water and light as stimuli.... The fourth chapter ... has for its
general subject the formation or vegetation unit consisting
essentially of plants in a habitat.”—Science.
“Altogether, Clements’s ‘Research methods in ecology’ is a notable
contribution to the literature of ecology.” Conway MacMillan.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 45. Jl. 14, ‘05. 670w.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.= Bank and the treasury. *$1.80. Longmans.
“Timely and valuable is this critique of the American currency and
banking system.... Holding that the time has come when changes in the
National bank act are imperative, in the direction both of securing
more effective governmental control and of insuring greater currency
‘elasticity,’ Dr. Cleveland contends that whatever financial reforms
be undertaken, they should be in the way of adapting, not
revolutionizing, the existing system.”—Outlook.
“There is no disputing the fact that it is a contribution, and indeed
a very worthy one, even if it does not contain the final word on the
subject. As to the ground covered, however, those who are interested
in such problems cannot do better than to consult this volume; indeed,
they cannot afford not to do it.” J. E. Conner.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 603. S. ‘05. 430w.
“The instructed reader will find not a few things in the book that
will arouse his wonder.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 61. Jl. 20, ‘05. 800w.
“The work of an acute observer and careful reasoner, of one who has
gone deeply and intelligently into every phase of his subject.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 190. My. 20, ‘05. 520w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 80w.
=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Presidential problems. **$1.80. Century.
If in times of weighty new matters, there are any who have a moment
for a backward glance, they would do well to review with Mr. Cleveland
some of the problems of his administration which “illustrate the
design, the tradition, and the power of our government.” The chapters
are four: “Independence of the executive,” “The government in the
Chicago strike of 1894,” “The bond issue,” and “The Venezuelan
boundary controversy.”
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 800w.
=Clifford, Chandler Robbins.= Philosophy of color. 50c. Clifford &
Lawton.
The treatise is an attempt to analyse and understand the law which
governs the use of colors, so that we may know how to produce harmony
and not strike a jarring note. The author makes practical suggestions
for the use of colors in house furnishings. There are many
illustrations.
“The author of this interesting little treatise has brought the
subject within the understanding of any one.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 17. Mr. ‘05. 310w.
=Clifford, Ethel.= Love’s journey. **$1.50. Lane.
“The rustle and patter of leaves, the trilling of birds, the whisper
of rain make April music in Miss Clifford’s poetry; for all that these
sounds have been caught and tamed in rhyme and measure, it is still
the natural elementary melodies of the earth, not the artificial music
of man, that her songs suggest. Lyric succeeds lyric and mood follows
mood like sun and shade in the forest on a day in spring.”—Lond.
Times.
“But it is difficult to quote enough to convey the faint charm of
these poems, a charm which is diffused rather than distilled. As a
maker of haunting refrains Miss Clifford is often felicitous.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 107. Jl. 22, ‘05. 510w.
“The charm of Miss Clifford’s poetry lies in the woodland simplicity.
She is at her best when she pays no heed to the works of man.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 168. My. 26, ‘05. 350w.
=Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 190w.
“Miss Clifford’s new volume is less interesting than her first. The
dramatic poems are the best; few of the other pieces are more than
merely pretty and tuneful.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 50. Ag. 8, ‘05. 260w.
=Clouston, J. Storer.= Lunatic at large. $1. Buckles. also pub. by
Brentano’s.
A young doctor without a practice receives a tempting offer of £500
and expenses to travel with a wealthy youth mentally unbalanced.
Fearing to trust himself to the caprice of a lunatic, a friend of his
represents the patient, while the “sane lunatic” is drugged and left
in a private asylum. The amazing doings of this clever and worldly
wise young man constitute the book. His methods of escape, his
escapades in London, his periodical change of name, scene, and history
are skilfully and amusingly handled.
+ =Ind.= 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 70w.
“Is not at all probable, and not very edifying, but it is certainly
well written and entertaining.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w.
=Clute, Willard Nelson.= Fern allies. **$2. Stokes.
A well-illustrated manual of the families of non-flowering plants,
other than the ferns, found in North America north of Mexico.
“The book is a valuable addition to our literature of less-known
American plants.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“There can hardly be a more convenient guide for the beginner who,
having busied himself somewhat with ferns, wishes to glance at their
relatives. The text is interesting and the drawings are clear.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Coates, Florence Earle.= Mine and thine (poems). **$1.25. Houghton.
A volume of eighty sonnets and poems including personal tributes to
Mr. Stedman, Mr. Yeats, Madame Bernhardt, and Helen Keller, Beethoven,
Picquart, Whistler, E. N. Westcott, Stevenson, Millet, and Joan of
Arc, and verses to England, Paris, and Buffalo, and to the “War for
the liberation of Cuba.”
“Their chief merit is not spontaneity but thoughtfulness.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 30w.
“Of the excellence of Mrs. Coates’s sentiments there can be no doubt;
her nature is warmly responsive to whatever is worthy in life and
beautiful in art. But her expression does not often exhibit
spontaneity or achieve distinction.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 200. Mr. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“Miss Coates’s verses may be described in a general way as topical.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w.
“The best of the poems ... are those which deal with persons. These
are always sympathetic to the essential quality of the man.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The distinguishing marks of Mrs. Coates’ verse are simplicity and an
unashamed gravity.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 619. Ap. ‘05. 340w.
=Cobb, Benjamin Franklin.= Business philosophy. **$1.20. Crowell.
A clear, level-headed exposition of the problems facing every business
man from the least to the greatest, and suggestions regarding how to
meet and handle them. Such subjects are treated as choosing a
profession, system, credit, collections, office management, relations
to employes, advertising, use of trading stamps, etc.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 10w.
* “A little volume of practical suggestions, written from personal
experiences.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 20w.
Cobden club. Burden of armaments; a plea for retrenchment. 90c. Wessels.
In view of the steady increase in military and naval expenditure by
the British government, the Cobden club has issued this volume which
deals with the subject in the spirit of Cobden and carries his
narrative and arguments down to the present date. Part 1, is a
condensed restatement of Cobden’s arguments in “The three panics”
(1863), part 2, Retrenchment, deals with the economic reaction between
1863 and 1884, part 3, The growth of militarism, gives an account of
the relapse into extravagance, part 4, is a plea for disarmament.
“The book under consideration is much more than a mere recall to right
feeling: it is no less than an appeal to common sense.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 390w.
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 421. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
=Cochrane, Charles H.= Modern industrial progress. **$3 Lippincott.
“The tremendous industrial progress of the past few decades is
recorded in this volume in brief descriptions of many inventions and
discoveries and new applications of old discoveries.” (Outlook).
“Among the numerous subjects discussed are electricity, including the
progress made by Marconi, great canals and tunnels, bridges, tools of
destruction, great farms and farming machinery, the iron horse and the
railways, foods, engineering enterprises, newspapers and periodicals,
instruments of science, cotton, wool, and texture manufactures, etc.”
(Bookm.) There are over four hundred illustrations.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 496. My. 6, ‘05. 300w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
“In a straightforward, practicable manner, makes clear the recent
steps in the field of mechanics and invention.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 230w.
“Such books as this are especially useful in school and public
libraries. Not as interestingly written as might be, but full of
information.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 270. F. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“The work is therefore encyclopædic in scope, and, as it is the
production of a single mind, is neither profound in treatment nor
remarkable for accuracy. Carelessness in composition and revision
makes many of the sentences, to say the least, ambiguous. As a
scientific treatise, the book is worthless. As a popular survey of
modern progress, were it more carefully written and more generously
indexed, it would be useful.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Cochrane’s subject is large, and he has pretty well covered it.
His book is as full of meat as an egg; and good meat it seems to be,
too.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 147. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“The volume is obviously intended for popular consumption, having no
orderly or logical arrangement of subjects, and the treatment being
absolutely untechnical.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 70w.
“A book full of attractive materials.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“A remarkable piece of work, encyclopaedic in its scope.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 620w.
=Coe, George Albert.= Education in religion and morals. **$1.35. Revell.
Professor Coe finds the essence of religious education “on the part of
the teacher self-revelation and self impartation; on the part of the
pupil, self-expression and self-realization.” In other words, all
religious education is the “genuine mingling of a developed life in
the interests and occupations of an undeveloped life.” (Bib. World).
The best field for religious training is in the home, where the most
free and natural relations exist. It is by revealing a sincere and
self-sacrificing attitude toward life that a religious influence can
be exerted.
“It is in the breadth, courage and sanity of his survey of the social
situation that the chief merit of his work is found.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9:388. Ap. ‘05. 300w.
“This is a great book—the greatest on its subject since Bushnell’s
‘Christian nurture’ in 1847. It takes religious education off its apex
of formal dogmatic instruction, and sets it down on the broad, stable
base of sharing the concrete experiences of life. It gives us a point
of view; and in the light of that point of view goes forth to
challenge all unreality and insincerity. This book should be in the
hands of every Christian.” William DeWitt Hyde.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 25: 154. F. ‘05. 1300w. (Statement of its
teachings.)
“The treatment of the problem in hand is thoroughly in accord with
good psychological and pedagogical practice. The whole work, a worthy
complement to Professor Coe’s previous publication on ‘The religion of
a mature mind,’ is vitalizing and illuminating in its character and
effect.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1011. Ap. 22, ‘05. 910w.
=Cohen, Alfred J.= (Alan Dale, pseud.). Wanted, a cook. (†)$1.50. Bobbs.
A humorous account of the trials and tribulations of a newly married
couple. “Two babes in the woods in this wilderness of flats make a
pathetic attempt to have a real home, which comes to grief through a
succession of disasters in the shape of incompetent or dishonest or
impossible cooks. The mistress of the tiny ‘flat’ knows many things,
but not how to cook; her experiences are enough to have turned her
pretty hair gray, and one wonders if there is for her and women like
her any other solution than the ‘apartment hotel,’ which is the only
one the book offers.” (Ind.)
=Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Seldom has it been our pleasure to read a more delightful satire on
one phase of our present-day urban life. Has treated the servant-girl
question in an inimitable manner. Though exaggerated at times as is
the wont of the humorist, it is from first to last broadly true, and
on the whole the story will prove as excellent a cure for the blues as
the first reading of Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad.’”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w.
“There is a fund of humour and entertainment in ‘Wanted a cook’ which
makes it delightful reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 200w.
“An airy variation of a very well-worn theme.”
— =Critic.= 46 :480. My. ‘05. 50w.
“Perhaps the most feeling, altho somewhat farcical, presentment of the
vexed problem is the latest by Alan Dale.”
+ =Ind.= 58:210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 210w.
=Cohen, Isabel E.= Legends and tales in prose and verse. 75c. Jewish
pub.
A compilation of prose and verse on Jewish subjects, most of which
concern Bible characters.
“Pleasant and instructive reading for the young.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Colby, Frank Moore.= Imaginary obligations. *$1.20. Dodd.
A volume of dogmatic essays. “Some of his best chapters have to do
with ‘The business of writing,’ and ‘Literary compulsion.’ ‘The
literary temperament’ is treated in a way that makes the reader squirm
in his chair. ‘The temptation of authors’ contains a warning to
successful and prolific writers. ‘The danger of spreading oneself thin
is that the time surely comes when it is done unconsciously. A man
thinks it his thought flowing on like that, when it is only his ink.’
The fitness of Mr. Colby’s title, ‘Imaginary obligations,’ is somewhat
imaginary.... But a book must have a title, and for a collection of
loosely related essays one will serve about as well as another.”
(Dial).
“The range of topics is wide, the comments are pointed, and the style
is, on the whole, decidedly racy. No reader can fail to enjoy the wit
and the satire even when they are directed against some pet hobby of
his. The fun is harmless and it may be found to be accompanied by
wisdom.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= :7. F. 10, ‘05. 250w.
“Mr. Colby possesses a good measure of shrewd sense, a wholesome
hatred of humbug and a keen eye to detect it, a practised pen, and a
knack of terse, incisive, and often striking expression. But with
these qualities go their defects: aiming to be brilliant and
sententious, he occasionally exaggerates and makes phrases.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 430w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
=Cole, Samuel Valentine.= Life that counts. **75c. Crowell.
This book grew out of a series of addresses given before young people.
It deals with some aspects of service but chiefly with certain
qualifications of the useful life; viz. sympathy, courage,
perseverance and aspiration. These are symbolized by four faces, the
face of a man, a lion, an ox, an eagle, the emblem of the four
evangelists.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= Select poems; ed. by Andrew George. 60c.
Heath.
This volume of the Belles-lettres series contains select poems of
Coleridge arranged in chronological order, with introduction and notes
by the editor.
=N.Y. Times.= 10: 104. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
=Collier’s self-indexing annual for 1905=: a contemporaneous
encyclopedia and pictorial history of men and events of the past year as
recorded and described by the world’s foremost specialists in every
department of human progress. $5. Collier.
Here the time saver finds in ready-to-use form the “political history
of the world and of important current events in the fields of labor,
industry, science, invention, the arts, sport, education, religion,
and sociology.” “The material has been collated from ‘Collier’s
Weekly,’ is preceded by a sketch review of the year 1904, which is to
be highly praised as a model of condensed statement, and is arranged
in alphabetical order, with many illustrations.” (Outlook).
+ =Outlook.= 79 :501. F. 25, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Collins, F. Howard.= Author and printer: a guide for authors, editors,
printers, correctors of the press, compositors and typists. *$2.25.
Oxford.
“The want of uniformity in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and
use of italic type causes continual trouble to all who are responsible
for the editorial supervision of scientific literature in any form....
Mr. Collins has prepared his book to help in this end.... The volume
contains more than twenty thousand separate entries of words arranged
alphabetically. Included among these are abbreviations, disputed
spellings, foreign words and phrases, divisions of words, and various
rules and explanations which should prove of service to authors and
editors.”—Nature.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 450w.
=Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 70w.
“In conclusion we can pronounce this compilation useful, if almost
without rhyme or reason and certainly not highly authoritative.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 1220w.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* =Collyer, Robert.= Augustus Conant, Illinois pioneer and preacher.
*60c. Am. Unitar.
This second volume in “True American types” series contains the
charmingly simple record of the plucky career of a typical New
Englander who was born in Vermont in 1811, went west in the early days
as an Illinois pioneer and later became a minister with the staunch
support of his young wife. After triumphing over circumstances he met
his death in the Civil war as chaplain in the Union army. The author’s
account is supplemented by quotations from the quaintly brief entries
in his various journals, and the whole forms a significant story of
the life of man who wrested happiness and success from a barren
environment.
=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Belted seas. (†)$1.50. Holt.
Captain Buckingham enlivens a winter afternoon by recounting his
adventures in South America and elsewhere. Leaving the town of
Greenough and the girl he had “agreed” to marry, he traversed the
belted seas for thirty years, drifting back at last to his old harbor
to gaze on the tombstone of his sweetheart, and assist in her
daughter’s elopement. His story includes humorous yarns of hotel
keeping in a ship carried inland by a tidal wave, of a hidden treasure
over which a squatter had calmly built his cabin, and of a whale which
put forth to sea with a hen roosting on a harpoon embedded in its
side.
“His work is never commonplace, but never before has he been so
light-hearted, so effervescent of spirit as here.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w.
“Some of his turns of thought are provocative of the heartiest
laughter, and he never permits his auditors an instant of boredom.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“The dry, whimsical old captain spins a yarn worth hearing.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“It is a toy, very ingenious and puzzling, we must admit, but not a
genuine specimen of literary handicraft.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 340w.
“Captain Tom’s description of his eccentric mates is occasionally
exaggerated to the point of caricature, and his style is inconsistent,
wavering between the style of the plain mariner and that of a clever,
versatile, even brilliant writer.”
+ — =Nation.= 80 :442. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w.
“A certain knack of conversation and characterization, a certain
largeness of view where the differing morals and madnesses of men are
concerned, which gives them not only interest, but a sort of oneness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 450w.
“Its humor is both spontaneous and demure, and its comedy pointed and
subtle.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“This is of the grotesque, distorted type of humorous story. His
observations on human nature are often shrewd and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Colton’s sailor men are flesh and blood, though their adventures
are the wildest flights of fancy.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
=Colton, Olive A.= Rambles abroad. $2. Franklin ptg. and engr. co.
The author “recounts at the outset her visit to Naples and Rome,
interspersing her narrative of travel with historical discussion....
From Rome she takes us to Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Wartburg and
Weimar, thence to Paris. A visit to England and Windsor castle
concludes the trip. The pictures are excellent throughout.”—Boston
Evening Transcript.
“Miss Colton has nothing new to tell, in this narrative of a brief
European trip; but she tells her story simply and well.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Colyar, Arthur St. Clair.= Life and times of Andrew Jackson;
soldier—statesman—president. 2v. $6. Marshall & B.
Mr. Colyar is a lawyer and an enthusiastic admirer of Jackson. His
object in writing these books is to give a sympathetic account of the
great Tennesseean, and he has produced a democratic biography which is
at times historically biased.
Reviewed by J. S. Bassett.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 530w.
=Coman, Katharine.= Industrial history of the United States for high
schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.
In this volume Prof. Coman aims “to bring the essential elements of
the economic history of this country within the grasp of the average
reader, and she has also adapted it for high school and college
students.... There are many illustrations in half-tone in the book, as
well as a number of maps and diagrams, and, besides the authorities
given in the margin, the book is supplied with a list of books and
their authors for the general reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “It supplements in a highly interesting way the ordinary narrative
text-book, and will prove a valuable adjunct in the teaching of the
subject.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 390. D. 1, ‘05. 40w.
* “A carefully executed work, packed with information.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 280w.
* “The book is exceptionally accurate in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.
“While the author has not always satisfactorily exhibited the economic
forces underlying the great movements and events in the history of the
United States, she has, on the whole, performed a difficult task well.
It is by no means easy to marshal the facts in an interesting way and
at the same time bring out their significance; but this the author has
succeeded in doing to a praiseworthy degree.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* “The book as a whole is a model of clear statement and systematized
information.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. See =Trade= unionism and labor problems.
Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.
“‘The companion to Greek studies’ differs in scope from other books of
the same class; for, besides a survey of Greek life, thought, and art
in their different branches, it includes a chapter on the physical
conditions of Greece, another containing chronological tables of
politics, literature, and art, and a chapter on certain branches of
criticism and interpretation. While each article has been intrusted to
a writer who has made a special study of the subject, it has been the
aim of the work to give the substance of our knowledge in a concise
form.... It is hoped that the full table of contents and the indexes
of proper names and Greek words will increase the value of the book
for purposes of reference. Bibliographies have generally been appended
to each article to help those who seek further information. Plans,
views, and reproductions of ancient works of art have been carefully
chosen and inserted in those articles in which illustration seems most
necessary.” Preface.
“The lack of references is a serious drawback. As a companion to the
reading of Greek authors, a handbook for reference about Greek things,
the book is convenient, well arranged and, in all essentials,
trustworthy.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68 :102. F. 4. ‘05. 1270w.
“It is not a book, but a compressed encyclopedia, a vast collection of
facts crammed into the smallest possible compass. Almost the whole
book is interesting, in spite of its compression.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 616. My. 20. 1010w.
“Few volumes have a stronger claim to their places in the library of
the classical scholar.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 340w.
“What Dr. Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities’ was for students half a
century ago this is for those of to-day. In concise form it exhibits
the larger and more accurate knowledge gained by recent research, and
also treats of subjects not heretofore presented in works of this
kind. As a book of reference it is all that could be desired. Its
illustrations are both numerous and fine. In this work British
scholars have again scored most creditably. In their index of scholars
and modern writers Americans are scarcer than the facts require.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“If the object of the compilers was to give the maximum of information
in the minimum of space, they have certainly succeeded in the
attempt.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1400w.
“Of its value there can be no question.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 940w.
Compatriots’ club lectures. Compatriots’ club lectures: first series.
*$2.75. Macmillan.
The Compatriots’ club, a non-partizan body, was constituted in March,
1904, with the object of advancing the ideal of a united British
empire. The present volume contains eight lectures. The principles of
constructive economics as applied to the maintenance of empire, by J.
L. Garvin; Tariff reform and national defense, by H. W. Wilson;
Imperial preference and the cost of food, by Sir Vincent Caillard; The
evolution of the empire, by Hon. St. John A. Cockburn, K. C. M. C.;
The proper distribution of the population of the empire, by H. A.
Gwynne; Political economy and the tariff problem, by Prof. W. J.
Ashley; Colonial preference in the past, by John W. Hills, and Tariff
reform and political morality, by the Rev. Dr. William Cunningham.
“No better text-book could be accepted both by friends and opponents
as a starting place for discussion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 450w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 191. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 270w.
“These lectures we believe will have a wide-reaching educative effect
in preparing opinion for the part which the state will take in the
future in many matters from which the individualist theory has
excluded it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1450w.
“It is the work of a group of well-known men, who obviously believe
what they write, and who in many respects have advanced beyond the
crude fallacies and cheap-Jack promises which have disfigured Mr.
Chamberlain’s presentment of his own case. It is worth while to see
why such men are protectionists, and where the flaw in their reasoning
lies.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2700w.
=Condit, Edgar Mantelbert.= Two years in three continents: experiences,
impressions and observation of two Americans abroad. **$2. Revell.
The author and his wife, starting from Ireland, visited all the
capitals of Europe, and then Russia and the Orient. The account of
their journey is both humorous and interesting, and they give many
valuable and homely details not found in the ordinary book of travels.
“The book is replete with humor, and is all the better because it is
so thoroughly American in quality. Mr. Condit’s descriptive powers are
excellent. In this the good spirits of the writer always predominates
and it is easy reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 128. F. 25, ‘05. 190w.
=Condivi, Ascanio.= Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, tr. by Herbert P.
Horne. *$7.50. Updike.
“Condivi wrote a great biography, tho no longer than a Plutarch. It
puts Michael Angelo before us a genius yet a man. It is rich in choice
anecdote, it describes the rivalries and reverses, the successes and
triumphs incident to one of power and resource and ambition, and over
all its style and treatment give the time as Castiglione describes it.
The work itself and Addington Symond’s praise should have before this
prompted a popular English edition. Mr. Horne’s translation is close
and con amore, but the book is published in a very limited
edition.”—Ind.
“Altogether, the volume is one in which the bibliophile no less than
the art student will rejoice.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“The format is less notable than the biography of the translation. Mr.
Horne designed the type which is here first used. It is chaste and
clearly cut, yet the page is not clear.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 569. Mr. 9, ‘05. 490w.
“Condivi’s narrative is always delightful, it is so unaffected and
sincere. The present translation is pleasant to read, having plenty of
character.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 110w.
=Conley, John Wesley.= Bible in modern light: a course of lectures
before the Bible department of the Woman’s club, Omaha. **75c. Griffith
& R.
In this series of lectures the author “treats the character and
composition of the Bible, manuscripts, translations, light from the
monuments; and deals with such problems as the relation of the Bible
to science, art, ethics, woman, education, progress.” (Am. J. of
Theol.)
“A series of simple, clear and popular lectures.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“In a class where a competent leader could fill gaps and expand
outlines, the book might serve as a suggestive textbook.” Henry M.
Bowden.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 157. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
* =Connolly, James Bennet.= Deep sea’s toll. †$1.50. Scribner.
Eight stories of the Gloucester fishermen entitled: The sail-carriers;
The wicked “Celestine”; The truth of the Oliver Cromwell; Strategy and
seamanship; Dory-mates; The saving of the bark Fuller; On Georges
shoals; and Patsie Oddie’s black night.
* “They are admirably drawn pictures of the hardest life a man can
choose.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w.
* “Well sustains the reputation won for him by his previous stories in
the same field.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
=Connolly, James B.= On Tybee knoll: a story of the Georgia coast.
†$1.25. Barnes.
“This is a short, simple but interesting story of rivalry between some
contractors on river and harbor work at Savannah, Ga. The young hero
and his older partner have various exciting experiences in executing a
contract that involved cutting and rafting some poles for dipper
dredges. The rafts were stolen, rescued, cut adrift and finally
rescued again. Incidentally there are races, fights and rescues on the
water.”—Engin. N.
“One forgives the extravagance of the story for the sake of the
exhilarating sea breeze that seems to blow through all the pages.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 290w.
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w.
— =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“The present tale might be an early effort.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 40w.
=Connor, Ralph, pseud.= (=Charles William Gordon.=) Prospector. $1.50.
Revell.
The story of the life of a young minister who goes from the university
of Toronto to his work of self-sacrifice in the wilds. He is
affectionately called the Prospector because he untiringly seeks out
lonely ranches and brings their owners into touch with their distant
neighbors. There are vivid pictures of Canadian frontier life and
character, and there is, of course, a love interest.
“From cover to cover physical strength is glorified; but it is the
physical strength of teachers and preachers, of earnest, deadly
earnest, muscular Christians. Literary merit has nothing to do with
the author’s success. His English is fairly sound, and that is as much
as may be said for the writing.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 320w.
“The vein is worked a little too hard, and the results forced.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 90w.
“The splendors of home missionaries’ sacrifice have never been more
vividly portrayed.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“Interesting as a novel as well as valuable as a picture of Canadian
life.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w.
=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzenlowski).= Nostromo: a tale of the
seaboard. $1.50. Harper.
Late writers have often turned to the “new lands” of South America for
picturesque settings for their stories. Mr. Conrad has laid the scene
of his new novel in a republic on the western coast. “In this country
an English family has long been settled and has had for its stake the
government concession of a silver mine, handed down from father to
son, and entailing much disagreeable ‘squeezing’ from successive
presidents and dictators. The descendant to whom it has fallen when
the present narrative opens is the first one to make it a really
valuable property, and in the development he becomes the greatest
power in the state, enlisting foreign capital, building railroads, and
carrying governments on his pay roll. A final desperate effort on the
part of greedy politicians to get control of the goose that lays his
golden egg is the main feature of the plot ... but the psychological
interest predominates over the adventurous or romantic interest which
justifies the author in naming this novel after one of its
characters ... one upon whom Mr. Conrad has concentrated his
analytical powers.” (Dial).
“A novel ought not to be a snap-shot, it should be a firmly and richly
woven fabric. Such is ‘Nostromo.’ Flexible and vivid style.” O. H.
Dunbar.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 377. Ap. ‘05. 480w.
“Readers will find in the book ample reward for their pains in
perusing it, will often reach the point of exasperation at its lengthy
analyses, its interminable dragging-out of incident, and its frequent
harking back to antecedent conditions. The work is a very strong one,
and we can think of no other writer, unless it be Mr.
Cunningham-Grahame, who could have done anything like as well with the
same material.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 125. F. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“As a study of South American revolution the book is a monument of
realism. There is ever present a psychological question, a moral issue
that is as modern as Ibsen.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 557. Mr. 9, ‘05. 700w.
“The love element is slight and in its development irregular, and the
adventurous element is not absorbing. The stream of the story is
always slender. It glimmers and shimmers most poetically—what there is
of it—but even at its broadest and strongest it gives no hint of
bearing the reader along with it, and again and again it sinks wholly
out of sight amid the silver sands of picturesque description.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 310w.
=Conrad, Stephen, pseud. (Stephen Conrad Stuntz).= Mrs. Jim and Mrs.
Jimmie. †$1.50. Page.
A recital of the experiences of Mrs. Jim at quilting parties, picnics,
sociables, weddings, commencements, and fires, interspersed by
comments of Mrs. Jimmie. There is much real village life, much satire,
and not a little homely philosophy.
* “This story sustains the same relation to love that an old-fashioned
‘experience meeting’ sustains to religion.”
— =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w.
“A tedious story of a country town.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w.
=Conway, Moncure Daniel.= Autobiography, memories and experiences. 2v.
**$6. Houghton.
A frank autobiography of a long life. Mr. Conway says of himself: “A
pilgrimage from pro-slavery to anti-slavery enthusiasm, from Methodism
to Freethought, implies a career of contradictions.” Born in Virginia
of a slave-holding family, 1832, he prepared for the Methodist
ministry; but at twenty-one, alienated from his family and old
beliefs, he turned to the Unitarian ministry and took an active part
in the anti-slavery movement in the early fifties. In 1863 he went to
England to lecture in behalf of the North, and remained in London,
where he formed lasting friendships with the “good and great” of his
time. His account of his experiences and his pictures of the people
whom he knew are of exceptional interest.
“Two very entertaining volumes that will prove of marked interest to
the general reader, and may be of considerable service to the
historical student. Commendation for their general readableness and
attractiveness.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 701. Ap. ‘05. 170w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
=Atlan.= 95: 128. Ja. ‘05. 1730w.
* “On the whole Mr. Conway’s volume is the most important book of its
kind that has been published during the present year.” R. W. Kemp.
+ + + =Bookm.= 20: 481. Ja. ‘05. 750w.
“Two large volumes, and I do not think there is a dry page in either
one of them.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 120. F. ‘05. 920w.
“He has, therefore, won the gratitude due for a compilation that makes
easy and attractive reading. But it is emphatically the work of a
clever journalist and genial clubman, not of a trustworthy historian.
It will not be safe to use the material here collected unless it is
otherwise confirmed. Mr. Conway is surprisingly careless even in
matters closely connected with his own career.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 36: 564. Ap. ‘05. 1930w.
“In a vivid and picturesque manner ... Mr. Moncure D. Conway tells the
story of a strenuous life.” Walter Lewin.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 3: 614. Ap. ‘05. 1300w.
“A man who has lived in such times and amid such associations must
from the nature of the case have an interesting story to tell.
Fortunately, Mr. Conway is too good a literary craftsman to let the
story suffer in the telling.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 240w.
“We may say without hesitation that it is an instructive, as it is a
transparently sincere, record of human experience. The first volume is
meant for American more than for English readers.”
+ + =Spec. 94=: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.
=Cook, Albert S.=, ed. See Judith.
=Cook, Albert S., and Benham, A. R.= Specimen letters. *60c. Ginn.
“The range of the selection is unlimited, since it includes Cicero,
Pliny, Tragan, Mme. de Sevigné, and Voltaire.... The other
eighty-eight letters ... are English or American, beginning with
Addison and ending with ‘Ellen G. Starr.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The collection is an admirable one, representative of every form of
the epistolary art, and made particularly attractive to the general
reader by its freedom from editorial encumbrances.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“As an avowed supplement to Scoones, such of their work as he has not
anticipated would have a distinct value.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 344. My. 27, ‘05. 880w.
=Cook, Joel.= Switzerland; picturesque and descriptive. **$2.40. Coates.
A book designed for students and tourists, as well as general lovers
of fine book workmanship. Six sections of Switzerland are
covered—Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, the Upper Rhine, the
Middle Rhine, the great Rhine gorge, and the Lower Rhine, and in
addition to the descriptive matter, there are numerous half-tone
illustrations. He opens with a rapid survey of the history of the
Swiss confederation, followed by descriptions of the Lake of Geneva,
Lausanne, Vevey, and Montreux, coming next to the Castle of Chillon.
“He has here attempted to do for Switzerland what he has already done
for America, England, and France, by emphasizing with personal
impressions those points of human interest which usually receive mere
perfunctory notice in the guide books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* =Cook, Theodore Andrea.= Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
“The first volume deals with Provence under the Greeks and Romans. Mr.
Cook writes entertainingly of the traces of Marius in Provence. He
follows his march, camp by camp, through the country until he met the
Teutons and the Ambrons on the bank of the Lar.... Volume II of the
account of Provence is no less discursive than the first, and no less
interesting in the same discursive way. It covers the period from
about the time of Charlemagne, say, 900 A. D., to the death of the
good King Réné in 1480, with excursions back to Greek, Roman, and
Teutonic days and forward to modern times.”—N. Y. Times.
* “We heartily congratulate him on the interest of his book, but are
not satisfied with it, for we feel certain that he can and will do
better. The book seems to us wanting in plan, and from absence of
design to be somewhat confused for the general reader.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 505. O. 14. 710w.
“Mr. Cook has not achieved a history of Provence. But he offers us a
guide, indefatigable, vigorous, vivacious, eager to discourse on every
subject, and primed with valuable information.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 940w.
* “There is room for many books about a region so replete with
interest, and it can do nobody any harm to read this one; but, while
it will not spare the traveller abroad the need of his guide-books, it
has not the light and graceful touch and the gift of vivid
presentation that will satisfy the reader who stays at home—the
ultimate test.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 468. D. 7, ‘05. 1520w.
“A work containing much of interest and importance, and little that is
trivial in itself, yet all so badly arranged that the reader has to
pick and choose to find what he wants.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 1060w.
* “Mr. Cook knows his Provence well, but he does not know how to tell
about it. Nevertheless the volumes are worth buying and worth reading,
for their contents cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
=Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Grapple. †$1.50. Page.
The principal figure in this labor-problem story is Mark Strong who
from the ordinary miner’s lot rises to the ownership of a mine.
Although once a member of the United mine workers, and still a
believer in unions, he will not be bound by the inflexible rules of
labor organizations, and employs non-union help. The struggle that
ensues gives an opportunity for an exposition of arguments on both
sides of the question.
* “The seriousness of the book is relieved by an element of humor
which is perhaps better than nothing, although it is a humor of a
rather cheap sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Cooke, Marjorie Benton.= Dramatic episodes. $1.25. Dramatic.
Ten short plays, each in a single scene, which satirize the follies of
the foibles of to-day.
=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.
A glimpse into the new nursery, where smart children who make epigrams
dwell. Their prayers, lessons, play, social life, punishments and
health are discussed.
“The style is a mixture of slap-dash, slang, and fine writing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 461. Ap. 15. 1020w.
“It is rich in insight, sanity, a wise and sympathetic understanding
of his delightful circle of juvenile acquaintance. The whole book is
blessedly free from any touch of the patronizing.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The value of his book lies largely in its very personal tone.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 360w.
“Written in a pseudo-serious vein.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 400w.
“The volume as a whole is a clever and unusual combination of
anecdote, fiction, biography, and serious discussion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.
“We do not take Mr. Cooper seriously; and the whole performance has an
air of artificiality which produces irritation at every page.”
— — =Sat. R.= 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
— =Spec.= 94: 398. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1640w.
=Cooper, James Fenimore.= Last of the Mohicans. 80c; lea. $1.25.
Crowell.
In the thin paper and flexible cover of the “Thin paper classics” this
favorite Indian story becomes a handy pocket companion.
=Cooper, James Fenimore.= Spy. 60c; lea. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume recently added to the “Thin paper classics.”
=Cooper, Walter G.= Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated
retail booksellers.
“The only way to make sure of the general good is to guard the
interests of every class with jealous care. This end is best attained
when each class realizes that self-protection is the best protection,
self-help the best help, and self-respect the surest guaranty of the
respect of others.” This forms a part of the watchword of the volume.
* “Force is not lacking in much of what Mr. Cooper advances.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.
“Despite these criticisms, we think this volume a real contribution to
the thought of the day, because characterized by three qualities not
too often found in combination in treatises on our industrial
problems, namely, a careful study of existing conditions, a sane and
non-partisan judgment respecting them, and something of prophetic
vision regarding the tendency of industrial progress and the direction
in which it should be guided.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 360w.
* “He has no very definite plan of organization, but he has at least
sounded a note of warning.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Cooper, William Colby.= Immortality: the principal philosophic
arguments for and against it. $1. W: Colby Cooper, Cleves, O.
“A serious and very able discussion, from the purely philosophical
viewpoint, of the logical arguments for and against the theory of the
persistence of life after the crisis of death.” (Arena.) The author is
a physician.
“The method of presentation, however, is less open to criticism than
the typography.”
+ + — =Arena.= 33: 674. Je. ‘05. 590w.
“The argument seems conclusive for the survival of life and
consciousness, but less conclusive for the survival of the
individuality.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 93. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
=Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay).= Free opinions, freely expressed on
certain phases of modern social life and conduct. **$1.20. Dodd.
The essays collected in this volume attack newspapers, Americans, and
certain unfortunate tendencies which the author discovers in modern
English society.
“The style of the essays ... is perhaps even more fervidly
enthusiastic than that of the author’s fiction.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 80w.
“The disputatious, not to say censorious, tone of these essays moves
the reviewer to remind the writer that people are seldom to be argued
or scolded into wisdom. Have the merit of brevity and at times of
sprightliness.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 530w.
“Violence, prejudice, a painfully narrow view of life, and a lack of
proportion ... shockingly mar her present book.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29, ‘05. 850w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
* =Cornes, James.= Modern housing: houses in town and country,
illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block
dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.
Mr. Cornes, who as a member of the Leek town council has made a study
of the question of housing the working classes, and has conducted some
interesting experiments in Leek itself, now writes of these
experiments, makes suggestions which will lessen the cost of house
construction and “furnishes some suggestive contrasts between the
opportunities for building in town and country by the inclusion of
some admirably executed plans and pictures of the cottages now on view
at the Cheap Cottages exhibition at Letchworth.” (Spec.)
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 181. D. ‘05. 330w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 330w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 191. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
=Coryat, Thomas.= Coryat’s crudities hastily gobbled up in five moneths’
travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons
country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of High Germany and the
Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county
of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling
members of this kingdome; reprinted from the edition of 1611. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
Altho the humor of the three-score panegyrics which gave the book
unusual vogue in its first appearance has somewhat faded with time,
there remains much to interest and amuse in this quaint account of
travels afoot, of dangers, and of butterflies, of manners and of
customs.
“Careful reprint.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 488. My. 6, ‘05. 1360w.
“His latest edition is luxuriously produced, and in every way worthy
of him, given the publishers’ rule of not altering or pointing out his
mistakes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 394. S. 23. 920w.
“Coryat’s style, whatever its defects, has often the true Elizabethan
richness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 213. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1600w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 80. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1570w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 670w.
“The quaintness of the original has been preserved, and it would be
difficult, indeed, to imagine anything exceeding this work in
precisely that quality.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“Those who go through these hundred pages of the ‘Crudities’ do
penance indeed.”
— + =Sat.= R. 99: 816 Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.=). Mayor of Troy. †$1.50.
Scribner.
“A quaint tale of the Cornish coast. The setting is historical, being
that of the threatened Napoleonic invasion.... The mayor of Troy, who
is also major of the volunteer artillery ... is ... snatched by
ruthless fate from the scenes of his glory, seized by a press-gang ...
and carried off to become an ornament of the British navy. The ship
which bears him is blown up.... He is rescued by the enemy, and
languishes ten years in a remote military prison. Meanwhile ... he is
given up for dead, his wealth is distributed according to the terms of
his will, and Troy does him all sorts of posthumous honors. When he
returns—but we will not reveal what happens, remarking only that it is
the unexpected.”—Dial.
* “The book presents us with one humorous situation after another,
crowned by an invention so extraordinary that the author may fairly be
said to have surpassed his own best previous efforts.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Taken all in all, we should say that Mr. Quiller-Couch has never
done much better work than in his ‘Mayor of Troy,’ and that is to
praise it highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 780w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-.= Shakespeare’s Christmas and other
stories. †$1.50. Longmans.
“A collection of ripe and forcible stories, of which the least
successful is the one which gives its name to the book.” (Lond.
Times.) They “range in date from the sixteenth to the beginning of the
nineteenth century, and range in characters from Shakespeare and
Wellington to the fishwives of Saltash and the highwaymen of
Tregarrick.” (Ind.)
+ + =Acad.= 68: 925. S. 9, ‘05. 710w.
“We note the usual flavour of distinction in the writing, the
scholarly attention to details, the little touches of observation
which show how thoroughly the writer has identified himself with the
beings of his invention.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 250w.
“His abundant knowledge of archeology and local color is effectively
used without being made unduly conspicuous.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 90w.
“In most of these stories he does himself justice, and that is high
praise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“Has become, for the moment and with exceptions, dull.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 200w.
“Is as good a collection of stories as its title promises, and as this
vivacious, ingenious, and voluminous writer always can be depended
upon to furnish at wonderfully short intervals of time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 620w.
“The material and setting of each story are striking and original, the
manner of narration attractive and ingenious, yet the general effect
is disappointing and unsatisfactory.”
+ — =Sat.= R. 100: 441. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q.” pseud.).= Shining ferry. †$1.50.
Scribner.
John Rosewarne, a stern, proud old man, looking back upon a reckless
youth, his son, who follows the Bible after reading into it his own
desires, the gentle Peter Benny and his eleven children, a blind boy,
and many others enter into this story of a sleepy little sea port
town.
“In the last third or so of the book the interest, to our mind,
suddenly filters away. The fault is one of structure. The interest of
the novel dribbles out along several lines, none of which assumes a
principal position and concentrates attention. And such is the reason
why we are disappointed with what is in large measure a well-written
book, with plenty of character and written in excellent English.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.
“In this book he seems, for the first time, to have achieved a novel
really complete in character, incident, and construction.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 720w.
“Admirable studies of character. Its charm resides in the touches of
gentle sentiment, of quaint humor, and tender feeling with which it is
enriched in every chapter. It is a wholesome and human book, to be
read with keen delight from beginning to end.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 170w.
“There is a savor in it—a distinction not only of style, but of
thought and temper—which will enable it to outlive much fiction that
is more strongly wrought.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 270w.
“Is one of the best stories of the year.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.
“These figures are all well drawn—not over-drawn—neither too
diabolical nor too angelic.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this
latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little
story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from
a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too
abundantly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 430w.
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of
proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes
it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life
where not a stitch has been dropped.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 430w.
“One of those novels made to be enjoyed rather than criticised.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 430w.
=Coudert, Frederick René.= Addresses, historical—political—sociological.
**$2.50. Putnam.
The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which
his editor has selected for this volume include: International
arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of
ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles
O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners;
Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of
New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia
college.
* “In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in
this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of
much interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 860w.
* “They are valuable as specimens of a style worth studying by nascent
writers and speakers.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
Course of Christian doctrine; a handbook for teachers. 50c. Dolphin
press.
“The aim of the new Sunday-school manual is, as stated in its preface,
‘to bring the new education to bear on the old sacred and unchangeable
truths, and to lead the children not only to know, but to love and
practice them.’ ... The book suggests such new features as blackboard
work, historical tablets, the use of the sandboard, pictures, poems,
and the like.... The course mapped out is divided into eight grades,
each including instruction in prayers, catechism, Bible history—both
Old and New Testament—and Catholic devotions and practices.”—Cath.
World.
“The scholarship and originality which mark the first chapter prevail
throughout the work.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 670. F. ‘05. 1540w.
=Coutts, Francis.= Musa verticordia. *$1.25. Lane.
From the first poem of this group the volume takes its name. The trial
of Dreyfus furnishes the theme of one poem; two others are
interpretations of Parsifal and Meistersinger; still others are
commemorative in nature. There are also some interesting Spanish folk
rhymes.
“Mr. Francis Coutts stands out head and shoulders from the generality
of our modern minor poets in that in addition to its technical
excellence his verse strikes a strong individual note.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Coutts’ muse would to us be austere were he not somewhat too
vague, too nebulous, for austerity. A mastership of whatever form of
verse he essays, a lofty purpose, withal a rooted fealty to poetic
sorrow, must be conceded to Mr. Coutts.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“This attitude of intellectual challenge is characteristic of the
entire volume, and it is such touches of ‘sæva indignatio’ that give
the author’s work its most distinctive quality.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 273. N. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“It is impossible to read Mr. Coutts without admiration. But he lacks,
through nearly all this volume, the human sweetness that is the
preservative of poetry.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 168. My. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Mr. Coutts is always thoughtful and always sensitive to the
imaginative import of his ideas.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“He has extreme simplicity and chastity of style, what Stevenson has
called ‘the piety of speech,’ a perfect taste, and an instinct for
rendering in delicate poetry, evasive moods and fancies. There is also
a gravity and austerity. The slightly forced reflectiveness seems to
us to be a blemish in much of his work.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 310w.
=Cowan, Rev. Henry.= John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation,
1505-1572. **$1.35. Putnam.
In this seventh volume in the “Heroes of the reformation” series, the
writer has aimed to “describe those portions of the career of Knox
which are most likely to be of general interest: to place his
life-work in its historical setting.” This he has done, giving a clear
picture of the reformer and his times. References to original
authorities are given in foot-notes and there is a complete index.
“Both popular and scholarly.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 70w.
“While less piquant than Lang’s, is perhaps the better book for the
student. With a quick penetration into the particular subject or
episode in hand, a strong grasp of the situation, and with clear and
rapid movement of style, he makes a good story as well as a
trustworthy one.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 110w.
“The author is an advocate, but he is fair, dignified, and moderate in
his advocacy of Knox’s side of these questions and of the general
course of his conduct as a Puritan leader.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 840w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16. ‘05. 210w.
“Dr. Cowan’s way of looking at Knox is, of course, not Mr. Lang’s way.
Naturally Dr. Cowan’s biography is less interesting.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“Dr. Cowan’s work is that of a professor unable to apprehend the
spirit of a religion outside his sphere of thought.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 510w.
=Cowen, Thomas.= The Russo-Japanese war: from the outbreak of
hostilities to the battle of Liao Yang. *$4.20. Longmans.
“A trained observer, for many years a war correspondent, describing
for newspapers the Boer war, the Japanese-Chinese war, phases of the
Spanish-American war, both in Cuba and the Philippines, the Boxer in
China, and the siege of Peking, Mr. Cowen treats of the war in the
East with exceptional facilities for getting at the facts.” (N. Y.
Times). He analyses the reasons for Japanese success, he sums up the
cause for Russia’s failures in the statement that “Indecision in
emergency has been a characteristic weakness of Russia.” He follows
the steps taken by Japan in her preparation for war, showing the
methods adopted for meeting the peculiar difficulties to be overcome
in opposing the host of Russia’s forces. “Remarkably effective as word
pictures are his descriptions of the naval operations in the early
days before Port Arthur.... And with it all there is a constant
succession of pictures of army and navy life that is positively
fascinating in the simple old-fashioned manner in which it is told
with no attempt at ‘fine writing.’” (N. Y. Times).
+ + =Nation.= 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 3220w.
“With the simplicity of a tactical primer the reasons for success and
the causes of failure are alike made plain.”
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1430w.
“He writes with a graphic touch and an intimacy with affairs Japanese
that give a value to his volume which it otherwise would not possess.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 590w.
* =Cowley, Abraham.= Poems: Miscellanies, The mistress, Pindarique odes,
Davideis; verses written on several occasions. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“A very convenient single-volume edition printed in large type, the
text edited by Mr. A. R. Waller from the first collected edition of
Cowley’s works, published in 1688, the year after his death. This
volume presents the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text
with the folio of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of ‘The
mistress,’ which appeared in 1647. Errors which have been discovered
in the poems are indicated by brackets and are explained in the
notes.”—Outlook.
* + + =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 1370w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 2110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50.
Fox.
“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as
Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters,
and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the
sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo,
Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown,
Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler,
Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists,
the Pre-Raphaelites, some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth
century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this
collection ... shows him at his best.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 120w.
“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great
genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the
artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E.
Gallatin.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 259. S. ‘05. 520w.
“Keen insight and a peculiar warmth of description.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent
half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of
art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several
years.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* “For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s
little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant
and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in
many a long day.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Cox’s ideas are sound and put with candour and balance.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 190w.
“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is
not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he
is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other
matters.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8, ‘05. 830w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 282. Ap. 29, ‘05. 300w.
“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an
excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles
de Kay.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 600w.
* “The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple
and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of
limited observation and experience.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and
probity of judgment.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 879. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.
* “Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of
great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment
which can not but delight the more matured art student.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to
novices in art appreciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Storm
center. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee.
“The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert
Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first
time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a
neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this
author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone,
is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being
exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty
construction.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 210w.
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and
yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 140w.
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are
elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 440w.
“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its
plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining
incidents.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15. ‘05. 80w.
=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Successful men of today, and what they say of
success. $1. Funk.
A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of
this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and
opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred
prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway,
and give helpful hints for those who would follow.
=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with
small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the
weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight
misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice
to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who
comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic
characters enter into and complicate the story.
“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a
stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of
mingled laughter and sympathy.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 615. Je. 10, ‘05. 710w.
“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from
the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of
intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”
+ — =Ath.= 1: 746. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and
notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up
her mind as to what she is aiming at.”
— =Lond. Times=, 4: 193. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
* “In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant
dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is
nothing to take their place.”
— + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But
psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the
dilettante.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 847. Je. 24, ‘05. 1070w.
=Craik, Dinah Maria (Miss Mulock, pseud.).= John Halifax, gentleman.
$1.25. Crowell.
All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the
attractive “Thin paper classics” series.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied
arts. **$2. Baker.
Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the
Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of
impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.”
Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early
and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens;
and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A
color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanese sculpture; and the Future of
Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and
many unusual pictures.
* “At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 35. D. ‘05. 210w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
* “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such
brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as
Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book
is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of
the year.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby,
Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh,
Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury,
York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates
the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the
effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of
the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of
names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance
of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their
relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic
standpoint.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Cramp, Walter S.= Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50.
Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth.
The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover
Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came
upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the
ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make
himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the
times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.
“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking
care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its
characters convincing.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“An ambitious and gratifying bit of interpretation.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of
imagination.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 60w.
=Craven, John J.= Prison life of Jefferson Davis. **$1.20. Dillingham.
A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was
surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment,
and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of
his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together
with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of
the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer,
concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in
full.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret: a portrait. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his
American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a
career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead
and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her
voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and
probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with
success.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is
very good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing
in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any
kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the
old artist.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v.
**$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of
events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr.
Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which
reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory
and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when
accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the
stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with
a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their
grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a
dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of
the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without
first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one
volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented
in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.
* “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his
ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders
especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work
could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled
resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just
the lover of good literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 550w.
=Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, F. Marion.= Whosoever shall offend. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each
new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than
ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall
offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of
the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The
new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife
and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining
their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished
according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the
interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters
are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere
tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern
imagination.”
— + =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 100w.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm
and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1133. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry
admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the
English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most
part, however, remains outside.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them,
‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story,
the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations
in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the
‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 496. Mr. ‘05. 370w.
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly
grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for
the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of
character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a
puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well
handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
=Crehore, Albert Gushing.= Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs:
some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single
wire both with and without synchronism. *$2. McGraw pub.
“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems
discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the
Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed
superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a
description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph
systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate
to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to
synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Wm. Maver.
* =Engin. N.= 54: 535. N. 16, ‘05. 590w.
=Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton).= The life and letters of
Mandell Creighton. *$9. Longmans.
The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips
Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded,
steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its
mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or
volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and
most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their
interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They
contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old
century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s
life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining,
fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of
England.” (Ind.)
“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and
flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows
an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and
perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and
limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 558. Ap. ‘05. 3120w.
=Ind.= 58: 324. F. 9, ‘05. 670w.
“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of
distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely
coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a
model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate
proportion. She has also displayed tact.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 95. F. 2, ‘05. 2120w.
=Crewdson, Charles N.= Tales of the road. $1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his
own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give
some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to
‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of
anecdotes.”—Outlook.
* “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it
may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a
self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and
shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes
rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his
majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of
suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father
and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be
one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own
father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of
events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother
gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and
Hope—and Crockett.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 470w.
* “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author
at his best.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his
master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious
and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and
ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a
land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken
brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by
moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 126. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a
pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself
bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 145. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= May Margaret. †$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of
the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited,
quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three
wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not
Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and canonical laws find a way
for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the
text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author
has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the
actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our
memory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 170w.
“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two
elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic
mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31 :666. N. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of
the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 435. Jl. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant
anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the
whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 196. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1100w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its
stories, traditions, characters, humors. **$2. Dodd.
“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the
locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of
facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of
character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history
is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says:
“It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to
focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of
Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”
“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent
literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always,
delightful.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s
books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the
whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much
of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the
infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit
and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 560w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38 :26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Sir Toady Crusoe. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming
little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the
many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others
had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher
in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to
Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter,
by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did
many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very
like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children
will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 80w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style,
humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale
is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of
grown-up sentiment in it.”
+ — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice.= Abridged history
of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek
literature, which the authors of this work have published in five
volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek
literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each
period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no
partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the
account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the
Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their
closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic
literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.
“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which
makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant
phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost,
even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits
some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 314. Mr. ‘05. 900w.
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 152. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1290w.
“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of
infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek
literature.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 38. Ja. 12, ‘05. 1440w.
“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic
English so necessary for the young student.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274.* Mr. ‘05. 140w.
“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number
considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be
commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the
original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a
work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.
+ + — =School R.= 13: 738. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Crosby, Ernest.= Broadcast. *75c. Funk.
Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses,
pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s
systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times
so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love,
cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.
“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and
parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The
more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we
convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that
prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 334. S. ‘05. 930w.
“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in
abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our
social organization, there are also the results of observation
definitely outlined.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
* =Crosby, Ernest.= Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to
the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his
children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of
abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the
greatest war of history.
=Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.= Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.
As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the
“Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he
display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.”
His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’
‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly
calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s
praise.” (Dial.)
— =Dial.= 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 520w.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 780w.
— =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.
“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the
ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has
not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Cross, Wilbur Lucius.= Development of the English novel. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
The seventh edition of Professor Cross’ work which first appeared in
1900. Not only has use proven its principles authoritative, but
judgments which the author offered five years ago have stood the test
of change and advancement.
“The best of its kind, no doubt, in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 20w.
=Nation.= 80: 435. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 310w.
“Professor Cross has done a thorough and useful work.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crowley, Jeremiah.= The parochial school: a curse to the church, a
menace to the nation. $1. Published by the author, Chicago.
In a chapter dedicating his work to the “Emancipate Catholic laity of
tomorrow” the author makes an appeal to the laity. “‘The parochial
school’ lays bare clerical immorality in the United States in a way to
rival the story of the church in Latin countries or in Germany before
Luther’s day. Sad as is this picture, it is, however, far less
painful, than to read how thoroughly good men combine to hide, gloss
over, or condone clerical crimes.... Father Crowley devotes much space
to the dangers of the parochial school. They are an incubus on the
church and a serious menace to her.... The surest way in the world to
kill off Catholicism is to give over education to priests and nuns.
Witness France.” (Ind.)
+ =Ind.= 58: 207. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1030w.
“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and
prelates who have become corrupted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Heroine of the strait. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa
chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the
pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the
young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter
of the frontier.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Love thrives in war: a romance of the
frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe,
and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of
suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the
life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and
times which she depicts.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Verrocchio. *$2. Scribner.
“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now
presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of
fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to
show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such
work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and
painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature
work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of
the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic
capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of
which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only
such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.”
The book is fully illustrated.
“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell
least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the
most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the
subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the
imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in
the temple of fame.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 116. Ja. 28. 1670w.
“It is a thorough-going essay, notable for its clarification of the
master’s works. Her book has gusto; it is written with equal knowledge
and enthusiasm. It is one of the best of those monographs to which I
have referred as based on system and industry rather than on an
original impulse.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 277. F. ‘05. 540w.
“The author has grasped the value of giving attention to the study of
the artist’s works at the expense of vague surmises as to his
biography.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 80w.
“A scholarly and appreciative monograph of great importance.” George
Breed Zug.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 890w.
“Her book is altogether the best on Verrocchio that we have, in
English at least.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Generally speaking, Maud Cruttwell’s work is sober and well informed.
One may regret the vagueness of her general views. Few comprehensive
works of recent years are as useful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 920w.
“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings
of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic
renders an equally important service in discriminating between
Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his
followers sometimes attributed to him.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
=Culbertson, Anne Virginia.= Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others
dream, and many talk sound common sense.
“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms
and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more
accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple
folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to
the laws of versification.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 554. N. ‘05. 990w.
* “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr.
Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect,
they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much
picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception
and treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled
ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern
negro.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Cullum, Ridgwell.= In the brooding wild. †$1.50. Page.
“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown
between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by
a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an
Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with
a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a
lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the
wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the
grotesque.”—Sat. R.
“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author
had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background,
for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs
and bears are of flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and
from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the
outset.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. My. 20. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 450w.
“The story is told with fervor, with a rough, crude force.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
“The book is garishly melodramatic.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
=Cunningham, William.= Growth of English industry and commerce during
the early and middle ages. v. I. 4th ed. *$4. Macmillan.
“In this new edition of the first volume ... substantial additions are
found, together with corrections on various points of detail and
increased precision of statement.... As it now stands, this volume,
which traces the course of industrial progress through early and
mediæval England, more nearly than ever before fulfills its author’s
purpose of indicating clearly the interconnection between the economic
and political facts of the periods reviewed, and of making plain not
only the events but the ideas of the time.”—Outlook.
=Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Curtis, Francis.= Republican party. Vols. I and II. **$6. Putnam.
“The work should command serious interest. The very fact that it is
honored by a foreword over the name of President Roosevelt, and that
the introductory notes ... were written by Senator William P. Frye and
Speaker J. G. Cannon, at once arouses interest. By copious extracts
from government documents, party platforms and newspaper files, the
author shows first the republican party owes its origin neither to
enthusiasts nor to a single movement. The party has been consistent
through its career, and to-day stands for the three great policies for
which it stood at its birth, ‘liberty, honor, and progress.’”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
“But in spite of the fact that the author is neither exact nor
entirely conservative in all his statements, the work as a whole must
command lasting respect.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 127. Ja. ‘05. 300w.
“The period of the Civil war is handled skilfully and with less
partisanship than might have been expected. It will be easily seen
that Mr. Curtis’s work will be accepted only by loyal party men, and
yet it is of great value to the historical student; in fact, it is a
very elaborate historical argument.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 400w.
“It would be ridiculous to call this kind of stuff ‘history’, since it
entirely lacks the historical spirit or sense of proportion, still Mr.
Curtis has compiled a useful record.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 599. My. 6, ‘05. 1400w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2.
Revell.
“Another descriptive informational volume, so many of which have
already come from the pen of the same author. Mr. Curtis tells of
things he has seen, and garnishes his narrative with a great deal of
historical and descriptive information which makes very interesting
reading. There are a number of excellent illustrations in this
volume.”—R. of Rs.
* “To add anything new to these old familiars would be impossible; but
Mr. Curtis’s view-point is at times refreshing.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.
* “There is in the present book the same easy, confident, and
confidential style of sketching and statisticizing (if the word may
pass) that makes not unpleasant reading in Mr. Curtis’s previous
volume.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 403. N. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its reading will amply repay any one interested in either the
ancient or the modern development of the countries treated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Modern India. **$2. Revell.
A vast deal of information has been brought together here, and the
author’s method “is to combine with a mass of observations and
deductions of his own—the observations taken hastily upon his travels
and the deductions—not too carefully checked—statistics, fragments of
history, geography, ethnology, guide book information, and what not
gathered together from all available sources.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
author is happier in his delineation of modern life, and the casual
reader will enjoy the descriptions of town and country, plague and
famine, peasant and priest.” (Nation.)
* “It is a strange medley of wit and wisdom with error and ignorance,
of fun and burlesque with serious study, the good qualities, however,
predominating.”
+ — =Ath.= 2: 639. N. 11, ‘05. 1560w.
* “A very helpful book for those who wish data upon which to base a
reasonable judgment of the actual state of affairs in that country.”
H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“With much that is statistically accurate, the book unfortunately
abounds in printer’s and author’s errors.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
“It would, no doubt, be hard to find in another single volume such a
variety of information about India and Indian affairs, but the
assemblage with all its facts and figures, lacks that authority which
is necessary to give full value to a work of this kind.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 1160w.
“A feature of particular value to Americans is the exposition of the
activities of their countrymen in the religious, educational, economic
and social life of India.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Another of Mr. Curtis’ encyclopaedic but entertaining books.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Cuthbert, Father.= Catholic ideals in social life. *$1.25. Benziger.
Father Cuthbert’s “desire has been to give expression to the Catholic
mind touching some of the most urgent questions of the hour in regard
to social life and conduct.” His essays include: The church and
personal liberty, The Christian state, The education of women,
Marriage, The value of work, The priest and social reform, The
responsibility of wealth, The idea of responsibility, Religious
aspects of social work, The working man’s apostolate, and St. Francis
and you.
“Fresh, hopeful, and courageous essays.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 681. F. ‘05. 540w.
=Cuthell, E. H.= My garden in the city of gardens. **$1.50. Lane.
Gardening in India from October to June furnishes the theme of this
“memory with illustrations.” There is a goodly amount of incidental
knowledge worked in, such as descriptions of prevalent Indian customs
and bits of gossip concerning Hindu every-day life.
“In spite of these faults and such others as an awkward style of
writing and the lack of a glossary of Indian words, the book contains
a good deal that is of interest in regard to life and nature in
India.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 243. O. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“As garden-books go, this one is sufficiently entertaining, and the
descriptions are as good as the photographs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 150w.
“Much of it is good enough reading if the mood fits.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 690w.
“But good as much of the book is, it is a little spoiled by an excess
of carelessness in style and a too pointed assertion of individual
mannerisms.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 291. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1470w.
=Cutler, James Elbert.= Lynch law: an investigation into the history of
lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
Beginning with the origin of the term Prof. Cutler traces the
development of the lynch law from 1830 down to date. He discusses the
present situation, suggests remedies, and gives charts and statistics.
“The volume will repay careful study, even if exception is
occasionally taken to some of the author’s conclusions. The volume
represents a great amount of research work and the author is to be
congratulated upon the manner in which the material is presented.”
Carl Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 280w.
+ + + = Ath.= 1905, 2: 296. S. 2. 1860w.
+ =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“The book is sane, temperate in tone, moderate in statement, and
judicial in conclusions. It is the only really valuable treatise on
the subject, and is not likely to be superseded.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 34. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1310w.
“Dr. Cutler has done much to solve the problem by his laborious,
careful, and candid study of the question, which has already made him
the leading authority upon a dangerous social disease.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 57. Jl. 20, ‘05. 2110w.
“In his final chapters on the justification of lynching and the
remedies for it, Mr. Cutler shows a spirit remarkable for its fairness
and an appreciation of the force of circumstances and the historical
facts of the situation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 1850w.
“Careful and dispassionate study of the phenomenon known as lynching.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“A well-considered and thoughtful analysis of the facts and figures.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 470w.
* “Mr. Cutler’s book should be valuable for its summary of facts, and
for the solemn warning that thoughtful Americans may read between the
lines.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= Little stories of courtship. †$1.25. McClure.
“Tales of plain, everyday, middle-class people—people who are not
overburdened with the world’s goods, but who are educated, cultured
and refined—in short, the people we meet daily about us. The eight
stories which make up this volume are very pleasant reading,
indeed.”—N. Y. Times.
“This collection does not fulfill all the expectations excited by its
unique predecessor, ‘The little stories of married life.’”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 320w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
“Stories of the book are all simple in their theme, but they gain much
by Mrs. Cutting’s sympathetic handling of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The charm of all the stories lies in their perfect naturalness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Some of these ‘little stories of courtship’ are excellent in their
way, indicating shrewd observation and a kindly sympathy. But they are
of very uneven merit.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“They are gracefully spun, and, without being intense, they have the
human touch. They portray life in its usual phases, yet they are not
without variety, and they are very genuine in feeling.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
Cyclopedia of applied electricity; a practical guide for electricians,
mechanics, engineers, students, telegraph and telephone operators, and
all others interested in electricity. Prepared by a corps of experts,
electrical engineers and designers. 5v. $30. Am. school of
correspondence.
The text is divided in five parts and contains over 2,000
illustrations. Part I. treats of current measurements, part II. of
dynamos, part III. of lightning, part IV. of alternating currents and
power transmission, and part V. of telephony.
“We give, therefore, without comment on our part, the opinion passed
by the publishers themselves: ‘The practical value of the work as a
whole can hardly be questioned.’”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 294. Mr. 16, ‘05. 990w.
“A practical guide and encyclopedia of electrical knowledge that
should be of great value to the everyday worker with electricity in
all of its applications.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 428. Mr. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Cynewulf.= Dream of the rood: an old English poem attributed to
Cynewulf; ed. by Albert S. Cook. *90c. Oxford.
With the reproduction of this poem from the Vercelli book, the editor
offers complete sidelight information including an introduction which
discusses the manuscript, translations, authorship—sometimes
attributed to Caedmon—and literary characteristics of the poem. There
are full notes, an appendix and a glossary.
“This little book is full of valuable and all but convincing facts.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 445. Ap. 22, ‘05. 600w.
“The notes proper are full and interesting, and the glossary unusually
helpful.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 686. Je. 3. 280w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 40w.
D
=Dale, Alan, pseud.= See =Cohen, Alfred J.=
=Dale, Thomas F.= Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
An authoritative polo handbook. “Mr Dale has succeeded in
accomplishing what no previous writer on polo has ever done, that is
to present a concise, even graphic, view of the present status of polo
throughout the world. The chapters on polo in England, America, India,
Australia, and New Zealand, while technical, as the rules of each
country are presented in full with illustrative comment, are of
peculiar interest at the present time owing to a growing sentiment for
an international code of rules.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Dale has the happy faculty of writing entertainingly for the
general reader as well as for the scientific student. His book
combines both elements.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1090w.
“A short chapter on the elements of polo is as instructive as it can
be; and the later portions of the work, which deal with training
ponies, stable management, and polo-pony breeding, contain much
excellent matter.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ‘05. 600w.
=Daniels, Mabel W.= American girl in Munich. †$1.25. Little.
A Boston girl’s account of a year spent as a student of music in
Munich. The German life in the little pension, the trials and joys of
her fellow students, her professors, and the operas and symphonies she
enjoyed, are described in a series of chatty letters to her chum. She
meets several real celebrities in the world of music, and weaves into
her story a pretty little German love idyl.
“Pleasantly written and full of delightful humor.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“There is not a ponderous page, yet she has attempted to enliven her
narrative by weaving into it a boarding-house love story. It would
have been wiser to study her German and read her proofs carefully.”
+ + — =Nation=, 81: 83. Jl. 27, ‘05. 680w.
“Delightfully readable are the letters. The book will be primarily
interesting to another girl who has been or is thinking of studying
abroad, but it is written in a chatty, gossipy manner which makes easy
reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A series of bright and entertaining letters. They have a flavor of
genuineness quite apart from their mention of real notabilities and
places.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 70w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Divina commedia; tr. by H. F. Tozer. *$1. Oxford.
“A translation into English prose intended primarily for readers who
are not acquainted with Italian. Mr. Tozer has endeavored to give
Dante’s meaning as fully and clearly as possible without adhering too
literally to the words; and at the same time to present the poem in a
fairly readable form.”—Bookm.
“In rendering the poem itself Mr. Tozer’s prose contrasts lamentably
with the noble, beautiful, living English and the unerring good taste
of Professor Norton.” Abbott Foster.
— + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 970w.
“The translator has coped successfully with the difficult task of
rendering Dante in English prose suitable for the student. From an
artistic standpoint, much is necessarily lacking in the way of music
and connotation of style.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“The most obvious quality of Mr. Tozer’s translation is its
readableness; its inferiority to Mr. Norton’s lies in a less profound
Dante scholarship, and in a certain looseness of style which springs
from a tendency to paraphrase, and now from the use of inappropriate
words.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 298, Ap. 13, ‘05. 750w.
Reviewed by W. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 700w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Inferno: a translation and commentary, by Marvin R.
Vincent. **$1.50. Scribner.
“While owning up to the ‘disenchantment’ of any translation,” the
author, who is professor of sacred literature in the Union theological
seminary, offers his own as a help to ‘make the study of Dante what it
should be—a part of the curriculum of every theological institution.’
The translation “is fortified with about 125 pages of notes which
comprise a commentary on words and phrases and ideas gathered and
sifted from H. F. Tozer’s convenient book of explanation, and from
similar publications. The author has also scattered some things of his
own with lavish hand—principally in the departments of religions and
ethical interpretation, altho there are some of historical fact.” (N.
Y. Times).
“The student is led without useless ornamentation directly to the
poet’s conception; and that is what most students want.”
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Dr. Vincent has made a very strong, accurate and readable
translation.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 2890w.
“It is far from being a successful translation, for the figurative
meanings have almost entirely disappeared with the rhythmical. It is
just as far from being a successful poem, for all that Dr. Vincent
gives us has already been more concisely expressed in plain prose.
These notes are of uniform excellence, and are, as the author
intimates, the result of class-room debates. On the chance that there
are certain intellects which will more rapidly grasp a blank verse
‘Inferno’ rather than one in genuine poetry like Cary’s or in
rhetorical prose like Norton’s, Dr. Vincent’s book may not be deemed
entirely superfluous. For such intellects his notes can hardly fail to
be otherwise than enlightening and stimulating.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Vincent announces that he has made a literal translation based on
the Oxford text of Dr. Moore.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 759. D. ‘04. 80w.
=D’Arblay, Madame.= See =Burney, Frances.=
=Dargan, Edwin Charles.= History of preaching from the apostolic fathers
to the great reformers. **$1.75. Armstrong.
“This, the first of three volumes, carries the subject to the close of
the Reformation period. The two that are to follow will treat of
modern European preaching and the history of preaching in the United
States. Thus a field at present but partially worked will be fully
covered. The present volume treats successively of the patristic
preaching, its decline after the fourth century, mediæval preaching
from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the subsequent
renaissance.”—Outlook.
“Dr. Dargan gives us a careful view of the historic settings and
abundant biographical detail.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 598. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The author appears to have done very little original research, but he
writes a readable style, and has made use of good sources of
information.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26. 130w.
“We know of no other work of this character in which the combination
of pleasing diction and abundant information is more satisfactory. Our
author has depended largely upon Protestant authorities on matters
connected with the Catholic church. The erudition of the author, his
pleasing style and his spirit of equity give to the book a large
value.”
+ + — =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “The book is a treasury of learning of a certain kind, but the
learning is scarcely helpful. As a bibliography, indeed, the volume
may be useful.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: sup. 910. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Heroes of Iceland; adapted from the
translation of Dasent by Allen French. $1.50. Little.
A tale adapted from Dasent’s translation of “The story of burnt Njal,”
the great Icelandic saga, with a preface, introduction and notes by
Mr. French. It pictures Iceland in the tenth century, the old pagan
life, the dawn of Christianity, and the struggle of mighty heroes.
* “In his comprehensive introduction as well as his notes, the author
gives a thoro setting.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“A very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 30w.
* “We have no criticism to make on Mr. French’s execution of his
task.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 904. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Popular tales from the Norse. *$2.50.
Putnam.
The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains
besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which
considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general,
and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the
book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who
gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on
the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896.
It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a
typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited
reward.” (Nation).
“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day
when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of
recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or
the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way
not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation
from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well
of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose
happily may be.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 114. F. 9, ‘05. 530w.
=Daumier, Honore.= International Studio. Daumier and Gavarni. *$2; *$3.
Lane.
A number devoted to Daumier and Gavarni, the two great French
cartoonists of the last century. There are two dozen reproductions of
their work in color and photogravures, and a hundred illustrations in
black and white. Critical and biographical notes on Daumier are
translated from an essay of M. Henri Frantz, and there is an essay
upon Gavarni by M. Octave Uzanne.
“Will be greatly prized by collectors of the works of the great
satirical cartoonists and illustrators. It will prove a valuable
addition to the art-collector’s library.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 338. Mr. ‘05. 690w.
“The essays are after all mere introductions to the plates.
Incidentally the cartoons furnish a fascinating interpretation of
Parisian life and manners. The special numbers of ‘The studio’ are
always interesting, but this one is unusually unique and suggestive.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=Davenport, Frederick Morgan.= Primitive traits in religious revivals: a
study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a purely sociological interpretation of revivals, having no
evangelistic bias or motive. In his development of this theme the
author has introduced accounts of various revivals of this country and
Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
“His collection of materials in this field is highly interesting, and
a valuable supplement to Stoll’s ‘Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der
Völker-psychologie.’” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 160w.
* “It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Every minister
should read it carefully and take its lessons to heart. The social
student will find it helpful in explaining phenomena which have not
received the attention they deserve.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 750. N. ‘05. 190w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 688. N. ‘05. 500w.
“The treatment of his subject is logical and fairly clear, though with
a number of repetitions.” Rolvix Harlan.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 237. S. ‘05. 570w.
“The latter chapters of the book are somewhat disappointing. Instead
of calm, scientific analyses or a logical drawing of conclusions,
Prof. Davenport indulges in an exposition of his own theories and
ideas.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The book is a valuable and highly interesting contribution to the
many recent discussions of the place and value of the emotions in
moral and religious development.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 20. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1660w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 140w.
=Davidson, Andrew Bruce.= Theology of the Old Testament. **$2.50.
Scribner.
Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology
from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God,
of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his
theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of
observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive
style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented
biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a
moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and
untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be
repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate
Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament
literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our
modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’
of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail
to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick
McCurdy.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 346. Ap. ‘05. 5160w.
“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many
brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there
is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the
preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on
any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is
trained in modern historical methods.”
— + =Bib. World.= 25: 283. Ap. ‘05. 2340w.
“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of
the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.
+ =Dial.= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 600w.
“The book contains much good material and is of real value.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 320w.
=Davidson, Rev. John.= St. Peter and his training. *30c. Lippincott.
“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside
the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its
truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.
“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of
his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most
expositors.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Davidson, John.= Selected poems. *$1.25. Lane.
“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd
critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse,
his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of
poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make
the bulk of the book.”—Nation.
“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative
life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy
of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w.
“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest
Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his
work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w.
“Uncommonly masculine volume.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.= Christian
opportunity. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of
Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only
temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents
of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston,
and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence
of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his
cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We
in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize
better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of
English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you
in New England have come to see that even among those whom your
great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something
worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the
common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old
world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)
=Atlan.= 95: 705. My. ‘05. 180w.
“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of
the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment,
catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= : 7. F. 10, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Davidson, Thomas.= Education of the wage earners. *75c. Ginn.
“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York
city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture,
Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of
wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully
studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the
history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M.
Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of
Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of
Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very
real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.
+ + =Charities.= 14: 642. Ap. 1, ‘05. 540w.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
=Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w.
Reviewed by J. Lawrence Laughlin.
* + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 611. S. ‘05. 370w.
=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by
Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards
musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we
might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is
everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is
singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising
vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and
explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.
“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the
author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he
qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to
keep the main drift of his argument in view.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 306. S. 22, ‘05. 610w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 420w.
=Davies, Gerald Stanley.= Franz Hals. $1.75. Macmillan.
This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture
series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century,
Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life
is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best
known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most
important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to
the galleries in which they are hung.
“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic,
imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender
accepted data.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 520w.
=Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn,= ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For
half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part
in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and
development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter
on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W.
Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.”
Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B.
Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters
illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night
school to a model institution of its kind.
“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it
lacks an index.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 337. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w.
=Spec.= 94: 18. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1520w.
=Davies, W. W.= Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. *75c. Meth. bk.
A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to
help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is
given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in
long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.
=Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Davis, Foxcroft.= Mrs. Darrell. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and
finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham.
Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and
his lawyers press Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham
and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator,
who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The
senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.
“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except
for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”
— =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w.
“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the
train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs.
Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.
“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development
cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually
interesting.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
* =Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and
development of the great business combinations and their relation to the
authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now
familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here
attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest
manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical
organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial
companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There
are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length
sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure,
operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.
* “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly
suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition
to economic literature.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 580w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York
capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an
Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the
momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the
sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the
dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and
courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic
prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion
right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been
terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and
ostracized hero.
* “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle
delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its
idealism, and its prejudice.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 500w.
* “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and
some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction
is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 340w.
“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of
the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed
ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Miss Civilization. **50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey
Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in
holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police,
whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars
trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals,
where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur
rendering.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Davison, Charles.= Study of recent earthquakes. $1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the
results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather
than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a
text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight
disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject
attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several
chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming
earthquake.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w.
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which
its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation
amongst those who seek for general information.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 532. Ap. 6, ‘05. 630w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Davitt, Michael.= Fall of feudalism in Ireland. **$2.50. Harper.
“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to
regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian
settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty
years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr.
Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both
interesting and valuable.”—Critic.
“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected,
makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has
done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed
on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
* =Dawson, Miles Menander.= Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing
himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of
life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various
systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates
are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase
their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject
is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and
warning.”—Outlook.
* “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should
find a wide audience.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 320w.
=Dawson, Samuel E.= Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. *$1.35.
Stokes.
“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth
the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the
northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is
accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good
maps.”—Outlook.
“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of
the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical
faculty, which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject
involving a good many disputed points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 116. Jl. 22. 1210w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Ind.= 49: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 230w.
“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most
fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 1920w.
“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover
of romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful
volume.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 478. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Dawson, Thomas C.= South American republics, pt. 2. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent
summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South
American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina,
Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he
[Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil.
During the interval between the appearance of the first and second
volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This
second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are
too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a
tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched
the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of
the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its
value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate
compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently
confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The
illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and
out of date.” Hiram Bingham.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic
situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two
small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the
author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or
bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical
compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the
present situation in the South American republics.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 338. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1189. My. 25, ‘05. 200w.
* “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however,
largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar
acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great
personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth
century in South America.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 696. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Dawson, W. J.= Evangelistic note, *$1.25. Revell.
A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a
successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the
Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic
field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value
of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of
to-day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w.
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one
which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with
the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful,
convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w.
=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English fiction. *$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of
novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen,
then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens,
the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley,
George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others,
closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a
“Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are
considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an
extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a
development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us
for many a day.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 664. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Day, Emily Foster.= Menehunes. *75c. Elder.
A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii,
illustrated by Spencer Wright.
* + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
=Day, Thomas Fleming.= Hints to young yacht skippers. $1. Rudder pub.
Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from
boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects
relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.”
Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity
of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he
owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time,
money, hard work and anxiety.
“The book is full of useful information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
(Detailed statement of contents.)
=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology.
*$1.30. Macmillan.
A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and
especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped
with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s
study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He
carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of
statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but
which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from
actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands
for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 266. S. ‘05. 1190w.
* “The abridgment has been excellently done.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of
a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v.
*$40. Univ. of Chicago press.
Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the
first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and
contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations,
the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the
work of research of the several departments of the university,
organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President
Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago
university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church
history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV
is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and
Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature,
Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language
and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and
Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII
turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the
Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades
the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects
of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with
Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and
Bacteriology.
=Bib. World.= 25: 240. Mr. ‘05. 50w. (States contents of v. 5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 760w. (Survey of
contents).
“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual
activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the
brief period of its existence.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 593. Ap. 15, ‘05. 410w.
=Deecke, W.= Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and
its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt.
$5. Macmillan.
A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning
with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at
geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and
general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the
climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and
touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of
the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history,
and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political
institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the
church, language, and science, and a topographical description of
various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)
“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place,
it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is
simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is
exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the
statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want
constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not
know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate,
and so interesting.”
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 378. Ap. ‘05. 250w. (States contents of
Vol. V.)
“Is all done carefully and well.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 588. My. ‘05. 100w.
“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is
also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”
— — =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be
found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter
so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 760w.
“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German
thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land
and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is
a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written,
and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in
fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in
nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular
places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy
from so many points of view. The topographical part is really
something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for
reference rather than to be read continuously.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 2290w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Slanderers. †$1.50. Harper.
“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an
idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father,
partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek
tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds
that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan
only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes
off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the
greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The
slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the
members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations.
And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity
of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other
people.” (N. Y. Times).
“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these
slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a
mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the
reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr.
Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical
sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the
meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair
of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the
average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is
distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes
its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
— — =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w.
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Dekker, Eduard Douwes.= (Multatuli, pseud.). Walter Pieterse: a story
of Holland. $1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his
vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid
surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a
little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch
Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of
confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty.
The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at
moments.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w.
“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine,
(he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary
iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares.
Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not
already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr.
Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life
in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry.= Peter’s mother. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story.
There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is
contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the
brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering
inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her
finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase
deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one
strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so
lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much
charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w.
— =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w.
=Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w.
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters
can be made interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most
agreeably blended.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= After the divorce. †$1.50. Holt.
The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian
peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment
for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the
confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his
innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both
money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which
liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she
had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the
two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young
happiness is gone forever.
“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She
effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of
her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in
person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w.
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w.
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is
perfect.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w.
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a
manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost
something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still
well worth reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 267. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 20w.
“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the
original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 390w.
=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of
the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order
of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness
that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as
much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal
persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special
attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any
other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”
“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr.
Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin
Cox.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 169. O. ‘05. 840w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 620w.
“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in
the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders
with which its pages abound.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable.
The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story
telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the
wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by
explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a
vitascope.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 50w.
“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1110w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the
chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have
the appearance of being thrown together.”
+ — — =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
* =Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Violin maker;
trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of
Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer
found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took
him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other
masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his
father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in
Mittenwald.
=Dent, Edward J.= Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works. *$3.50.
Longmans.
“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without
blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough
sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his
circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.
“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is
called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a
handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s
library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there
are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart
interest to the manner as well as the matter.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 1470w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 538. Ap. 29. 470w.
* “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard
authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J.
Henderson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 852. D. ‘05. 240w.
“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and
scores.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
=De Pue, Edward Spence.= Dr. Nicholas Stone. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast
manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy
holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them
thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly
escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence
of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and
respected old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere
joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money
go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.
“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that
attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots,
the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed
to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he
discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.
=De Selincourt, Beryl D.= Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the
borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte
Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti,
the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in
which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament
of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen
half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by
Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.
“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s
style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 387. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 340w.
“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and
teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his
surroundings.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“A manifest labor of love.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.
“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way
information.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 502. O. 14, ‘05. 970w.
“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a
vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=Deutsch, Leo.= Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3.
Dutton.
A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account
of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them
to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the
translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving
impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a
reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the
Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were
prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.”
(Outlook.)
“The volume deserves a wide reading.”
+ + =Ann.= Am. Acad. 26: 588. S. ‘05. 120w.
“Very interesting and informing book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 505. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.
=Devine, Edward T.= Principles of relief. **$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity
organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical
aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under
four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the
essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful
idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living
which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief
work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find
their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is
printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical
relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief.
Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am.
J. Soc.)
“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published
was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph
has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity
produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to
place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the
specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious
student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 554. Ja. ‘05. 670w.
“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully,
the underlying principles on which the charity organization society
movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive
statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving,
whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these
principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a
way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has
mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive
throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will
be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the
authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help
feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias
of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too
exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles
A. Ellwood.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 143. Ja. ‘05. 870w.
“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the
subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More
Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 340w.
“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague
notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no
writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor
relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the
analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at
principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to
the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of
the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and
professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it
is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest
him to any great extent.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 300w.
“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his
practical suggestions are instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 610w.
“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for
Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the
problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so
far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it
presents itself in American cities.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1440w.
“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.
“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear
somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David
I. Green.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 81. My. ‘05. 1190w.
=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in
Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the
social, political and religious field. It tells what American
missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the
Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the
Filipinos themselves.
“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high
degree.” H. Parker Willis.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter
interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= History of education in the United States. **$2.
Macmillan.
The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey
of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of
the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it
an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of
education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education
from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every
phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to
newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of
learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general
organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the
people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational
extension.” (Educ. R.)
“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove
disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should
be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of
fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are
far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth
Brown.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude,
and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment
and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction
from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature
of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter
and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w.
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is
most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity,
whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the
majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would
have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry
Davidson Sheldon.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w.
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization,
accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the
material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a
subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many
details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept
stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them,
and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single
work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so
that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for
criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of
treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w.
“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless
readable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= Weather influences; an empirical study of the
mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions.
**$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of
New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their
divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the
school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the
meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data
for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease,
drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school
children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 135. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
=Ind.= 58: 728. Mr. 30, ‘05. 510w.
=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the
Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the
history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most
eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left
unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of
the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly
struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door
was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s
draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further
researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to
which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
* “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is
obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The
grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm.
Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 306. N. 16, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 600w.
“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of
information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 420w.
=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating
influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general
body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful
soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the
nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old
Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the
second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ...
the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of
opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some
sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 727. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1130w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 5. Jl. 1, 1820w.
“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity
of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the
most extensive developments that will save his work from being
relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 282. N. ‘05. 1260w.
“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of
our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the
counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or
diverted it.” R.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 250w.
“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 500w.
“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 214. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1930w.
“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a
model.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 2180w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 884. D. 9, ‘05. 1000w.
“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 571. O. 28, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and
if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects
during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in
sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests
dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor
Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 86. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1810w.
“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that
there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style
so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books,
it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the
narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation.
There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is
brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to
that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can
imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 880w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,”
says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful
survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for
connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture
and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening
and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it
treats that has yet appeared.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w.
* “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student
and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Dickberry, F.= Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon
suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks
upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had
been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction.
“Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and
a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact
that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the
fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and
receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in
the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly
deficient in good taste.”
— =Bookm.= 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w.
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles
the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire.
There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might
do something better.”
— =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 40w.
“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2.
Baker.
The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very
attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be
perennially a part of the holiday season.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young
people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities
both of literary and artistic workmanship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities. $1.25. Crowell.
Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the
understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever
taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the
“Thin paper classics.”
* =Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has
been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the
Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four
or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic
drawings reproduced.
* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* =Dickerson, Mary Angela.= Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. †$1.
Wessels.
The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes
realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the
wonders of the tale.
=Dickerson, Mary C.= Moths and butterflies. *$1.25. Ginn.
An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower
high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine
butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to
Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to
collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book
contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life,
by the author.
“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in
schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and
high school grades.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 272. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and
it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 76. My. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic
illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for
which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05 100w.
“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the
intelligent minds of young persons in America.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated
guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared
by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is
intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and
the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and
critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music
history, show what are the important subjects involved and their
connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the
student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on
every phase and detail of the subject.”
“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and
general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 780w.
“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness
and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 540w.
“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume
is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 190w.
“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music.
The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very
valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the
history of music.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.
“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers
representing all the various political and social systems of the
world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist,
the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The
closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly
represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up
all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.
* “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”
+ =Dial.= 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast.
**50c. McClure.
An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the
logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen,
reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established
religions.
“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of
a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to
make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has
written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in
its object.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w.
“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general
attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or
others stand in so important a subject as religion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w.
* “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation
of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive
style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w.
=Dickson, Harris.= Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction
period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in
those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge
is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and
is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he
loves.
“Is even better than his first novel.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of
much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and
a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the
symmetry of his story.”
+ — =Ind.= 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The
characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is
aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows,
with happiness and cheer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w.
“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional
for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually
raised in novels of this section.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.
“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s
attention to the end.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a
memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady
Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art
student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many
eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend
of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human
life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s
mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as
sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many
spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument
to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir
which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w.
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his
difficult task with tact and dignity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w.
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should
be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual
life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w.
“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary
aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already
immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to
receive an inspiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w.
=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the
inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its
external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some
length of the relation of the senate to the emperor in the first
century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a
complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N.
Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.
“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his
subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author
makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader
a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws
which governed its development.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w.
“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that
it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we
have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its
improvement.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w.
“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from
Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the
first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for
it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour
of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.”
Henry Jones.
+ + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w.
“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the
conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w.
“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly
and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a
Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w.
“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet
it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture
is the result.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w.
“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who
seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the
political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor
Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the
question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in
pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative
force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing
through bitter conflict to victory.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w.
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
+ + =R of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w.
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he
lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that
direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are
indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he
often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as
numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had
been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think,
have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is
interesting and delightful.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w.
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry
bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the
period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other
Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History
of European morals.’”
+ + + =Westminster Review.= 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w.
=Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope.= Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings
and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a
popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with
any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne
takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of
Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from
breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most
interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of
Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in
which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both
sympathy and information.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w.
* =Spec.= 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Picturesque English cottages. **$2.
Winston.
To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and
“The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the
Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque
English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well
illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text,
covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction,
influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence
upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by
no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)
“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without
blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action
takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the
Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The
story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack
Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a
dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights
his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan,
dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless
to seek a home.” (Outlook.)
* “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is
ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well
sustained.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w.
* “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s
wreath of laurel.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w.
* “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good
style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known
manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge
of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of
artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more
writers like Miss Dix.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
=Dixon, Amzi Clarence.= Lights and shadows of American life. William H.
Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.
Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because
they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common
sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and
girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and
Our destiny, are discussed.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Clansman. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical
novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his
preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of
the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The
clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux
Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the
reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and
strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the
evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens
in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of
revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical
faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the
resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and
carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring
scenes thru which runs a double love story.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous
novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a
novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of
readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be
discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and
superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.
— — + =Bookm.= 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w.
“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that
Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative
pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high
order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is
marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w.
“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous
partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out
of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three
charming love affairs.”
— — + =Ind.= 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book
paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the
North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that
resulted in the South.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w.
“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions
in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be
expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men,
both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our
country and our countrymen.”
— — + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s
style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the
characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the
book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the
epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for
the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of
Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some
impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may
reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of
the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red
rock.’”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his
country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and
the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions
shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such
subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some
sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl,
and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w.
— =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s
private life.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
=Dods, Rev. Marcus.= Bible, its origin and nature. **$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which
Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view
to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received
in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It
contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
* “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w.
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears
as to the critical study of the Bible.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the
brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his
treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to
exaggeration and lip service.”
+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w.
“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with
ingenuity and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been
included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A
sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from
his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman
literature.
* “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are
excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any
favorites.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted
to publish. †$1.25. Pott.
Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the
world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded
village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill
doing, is insane.
“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic
story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost
lost art of letter writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w.
=Donne, William Bodham.= William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by
Catharine B. Johnson. *$3. Dutton.
“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his
friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The
letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s
life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his
‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are
16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny
Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton,
Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has
succeeded remarkably well.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w.
“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great
many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more
interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w.
“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w.
* “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.
“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth
the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w.
“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of
him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in
color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches.
She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common
certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant
that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one
experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have
courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be
conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it
kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the
affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A charming study of child life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w.
=Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth.= Place of industries in elementary
education. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material
equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of
colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a
teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial
epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical
applications. The illustrations are from photographs.
“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of
teachers.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an
unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book
is this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=Dorman, Marcus R. P.= History of the British empire in the 19th
century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh
(1806-1825). *$4. Lippincott.
“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr.
Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe.
His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the
part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental
affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn
from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries.
He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by
General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government,
on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the
position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the
history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly
concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and
impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w.
=Dorsey, George Amos.= Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by
the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of
Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written
an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history
and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have
stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
=Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Dorsey, George Amos,= ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. *$6. Pub. for
the American folklore society by Houghton.
“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into
Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’
the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry
animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are
placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee
delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A
fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote
figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their
medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power
of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederick Starr.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w.
“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s
comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w.
=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation,
Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with
the necessity of separate books.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w.
“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a
separate study of civics unnecessary.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make
government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation
that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
* Double-knot and other stories. †$1.25. Benziger.
Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary
G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other
Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up
this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories,
but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer,
who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire,
and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a
life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters
of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.
=Dougall, Lily.= Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.
The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the
mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The
story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering
religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of
the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s
famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts
of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.”
(N. Y. Times).
“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while
another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of
nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely
exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and
she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect
she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is
remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of
contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character.
The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of
Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and
it deserves success.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s
interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very
end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly
purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure
the book is to be commended.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* =Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= Little girl in old San Francisco. †$1.50.
Dodd.
“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days.
When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the
West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood
past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth
of the city.”—Outlook.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.
* “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a
study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the
wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume
is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps,
diagrams and portraits.
* “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern
America.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w.
“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty
well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of
value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.
“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s
‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the
dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
=Douglas, James.= Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic. *$3.50.
Lane.
Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a
novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’
notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest
place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences
and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and
associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the
campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife;
(3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George
Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of
the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and
Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London
Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English
landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and
inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and
Swinburne.
“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and
critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his
biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and
discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with
Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare
sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth
would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar
charm.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w.
“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and
critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ — =Critic.= 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w.
“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of
the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is
by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving
views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is
rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a
sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held
together.” W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences,
collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas,
form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading
lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America
and England.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement
of contents.)
“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore
Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a
study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of
the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too
little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w.
“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as
critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected,
specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of
Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon
the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces
too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants
to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will
find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon
in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a
clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world
about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not
merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself
in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the
inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)
“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in
Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to
enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the
essays themselves.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.
* “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are
considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w.
“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the
mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest
Frenchman that ever lived.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w.
“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and
machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate
assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of
authorities.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w.
“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of
‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the
graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who
nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the
work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among
biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for
in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w.
* “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that
in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced
with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially
impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of
Montaigne will prize.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w.
“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made
whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book
is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should
have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on
English literature.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w.
* “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive
setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so
satisfactory.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
=Dowson, Ernest.= Collected poems. *$1.50. Lane.
This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson,
including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in
1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur
Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.
“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering
rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris
Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w.
“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence,
and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the
introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final
edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and
the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w.
“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine
quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w.
“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them.
They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having
been lived before they were phrased.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w.
“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and
be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive
to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine,
however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Return of Sherlock Holmes. $1.50. McClure.
Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the
famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days
on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the
second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the
six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.
“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so.
Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w.
“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the
construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving
them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its
predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to
the best he has told before.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.
“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the
professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather
small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his
earlier days.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w.
“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do
they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the
fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w.
=Doyle, Edward.= Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247
W. 125th st., N. Y.
“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of
life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and
the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that
of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor
mark this work and the accompanying poems.
+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w.
“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief
characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily,
almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Drayton, Michael.= Poems. $1.25. Scribner.
“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of
attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a
compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has
accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter
pieces.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
=Driscoll, Clara.= Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. †$1.50.
Putnam.
This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life
on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love
with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates
have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.
“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging
individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting
unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle
tedious.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.
“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.
“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether
flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“It is a very little story and very simple.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Voyageur, and other poems. **$1.25. Putnam.
The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and
gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of
country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star
above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”
“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the
English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w.
“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may
seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for
the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces
written in ordinary English.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w.
=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the
French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of
nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of
nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization
and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic
tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness
with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of
becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who
has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”
“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the
difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence
of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and
rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most
readable in medical or psychological literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w.
=Duckworth, W. L. H.= Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for
students. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry
into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry....
In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the
position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has
accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to
make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man
than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’
in 1871.”—Nature.
“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his
facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w.
“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the
number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of
this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The
chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and
contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that
part of the Primate organization.” A. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w.
“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as
both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.
+ + =Science,= n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w.
“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of
the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w.
* =Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).=
Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6.
Lippincott.
Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is
now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of
water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of
French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions
of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal
sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)
* “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to
be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for
its literary style as well.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Altogether this is a delightful book.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w.
* “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
* “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the
pictures awkward.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Dudley, Albertus True.= In the line. †$1.25. Lee.
The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a
sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the
football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial
games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both
sides of the much-discussed football question.
“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book
is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy,
morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant.= Notes from a diary,
1896-1901. 2v. *$4. Dutton.
These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record
of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir
Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and
administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things
that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse,
stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant
men of his time.
“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more
graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w.
“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of
pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so
that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w.
* “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I
read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w.
“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in
course and at a sitting.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.
“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and
offer diverse suggestion to different people.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by
nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom
comes from a single pen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w.
=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire
down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the
English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon,
occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them
England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w.
“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with
which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
=Nation.= 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Three musketeers. $1.25. Crowell.
This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the
court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and
the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned
after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised
translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker
McSpadden.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Twenty years after. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper
classics.”
=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4.
Macmillan.
In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends
concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids
and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth
century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and
miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the
“Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole
church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western
church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church.
Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be
useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable
erudition.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a
remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we
think.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunbar, Charles Franklin.= Economic essays. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had
been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal
of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before
seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was
comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple,
have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the
author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor
Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a
student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in
slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in
Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who
contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the
progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.
“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the
description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century.
Serve as admirable examples of interesting and intelligible
generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w.
“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy
literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of
unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the
student.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific
inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently
judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present
volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon
his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions
of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful
historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time]
display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with
by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
* “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected
from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation
and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of
the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is
no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.
+ + + =Yale. R.= 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w.
* =Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race
strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in
purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique
position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have
rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical
text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former
by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say
that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual
standard in quality.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w.
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the
gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number
of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and
plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”
“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its
predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich
sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy
deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his
best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health
and out-of-doors.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.
Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the
conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment
of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert
recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of
Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the
three divisions for treatment.
* “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy,
overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real
essentials are lost sight of.”
— — =Ind.= 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w.
“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating
biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of
his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the
bibliography.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w.
“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w.
“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an
ideal biography.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w.
* “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal
affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by
excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
=Duncan, Frances.= Mary’s garden and how it grew. †$1.25. Century.
Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind
Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above
all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific
gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between
the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a
practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the
possibilities for the different months, showing what may be
accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The
illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.
“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do
the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is
intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen. **$1.
Revell.
In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is
vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast
of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored,
and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the
bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers
in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into
it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned
by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr.
Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with
his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its
predecessors from the same pen.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w.
“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least
imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative
of book).
+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the
imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w.
=Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Luke of the Labrador. †$1.50. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The
gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that
virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are
now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.”
(R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an
early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on
the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by G. W. A.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w.
“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the
superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the
rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor
as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but
always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort
of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic
interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild
surroundings.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w.
“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w.
“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new
field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating
sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is
new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke
of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville
actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy
effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her.
It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically
expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of
the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.
* “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two
elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he
wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote
of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach
comfortably.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
* “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick
clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination,
the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab
and his friends.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance
more than in ‘The mother.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new
physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of
matter. **$2. Barnes.
“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of
the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery
of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the
subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions,
the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution
of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old
problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the
book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is
made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its
kind that we have read.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to
permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any
important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so
large and the subject-matter so difficult.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w.
“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its
occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an
expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his
scientific earnestness.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into
suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems
which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists.
There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author
might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W.
R.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.
“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w.
“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific
discussion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough
scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not
find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w.
“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault
that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with
sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its
pages.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w.
* =Dunham, Edith.= Jogging round the world. †$1.50. Stokes.
A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give
an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it
shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange
lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which
give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.
* + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w.
=Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott.= From the West to the West: across the
plains to Oregon. †$1.50. McClurg.
This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely
to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there
are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the
Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of
the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle,
and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the
long list of characters playing a part in it.
“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of
the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical
accuracy.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may
inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of
story writing.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w.
=Dunkerley, S.= Mechanism. *$3. Longmans.
This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the
usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower
and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple
machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with
mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain
forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next
two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The
remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and
cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery....
The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical
examples at the end of the book will be of much value to
students.”—Nature.
“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w.
=Dunn, Henry Treffry.= Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his
circle. **$1. Pott.
The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the
house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet
and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.
“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his
annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text,
and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s
reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and
suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of
which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of
bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w.
“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr.= Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25.
Houghton.
“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’
The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter
of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission
to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25.
Houghton.
Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including,
besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The
meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The
Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and
judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.
“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w.
“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and
cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted
judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading
spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these
are evident.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.
“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong
potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and
not inebriate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* =Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from
Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century
the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and
mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor
Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the
sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and
jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English
political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution,
Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the
epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.
* “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears
abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w.
* “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w.
=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to
distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an
interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance
of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the
peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she
pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which
no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”
“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who
knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and
unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w.
“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic
English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman,
unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w.
“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w.
“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value
of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known
conditions in obscure places.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis,= ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. **$1. Funk.
A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions
and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout
the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for
clergymen, missionaries and students.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell=,
eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical,
statistical. **$6. Funk.
In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the
amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It
contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages
which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There
is also a number of special articles of unusual value, prepared by
experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows
special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races,
as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)
“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography
and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and
admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is
inexcusable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w.
=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50.
Scribner.
The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed,
thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and
will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty
of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,”
eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of
engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in
touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual
kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford
the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental,
and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be
a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have
made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects
discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of
communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food
supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration,
finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results,
the future, and recent events.
“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful
that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity,
uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the
estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 8. Ja. 7. 1430w.
“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense.
In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He
shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army
of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in
the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the
Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future
success.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
* “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on
twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the
problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting
the country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so
wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of
Japanese national life.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w.
“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to
warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in
compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present
stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s
discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work
lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers
of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy
with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at
times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the
‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be
detected.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w.
=Dyer, Louis.= Machiavelli and the modern state. *$1. Ginn.
“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as
lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar
Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of
morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at
Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and
none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the
style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid
overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w.
“A valuable little volume.”
=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s
zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course
of these most interesting lectures.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w.
E
=Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle).= Garden colour; with
fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. *$6. Dutton.
“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ...
which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss
Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months,
giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly
in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby
each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at
the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the
principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish
in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs.
C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden
lovers and writers.”—Dial.
=Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get
some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith
Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and
bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w.
=Eastman, Charles A.= Red hunters and the animal people. **$1.25.
Harper.
“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a
full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air
are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and
feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a
brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of
them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished
from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that
have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to
be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written,
with no affectation or mannerism.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w.
“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly
chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has
failed with them.”
— =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w.
“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so
lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it
is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite,
justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long
enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it
throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few
contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.
=Eastman, Helen.= New England ferns and their common allies; an easy
method of determining the species. *$1.25. Houghton.
“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and
equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a
picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids
are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.
“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that
have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad
for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
=Eccles, Robert Gibson.= Food preservatives, their advantages and proper
use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem;
with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in
practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to
showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made
even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to
that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the
other.” (Ind.)
“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the
excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and
out of court, against the use of preservatives.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w.
* =Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials,
manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.
The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of
manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are
treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working
engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those
who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.
* “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It
is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it
treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered
a masterpiece of compilation.”
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w.
=Eckenrode, Hamilton James.= Political history of Virginia during the
reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.
The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political
parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the
Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President
Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the
Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for
the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the
Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a
party measure.”—R. of Rs.
“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources
satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably
justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.”
William E. Dodd.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w.
=Eckman, George P.= Young man with a program, and other sermons to young
men. *50c. Meth. bk.
The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young
men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They
treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at
his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his
meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the
supreme passion.
=Edgington, T. B.= Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.
The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of
Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional
experience and an extended study of original sources of information.
Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe
doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the
Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims
against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its
origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are
in this book described with no little narrative skill, with
clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).
“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most
serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling
sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents.
Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and
suggestive.” John H. Latané.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 601. My. ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 553. Ap. ‘05. 360w.
“Mr. Edgington preserves a calm and historical spirit in all his
comments on the interesting subjects of which he treats, and the
argumentation in which he not infrequently indulges is that of a
candid jurisconsult rather than that of a partisan.” James Oscar
Pierce.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 122. F. 16, ‘05. 1190w.
=Edmunds, Albert Joseph.= Buddhist and Christian gospels: being Gospel
parallels from Pali texts. *$1.50. Open ct.
The third edition, complete, and edited with notes by Prof. Anesaki of
the imperial University of Tokio. The editor “holds to the
independence of the fundamental documents of the Buddhist and the
Christian scriptures. He only raises the question whether the Gospel
of Luke, ‘in certain traits extraneous to the synoptical narrative,’
is indebted to a Buddhist source. This question he submits to the
reader who compares the parallel texts here presented. Much more than
merely such parallels are presented; pretty nearly every book of the
New Testament supplies matter for a comparison with the Buddhist
scriptures, which even the amateur in such studies will find
interesting. The New Testament suffers nothing in the comparison.”
(Outlook.)
“As a contribution to the study of comparative religion from a
Japanese scholar, this volume has a peculiar interest as well as a
positive value for the student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 90w.
=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a
midsummer ramble in the Dolomites. $2.50. Dutton.
In this third edition the text is the same as that of the first
edition of 1873, but the footnotes and other explanatory matter that
appeared in the second edition of the book have been included in the
present volume. The district here described is in that part of the
Southeastern Tyrol lying between Botzen, Brunecken, Innichen and
Belluno; within this space are the limestone Dolomite mountains. There
are numerous illustrations in half-tone.
“Now as twenty-five years ago, the indispensable work is Miss Edwards’
‘Untrodden peaks.’”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 529. Je. 29, ‘05. 480w.
“A pleasant volume of travel and guidebook information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 340w.
“A new and welcome edition of a thoroughly readable book of travels.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-.= Home life in France. *$2.50.
McClurg.
Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school
life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of
public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy
and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the
home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city
keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom
fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to
whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”
“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal
reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the
average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing
only to the cultivated few.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w.
* “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her
own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w.
* “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of
the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good
humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of
ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on
knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 300. N. 16, ‘05. 1180w.
“The value of a book which is in the main not less valuable than
interesting is somewhat impaired by this persistent ignoring of the
seamy side of life.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 570w.
* “She has succeeded on the whole, in writing a very entertaining book
full of detailed information, with statistics that here and there need
slight correction.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 491. D. 14, ‘05. 1010w.
“An extremely interesting, and in many ways valuable, book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 1000w.
“The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France,
and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that
country.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “A description of French domestic life and conditions which is
written with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 50w.
“Miss Betham-Edwards selects matter which on the whole may be intended
more for women than for men, but the latter will not enjoy it the less
on that account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “There are also here and there signs of hurry and awkwardness in the
style. All this could easily be put right in another edition, which
the book, if only for the valuable amount of detail it contains,
certainly ought to reach.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 259. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1570w.
=Edwards, William Seymour.= Into the Yukon. **$1.50. Clarke, R.
In a series of papers which were originally home letters, the author
tells of the travels of himself and wife thru the Canadian northwest,
the gulfs and fjords of the North Pacific, the valley of the upper
Yukon, the golden Klondike, and some parts of California and the
Middle west. The book gives an apparently unbiased view of conditions
on the Canadian Yukon in the summer of 1903. It is profusely
illustrated with snap shot photographs.
“If it says nothing new, at least says it brightly and interestingly.”
Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Edwards seems to be a clear-sighted observer, and his narration
is straightforward and unpretentious. He appears to possess the knack
of gathering and summarizing popular opinion without the exaggeration
or superficiality usually characteristic of hasty news-gatherers. The
most interesting portion of the book is naturally that relating to the
Klondike region.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“A readable narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Daughter of the South. †$1.50. Lothrop.
A war’s-end romance which follows the adventurous career of the
Commodore of a cotton-buying fleet. While braving great danger for the
sake of great profit he encounters the heroine in distress and carries
her northward on one of his boats to love and to safety.
“His art must be described as crude. Nevertheless, he tells a story of
some interest, and keeps fairly in touch with reality.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“‘Decent under difficulties’ should be the title of this last story.”
— =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.
“Exactly like all the rest of his novels.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 557. Ag. 26, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether, while not by any means a great book, this story is
agreeable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Our first century. **$1.20. Barnes.
“The design of this book ... is ... to present in a connected and
picturesque narrative those facts of American history during the
seventeenth century which were characteristic as to life and manners
and customs. The book has the story element in a marked degree. It is
liberally illustrated.”—Outlook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 390w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
“After reading this lively little narrative one can without hesitation
commend it to those who find the ordinary one-volume histories dry and
meagre, and who have not the time or inclination to consult the larger
works.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 797. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Rebel’s recollections. *$1. Putnam.
A fourth edition of a book first published in 1874, with an additional
article upon “The old regime in the Old Dominion.” It contains much
that is interesting, and gives a good idea of the Confederate soldier,
and the Confederate commissary, also civil administration.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.
“The book contains in a very readable form a deal of information about
the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston
overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in
that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt
to ignore.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of
the Civil war.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= Milibank case. †$1.50. Holt.
A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian
border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer,
supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians.
The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a
surprise for detective and reader alike.
“The story is fluently told, and is not ungenial as murders go.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w.
“Is only a fair example of the art.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe.= East African protectorate. $5.
Longmans.
“Up to the time of his recent resignation, the author had been
commissioner for the British government in the protectorate. He
describes the country, its peoples, gives its history, and discusses
its prospects as a field for European colonization; he also describes
the present system of administration in the protectorate, and writes
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maps.”—N. Y. Times.
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to human welfare. Other parts of the book are interesting, and the
sociologist might find some useful information in the accounts of the
native races.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 170w.
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information, but the reader is never bewildered among the details, and
the main problems of the future are lucidly and undogmatically
discussed. The style is simple and colloquial, but it is never
slipshod.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 552. Ap. 15, ‘05. 2030w.
=Eliot, Charles William.= Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
A new edition of this forceful, kindly book by the President of
Harvard university. Under the headings: The moral purpose of the
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=Elkin, William Baird.= Hume: the relation of the Treatise of human
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=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott.)= Two in Italy. *$2.
Little.
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This is the first of a new series of Indian stories which continues
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present books.”
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=Elton, Charles Isaac.= William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed.
by A. H. Thompson. *$4. Dutton.
A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would
doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author
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Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s
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Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.
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=Ely, Helena Rutherford.= Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.
A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects
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=Ely, Richard T.,= ed. See =Adams. T. S.= and =Sumner, Helen L.= Labor
problems.
=Ely, Richard Theodore.= Labor movement in America. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly
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=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 30w.
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=Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Emch, Arnold.= Introduction to projective geometry and its
applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.
“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and
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devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.
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written.” Virgil Snyder.
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equally pronounced.”
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in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.
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=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary
edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from
the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three
volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and
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editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo
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any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).
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“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most
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=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith.
**50c. Crowell.
Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By
giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its
obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of
simpler living.
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English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25.
Holt.
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and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when
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Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle,
Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the
volume is fully annotated for class use.
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=Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus).= Epistles of Erasmus,
arranged in order of time: English translations from the early
correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological
arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan
Nichols. 2v. ea. *$6. Longmans.
“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the
letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news
of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The
second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year
1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later
letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his
correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the
first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the
whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 686. Ap. ‘05. 240w. (Survey of contents of
vol. II.)
“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for
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easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a
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+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 684. P. ‘05. 290w.
“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture
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indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great
humanist.”
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“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value
to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w.
=Erskine, Mrs. Steuart.= London as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for
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Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward
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=Nation.= 80: 33. Ja. 12, ‘05. 310w.
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=Esty, William.= Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of
correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.
“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared
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=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Napoleon myth. bds. *75c. Open ct.
The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures
according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction
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* “The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference
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between the two spheres.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 526. Ap. 29, 200w.
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=Everett, William.= Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.
The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell
course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to
show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth
century gave forth a literature which is great without the
contributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of
lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca,
Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso,
Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers
concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation
and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).
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sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the
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absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”
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“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and
treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 719. Je. 10. 660w.
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“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the
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and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point
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+ + =Dial.= 38: 49. Ja. 16, ‘05. 700w.
“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and
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independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away
from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison
of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are
generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the
copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them
are very valuable to the general reader.”
+ — — =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 450w.
“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the
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caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one
point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to
the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have
furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci,
who at this writing is very much alive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the
translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author
would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more
suitable for lectures than essays.”
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“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of
the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
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* =Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.
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=Fairless, Michael, pseud.= Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose
and verse. $1.25. Dutton.
Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous
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“Is marked by an exquisite simplicity of diction and a delicacy of
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=Fairlie, John Archibald.= National administration of the United States
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* =Fairweather, Rev. William.= Pre-exilic prophets. *35c. Lippincott.
In this volume in the “Temple series of Bible handbooks” “Mr.
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Y. Times.
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=Falkiner, C. Litton.= Illustrations of Irish history and topography.
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Porritt.
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Dunlop.
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Famous battles of the nineteenth century, 1875-1900, ed. by Chas. Welsh.
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This fourth and last volume of “Famous battles of the nineteenth
century,” contains an account of the famous battles fought from 1875
to 1900. It includes descriptions of The storming of Kars by Major
Arthur Griffiths, The Boer war of 1881, by Archibald Forbes; The
bombardment of Alexandria, by Max Pemberton; Port Arthur, 1894; The
battle of Manila; and With Roosevelt on San Juan hill, by A. Hilliard
Atteridge and other descriptions by these and other authors.
* “The book is designed for boys, who will undoubtedly find it quite
to their taste.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “It is not possible to name the collection one of absorbing interest
or to praise always either the fairness or the dramatic quality of the
battle-pieces, but the book has considerable interest and some value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 810w.
=Fandel, Peter.= Judgment of Paris. $1. Badger, R. G.
The story of the judgment of Paris cast in dramatic form. The awarding
of the apple, the chariot race which brings Paris to the notice of his
father, Priam, the indignation of princes and people, and the flight
of Paris are dealt with in four short acts.
=Fanshawe, Anne Harrison (Lady Richard Fanshawe).= Memoirs of Lady
Fanshawe, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bt., embassador from Charles II
to the courts of Portugal and Madrid, written by herself; containing
extracts from the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe; ed. with
introd. by Beatrice Marshall, and a note on the illustrations by Allan
Fea. *$1.50. Lane.
“The memoirs were first published in 1830, and were well worth a place
in ‘The crown library’ series.... Both Sir Richard and his wife were
representative of the highest type of Royalist—cultured, refined and
humane. Sir Richard, who died in 1666, devoted his leisure years under
the Commonwealth to literary labours of love.... The memoirs yield
much information as to the events and social practices of a most
interesting period in history.”—Ath.
“Attractive memoirs, which we have read with very great pleasure in
the delightful form in which they now appear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 730. Jl. 15, ‘05. 990w.
“Certainly the memoirs have a charm which is by no means dependent on
the time of which they treat.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 320w.
* “Holds a high place in the biographical literature of the Stuart
era.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 470w.
“Her memoirs are bright and full of good stories of the doings of two
and a half centuries ago.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 760w.
“The editing might have been done with greater skill and energy than
Miss Marshall has brought to her task.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 189. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1380w.
=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV.
*$3.50. Century.
A beautiful book profusely illustrated. The sketch is a four-fold one
including The palace, The park, The king and The court, each of which
divisions presents the subject inductively and so prepares the way for
the next. Beginning with the plans for the palace and the laying out
of the grounds the author leads up to the finished work. With this for
a back-ground, the king is presented and viewed from the standpoint of
his daily life, methods of work, personal appearance and character,
and the intricacies of court etiquette. Then the stage throngs with
the gay and the wicked courtiers who were as perfect in manners as
corrupt in morals.
* “Our author has given us a volume of real value as an admirable
pen-picture of the court.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 659. D. ‘05. 600w.
* “An interesting subject is interestingly handled.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but
he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the
physiology of court life.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 420w.
* “Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no
suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its
last page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 770w.
* “The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays
the volume down with a regret that it is not longer, or one of a
series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest.= Dictionary of slang and
colloquial English. *$2.50. Dutton.
This is an abridgment of the seven-volume work by the same authors
entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and
their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than
fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this
volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.
* + =Nation.= 81:75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 220w.
“For ordinary use the present book is ample.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79:1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.
=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Under three divisions, History, Man and nature, and Devotion, are
included poems as varied in length and verse as in subject. They range
from long poems such as “King Herod,” and “Christianity in the
apostles,” which are cast in poem-drama form, to little verses such as
“Microcosm,” and “Clouds and dawn.”
“In his volume of collected poems Mr. Farquhar takes a deeper plunge
into the psychological mysteries of youthful hearts, and now and then
succeeds in striking a truly poetic note.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10:585. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Fenn, Frederick, and Wyllie, B.= Old English furniture. *$2.50.
Scribner.
Mr. Fenn has written the chapters on oak furniture, the walnut period,
and the introduction of the making of furniture, while those upon
chairs, sofas, painted furniture, and inlaid mahogany and satinwood,
are by B. Wyllie. There are ninety-four illustrations of articles
either owned by the authors or in collections to which they have
access. The volume belongs to the “Newnes library of applied arts.”
“Is ... trustworthy, but it leaves us with a somewhat unpleasant
feeling of having been ‘taken in hand.’” Edith A. Browne.
+ — =Acad.= 68:79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.
“The accompanying text is full of valuable information and pregnant
hints to the inexperienced amateur.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25:82. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“What we like especially about the text is its reserve, and quiet
tone, and plain statement of the impossibility of fixing dates very
closely.”
+ + =Nation.= 80:319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 790w.
“Its style is intimate rather than didactic, impressionistic rather
than scientific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
+ — =Sat. R.= 99:846. Je. 24, ‘05. 660w.
=Fernández Guardia, Ricardo.= Cuentos ticos. $2. Burrows bros. co.
These ten short stories of Costa Rica, have been translated into
English by Gray Casement. The author, who is a writer of reputation
among Central Americans has strikingly set forth the social, political
and religious ideas of Costa Rica in these brief narratives, which
combine both pathos and humor. There is a good introduction by the
translator; there are also many illustrations of street and country
scenes.
“Although here and there reminiscent of Castillian story tellers, the
tales and the style in which they are related make one wish to know
more of Señor Ricardo and his works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w.
=Ferree, Barr.= American estates and gardens. $10. Munn.
The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the
country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These
houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners,
but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and
there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in
“Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and
gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the
well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.
“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic
architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it
will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is
to-day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 160. F. 23. ‘05. 470w.
=Fetter, Frank Albert.= Principles of economics; with applications to
practical problems. *$2. Century.
A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers,
as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given
in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to
practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are
likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on
the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all
methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion,
the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book
on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A.
S. Johnson.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 144. Ja. ‘05. 1840w.
“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of
its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics
that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More
Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 563. Ap. ‘05. 850w.
“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially
of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding
of modern thought and modern conditions.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 333. Ag. 10. ‘05. 240w.
“Among the numerous text-books of economics which have appeared in
England and America in the last year or two, Professor Fetter’s book
is likely to take high rank. For those who share his views on
fundamental economic doctrines, his work may well serve as a
first-class text-book. The present writer, while admiring the
structure of Dr. Fetter’s course, and appreciating the fact that
students following such a course are likely to have a keen interest in
economics developed, finds himself in the position of a critic
compelled to assail the very foundations of Dr. Fetter’s economic
system.” A. W. Flux.
— + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 109. D. ‘04. 2020w.
* “As an economic synthesis bottomed on the accepted modern theory of
value and extended to all phases of economic analysis, it stands
unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81 :367. N. 2, ‘05. 1000w.
=Fiebeger, Gustave Joseph.= Civil engineering. *$5. Wiley.
A book intended to give military cadets who have to master many
sciences and languages as well as military science and tactics an
elementary knowledge of civil engineering.
Reviewed by H. N. Ogden.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 22: 397. S. 29, ‘05. 690w.
=Field, Edward Salisbury. (Childe Harold, pseud.).= Child’s book of
abridged wisdom. **75c. Elder.
A little book of rhymed advice amply illustrated with humorously
grotesque drawings. The binding is artistic and the wisdom will amuse
the parent rather than edify the child. It is upon this order,
“At dinner use your fork and spoon;
It may prolong your life,
My grandfather once cut himself
While eating with his knife.”
* “A series of irresistibly comic verses containing good advice for
the young.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* “The decorations are clever, and so is the verse it contains.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 25w.
=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c.
Ginn.
A book designed to introduce Fielding as an essay writer to both
college students and general readers. It contains selected essays from
his novels, and some of the best work from the “Miscellanies” of 1743
and the periodicals. The text is in most cases based on the first and
second editions. A biographical sketch, an introduction, full notes,
and an index are provided.
“To the present volume there is prefixed an introduction ... by which
we can see that the praise is lavish rather than discriminating.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 870. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1230w.
=Finerty, John Frederick.= Ireland: the people’s history of Ireland.
*$2.50. Dodd.
The first history of the Irish people “pro-Irish rather than
pro-English in spirit and view” since McGee’s “History of Ireland,”
three-quarters of a century ago. Mr. Finerty, the president of the
United Irish league of America, aims to throw “more light in a simple
and comprehensive manner on the history of that beautiful island, the
blood of whose exiled children flows in the veins of not less than
twenty millions of the American people.” The history, two volumes, is
a very rapid survey of Ireland from the earliest period down to the
career and ascendency of the fearless avenger of Irish liberty,
Parnell.
* “Writes from that patriotic point of view, but with no obvious bias
that would prevent him from being fair and trustworthy in regard to
opposing views.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
* “It will not do to say that his style is everywhere excellent. If
Mr. Finerty had studied the history of his native land in the light of
European events, the policies of England would have become
intelligible to him, and the ‘People’s history of Ireland’ would have
been a far more trustworthy work.” Laurence M. Larson.
— — + =Dial.= 38: 412. Je. 16, ‘05. 1230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 162. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w.
“The work before us, despite its prefatory promise of breadth and
fair-mindedness, is itself a striking example of the way in which
Irish history should not be written. In so far as the ‘political
misfortunes’ of Ireland are concerned, bias prevails—the bias of a
narrative constructed along pronounced pro-Catholic lines by an
uncompromising sympathizer with the Irish cause. Strictly speaking,
moreover, the work is not a history, but merely a chronicle in which
the familiar superlatives, epithets, and errors of overstatement and
understatement are painfully in evidence. There is also room for
criticism from the standpoint of proportion.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 340w.
=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history:
an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture Prof. Firth finds fault with the present school of
history. He also declares history to be neither a science nor an art,
“but it partakes of the nature of both. A twofold task lies before the
historian. One-half of his business is the discovery of the truth, and
the other half its representation.”
“A very plain-spoken expression of opinion, and, as it is always well
to have ideals set before us, likely to be useful.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
**$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.
“There is ample room for a brief biography of the Emperor Constantine
along the lines on which Mr. Firth has constructed his present book.
Going directly to contemporary sources, and examining them with an eye
keen to the detection of bias, Mr. Firth gives in small compass a
careful exposition not only of the career and personality of the first
imperial champion of Christianity, but of the period to which he
belonged and of the nature and extent of the influence exerted by him
on his generation and on posterity. In other words, an analysis is
made of the elements essential to a correct evaluation of the validity
of Constantine’s claim to greatness.”—Outlook.
“We may, however, fairly criticize the author for having taken no
account of some recent investigations which ought not to be ignored.”
— + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 1470w.
“Of this period and of its central figure the author has written
sensibly and satisfyingly.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 324. My. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. Firth makes a slip at the beginning of the book in speaking of
the conquerors of Valerion as the Parthians.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 710w.
“Though written as a volume for a popular series, this book should not
escape the attention of scholars, since it is based on a first-hand
study of the authorities, and is the fruit of independent reflection.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1250w.
“It is on the whole, a well balanced piece of work. The book opens
with an absurdly bad genealogical table, and continues to practically
a dateless limit.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 125. F. 25, ‘05. 780w.
“Indeed we cannot but feel that, if only through an excess of
impartiality, he paints the shadows at times all too deeply. And, for
a similar reason, we gain the impression that here and there the pagan
receives more and the Christian less than his due. We could wish, too,
less disquisition regarding the untrustworthiness of the annalists of
the period, less detailed picking of flaws—a habit so pronounced as to
become tedious. These blemishes, however, are not vital defects. The
work is well arranged, well written, and, with the exceptions noted,
well balanced.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “We have little but praise of the writer’s treatment of the
ecclesiastical and theological side.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Firth’s account of him is an excellent performance.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 360. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.
“Is an interesting biography and an excellent study of an important
phase in the earlier history of Europe.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Highways and byways in Derbyshire. $2.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of ‘narration rather than
description.’ He tells the reader where he may profitably go, and what
he may expect to see ... [and] takes occasion to mention the literary
and historical associations of the places which he visits.”—Spec.
“Mr. Firth’s ‘Derbyshire’ is to the full as thorough and as
companionable as any of its predecessors.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1040w.
“Mr. Firth, has, beyond doubt, produced some five hundred pages of
attractive and interesting reading.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 551. My. 6, 2160w.
“Above all, there is a style that stamps the book as more than a
guide, yet takes nothing away from its usefulness.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 210w.
* “Mr. Firth has a talent for description.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
“There are a few other references to people and scenes of especial
interest to the scientific world, but the book will not be valued by
these so much as for its bright narrative of literary and historical
centers of Derbyshire, and its fine illustrations.”
+ =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The drawings ... are singularly charming—are, in fact, when all is
said, the best part of a very good book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
“The book is rich in literary associations and personal anecdotes, and
is decidedly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
“If a little slapdash at times and opinionated, Mr. Firth writes with
real spirit.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
=Fischer, George Alexander.= Beethoven: a character study; with Wagner’s
Indebtedness to Beethoven. **$1.40. Dodd.
In this study of the great composer’s life and character is given not
only the influences under which he developed but the effect which his
work had upon the music of to-day and upon the work of Wagner.
“Is perhaps the most rational, convincing, shrewd, and sympathetic
estimate yet made.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“His method is straightforward enough, but his style is an
exasperating journalese, without distinction of any kind. It is not of
any special value or significance.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It is a character study rather than a biography and criticism. The
chapter on humor is one of the best in the book.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is presented in a straightforward style, though without much
distinction; and what the author has added in the way of critical
estimate is unimportant. Nor has he thrown any new light upon the
character and artistic nature of Beethoven.” Richard Aldrich.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“A simple, straightforward, and readable biography. An excellent and
useful book for the young amateur of music.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50.
Holt.
An American novel with a decided French twang. The scene is laid in
Kentucky with an unsophisticated country girl for a heroine and a
mushroom grower for her Adonis. Impossible situations follow one
another in rollicking succession which involve cases of mistaken
identity, mishaps, and weird meetings of moonshiners in caves. It is
rightly called an extravaganza.
“The plot is nought, and the manner everything. A racy and rollicking
book it is, warranted to dispel the most chronic case of blues.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is a rollicking and impossible tale, in which the author gets
rather beyond his depth, while the reader is just sufficiently amused
to flounder after him in astonishment.”
— =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fisguill’s story is one which might well have remained in
manuscript.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 29: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.
“This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the
citizens of the United States ... the history of the ‘Spoils
system.’”—Spec.
“The most valuable part of the book is the second section, dealing
with the genesis of the spoils system. This is a genuine contribution
to the history of the subject.” L. M. S.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 172. O. ‘05. 1260w.
“This book is distinctly a history of the patronage, and as such
deserves recognition as a valuable contribution in this particular
field.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 380w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“His book is brief but thorough.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 170w.
* =Fisher, Ruth B.= On the borders of Pigmy land, **$1.25. Revell.
“A record of missionary experiences in Central Africa, with
interesting descriptions of the country and its people.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 15w.
* “Very interesting is the story she tells in this volume—tells with
an admirable combination of the humorous and the serious.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 294. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w.
=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina,
including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American
revolution. $2. Neale.
“North Carolina’s claim to be the first battleground of the Revolution
is zealously advocated in this monograph, which is, briefly, a study
of the ‘viper’ episode of 1765.... In it also is incorporated some
interesting documentary matter in the way of legislative acts,
Regulator’s ‘Advertisements,’ and contemporary letters and
addresses.”—Outlook.
“The work is flimsy, incoherent, prejudiced.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 951. Jl. ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 960w. (Abstract of
contents.)
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 709. Mr. 18, ‘05. 260w.
* =FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.
This fifteenth volume of the “New pocket library” contains Euphranor
“very fitly presented after the text of the first edition of 1851. Mr.
Frederick Chapman, who supplies a preface, dwells upon the value of
the little work ... not only as a classic specimen of English prose,
but as reflective of Cambridge and its contemporary life, and the
author as a part of them.” (Nation.)
* “To possess ‘Euphranor’ in the present convenient form will give
pleasure to many lovers of the famous letters and the more famous
quatrains.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 850. D. ‘05. 390w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 339. O. 26, ‘05. 90w.
* “A pleasing preface. There are some sixty Greek words and more than
twenty mistakes.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 397. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
=Fitzgerald, Edward and Pamela.= Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald; being an
account of their lives; compiled by Gerald Campbell. $3.50. Longmans.
“A volume compiled by Gerald Campbell [their great grandchild] from
the letters of those who knew them, in which is told the ‘life story’
of the Irish rebel leader and his wife. Unlike other memoirs of Lord
FitzGerald, this is not founded on Thomas Moore’s ‘Life and death of
Lord Edward FitzGerald,’ which appeared in 1831. The letters cover in
all a period of sixty years—from 1770 to 1831. The object of the first
part of the volume is to give a picture of the home life of Lord
Edward’s family, and incidentally portraits of the writer of the
epistles. No attempt has been made to give a connected account of the
story of his life. The letters have been left to show how he was
regarded by those who knew and loved him best.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole the work of the editor has been well done.” G. H. O.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 613. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 10. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Outlines contents).
=Fitzgerald, Percy.= Lady Jean, the romance of the great Douglas cause.
*$3.60. Wessels.
A revival of the famous Douglas case, the story of Lady Jean Douglas,
who at the age of 50 married a broken down gambler in order to provide
heirs for her brother’s estates. The author takes the side of the
Hamiltons and contends that Lady Jane’s twin boys were hers not by
birth but by purchase.
“Mr. Fitzgerald has, in fact, given us a somewhat repellant chapter of
gossip, narrated in a style so slipshod as to suggest doubts as to its
accuracy in other points.”
— =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 650w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 779. Je. 24. 490w.
* =Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“These essays contain no personal reminiscences; they are
interpretative rather than descriptive, and they often run far afield
into legend, history, politics, race characteristics and development,
the inter-play of one race upon another, and other problems remote
from the point of view of the guide-book.... It is as a luxurious and
leisurely commentary upon travels past or to come, as a collection of
delightful essays and beautiful pictures, that ‘In the track of the
Moors’ should be judged and enjoyed. The book is the result of
collaboration by Sybil and Augustine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing
the essays and the latter the pictures. There are sixty-three
full-page illustrations excellently printed in color.”—Dial.
* “If the author displays here no great erudition, she certainly shows
a real and sympathetic acquaintance with the lands in question,
considerable powers of observation, and a pretty taste in the
literature of travel.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* “The essayist is equipped for her task by a thorough knowledge of
the subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to put the results
of analysis into trenchant and finished form.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 480w.
* “The feature of ‘In the track of the Moors’ lies essentially in its
illustrations.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “The pictures, much the more satisfactory element, are often
charming, although also at times very trivial in subject.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 240w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10.
Longmans.
The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly
extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from
letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and
from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking
letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of
Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign
affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of
the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the
Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the
second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are
material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout
the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”
“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though
his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds
within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the
historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1121. O. 28, ‘05. 1650w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice’s book is both interesting and important.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 497. O. 14. 2800w.
“Lord Edmond has put together a vast amount of interesting and
entertaining information about many people besides Lord Granville.
Lord Granville’s own personal charm was perhaps too evanescent a
quality to be reproduced on paper.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 338. O. 13, ‘05. 3880w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has done a very good piece of work in his
life of Lord Granville.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 1270w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 558. O. 28, ‘05. 2320w.
“Even Mr. John Morley has not drawn so full a picture of the
unfortunate Cabinet of 1880 as Lord Edmond has been able to supply,
and it is certain that no future writer will be able to address
himself to this period unless he has thoroughly studied Lord Edmond’s
volumes.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 609. O. 21, ‘05. 1760w.
=Flandrau, Rebecca Blair=, tr. See =Kielland, Alexander.= Professor
Lovdahl.
=Fletcher, A. E.= Thomas Gainsborough. *$1.25. Scribner.
A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present
volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain
a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of
Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in
the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its
relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the
Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of
English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working
at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist
in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).
“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a
too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.
“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of
Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of
a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining
biography.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of
Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a
remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter
Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it
either.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight.= History of
architecture. *$6. imp. Scribner.
A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for
students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000
illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and
interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a
glossary, and a full index.
“The present edition is certainly an improvement on the former ones in
clarity and fulness of information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 440. Ap. 8. 300w.
“Is a veritable encyclopedia of its subject, and presents in compact
form an immense amount of information.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“The peculiar excellence and convenience of this work....”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie.= Introductory history of England, from
the earliest times to the close of the middle ages. *$2. Dutton.
“Mr. Fletcher’s book is ‘introductory’ in a double sense. Besides
being intended for boys, it stops at the beginning of the Tudor
period. In style, it is explanatory, and the author is enabled, by
excising a large number of subjects, to treat those that remain with
tolerable fulness of detail.”—Nation.
“He gives a fresh and really interesting connected narrative of
England’s emergence from barbarism and the beginnings of her national
and institutional life. There are surely very many older readers who
will find the book more fascinating than most novels.”
+ =Ind.= 58:671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even
when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we
may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might
pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of
essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one
whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history
of England.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his
own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and
good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly
intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us
here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is
the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman,
and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the
capital little chapter of geological history.”
+ + =Nature.= 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w.
=Fletcher, Margaret.= Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls.
60c. Benziger.
Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life
which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the
realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is
no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.
* “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high
order; her aim is in the right direction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Flint, Austin.= Handbook of physiology. *$5. Macmillan.
The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to
present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology
with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have
endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the
subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been
treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped,
pure physiology and biology.”
“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the
extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has
achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional
writers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Flint, George Elliot.= Power and health through progressive exercise.
*$1.50. Baker.
In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light
weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development.
He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts,
but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality
of brain and brawn.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.
* =Flood, William H. Grattan.= Story of the harp. *$1.25. Scribner.
The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest
form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the
Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with
a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of
the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices
upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The
volume is illustrated.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w.
* “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed
and critical discussion and description would have made a book more
valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Best policy. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Dave Murray, special insurance agent, is the central figure about whom
center the incidents which fill these twelve stories. All phases of
the life insurance plea are presented, including comedy, tragedy,
speculation, failure, error, sacrifice and grievance.
“Considered as fiction the book is one of the brightest and best
volumes of short stories of the season.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 180w.
* “The insurance companies of the country should pay Mr. Flower a
royalty on this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 360w.
“This is a timely book, unique and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the
art of soliciting business.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
“The fact that his stories are good ones, or would be if it were not
for the trail of the serpent of bitter knowledge that lies over them,
only adds to the seriousness of his offense.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Slaves of success. †$1.50. Page.
These eight short stories form a study in state politics. The grafter,
the boss, the spoilsman, the reformer, the honest country member of
the legislature, all are true to their parts and serve to bring out
the various phases of American business and political methods as
viewed from the inside.
“The eight chapters of ‘Slaves of success’ are rather as many
narratives than stories.” Churchill Williams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 173. O. ‘05. 1030w.
“Is rather a series of sketches than a novel, and the chapters have
very unequal merit.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 70w.
“One of the many merits of his book is that it is not one of unalloyed
pessimism. ‘Slaves of success’ is not only of absorbing interest, but,
if as widely read as it deserves, cannot fail of being a power for
good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
=Flux, A. W.= Economic principles: an introductory study. *$2. Dutton.
Prof. Flux has written an introductory text book and has rendered it
unsatisfactory for advanced work by giving no references, save in a
general way. His object is to avoid introducing controversies which
would interest only students more advanced than those for whom he
wrote, and to give himself more freedom of expression than would be
possible if he gave credit for each point of doctrine to those who
first defined it. The work is, on the whole, of the classical point of
view, as found in Marshall, but whatever the economic prejudices of
the reader, he will find the work accurate and thoro, as well as
modern.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 230w.
“It is not too much to say that the book is pretty nearly everything
else than a textbook could be fairly expected to be; but it is not
that. It is accurate, thoughtful, forceful, thorough, critical,
logical, learned, temperate, clear; but it is difficult, abstract, and
over-condensed; even for the practised economist it is hard reading.
This is not to imply that it is not surpassingly well worth while, a
positive contribution to the literature and thought of the science—it
is all of this; but that only very advanced classes will find the book
possible of handing; and for these it covers too wide a field, and can
be of great service only for reference purposes or for collateral
reading. On the whole, a work of great merit and significance. So much
the more could better treatment from the publisher, especially in
point of binding, have fairly been expected.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 114. D. ‘04. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines scope of
book).
“It is in some important respects one of the most satisfactory
systematic treatises on economics to appear within recent years.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
=Forbes, J. T.= Socrates. $1.25. Scribner.
The latest in the “World’s epoch makers” series. The political
conditions of Socrates’ time, the civic ideal, and the religion of the
Greeks are discussed in the introduction. With the environment of the
philosopher’s activity established, the author shows how he developed
his great system which looks upon the individual as the moral unit.
“Mr. Forbes has done a real service to the educated public by issuing
a bright, sound estimate, biographical and critical, of the charm and
limitations attaching to the Greek primal path.” James Moffatt.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 227. O. ‘05. 760w.
“While his work is conscientious and sufficiently thorough, it is not
always interesting, nor do the discussions leave a clean and clear
impression.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“It is an exacting as well as a fascinating subject, and its demands
for a comprehensive view and critical insight are well met in the
present volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
* =Ford, Paul Leicester.= His version of it. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The pretty little fiction of the horses’ interest in the love affairs
of Miss Fairley—who was ‘a beauty, but not what her mother was at her
age’—and the noble Major, while the odious Mr. Lewis played the
despicable role of villain, is told with great vivacity by the prime
movers, the horses.... The book is attractively illustrated by Mr.
Henry Hutt, and should be a pretty addition to any Ford
collection.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Charming story.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “One of the cleverest of this author’s short stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Island of enchantment. †$1.75. Harper.
A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young
captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from
the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate
doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm.
The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the
volume its chief character.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w.
* “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to
compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than
in this novelette.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Tommy Carteret. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far.
It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the
nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome
and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back
country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of
marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him
with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals
and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 984. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.
“This story is fundamentally unsound, superficially clever, and for
the most part entertaining.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 298. S. 2. 280w.
“The story is one of unusual cleverness, and full of surprises to the
end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 520w.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is quite readable, even entertaining, though it is
the kind of book some superior persons sneer at and consign to the
limbo of nothingness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The book is full of sentimental absurdities and affectation, and in
the end degenerates into a most unpleasant pseudo-pathological study.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
“A book that unites so much power and charm, so much insight and
kindliness and truth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 260w.
“In spite of its faults, therefore, it is impossible to condemn the
novel entirely, though it is difficult to read it without feelings of
sorrow that so vigorous a pen should be employed in so vulgar a
manner.”
— + =Spec.= 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the
function of the American government. *$1.25. Century.
Dr. Forman says, “I have constantly kept in mind the truth that
instruction in Civics should have for its aim the indoctrination of
the learner in sound notions of political morality.... In Part I. the
underlying principles of our government are presented. The essentials
are placed first in order.... In Part II. is an account of the
governmental machine. In Part III. the every-day work of government is
considered and the practical problems connected with the work are
discussed.”
“A thoughtful, compact, direct, and comprehensive account of the
machinery, operation, and problems of the governmental system.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Fortier, S.= Progress report of co-operative irrigation investigations
in California.
“One of the most interesting lines of work here described is an
investigation of pumping water for irrigation, by Prof. J. N. Le
Conte, of the University of California, and others. Thus far
descriptions of 750 pumping plants have been secured. Both field and
laboratory tests of pumping plants have been made. These are here
summarized briefly, but will be reported on more fully at a later
date. Studies of evaporation and methods of applying water to land are
also described in the pamphlet.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Arbitration and the Hague court. **$1. Houghton.
“A brief review of events dealing with arbitration up to the
convention of The Hague peace conference. It gives the circumstances
under which that conference was called, the reasons why The Hague was
appropriate for such an assemblage, and the eminent men employed and
spirit of the conference.”—Bookm.
“The exposition is clear, the conclusions logical.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 190w.
“This is a valuable hand book. His book, however, has the peculiar
value of being historical and impersonal.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 350w.
“His publication, important in more than one respect, is, so far as we
know, the first to give, in a small compass and an interesting way,
the present status of arbitration and its practice under the Hague
convention.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 19. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1390w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Fox, Frances Margaret.= Rainbow bridge. †$1.25. Wilde.
From the “little pilgrims’ home” Marian Lee traverses her rainbow
bridge to the ideal home of her dreams where love and privileges
abound.
* “Another interesting, natural story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 40w.
=Fox, John, jr.= Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through
Manchuria. **$1.25. Scribner.
One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his
impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in
Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the
Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.
“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded,
and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William
Elliot Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 170w.
“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in
which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice
against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 416. Je. 16, ‘05. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay
in Tokio.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
— + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.
“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a
record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”
— =Spec.= 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Fox, Middleton.= Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50.
Lane.
Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of
the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s
strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the
villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they
believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s
tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic
betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.
“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of
occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an
attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”
— =Acad.= 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w.
“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w.
* “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual
possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as
yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”
+ — =Critic.= 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and
the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of
the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long
past.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Words of
St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. *60c. Dutton.
“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might
be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at
one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these
things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she
tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to
life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.
“An admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Francis, M. E., pseud.= See =Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).=
=Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Eighteenth century artists and
engravers. 2v. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her
work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who
reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion,
when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval
portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her
text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James
Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures
from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to
the student.”—Atlan.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95:274. F. ‘05. 530w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin;
ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume
classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of
Franklin, and notes by the editor.
“The selections in the book are well chosen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:730. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from
the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.
The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a
biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his
relation to the history of his time.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his
city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and
is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.
These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,”
set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little
English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is
strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts
of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth
whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that
bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner,
carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The
requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s
oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of
how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into
action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w.
=Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= Maid of Japan. †$1.25. Holt.
The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of
the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked
into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and
left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed
one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to
her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes
her back to his England.
“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary
finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or
slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.”
William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.
“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from
Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and
possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 446. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1400w.
“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect
idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 592. Jl. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan
she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in
the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 200w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Sa’-Zada tales. †$2. Scribner.
“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The
keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the
animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell
stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the
jungle and how he came to be captured.... They indulge in repartee and
sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family,
united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly
illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love
to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* “Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently
knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* “The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story
telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of
forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all
popular nature books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Free, Richard.= Seven years’ hard. *$1.50. Dutton.
A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary
work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or
Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he
and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and
intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters
have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and
old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the
district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the
mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be
met with, are well described in this volume.
“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series
of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers,
debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science,
history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of contents).
“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in
the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic
as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half
lives.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 180w.
=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= Western Europe in the eighth century and
onward. *$3.25. Macmillan.
The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the
rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are
first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can
give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a
period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered
opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes
with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great
historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is
learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid
passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was
thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.
“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit
in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed
account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less
relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the
habit of overloading his writings.”
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 913. Jl. ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 540w.
“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is
unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W.
Brooks.
+ — =Eng. Hist.= R. 20: 548. Jl. ‘05. 1330w.
“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it
thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 420w.
“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care.
Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at
times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of
this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on
it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made
the subject peculiarly his own.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 231. F. ‘05. 180w.
* =Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been
ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength
to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all
creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister,
who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his
queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and,
above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her
father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are
real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.
* “As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much
subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of
disconnected studies of character rather than of a single
well-proportioned whole.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small
things that make up manners and customs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 490w.
* “One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and
‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless
phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are
remarkable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25. ‘05. 270w.
=Freer, A. Goodrich-.= Inner Jerusalem. *$3. Dutton.
In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a
view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under
the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought
out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in
these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from
error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest
maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we
may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian,
will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page
illustrations, chiefly from photographs.
“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding
life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a
sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its
widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the
European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such
as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with
discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious
ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
* “She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a
clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues,
with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 992. O. 26, ‘05. 430w.
“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without
being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in
spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of
actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1380w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Rejuvenation of Aunt
Mary. †$1.50. Little.
Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy
years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew
Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes
discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with
an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the
old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town,
indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so
alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful
young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt
Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the
giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.
“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably
superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend
Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier
part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”
+ + — =Arena.= 35: 556. N. ‘05. 780w.
* “There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively
enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 250w.
* “Clever little comedy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“She has only succeeded in producing a broad farce.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.
Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died
neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn
worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is
followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward
the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.
“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The
present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest
excellence.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 450w.
“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity,
intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can
glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the
word.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 40. Jl. 16, ‘05. 650w.
“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful
rather than literal.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story
and read the reflections and sermons.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 430w.
“On the whole not ill translated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but
intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with
convincing truth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.
“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and
carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not
the creation, of a genre.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 320w.
“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are
abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But
it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w.
“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and
straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low
German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 1150w.
=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of
‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on
adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy,
Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the
development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental
congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows
that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it
adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the
highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776,
and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared
independence of England.”—R. of Rs.
“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in
this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of
study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 148. Ja. ‘05. 910w.
“Very suggestive study.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 550. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
“An elaborate and careful monograph.” H. E. E.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 612. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that
has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious
scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.
* “A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that
produced that famous document.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an
adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it
does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept
within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 460w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 110w.
=Friedlander, M.=, tr. See =Maimonides, Moses.= The guide for the
perplexed.
From servitude to service: the history and * work of Southern
institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
A book for students of Southern educational institutions and their
problems. There is an outline of the history and work of six of the
leading Southern institutions engaged in negro education: Howard
university, Berea college, Tuskegee institute, Hampton institute,
Atlanta university, and Fisk university.
* “A book of great interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 760w.
* =Frost, Arthur Burdett.= Book of drawings; with introd. by Joel
Chandler Harris, and verse by Wallace Irwin. $3. Collier-Fox.
“A new edition of the happy combination of the humor of these men
already firm in the hearts of their public.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
=Frost, Thomas Gold.= Incorporation and organization of corporations
created under the “Business corporation acts” of all the states and
territories of the United States. *$3.50. Little.
“A treatise describing and comparing the incorporation laws of the
various states and territories of the Union. Every step in obtaining a
charter, incorporating, issuing stock, and going into bankruptcy is
fully described for every class of corporation and with reference to
the statutes of every commonwealth. The legislative, judicial, and
executive powers of the various branches of the federal and state
governments over corporations are given clearly and succinctly, and
185 pages are devoted to a synopsis-digest of the incorporation acts
of the several states and territories.”—N. Y. Times.
“It teaches the whole important art of incorporation in a very
satisfactory way, and without an excess of citations.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.
“This digest is remarkable for its careful condensation of the very
wordy acts into a form available for quick and reliable reference.
Nothing essential is omitted, and nothing unnecessary is included. As
a book for the reference of the lawyer and the information of the
prospective incorporator, we do not know of any work comparable to
this.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 285. Ap. 29, ‘05. 350w.
=Fuchs, Carl Johannes.= Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies
since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“An admirable translation by Miss Constance Archibald of the
well-known work of Prof. Fuchs on the fiscal question.... The drawback
to the book is that the original was published in 1893, and that the
figures are out of date.”—Ath.
“With the exception of a few blemishes, the book is one which it was
right to translate. The work of translation and editing has been
admirably performed.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 748. Je. 17. 1310w.
“It is a drawback that the book is not brought up to date; Dr. Fuchs
has changed his mind at least as to one point since he wrote.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 320w.
“We unreservedly welcome this translation of a Freiburg professor’s
work.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 312. S. 2, ‘05. 1050w.
=Fuller, Anna.= Bookful of girls. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A half-dozen sketches of as many different types of winsome young
womanhood—Blythe, enthusiastic and lovable; Madge, the artistic;
Olivia, the young philanthropist; Polly, capable and devoted sister;
Di, the dear peacemaker; but best of all, Nannie, who floured her face
and did Lady Macbeth in a nightgown to an admiring audience of
one—Miss Becky Crawlin, seamstress, whom she afterward took to a real
theatre, with many amusing results.”—Outlook.
“The book is adapted for young girls’ reading and has a wholesome and
stimulating tone. It should be popular.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 30w.
“A very rare and pleasing collection of girls are these.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 430w.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Golden hope: a story of the time of King
Alexander the Great. †$1.50. Macmillan.
An accurate picture of the life of the time, with the wars and
conquests of Alexander as a background. The story follows the
adventures of Clearthus, a rich young Athenian, in his search for his
betrothed, Artemesia, who had been taken from him on the eve of their
wedding, thru the influence of a relative who covets the young Greek’s
fortune. A Theban and a Spartan accompany him and they become involved
in Alexander’s campaigns.
“The characters are conventional, the plot is laboured, and an air of
unreality hangs about the whole.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17. 320w.
“The book ends peacefully, and is one to absorb the attention.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 230w.
“It is as good as many other historical novels of the day.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“To readers with a predilection for historical fiction this romance of
Alexander’s wars of conquest will more especially commend itself.
Others may find it over long and rather too heavily freighted with
descriptive detail.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“Not without signs of ability and interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 20w.
=Fullerton, Edith Loring.= How to make a vegetable garden: a practical
and suggestive manual for the home garden. **$2. Doubleday.
“The illustrations!—truly, they illustrate—everything from seedlings
and tools to the aspect of the garden in winter.” (Dial.) “Besides
being a good picture book, it contains practical and detailed
directions for making the best use of a small garden from the
preparation of the soil to the cooking of the vegetables.”—Ind.
“Mrs. Fullerton’s book is a pleasing record of experience.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 140w.
“The writer has managed to avoid everything dull and prosy, without
omitting anything essential.” Edith Granger.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1255. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“A very worthy contribution to the world’s sanity.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Furness, Horace Howard=, ed. See =Shakespeare, Wm.= New variorum
edition of Love’s labour’s lost.
=Fyvie, John.= Women of wit and beauty of the time of George IV. **$3.
Pott.
The lives of eight famous women are dealt with in this volume: Mrs.
Fitzherbert; Lady Hamilton; Mrs. Montagu; Lady Blessington; Mrs.
Lennox; Mrs. Grote; Mrs. Norton; and Lady Eastlake. Excellent
portraits add much to the interest of this collection of biographies.
“We must be grateful, however, for Mr. Fyvie’s addition to our
materials, although we still await the wizard who shall transform them
into flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 871. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
* “As a whole, Mr. Fyvie’s sketches are agreeably and discreetly
written, but they contain little evidence of original research.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 205. Ag. 12. 350w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 40w.
“The biographies are told con amore, the women placed before us with
firm strokes and careful shading; and the result is wholly pleasing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “In all, Mr. Fyvie, who is indefatigable in research and clever in
arranging his ‘finds,’ makes the best of his theme.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 229. Ag. 12, ‘05. 420w.
G
=Gallatin, A. E.= Whistler’s art dicta and other essays. $3.50.
Goodspeed.
A collection of five essays which originally appeared in the
International studio, the Lamp, the Critic, the Weekly critical review
of Paris, and the Literary collector. The title essay deals with
Whistler’s “Gentle art of making enemies,” “Aubrey Beardsley: man of
letters,” contains a review of his last writings as found in “Under
the hill, and other essays in prose and verse,” (John Lane). “Notes on
three hitherto unpublished drawings by Beardsley,” describes three
unfinished sketches here reproduced, a border design for Mallory’s “Le
morte d’Arthur.” The closing papers are “Whistler’s realism” and
“Whistler’s memorial exhibition,” in Boston, February and March, 1904.
“The volume has little interest but for those already much interested
in Whistler and his work.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 300w. (Reviews each
essay.)
“The title of this little volume is somewhat misleading, and its price
out of proportion to its value.”
— =Int. Studio.= 25: 366. Je. ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 290w.
“This exquisite volume will be a valuable keepsake to those who admire
Whistler. It is remarkable, first, because of its superb print,
secondly, because of some remarkable facsimiles, and, thirdly, because
of a criticism which may well be a vade mecum to those who would
better understand Whistler—to those who have thought him an
impressionist, for instance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the
Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy. †$1.50. Page.
A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked
duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful
Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and
sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young
nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the
wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ganz, Henry F. W.= Practical hints on painting, composition,
landscape, and etching. *$1. Lippincott.
This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame
work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to
be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets
the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with
representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
* “While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should
prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of
painting alone.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: sup. 22. N. ‘05. 120w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 250w.
=Ganz, Hugo.= The land of riddles. $2. Harper.
This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman
Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work
originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives
in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and
his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life.
He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which
are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing
more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and
the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a
mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter,
the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a
visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing
picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no
answer.
“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that
Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to
‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has
the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for
popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are
ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”
+ — =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 1130w.
“Toward solving the ‘riddles,’ the author’s guesses imply only average
insight or acumen, but the book is readable, and the style is
pleasing.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 170w.
“There is little in the book that adds to the recent knowledge poured
forth so profusely concerning that unhappy land. The translation, by
Mr. Herman Rosenthal, is into excellent English.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1073. My. 11, ‘05. 420w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 530w.
“In its present English dress the book contains, however, much
additional matter, and some of it valuable. He states throughout the
truth boldly, as he sees it, and in most cases gives his authority, or
authorities, for his facts and conclusions.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1800w.
“Mr. Rosenthal’s translation is excellently well done. The style is
smooth and interesting.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 757. D. ‘04. 310w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel M.= Silence of Mrs. Harrold. $1.50. Harper.
The author is a New York lawyer and has chosen his home town as the
setting for his novel. The plot hinges upon a marriage in which both a
man and a woman promise to ask no questions relative to their
respective pasts. The compact is kept, but the husband’s jealousy is
aroused, and finally it develops that “Mrs. Harrold” in her youth had
eloped with a member of a circus troupe. Her father, following them to
the man’s home in Austria, kills her husband, whose own father suffers
imprisonment for the crime, the real murderer being shielded by his
daughter. There are many complications but the book ends with the
complete vindication of the silent wife.
“Had it been half as long, ‘The silence of Mrs. Harrold’ might have
been twice as good.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17, 260w.
“A novel of strong and complex interest.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 391. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w.
“I am firmly inclined to believe that the new novel of intricate plot
which Mr. Gardenhire has given us in ‘The silence of Mrs. Harold’ will
be warmly welcomed and meet with as wide an appreciation as its merit
deserves. Mr. Gardenhire possesses remarkable constructive ability. He
knows how to tell a story. The author has handled this question with a
dignity and justice and fine feeling that will make the book appeal
strongly to women.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Harpers Weekly.= 49: 131. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1340w.
“He knows much that is behind the scenes to the general, and yet his
novel lacks atmosphere. One looks on at a carefully constructed Coney
Islandish reproduction of New York; one does not feel the throb of
‘the mighty heart’ of the living city. The chief defect of the book is
the one most surely fatal to fiction—it is tedious. The author is
fluent, ingenious, inventive; but the long and stilted conversations
‘get on to our nerves.’ Now and again we applaud, but before the last
page is reached we are exceedingly weary. In short, the novel is not
the work of an artist, and so fails to take the reader with it.”
— — + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“It has rarely been our fate to read more prolix, tiresome, and
unnatural dialogue than that in this book, while in substance and plot
the story is valueless.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 40w.
“The book is carefully and easily written.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 215. F. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“The discovery of relationships, the linking together of scattered and
seemingly unrelated facts, the many ramifications, show constructive
skill of a high order. As a study—thorough, logical and strong—of some
complex, sophisticated aspects of New York life the book will rank
high.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 620. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.
A book about a child, but one whose contemplative phase belongs to
grown-ups. The story traces the workings of a silent, lonely, albeit
resourceful girl’s heart from childhood thru her High School days. “We
follow Margery to Margaret, and know we are always with a real girl,
independent, faulty, sensitive, and generous, imperious among her
fellows, yet a favorite and a born leader.” (Outlook.)
“Mrs. Gardiner’s story represents a phase in the psychology of
childhood to the study of which such writers as Kenneth Grahame,
George Madden Martin, and Marion Hill have contributed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 270w.
“The book is well written, with much sympathy for the little joys and
sorrows that loom so large in childhood, and for the intense loves,
ambitions, disappointments, triumphs of the older schoolgirl.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 650w.
“The strength of this little story lies in the frequent responses it
calls up in the mind of the reader, if that reader knows girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 190w.
=Gardner, Percy.= Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.
This volume “presents an attempt to set forth the underlying
conventions of Greek art, and the changes which ... they gradually
underwent. The mental fashions of the Greek mind in building and
sculpture and in painting, are presented with a discussion of the
relation between epic, lyric and dramatic poetry to painting and vase
decoration. An informing chapter is devoted to the subject of dress
and drapery.... Such sculptural problems as the decoration of
pediments are carefully analyzed. Interesting light is thrown upon the
formation of sculptural types and the Greek tendency to
impressionalism.... Illustrations in outline and half tone are
sufficiently plentiful to point in every case the discussion and
argument.”—Int. Studio.
“Dr. Gardner’s book, though brief, covers a wide range, and is rich in
illustration; but we could wish that the beauty of the originals had
been better rendered, even at a sacrifice of number.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 660. Je. 24, ‘05. 540w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10:938. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“In all his treatment is suggestive, not exhaustive. Information he
supplies, but his aim is rather to teach how to understand. The
English style leaves something to be desired.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 184. Ag. 5. 1080w.
“A valuable volume whose only fault is that it fails as an attempt to
provide an elementary study of the subject, and presupposes
considerable classical training on the part of the reader.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 92. Ag. 16, ‘05. 330w.
=Ind.= 58: 1424. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.
“Dr. Gardner’s book is one which should be helpful and attractive to
all who are familiar with its general subject, and who go to it for
illumination and suggestion, with the proper equipment of familiarity
with forms not to be had in a mere perusal or study of books.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 260w.
* “A handbook that will probably be found very useful by teachers in
schools.”
+ =Int. Studio=, 27: 184. D. ‘05. 180w.
“Simplicity is one of the most marked characteristics of the style of
the whole book. The principle underlying the treatment is sound.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 416. My. 25, ‘05. 1710w.
“It offers an intelligent and practically unerring method for the
judgment of the art of Hellas.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 431. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.
* =Gardner, William.= Life of Stephen A. Douglas. $1.50. Eastern pub.
A brief biography compiled mainly from original sources and intended
by the author as a dispassionate study. It is a history of the career
of Douglas rather than an intimate life story. A detailed account of
his work presents him as lawyer, judge, and politician, but while what
the man has done is faithfully given there is little of the man
himself. The author announces in his preface that he has “not
attempted to pronounce judgment on Douglas and his contemporaries but
to submit the evidence,” this and this only has he done. The volume
has no index.
* “Mr. Gardner has done something toward solving the Douglas riddle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ‘05. 460w.
=Garis, Howard R.= Isle of black fire. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is a boy’s book of adventure. A New York merchant sends out an
expedition to an uncharted island where a great lump of radium
supposedly worth fifty-five million dollars, is guarded by priests in
asbestos robes, who worship it and offer up passing strangers in
sacrifice to the “black fire.” There are stirring scenes in which two
thousand savages are mowed down by the ship’s guns, and barbaric games
and combats, which celebrate the coming of an office boy, George the
Fat, as king of the savage kingdom. A comic Irishman relieves the
tense situations.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 310w. (Gives plot.)
=Garland, Hamlin.= Tyranny of the dark. †$1.50. Harper.
A western girl, beautiful and endowed with uncanny psychic powers,
struggles between love and hypnotism; the first, represented by a
young chemist and biologist, the second, by a clergyman. The story
passes thru death and excitement to a happy ending.
“Pleasing and interesting as is the romance considered merely as a
novel, its supreme excellence lies in its detailed presentation of
certain psychical phenomena.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 206. Ag. ‘05. 8100w.
“It is a good and interesting tale.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 685. Je. 3. 330w.
“It is very delicate and exacting material that Mr. Garland has chosen
for his latest novel, and very crudely has he handled it.”
— =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 70w.
“With all his exposition, Mr. Garland does not make clear his own view
of spiritualism, and, by closing the story where he does, he evades
the most difficult of the problems which he raises.” Herbert W.
Horwill.
+ — =Forum.= 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
— =Ind.= 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“The scientific portions of the book are the finest and the most
absorbing.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 470w.
“Regarded as fiction simply ‘The tyranny of the dark’ is too much
encumbered with laborious arguments and citations. Has told his story
well.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 343. My. 27, ‘05. 530w.
“Four characters outlined with vigor. A book of more than ordinary
power to hold the reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.
“The story is an interesting one; in places it grips you. But,
compared to some of Mr. Garland’s earlier writings, it must be said
regretfully that the book is a disappointing piece of work.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 330w.
=Reader.= 6: 105. Je. ‘05. 280w.
“It is based on a theme of absorbing interest and it is exceedingly
well written.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 290w.
“That the story ... lacks genuine literary attractiveness or
convincingness on its supernatural side, it would be absurd to deny.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 130w.
=Garnett, Richard.= William Shakespeare, pedagogue and poacher: a drama.
$1.25. Lane.
This play, written apparently for study and not dramatic presentation,
deals with Shakespeare’s traditional roles of school teacher and
poacher. It is necessarily unsatisfactory to Shakespeare lovers and
students, who find that his character as here portrayed falls short of
the man as shown to us in his works, and the words which Mr. Garnett
puts into his mouth, while perhaps Shakespearean, are obviously not
Shakespeare.
— =Critic.= 46: 192. F. ‘05. 310w.
“Among the most ingenious and successful experiments upon this
baffling theme [attempt to portray Shakespeare as he lived and moved
among his fellows] must surely be reckoned the little two-act drama of
Dr. Garnett.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“While Dr. Garnett’s play is equally open to the charge of being a
subject dressed in poetry, rather than poetry incarnate in a fit
subject, it is a remarkably readable and pleasant little book.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“Dr. Garnett’s respect for the great Elizabethan is not to be doubted,
but his drama lends to it no emphasis. It contains agreeable lines,
but it is not interesting in development, nor is there any reality in
the general effect. Moreover, the figure of Shakespeare is trivial and
his speech frequently is elaborate and dull. In no respect is he
realized with the distinction and art demanded by a subject so far
from the ordinary.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 480w.
“It is all work at a high level, and the way in which the characters
are made to speak in lines which are echoes of the later Shakespeare
is extremely skilful. There is a humour, too, in many of the scenes,
and much accomplished verse. But it is rather a chapter of Mr. Sidney
Lee’s Life turned into dialogue than a substantive drama.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 60w.
=Garrison, William Lloyd.= Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison
occurs in December, and to commemorate it there appears a small volume
of characteristic sentiments from his writings dedicated “to all who
hate cruelty, oppression, and war, and believe in the equal rights and
perfectibility of mankind.”
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 560w.
* “Interesting and really valuable little volume.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 50w.
=Gaspe, Philippe Aubert de.= Cameron of Lochiel; tr. by Charles G. D.
Roberts. †$1.50. Page.
What Gaspé did in his Canadian narrative of the early sixties was “to
gather up,” says Mr. Roberts, “and preserve in lasting form the songs
and legends, the characteristic customs, the phases of thought and
feeling, the very local and personal aroma of the rapidly changing
civilization.” The story turns to the days of the last struggle of the
English and the French, and tells the life history of two young men, a
Scot and a Frenchman, both of whom were educated at the Jesuits’
college in Quebec, and later fought against each other on the plains
of Abraham.
“He makes on the whole a very satisfactory translator.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 590w.
=Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.= Henry the third and the church. *$4.
Macmillan.
“A careful study of the relations between England and Rome, from the
submission of John to the Papal see on Ascension day, 1213, to the
close of his son’s reign. It is written with no desire to defend the
Papacy from the charges which were made even by the faithful at the
time, and it may fairly claim to represent an unbiased survey of the
evidence. The author’s principle has been to let the original
documents speak for themselves.” Lond. Times.
“A trustworthy contribution to the story of this long reign on the
very points upon which most historians are either silent or
provokingly brief.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 102. Jl. 22. 2590w.
“It is somewhat dull and colorless. His conclusions, as it seems to
us, are sound, if not novel. His book will be indispensable to the
student of the reign of Henry III.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 640w.
* “The high literary merit and abundant learning of this investigation
into the relationship between Rome and England in the thirteenth
century are all that we might expect.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 787. N. 18, ‘05. 2020w.
=Gass, Patrick.= Gass’s journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed.
by Jas. K. Hosmer. *$3.50. McClurg.
Dr. Hosmer, who contributed to the centennial interest in the Lewis
and Clark expedition thru his “Story of the Louisiana purchase,” has
added further to the commemoration in the present work. The original
jottings of Patrick Gass being no longer extant, nothing of them could
be included in Thwaites’ recent “Original journals of the Lewis and
Clark expedition,” but the chronicles trimmed and shaped by David
McKeehan, under the supervision of Gass, are of so great importance
that the re-issue after sixty years is well warranted. A full
introduction leads up to the records, and a time-saving analytical key
follows the text. The volume is uniform in style with other volumes of
McClurg’s “Americana,” with reproductions of the original
illustrations.
“Dr. Hosmer has confined his editorial work to supplying an
introduction. The volume contains no new contribution, nor does it
make the journal of Gass much more valuable as a source. The
introduction, in an easy though sometimes rather personal style,
always with a view to the picturesque, is a convenient summary of the
results of recent research.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 450. Ja. ‘05. 510w.
“This excellent reprint.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 80w.
* =Gates, Errett.= Disciples of Christ, **$1. Baker.
As one of “The story of the churches” series, this volume takes up the
origin, development, and history of the denomination called The
disciples of Christ, beginning with the withdrawal of Thomas Campbell
from the Seceder Presbyterian church in Western Pennsylvania 1809,
thru the time of union with the Baptists, the later separation of the
Reformers from the Baptists, the union of the Reformers as Disciples
of Christ, their growth and organization down to the present time.
There are chapters upon Evangelism, journalism, education and church
growth, and Recent tendencies and problems; there is also a
bibliography and an index.
* =Gates, Josephine Scribner.= Story of the three dolls. $1.25. Bobbs.
A group of stories for little people including the story of the gold
beads which were lost and found on the dog’s neck, the story of the
candy heart, which was devoured “lick by lick” by two little girls,
and various anecdotes of dogs, birds, horses and fish, “which are
absolutely true,” says the author.
* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Gautier, Theophile.= Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other
distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French,
with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far
East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.
The entire first volume and one-fourth of the second, treating of the
empire of the czars from the beginning to the most recent times, are
by Gautier, while separate papers by other well known French writers
complete the work. These include: The mir, by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu;
The press and censorship, by Gustave Lejeal; The Russian army and
navy, by Désiré Lacroix; Religion and sects, by Gustave Lejeal;
Literature, by L. Lejar; Russian art, by Marius Vachon; Siberia, by
Jules Legras; and others. Fifty photogravures illustrate the volumes.
* “As literature, and as a mine of information, these volumes call for
special notice.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 659. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “There is much interesting information and picturesque writing in
these volumes.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “The translation ... is mechanical, but on the whole fairly
satisfactory.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
=Gavit, Helen E.= Etiquette of correspondence. *50c. Wessels.
A thoroly modern compendium, being, as the sub-title states,
illustrations and suggestions as to the proper forms in present usage
of social, club, diplomatic, military, and business letters, with
information on heraldic devices, monograms, and engraved addresses.
“Is the best of its kind.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 960w.
“An excellent compendium, covering everything that pertains to the
subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Gaye, R. K.= Platonic conception of immortality and its connection with
the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Gaye’s object in this book is to investigate the connection
between the theory of ideas and the theory of the immortality of the
soul as held by Plato, and in this way to make clear the nature of
Plato’s conception of immortality and to determine in what sense he
believed in the continued existence of the individual soul: this
subject has involved the consideration of the Platonic conception of
the soul and of the relation of soul and body.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Yet, whatever we may think of his assumptions, Mr. Gaye’s essay shows
decided ability, and is written in a good, clear style.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 600w.
=Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 580w.
“The main criticism of the book, however, is that though it makes its
points clearly and is for that reason of considerable value for all
students of Plato, it has failed to establish satisfactorily that the
interpretation of Plato which it adopts is the only possible
interpretation or that Plato was really influenced by the difficulties
and arguments by which Mr. Gaye assumes him to have been influenced.”
A. R. Ainsworth.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 381. Ap. ‘05. 1500w.
“It is lucidly written and scholarly, but not remarkable for novelty
and originality.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.
Reviewed by Paul Shorey.
+ — =Philos. R.= 14: 590. S. ‘05. 1950w.
“Deals in a clear and diligent manner with points in Plato’s doctrine
of immortality, and reflects ... with somewhat over-exclusiveness the
views of the great gods of Trinity.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.= Principles and progress
of English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Profs. Charles Mills Gayley and Clement C. Young, in their volume on
‘The principles and progress of English poetry, with representative
masterpieces and notes,’ have attempted to show through extracts and
by a scientific study of rhythm, melody and movement as well as by
historical analysis, how English poetry has developed, and how it has
been touched by external and internal influences since the days of
Chaucer down to those of Tennyson. Each chapter has a separate
introduction descriptive of the school to which the poems included in
it are supposed to belong.”—N. Y. Times.
“Merits the attention both of the studious reader of poetry, and of
the mechanician in verse—particularly of the youthful apprentice in
the art of poesy.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
“With Professor Gayley’s artistic theory we cannot always agree. It
has the great advantage of putting a large amount of poetic phenomena
into shape for the student’s use.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 260. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. (Outlines scope.)
“There is a preface ... devoted to the principles of poetry—a valuable
book in itself.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274*. Mr. ‘05. 140w.
=Geddie, John.= Romantic Edinburgh. $2.50. Dutton.
A reissue, without revisions, of a suggestive guide to the study of
the landmarks of Old Edinburgh.
=Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 60w.
“A map is needed—a map or plan, such as Baedeker prints in his guide
books. That, and either no photographs or better ones, would make Mr.
Geddie’s a well-nigh perfect hand book to Auld Reekie.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 576. S. 2, ‘05. 1120w.
=Geere, H. Valentine.= By Nile and Euphrates. $3.50. Scribner.
A book of both discovery and adventure. The author, at Professor
Flinders Petrie’s request, was given an appointment on the staff of
the expedition which was sent out to Mesapotamia by the University of
Pennsylvania in 1895 to continue the excavation of the ruins of
Nippur. He writes of “unsettled, poverty-stricken and neglected
Mesapotamia, and well-ordered, flourishing Egypt,” and gives detailed
accounts of the work of investigation carried on at Behnesch, Nippur
and Babylon.
“So far as we know, there is no other book which paints so vividly the
camp of the excavator, or sketches the scenery and life of the Nile
and Euphrates valleys, as the one before us.” George L. Robinson.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 235. S. ‘05. 950w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
=Dial.= 38: 90. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Geere writes in a pleasant, lucid style, which rises almost into
eloquence when he describes the evening at Mohammerah when the charms
of the East first stole upon him.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28. ‘05. 430w.
=Geffroy, Gustave.= National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir
Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.
“The author has treated his subject by subdivision into schools
corresponding to the arrangement of the pictures on the walls (an
arrangement quite unsurpassed in excellence in any public gallery).
The English, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French
schools are all covered both in the charmingly written text, and the
profuse illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
* “One of the most elaborate, as well as one of the most
authoritative, art books of the season. His style is often brilliant,
and always clear and definite.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“M. Gustave Geffroy’s essays are one and all marked by the keen
insight into peculiarities of the style that distinguish him; and they
have about them a freshness and originality that is, alas, daily
becoming more rare.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: 81. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“The work is a magnificent one—one which makes us feel grateful to
author and publisher.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 14. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
* “Great pains have been taken with the mechanical perfection of the
reproductions, and the work ranks well.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Unfortunately, many of the photogravures are but mediocre, and most
of the process cuts are wretched, so that what should have been a
feast of art is little more than an aid to memory.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* “The text is discriminating as well as informative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 200w.
=Geikie, Sir Archibald.= Landscape in history, and other essays. *$2.75.
Macmillan.
“Ten essays and addresses.... Half of them deal with scenery in its
geological relations and in its influence on human progress.... They
are entitled ‘Landscape in history,’ ‘Landscape and the imagination,’
‘Landscape and literature,’ ‘The origin of the scenery of the British
islands,’ and ‘The centenary of Hutton’s Theory of the earth.’ The
others discuss the problem of the age of the earth, ‘Geological time’;
two are biographical, ‘The life and letters of Charles Darwin’ and
‘Hugh Miller: his work and influence’; one deals with the place of
science in modern education, and the book closes with a paper on the
Roman campagna.”—N. Y. Times.
“Sir Archibald Geikie in those thoughtful essays has done something
toward elucidating the dependence of man’s intellectual achievement on
his physical environment.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 193. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1450w.
“A charming contribution to the literature of his favorite science.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 15. 980w.
“These essays are very charming, written with great clearness and
distinction.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 270w.
* “The essays are popular, rather than technical; and there is very
little in them beyond the reach of the average educated man.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 3030w.
“A most readable book, the several parts of which hang well together.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 577. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 160w. (Outline of
contents).
“Charming style in which this volume of varied essays is written.
Altogether this volume is stimulating and enlightening, a distinct
contribution to the literature of science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“It is the interweaving of history, mythology, and imagination with
the dry light of scientific fact that constitutes the particular
fascination of this book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 312. S. 2, ‘05. 1010w.
“This is a very entertaining and useful field of research, in which we
could desire no better guide than Sir Archibald Geikie.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 650w.
=Geikie, James.= Structural and field geology for students of pure and
applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Addressed primarily to beginners in field geology, this handbook is
intended also for students preparing to be mining or civil engineers,
architects, agriculturists, or public health officers, to whom some
knowledge of structural geology is important. It covers the course
gone over in the summer course of geology in the University of
Edinburgh, a course instituted to give students a further knowledge of
practical geology than could be presented in the winter courses. There
are numerous illustrations and full-page plates.
“Written with the knowledge and authority of a professor of wide
experience, the work is likely to be of much use far beyond the range
of University classes. Perhaps the most valuable part of Prof.
Geikie’s work is that devoted to geological surveying.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 430w.
* “The work is excellent in plan, in presentation. It will be very
helpful, not only to beginners, but to those who have been well
trained in the science of geology.” N. S. Shaler.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 1250w.
“A very useful handbook, admirable in the freshness and terseness of
its descriptions, and the clearness and abundance of its
illustrations.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 223. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1620w.
* “A full and well-considered hand-book for use in the sober work of
geological surveying or economic investigation, in a country like
Scotland, where there are no active volcanoes, earthquakes or
glaciers.” B. K. Emerson.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 628. N. 17, ‘05. 970w.
Genealogical records, $1. W. G. DeWitt, 201 E. 12th St., N. Y.
A book of blanks for those who wish to record their family history in
systematic form. The spaces for names, notes, dates, and index are
indicated, and when filled out will constitute a neat and handy volume
for genealogical reference.
=Genung, John Franklin.= Ecclesiastes. **$1.25. Houghton.
A philosophical rather than a critical study. “The author, together
with most modern students of the book, rightly discards the word
‘Ecclesiastes,’ the Greek translation of ‘Koheleth,’ in the first
place because it is almost certainly an incorrect translation, and, in
the second place, as the author appropriately observes, because it
‘entitles what is of all Scripture books the least ecclesiastical.’”
(Bib. World.) “He dwells but slightly on the historical background,
and then introduces us to the theory that Koheleth was a reaction
against the immortality doctrine, recently adopted from the Greeks and
pushed into prominence by the Pharisees. The preacher contends against
living for a vague futurity, and insists upon living this present life
to its utmost.” (Cath. World).
“Genung’s thesis is admirably set forth and strongly buttressed by
references to modern literature. But the impression remains that he
has rather read into Koheleth a view which one would like to discover
there, than revealed the actual nature of the book itself.”
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 168. Ja. ‘05. 530w.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 703. My. ‘05. 480w.
“To a full two hundred pages of discussion the author has added a new
translation and a running commentary. Both are excellent, but the
latter especially ripples along in clear, crisp sentences that show
how much a deft literary touch may do even for a commentary. In fact,
the book as a whole exhibits in language and treatment the author’s
nice literary taste. In the opinion of the present writer, Professor
Genung is not at his best when he discusses, or rather makes fun of,
Siegfried’s analysis of Koheleth. Satire is not convincing. The
reviewer also feels impelled to enter a non liquet against Professor
Genung’s contention that Koheleth represents a reaction against
contemporary views of immortality. The solid merit of the serious and
painstaking work that has gone into the book will win for it an
honored place on many shelves.” William Frederic Badé.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 25: 311. Ap. ‘05. 940w.
“Mr. Genung would have done far better to have examined the book
without a philosophical theory as to its nature, but with a critical
openness of mind for straightforward evidence. Still, in the
introductory portion of the volume, and in the exegetical notes
accompanying the translation, there are useful suggestions.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 80: 546. Ja. ‘05. 390w.
“His discussion reveals a well-balanced sense of the literary and
spiritual values that are to be found in Koheleth.” Ira M. Price.
+ + =Dial= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Ind.= 58: 1368. Je. 15, ‘05. 120w.
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 190. Ja. 21, ‘05. 710w.
=George, Hereford B.=, ed. See =Thiers, Adolphe.=
=Gerard, Dorothea (Mme. Longard de Longarde).= Sawdust: a Polish romance
of the Carpathian timberlands. $1. Winston.
Self made, a lover of work for work’s sake, Josef Mayer, has at last
achieved success and erected a saw-mill in the Polish Carpathians,
having beggared Count Rutkowski and secured his timber lands in a
shrewd business deal. Then comes a pretty romance between the count’s
daughter and Meyer’s son, which is opposed more strenuously by the
peasant than by the nobleman, but which ends satisfactorily in the
loss of the Meyer fortune. Royalty, the village folk and the
disaffected Jews figure in the story.
“There is also a certain delicacy in the treatment of the love scenes
and fidelity to truth in the descriptions of natural scenery that give
the story a charm not present in most present-day novels.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 552. N. ‘05. 160w.
“There is, moreover, much skill displayed in the delineation of
character and situations alike, and the writer is thoroughly familiar
with her material.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The story is told naturally and carefully.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 370w.
“It is full of freshness and originality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 455. Jl. 8, ‘05. 480w.
“A charming combination of capital and labor, with an absorbing
love-plot, is ‘Sawdust’.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 190w.
=Gerson, Virginia.= More adventures of the happy Heart family. $1. Fox.
Another book for the very young in which little mother Heart, papa
Goodheart, and the little Hearties all appear, also the Jolly-jumpers
and the Valentines, who were “a very elegant family because their
grandfather was a saint, so Mrs. Fancy Valentine always wore white
lace.” Quaint drawings illustrate the volume.
* “Another one of those delightful children’s books which the
grown-ups like as much as the little people.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Gettemy, Charles Ferris.= True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.
A short biography of the American patriot whom Longfellow’s poem saved
from historical oblivion. His midnight ride is told in his own words,
and he appears as a patriotic engraver and dentist as well as public
messenger, soldier, and juror. Both Revere and the historical events
in which he played a part lose in romance but gain much in reality by
this accurate account. Original documents are quoted and Revere’s
copper-plate engravings are fully described.
* + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The book shows scholarly work, and is of value historically apart
from its narrative of Paul Revere.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
* “The real value of the book lies in the light which it throws on
local Revolutionary history, and especially on the alliance with
France and the adoption of the Constitution.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Ghent, W. J.= Mass and class. $1.25. Macmillan.
“Mr. W. J. Ghent, author of ‘Our benevolent feudalism,’ has written
‘Mass and class: a survey of social divisions.’ In his present work,
Mr. Ghent seeks to analyze the social mass into its component classes;
to describe these classes, not as they may be imagined in some
projected benevolent feudalism, but as they are to be found here and
now in the industrial life of the nation; and to indicate the current
of social progress which, in spite of the blindness of the workers,
the rapacity of the masters, and the subservience of the retainers,
makes ever for an ultimate of social justice.”—R. of Rs.
“Brilliant arraignment of modern society.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Owen R. Lovejoy.
=Current Literature.= 38: 309. Ap. ‘05. 2180w. (Abstract of
book.)
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“The one criticism offered concerns a fundamental point—Mr. Ghent’s
failure to grasp the full meaning of the doctrine of economic
interpretation on which he professes to base his whole discussion.”
Wesley C. Mitchell.
— + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 281. Mr. ‘05. 2290w.
* “Probably most psychologists would attach more importance to the
part played by ideals than the author does, but in tracing back our
present conditions of war between labor and capital to a play of
motives that were the direct result of the rapid economic development
of our country, he is fundamentally correct. The book is to be
criticised in this respect as being too schematic, as not going
sufficiently into detail to be at all satisfactory to one’s historical
sense.” Amy E. Tanner.
+ — =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 413. D. 15, ‘05. 790w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 100w.
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 106. My. ‘05. 270w.
=Ghosh, Sarath Kumar.= Verdict of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
“With prologue, epilogue, and interludes between the great king, sick
unto death, and his faithful chronicler beguiling the painful hours,
this Oriental romance details the ordeals—a horrid half-dozen,
including burial alive, exposure to wild beasts, and the poison cup—to
which Navayan Lal was put for daring to love the Princess Devala.
Great bravery and a canny knowledge of hypnotism and other mysteries
occult carry him through in safety.”—Outlook.
“Its lucid English style and its fascinating plot. For all these
trifling cavils, ‘The verdict of the gods’ must rank as a novel of
unusual interest.” Louis H. Gray.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 310. My. ‘05. 1530w.
=Ind.= 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 110w.
“Can be recommended as an antidote for ennui in several of its forms.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 740w.
=Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8. ‘05. 110w.
“Here are more ‘Arabian nights,’ murmurous, beguiling, enchanting in
their beauty and strangeness.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 220w.
=Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill.= Africa from south to north through
Marotseland. **$7.50. Lane.
The account of a thoro exploration of Marotseland, made in 1898 by an
experienced African traveler. The objects of the expedition were to
fix a British boundary line; to determine the Congo-Zambesi watershed;
to discover the real source of the Zambesi; and to make such surveys
and general investigations as should determine the best place for the
Rhodesian railway company to push its line across the river. The
account is interesting and valuable, the more so because the Cape to
Cairo railway, soon to be completed, will make it possible for the
tourist to cover this same ground. Native life and conditions, present
government and economic possibilities are treated in detail.
“Is written in a charming style, simple, direct and convincing. Quite
apart from its interest and special worth to the Englishman, is its
value on account of the new and interesting geographical information
it contains. Is one of the most important works of travel of recent
years.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 561. My. ‘05. 790w.
“There are at least half a dozen reasons why it should be welcome and
why it will take a permanent place among the standard books on African
exploration. The best authority in print today concerning the country.
There is much detail in the book. Still it is all very readable.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 499. Mr. 2, ‘05. 670w.
=Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant.= History of old Pine street; being the record
of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Winston.
“Pine Street church in Philadelphia, the third Presbyterian church
founded in that city, is the only one dating from colonial times still
on its original site. In the churchyard some three thousand lie
interred, including many Revolutionary officers and soldiers. It has
been served by a succession of remarkably able ministers....
Originally in a fashionable center, now in a slum neighborhood ... it
remains there, consecrated by its history and pledged by its endowment
to a perpetuity of service in its changed environment. This handsome
and finely illustrated volume is a worthy memorial of seven
generations to many more to come.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Facts and ideas. $1.25. Longmans.
Short studies of life and literature, which have appeared in various
weekly newspapers. There is a brief treatment of a great many
subjects, including the French revolution, and the Transvaal war.
“The book aspires to be a sort of elementary substitute for liberal
education—a university extension course on things one should know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 333. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“We think that occasionally, in his desire to point a moral, Mr. Gibbs
exaggerates. The writer does not go to the heart of his subject.”
— =Spec.= 94: 293. F. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* =Gibson, Charles.= Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to
characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.
“Most daintily attired, all gray and silvery and splendidly pictured,
comes ‘Among French inns’ ... with ... an automobile, an indulgent
American papa, a managing American mamma, a double love match, and an
enviable collection of French, English, and Italian types. Moreover,
there is real information about the inns, their table d’hotes, their
relative expensiveness and inexpensiveness, and a plenty of historical
data.”—N. Y. Times.
* “He defaces almost every page of his book by his badly chosen
vocabulary, or his disregard for the rules of English syntax.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “This new book may well deserve that quaintly descriptive old word
‘fetching.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
* =Gibson, Charles Dana.= Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.
The present collection, which it is announced, contains Mr. Gibson’s
last work in black and white, “is uniform in size, shape, and binding
with the nine volumes which have preceded it. It is entitled ‘Our
neighbors,’ a phrase generally interpreted to mean all sorts and
conditions of men and women. The Gibson Girl is charmingly portrayed,
as well as the Gibson Man, the Gibson Dowager, and the Gibson Old
Gentleman. There are also the street types ... and cartoons.” (Dial.)
* “Perhaps Mr. Gibson has done his best in black-and-white; at least
he will have to do something very good indeed to surpass the general
level of ‘Our neighbors.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 260w.
* “Whatever else may be said of Gibson and his work, certain it is
that he makes you see what he sets out to show you, and he does it
pleasantly and with a deal of humor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 170w.
* “He leaves us quite at his best, and his humor has never been keener
or his technical ability more astonishing than in the present
collection.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “The artist is as fresh and interesting as ever.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 793. N. 18, ‘05. 110w.
=Gibson, William Hamilton.= Our native orchids. **$1.35. Doubleday.
Mr. Gibson had only begun to record his observations on orchids of the
Northwestern United States at the time of his death. Mrs. Jelliffe has
supplemented his portfolio of sketches and scattering notes with her
own results of study, and has produced an orchid handbook of
particular value to the amateur botanist, which practically includes
all the sixty species of our native orchids, giving keys,
descriptions, illustrations and notes.
“This is a book which supplies a want long felt by the amateur
botanist, and we give it a cordial welcome.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A volume, unassuming though it is, of substantial value and
interest.” Edith Granger.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 109. S. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 50w.
“Satisfactory and intelligible volume.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 477. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1680w.
=Gide, Charles.= Principles of political economy; second American ed.;
tr. by C. Wm. A. Veditz. $2. Heath.
The eight editions through which the original French “Principes
d’economie politique” has gone, mark a succession of changes in
certain sections of the book, but leave the fundamental purpose the
same,—that of giving to the reader “a plain statement of the accepted
principles of economics, a summary of the unsettled problems of the
science, and a clear, brief, and impartial outline of the various
solutions that have been proposed. The author is almost as felicitous
in presenting a subject that in the hands of most scholars is
extremely dull as was Henry George. This work has been brought down to
the latest date and evidently no pains have been spared, within
certain limits, to present the subject in a broad, up-to-date and
comprehensive manner. A third excellence is found in its concrete
presentation of the subject.” (Arena).
“Perhaps much of the popularity of the book is due to its catholicity.
The arrangement of the material is open to criticism as unnatural and
liable to interrupt and confuse the thought. This is not true as
regards the general plan of the book, but only as regards topics under
the chief heads. Professor Veditz must be given credit and
congratulation for the vitality and the up-to-dateness of this book.”
Walter E. Kruesi.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 347. Mr. ‘05. 380w.
“It is written in a charmingly lucid manner. By the author’s method of
presentation the interest in the subject and its intelligibility have
gained rather than lost by the concise and direct treatment. The
division and arrangement of the work are also admirable and with the
fairly good index enable the reader to find anything he desires with
little loss of time. This work, though far less open to criticism than
many conventional political economies, falls, in our judgment, far
short of meeting the demands of an up-to-date political economy that
claims to present impartially the various present-day theories of
government. The claim of the publishers, that the book is impartial,
is not borne out by the facts.”
+ — =Arena.= 33: 107. Ja. ‘05. 820w.
=Gilder, Jeannette Leonard.= Tom-boy at work. †$1.25. Doubleday.
In this sequel to her “Autobiography of a tom-boy,” Miss Gilder tells
of her heroine’s varied career as a bread-winner. At sixteen she was
employed as a copyist by a historian, later she worked in the
Philadelphia mint, then became in turn a tinter of photographs, an
auditor’s clerk, a proofreader, and, finally, a successful newspaper
woman. She gives her impressions of New York thirty years ago; and
many distinguished literary men, singers and actors of that day enter
into her story.
“She has interpreted the whole situation with that shrewd, honest,
impersonal intelligence which is founded upon humor and common sense
rather than upon the usual sentimental pose of such a writer to her
theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 370w.
“Miss Gilder writes in a breezy and unconventional style, suitable to
the pace at which her tomboy lived and changed professions. Nothing
could be more American than the atmosphere and point of view of this
book.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 100. F. 2, ‘05. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= In the heights. *$1. Century.
A little volume of verses containing elegiac poems, poems suggested by
music, songs of experience, impromptus, etc. The book closes with The
white tsar’s people, reprinted, with additional stanzas suggested by
recent events.
“Into almost all of his verse the poet has woven high, fine thoughts
that will appeal to the artistic, the intellectual or the conscience
sides of life. This is one of the few volumes of verse that we can
heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 550. N. ‘05. 650w.
* =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 450w.
* “Mr. Gilder’s limpidity and chastity of style are a constant
delight, and the turn of his fancy is pleasing.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Gilfillan, Joseph Alexander.= Ojibway; a novel of Indian life of the
period of the early advance of civilization in the great Northwest.
$1.50. Neale.
The Ojibway in relation to his own kindred and tribe is pictured in
this narrative so humane that were it not for his wilderness
surroundings, his crude equipments, his superstitious fear, one might
count him the owner of some developed instincts. But the recital of
the horrible and bloodthirsty relations with the Sioux tribe reveals
such abject savagery that the reader fairly recoils from it. The book
is made up of these two phases, with many incidental allusions to
traits and customs.
“To call the book a novel was a misnomer. It is rather a series of
moving pictures in which we see real people doing real things. In
spite of careless proofreading, conspicuous faults of diction and
unfortunate lack of experienced editing, the story is told with ...
simplicity and vividness.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 260w.
* =Gillette, Halbert Powers.= Handbook of cost data for contractors and
engineers: a reference book giving methods of construction and actual
costs of materials and labor on numerous engineering works. *$4. Clark,
M. C.
“The reviewer believes this to be the first handbook on the cost of
engineering work that has been published.... The book is divided into
fourteen sections, under heads that facilitate quick reference ...
preparing estimates, cost keeping, and its corollary, the organization
of forces ... earth and rock excavation ... cost of roads, pavements
and walks ... stone masonry ... the cost of concrete construction of
all kinds ... the cost of water-works, sewers, vitrified conduits and
tile drains ... structures in which timber dominates ... steam and
electric railways ... the erection and painting of steel bridges ...
the cost of railway and topographic surveys ... and the cost of many
miscellaneous structures.... The book is illustrated with cuts
wherever they add to the text.”—Engin. N.
* “The subject is presented in an attractive manner. Although much
information is given, yet the users of the book will desire more. Its
usefulness will only be limited by its sale.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 527. N. 16, ‘05. 1550w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Phases of modern music. **$1.25. Harper.
“A study of the more important phases of music to-day, grouped about
appreciative chapters on Richard Strauss, Edward McDowell, Grieg,
Wagner, Verdi, Edward Elgar, and Charles Martin Loeffler, with
vigorous essays on ‘Parsifal and its significance’ and ‘Women and
modern music.’ Mr. Gilman has been the musical critic of Harper’s
Weekly since 1901.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Gilman writes with penetration and a more than common sympathy,
and has a distinctive and charming mode of expression. His work is
unusual in appealing both to the technical and the lay reader, and its
judgments and illuminations will be valued by students.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
“The author is endowed with grace of style, and he knows how to bring
into relief the interesting features of unattractive subjects.” Ingram
A. Pyle.
+ =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“It is not often possible to follow him in all his ways; for they are
sometimes oversubtle and elusive. He has not yet the weight of reason
and the authority of judgment that will no doubt come to one who
reflects and thinks seriously as he does.” Richard Aldrich.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.
“He writes with vividness and sympathy.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 80w.
=Gilman, N. P.= Methods of industrial peace. **$1.60. Houghton.
This book will be gladly received by the student of social movements,
as there is increasing demand for new works upon the “labor question,”
due to the rapid growth of knowledge thru investigation, and the
steady change in facts and phases of the question itself. “The book
takes an Anglo-Saxon point of view, since it draws almost as much upon
English as upon American experience, besides making considerable
reference to Australian and New Zealand developments. It undertakes a
good deal more than a discussion of the special machinery designed to
further industrial peace, giving a brief but concise statement of the
chief facts incidental to the history and present position of trade
unionism. [Then the author shows the necessity for the efficient
organization of both employers and employed, discusses the “sliding
scale,” raises the question of the legal constitution and liability of
trade unions.] ... The ensuing chapters deal at some length with the
aims and methods of unions, their conduct of strikes and boycotts, and
the place borne by the public in relation to their actions. The
remainder of the book is given to a general account of trade boards of
conciliation, state boards of arbitration, and the methods of legal
regulation in force in New Zealand.” (Int. J. Ethics).
“The treatment is characterized by insight, sobriety, and accurate
learning.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 557. Ja. ‘05. 280w.
“If a general criticism might be ventured on the whole book, it would
be that too much ground has been covered and that in consequence too
little intensity of treatment is shown. On the other hand, the author
exhibits an admirable breadth of view and impartiality which must
appeal to all readers.” James T. Young.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 602. My. ‘05. 550w.
“The chief value of the book will be the statement, dispassionate, and
in clear form, of the main facts of the case and of the principles in
accordance with which industrial organization would appear to be
moving. Mr. Gilman has traveled over so much ground that he has at
times become a little sketchy in his treatment. Description rather
than economic analysis is the strong point of the book. In a subject
so far reaching, however, it is perhaps unfair to expect more than a
broad presentation of the material which will enable others to
formulate particular problems and to attempt independent judgments.
This Mr. Gilman has done in a manner so interesting as to command the
gratitude of all interested in current labor problems.” C. J.
Hamilton.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 237. Ja. ‘05. 1400w.
“Upon the whole, however, the book is of value. In spite of its
inaccuracies and occasional unfairness, it contains much information
presented in a readable way, with many references to secondary and
some to primary sources. It must also be said that he has generalized
too broadly on insufficient evidence, and has been influenced too much
by his prepossession for state regulation to give an unbiased
interpretation of the strivings of the leaders of employers and of
employes towards satisfactory methods of industrial peace.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 178. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1420w.
“He writes with skill and precision. The data on which his conclusions
are based are abundant and have been carefully sifted.” Frederick
Stanley Root.
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 84. My. ‘05. 1110w.
=Gissing, Algernon.= Broadway, village of middle England, *50c. Dutton.
A topographical description of one of the villages of the Cotswolds,
which dates from the time of Shakespeare, and is the home of some of
the distinguished folk of to-day. The little volume is illustrated by
Mr. Edmund New.
=Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 270w.
“The present volume should appeal to the lover of England by its clear
description of topography and by its apt references to history. In
some pages it also reflects the peculiar atmosphere and poetic charm
of a typical English village.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Gissing, George Robert.= By the Ionian sea; notes of a ramble in
Southern Italy. *$1.75 Scribner.
“It was a short journey the writer took, from Naples to Reggio,
miserably punctuated by an illness in the most depressing inn on the
route. The author, deeply moved by such traces of ancient life as he
could find, refreshed his mind by study and memoirs of the great men
of classic time who dwelt in or wrote of Calabrian hills and
streams.”—Outlook.
“His narrative is the expression of a highly cultivated intelligence,
but it does not enchant; and its lighter touches are particularly
unsuccessful.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The book is worth reading from beginning to end.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 464. Je. 8, ‘05. 1720w.
“Full of the marked personal touch. A veil of slight melancholy hangs
over the whole picture, which in a way adds to its charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.
=Gissing. George.= Veranilda. †$1.50. Dutton.
As the posthumous historical novel of one who was essentially a modern
realist, this unfinished work has called forth much comment and
speculation upon the author’s change of style. It is a romance of Rome
in the sixth century, and deals with the historical persons and events
of the time of Justinian and Belisarius. Mr. Frederic Harrison, who
writes the introduction, considers it the author’s most important
work, showing, “his poetical gift for local color, his subtle insight
into spiritual mysticism, and ... his really fine scholarship and
classical learning.”
“Throughout the style is stilted, the conversations absurd, the action
tiresomely slow, and the story destitute of a single throb of real
humanity.”
— — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 180w.
“Besides being cold and formal, ‘Veranilda’ is a rather incoherent
tale.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“A more complete or less welcome metamorphosis in style, subject
matter, purpose—everything for which the name of George Gissing has
always stood in the minds of those who counted him among the strongest
of the latter day novelists—than is to be found in his posthumous
historical novel, ‘Veranilda,’ it would be as hard to imagine. What is
published is in no sense a fragment or preliminary sketch, but is
finished and polished in Mr. Gissing’s best manner.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 118. F. 25, ‘05. 1260w.
“In manner the narrative is dignified and careful. The human and story
interests are strong and well maintained. The book is easily one of
the best of modern attempts at classical romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Gissing, George.= Will Warburton: a romance of real life. †$1.50.
Dutton.
In this story of self sacrifice in every-day life Will Warburton, when
his extensive sugar business fails because of the extravagances of his
incompetent partner, supports his mother and sister by secretly
becoming a shopkeeper. When his friends at last discover that he has
degenerated into a mere grocer, a girl whom he thought he loved, an
artist whom he had befriended, and others turn against him, but he
finds, when they are gone, that his true friends and his true love
still remain.
“‘Will Warburton’ is a monument of ‘art for art’s sake.’ Its
arrangement is not quite flawless; we would not quarrel with some of
the sequences of chapters: but on the whole, it is a thing of noble
shape.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 710. Jl. 8, ‘05. 860w.
“A gain in power, in grasp, and in sympathy. But apart from this
important development there is no change observable in the style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8. 500w.
“Where he fails, it is for lack of the supreme touch of art, not of
the high and ardent intention.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 450w.
“It is characteristic Gissing, but not good Gissing. His familiar
effects are reproduced in a fainter form than of old, and there are no
new effects indicating how, with further experiences of life, his
talents would have developed.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 660w.
“Each character, however lightly touched, is true, true to a hair,
stepping forth from the page a rounded, breathing figure. It is
excellent in workmanship and large of vision.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 487. Jl. 22, ‘05. 590w.
“Certainly it leaves one with a warmer personal feeling toward the
author than did some of his earlier and abler books.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 644. Jl. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“Although not by any means the best of his books, shows no failure in
power.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 251. Ag. 19, ‘05. 600w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 750w.
=Given, Charles Stewart.= Fleece of gold. *35c. Meth. bk.
Five lessons derived from Jason’s quest of the Golden fleece are the
contents of this work added to the “Modern messages” series. They are
The ruling element, The golden quality, The messenger of fate, The
active hand, and Ethics of activity.
* =Gladden, Rev. Washington.= Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.
“The subjects of these lectures, which were delivered before the
students of the Drew theological seminary, are as follows: The Sermon
on the Mount as a basis of social reconstruction, labor wars, the
programme of socialism, and lights and shadows of municipal reform.
Dr. Gladden’s attitude on most of these topics has been made known in
earlier works. It has been his endeavor ... to bring Christianity and
socialism into ‘more intelligible and more friendly relations.’”—R. of
Rs.
* “His volume may be characterized in a word as one of wise counsels.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 120w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Where does the sky begin? **$1.25. Houghton.
Twenty sermons by the present moderator of the national council of
Congregational churches. “They are concerned with the difficulties and
needs of the religious life of the individual, rather than with the
social problems to which Dr. Gladden hitherto has been more inclined.”
(Ind.)
“Those who are fortunate enough to read ‘Where does the sky begin?’
will be convinced that he is a preacher of marked spirituality.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 600. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
=Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 180w.
“He treats large and serious themes in a large and serious way, with a
simple, direct and grave diction.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 154. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
“They are good sermons from the points of view of easy style and
sincere moral enthusiasm; but very saddening sermons from their feeble
content of doctrine.”
+ =Cath. World.= 80: 547. Ja. ‘05. 200w.
“The twenty sermons here published are earnest, original and
thoughtful, with forceful religious appeal and in excellent literary
style.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Gladys, Evelyn, pseud.= Thoughts of a fool. $1.50. Rosenthal.
Twenty-six chapters “of virile iconoclasm ... of challenge to all the
schools, with unfailing good humor to temper its plain speaking.” “A
message to the inner life of man. In keen words the book endeavors to
lay bare the heart and mind of the world. Satire, irony, and derision
in all their forms are used to expose human nature to its own gaze.”
(Bookm.)
“A new writer of vigor and point.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Glasfurd, A. I. R.= Rifle and romance in the Indian jungle: being the
record of thirteen years of Indian jungle life. *$5. Lane.
The author has aimed “to present an old, though still engrossing
subject in what is perhaps a novel manner: to carry the reader into
more direct contact with the surroundings of the Indian sportsman and
naturalist, and, while avoiding as much as possible the recital of
personal experience with its stereotyped accompaniments, to lead him
into the jungle, with all its fascinating variety of scene and season,
hill and plain, where in spirit he may make acquaintance or renew an
intimacy with its shy denizens and their habits.” The illustrations
are taken from photographs or from sketches by the author.
“Has succeeded in preparing a most cunning and admirable blend of
fact, romance, weird mystery and sound advice. Search where one will
through this entertaining book, one happens always upon sound
literature, fine descriptions, good natural history and lively
adventure.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 632. Je. 17, ‘05. 890w.
“As sound and readable a book of its class as we have seen for many a
day. The book generally, though occasionally a little slack in its
phrasing, may be commended to young sportsmen as a guide, and to old
as recalling pleasant reminiscences.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 530w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
* + =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1. ‘05. 290w.
“That out of such materials Capt. Glasfurd has succeeded in composing
so excellent a book is greatly to his credit.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 840w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 527. Ag. 12, ‘05. 960w.
“He is an observer and a naturalist, as well as a sportsman, and he
imports at times into his narrative an air of mystery and of romance
which adds greatly to the charm of his work.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 848. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=Glover, T. R.= Studies in Virgil. $3. Longmans.
“It falls naturally into four parts. The first is a chapter on the age
and the man, and in it we are shown how Virgil, himself the child of a
darker period, had a vision of a brighter day to come, and taught his
countrymen to look forward hopefully to the age which was opening
before them. The next consists of three chapters of literary studies:
the first treats of the literary influences to which Virgil was
subject, the second of his contemporaries, and the third about the
growth of the myths about Aeneas. The third portion of the book deals,
in three chapters, with the land and the nation, the three topics
being Italy, Rome, and Augustus. The last part of the book is on
Virgil’s interpretation of life, and here we have chapters on Dido,
Aeneas, Hades, and Olympus, and a final summary.”—Nation.
“In the long list of writings on Virgil and his poetry, Mr. Glover’s
new book deserves a high place. The chapter about Dido is perhaps the
best in the book, and certainly it is one of the most interesting and
sensible essays on that famous episode of the Aeneid which we have
ever read. The chapter on Aeneas is unconvincing, and almost a
failure. Neither do we care much for the last chapter. But as a whole
the book ought to be of great assistance to all who wish to get a true
conception of the powers and the weaknesses of the greatest of the
Roman poets.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 160. F. 23, ‘05. 760w.
=Spec.= 94: 367. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1220w.
=Glyn, Elinor.= Vicissitudes of Evangeline. †$1.50. Harper.
The autobiography of a distracting and unconventional red-haired girl.
She is the granddaughter of an earl, but her grand parents “forgot to
marry,” and she is brought up by a rich old lady who leaves her to the
bachelor heir as a part of his estate. Then come the vicissitudes.
There are many characters, a handsome guardsman, a Scotch family, a
lovely selfish married woman, and many others. The story is cleverly
told and ends happily.
+ =Acad.= 68: 241. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w.
“It has the whipped-cream consistency of its predecessors. It is
mildly amusing.” William Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“This Evangeline, though not without the serene egotism of lovely
youth, is mighty good company. The men are not half bad, and the book
is full of cleverness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11, ‘05. 690w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 40w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The intention of the book seems to be to present a ‘naughty’ heroine.
Evangeline is ‘not nice’.”
— =Reader.= 6: 476. S. ‘05. 220w.
“The story is witty, fluent, and amusing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Gocher, W. H.= Wadsworth; or, The charter oak. $2. W: H: Gocher,
Hartford, Conn.
“It purports to give all that is ascertainable relating to the hiding
of the colonial charter, in 1687, in the famous oak tree at
Hartford,—an incident of which Captain Joseph Wadsworth, according to
doubtful tradition, was the hero. Wadsworth himself, is made to tell
the story of the charter and its hiding, in language that is
undisguisedly hodiernal, and with many interpolations of matter
remotely or not at all connected with the main theme. The chapters on
the Royal oak, on Cromwell, and on the regicides, are of this
irrelevant nature. The wording, and still more the spelling, of Joseph
Wadsworth’s will, which is printed in full, are so strikingly in
contrast with the modernity of his supposed narrative, that not the
faintest touch of illusion can cling to the latter. Mr. Gocher’s work
is lavishly illustrated from old prints, old portraits, and modern
photographs, and is provided with numerous footnotes bearing evidence
of painstaking research.”—Dial.
“A mingling of fiction and somewhat delusive fact gives the text ... a
doubtful historic value.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Gocher has shown commendable antiquarian zeal in prosecuting his
researches; yet his readers will probably wish he had not chosen to
weave fact and fiction into the same web in a book that professes to
be history rather than a novel.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 410w.
“A book showing long and careful historical research, this volume will
add much to the lore of the Connecticut colony, for the author treats
of the story of the regicides, of the New Haven and other colonies,
and includes interesting memoirs of Roger Ludlow, John Hooker, John
Winthrop, and others who worked so effectively for the establishment
of the first pure democracy in the New World.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 32. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1690w.
=Goddard, Pliny Earle.= Morphology of the Hupa language. $3.50. Univ. of
Cal. press.
Volume III. of the “American archæology and ethnology” series issued
by the University of California. An extended examination of the Hupa
language in which the various words and forms have been studied,
analyzed and assembled into classes “that an adequate conception of
the language as a whole might be obtained.”
=Goff, Clarissa (Mrs. Robert Goff).= Florence and some Tuscan cities.
*$6. Macmillan.
“‘The purpose of Colonel and Mrs. Goff in this handsome volume is to
describe the most characteristic monuments of Tuscany and to introduce
into the account, legends and stories which are not always within
reach of the traveler.... On a basis of historical narrative ... Mrs.
Goff has given her readers a vivid picture of a city with a passion
for politics, a passion for war, and a passion for art. Large
attention is given to the churches of Florence.... The volume is
richly illustrated in colors by Colonel Goff and issued with a
decorative cover.”—Outlook.
“To this charming series of pictures Mrs. Goff has provided an
agreeable and easily-written commentary. Too easily written, we fear,
to be quite exact in all its information. Mrs. Goff is at her best
when she leaves the town for the country, and when she turns from
history to describing the life of the Tuscan people of to-day, their
festivals, quaint observances and ancient superstitions. The last
chapter of the book is devoted entirely to such subjects, and it is
one of the most enjoyable.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 235. Mr. 11, ‘05. 430w.
“Mrs. Goff is an excellent guide round Florence, and supplies just the
right sort of gossipy commentary for a book of this sort.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 120w.
=Ind.= 58: 1069. My. 11, ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether the book is a charming one, likely to be of real value to
the traveller, as well as a pleasing memento of some of the fairest
scenes in Italy.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 520w.
“The book seems the most satisfactory of the series.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 960w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“Mrs. Goff’s text is the pleasantest reading. Her touch is light, her
knowledge wide, her style entirely natural, her sympathy and insight
vivid and kindly. Slips in the book are more numerous than they should
be.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 777. Je. 10, ‘05. 1030w.
“The letterpress is written by Mrs. Goff, and contains much
disconnected information. It is not quite safe to assume that it is
all accurate.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
=Goldenberg, Samuel L.= Lace; its origin and history. *$1.50.
Brentano’s.
The different kinds of lace are arranged alphabetically, with
particulars as to their characteristics, their various subdivisions,
and the manner in which they are made. The illustrations are
especially clear and useful for purposes of lace study. The book
contains much valuable information on machine-made laces, with
diagrams and explanations of the lace and embroidery machines now in
use. It tells also of the nets made for the foundations of certain
kinds of lace. The opening article treats of the origin and history of
lace.
“The book is well adapted for its purpose, the enlightenment of ‘the
busy man of affairs,’ but it is evident our author is hampered by
having to express his meaning in English, and sometimes fails to
convey what he intends.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 330w.
=Goldring, W.= Book of the lily. *$1. Lane.
“The author gives a clear general statement in regard to the
cultivable species, hybrids, and varieties, and illustrates the handy
treatise by exquisite pictures of a few of the best kinds and their
most artistic setting.”—Nation.
“It is written for those who delight in flowers and who love their
gardens rather than for the connoisseur.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 85. Jl. 15. 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The introductory chapter on the geography and history of the lily is
particularly interesting, as well as the treatise upon diseases and
insect pests—that closes the book.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10. ‘05. 290w.
“The great value of the book, however, is that it enables one without
much trouble to get a conspectus of the whole lily-group. A much too
ambitious title.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 156. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy. v.
2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.
Volume I covered the period of Greek philosophy previous to Socrates,
volumes II. and III. contain a discussion of Socrates, his life, his
followers, and the great philosophical movement which he fathered;
also an account of Plato and his philosophy. 13 chapters are given
wholly to a critical analysis of the course and structure of Plato’s
works.
“It will admirably serve the purpose of the general reader who is
interested in philosophy as an element in the history of human
culture. And for the technical student who has mastered some of the
more rigorous treatises, it will be useful in completing and vivifying
his picture of the great thinkers of Greece.” Walter G. Everett.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 123. O. ‘05. 560 w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It may be said with confidence that Prof. Gomperz has succeeded
admirably in accomplishing his design of composing ‘a comprehensive
picture’ of the development of Greek thought, in which the historical
setting of the narrative, the background of the picture, is ‘not
unduly contracted.’ It is written in a vigorous, lively style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 520. Ap. 29. 2690w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
“It offers not merely a cold technical enumeration of the tenets of
the Greek philosophers, but a broad and rational discussion of the
permanent significance of each great thought as it presents itself in
historical sequence.” Paul Shorey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 31. Jl. 16, ‘05. 3110w.
“Mr. Berry, like Mr. Magnus, has managed to give his translation the
air of real English, and his version is on the whole a great
improvement on the curiously abrupt and disjointed style of the
original German. It is his moderation, his avoidance of extreme views,
that makes Professor Gomperz so satisfactory a critic. The
proof-reading of the English translation is far from perfect.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The arguments are concisely stated. A rich subject, it is richly
treated by this veteran scholar.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. (Review of Vols. II. and III.)
“In his last two volumes Professor Gomperz proves himself to be a
thinker and a writer of distinction.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 596. My. 6, ‘05. 1940w.
=Goodhart, Simon P.= See =Sidis, Boris=, jt. auth.
=Goodhue, Isabel.= Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.
The following recipe shows the character of the group: Hygienic bread,
Mix together the flour of love, made from the whole kernel (giving the
all-inclusive flavor and quality); the leaven of spirit; the salt of
common sense; the water of life appreciated. Let this rise in the
encouraging atmosphere of patience. Knead and mold in the silence.
Butter with cheerfulness, and serve to the entire family.
* “In both form and spirit it is a thorough-going holiday booklet.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* “The book is better than its outward appearance suggests, and is not
one to be thrown aside after a single reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* “The idea is cleverly carried out, and the directions for breakfast
food, game pie, deviled tongue, and so on, are often witty as well as
admonitory.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
=Goodloe, Carter.= At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Capital short stories of Canadian military and social life in the
Northwest, with Indian customs and superstitions as the
background.”—Outlook.
“While lacking in individuality, are yet pleasantly readable.”
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 87. S. ‘05. 330w.
“In her treatment, as well as in her situations, Miss Goodloe is
rather too markedly Kiplingesque.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 220w.
“The tales have originality and force, with the added element of quiet
humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= City government in the United States. *$1.25.
Century.
Professor Goodnow of Columbia university contributes this volume to
“The American state series.” He is known for his authoritative works
on “Municipal home rule,” and “Municipal problems.” “In the present
work, the author confines himself almost exclusively to a study of
American conditions, and at the same time broadens the scope of the
inquiry so as to embrace the entire field of city government, so far
as that is regarded from the viewpoint of organization and structure.”
(R. of Rs.)
“Professor Goodnow’s book will be found eminently readable and useful
as a text.” James T. Young.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 348. Mr. ‘05. 670w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 554. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= Principles of administrative law of the
United States. *$3. Putnam.
“In his ‘Comparative administrative law,’ published twelve years ago,
Professor Goodnow gave an analysis of the administrative system,
national and local, of the United States, England, France, and
Germany. The rapid growth of the public interest in our system was
thought by Professor Goodnow a sufficient justification for a new book
giving a fuller account of American conditions, with special emphasis
upon the legal side.”—Dial.
* “The volume is a notable contribution to the literature of public
law, and will prove of great use, not only to students, but also to
officials in the actual work of administration. But to the writer
there appears to be a few omissions of importance, some of which would
probably indicate a defect in our constitutional law.” David Y.
Thomas.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 304. N. 16, ‘05. 1410w.
* “By his masterly grasp of the subject and his power of lucid
exposition Prof. Goodnow has rendered great service to students and
administrative officers. He has also made a distinct contribution to
political science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.
=Goodwin, Maud Wilder.= Claims and counterclaims. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A young physician, the hero of Mrs. Goodwin’s story, has been rescued
from death by a young man for whom he conceives a strong dislike. The
situation becomes complicated by the fact that both men love the same
girl, and Dr. Dilke is called upon by the father of the girl to
endorse the character of a dishonest rival. “How to adjust the heroic
savior of one’s life with the counterclaim of truth and of loyalty to
a woman beloved is the problem Mrs. Goodwin’s hero has to solve.” (N.
Y. Times.).
“One can hardly help feeling that in ‘Claims and counterclaims’ Mrs.
Maud Wilder Goodwin has not done justice to a motif and scheme which
were very good. Mrs. Goodwin botches her climaxes by improbability or
cumbrous narration.”
— + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 620w.
“Its unique plot, its life-like characters, its brilliant execution in
both dialogue and movement, are all crowned by a novel’s raison
d’etre—its absorbing interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1260w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Gift of the morning star. $1.50. Funk.
“He that overcometh ... I will give him the morning star.” The blood
of a French mother flowing warm in the veins of her Dunker son sends
him out in the world at the age of forty to seek his fortune, his
whole being crying out against the repressed life of silent labor on
the farm with which his older brother and sister are content. He wins
his fortune as a boomer, he loses it in a single night, and in the end
comes home again self conquered and content with his Dunker life and
his Dunker sweetheart.
“Mr. Gordon has made his book of somewhat incongruous material.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 550w.
“A truly original story of Dunkard character. His pictures have all
the vividness of reality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“A forcible and an original tale.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 150w.
=Gordon, John Brown.= Reminiscences of the civil war. $1.50. Scribner.
“A new and moderate-priced edition of one of the very best of
Southern books of reminiscences, written by a famous Southern
soldier.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 20w.
=Goss, Charles Frederick.= Husband, wife and home. **$1. Vir.
A collection of forty-six sketches from life. “Such titles as True
wife or married mistress, Curing your partner’s faults, Observing
conventionalities, A good word for the ‘bad boy,’ Ability of parents
to see a joke, Humanizing the beast, Nerve strain, indicate the extent
of the field, and it is well dotted with pithy anecdotes and amusing
stories. The whole is pervaded by strong and pure moral feeling.”
(Pub. Opin.)
“A book of good advice to husbands and wives, easy to read, not so
easy to follow, but worth reading and worthy to be followed.”
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 20w.
“Wide experience and keen observation of real life yield material
which is treated with plain common sense, good wit, and no lack of
humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 180w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.
This fourth volume of the “Literary lives series,” contains a sketch
of the poet’s life by one who knew him well in his later years. There
is an account of his childhood, his life in London, and his later
years, with a description of his personality, his work, and an
estimate of his place in the world of letters.
=Acad.= 68: 265. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1190w.
“His volume is not without its limitations. But it is, on the whole,
able, at times brilliant. Among Mr. Gosse’s faults dulness has no
place. His book shows discriminating taste.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 389. Ap. 1. 3560w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 96: 278. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Gosse’s biography is highly interesting; explaining much that is
mysterious in Patmore’s poetry through the strange personality of the
poet, the biographer adds something of distinct value to the critical
estimate. But his conclusions are at least open to debate.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 360w.
“Though he says too little about Patmore’s prose essays, which have
singular merits of style, his attractive little volume, with its
excellent illustrations, can be recommended to all to whom the more
exhaustive Life by Mr. Champneys is not accessible.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 399. My. 18, ‘05. 2210w.
“A delightful little book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1780w.
“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful,
sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic
gifts and of the value of his work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 220w.
“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and
being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his
mysticism.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 597. My. 6, ‘05. 1050w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.
Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only
lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from
a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as
it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”
“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate
something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be
bored.” Richard Garnett.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.
* “Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more
diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward
Fuller.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 568. D. ‘05. 530w.
“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a
useful one.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 700w.
“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any
we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature,
the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest.
Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a
little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and
advantage.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 676. My. 6, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir
Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful
investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of
detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was
that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and
serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating
things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a
perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor.
But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and
exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring,
experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)
* “Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal
and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the
famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface
and may be briefly dismissed.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1070. O. 14, ‘05. 1500w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + =Atlan.= 96: 842. D. ‘05. 310w.
* “To put it crudely, what we miss in Mr. Gosse’s estimate of Browne
is a feeling of pleasure. This is a very skilful biography; very
intelligent criticism; but it is not the fine, the suggestive, the
liberal, and illuminating criticism which we expected from a writer of
Mr. Edmund Gosse’s accomplishments.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 333. O. 13, ‘05. 3250w.
* + — =Nation.= 81: 486. D. 14, ‘05. 3140w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 4. N. 18, ‘05. 890w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the
influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. *$1. Blakiston.
These essays fully cover the ground indicated by the subject, and in
them numerous common ailments are unhesitatingly traced to defective
eyesight, and much good advice is given for school children and men
engaged in literary or clerical work, all of which is borne out by
illustrations from life. The technical terms used in the table of
contents need not alarm the casual reader, who will find the text
clear and easily understood.
=Gower, Edward Frederick Leveson.= Bygone years. *$3.50. Dutton.
Memoirs written by the Honorable F. Leveson-Gower in his 86th year. As
he never kept a diary, he chats merrily from memory of well-known
people and things he has met with in the course of his long life.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 706. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1030w.
“The author’s style is pleasant, though singularly familiar.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1110w.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 346. O. ‘05. 1180w.
“Good humor, good sense, good birth and breeding, an entire absence of
airs and pretensions, these are among the qualities that commend him
to the reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“The volume is worth the attention of those who delight in the
pleasant gossip of a genial and generous-hearted man of vast
experience and wide information.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 240w.
“His book is like him, and it will therefore attract and give pleasure
to a large number of readers.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 1130w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 660w.
“It is never dull: it is never absorbing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 470w.
“The book is characterized by good sense and wit and an agreeable
conversational style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.
=Grafton, Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman.= Christian and Catholic. *$1.50.
Longmans.
“The aim of the good bishop ... is ‘not controversial’ but to help
souls who are in honest doubt to come into closer union with
Christ ... The mass of Christians ... he designates as ‘the sects’ in
distinction from ‘the church’ ... To secede from the Anglican church
to the Roman is pronounced to be ‘the most terrible sin we believe a
Christian man can commit.’”—Outlook.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Mother of czars. *$3.50. (*12s.) Dutton.
“This ‘Mother of czars’ was the princess Dorothea of Würtemberg who
married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II.... The czar’s two
sons were Alexander I. and Nicholas I.... Mrs. Grant’s book consists
largely of details of a tour made by the Grand Duke Paul and his wife
during the years 1780-81. The most enjoyable time was spent in
France.”—Spec.
“A very innocuous sketch of the wife of Paul I. of Russia.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can
this volume be praised with much heartiness.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 166. Ag. 24, ‘05. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 329. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“Here related in an agreeable, sympathetic, unpretentious way.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an
authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13. ‘05. 250w.
=Grant, Robert.= Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.
The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for
everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then
comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her
child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two
million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure
social foundation.
“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity
of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what
it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an
interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines
almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 365. Je. ‘05. 480w.
“The novel is as empty of psychological content as a headline. In this
novel his style seems to be even more hard and colorless than
formerly, his phrasing even more stereotyped and inaccurate.” O. H. D.
— — =Critic.= 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 750w.
“Judge Grant’s characters are like chessmen: they are well defined and
they move in a straightforward and logical manner. This simile does
not imply that his characters are wooden, or that the situation lacks
complexity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.
“Told ... in this accomplished writer’s crispest and most interesting
style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 800w.
“It is a story which not only makes one think, but holds the interest
as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“A more thoroughgoing study of feminine selfishness and lawlessness is
not to be found in American fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 90w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.
“Judge Grant’s sure touch and craftmanship are here, but ‘The orchid’
is hardly a worthy successor to ‘The undercurrent.’”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Grant, Robert.= Undercurrent. $1.50. Scribner.
“His theme is the very modern problem of the divorce evil, and he
shows us how the undercurrent of emotion eventually triumphs over
reason, and sweeps away the intellectual objections which stand in the
path of a woman’s happiness. The situation is subtly handled, and one
of the oldest of stories thereby acquires new distinction. It is the
familiar story of marriage without much thought, the husband’s rapid
development into a vulgar brute, and his final desertion of wife and
children. Then the right man appears upon the scene, and the deserted
wife is torn by the conflict between desire and duty. The plea of duty
is voiced by the representatives of church and society, and their
argument convinces her intellect, yet it takes only a slight mishap to
the man whom she loves to bring about her surrender.”—Dial.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Statement of theme.)
“The opposing claims of church and state to the regulation of marriage
have never been more interestingly presented than in the debate
between the rector and the lawyer in this book.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.
“As a carefully considered, well-rounded, unimpassioned treatment,
this book deserves attentive reading and deep pondering. The legal
clearness with which Judge Grant has analyzed the question, and the
thoroughness and skill with which he has embodied all its aspects in
the individual characters and the action of the story, make ‘The
undercurrent’ a constructive master-piece. Its interest is timely,
therefore, rather than literary, and its value practical and ethical,
not artistic. Neither of these facts, nevertheless, derogates from its
literary importance. A notable literary expression of conviction among
the books of its day.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 550w.
“Deals with two insistent problems of American society—the problem of
enormous wealth and the problem of divorce. Judge Grant treats both
with calmness and sanity. The characters and the story by means of
which Judge Grant illustrates his views are thoroughly attractive from
the point of view of literature. ‘The undercurrent’ is first of all a
novel, and an excellent one, and only secondarily a book of purpose.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 210w.
“A sane and two-sided view of this problem. The author is master of
many of the secret traits of woman’s nature, he rises with dramatic
force to a crisis, and his method is always wholesome. But one must
regret his excessive use of monologue, as though he could not let his
characters interpret themselves.” J. R. Ormond.
+ + — =South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 96. Ja. ‘05. 140w.
=Granville, W. A.= Elements of differential and integral calculus.
$2.50. Ginn.
To meet the need of a modern text-book on calculus which is at once
rigorous and elementary, is the rather difficult task of the author.
“On the one hand it is necessary to avoid the worthless and even
vicious forms of reasoning which mar so many elementary treatises and
which are simply intolerable to one educated according to modern
standards of rigor. On the other hand, the author must not introduce
subtleties of reasoning and logical refinements beyond the needs and
comprehension of those who are to use the book. The volume under
review is an attempt to solve this problem.” (Science).
“Its first quality is clearness; its second, judicious accentuation.
The ground notions are admirably handled, and throughout, the nature
and limitations of important theorems are conscientiously indicated.”
C. J. Keyser.
+ + + =Educ. R.= 29: 208. F. ‘05. 250w.
“This is a book the main object of which seems to be to enable the
student to acquire a knowledge of the subject with little or no
assistance from a teacher; and, after a very careful study of it, we
are enabled to say that the work is admirably constructed for the
purpose.” George M. Minchin.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 26. My. 11, ‘05. 670w.
“In perusing Dr. Granville’s book one feels throughout that the author
has in mind the requirements of modern rigor. We believe the present
volume is eminently a safe book to put in the hands of the beginner.
He will get no false notions which afterwards will have to be
eradicated, with much difficulty; he will, on the other hand, acquire
a considerable acquaintance with the principles of the calculus and a
good working knowledge of its methods. The relatively few blemishes in
this work, the reviewer is glad to state, will be removed in the next
edition.” James Pierpont.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 21: 64. Ja. 13, ‘05. 1180w.
“As well in its scope as in its spirit, the work is distinctly more
than its author modestly styles it ‘essentially a drill book.’”
Cassius J. Keyser.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Gratacap, Lewis Pope.= World as intention: a contribution to teleology,
*$1.25. Eaton.
“Under this title the author exhibits the movement which the world
shows towards a purposed end. His aim is to help perplexed thinkers
out of a state of mind which can neither get on without religion, nor
get on with much that is claimed in the name of religion.”—Outlook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 360w.
“Mr. Gratacap is certainly an independent and vigorous thinker; though
his reading has evidently been more thorough in scientific lines than
in philosophical. For lack of proportionate equipment in the latter
his contribution to the problems of modern thought is hardly equal to
the need.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 400w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts. v. I. *$11. Macmillan.
This “complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its
foundation in 1769 to 1904,” is compiled with the sanction of the
president and council of the Royal academy. The artists’ names are
arranged alphabetically and their works are listed under their names.
Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.
=Acad.= 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 87. Jl. 15. 2560w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 38. Jl. 13, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Gray, Charles H.= Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I
and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English
literature, having as a later representative Thomas Carlyle. The
present work includes a sketch of Carliell’s life, a discussion of his
plays, and “The deserving favorite.”
“He has shown a German thoroughness of work.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 540w.
“This is an interesting contribution to the history of the English
drama.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 983. Ag. 19, ‘05. 90w.
=Green, Anna Katharine.= Amethyst box. †75c. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of an amethyst box in which was hidden a tiny vial
containing a drop of deadly poison is followed by a sudden death. This
furnishes the plot for one of Mrs. Green’s characteristic mystery
stories into which is woven a double romance. The volume is uniform
with the “Pocket book” series.
* “This American writer ... builds better puzzles and controls her
surprises more skilfully than any living sensation writer we can call
to mind.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.
“It is an absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.
* “They are utterly improbable, and full of extravagances and
absurdities.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Green, Anna Katharine.= House in the mist. †75c. Bobbs.
The first of these stories, “The house in the mist,” is the tale of
vengeance which a wealthy testator wreaks upon his debauched heirs.
According to the will they assemble, are apportioned their shares, and
then trapped to their death. The harrowing succession of events is
relieved only by the escape of the one worthy heir. The other story,
“The ruby and the caldron,” shows the steps taken along the wrong
scent in recovering a lost ruby.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Millionaire baby. $1.50.
Bobbs.
The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes
a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the
race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the
steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter
involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes.
The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 568. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.
“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the
present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best
books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the
interest.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 340. Mr. ‘05. 260w.
“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully
constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully
maintained.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 150w.
“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as
anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside
until you know the whole story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense
it is worthless.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
“A good story of compelling and sustained interest. Is quite the equal
of any of the long line of stories which she has created.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 95. Ja. 15, ‘05. 450w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Green, Evelyn Everett-.= Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.
The marriage between Marcus Drummond and Lady Marcia Defresne was for
the one the fulfillment of a ten-years’ dream—dating back to a moment
when a bronzed traveler boy of sixteen rescued a child from her fall
over a precipice—for the other, a release for herself and family from
pecuniary predicaments. The man loves his wife, and the course of
events which awakens her love for him is strongly associated with a
mystery. The story has a strong dramatic interest.
=Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams.= With spurs of gold.
†$1.50. Little.
The boy and girl whose galaxy of heroes for special worship includes
many knights of chivalry will find some absorbing details given here.
The work is authentic, based on histories, chronicles and legends, and
sets forth such characters as Roland and Oliver, Richard
Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney.
“A number of famous poems accompany the excellent prose in which these
tales are set.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
=Greenidge, Abel Henry Jones.= History of Rome during the later republic
and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.
“The first volume of the six volumes in which Dr. Greenidge plans to
compress his history covers some twenty-nine years, from the time of
Tiberius Gracchus to the consulship of Marius, B. C. 133 to 104.... In
that short period occurred the two agrarian movements, led by Tiberius
Gracchus, and, ten years later, by Caius Gracchus, and the Jugurthine
war.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will appeal strongly to the general reader ... but it is addressed
also to the scholar, as based on the original sources and presenting
the results in accordance with the most advanced ideals of history
writing.” Joseph H. Drake.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 849. Jl. ‘05. 1310w.
“Both the specialist, who looks for laborious research and painstaking
erudition, and the ordinary reader, who sets the main value on
perspicuity and brilliancy of narrative, will alike be gratified.” W.
A. Goligher.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 545. Jl. ‘05. 860w.
“The present volume sustains his reputation for accuracy and
penetration, while proving him to possess gifts of a different order.
It discloses a large grasp of facts and a weighty style.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 3200w.
“It may be said at once that Dr. Greenidge revivifies Rome, which had
been reduced to the deadness of classicality. He creates the Eternal
city in the sixth century of its existence, and with exactness and
grace shows us its life, its politics, the causes of its troubles, how
it met them, and what the final issue was.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 1330w.
* =Greenslet, Ferris.= James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50.
Houghton.
“A concise view of the life of Lowell, which the author frankly admits
to be mainly based on printed sources, chief among which has naturally
been the collection of his letters edited by Charles Eliot Norton; but
the work was nevertheless worth doing and is very well done.... The
book is illustrated with portraits, local views, etc.”—Critic.
* “The author has made judicious use of his abundant and rich
material, his personal additions to which have been considerable and
valuable.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A little difference of emphasis here and there may suggest itself
as possible; but in substance the narrative is exactly what it should
be. He writes from a firm critical theory, and knows how to back his
own opinions. Yet his speech lacks something of firmness and
consistency.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 1670w.
* “Conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling,
conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and, therefore,
authoritative.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* “Beyond any other biography recently written among us, this book
gives, by its execution, the impression of a distinct addition to the
literary resources of our younger authors.” Thomas Wentworth
Higginson.
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 625. N. 11, ‘05. 1520w.
=Gregg, David; Goodrich, William W., and Carney, Sidney Howard, jr.=
Makers of the American republic: a series of patriotic lectures. $2.
Treat.
Sixteen historical lectures on the early colonists; The Virginians,
Pilgrims, Puritans, Hollanders, Scotch, Huguenots, Quakers, and the
old-time doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Columbus, Washington, our
patriotic dead, and the black forefathers are also treated.
“Characterized for the most part by a degree of intellectual
hospitality and breadth of thought rarely found in similar discussions
by trinitarian clergymen.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 220. Ag. ‘05. 370w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
=Gregory, J. C.= Short introduction to the theory of electrolytic
dissociation, *50c. Longmans.
“This is a useful little book for those students who, after taking a
course of systematic chemistry, wish to know something of the
behaviour of electrolytic solutions.” (Nature.) Its four chapters are
entitled The condition of dissolved substances; Ions and
precipitation; Hydrogen and hydroxyl ions; Electrolytic and general
considerations.
“The language and mode of presentation are simple, and although one
might take exception to many points of detail, the book, on the whole,
should prove a trustworthy guide.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 606. Ap. 27, ‘05. 100w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Drexel, Lucy Wharton; and Hunt, Arthur
Surridge,= eds. New sayings of Jesus, and fragments of a lost gospel,
from Oxyrhynchus, Part IV. *40c. Oxford.
“The present volume contains for the most part papyri found in the
second excavations at Oxyrhynchus in 1903. It will not be as amusing
to the general reader as certain of the previous volumes, since it
includes but few of the non-legal and non-literary, but excessively
human, documents that gave in them such a sparkle of life to the pages
of a very dead subject.... The volume contains a goodly number of
interesting legal documents, which increase our knowledge of details
of Egyptian administration and Graeco-Egyptian law. The number of
personal letters is, as we have indicated, very few.”—Nation.
=Nation.= 80: 139. F. 16, ‘05. 990w.
=Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.= Harvest of the sea: a tale of both sides
of the Atlantic. **$1. Revell.
Dr. Grenfell, who for twenty years has worked among the deep sea
fishermen on both sides of the Atlantic, gives a picture of these men,
their lives, and the revolution, social and religious, wrought by the
coming of the mission ship among the fishing fleets.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 651. Ag. ‘05, 210w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 350w.
“Dr. Grenfell’s narrative of the North Sea fishers
especially—considered quite without reference to its value as a record
of evangelization—is stirring, full of the life and tragedy of the
sea. The account of the Labrador men is briefer and less picturesque.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 320w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 360w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Griffith, J. Quintin.= Helps and hints in nursing. *$1.50. Winston.
A text-book for nurses, and a guide for the family which gives the
ordinary details of nursing which the doctor wishes carried out in
everyday maladies, tells what to do in cases of emergency, gives
directions for caring for infants and children, and for preserving the
health.
“A practical and sensible book which may be commended to use in
families and by all who have to do with illness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 334. Ag. 7, ‘05. 20w.
=Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick.= Fifty years of public service.
*$5. Cassell.
Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean
war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova
Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in
charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of
his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective
stories was taken from life.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to
writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at
his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the
major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of
service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 333. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.
=Griggs, Edward Howard.= Moral education. *$2. Huebsch.
Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the
following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole
problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and
all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has
been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both
human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make
possible the happiest and most helpful living.”
“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in
the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly
idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only
a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher
could present a theme.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 330. S. ‘05. 290w.
“He writes with beauty and almost invariably with marked clearness; he
develops very instructively and applies to the work of ethical
formation the leading results of modern educational investigation.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 126. Ap. ‘05. 580w.
“This book by Mr. Griggs is one of the significant indications of the
trend of education in the present time, while in itself it is a
decided contribution to the philosophy and method of education. Unlike
much of current educational discussion, the parent is not here made
subservient to the teacher or entirely ignored.” Leslie Willis
Sprague.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 379. Ap. ‘05. 940w.
“The present volume seems to have reached the root of the difficulty
which confronts modern educators, for it points out wherein they err
by casting aside the old systems and giving entire precedent to new
and untried methods. The book is written in a masterly style.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 400w.
“The book addresses itself especially to the teacher, but will be
found interesting and helpful to all who are concerned in any way with
the rearing of children.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 120w.
=Gronau, Georg.= Titian. $2. Scribner.
The monograph of the great painter not only tells a graphic story of
the artist’s life, but describes the picturesque conditions under
which he worked, the emperors, dukes and bishops who gave him
commissions, forming a romantic background. The book gives the results
of the most recent investigations of the authorship of disputed
masterpieces, is copiously illustrated with fifty odd half-tones, has
a fine bibliography, and a complete index.
“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by
Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely
the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 276. F. ‘05. 320w.
“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their
usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a
new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists,
draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common
with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these
become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces
and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur
would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and
practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.”
Frank Fowler.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 556. F. ‘05. 870w.
“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested
love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of
high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has
appeared.” George Breed Zug.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Grout, Abel Joel.= Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75
A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first
edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more
easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well
as fifty-four of the hepaticæ of the same region.... The text contains
something like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.
“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of
an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special
commendation.”
+ + =Science=, n.s. 21: 816. My. 26, ‘05. 230w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and
thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which
appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the
work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and
sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a
thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been
admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a
general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt
with.” (Ind.)
* “If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and
amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to
come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning,
patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 851. D. ‘05. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be
compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them
all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope.
Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.”
George P. Upton.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 310. My. 1, ‘05. 2770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w. (Review of vol. I.)
* “Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable
compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in
music-makers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller
Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with
a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his
selections.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 2020w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at
present superior to any other in any language, considering its
encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most
important articles.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Guiney, Louise Imogen.= Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments. *$3.
Dutton.
This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and
his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a
collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford
movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements,
Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most
intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in
detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious
movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.
“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by
dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that
strange inspirer of Newman.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 230w.
“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place,
Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second
feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which
the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”
+ + + =Cath World.= 80: 826. Mr. ‘05. 580w.
“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and
gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent
men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth
century.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 380w.
“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful
preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the
means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of
comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 214. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2090w.
“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in
effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character,
and his work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 380w.
“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the
opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined
literary style, with restraint.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.
=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= Evolution of the Japanese. **$2. Revell.
A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and
numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and
placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y.
Times.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= White peril in the Far East. **$1. Revell.
The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia,
discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he
considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there
is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit
and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 559. My. 6. 260w.
“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points
of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of
the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the
Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear,
concise, and illuminating.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 356. My. 16, ‘05. 580w.
“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and
international interests involved in present movements and tendencies,
viewed as growing from the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“Is a model of compactness and illumination.”
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 591. O. ‘05. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25.
Revell.
The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They
emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and
Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to
the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.”
(Outlook.)
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
=Gwynn, Stephen.= Thomas Moore. **75c. Macmillan.
The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of
English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found
an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore
from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is
detailed. The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his
part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is
enlarged upon.
“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having
evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a
faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already
very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does
justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill,
if not with accuracy.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 327. Mr. 18. 2340w.
“A sympathetic treatment of the man and his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 20w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced
criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“Delightful little volume.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 253. Mr. 30, ‘05. 610w.
“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr.
Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently
successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet
lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject
from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a
thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly,
trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical
opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown
himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking
critic.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 97. F. 18. ‘05. 2580w.
“Mr. Gwynn has given us an eminently readable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 251. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the
volume.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to
fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet
sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 740. Je. 3, ‘05. 2180w.
“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has
never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 555. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1890w.
=Gwynne, Paul.= Bandolero, †$1.50. Dodd.
A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story
concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his
father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm.
The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and
altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only
gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy.
Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely
and humorous.
“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree
of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better
than most men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 191. Mr. 25. ‘05. 300w.
“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as
well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of
this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr.
Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the
melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily
sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the
Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty
of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart
from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to
tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals
with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious
novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr.
Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we
welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 90. Ja. 21, ‘05. 400w.
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=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Evolution of man: a popular
scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. *$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged)
edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of
embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is
devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest
forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our
fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like
ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the
evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so
on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.”
(Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w.
* “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in
illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always,
totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.”
E. T. Brewster.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 410w.
* “A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 512. D. 21, ‘05. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.
“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are
undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a
positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory,
even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the
insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 569. S. 2, ‘05. 1660w.
“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the
translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to
proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and
set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 137. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich.= Wonders of life. *$2. Harper.
This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,”
and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published
attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of
biological information and is probably too technical to be popular.
“His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the
unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The
book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of
the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life.
Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill
in classification and terminology which has given him his special
reputation, and he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel
columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of
his opponents.” (Ind.)
“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are
written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the
enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute
perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 82. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.
“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing
even when not convincing.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips
or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 232. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Ind.= 58: 206. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it
betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what
he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the
sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 313. F. 2, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly
clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.
=Outlook.= 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific
philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led
always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that
much depends on the original bias of the reader.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a
mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set
forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of
science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity
of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often
presented in a very superficial manner.”
+ — =The Westminster R.= 163: 103. Ja. ‘05 530w.
=Haenssgen, Oswald H.= Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.
“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this
country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and
more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility
and development.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din.= Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered
from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. *$1.50. Page.
“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He
sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely
translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and
any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form
rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.
“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us
in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater
poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical
scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse
technical blunders.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1123. O. 28, ‘05. 980w.
“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is
inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows
freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and
spirit of the original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 687. S. 14, ‘05. 540w.
“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s
version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more
discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version,
and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 665. N. 4, ‘05. 710w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.
“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may
not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the
reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence
of the poet’s feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 120w.
=Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker.= Silver Bells, †$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves
home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians.
Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this
story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50.
Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty
years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and
find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half
Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land
at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches
and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds,
mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world,
fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe
Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his
bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess,
half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.”
(Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination
to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w.
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason
must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves.
‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous
incarnation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w.
“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the
intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22:236. N. ‘05. 510w.
“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready
belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old
interests, and the old thrills.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 140w.
“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer
in the mental joints.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 460w.
“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is
as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior
geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic
mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of
‘She’ were bound to accept.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 595. N. 4, ‘05. 880w.
“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures,
and the tale is told with much skill.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Gardener’s year. *$4. Longmans.
There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore
of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has
successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at
Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six
glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the
assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers,
making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from
photographs.
“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a
gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very
acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 630w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 503. Ap. 15. 350w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 553. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1840w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Poor and the land; being a report of the
Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England;
with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H.
Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to
parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army
colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of
these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists,
letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 440w.
“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of
our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his
thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals
towards a solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 354. S. 9, ‘05. 1580w.
=Haile, Martin.= Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen
who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters
and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is
illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.
* “A valuable addition to the history of her time.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1197. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no
gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts
emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.
“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little
importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 840w.
* “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both
historic and sentimental.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in
research and an adept in converting the results of research into
narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Knipe, Emilie Benson.=
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Mar, Alice.=
* =Haines, Henry Stevens.= Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April
and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose
being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial
decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in
their relations to the public.”
* “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a
unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter
which it contains.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat,
questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press
and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this
subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the
publicist or of the railroad manager.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 190w.
* “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a
judicial temper.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 80w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of
quotation. **$1. Elder.
In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many
ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various
phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to
sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented
as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands,
and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion
and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up
make the volume an attractive gift-book.
* “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess
more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of
that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this
type.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Hains, Thornton Jenkins.= Black barque. †$1.50. Page.
The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her
last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of
the sea.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get
from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in
1815.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 610w.
“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself
out to be.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 90w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Haldane, J. W. C.= Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and
prospects. *$2. Spon.
“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste
for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s
occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of
machinery ... but of the likelihood of earning a living in this
particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to
his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of
industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.
=Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 300w.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. *25c. Little.
A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil
war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer,
court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and
wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish
is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is
carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and
barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.
=Hale, Edward Everett=, jr. Dramatists of to-day. *$1.50. Holt.
Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck:
being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is
exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but
in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the
dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both
literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and
compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he
had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly
revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene
glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,”
“Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”
“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little
ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the
best sense.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 842. Je. ‘05. 580w.
“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from
which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for
misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
— — =Critic.= 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief
characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”
— =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and
entertaining piece of writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
=Hale, Harris Grafton.= Who then is this? a study of the personality of
Jesus. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human
development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond
all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its
Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a
Congregational minister.”—Outlook.
“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 160w.
“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is
inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
=Hale, William.= Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a
conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually
exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to
America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told
in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life
and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success
and happiness, and then ends grimly.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the
Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western
readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the
work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad
sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully
approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all
ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their
supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 752. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true
Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 530w.
=Hall, Edward.= Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. *$12.
Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint
English it gives an account of the social rather than the political
phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the
Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York.
It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th
century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the
block without comment. It was safer so in those times.
“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w.
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of
seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and
then ... rises to something like splendour.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w.
* =Hall, Jennie.= Men of old Greece. †$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are
“Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of
the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis,
“Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include
eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types,
customs and dress.
* “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G.= Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia.
*$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work
on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on
the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of
inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple,
the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the
people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins,
ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc....
The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N.
Y. Times.
“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the
great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful
description of the ruins as they are, and in the plans and photographs
which illustrate it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than
for the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Halsey, R. T. H.= Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London
cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons
described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell
directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the
Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper
accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port
bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint
cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of
Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous
cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits
from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical
buildings.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w.
=Halstead, George Bruce.= Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book
on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court
of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses.
This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and
planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not
necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from
certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the
relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be.
Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely
logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental
relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that
are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations
of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not
appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not
as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new,
all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are
eventually developed.
* Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 180w.
“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to
conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to
write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this
respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the
present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average
elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power
as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.
+ + =Science,= n. s. 21: 183. F. 3, ‘05. 1090w.
=Hamilton, Sylla W.= Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march
through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.
A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the
South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated
in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead
upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many
wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during
the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.
=Hammond, Captain Harold.= Pinkey Perkins: just a boy. †$1.50. Century.
Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his
love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with
him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration
of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old
Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.
“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous,
however.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word, †$1.50 Macmillan.
A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose
mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman,
feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the
black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the
slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her
husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither
help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an
account of the development of the phosphate region.
“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever
written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of
men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar
condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and
it is a story full of incident and interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 902. Ap. 20, ‘05. 470w.
“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and,
although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen
short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a
striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 790w.
“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat
forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 100w.
“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of
contemporary fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 245w.
=Hampson, W. J.= Radium explained. **50c. Dodd.
“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an
elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as
that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge....
Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the
medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.
“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any
one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
— — =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are,
so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 530. Ap. 6, ‘05. 610w.
“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for
those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his
little volume has an important place.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 442. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 30w.
“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject
matter and style.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Hanauer, J. E.= Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, *$1.25.
Jennings.
A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine,
gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to
the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall
into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of
saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying
popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.”
There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.
“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of
shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit
and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and
wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.
“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Hanchett, Henry Granger.= Art of the musician: a guide to the
intelligent appreciation of music, **$1.50 Macmillan.
The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature
lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a
composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for
fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such
information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening
to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the
standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”
“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be
feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because
of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”
— =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.
“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his
theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without
teaching the art of performance.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives
us, and it is a very good one.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 693. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he
discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be
illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his
discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from
certain evident defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 400w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma.= Complete Kano
jiu-jitsu, *$4.50. Putnam.
The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese
government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on
the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the
restoration of life.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in
England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 230w.
“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on
jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.
“A manual of the most approved form of the Japanese art of combat.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and
explained.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 415. S. 23, ‘05. 550w.
=Spec.= 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who
seek the simple laws of abounding health, **$1.25. Putnam.
The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way,
the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is
marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged
to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and
is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how
much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.
Reviewed by Eustace Miles.
— + =Acad.= 68: 491. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 140w.
=Hand, James Edward=, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various
authors. **$1.60. Longmans.
A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into
two groups. The first six are included under the general title,
“Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the
possible contemporary relations between science and religion
(relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay
expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge;
Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V.
Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P.
Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,”
presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The
Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R.
Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church
of Rome, W. Ward.
=Atlan.= 95: 702, My. ‘05. 640w.
“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which
are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high
rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 80: 675. F. ‘05. 1150w.
“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of
merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 640w.
“It deserves to be commended. A very remarkable series.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 41. Ja. 5, ‘05. 970w. (Summary of book.)
Reviewed by Charles M. Bakewell.
* + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 105. O. ‘05. 3530w.
“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant
expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The
collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to
reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main
pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 21: 26. Ja. 26, ‘05. 760w.
* =Handel, George Frederick.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa.
$1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for
low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in
each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his
different compositions.
* =Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.
This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe
during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete
in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly
described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the
Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II.,
France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets
together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers
1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.
* “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us
as poor.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to
survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and
the arts in the years succeeding the war.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ‘05. 630w. (Review v. 2.)
* “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the
good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears
the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and
notable contribution to history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review v. 2.)
* =Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already
appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central
figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even
dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in
the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named
Cynthia.
* “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the
narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As
a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”
— =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love,
the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the
author’s best work in fiction so far.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1228. N. 23, ‘05. 210w.
* “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly
and forcibly moral in intention.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Harbottle, Thomas Benfield.= Dictionary of battles from the earliest
date to the present time. *$2. Dutton.
This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical
allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent
dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press,
so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac,
who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought
close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese
war.
“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the
ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the
ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the
book is adequate.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 140w.
“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many
details are given to insure freedom from error.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his
book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is
invariably omitted.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
“Such a book has an evident if rather limited scope of usefulness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it
wanting.”
+ + =The Westminister Review.= 163: 233. F. ‘05. 160w.
* =Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home, **$2.50. Scribner.
The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces
at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things
Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food,
medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs
of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls,
their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions,
spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions
and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.
* “A simple-minded, chatty and amusing work.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the
‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener
to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 320w.
* “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic
and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 505. D. 21, ‘05. 430w.
* “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book
contains a great deal of real information.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor
strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a
fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed
by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 598. N. 4, ‘05. 940w.
* =Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a
marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from
first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents
of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the
vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however
trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.
* “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and
misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely
careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed
the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w.
* “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly
imagine before reading the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do
better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another
matter.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
* “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical
value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to
those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him
ascend the heights.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out
entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 789. N. 18, ‘05. 1410w.
* =Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de
Water, Virginia.= Everyday etiquette. **$1. Bobbs.
A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of
Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed
fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are
chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing,
weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table,
etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid.
The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful
volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest
entertainment.
=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first
three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable
work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded
attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian
mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English
readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their
interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the
early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s
book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to
325 A. D.”—Ath.
* “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which
Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is
disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in
which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external
influences.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1258. D. 2, ‘05. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is
marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently
asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an
ecclesiastical historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 463. O. 1730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
* “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities
in that period.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1159. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has
also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous,
original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight
from the original sources.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 298. S. 22, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer,
not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts
his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better
equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the
expert student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to
those who dig deeply into theology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Spec.= 95: 656. O. 28, ‘05. 1590w.
=Harold, Childe=, pseud. See =Field, Edward Salisbury.=
=Harper, Vincent.= Mortgage on the brain. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story
has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the
cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She
is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton,
sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two
superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is
accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity,
hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.
“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even
thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 67. S. ‘05. 1200w.
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“As a story Mr. Harper’s novel is ill-constructed and unsatisfactory.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 248. Ap. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents,
somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but
none the less suggestive and taking.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and
Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method
of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction
of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such
writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral
and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.
“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and
sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary
opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper
represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on
many particular passages will be questioned.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation
of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest
exposition of those most important prophets.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship
with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his
‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in
this very excellent series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the
fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it
is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass
of authorities and opinions.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 1300w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid
to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are
new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical,
hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.
“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual
and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references
to authorities.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study
this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is
unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or
theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them
suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers
The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part
2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and
scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important
dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The
prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method
is inductive and constructive.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w.
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly
element.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Religion and the higher life: talks to
students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students
is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by
the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and
tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and
tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading
how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the
sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the
chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that
doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact
inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life,
in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is
independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is
properly subjected.
“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit
breathes through every address. The treatment of religious
difficulties is robust and sensible.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 603. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
=Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 200w.
“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and
straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 125. Ap. ‘05. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 100w. (States doctrine of essays.)
=Harper, William Rainey.= Trend in higher education. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made
along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated
philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the
conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them
college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and
right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization
of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university
and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The
university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,”
“Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the
university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer
students for the ministry?” “University training for a business
career,” “Coeducation,” etc.
“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses,
are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is
fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by
insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude,
modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w.
“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the
papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 259. Ag. 11, ‘05. 880w.
“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very
pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the
total effect of the assembled material.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w.
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what
the university and the church have to do with the problems of
democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such
criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be
thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of
observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a
young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to
understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle
Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business
ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of
the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is
the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of
high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the
slightest texture.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w.
=Harris, Charles.= Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion.
*$3. Dutton.
“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has
written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students
preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his
subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the
rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his
belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer
a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.
“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand
of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full
repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the
great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as
for views for which he contends.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on
early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are
already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement
of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”
+ — =Sat R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Fishers. $1.50. Lane.
A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel,
and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are
strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who
is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance
of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful
Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for
Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars
and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for
“high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love with Mary
Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a
co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing
village near the dilapidated old town.
“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common
life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with
a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us
a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the
bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the
writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern
social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many
conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to
justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”
+ — =Arena.= 33: 108. Ja. ‘05. 920w. (Story of plot.)
=Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.).= Told by Uncle Remus, †$2.
McClure.
The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as
ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle
Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de
bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost,
Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.
* =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 25w.
* “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his
unique position among lovers of good stories.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “Shows the familiar vein unexhausted.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor
and charm of negro lore as ever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 864. D. 2, ‘05. 610w.
* “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of
animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25.
McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as
a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun
prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and
their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon
sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean.
They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow
sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the
princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits
and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
* “A nice new fairy story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief
glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison
follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through
the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret,
the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s
‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and
Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and
the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham
ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at
last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of
governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal
leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without
conviction.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 267. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1830w.
“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon
Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A
singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 1480w.
“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as
would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Harrison is no indiscriminate eulogist.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
“A compact but comprehensive biography of the great statesman.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the
best study there is of Chatham.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner
has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive
qualities.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w.
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to
convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling
for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w.
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the
great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him,
enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as
statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w.
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great
Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when
they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue
must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr.
Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 632. My. 13, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is
disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone
of petty and irrelevant criticism.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 512. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1330w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. *$9; v. 6-10. *$9. Harper.
This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is
to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of
maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background
of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American
history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G.
Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V.,
Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial
America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben
G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.
“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is
charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore
prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long
been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is
conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H.
Holmes.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 638. Ap. ‘05. 1060w. (Review of vol. II.)
“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be
desired. It seems, moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in
general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of
omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor
Coffin.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 858. Jl. ‘05. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great
fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the
cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of
slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and
his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a
great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but
even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history
of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always
clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a
few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 869. Jl. ‘05. 3440w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a
monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of
the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 600w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor
Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of
American history that the general reader is under large debt for the
information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of
his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece
of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down
to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence.
Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make
the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The
style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is
readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has
done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but
the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness.
The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one
of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first
third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of
interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its
suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent
bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and
characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book
[in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously
fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed
study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one
inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr.
Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler.
[Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this
period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has
intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been
fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews
is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial
history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of
institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not
omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each
volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as
standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine
of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively
published.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 190. Mr. 16, ‘05. 3050w.
* “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a
part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process
of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.”
St. George Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 236. O. 16, ‘05. 2100w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
* “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors
leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative
plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the
development of British colonial policy and American commercial
interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 872. O. 12, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 6-10.)
* “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the
monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will
hold for many years of the most important reference history of our
country.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole
can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 304. S. 22, ‘05. 3340w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one
of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining
brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style,
while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be
given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective
fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious
and of fairly even quality.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 96. F. 2, ‘05. 2440w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in
the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a
commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in
which it appears.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and
apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the
authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is
always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.”
R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the
‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. (Review of v. 8.)
* “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and,
considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of
the Revolution.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 680. O. 14, ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 9 and
10.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 7.)
“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student
desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a
helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the
usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on
the library shelves.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 38. S. 2, ‘05. 1790w. (Review of v. 1-6).
“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the
writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin]
shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is
such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound
to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same
rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in
the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United
States.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Essentials in American history (from the
discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.
This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on
ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are
intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references
and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they
have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have
addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been
vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated
respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)
“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is
the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of
Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial
welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w.
“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all
attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are
essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w.
* =Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is
shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author
makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant
includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes,
Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and
his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures
he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his
revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of
which were taken by the author.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* =Harte, Francis Bret.= Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter.
$2. Houghton.
“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as
the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The
illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or
in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches.
They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the
artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full
generation behind us.”—Dial.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the
season’s output.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
=Hartley, Charles Gasquoine.= Pictures in the Tate gallery. *$3.50.
Dutton.
A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to
the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of
modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the
gallery.
“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the
illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner,
and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in
the criticism.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss
Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of
their lives and their most important works, and telling where these
are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in
remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists
represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with
frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.
* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail,
and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and
verse.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w.
* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions
may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a
good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety,
the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the
text is either original or adequate enough.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account
of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the
present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in
general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations
of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and
the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the
‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are
also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of
the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his
personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N.
Y. Times.
* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual
information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.”
C. R. B.
+ — =Bot. G.= 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w.
“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can
recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a
remarkable career.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w.
* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr.
Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his
personality. His book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40.
McClurg.
Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s
recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago.
His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in
his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the
industrial and political aspects receive first attention, the
historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the
book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public
interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and
eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.
* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and
ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon
the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The
volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and
forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w.
* “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of
purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book,
which is rather too rich in quotations.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w.
* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord
Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the
same subjects.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo
rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II....
The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous
rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part
III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful
position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African
strata.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w.
“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of
British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove
of much practical value.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w.
“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to
correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and
private work.’” W. G.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w.
“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w.
=Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hatch, Louis Clinton.= Administration of the American revolutionary
army. **$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the
evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between
Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on
“Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’
jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real
contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the
army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg
addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”
“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’
of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the
rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least
valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s
‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The
following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a
real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the
feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at
Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and
is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg
addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller
and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well
written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable
bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w.
* =Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt
to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia,
1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so
much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character
of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many
people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public
services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of
the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those
great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to
throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but
merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The
letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from
Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being
dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.
* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided
some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many
historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor,
though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in
the text.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w.
* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far
better than the letters themselves.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w.
=Havell, E. B.= Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri,
and the neighborhood. *$1.50. Longmans.
The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have
visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest
epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the
government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical
introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and
tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from
photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and
better than many.”
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public.
†$1.50. Stokes.
A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora
Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she
makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain
personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her
triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public
career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her
private life.
“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure.
It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so
interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its
author gave rise.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w.
“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is
less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes and
conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w.
“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily
be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w.
* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all,
dull reading.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w.
* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not
stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately
defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural
dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with
much solidity.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w.
“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the
lines of this unusual book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not
so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of
individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant
of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’
this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly,
good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts
of a woman.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w.
“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is
attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of
blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of
time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we
are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have
been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the
tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w.
=Hawks, Wells.= Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c;
pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.
In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus
days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the
press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket
seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of
their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate
when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there
are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
=Hawthorne, Hildegarde.= Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w.
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of
ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental
processes.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the
poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles
with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her
verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate,
veracious property that charms.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Marble faun. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by
Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in
the Capitoline Museum.
=Hay, Helen.= See =Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.=
=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for
collectors. **$2. Stokes.
The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a
glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods
of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the
second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the
styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we
have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an
appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.
“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the
subject.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.
“A useful and instructive volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Hayes, Helen.= Her memory book. $2. Harper.
An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl
may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners,
teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space
for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final
page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
=Hazlitt, William Carew,= ed. Faiths and folklore. *$6. Scribner.
“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular
antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time
alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been
enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently
indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.
“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful
to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have
been improved by revision.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w.
“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in
quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper
clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject
shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
— =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion,
antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations
between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets
forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this
period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the
Roman state.
* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by
saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the
modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate
the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe
study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear
alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and
vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows
smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or
monotonous.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he
does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the
statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s
being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from
which he draws are not accessible.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w.
“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.
“A carefully written monograph.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese
miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.
The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in
popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last
few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese
miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole
series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of
antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research
in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the
author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old
Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences
that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely
artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one
but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth
of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them,
one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to
gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”
“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his
charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some
notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the
daily life of the East.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese
character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed
in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.
“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for
infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation
that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal
and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and
delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the
very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more
than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he
nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Japan. **$2. Macmillan.
The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish
father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of
a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese
mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to
the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the
realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the
Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are
ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet,
armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that
is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard
is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who
achieve victories.” (Critic).
“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single
sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the
religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation,
is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion
and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent
points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and
morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E.
Buckley.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w.
“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the
product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous
comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds
even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is
a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of
the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant
propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w.
“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr.
Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better
description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for
such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance.
The swan-song of a very striking writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from the raven. *$5. Mintie press.
In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the
South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of
Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and
serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful
trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short
biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet.
‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of
collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of
Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in
manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.
* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of
expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his
earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are
yet the few.’”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1257. D. 2, ‘05. 850w.
“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable
one.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 580w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 400w.
=Heath, Dudley.= Miniatures. *$6.75 Putnam.
“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of
the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and
appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an
authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.
“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill.
The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and
we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or
the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w.
“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with
enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w.
=Heath, William.= Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus
Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.
“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source
books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of
Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were
originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have
hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct
value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a
first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith,
and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the
period. The author served as a major-general in the American army
throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the
battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the
retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in
their way.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of
Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the
surrender of Cornwallis.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w.
“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its
trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of
library shelves.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1740w.
“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to
the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of
its present editor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our
source books of American history.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$150. Macmillan.
The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers
of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and
politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story
lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of
Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff,
hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)
“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic
situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet
humor runs all through the book.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w.
“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about
the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive
characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w.
“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling
a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper
place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their
existence.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in
fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary
effectiveness as here.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and
all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent
edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont
Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of
the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands
twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an
illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange
tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and
crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the
after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes.
The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the
same hand.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate
of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its
justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a
general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or
volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit
not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce
irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis
of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen
which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)
Reviewed by J. S. F.
+ =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w.
“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is
their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire
review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and
another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for
various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences
between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are
well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the
influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.
* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems
occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general
reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets
down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers
have reached.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w.
* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his
novels, presented in a clear, direct, offhand manner, which agreeably
does not exact too much patience from the reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w.
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in
morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth
under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong;
Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal
virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The
morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral
outlook.
* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen
penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w.
“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights
which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and
simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They
combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the
experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w.
“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and
apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w.
“Such a book is a moral tonic.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w.
“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting
attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others.= Modern methods of charity.
**$3.50. Macmillan.
An account of the public and private systems of relief in the
principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United
States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for
active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.
=Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon
which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the
hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing
and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w.
“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely
to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a
treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and
which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many
statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some
information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The
misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at
frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.
+ — =Charities.= 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w.
“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate
conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific
methods in general.”
— — =Nation.= 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w.
“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of
public relief for public poverty.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“A useful compendium.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Henderson, George Francis Robert.= Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm.
*$4. Longmans.
The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of
military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of
war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been
regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought,
treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of
cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the
infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,”
etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s
staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.
“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and
with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military
warfare.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as
regards style itself.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w.
“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the
extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he
looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or
his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of
thought bestowed on them.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w.
“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which
there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w.
“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of
quantity, not at all in that of quality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w.
“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w.
=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp.
Scribner.
“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have
generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries....
Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about
the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their
time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a
satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w.
=Henderson, Howard.= Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish,
press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.
A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and
members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home
training and who know nothing of common social usages.
=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by
John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.
The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its
negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various
matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are
done in color.
“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its
predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short
of the artistic level of its illustrations.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w.
“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are
charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too
seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash
here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few
of the defects of those attractive qualities.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we
have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of
subtropical America.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w.
“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality.
The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of
the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating
to any great depth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w.
* =Henderson, R. S.= Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.
This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I.
Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for
level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating
quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the
volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end
area method.
* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for
range.” Halbert P. Gillette.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w.
=Henderson, William James.= Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences
of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s
garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the
pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.
“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter
is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it
is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the
sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize
these verses.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w.
Review by W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical
experiments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
* =Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city
and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe
for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in
particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept
firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one
clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains.
Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy
worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet
lived.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system,
ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking
them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings
thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to
support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is
Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while
her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of
both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of
modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded
sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and
thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of
fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the
fastidious.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w.
* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style
is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will
inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it
cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w.
“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in
which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter
rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.
— — =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot
and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain
sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Cabbages and kings. $1.50. McClure.
The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South
American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy
story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the
land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native
brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a
peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a
rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities
to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of
‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).
“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general
popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is
essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken
bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story
telling.” Stanhope Searles.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main
episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so
delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing
on their new stage.”
— + =Ind.= 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w.
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South
American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the
American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all
worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been
already used as magazine tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and
considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6.
Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as
are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been
constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition
is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye,
the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The
notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has
the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the
left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of
Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to
volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at
once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always
that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style
is exhaustive.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American
scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those
of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects,
but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of
Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love
which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training,
has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious
poets.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Herford, Brooke.= Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew
papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first
published anonymously during the early years of their author’s
ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions
upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come
late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much
discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred
subjects.
=Herford, Charles Harold.= Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the
exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true
biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear
perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application
of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true
biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary
to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the
most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of
rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at
intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof.
Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H.
W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius
than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the
best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of
sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a
clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do
not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too
much for him.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short
critical lives of its provocative poet.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight
and unusual sanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well
balanced.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably
increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the
scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our
chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The
criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.
* =Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c.
Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland”
admirers.
* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do
more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her
sense of appropriateness.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the
volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and
understanding.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Herrick, Francis Hobart.= Home life of wild birds: a new method of the
study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or
young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up
before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at
leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest
the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his
close observation of the nests.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of
bird habits.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that
he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to
charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly
led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his
personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his
expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him
to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of
business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up
in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make
any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is
the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do
good.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w.
“An interesting and impressive story.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w.
“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once
delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit
the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what
came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his
fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal
note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service
as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago
capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef
and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable
enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled
sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any
competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of
his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could
ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w.
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and
his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in
themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the
very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has
not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will
outlast transient vices.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer
reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American
spirit than anybody has yet done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w.
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and
truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral
force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in
which the material is handled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w.
* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand
of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w.
* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he
has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American
self-made man.”
— + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w.
=Hess, Isabella R.= St. Cecilia of the court. †$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives,
poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story
of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against
the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother
Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint,
quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr.
Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the
straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through
tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne
privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York
tenement life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Hewett, Rev. G. M. A.= The rat. *$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down
to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills
and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions
upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive
treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and
the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of
London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored
pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w.
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily
for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by
subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the
following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels
of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant;
The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and
the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond
adventures.
* + =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
* + =Outlook.= 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the
world. †$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead
the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay
down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w.
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more
of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and
breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of
work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied
publication until now.”
— =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s
dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the
characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert
W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which
Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion,
with an undercurrent of laughter, all carried off with great spirit
and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w.
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as
glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for
construction or force of characterization.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and
fascinating always.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a
preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last,
except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of
the term ‘pleasing.’”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w.
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very
ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is
guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his
boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of
expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the
interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and
low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a
quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of
his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable
success in the latest of his books.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w.
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general
public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the
tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the
‘Queen’s quair.’”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w.
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has
proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a
sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously
interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w.
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically,
that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy
triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’”
Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w.
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the
color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with
marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and
a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w.
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high
order.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the
book is unusual.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
* “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the
year.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most
successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Road in Tuscany. **$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness
of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of
travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he
strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book
has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the
history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine
as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who
themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always
preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer
to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I
wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He
consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives
legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of
the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less
insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and
living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as
a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to
us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice.
Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent
servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is,
at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and
he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’
goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 557. F. ‘05. 1860w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 920w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 500. Mr. ‘05. 830w.
“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of
infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and
traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance,
which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities.
Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really
illustrate.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions
especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona,
Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 88. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1870w.
=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to
the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost
unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied
to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in
neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event.
Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian
city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar
Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.
“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked
quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one
is tempted to wish for more such pages even at the sacrifice of some
of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 107. S. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of
a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy
to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives.
He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast
amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save
perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood
tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his
facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has
written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 119. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of
Italian character, this book could not have been written.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 19. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1970w.
=Hibben, John Grier.= Logic, deductive and inductive. $1.40. Scribner.
“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its
application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of
intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with
this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive
knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the
student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of
science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free
from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the
discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult
and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
+ + — =Philos.= R. 16: 725. N. ‘05. 1120w.
=Hibbert, Walter.= Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of
life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the
Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not
energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and
its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says
has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas
within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main
position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to
morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 271. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us
particularly happy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50.
Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a
dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his
death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly
experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon
this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy
atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven
shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a
background, and all of which are most original in theme.
* “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence
big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w.
* “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w.
* “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but
nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the
spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things,
episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with
pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’
will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w.
* “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out,
the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical
and the best in the book.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
* “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this
book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not
also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 658. O. 28. ‘05. 270w.
=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from
himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling,
meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African
desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the
woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to
his monastery.
“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other
hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty
creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very
genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”
— + =Atlan.= 95: 697. My. ‘05. 190w.
“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The
immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor
an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”
— — — =Cath. World.= 81: 545. Jl. ‘05. 830w.
“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his
previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with
masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an
English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive
skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 400w.
“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this
performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more
serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Hichens has written his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 787. Ap. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert
Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this
author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There
are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to
many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is
in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely,
falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages,
taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant
with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of
the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and
Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.)
* “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale,
so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a
grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth=, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at
the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. **$1.25. Houghton.
The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary
celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian
Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S.
Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne
Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix
Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott
Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T.
Fields.
+ =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary
annals.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents).
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50.
Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection,
that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two
chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile
copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the
transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American
cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely
human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry;
Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne;
History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
* “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience
of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a
lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far
exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.”
Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w.
* “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an
intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor
abated.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w.
* “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way
of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be
confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here
spread out pretty thin.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w.
* “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences,
recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously
didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the
lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from
the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of
unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 390w.
* “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from
child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
* “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and
autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the
United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United
States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and
continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It
has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.
“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history,
which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and
comprehensive narrative.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
“Is one of the most readable histories of this country ever written.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes
covering the entire period of American history that we have.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the
present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but
the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship
much better.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe, v. I. **$5. Longmans.
An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six
volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and
the following volumes include The establishment of territorial
sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary
era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.
“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his
energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such
high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s
‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 263. N. ‘05. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the
most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher,
to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “A carefully written summary of European international history.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 15w.
“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely
restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great
deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed
in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 553. Ag. 26, ‘05. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that
invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone
throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of
perspective are unfailingly observed.”
+ + + =Outlook= 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Accomplice. †$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the
foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man)
has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of
the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far
more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good
realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour
of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is
unraveled.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w.
“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little
novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the
mystery is not without originality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“The chief faults of the book are matters of artistic finish.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really
exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of
sentiment.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
* =Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
A book which offers for the first time to the English reader
information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian,
French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one
of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we
really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career
that is available from the extant material, and a detailed
characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)
* “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph
shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work
as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 1490w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Is written with competence and understanding.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 750w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 240w.
* “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole,
reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “The volume is one of the most interesting of an interesting
series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* =Hills, Lucius Perry.= Memory of song. $1. Franklin ptg.
In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by
her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—
“All the while sweet harmonies crept down into my heart,
And nestled in a home from which they never can depart.”
They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume
contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and
paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Daughter of kings. $1.25.
Benziger.
A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the
suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to
take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English
widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that
there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love
stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description
of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.
“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd
observation and humour which show how different a picture the author,
if only she chose, might have given us.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13, ‘05. 140w.
=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Julia. $1.50. McClurg.
An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate,
but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord
sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his
tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of
Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay
among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving
service is in stronger contrast still.
“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily
and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the
credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with
strong individuality.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. O. ‘05. 260w.
“The book has its charm.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“A pleasant story of Irish country life, charmingly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 375. Je. 10. ‘05. 450w.
“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of
which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate
description.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily
given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its
Irish atmosphere.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Hiroi, Isami.= Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly
used for bridges. **$2. Van Nostrand.
This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author
to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university.
It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those
problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer,
and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous
girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension
bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
* “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of
bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English
language in a single volume the principal cases of statically
indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge
engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of
least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge
engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Adam Smith, **75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but
keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the
philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral
sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will
doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no
reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet
philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic
theory.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w.
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of
Smith’s economic theories.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w.
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on
account of new and important material discovered more recently.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 30w.
“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with
thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography
no suggestion of dullness.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1128 My. 18, ‘05. 550w.
“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still
the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and
entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s
traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope
and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of
the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of
the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his
contact with men and affairs.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 110w.
“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is
necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors.
Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent,
however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous
Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an
intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the
world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 187. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2250w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as
recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These
twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from
the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country
and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology
of historians.
“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the
volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps
Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of
every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 610. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which
he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for
those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the
editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of
the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that
there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space
properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a
magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 555. Mr. 9, ‘05. 810w.
* “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than
historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. P. 18. ‘05. 880w. (Survey of contents
of vols. XIX-XXIII.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 750. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2980w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Silly cyclopedia; containing copious etymological
derivations and other useless things, by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of
Noah Webster); embellished with numerous and distracting cuts and
diagrams by L: F. Grants. 75c. Dillingham.
This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form
of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only”
and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose
epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may
prove amusing.
“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to
retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 462. Jl. 15, ‘05. 530w.
=Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.).= You can
search me. †75c. Dillingham.
John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in
company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor
Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his
clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter
Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest
of this series.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 9, ‘05. 120w.
“Slangy, rather vulgar, funny for those who like the cheaply comic.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 10w.
=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’
a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in
the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism,
whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and
who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning
leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not
successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own
time.”—Outlook.
“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one
to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that
of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 603. My. ‘05. 400w.
* “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that
this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which
familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every
page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 499. Jl. ‘05. 1890w.
“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and
its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in
so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in
sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the
great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1070w.
“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England
and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher
stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half
of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an
exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society
needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those
personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way
of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active
politician and the student.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 106. Ja.
=Hocking, Joseph.= Coming of the king. †$1.50. Little.
The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between
Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the
contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the
series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the
restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young
hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance
Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.
“A tedious novel of the swashbuckling type.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its
members, 1768-1830. *$5. Scribner.
A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its
founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and
prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.
“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but
as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud
and vaunting style.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 511. My. 13, ‘05. 1120w.
“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of
that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic
of official histories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 696. Je. 3. 2840w.
* =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 250w.
“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices,
and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view
of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 550w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“This record has much that is valuable and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 1170w.
“A comprehensive and interestingly written history.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10. ‘05. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges
it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 700w.
=Hoffmann, Franz.= Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P.
Upton, *60c. McClurg.
The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and
Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the
ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and
after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the
cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
=Hoffmann, Julius.= Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by
John Weathers, *$2.50. Longmans.
The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and
nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the
cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge
on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical
and concise adviser.
“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning
his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.”
Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the
rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about
roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s
shelf.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 314. S. 2, ‘05. 1440w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 472. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Hogg, Ethel.= Quintin Hogg. $3. Dutton.
In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and
intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous
Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer
physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable
success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and
his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work.
There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.
“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous
exclamation points.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1350w. (Condensed
biography.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 180w. (Survey of Hogg’s life.)
=Holdich, Thomas Hungerford.= India. $2.50. Appleton.
The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is
reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India.
After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a
study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and
Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula,
then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the
political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals,
and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it
elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of
maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).
“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will
unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about
the region of British India and its dependencies.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 402. Ap. 1. 2080w.
“The results of all former investigations are well digested and
epitomized.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of
the series.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this
book is about the best to be had.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 97. Jl. 13, ‘05. 780w.
“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the
reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of
India.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w.
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed
into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological
information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier,
Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable
part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the
author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to
the bricks of the altar.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w.
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire
which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read,
but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in
book.)
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally
valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w.
=Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton).= New Paolo and
Francesca. †$1.50. Lane.
A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her
dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will
inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in
spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result
is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her
lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger
brother, the two having been changed in infancy.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 460w.
“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author.
In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and
compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held
enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story
so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so
powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its
influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.
+ — =Arena.= 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her
vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.= Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.
A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan,
meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her
apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in
with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a
Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in
many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely
Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met
on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.
“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women,
but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the
Scottish expatriate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.)
=Holland, Robert Afton.= Commonwealth of man. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of
Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that
followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with
the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a
series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.
“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad
reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Around the world with
Josiah Allen’s wife. †$150. Dillingham.
The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a
sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a
journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who
enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s
characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on
Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many
European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever
she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her
duty.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha at the St.
Louis exposition. $1.50. Dillingham.
Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever
created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and
clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that
his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of
the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars
for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was
given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a
trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only
to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are
better than ever.
“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities
of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her
satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w.
=Hollis, A. C.= Masai, their language and folk-lore. *$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and
customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief
secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native
authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do
justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly
interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of
the ordinary kind.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w.
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he
has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w.
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an
authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by
Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people;
and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself
mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is
worthy of the greatest attention.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Mysterious disappearance. $1.50. Clode.
The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession
of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here.
But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of
two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister,
“subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland
yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious,
self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the
barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place
crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is
as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”
=Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes.= Abandoned farm. †$1. Dillingham.
The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house
party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as
waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron,
charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he
discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a
story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by
which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has
deserted her.
* =Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= One-hoss shay, with its companion poems.
$1.50. Houghton.
A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The
one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick
train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Holt, Martin.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.
Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge
of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well
until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her
freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables
her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from
a murderer’s death.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5.
Dutton.
The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all
movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working
classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the
English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of
Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord
Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.
“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the
reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly
exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress
of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w.
“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong
sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not
always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim
the consideration of historians of British politics during the
nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more
tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w.
“These pages and people are all interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w.
“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences
is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself
perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w.
“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are
‘worth remembering.’”
— =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w.
* =Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale,
broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and
those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at
kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which
must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in
the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a
success.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he
never disappoints.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem
possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories
go.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.
The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of
Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the
beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be
learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from
this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)
* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the
value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w.
“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other
essays in that field will do well to conform.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general
traveler.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old,
picturesque and curious.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
* =Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient
towns. *$3.50. Dutton.
The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates
and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but
simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear
impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will
serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté
of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused
of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide
would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery
that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give
clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ...
than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home
is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He
wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of
pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which
awaits the visitor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than
Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of
Brittany or any other place.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w.
* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and
to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w.
* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has
produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever
visited that interesting region.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling
and taste.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w.
=Hooker, Katharine.= Wayfarers in Italy. **$2. Scribner.
A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy,
by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for
old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and
temperament of the village and country folk.
“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w.
“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest
fields in the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Hope, Anthony=, pseud. See =Hawkins, Anthony Hope.=
=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They
have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the
remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is
uniform with the “Musicians library.”
* “A very interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable
accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure
who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to
object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her
faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence
of the tunes.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Hoppenstedt, J.= Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for
officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.
In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to
those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying
for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war.
Four maps have been provided.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= American natural history; a foundation of
useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50.
Scribner.
“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in
America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical
park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his
text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to
make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to
teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and
direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered
includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North
America.” (Science.)
“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter
on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many
ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many
sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of
life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse
as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w.
* =Home, C. Silvester.= Common sense Christianity. *35c. Meth. bk.
“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of
Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous
attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for
the twentieth century a new religion is needed.
=Horner, Joseph.= Engineers’ turning. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in
the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the
important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another
subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large
number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length;
and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to
the high-speed steels and their work.
=Horner, Joseph.= Tools for engineers and woodworkers. *$3.50. Van
Nostrand.
A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools
as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly
from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to
understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those
tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as
suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”
“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive
catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put
together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the
endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in
so logical an order, their classification is so essentially
scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph
of one phase of evolution.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w.
* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of
various groups of tools.”
+ =Engin. N.= 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.= Stingaree. †$1.50. Scribner.
Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia,
“sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a
manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates
among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes
use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a
prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to
don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.
“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet
contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w.
“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be
found readable enough.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Series of ingenious tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those
of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show
considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary
power.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
“He is a real creation.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 593. O. 05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has
exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* =Hornung, Ernest William.= Thief in the night: further adventures of
A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman. †$1.50. Scribner.
The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the
earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine
tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his
sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is
that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles
diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.”
All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better
things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of
difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go
of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality,
and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to
furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written
stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most
marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is
less convincing and beguiling.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not
nearly so well done.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Horsley, Walter C.=, tr. =See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.=
=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. * $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with
simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson
of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some
incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more
often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly
conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows
itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Horton, George.= Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene
of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek
argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman,
figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in
breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her
belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he
proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro
alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.
“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr.
Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w.
“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the
monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain
interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Crude romance.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“A good story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Hosking, Arthur Nicholas=, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art
league pub. assn., Chicago.
A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data
pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for
1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection
for this list.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the
West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without
women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled
a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good
deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the
railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and
have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is
a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.
* “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work
in fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50.
Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive
knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that
govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.”
(Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present
electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories,
and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style,
the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are
carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of
comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no
specialty of electrical subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w.
=Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work
is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Howard, George Elliott.= History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in
England and the United States. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly
with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his
treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the
theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s
treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for
treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to
the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable
phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R.
of Rs.
“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E.
Baldwin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book).
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w.
“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed
supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w.
* “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to
be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with
the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts
nowhere else obtainable.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w.
“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume
completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is
as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.
=Howard, John R.=, comp. See =One= hundred best American poems.
=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope * of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes
most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and
industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s
remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering
opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of
privilege.”—R. of Rs.
* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are
strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax
is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author
is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and
in his claims for resulting benefits.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w.
* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American
city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of
a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as
much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are
actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The
prevailing note is one of optimism.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w.
=Howe, Maude.= See =Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.=
=Howells, William Dean.= London films. * **$2.25. Harper.
The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about
London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses,
slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the
corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out
of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already
appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen
full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary
friends and acquaintances.”
* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey
as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written
with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells
one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w.
* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that
Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.
* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in
Italian life.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w.
* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of
its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w.
* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the
season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous
suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his
readers for years.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard
decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider
quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr.
and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills.
Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the
Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But
coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple
trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated
to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon
her.”—N. Y. Times.
“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr.
Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w.
* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and
full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties
that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w.
* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the
‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w.
“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely
expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a
little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w.
“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of
enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and
delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his
arrested development.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w.
“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr.
Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the
delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes.
Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier
work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of
temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that
Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor
which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and
parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally
effective.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real
devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w.
* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a
surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and,
withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one
type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are
carefully drawn.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.
The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks
the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He
grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic
character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the
courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in
the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter
into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.
“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late
years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of
the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture
of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to
dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail,
Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the
least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty
dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil
the taste.” C. Harwood.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w.
“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make
against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that
distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be
brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of
this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that
it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy
and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 22. Ja. 7, ‘05. 960w.
=Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.= Neolithic dew-ponds and
cattle-ways. *$1.25. Longmans.
“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the
Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of
England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the
‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds
are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the
entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear
photographs.”—Nation.
“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by
everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors
of the stone age.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 589. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good
reading, but not wholly convincing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 151. Jl. 29, 1080w.
“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no
immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 360. My. 4, ‘05. 830w.
“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has
often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear
and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 611 Ap. 27, ‘05. 610w.
=Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.= Collection of engravings. See =United
States=, Library of Congress.
=Hubbard, Sarah A.=, comp. See =Catch= words of cheer.
=Huckel, Oliver.=, tr. Lohengrin, **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in
similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader.
It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression,
the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the
spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original
text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”
* “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating
to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly
prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 140w.
“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the
ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* “The verse is smooth and dignified.”
+ =R of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the
twenty-third psalm, *75c. Crowell.
An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into
three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant
experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the
harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the
house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and
heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.
“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great
distinction of style.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.
=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative
examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial
courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental
principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show
them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems
taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The
book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is
provided.
=Hughes, Hugh Price.= Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed.
*$3. Armstrong.
“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional
conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the
Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with
the spiritual activities with which” he “occupied his strenuous life.
These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them
is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at
Grindelwald.”—Spec.
“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little
order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions
obscure practical details.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It
deserves to be. It needs to be.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w.
“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction
and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s
life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us
from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed,
more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and
manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New
York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which
dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York
girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.
* “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but
because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may
truly be called the land of genius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 856. D. 2, ‘05. 630w.
* “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently
indicated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Notre Dame de Paris. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the
French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
=Hugo, Victor.= Toilers of the sea. $1.25. Crowell.
A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the
other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others.= Future of road making in America.
(Historic highways in America.) *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as
portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and
social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series.
Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr.
Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson
road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for
farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for
macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.”
There will be a final volume devoted to an index.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 928. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects
of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but
always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising
amount of it is reprinted from other books.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 322. My. 1, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 390w.
“A model of what an index should be.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 16.)
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“[The index] is model work of its kind.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 838. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 15 and
16.)
=Hume, Fergus.= Mandarin’s fan. †$1.25. Dillingham.
A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at
the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese
official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction
of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl.
Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women
from which to select the real criminal.
“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the
dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in
lively contrast to each other.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 70w.
“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though
a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the
really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has
given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w.
“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to
fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and
mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Secret passage. †$1.25. Dillingham.
The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the
natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is
found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the
murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of
people become involved in it; several love stories past and present
serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is
discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in
disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the
guilty one.
“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew S.= Spanish influence of English literature. $2.
Lippincott.
Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to
provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature
in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of
our own country.”
“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to
any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”
— =Acad.= 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w.
“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor
defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy
which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in
every chapter.”
— — — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of
the importance of its thesis.”
— =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two
unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it
jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate
facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it
generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w.
“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents
clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to
detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters
somewhat more convincing.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w.
“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings
together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great
reading crowd.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 2020w.
“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his
arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it
is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr.
Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 514. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.
Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature,
the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about
him who worked solely to further their own religious and political
aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which
the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light
thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless
picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness
of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes
the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of
view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful
and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great
intelligence.” (Acad.)
* “The latest and by far the clearest account of these six queens.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1196. N. 18, ‘05. 1500w.
* “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most
deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to
make us feel that he is human.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4. 1420w.
* “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of
ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in
the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is
all really there.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ‘05. 1410w.
=Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte.= Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Doubleday.
“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French
writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte
d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry
out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in
amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory
letter.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 380. Je. ‘05. 2200w.
“Admirably translated into English.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs,
manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just
and much less bitter.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 782. Ap. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British
character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the
recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.
“His description of English manners is not without humour and
incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is
marked by sympathy and insight.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“Brilliant and lightsome pages.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 592. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2210w.
=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.
A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the
hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from
official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts.
The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and
reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the
spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and
ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of
Indian chiefs.
* “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its
representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the
Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case
against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the
most of it.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1231. N. 23, ‘05. 410w.
“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think
his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he
says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 210w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 668. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.
=Humphreys, Alexander Crombie.= Lecture notes on some of the business
features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering,
Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.
“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of
lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin.
N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and
specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as
applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes,
Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.
“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the
start, and it not allowed to lag.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 860w.
=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists. **$1.50.
Scribner.
Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s
work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August
Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The
quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann,
Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam,
and Maurice Maeterlinck.
“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and
epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances
of enduring success would be better.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w.
“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may
be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so
stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 841. Je. ‘05. 1100w.
“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work
of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has
preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard
Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 89. Jl. ‘05. 380w.
“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but
the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“His style is not exactly engaging, and we hold some of his
admirations to be misplaced; but, when all is said, ‘Iconoclasts’ is a
capital book, lively, informing, suggestive.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Huneker’s style is brilliant, audacious, often paradoxical, and
full of sweeping generalizations. He knows his subject thoroughly.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Hunt, Agnes.= Provincial committees of safety of the American
revolution. $1. Western reserve university, Cleveland, O.
“The present work comprises five chapters. In the first three the
committees or councils of safety in the New England, the middle, and
the southern colonies respectively are dealt with; the fourth presents
a general view of the character and work of these bodies; while the
fifth and last seeks their origin in preceding English and colonial
experience. The investigation rests almost wholly upon the sources;
and the result is thoroughly enlightening for many important questions
connected with the struggle for independence.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Every
special student of the American revolution will find this work very
useful for its collection of facts, its table of the powers of the
committees in the several states, and its convenient bibliography of
works relating to the subject.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
Reviewed by George Elliott Howard.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 689. Ap. ‘05. 390w.
“Is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 110w.
* =Hunt, Violet.= Cat. *$2. Macmillan.
“The cat’s story of the women folk with whom she lived, and whose
sentimental attitude toward herself she inwardly despised while she
endured it for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Of course it is a
story for girls.... It deals with a cat and her family of kittens and
with Auntie May, who is still young, and a love affair of Auntie’s....
Miss Hunt ... arranges it so that the young man who loves Auntie May
shall hate cats—hate them so that the very presence of one in the room
makes him frantic. And Auntie May, when it come to the test, prefers
her man to her cats.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 490w.
* “Good reading and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of
England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
This twelve volume work on English political history is announced
under the following authorship: Volume I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II.
1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 1216-1377, T. F. Tout; IV.
1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A.
F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge;
IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI.
1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotherham; XII. 1837-1901,
Sidney J. Low.
* “The professed student will revel in this book, in its accurate
scholarship, in its clearness of style and arrangement, in its maps
and indexes, and, above all, in the invaluable appendix which Dr.
Hunt’s unique knowledge of the original authorities of the period has
enabled him to draw up.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1097. O. 21, ‘05. 510w. (Review of v. 10.)
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 1050w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “There is not much that is new or startling either in Mr. Hunt’s
narrative or in his opinions; it is on his sober and wholesome common
sense that the reputation of this book will depend, and this is not
the least important recommendation of such a series as the present.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 346. O. 20, ‘05. 1380w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “A very useful book, in which the sense of proportion, the volume of
information, and the continuity of narrative are good.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. (Review of v. 10.)
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Hunter, (Wiles) Robert.= Poverty, **$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has been actively engaged for ten years in
university-settlement work in New York, Chicago, and London, and his
book aims to awaken the unthinking and unseeing to a realization of
the grim and terrible conditions existing among our poor. He describes
evils, points out remedies, and sets forth the pitiful struggles of
the underpaid and underfed wage-earners. The book is divided into
seven chapters: Poverty, The pauper, The vagrant, The sick, The child,
The immigrant, and Conclusions.
=Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“In his volume, entitled ‘Poverty,’ Robert Hunter has rendered for the
United States the same service that Frederick Engels rendered to
England sixty years ago by the publication of his volume on ‘The
condition of the working class.’ No student of philanthropy, or of
sociology, can afford to ignore this book. But when all deductions on
the ground of inclusiveness have been made, the arsenal of facts here
brought to the attention of the critic must command the respect of the
candid.” Florence Kelley.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 555. Ja. ‘05. 370w.
“The conscience literature of social progress receives an important
contribution in ‘Poverty.’ This work, within certain limits, is
strong, fine and deserving of great praise. Mr. Hunter’s remedial
measures are for the most part sane, reasonable, just and necessary,
and they will appeal to tens of thousands who would be frightened if
one proposed more fundamental measures. Books like this are of immense
value at the present period in our conflict against the sordid
materialism that is ranging itself with reaction and subtly, when not
aggressively, opposing the ideal of democracy and social progress.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 219. F. ‘05. 1480w.
“There is a certain literary quality to Mr. Hunter’s book which will
insure it a wide vogue. Mr. Hunter’s book is not one that commands our
confidence.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ — =Atlan.= 95: 555. Ap. ‘05. 320w.
“While it will meet with objections and while there is room for
differing with many statements of the author, the work is a distinct
contribution to the literature of sociology.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 399. Je. ‘05. 580w.
“The author shows a wide and intimate knowledge of his subject, and he
has recorded his observations and conclusions in a scholarly, frank,
and sympathetic spirit. When he speaks of the cure of the difficulty,
his position is necessarily less strong and less satisfactory.”
Constant Huntington.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 90. Ja. ‘05. 660w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Hunter has head as well as heart, and his book both convinces and
inspires. The best chapter is that on ‘The child.’ The poorest chapter
is that on ‘Immigrants.’ ‘Poverty’ is fairly well written and will
undoubtedly be a standard book on the subject for the next few years.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 97. Ja. 12, ‘05. 970w.
* “Impressions are quite elaborately reinforced throughout by
statistics and authorities, and, to this extent, they are calculated
to mislead the unwary.” Mary E. Richmond.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 506. Jl. ‘05. 490w.
“The author has faced a grave problem resolutely. He has stated it in
clear terms. He has gathered together the best and most intelligent
thought upon the subject. Mr. Hunter’s book is a landmark in the
American literature upon the subject.” S. G. Lindholm.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 277. Mr. ‘05. 1160w.
“Such a book as this stands in deplorable contrast with Mr. Rowntree’s
study of poverty in York.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 70. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“The book as a whole, has one aim—namely, to show the grievous need of
certain social measures calculated to prevent the ruin and degradation
of those working people who are on the verge of poverty. Mr. Hunter’s
book on ‘Poverty’ is the most impressive and important book of the
year. Every page is crowded with vital matter. There is no high
coloring; only a plain, quiet statement of the frightful facts. The
book should attract national attention. It should have a million
readers.” E. Markham.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 1. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2090w.
“His volume is sympathetic rather than scientific—the work of one who
is first a philanthropist, and second a student. It is human—intensely
so. It has the defects of its qualities. Looking at the problem of
poverty from the view point of the poor, it is somewhat too somber in
its interpretation of existing conditions.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 540w.
“The most telling facts that he presents are facts drawn, not from
official reports, but from actual experience and observation. As a
record of such data his book is an extremely valuable contribution to
sociology.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w. (States scope of book).
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Hunter did not make a more judicious
and careful use of his statistical material. There is much else that
is of interest and value in the books.” J. E. Cutler.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 86. My. ‘05. 1290w.
* =Hurll, Estelle May.= Bible beautiful: a history of Biblical art.
**$2. Page.
“The book aims to trace the development of Bible illustration from the
crude pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art of the mediaeval
mosaics, cathedral façades, stained glass windows, and mural frescoes,
and finally to the modern work, mostly English, of the last two
centuries. Three special indices are provided; one of artists, for the
art student; one of places, for the tourist; and one of Bible subjects
for Bible students.” The volume is uniform with the “Art lover’s
series” and about fifty half-tones of various types of sacred art.
(Dial.)
* “An interesting and comprehensive, though distinctly popular, study
of Biblical art.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “She well describes the pictures which themselves describe the
Bible.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Husband, T. F., and Husband, M. F. A.= Punctuation: its principles and
practice. **75c. Dutton.
The first part of this book is historical and, beginning with the
earliest inscriptions which had no separation of words or punctuation,
it traces the development of punctuation and shows why it is needed.
How it should be used is the subject of the second part which gives a
full discussion of the uses of each stop.
“Messrs. Husband appear to be too sensitive to the look of stops, to
the suggestion of a skeleton, and their own sparing use of them is the
one fault in a good book.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 978. S. 23, ‘05. 1150w.
“A practical little volume, which is also strong on the theoretical
side, and may be commended as a guide to a neglected subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 469. O. 7. 260w.
“The book seems to us both widely useful and entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 520w.
“The book does good service in showing the growth of our system of
punctuation, and most of the authors’ positions are well taken and
carefully reasoned out.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 100w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= Miss Badsworth, M. F. H. †$1.50. Longmans.
Hugo Badsworth, master of Cranston Hounds has an old-maid sister and a
niece, both of the same name, Lavinia. Upon his death, a will, made in
jest, is discovered stipulating that unless Miss Lavinia Badsworth
follows the hounds upon certain occasions his money is to go to a
reprobate nephew. The niece fulfills the terms of this will for her
aunt and all is well.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w.
“Although somewhat diffuse it is pleasantly told.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
“The book ... can best be described by the adjective ‘breezy.’”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 200w.
* =Hutchinson, Horace Gordon,= ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50.
Scribner.
“The ‘Country life’ volumes on Big game shooting under the competent
editorship of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, contain an exhaustive account of
all the larger game animals of the world, from the Scottish red-deer
to the African elephant. The first volume deals with Europe and
America.”—Spec.
* “The style is graceful, easy, and animated, and the interest never
flags, because the author is unaffectedly interested in the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 410w.
=Hutchinson, Horace G.= Two moods of a man. †$1.50. Putnam.
The two moods which war for the ascendancy in young Hood are one which
compels allegiance to the gypsy wife whom he had married after the
Romany rite, and another which bids him desert the gypsy and marry a
high minded Philadelphian. His philosophy which claims the divine
right of the Greek “daemon” to guide him is a cloak for his
selfishness. Intense enthusiasm and reactionary suffering show him to
be absolutely without poise.
“This is an extremely interesting, yet deceptive story, in which the
cleverness of the telling often dazzles and obscures the true
significance of incidents and motives.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 390w.
“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr.
Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from
this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing
but praise.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15, 330w.
* “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with
suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 80w.
“A book of almost startling originality and of very unusual interest.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 790w.
* “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession
of scenes.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 320w.
“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy
van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but
Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 150w.
=Hutten, Baroness von.= He and Hecuba. †$1.50. Appleton.
A poor English rector who is atoning for the passionate past by
faithful service to his flock at the expense of himself, his invalid
wife, and his neglected children, meets a beautiful southern woman who
awakens in him his buried youth, and he takes up his pen and writes an
anonymous book of his young days and of his downfall. The book sells,
but he is obliged to denounce it from the pulpit because of his
bishop’s crusade against it. Unhappy complications follow and other
characters bring into the story all the elements of tragedy.
* “There are excellent bits of portraiture in this story,—bits which
make one regret that the book as a whole should be stamped as frankly
and crudely melodramatic.”
— + =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “This novel is uneven, with some good touches, but, as whole,
painfully harrowing, cheaply melodramatic, and decidedly unwholesome
in its treatment of love. In an obvious attempt to achieve strength,
the author has only compassed a cheap and florid rankness.”
— =Lit. D.= 31: 965. D. 23, ‘05. 580w.
“She mars, too, by faults of taste, which belong to the current school
of fashionable fiction, a story which in its elements is true and
strongly human and developed with no little skill and cleverness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 460w.
“There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral
questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters
play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for
this reason to like ‘Pam,’ with all its cleverness, will feel the same
objection here.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam. †$1.50. Dodd.
The story of Pamela Yeoland whose mother, Lord Yeoland’s daughter,
outrages her family by eloping with a popular tenor who deserted his
wife and family for her. They live happily, however, in Bohemia, among
disreputable and brilliant associates. Little Pam, at the age of ten,
is taken from these surroundings by an apparently respectable
grandfather, and her observations of her new and conventional life
lead her to the conclusion that marriage is both undesirable and
unhappy. This belief colors her own love affairs. The book closes when
she is still young and her future is undetermined.
“A novel of considerable psychological insight. The book, though
written with a light touch, deals subtly with some deep questions.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 233. N. ‘05. 580w.
“The novel is artistic to the last degree, and absorbing as a play by
Shaw.” Carolyn Shipman.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 590w.
=Ind.= 58: 615. Mr. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“Is quite as interesting from its logical working out of a problem in
social ethics as it is for its strong character sketching and literary
style.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.
=Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“It is interesting, even sinfully interesting. To the thoughtful
reader ‘Pam’ holds both an immoral and a moral.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 206. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“The figure of the quaint little girl and her talk are decidedly
pleasing and out of the ordinary. We care much less for her when she
is a young woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“It is the most daring story that has appeared in many months. It is
an interesting book of artistic purpose, and therefore a book to be
read by the liberal-minded.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 240w.
“‘Pam’ belongs in the main to the category of the ‘emancipation
novel.’ To describe it as dangerous or immoral in tendency would be
unfair and unjust, for, while it is emphatically not suitable for the
consumption of the young person, no grown man or woman could take harm
from its perusal. Yet the lesson ... of the story of Pamela Yeoland is
so sound and obvious that, beyond the reserves already made, we are
not disposed to insist on the freedom with which it is handled.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 144. Ja. 28, ‘05. 900w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.
Mr. Hutton “tells of the cities of Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto,
Orvieto, Urbino, and others less known; of the art of Umbria, with its
great names, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and of Umbria Mystica, the Umbria
of Assisi, St. Francis and Brother Elias, of Sta. Clara and Joachim di
Flore.... His book is illustrated in color after drawings by Mr. A.
Pisa, and a number of photographs of pictures to illustrate the
section on Umbrian art.”—Acad.
“There is so much solid backbone of historical and artistic knowledge
to support his raptures that they are not merely rapturous.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous
attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr.
Berenson.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 269. Ag. 25, ‘05. 630w.
“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist
he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a
better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 246. S. 21, ‘05. 1190w.
“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution
toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their
manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete
and firmly to be taken hold of.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 590w.
“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and
often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems
to us in the main unoriginal.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w.
=Hutton, Laurence.= Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by
Isabel Moore. **$2.50. Putnam.
Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his
fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered
among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in
England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks,
play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 783. Je. 24. 220w.
“One of the most interesting books of its class that has been written
in a long time is ‘Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton.’”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 510. Je. ‘05. 770w.
“On the whole, for its wealth of literary, dramatic, and miscellaneous
reminiscences the book is one of the best of its kind. The editor
deserves a warm word of praise for her part in the work.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“Are likely, no doubt, to be found entertaining by those who care for
the more gossipy, intimate sort of confidences about public
characters.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 120w.
“It is a miscellaneous collection of literary and personal gossip, a
good deal of which is new and most of it decidedly interesting.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.
“As the last word, and the very characteristic word, of a cultivated,
genial observer with a genius for friendship, it will give much
pleasure.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 325. My. 20, ‘05. 970w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“This is a very informal book, and gains by its unpretentious intimacy
of style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 270w.
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 460w.
“The book is rich in stories, and if he sometimes points a moral we
suspect he can often adorn a tale.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 900w.
“An eminently readable book. He is always interesting, always natural,
always kindly.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 300w.
=Hyde, William DeWitt.= From Epicurus to Christ: a study in the
principles of personality. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“A lucid exposition of the fundamental principles of the Epicurean,
Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelean, and Christian philosophies.... The book
is made up of extracts from the founders of each system, together with
quotations from modern writers on the subject, as well as scholarly
comments on both by President Hyde.”—R. of Rs.
=Atlan.= 95: 704. My. ‘05. 410w.
“An extremely interesting presentation of old principles in a new
setting, together with keen suggestions of their modern exponents,
tend to convince the reader that Mr. Hyde himself is far from lacking
in certain principles of personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“Here discourses on ethics and philosophy in a familiar and breezy
sort of way.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1075. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The book is hortatory and not historical. The only serious criticism
to be made on the book is the order of the chapters.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.
“The book fulfills its purpose admirably. The author has a firm grasp
on the fundamental principles of the systems which he discusses and,
in addition, a remarkable insight into the practical merits of the
different theories. He writes forcibly and with an abundance of
illustration. For general reading the book is interesting, suggestive,
and helpful.” H. W. Wright.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 373. My. ‘05. 530w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Professor Hyde has produced a very readable book on Greek and
Christian ethics; it is clear and popular.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“Is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’
metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such
abundance.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 420w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Ethics of Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato,
and Aristotle. $2. Higgins.
An essay first given as a lecture before the Brooklyn ethical
association (1896-7). It treats of the teachings and influence of
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and is illustrated with their
portraits. Copious editorial notes by Mr. Higgins and extracts from
the works of the philosophers show their close relation to modern
thought. The volume concludes with a brief life of Socrates.
“It would be difficult to find a better brief presentation of the
matter.” Gerald B. Smith.
+ + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 396. Ap. ‘05. 170w.
“The conspicuous absence of historic insight, of breadth and
impartiality of view, of even an approach to scholarly discrimination,
forms strange qualifications for the editing of a volume bearing the
ambitious title, ‘The evolution of ethics.’”
— — =Ind.= 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 290w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
“An attempt to popularize and condense the evidence buried in the
Society for psychical research’s voluminous reports on Mrs. Piper’s
trances, for one of the bulkiest and most detailed of which Dr. Hyslop
was himself responsible.”—Nation.
“Is the most important critical book relating to psychical research
that has appeared during the present year.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 325. S. ‘05. 3250w.
“It belongs therefore with a group of books, numerable on the fingers
of one hand, which, treating of matters occult, articulate with a body
of fact and doctrine in aspect at least scientific.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 689. N. ‘05. 680w.
“To those who cherish as something precious the reputation of science
and the worth and ideals of the votaries thereof, equally with those
who draw from religious faith a sensitiveness and a healthy-mindedness
that make for intellectual refinement and stability, the volume is
nothing less than offensive.”
— =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 480w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1580w.
“He has added to his extracts some sensible comments and a careful
comparison of the telepathic and the spiritistic explanation, the
latter of which he prefers.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.
“Altogether, Prof. Hyslop’s book is the broadest and most
understandable work in accord with an intelligent ambition for what
this new science can and will do that we have read up to date.”
Pendennis.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 690w.
=Outlook.= 80: 1068. Ag. 26, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
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=Ihlseng, Magnus C., and Wilson. Eugene Benjamin.= Manual of mining.
*$5. Wiley.
“Based on the course of lectures delivered at the school of mines of
Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng’s book, which is regarded in America as the
best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint
authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining.... The book is
divided into two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The
former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining,
power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water
power ... underground haulage systems, ... pumping, mine gases,
ventilation, ... and accidents in mines. The second part deals with
shafts, ... tunnels and gangways, drilling and boring machines for
explorations, miner’s tools, channelers, drills and coal-cutters, and
blasting.”—Nature.
“The book has no American competitor, and it is superior to any other
book in the English language covering the same broad field.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 293. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1060w.
“The book contains much useful information, but the lack of method in
the arrangement cannot fail to militate against its use as a
textbook.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 53. My. 18, ‘05. 360w.
Indian stories retold from St. Nicholas. 65c. Century.
The best of the stories of Indian life and legend contributed to St.
Nicholas by well-known travelers and writers have been collected here
for “out of hours” reading for young children. The book is the first
of a series of historical stories, now in preparation, which in order
will include “Colonial stories,” “Revolutionary stories,” “Civil war
stories,” and “Our national holidays.”
“Capital tales of Indian legend and adventure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 7w.
=Inge, William Ralph.= Faith and knowledge. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Inge’s sermons are chiefly doctrinal.... The subject most
frequently recurring is the dependence of faith upon knowledge, the
author opposing the Ritschlian view that faith is independent and
master in her own sphere.”—Ind.
“A series of well-written sermons of rather more than ordinary power.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“They disappoint the reader by an absence of intellectual virility and
‘grip,’ and a certain passionate enthusiasm which sweeps the interest
of the reader into its current.” F. E. Dewhurst.
+ — =Bib. World.= 26: 74. Jl. ‘05. 490w.
=Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“These sermons are thoughtful, scholarly, finely spiritual. I should
not think of calling them great or powerful. But they are good—at
times quite suggestive, though in places tolerably commonplace. The
author is not merely preacher and rhetorician but, one is pleased to
find, a capable spiritual thinker. The style is always clear and
good.” James Lindsay.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 385. Ap. ‘05. 1220w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Island in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Fifty years ago some plucky resourceful young people were cut off from
their elders, as they all travelled westward to found a new home, by a
landslide which held them fast upon a bit of table land, an island in
a sea of air. The story tells of their adventures with Indians and
wild animals and their final escape. There is also much information
upon archaeology, geology, and the use of drugs.
“Exactly the sort of narrative to please adventurous boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =Innes, Arthur Donald.= England under the Tudors. *$3. Putnam.
“‘England under the Tudors’ ... is the fourth (the second in order of
publication) of Professor Oman’s ‘History of England’ in six volumes,
and is, therefore, a companion volume to Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England
under the Stuarts.’ ... Mr. Innes ... has produced a competent book on
this troubled epoch.”—Lond. Times.
* “Mr. Innes has carefully interpreted each reign in the light of
these views and they give to his narrative a consistency and unity
which will make his book especially valuable to the younger student
and to the general reader, to whom it is more particularly intended to
appeal.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 419. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.
* “Mr. Innes’s work has not the brilliance of Mr. Trevelyan’s
installment, but it is thoroughly adequate for its purpose, and shows
even greater signs of sound judgment. If it is not so readable, it is
perhaps more trustworthy. It is this sane judgment which characterizes
Mr. Innes’s treatment of difficult and disputed questions, and makes
his book so valuable an introduction to the study of the whole period.
If the other volumes of the series are executed as well as the two
already at hand, the reading public will at last have an adequate
history of England.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 869 D. 9, ‘05. 1550w.
International catalogue of scientific literature: First annual issue.
N-Zoology. pt. 1, Author catalog: pt. 2, Subject catalog, ea. *$8.40.
imp. Blakiston.
“The work is planned to include the zoölogical literature for the year
1901, altho one is compelled to analyze the preface in order to
determine the period covered since no record of its extent appears on
title page of either part.... Part I. contains the general
explanations, with the scheme of classification and an index thereto
in English; and this matter is repeated in French, German and Italian.
Following these, the author catalog fills 260 pages and lists 5,918
titles. Part II., which is about three times as voluminous, contains
at the close a list of journals with abbreviated titles and the
topographical classification. More than 1100 pages are filled with the
subject references proper. The addition to each phylum of a list of
names of new genera and species will commend itself to all as a most
desirable feature.”—Science.
“With respect to promptness, completeness and accuracy the results are
distinctly inferior to those already achieved for zoölogy by several
bibliographic agencies.” Henry B. Ward.
+ — =Science=, n. s. 21: 147. Ja. 27, ‘05. 1380w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration
of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.
The author spent many months in the Far East in the service of the
University of Chicago, and the present volume contains carefully
collected data and studies of the governments and commercial
conditions of the tropical dependencies of Great Britain, Holland,
France, and the United States, also a new map of southeastern Asia
prepared by Mr. Ireland, himself, and an appendix containing
statistics.
“We should like to recommend it as a very able study in comparative
colonization in the tropics.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 937. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
* “It is for the most part clearly written in an interesting style, it
gives just the facts which an American might wish to know, and its
conclusions are given with an impartiality, honesty and forcefulness
which must carry the greatest weight in the minds of the
unprejudiced.” James T. Young.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 755. N. ‘05. 860w.
“He is courageous in his outspoken comment upon all that he finds
wrong.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 740w.
“Mr. Ireland has wit and vision, and in his style are clearness and
force. He has made a difficult subject interesting.” Wm. Elliot
Griffis.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w.
“There is every evidence of careful and painstaking study; and the
book has the unusual merit of being on the whole, definite and precise
in its statements.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 36. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1660w.
+ — =Ind=, 58: 1363. Je. 15, ‘05. 770w.
“It stands out from a copious literature as a valuable contribution to
the study of comparative colonization.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 230. Jl. 21, ‘05. 1300w.
“Mr. Ireland is an effective writer, clear, vigorous, and direct,
putting his points in a broad way. Mr. Ireland strikes us as being
rather too sweeping in his views, and rather too confidently positive
in his expression of them.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 2950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.
“Altogether, it is the most satisfactory work on tropical dependencies
that has yet been published, and is indispensable both because of its
first-hand information and its acute suggestions.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 512. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2020w.
“It is safe to say that nowhere else can be found so many facts, or
facts so clearly stated, about the particular places and problems
concerned as are gathered in this book.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.
“On the whole it is a well-considered work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.
“Sound knowledge and deep care disclosed.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 890w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1650w.
=Irving, Edward.= How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the
study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.
“An introduction to the study of astronomy, written, not as a
text-book, but with the intention of arousing the reader’s interest in
this great subject, and stimulating him to the study of
text-books.”—Outlook.
“On the whole, the book may be characterized as a fresh, up-to-date,
and stimulating series of short essays on the worlds that people
space.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 320w.
“The diction, moreover, is simple and direct. In all respects it is a
book admirably adapted for the average reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 38: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“The wonders of the universe are described in a fascinating way.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 50w.
=Irving, Washington.= Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.
Five tiny volumes each measuring about two inches by an inch and a
half include selections from “Tales of a traveller,” “Christmas
sketches,” “The Alhambra,” “The sketch book,” and “Bracebridge hall”
respectively. The books are perfect little models in thin paper, clear
type and limp leather binding.
* + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 80w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Irving, Washington.= Rip Van Winkle. **$5. Doubleday.
Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new
edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color.
“Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque
elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every
inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the
quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among
ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in
the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured
landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and
humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children
would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 250w.
“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the
next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 340w.
“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a
hint of the theatrical quality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 640. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest
edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously
as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the
same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an
ordinary child.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= At the sign of the dollar. $1. Fox.
In this cleverly slangy book of verses
“Statesman, lawyer, business man
Rob-as-rob-will or catch-as-catch-can,
At the jolly old sign of the Dollar.”
The topics are strictly American and up to date, and the verses in
their own satirical way point a few morals. Niagara be damned,
Frenzied finance, To the pure all food is pure, To an Indian skull,
and Fall styles in faces, are fair samples.
* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “It is humorous, fresh and glib.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* =Isham, Samuel.= History of American painting. *$5. Macmillan.
In this volume the development of art in this country is traced from
its beginning and the conditions which influence it, the social
aspects of art, and the personality of the artists are discussed. Much
space is given to the lives of some of the earlier painters, the rise
and development of the National academy of design is described, also
early institutions now dead and forgotten. There are twelve full-page
photogravures and 100 text illustrations.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “The book is interesting to read now, and should prove of great
value in the future.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 530w.
* “The truth is that Mr. Isham has written a book about New York
painters with passive sympathy for tradition and convention and with
some reference to the development of art in the whole country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 760w.
J
=Jabez, Brother, pseud.= See =Koons, U. S.=
=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Tucker Dan. †$1.25. Dillingham.
Tucker Dan and his chum, Mickey, indulge in a series of pranks and
practical jokes thru-out these pages. Good old Uncle Binny is the
usual victim altho the village doctor and a rival for the affections
of the pretty Martin twins also suffer.
“The style is simple, with here and there little bits of homely humor
and philosophy, though the latter is well-nigh lost and soon
forgotten.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w,
“It is one continual laugh from beginning to end.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.
* =Jackson, Charles Tenney.= Loser’s luck. †$1.50. Holt.
A Central American princess, the last of the line of Montezuma, leads
what would have been a farce comedy revolution had not the brave lads
who believed in her and her dream, died fighting for her. A young
American millionaire, his yacht, and a college professor who chances
to be his guest are all stolen by this daring young woman, whose
personal charm wins these prisoners to champion her forlorn cause. The
story is pathetically humorous, but it is also most unreal.
* “On the whole, a readable and briskly moving, if far from natural
story.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “An unusually readable tale.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 900w.
* “A lively romance of whim and adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =Jackson, E. L.= St. Helena, the historic island from its discovery to
the present time. *$3. Whittaker.
“We naturally expect that Napoleon’s sojourn at St. Helena would be
made much of; instead, we have an orderly description of the island
and a chronological account of the events which have happened there.”
(Outlook.) “The photographic illustrations have a curious worth. Some
of these were taken shortly after the Boer war, and show the Boers yet
interned in the island.” (Nation.)
* “For a book of reference, in spite of its lack of an index, it has
its utility.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “This volume is strangely matter-of-fact, but on that very account
has a certain restful charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* =Jackson, Edward Oscar.= Love sonnets to Ermingarde. $1. Badger, R: G.
These love sonnets “are exactly one hundred in number, and their
recipient has reason to be proud of the imagery and emotion which she
evokes in the soul of her poet. It is the Shakespearean model that Mr.
Jackson follows, both as to form and to diction.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
* + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* “They are refined in form, rich in feeling, and swarm with
suggestions that appeal to the bookish mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 170w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Mother and daughter. **$1.25.
Harper.
Twenty short chapters for mothers upon the management and training of
their daughters.
“The style of the essay is simple and straightforward, and the matter
itself bears favorable comparison with any other book of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Tommy Postoffice: the true story
of a cat. *75c. McClurg.
The adventures of Tommy Postoffice were many and all cat-lovers will
read with interest how Tommy came to the Hartford postoffice in a mail
sack, how he aided Cupid, what he did at the cat and poultry show, and
what an important place he filled in the postoffice where all the
gray-coated men were his fast friends and defenders.
* “It is brightly told, and will interest children, and their elders
who like cats.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* =Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Wee Winkles and Wideawake,
†$1.25. Harper.
“One of the nicest stories possible about a nice little girl and her
brother, whose real names are not Winkles and Wideawake at all. They
are six and eight years at the time of the story, which tells about
the nice times they have together playing house, playing that papa is
a whale in the water and taking a swim on his back; having birthday
parties, and doing other interesting things. Mary Theresa Hart has
made the pictures.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.
* “To the little folks of six to nine, the stories being plainly told,
will appeal more directly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Jackson, Helen Hunt.= Ramona. $2. Little.
A new edition of this picturesque story of American life, with an
introduction by Susan Coolidge and illustrations by Henry Sandham.
* “A popular but not in any sense a cheap edition.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =N.Y. Times.= 10: 658. O. 7, ‘05. 280w.
* “A very satisfactory edition.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Margaret Doyle.= When love is king. †$1.50. Dillingham.
Todhunter Payson, who as a child philosophizes over his homely face
thus:—“I was born that way.... You know nothing makes the way you’re
born. It just happens an’ then you have to stay that way all your
life,” and Luke Lyttle “gentleman to his small finger tips” are chums
in boyhood, rivals in love, friends all the way. The development of
the sturdy Tod from a homeless waif into a man who sways his world is
not overdrawn but is true to the principles of a self-made career.
“The book is well worth reading. The people are natural and
consistent, the story is well told and interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A well-written, excellently constructed novel.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“It is real, vivid, and compelling.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough.= Helen of Troy, N. Y. $1.50. Lane.
“The story concerns two young men of London, who have been engaged in
a duel with a German, arising from a quarrel caused by their mutual
love for a young American heiress. The plot turns on the efforts which
the Englishmen and the hero of the tale, a chance passerby, who has
been induced to be a second, make to flee from the consequences of a
supposedly serious wound sustained by the German. The disordered state
of affairs existing during the recovery of the wounded man furnish
amusement to the story.”—Bookm.
“It is a rollicking farce. He has style, observation and a pretty gift
of dialogue, so that his characters talk with a naturalness which
immensely heightens for the moment the plausibility of his widely
impossible plot. Mr. Jackson appears to have entrusted the reading of
his proofs to unskilled hands.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“It is a pity that Mr. Jackson, whose style is otherwise good and
virile, should help to mar the English language by certain small
mannerisms.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 237. F. 25, ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Jackson has deft wit and an unforced originality.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05 80w.
“This very lively and entertaining book. The thing has a sort of tang
of ‘The new Arabian nights’ of Mr. Stevenson, a prankish irresponsible
air, combined with a style decidedly precious and deliberate.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 23. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. (Outline of plot).
+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.
=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Golden heart and other fairy
stories, **$1.25. Doubleday.
All who love good old-fashioned fairy tales will enjoy these eight new
stories, and will be eager to know how, in Golden heart, the ugly
prince rescued a bewitched princess from a rock in the sea; how
Grimaçon, the dwarf, helped the Princess Moonflower, and how Ella
wished for the peacock’s tail and got it. Other stories are: The
sorcerer’s sons and the two princesses of Japan; The dovecote; The
pelican; The cherry trees; and, Jack Frost—a story for very little
children. The volume is illustrated with drawings by May Sandheim.
* “The tales by no means conform to the modern insipid and bloodless
standard for juvenile fairy stories and ought to make a direct and
lively appeal to the eager imagination of any healthy child.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.
=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Interloper. $1.50. Doubleday.
Mrs. Arthur Jacob, who made a sudden reputation in her former novel,
“The sheep stealers,” now writes a story of country life in Scotland.
The interloper is a young man who returns to his mother’s old home
from a sojourn in Spain with the man who has always passed as his
father,—all unconscious of the blot on his birth, the suspicions of
the neighbors, and the presence of his real father in the vicinity.
The situation is well handled and the social tragedy skilfully
averted. There are many well-drawn characters in the book, the loyal
heroine, the grand dame, the villainous family lawyer and many
interesting villagers.
“When you lay down ‘The interloper’ you feel that you know intimately
a half-dozen interesting people whom you did not know before. Mrs.
Jacob is rich in the supreme gift of the novelist—character depiction.
A melodramatic ending, trite in conception, and ill-fitting. Mrs.
Jacob did not set out to tell an emotional story. She set out to
reflect life in a small, old-fashioned Scotch town and its environs,
and she has succeeded in masterly fashion. She has given us a
delightful comedy of manners written in a style remarkable for power,
simplicity and grasp. Out of the ruck of cheap fiction this book rises
to real, permanent value. It is not only worth reading, it is worth a
place on the book-shelf.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 383. F. ‘05. 370w.
=Jacobi, Charles Thomas.= Printing: a practical treatise on the art of
typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books,
*$2.50. Macmillan.
“A third revised and enlarged edition.... The completeness of the book
will be apparent from a brief list of its chapters, which number
thirty-five. They are in seven divisions, and deal with typefounding,
composition (thirteen chapters), proofreading, hand-press work (six
chapters), illustrated and color work, motive power, machine printing
(six chapters), and warehouse work (four chapters).”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Nation.= 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Captains all. †$1.50. Scribner.
This new collection contains “half a score of the tales this author
has taught laughter-loving English readers to expect from his pen.
This brand is well-known and well-liked.” (Ath.) They include amusing
stories of sailormen, longshoremen, and the people of a little English
village.
* “The book is thoroughly enjoyable.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 170w.
* “Adds notably to the world’s stock of humorous enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “The stories are not all as good as the earlier ones, the humor
often growing out of situations that are forced, and the characters
lack their old delightful naïveté.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 829. D. 23, ‘05. 160w.
* “The book is merely a collection of magazine stories, and their
cumulative effect is a little disappointing.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Jacobs is an artist with a literary conscience as well as a
most engaging humourist, and, to borrow the familiar saying, though
his genre is not great, he is great in his genre.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 740w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles
compared; the Gould prize essays. 50c. Bible teachers’ training school,
N. Y.
“In 1903 Miss Helen Gould offered three prizes for popular, brief
essays on ‘The origin and history of the Bible approved by the Roman
Catholic church’ and ‘of the American revised version.’ Two hundred
and sixty-five essays were presented. The prizes were won by Rev.
William Whitely, L.L.M., LL.D., Rev. Gerald Hamilton Beard, B.D.,
Ph.D., and Charles B. Dalton, Esq. These three essays are published in
this volume. Of course, they cover much the same ground. The limits of
space imposed were such that the authors could give only a somewhat
bare and crowded statement of facts.”—Am. J. Theol.
“The first two essays are very full, accurate, and well proportioned.
The third leaves something to be desired in accuracy, especially
regarding the exactness of the present biblical text (p. 140). The
chief value of the third essay lies in certain quotations from
contemporary Catholic sources.” Irving F. Wood.
+ + — =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 743. O. ‘05. 300w.
“These three constitute what must now be regarded as the standard work
on a theme of controversy that greatly needed enlightenment.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
=James, Bartlett Burleigh.= History of North America, Vol. V. $6.
Barrie.
The fifth volume of the series edited by Professor Guy Carleton Lee,
treats of the colonization of New England and was written by Professor
James of Western Maryland university. The chronological table begins
with the sailing of the Mayflower and is brought down to the passage
of the Stamp act. There is a careful examination of the motives of the
Puritans in coming to New England, and the founding of the settlements
of Connecticut and Rhode Island is given in detail. The closing
chapter is devoted to the causes which led to the Revolution. There
are many excellent illustrations.
“The work is of the most comprehensive character. The treatment of an
extended topic is carefully and philosophically worked out.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* =James, George Wharton.= In and out of the old missions of California:
an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3.
Little.
This interesting volume covers a broad field successfully. It begins
with the founding of the California missions, then gives a chapter
upon Junipero Serra and his coadjutors, followed by a discussion of
the Indians at the coming of the padres and at the present time. An
especially noteworthy chapter deals with the secularization of the
missions, and in twenty-one chapters is given an account of as many
individual missions, followed by a chapter upon nine mission chapels
or Aristencias. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the volume is
its treatment of mission architecture and interior decoration. A
careful survey of the mural decorations of the missions is followed by
a pictorial account of the furniture, pulpits, doors, and other
woodwork, crosses, candlesticks, and other silver and brass ware, and
of the various figures of the saints found at the missions. The
illustrations are reproduced from photographs made expressly for this
book.
* “An interesting and adequate treatment of a fascinating theme.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 130w.
* =James, Henry.= English hours. *$5. Houghton.
“This reprint of some of Mr. James’ essays descriptive of England is
happily illustrated by the drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell. The essays
include London; Browning in Westminster abbey; Chester; Lichfield and
Warwick; North Devon; Wells and Salisbury; An English Easter; London
at midsummer; Two excursions; In Warwickshire; Abbeys and castles;
English vignettes; An English New Year; An English watering-place;
Winchelsea, Rye and ‘Denis Duval;’ Old Suffolk.”
* + =Acad.= 68: 1225. N. 25, ‘05. 800w.
* “Mr. James is like his simple original self in this charming book.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “These interpretations of English life carry the reader with them by
their quality of tonic freshness, which takes the place of the
bewildering curiosity about everything and nothing characteristic of
the late novels.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 260w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 8, ‘05. 220w.
* “But these lapses though apparent are rare—more apparent, indeed, on
account of their rarity—and it is impossible to resist the engaging
enthusiasm, the fine freshness of mind which he brings to bear on the
variety of topics and places about which he chatters in the fugitive
papers bound up in this volume.”
+ + — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ‘05. 730w.
=James, Henry.= Golden bowl. $2.50. Scribner.
“Four principals and two particularly diverting subordinates make up
the role of characters” in this story whose action centers about the
marriage of an American girl to an impoverished foreigner. “The four
are Adam Verver, widower, and his daughter, Maggie, Americans,—the
husband of Maggie, an Italian prince, and Charlotte Stant, a young
woman of exquisite intelligence, and paramount charm, American by
birth, cosmopolitan by nature.” The elements of tragedy are fostered
thru the prince’s yielding to his former love for Charlotte Stant, the
princess’ friend, and now Adam Verver’s wife. The strength of the
story is embodied in the princess’ determination to win back the love
of her husband, “which she vows must be as complete and perfect as the
original crystal of the broken bowl, that picturesque property of the
story that takes so unique a part in the development of the plot.”
(Reader).
“The intellectuality overpowers the sensuous and objective traits
proper to a novel, until one has the impression of reading an abstruse
treatise of psychology rather than a tale. Despite exasperations of
detail, the novel in the main is masterly. The three leading women are
differentiated with the nicest skill: each is living and persuasive.
But it fairly ranks as a master-work—if a master-work flawed by some
of his obscurest later mannerisms.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 1020w.
“The book is clear to those who think Mr. James worth a little
trouble. The method, in spite of its inwardness, is detached, cold,
and, if the word is possible, a little cruel. But its mental agility,
its likeliness, its atmosphere, are perfect.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 530w.
=Atlan.= 95: 696. My. ‘05. 190w.
“Another two volumes of abstruseness, another long discussion of a
situation that only scandal mongers are supposed to discuss; again the
same old heavy respectability where nothing is bad because it is not
named; again the heroic sweetness of two characters, that is always
his saving grace, that makes us read him.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 153. Ja. 19, ‘05. 700w.
“In the end you have your reward—a story, a situation, which, as you
think about it, pierces the obscurities and strikes you in the eyes,
like the low red autumn sun pushing out of a mass of black clouds.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1380w.
“A book of mixed ugly and charming aspects. Never has the art of
description been brought nearer to that of painting.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 380. F. ‘05. 1290w.
“A book so pregnant with fundamental brainwork, so rich in
suggestiveness, and so accomplished in execution. The book is clearer,
and, for that very reason, more vital, than the works of what one may
call his middle period.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
* =James, Henry.= Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two
lectures, **$1. Houghton.
“In the first essay, delivered as a commencement address at Bryn Mawr,
Mr. James has well emphasized the overlooked needs in America of ‘a
virtual consensus of educated people to impart to our speech a
coherent culture.’ ... The second essay in the volume, ‘The lesson of
Balzac,’ is a notable piece of literary criticism in its concentrated
vigor, its elucidation of the novelist’s art, and its nicety of
phrase. Recognizing in Balzac the master-artist of modern
fiction.”—Dial.
* “These essays will raise a divergence of opinion, as does all of Mr.
James’s literary work; but however widely readers may differ from his
point of view, all will recognize the stimulating intellectual
quality.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 620w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=James, Montague Rhodes.= Ghost stories of an antiquary. $1.50.
Longmans.
Eight old fashioned ghost stories with all the gruesome and
hair-raising qualities which a story of their kind could possess. The
eight are Canon Alberic’s scrap-book, Lost hearts, The mezzotint, The
ash tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, “Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you,
my lad,” and The treasure of Abbot Thomas.
“Mr. James manages at times to give you a pretty well-defined creepy
feeling—but his ghost stories are not quite the real thing in spite of
the pains he takes to pile up detail in the setting and leave the
horror itself as undefined, shapeless, and elusive as may be.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 483. Jl. 22, ‘05. 580w.
“There can be no question about the literary merit of these eight
stories, and of the ingenuity which Dr. James has shown in their
construction.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 170w.
=Jamison, Cecilia Viets (Mrs. Samuel Jamison).= Penhallow family; a
story. †$1.50. Wilde.
A little wanderer, back from India to her father’s old home, is
dropped into an uncle’s family where three self-centered, noisy
youngsters ruled by a hard task-mistress, “Aunt Gordon,” make life
miserable for the new-comer. Her brave helpfulness in bringing
happiness out of the confused and warring forces of the household
frames a lesson for every young reader to profit by.
=Jane, L. Cecil.= Coming of Parliament, 1350-1660. (Story of the
nations, no. 73.) **$1.35. Putnam.
“The general scheme of this volume is indicated by its title. It deals
more especially with the development of the Constitution within the
three centuries with which it is concerned, and it is an attempt to
trace the steps by which Parliament attained to a permanently
important share in the government of England. While stress is laid
upon this theme, other sides of the national life have not been
ignored.” (N. Y. Times.) There are many illustrations, a map of
England, and a chronology.
“What Mr. Jane has really written is an English history of a period.
But, while its accuracy it notable, it has other merits which are
astonishing. The events of the period, particularly towards the close,
were many and complex and stirring; yet, although this book is almost
as compact as an encyclopaedia, it is so fluent and fascinating that
one reads it with the delight which is given by great romance. Mr.
Jane, it is true, is not without predilections. His imagination is
attracted by the navy. In all other respects, though invariably he
arrests attention, he is coldly judicial. Besides being exceptionally
well-informed, our historian brought to his task a fresh, independent
and penetrating intellect.” W. Earl Hodgson.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 840w.
“As a book professedly concerned with ‘the coming of parliament’ and
the place of parliament in national life, it cannot be said to have
any particular merit or value, or to render of less service any of the
accepted histories of English constitutional development.” Edward
Porritt.
— — + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 917. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“We have failed to find in the latest issue of this well-known series
any general connexion with the subject of parliamentary government or
the least pretension to originality of thought or vigour of
delineation; whilst research is wanting.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 200w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ — — =Bookm.= 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“It is obvious from the text that Mr. Jane has broken no new ground in
the research for the Parliamentary side of his book.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 212. Jl. 27, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 350w.
“Mr. Jane’s book is interesting reading, even if he sometimes tangles
the thread of his story of Parliament.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 1190w.
“Adds little or nothing to the history of Parliament which cannot be
found in any of the accepted works on the English constitution. There
is nothing, moreover, that is attractive about Mr. Jane’s literary
style.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 1057. Ap. 29. ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Jane’s book is not always ‘easy reading,’ but is reliable, a
quality which will conceal many literary sins.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.
“The volume will have its uses, but we should have preferred something
more to the purpose.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages; tr. from the Germ, by A. M. Christie. v. 7-8. *$6.25.
Herder.
“These two volumes cover the period between the years 1550-1580....
Within those thirty years fell such events as: The religious
conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the
Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in
Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war
against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in
Germany, and the concluding sessions and general effect of the Council
of Trent. These great events and many others of similar moment are
treated with Janssen’s well-known fulness of detail, abundance of
scholarship, and sturdy Catholic spirit.”—Cath. World.
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 117. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Review of vols. VII.
and VIII.)
=Japp, Alexander H.= Robert Louis Stevenson; a record, an estimate, and
a memorial. *$1.50. Scribner.
The author who, thru a common interest in Thoreau, came to know
Stevenson well in his early Edinburgh days, gives a critical
discussion of his life and works, with some new facts and some newly
published letters.
“It contains a good deal of valuable matter presented in the most
scrappy and disjointed way; as well as some matter which is not
valuable at all.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“The criticism on Stevenson’s various styles in his varied work is
often acute and just. Altogether the book in parts has a strong
interest for the Stevenson enthusiast, but will hardly attract the
general reading public.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“This is a very informing book, a contribution of distinct value to
our knowledge of R. L. Stevenson.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 146. Ja. 28, ‘05. 330w.
=Javal, Emile.= On becoming blind: advice for the use of persons losing
their sight; tr. by Carroll E. Edson. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Dr. Javal, who lost his sight at the age of 62, writes to the families
of those who are blind or in danger of becoming so. He gives advice as
to their treatment, suggestions on amusement, and there are chapters
upon memory, marriage, the psychology of the blind and the sixth
sense.
“The style of the book is simple, direct and scholarly.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“The book is a pleasure to read even on the part of those whose
interest is not immediately claimed by the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. My. 20, ‘05. 710w.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Dynamical theory of gases, *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Jeans ... in the first seven chapters, follows fairly closely on
conventional lines, and deduces the Boltzmann-Maxwell law of
distribution, the minimum theorem, the law of partition of energy, and
the isothermal equations according to the Boyle-Mariotte and van der
Waals’s laws. In chapter VIII the author throws over the principle of
conservation of energy and assumes that his gas is a dissipative
system in which loss of energy occurs by radiation.... In chapters IX
and X, Mr. Jeans considers application of the theory of a
non-conservative gas, particularly in connection with rates of
dissipation of energy and ratios of specific heats. We thus have a
definite attempt to break away from traditional methods and boldly
introduce the notion of dissipation into the kinetic theory.... In the
remaining chapters Mr. Jeans deals with ‘free path phenomena’ such as
diffusion, conduction of heat, viscosity, and the escape of gases from
planetary atmospheres. In this work he is more on the ordinary
lines.”—Nature.
“Misprints and minor errors are delightfully few. The book is a piece
of conscientious work by one who has already made valuable
contributions to this subject. It belongs rather with the classical
work of Burbury and of Boltzmann than with any of the attempts at a
simple or more popular presentation.” W. P. Boynton.
+ + + =Astrophys. J.= 22: 224. O. ‘05. 780w.
Reviewed by G. H. Bryan.
=Nature.= 71: 601. Ap. 27, ‘05. 870w.
=Jebb, Richard.= Studies in colonial nationalism. *$3.50. Longmans.
“An attempt ... to present a modern view of imperial evolution, ...
the result of three years’ travel and study among the self-governing
states of the empire ... which should be studied by all who wish to
understand the trend of colonial aspirations, whether they agree with
them or not.”—Acad.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 469. Ap. 29, ‘05. 570w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 170w.
“His observations on America, though justly calling attention to many
undoubted and serious faults indicate on the whole an exaggerated and
distorted view of our public life.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 607. S. ‘05. 640w.
=Ath.= 1905. 1: 494. Ap. 15. 730w.
“Mr. Jebb’s book has no small originality. His book contains not a few
inconsistencies. Almost every page of it is instructive.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 940w.
“Everything he says is stated with a confidence that dreams not of the
possibility of contradiction. This makes the book attractive.” Charles
W. Thompson.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2880w.
“It is essentially a work that will be welcomed, not derided in Canada
and Australasia. And that is to say no small thing of its merits, and
of the success with which its author has achieved his object.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 897. Je. 17, ‘05. 1720w.
=Jefferies, (John) Richard.= Bevis; the story of a boy. $1.50. Button.
A new edition of a book for boys written many years ago and founded
upon Mr. Jefferies’ own boy-hood idealized. Mr. E. V. Lucas states in
his introduction that it is “a long and eloquent, and, I think,
successful argument in favor of the wisdom of leaving boys to
themselves, and allowing independence and self-reliance to oust for
the time being school books and tutors.”
“‘Bevis’ is a wholesome and delightful book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“Full of his intimate knowledge of nature, and full also of sympathy
with and knowledge of the interests and characteristics of boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Faith and life. **30c. Crowell.
Under the text “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a
conviction of things not seen” (Heb. xi. 1), Dr. Jefferson discusses
the relation which faith bears to life. The booklet is attractively
bound in white, with gold lettering and a holly design in green and
belongs to the “What is worth while series.”
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Minister as prophet, **90c. Crowell.
Originally given as a series of lectures before the Bangor theological
seminary, these talks are “clear, luminous, pithy, cogent, full of
practical suggestions” for ministers, students and the general public.
The following chapters show the minister’s present position in general
affairs; The dimension of the work, The three men involved (the
physical man, the mental man, the spiritual man). The growing of
sermons, Form and manner, The place of dogma in preaching.
“There are many books on the Christian ministry, and few are smaller
than this and few more valuable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“The general tone and spirit of these lectures is uplifting,
clarifying, and stimulating to high endeavor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
=Jelliffe, Smith Ely.= Introduction to pharmacognosy. *$2.50. Saunders.
This is the first adequate English treatment of pharmacognosy, and
will be welcomed by the special student. “The work falls into three
divisions, animal drugs, vegetable drugs without organic structure,
and vegetable drugs with organic structure. The first division is
appropriately small, and the last constitutes the major portion of the
work. A goodly treatise on each drug is found, embracing references to
its origin; discussions of its gross structure, microscopic structure
and features recognizable in its powder; and mention of constituent
substances present.... Excellent original illustrations accompany a
large number of the descriptions.” (Science.)
“The discussions are in the main botanically correct and the style is
fairly clear. Imperfections aside, however, it is well within the
truth to say that this volume is the nearest approach which has yet
appeared towards filling the need of the day in this country.” Charles
H. Shaw.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 625. Ap. 21, ‘05. 290w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= Captain Myles Standish. *$1.20. Century.
A biography of Myles Standish, the Pilgrim’s captain, which tells the
story of the people of the Mayflower and of their captain’s service to
them as leader, lawgiver, trader, and physician. The account is
accurate to the sacrifice of many romantic traditions.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w.
“It is intended, perhaps, more for youthful than for mature readers,
although we imagine it will interest these as well. Is practically a
history of the Plymouth settlement.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Jenks’s account gives an impression of accuracy and care, but it
lacks picturesqueness and any romantic quality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 210w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Milton, **$1. Barnes.
Uniform with “The lives of great writers” series this volume contains
a popular description of the conditions in England during the reigns
of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, of Puritan and Cavalier, and of the
life of the blind poet himself and his relation to these surroundings.
There is a frontispiece portrait of Milton, a bibliography and a
chronological table.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.
“The author is luminous rather than critical, gives a touch of
imagination to the accuracy of facts, and inspires with fresh human
interest a national movement commonly thought of as only bitter and
austere.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
“The book is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 715. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* “It will be found extremely helpful to an understanding of the
Puritan period in English history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 140w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Shakespeare; with introd. by Hamilton W.
Mabie. **$1. Barnes.
“One of the series of ‘Lives of great writers.’ ... This little volume
consists of a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the London
actor and man of affairs. There is also a helpful explanation of some
of the principal plays, with suggestive comments.”—R. of Rs.
“For the purpose for which it is intended—that is, as a literary
substitute for the textual and verbal approach to the subject which
has hitherto prevailed—it is to be commended.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 50w.
“The book is readable and will likely give the ordinary reader a much
better idea of what the playwriting business was in Elizabeth’s reign,
what the work Shakespeare actually did was, than many much more
pretentious volumes can do.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w.
“Proceeds, as an open-minded student, to unroll a fascinating
panorama.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“Mr. Jenks has handled his material well.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 670w.
“A new and ‘worth while’ Shakespeare book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
=Jephson, Lady.= Letters to a debutante. *$1.25. Lippincott.
These letters are addressed to Violet, who is gently told how to be
sweet and happy in chapters upon The art of happiness, The need for
controlling the tongue, The ethics of dress, On country house
visiting, The choice of literature, Are elopements justifiable?
Concerning wit, The advisability of friendships with men, and other
subjects of interest to the young girl who longs to be a social
success.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.
“On the whole, however, the lady gives wholesome enough advice—albeit
most of it has been given to other debutantes many times before.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 450w.
“While Lady Jephson’s form is throughout aphoristic, she lacks the
gift of saying the inwardly true thing in memorable words, and that is
the particular gift one looks for in a book of this sort.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ‘05. 740w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Lady Noggs, peeress. †$1.50. McClure.
“Lady Noggs, properly called Lady Felicia Grandison, is the small
niece and ward of a prime minister, whose peace of mind is continually
disturbed by pranks and escapades of the most extraordinary nature....
A background romance between the governess and the secretary is
engaging and real by way of contrast.”—Outlook.
“The object of these few remarks is to cordially commend Felicia,
within her suitable literary bounds, as a pleasant holiday companion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.
=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China in law and commerce. *$2. Macmillan.
From these pages “one may glean not merely knowledge of the political
and commercial life of the country, but a better understanding of the
Oriental mind. The physical features, the resources, the people of
China; the state, provincial, district, town, and family organization,
the anomalies between legal theory and business customs, the native
banking system, the weights, measures, and currency employed, the
Empire’s transportation facilities” (Outlook) are all fully treated.
“Mr. Jernigan is not an inspiring writer. But there is a great deal
that is valuable in his book, and his statements are accurate and
apposite.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 398. S. 23. 820w.
“A volume which will be indispensable to every student of the
civilization of the Far East.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 550w.
“The thing essential in compiling a book of this kind is sympathetic
perception, and Mr. Jernigan has evidently cultivated this faculty,
during his residence in China, with no little success.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 800w.
“Here in one handy book is choice and exact information, carefully
sifted, tested, and arranged concisely and in an orderly manner. There
is a good index to this noteworthy book.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 84. Jl. 27, ‘05. 780w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.
“The subjects ... find exhaustive discussion, and ... are treated
carefully and intelligently.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“A scholarly volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 100w.
* “An unpretentious book, containing a large amount of well-selected
and well arranged information.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China’s business methods and policy, *$3.60.
Wessels.
The author, ex-consul general of the United States at Shanghai,
prefaces his book with the statement that he has sought to find “some
of the elementary principles which base and influence business and
social China and to present them without unnecessary detail.” His
papers give a clear and accurate treatment of China’s administrative
system, land tenure, sources of revenue, law courts, finances, social
regulations, commercial trend, educational and consular systems, and
foreign relations.
“There is a want of cohesion about this work; it seems more a
collection of papers than a treatise. The work will be found useful
when any important event takes place in China in connection either
with its foreign or with its internal policy, as a sort of
reference-book.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 220w.
=Jervey, Theodore D.= Elder brother. $1.50. Neale.
“A novel in which are presented the vital questions confronting the
South growing out of the Reconstruction, and in which the author
defines the true relations now existing between the races in the
South.” Specifically, it presents the political, social, and economic
history of a southern city during this period. There are many
characters of all classes but interest centers about two brothers who
become social and political leaders.
“The book, if it is not a novel to carry the reader along—it is not
that—is an exceedingly valuable, truthful, and interesting study.
There is certainly no other picture of the period which approaches it
in these vital points.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.
“It is a good picture of conditions—and perhaps, after all, its
solution of the problems confronting the South is the only practical
one.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.
=Jessel, Frederick.= comp. Bibliography of works in English on playing
cards and gaming. *$4.40. Longmans.
“Gaming in this sense includes dominoes, conjuring, card-tricks and so
forth. Mr. Jessel has described the title of every work he has found,
however slight, on cards or gaming; and he has included all books
which contain allusions of sufficient importance to be recorded, even
works of fiction which depend on gaming for their plots or contain
scenes which illustrate the mode of playing some particular game.
Periodicals have not been forgotten.... The bibliography is in
alphabetical order of the names of authors, but the index at the end
enables subjects to be searched for without difficulty.”—Acad.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
* “We can recommend it not only to libraries, but also to clubs for
card-room reference, and to all who wish for a ready means of finding
out what has been written in our language about cards and gaming.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 683. N. 18. 630w.
=Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* “Probably as complete as any other in English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
“The fragment in a mere outline, but it comes from a master hand and
is doubly welcome at a time when the need for restatement of
definitions is particularly evident.”—Acad.
“The volume is one that we cordially welcome, and it is bound to meet
with the high appreciation of a discriminating public.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1290w.
“Probably much that is already printed would have been greatly revised
before it appeared, and yet, imperfect as it is, the careful student
of economics will lose a great deal if he does not master this
volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 362. S. 16. 1470w.
“The book may be said to be well justified, even though it be equally
clear that the form and title and bulk of it fall somewhere between
the questionable and the indefensible.” H. J. Davenport.
+ — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 600. S. ‘05. 1180w.
“A word of gratitude is due to the editor, who has spared no pains to
elucidate what the author left unfinished and obscure.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 780w.
“It cannot be said that the fragments now published offer anything of
great value. Mr. Higgs has performed his editorial labors in an
admirable manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 245. S. 21, ‘05. 1330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.
* =Jewett, John Howard (Hannah Warner, pseud.).= Con the wizard, †50c.
Stokes.
This little volume in the Christmas stocking series, tells how the
wizard-bird, Con, changed Teddy Mann and the pets of Mistress May into
the form of the man or beast they envied most, and how they were glad,
after a time, to be changed back and become themselves again. There
are eight illustrations in color by Edward R. Little, and numerous
illustrations in black and white by Oliver Herford.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. per v. $6. Funk.
Everything which in any way concerns the ancient or modern life of the
Jewish people and which has either historical or literary value can be
found in this “Descriptive record of the history, religion, literature
and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest time to the present
day.” Prepared by more than four hundred scholars and specialists
under the direction of Cyrus Adler, I. K. Funk, F. H. Vizeletly and
others. There are twelve massive volumes and two thousand
illustrations.
“In spite of some minor defects, should prove a valuable work of
reference to all interested in Jewish history.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 170. F. 25, ‘05. 880w. (Outlines scope of Vol.
VIII.).
“Has much the same merits and defects as its predecessor.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w. (Review of Vol. IX.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The enterprise has now gone far enough to leave no doubt that the
high standard of excellence set up by the editors will be reached.”
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 523. Jl. ‘05, 580w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 610w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 159. Ag. ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 577. S. 7, ‘05. 620w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. (Review of v. 9-11.)
* “This encyclopaedia will be essential in any well equipped library.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1484. D. 21, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The standard cannot be said to be rising. Still, if only for its
wealth of biography, especially English and American, the book is
indispensable for reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 110w. (Review of Vol. IX.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1730w. (Survey of contents
of Vol. IX.)
“The tenth volume is as valuable as any of its predecessors.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 10.)
“As a work of world-wide comprehensiveness this is one to enrich any
library.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 190w. (Outlines scope of volume
IX).
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “This great work, the joint product of Jewish and Christian writers,
fully sustains its early promise as it nears its completion.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Nearly all subjects mentioned [in volume IX] are treated at great
length, in good spirit, with thorough scholarship.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 389. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 260w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “Volume XI. is exceptionally rich in politico-economic material.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 730. D. 2, ‘05. 320w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 270w. (Outlines scope of volumes
VII and VIII).
* “It can be affirmed without hesitation that, taken as a whole, the
work is a contribution to general knowledge which, for the future,
will be nothing less than indispensable.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 790. N. 18, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of v. 8-10.)
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter
among the larger wild birds of America on land and sea. **$3. Houghton.
A simple story of the author’s conflicts and conquests as he hunted
with his camera “the wild hardy birds of the sea, whose strong wings
make them masters of the elements.” His search took him from the
Magdalen islands to the Florida keys and he gives pictures of
pelicans, kittiwakes and gannets, of laughing gulls, cormorants and
auks, of plovers brooding their young, and of the great horned owl
mothering her owlet. There are 160 of these photographs.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.
“No such collection of ‘portraits’ can be found anywhere else.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1251. Je. 11, ‘05. 340w.
“His book should appeal to a large circle of readers, especially the
ornithologist, the sportsman, and the nature-lover, as well as the
omnipresent camera fiend.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 620w.
* “Despite its somewhat pedantic title, this book is much above the
average of works of the same general nature.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 123. D. 7, ‘05. 500w.
“‘Wild wings’ should not only appeal to nature and bird lovers, but
there is much in its pages to interest sportsmen as well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Without doubt this book is a contribution to the world’s sanity,
while at the same time its science is duly respected.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 410w.
=Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 60w.
“Quite as entertaining as most hunters’ stories.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 180w.
John Van Buren, politician, †$1.50. Harper.
“‘John Van Buren, politician,’ is a young up-state lawyer, who comes
to New York, joins Tammany hall, wins the favor of Boss ‘Coulter,’ and
is sent to the state legislature, where he is speedily made acquainted
with the darker aspects of legislative life. The story of his
adventure in politics and of his lovemaking ... is told in a volume
that is a curious combination of novel and guide to the sights of New
York.”—Outlook.
“The book has no style, and but slight interest considered as a story.
Its implied ethics, moreover, are of a highly dubious character.” Wm.
M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.
“Were it not for its intimate portrayal of the methods whereby Tammany
achieves political success, it would be of little value or interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11. ‘05. 140w.
“The picture of the sessions of the general assembly at Albany is
graphic and possibly true to the life, although the coloring is
probably too strong and the lines too heavy.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w.
“The book does not preach anything, clean politics or foul; it simply
reflects conditions as a keen observer would find them.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 594. O. ‘05. 180w.
* =Johnson, Burges.= Pleasant tragedies of childhood. †$1.50. Harper.
“Experiences more or less tragical to babies and children, but
pleasantly told in Mr. Johnson’s verses and humorously depicted in
Miss Cory’s sketches. Fathers and mothers will be amused by them, and
the juvenile victims—some of them at least—will enjoy the
pictures.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 70w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 50w.
* “This is an exceedingly attractive picture book.”
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
* “One of the really delightful books about children of the present
season.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “Some of the verses are very witty.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Johnson, Burges.= Rhymes of little boys. **$1. Crowell.
A truly charming book of little boy verses, which little girls and
grown-ups will enjoy also Goin’ barefoot, Bein’ sick; Gettin’ well;
Cookin’ things; Makin’ things; Gettin’ washed; and two score others
set forth little boy philosophy in little boy language, and following
these are some verses to or about little boys, among them an exquisite
tribute to Frank R. Stockton. The volume is bound in plaid gingham,
with decorative title and end leaves by Mrs. John Carpenter.
* “The naïveté of small-boy egotisms, generosities, rivalries, has
never been, and, it would seem to us, could never be, better done than
in Mr. Johnson’s clever and sympathetic verses.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “This volume is sure to win for its author a wider appreciation of
his really unique work.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
“The introductory poems strike a note of tenderness and reverence of
unusual purity and beauty.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “We like his verse for its insight, literal though it often is.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Oak-tree fairy book; il. by Willard Bonte.
$1.75. Little.
Here are the old favorites reproduced in wholesome form with the
savagery, harrowing details and abnormal pathos eliminated, and with
the charm retained.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
=Johnson, Owen.= In the name of liberty. $1.50. Century.
A story of the French revolution in which the personal struggles of
the actors are silhouetted against the greater struggle of the nation
in the background. Barabant, a young enthusiast, allies himself with
the Girondins and falls with them, to be saved from the guillotine
only by the sacrifice of Nicole, a flower-girl, whom he has made his
wife in prison, and who gives up her life for his. The course of the
story runs subjectively close to the people; their whims, their morbid
curiosity, their unrestrained impulse and anger, and their hatred for
the aristocrats distort their vision thru the bloody days of the
terror which is followed in grewsome detail.
“Mr. Johnson has devised a fresh and unhackneyed story, with a heroine
quite apart from the usual types.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“Owen Johnson has written a good story, with several unusual points
about it that entitle it to notice.” Priscilla Leonard.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 371. Ap. ‘05. 1440w.
“A fresh and interesting view of a subject that would seem to have
been exhausted of all novelty. One can but admire the cleverness with
which he has made reality and fiction supplement and sustain each
other while keeping the reader’s attention wholly engrossed by the
very simple and pathetic love story of Nicole and Barabant. A vivid
and vigorous handling of a subject that has been used to the point of
threadbareness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 610w.
“A rather unusually spirited tale. Mr. Johnson has created two or
three flesh-and-blood characters, has put them into trying crises, and
has made them work out their own moral salvation or ruin as they
respond or fail to respond to the test. The book has life and energy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 90w.
“The sure touch of the confident master is lacking. There is
over-emphasis, a too great insistence on the individual when the mass
should have been brought into the foreground. Viewed as a whole the
book is an effective piece of word painting.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Johnson’s story has merits of its own unborrowed from Dickens or
any one else. One of them is a saving sanity of expression.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 370w.
“Well and swiftly told, and probably of breathless interest to the
unsophisticated mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 30w.
=Johnson, Sidona Viola.= Short history of Oregon, **$1. McClurg.
This book covers the early discoveries, the Lewis and Clark
explorations, settlement, government, Indian wars, and progress. In
concise form it gives a full account of that interesting region. It is
illustrated with numerous halftones.
“A short but comprehensive account of the state.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50.
Little.
The author has made his narrative suitable in every respect to young
readers. He tells of the discoveries and adventures of such men as
Cartier, Jean Ribaut, Rene de Laudonnière, Champlain, Nicollet,
Joliet, La Salle, and Father Hennepin, in an interesting fashion,
basing his story, upon standard authorities; he has provided notes
upon Indian tribal connections and customs, and introductory chapters
which deal with the origin and distribution of the Indian race and
give a view of Indian society.
* =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “Mr. Johnson’s descriptions of the great French explorers are
calculated to serve the purposes he had in view and to stimulate
curiosity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France, †$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the
new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his
people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor,
that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her
his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle
America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is
subordinated to the forest love story.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 10w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 300w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Johnson, Wolcott.= An old man’s idyl. *$1. McClurg.
A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a
husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his
honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow
up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a
long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl,
and a prayer.
“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent,
speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George
William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved
dreamers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10. ‘05. 220w.
“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one.
Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the
progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr.
Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of
this unpretentious little volume.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 106. Je. ‘05. 230w.
=Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita.= Ireland’s story; a short
history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers.
**$1.40; school ed. *$1.10. Houghton.
Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of
Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch
upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America,
on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary
revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the
derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views,
portraits and maps.
“Written in a quiet, almost gentle style, the narrative moves calmly
forward and is easily followed. The treatment is sufficiently fair and
charitable to satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tolerance is
properly developed.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 411. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w.
“The writers of the present work have managed to condense a vast
amount of information into their sketch of some 400 pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 250w.
“The first five chapters ... absolutely worthless for any purpose
whatever. The rest of the volume, however, appears to be of some
value.”
+ — =N. Y.= Times. 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 590w.
“A well-arranged outline history of Ireland. The authors, while
frankly revealing both their political and their religious sympathies,
write with moderation and fair-mindedness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“All in all, this volume gives an excellent epitome of Irish history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
“A book which ought to have a place in the libraries of our high
schools.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 70w.
=Johnston, Rev. John Octavius.= Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon,
canon of St. Paul’s cathedral and sometime Ireland professor of exegesis
in the University of Oxford. $5. Longmans.
A detailed and sympathetic account of the life and character of the
late Dean Liddon, strict ritualist and devoted Puseyite who was almost
constantly involved in controversy. It is a faithful record of
unfaltering devotion to duty and his steady advancement to well-earned
success; his friendly relations with Gladstone and Salisbury and his
refusal to accept a bishopric from either; his success as a pulpit
orator; his famous sermons; his pleasing personality, high scholarship
and untiring energy.
“A worthy addition to the literature of biography.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 234. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2020w.
=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 400w.
=Jones, Amanda Theodosia.= Rubáiyát of Solomon, and other poems. $1.25.
Alden bros.
One-third of this new volume of poems “is given up to versification,
in the familiar rubáiyát form, of certain of the sayings of Solomon
and Koheleth.... It is elsewhere in Miss Jones’s volume that we must
look for her most meritorious verse. We find it, for example, in the
group of ‘Kansas bird songs,’ in the lyrics of childhood, the tender
personal tributes, and the pieces that touch on contemporary history.”
(Dial.)
“It can truly be said that she has looked upon the sun and has been
undismayed; for, at intervals ... the clear voice of this fearless and
fiery-hearted Deborah has been heard and heeded by those who may be
reckoned as the jealous custodians of the gates of song.” Edith M.
Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 412. N. ‘05. 1650w.
“There is in the book always a first-hand view of nature,—often a
touch of mysticism. Some of the experiments are not fortunate, but now
and again there is a narrative poem, or a lyric that clings to the
memory.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 414. N. ‘05. 290w.
“After a long silence, Miss Jones has put forth a new volume of poems,
which may perhaps secure for her work something of the appreciation
which has long been its due.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.
* “The variety of achievement in this modest volume is in pleasing
contrast to that offered in most collections of its size.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 802. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
* =Jones, E. Griffith-.= Economics of Jesus; or, Work and wages in the
kingdom of God. *35c. Meth. bk.
A study of the money parables,—“a series of problems arising out of
the deep-seated and manifold inequalities of life.” The little volume
belongs to the “Freedom of faith” series.
=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Manoeuvres of Jane: an original comedy in four
acts. **75c. Macmillan.
“Mr. Nangle, a wealthy widower, places his wilful daughter in charge
of Mrs. Beechinor, retired matron of a young ladies’ boarding-school,
in the hope that she will transfer her affections from a man who is in
moderate circumstances to Lord Bapchild, a nephew of Mrs. Beechinor’s,
Jane arranges matters to suit herself and marries the man whom she
loves.”—Bookm.
“The situations are the work of an undoubted expert, and the dialog is
skilfully written. Now that Oscar Wilde is dead, Mr. Jones has only
one equal in England, the Ibsenized Pinero.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 140w.
“It reads well, although the literary form emphasizes the fact that it
is really more of a farce than a comedy.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 30w.
=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Mrs. Dane’s defence. **75c. Macmillan.
This four-act play was given in New York in the years 1901-1902. It
concerns a woman with a past and a skilful lawyer who forces the truth
from Mrs. Dane.
“Undeniably clever.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 20w.
=Jones, Rev. J. D.= Elims of life, and other sermons. *$1. Revell.
“These are discourses by a prominent Congregational pastor in
England.... The spiritual and ethical element predominates, the form
is plain and lucid, the aim is practical.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 100w.
=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Dying message of Paracelsus. pa. 50c. Unity pub.
“Appropriate as an Easter gift, and dedicated as such by the [author]
to his Browning classes, is this elegantly printed pamphlet,
illustrated by Albrecht Dürer’s picture of ‘Melancholia.’ ... A few
paragraphs of Mr. Jones’s lecture on Paracelsus accompany Browning’s
text as introduction and commentary.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Jones, Paul.= Commercial power of Congress. $5. priv. ptd. C. S.
Nathan, N. Y.
The object of this book “is to trace the history and show the present
authoritative interpretation of that pregnant declaration of the
constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall have power ... to
regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states,
and with the Indian tribes.’” (N. Y. Times.) Present interest centers
about the application of this provision to trusts and railway rates.
“It is carefully done, but lacks a table of cases.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 258. S. 28, ‘05. 80w.
“It bears evidence of a lot of painstaking work, is written in a style
excellent for its purpose, and offers very few of those slips of the
pen or the proofreader that are apt to invade in force the pages of
the amateur.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 312. My. 13, ‘05. 900w.
=Jones, Rufus Matthew.= Social law in the spiritual world, **$1.25.
Winston.
“While the title at once suggests the famous work of the late Henry
Drummond, and the book is in a way an attempt to deal with the same
problems as those discussed in his Natural law in the spiritual
world,’ Professor Jones is concerned rather with the psychological
aspects of the subject than with the biological. In his view, there is
a greater stress to-day in the psychological than in the so-called
natural sciences.”—R. of Rs.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w. (Outlines scope).
“Professor Jones very tersely sums up the present-day meaning of
personality and social relationship. His discussion of the modern
religious problem is from a somewhat novel point of view.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 180w.
=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.
Thirty-eight letters originally dictated by Mayor Jones, Golden Rule
Jones, to his stenographer and delivered to his women with their
wages. Each letter begins, Dear Friends, and closes, Very faithfully
yours, and in each the master and man meet on common ground as
brothers. Equality, coöperation, harmony, fellowship, patriotism and
even picnics and vacations are advocated in these letters, and many
other subjects of general interest are discussed.
=Jonson, Ben.= Plays and poems, *$1.25. imp. Scribner.
“This latest addition to the irresistible ‘Caxton’ series is the
representative work of Jonson as a dramatist and as a poet.... The
frontispieces and the title-pages in this series ... are often as in
the case of this volume, admirable pieces of typographical and
illustrative work.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and
glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.
A contribution to the “Yale studies in English.”
=Jonson, Ben.= Poetaster; a thesis presented to the faculty of the
graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Dr. of
philosophy; ed. by Herbert S. Mallory. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.
This 27th volume in the “Yale studies of English” series, contains the
text of the play, a long critical introduction, notes, glossary,
bibliography, and index.
=Jonson, Ben.= Staple of news: a thesis presented to the faculty of the
Graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of
philosophy; ed. by Dr. De Winter. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.
This twenty-eighth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series
contains the critical text of Jonson’s play, with elaborate notes, a
glossary, and an introduction.
=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The least satisfactory part of the work is that devoted to
bibliography, which contains, as usual, a number of inaccuracies.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.
=Jonson, G. C. Ashton.= Handbook to Chopin’s works, **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to
make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it
forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those
amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the
first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A
brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a
brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary
chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte
music should have at hand for daily reference.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.
Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the
fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of
ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed,
those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those
which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its
various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored
to their place in the series and discussed along with those still
extant.” (Dial.)
“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles
Atwood Kofoid.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 84. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1680w.
“There is no thorough classification or system. The table of contents
of the chapters make matters only worse. A single page with an outline
of the arrangement would be a boon.” H. C.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 625. O. 26, ‘05. 1600w.
=Jordan, Kate (Mrs. F. M. Vermilye).= Time the comedian. †$1.50.
Appleton.
A man who was about to elope with a woman who is to desert for him her
husband and child is shocked on the eve of their departure by the
suicide of the husband with one of his wife’s guilty letters in his
hand. He will not marry her now, but gives her a liberal allowance,
and years later when he has come to love her daughter, his old letters
to her mother keep them forever apart.
* “The characters are well drawn and the plot worked out logically ...
and the story is written with a sureness of touch and a briskness that
keeps the interest unflagging throughout.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 90w.
“A bright, entertaining society novel, not without a moral for light,
frivolous, and selfish people of both sexes.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
Jubilee gems of the Visitation order. Sisters of the visitation of Holy
Mary. *$1. Christian press.
“The present publication aims successfully at giving, in clear and
simple language, an authentic account of the foundation of the order,
and a picture of the ideals which have obtained in the community and
borne fruit in the saintly lives of its members.... It will help to
fill the lamentable lack of books suitable for Catholic school
premiums.”—Cath. World.
“The volume is well gotten up and attractively written.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 406. Je. ‘05. 350w.
=Judd, Sylvester.= History of Hadley, including the early history of
Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Mass. *$6. H. R. Huntting &
co., Springfield, Mass.
This work was originally published in 1863. It is now reprinted with
an introduction by Geo. Sheldon and family genealogies by Lucius M.
Boltwood.
“Introduction is, by the way, decidedly more interesting than Mr.
Judd’s ‘History.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 320w.
“His compilation is replete with authentic information as to manners
and customs, and is highly browsable.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 330w.
“The new edition will find a wider field than the first met, and
should create and fill a demand for itself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1010w.
Judith: an old English epic fragment, ed. by Albert S. Cook. 40c. Heath.
This volume is section I of the “Belles-lettres” series contains the
text of Judith, passages from the Vulgate Judith, an introduction,
bibliography, and glossary.
* =Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal
regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.
“The volume is divided into two parts, the first part, comprising
about one-fourth of the book, deals briefly with the power of the
federal government over interstate commerce and with the statutes that
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more detail the interstate commerce act of 1887, the anti-trust law of
1890, the safety appliance legislation of 1893 and 1896, and various
other minor acts of legislation regarding interstate commerce. The
latter part of the book is devoted to the presentation of information
regarding ‘procedure before the Interstate commerce commission.’”
(Ann. Am. Acad.)
* “The volume is systematically arranged, it is well proportioned and
carefully written. It is both a good treatise and a valuable book of
reference. Neither the lawyer nor the economist interested in
transportation can afford to neglect part two of Mr. Judson’s book.”
Emory R. Johnson.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 756. N. ‘05. 310w.
* “Mr. Judson has a good power of statement, and his volume is a
valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 230w.
Juliana, ed. by William Strunk. 40c. Heath.
A volume in section I of the “Belles-lettres” series, English
literature from its beginning to the year 1100. The original text of
the Exeter manuscript is given, all deviations being indicated in the
variants. An introduction discusses the text, the author, and the
legend, and complete notes, bibliography, and glossary are provided.
“The notes have been most carefully edited, the type is clear, and the
notes and glossary are adequate.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 340w.
=Jungman, Beatrice.= Norway: text by Beatrice Jungman; with 75 il. in
col. by Nico Jungman. *$6. Macmillan.
“Mrs. Jungman does not concern herself ... with the past history of
Norway, except with a few of its legends; nor does she allude to the
present unsettled state of its politics. But the fact of Norwegian
unrest ... makes ... an interesting background to her brilliant series
of passing impressions.... Mr. Jungman is a charming artist, ... and
he has done nothing more attractive than these portraits of Norwegian
girls and children.... His sketches of Norwegian landscape are also
most characteristic.”—Spec.
“She is always readable,—partly, no doubt, because she is so
absolutely unpretentious; and the book is a welcome addition to an
interesting and valuable series.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 645. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.
“The limited scope of his work suffers considerably by comparison with
the comprehensive title of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 791. Je. 24. 660w.
“The ‘text’ is friendly gossip about a trip in Norway, quite natural,
with no straining after effect. The colour of the pictures is gay; it
is too vivid for our liking.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w.
“Mrs. Jungman’s ‘text’ is quite as interesting, in its way as her
husband’s pictures.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.
K
=Kasson, John A.= Evolution of the constitution of the United States of
America and history of the Monroe doctrine. **$1.50. Houghton.
An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work
published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the
Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but
condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original
‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of
the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those
articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by
which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to
provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they
accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)
Reviewed by C. L. Raper.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook,
and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s
well-known treatise.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 188. Ag. 31, ‘05. 900w.
Reviewed by R. L. S.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 530w.(States scope of book).
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 150w. (States scope of book).
=Katherine, pseud.= See =Stephens, Louise G.=
=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord
Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.
In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the
following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of
Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the
conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and
Results.
=Keats, John.= Poems; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt.
$2.25. Dodd.
“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of
orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a
logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain
nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by
side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text
stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an
even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.
* “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking
research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s
ideas untouched.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 326. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1420w.
“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his
introduction and notes to this edition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 534. O. 21. 3260w.
* “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel
the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 150w.
“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical
student of poetry as a fine art.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 310w.
“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his
effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has
succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems
that it has really done that.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.
“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the
expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.
The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value
both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader.
Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical
anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of
the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an
address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”
“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness,
though without the technical language.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 484. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but
some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical
profession.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Keith, Marian.= Duncan Polite, the watchman of Glenoro. †$1.50. Revell.
Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small
Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found.
Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the
other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord
which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he
wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new
things.
“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite
of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.
“Anyhow, it wad hae made a bonnie, wee short story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 470w.
=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.
“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the
principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the
greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such
a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on
‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have
determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the
spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just
now.”—Outlook.
“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought
into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 110w.
“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of
information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that
it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof.
Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally
satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 164. S. 16, ‘05. 690w.
“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the
study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book
is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 340w.
“In general, entomologists will agree with the schemes of
classification.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 207. S. 7, ‘05. 690w.
“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... contains much
interesting reading for any nature-lover.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and
Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general
text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 563. N. 3, ‘05. 1160w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional
institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation
of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried
on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that
her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies,
their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and
business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.
“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on
this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear
and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out
advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the
measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate
usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 558. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of
housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it
indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political
positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly
set forth.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned;
and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple
and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte
Perkins Gilman.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 580w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“The volume is worthy of high praise and it should be widely read.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 290w.
Reviewed by S. P. B.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 295. Mr. ‘05. 530w.
“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss
Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the
information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who
are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in
American cities.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Little citizens. †$1.50. McClure.
Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future
Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She
“shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school.
Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They
are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and
faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty.
Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories
about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and
teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of
the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous
and entertaining.” (Acad.)
“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the
countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of
novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and
with a convincing sympathy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and
limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are
only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 210w.
“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present
prodigiously amusing.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary
dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen
observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent.
Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously,
unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect
is picturesquely and easily handled.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 623. Ap. ‘05. 380w.
“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an
original and attractive kind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 150w.
=Kendrick, A. F.= English embroidery. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history
of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the
eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of
this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.
“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic
standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 500w.
“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and
readable throughout.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 60. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of
Virginia, 1773-1776. *$10. Putnam.
The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond
will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in
Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction
containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and
unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial
Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.
“The work of editing the volume has been ably done.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“A very satisfactory introduction.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed
his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the
state.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 770w.
=Kennedy, Sidney Robinson.= Lodestar. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist
and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with
whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the
story, and there are many amusing complications.
“One of the pleasantest of summer books.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
“Something of a disappointment.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w.
“Clever and readable novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.
=Kent, Arminie Thomas.= Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. **$1.25. Lane.
Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various
magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric,
which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.
“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”
— =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w.
“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of
style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American
scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute
defects.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the
technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the
sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very
little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 93. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w.
=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical
narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of
the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.
“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the
writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological
order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them
up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which
they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible
form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old
Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the
beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical
narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4)
‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’
(6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general
readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.
“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his
volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it
with discrimination.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1060w.
“It is a credit to the university served by Professor Kent.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history,
from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75.
Scribner.
Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts
regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has
undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the
narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and
biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses,
laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and
didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first
volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly
translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early
narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions
of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be
read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.
“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the
editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 530w.
“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit,
its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper
interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the
subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work
has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 309. Ap. ‘05. 1020w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Dark ages, **$1.50. Scribner.
“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special
title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of
European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He
begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term....
Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture
on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second
chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole
period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts,
treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic
languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and
Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast
field.”—Am. Hist. R.
“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary
expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can
understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already
perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé
of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too
abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and
concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is
fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is
useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and
compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 628. Ap. ‘05. 410w.
“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional
happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who
are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of
actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w.
=Kerr, Robert Pollok.= Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for
Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.
The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly
presented in this little book which is intended for class study in
Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of
questions is given at the close of the volume.
* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Beethoven: the man and the artist, as
revealed in his own words: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has
been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries
heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under
appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven
lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human
observations.
* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed
in his own words; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together
“an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for
that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The
outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there
is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic,
intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”
* =Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.
This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a
picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of
its characters take us at times to the far West with the
forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young,
to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of
Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the
Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are
associated.”—Dial.
* “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of
brilliancy.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well
sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a
fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “The chief merit of the story lies in its character drawing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the
general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s
strongest qualities.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.
=Ketcham, Heber D.= Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The
Methodist pulpit. Second series, *50c. Meth. bk.
In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his
readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty
of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The
unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the
seasons.
=Key, A. Cooper-.= Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors
and dealers. *35c. Macmillan.
“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief
explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted
to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing,
and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and
management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is
certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead
to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For
those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after
they have left the manufactory the book should be equally
valuable.”—Nature.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“Is what such a handbook should be.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w.
“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose
benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.
=Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid.= With the pilgrims to Mecca,
*$3.50. Lane.
An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special
correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and
speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies
which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange
religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars
and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the
original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon
the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.
“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of
the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared
with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry,
jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment
of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave,
with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense
of accuracy.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w.
“A welcome book for our libraries.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 220w.
“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and
it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s
accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is
different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of
truth.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 560w.
“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly
of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we
know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 820w.
“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah
is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that
increases one’s interest.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 300w.
=Kielland, Alexander L.= Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by
Rebecca Blair Flandrau. *$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the
downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole
community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper
places.”—Bookm.
“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and
outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all
horribly futile and Scandinavian.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 250w. (Outline of plot).
=Kildare, Owen.= My Mamie Rose: the story of my regeneration. $1. Baker.
A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a
newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who
could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight
earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the
story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru
the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on
the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit
it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.
“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a
photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to
demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker
with greater hope.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 975. S. ‘05. 280w.
=Kinealy, John Henry.= Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical
treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low
pressures. *$5. Spon.
“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of
centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline
showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of
centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less
common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and
disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the
ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for
mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.
“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the
practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.
— =Engin. N.= 53: 644. Je. 15, ‘05. 2060w.
=King, Charles.= Medal of honor: a story of peace and war. *$1.25.
Hobart.
This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of
course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal
of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point,
and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in
military tactics at a western university. There are many complications
and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out
again.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.
* =King, Charles Francis.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.
A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen
crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well
meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing
the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal
caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers.
There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a
less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army
stories.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Personal and ideal elements in education.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation
of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their
researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes....
The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious
conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural
address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college
course.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
=Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in
education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in
the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of
psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct
practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of
those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he
quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of
the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they
suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character,
happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these
ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be
actual.’”—Outlook.
* “A serious and amazingly comprehensive study.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 100w.
“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented
the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical
counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our
nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding
writer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
Kingdom of Siam. See =Carter, A. Cecil=, ed.
=Kingsbury, Sara.= Atonement, $1. Eastern pub.
The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each
points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a
millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor.
Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness
for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally
with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter
of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.
=Kingsley, Charles.= Hypatia. $1.25. Crowell.
A new volume in that pleasing pocket edition: the “Thin paper
classics.”
=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50.
Dodd.
Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow,
cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection
of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining
she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the
traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes
out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and
an old lover.
* “Clever and pleasant tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7. ‘05. 290w.
=Kinzbrunner, Charles.= Testing the continuous current machine in
laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and
engineers. $2. Wiley.
“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for
carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The
author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the
exercises with a view to their practical application and has
endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to
students.”—Engin. N.
“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American
readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat
similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other
well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + + =Engin.= N. 53: 638. Je. 15. ‘05. 820w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Seven seas. * *$2. Appleton.
“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding
high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the
unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with
decorative borders in green.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 70w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Kirk, William Frederick.= Norsk nightingale: being the lyrics of a
“Lumberyack.” **75c. Small.
“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme
and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer
form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.
“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute
us in this volume of dialect verse.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 190w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.
=Kiser, S. E.= Charles the chauffeur. $1. Stokes.
“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning
and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had
to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as
few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and
frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly
diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.
“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be
just the kind of story they will like.”
+ =Sat. R.= 10: 342. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w.
=Kitton, Frederic George.= Dickens country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist
which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and
incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are
fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of
Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.
“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of
the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should
carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant
travelling-companion.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11, ‘05. 1140w.
“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never
be attempted again.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11. ‘05. 280w.
“The book is coherent and accurate.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 870w.
“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a
well-filled mind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.
=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.
Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years
ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B.
Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious,
instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous
matter.
“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this
crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in
the capacious index.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1160w.
“A highly interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 436. S. 28, ‘05. 240w.
=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.
Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its
people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our
land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved
France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria,
St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and
Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is
dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his
successful French work.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 110w.
“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé
himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will
no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 162. S. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 719. O. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the
acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record,
and will attract many readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 190w.
=Knapp, Oswald G.=, ed. Artist’s love story. *$3.50. Longmans.
The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally
Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and
the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of
consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other
hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken
from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.
+ =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w.
“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when
people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom
or intelligence.”
+ + =Ind.= 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w.
=Knight, William A.= Retrospects. Vol. I. *$2.25. Scribner.
“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar
and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading....
After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived
from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that
are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided,
fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that
distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in
the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds
to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds
and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among
the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D.
Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.
“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any
embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor
Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as
fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely
lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.”
Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents).
“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and
professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a
more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents).
* =Knipe, Emilie Benson=, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and
verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.
Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at
play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.
=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.
A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and
singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and
love of country.
“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true
poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high
and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so
eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 557. My. ‘05. 3050w.
“Graceful workmanship.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are
also some very bad ones.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one
a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature,
making reference and identification easy.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and
while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject
matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes
refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the
heart.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w.
“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical
virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such
beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when,
abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells
simply some little story with feeling in it.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in
semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters
speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the
clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.
* “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we
have read for several years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1264. D. 2, ‘05. 320w.
“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is
too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many
readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish
traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite
character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
=Knowles, W. Pitcairn.= Dutch pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.
A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the
correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a
connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from
which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed.
Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch
atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the
development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker
accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into
partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with
the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.”
(Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”
“Our author is a reliable, as well as an entertaining guide.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 840w.
“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put
at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by
beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
=Knox, George William.= Japanese life in town and country. **$1.20.
Putnam.
“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its
liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and
interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down
to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism
and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts
made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular
preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian
sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the
samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes
three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography
of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has
lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.
“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into
small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette,
Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing
chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many
illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.
* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity
with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely
achieved.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia
Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters
upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas;
and Some actresses in summer.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Loves of great composers. *$2.50. Crowell.
In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of
Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is
set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated
material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is
illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers
themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von
Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and
sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of
Countess Potocka.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their
complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w.
* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of
old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal
investigation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Two charmingly written volumes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.
“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living
opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is
interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists
considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba,
Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard
De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of
Rs.
“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as
giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own
lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
* =Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.
“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck,
which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives
the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The
author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal
impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced
herein.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.
* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some
interesting commentary from the composer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.
* =Kolle, Frederick Strange.= Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland,
†$1.50. Grafton press.
“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good
lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on
modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the
automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled
sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are
in keeping.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w.
* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy
tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w.
* =Konody, Paul G.= Filippino Lippi. $1.25. Warne.
This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of
Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.
* + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w.
* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this
series have offered us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
=Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.).= Tale of the kloster: a
romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico. †$1.50. Am. Bapt.
A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata,
where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions
which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the
pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and
suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.
“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the
strange community the story has its own value. It is written with
simplicity and grace.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w.
“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to
American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the
different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our
national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of
our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’.= Russian literature. **$2.
McClure.
A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in
mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal
information about its great figures and copious extracts from its
masterpieces.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w.
“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its
scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although
occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w.
“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the
nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of
view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this
volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition
to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w.
“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored,
no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and
profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language,
as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible
information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to
know something about.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w.
“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as
the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other
works of the kind in our language.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.
“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared
in English on the literature of Russia.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w.
L
=La Colonie, Jean Martin de.= Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La
Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.
“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown
to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real
historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of
war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a
bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits
and other illustrations.”—Outlook.
“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the
details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other
readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer
appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a
copious index are duly provided.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to
historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully
illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w.
“This book contains little information regarding politics or society,
but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as
an art.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w.
“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit,
as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close
of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The
translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the
pages of great value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide.= Days and hours of Raphael, with a key
to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.
“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously
illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full
page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the
twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality.
The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary,
presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the
reader.”—Dial.
* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author
does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed
sentences.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are
comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any
collection of Raphaeliana.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de.= New voyages to North
America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of
original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd.,
notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography
by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.
Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The
author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a
detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover
many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and
strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and
personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a
general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to
Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was
very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later
doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently
fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.
“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render
accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that
has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the
bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w.
“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes
entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr.
Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a
scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w.
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which
have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western
travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w.
* =Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis
Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty
King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.
* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half
leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The
collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of
Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the
most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale,
Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The
introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and
its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the
present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest
specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of
technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original
work and restorations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters, v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.
“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which
has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the
quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and
pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an
inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition
of the ‘Letters’.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w.
“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years
of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’;
yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint
Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.
+ + =Critic.= 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.
=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable
allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but
unknown to us.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w.
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
* =Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne.= Tales from Shakespeare. *$2.50.
Scribner.
“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each
play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price.
These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect
keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and
educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself....
The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait
gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from
Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in
London.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w.
* “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w.
* =Lamb, Osborn Rennie.= Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.
This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is
developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic
essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic
force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective
thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the
creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic
critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own
opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so
often found in newspaper criticism.
=Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn.= Iberian: Anglo-Greek
play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.
Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The
Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek
drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same
to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play,
435 B. C., the time.
=Lamia, pseud.= See =Austin, Alfred.=
=Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard.= What is history? Five lectures on the modern
science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25.
Macmillan.
One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and
sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of
Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development
and present character of the science of history; The general course of
German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to
the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of
psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in
general; and Problems of universal history.
“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though
the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the
English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w.
“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of
them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable
for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English
terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail
occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w.
“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from
psychology and kindred sciences.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w.
“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the
obscurities of the original.” A. G.
+ — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he
adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an
awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good
psychology, it certainly is not history.”
+ — — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w.
“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard
to get at.”
— =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w.
“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than
to the historian proper.”
+ =Yale R.= 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and
shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow
at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native
plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)
“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.
* “Lively reading—and informative as well.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of
Wi.’”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, R. V.= Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c.
Presbyterian com.
The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus
from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his
book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The
creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan;
Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory,
and Kindred subjects.
“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without
insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w.
=Landon, Percival.= The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.
“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the
history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the
present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became
acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission
sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely
illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.”
(N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who
headed the mission to the Forbidden land.
“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting
reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information
extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art,
religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into
the earlier and historical pages of the work.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w.
“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s
work throughout.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w.
“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w.
“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All
in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and
exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w.
“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large
amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or
index.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w.
“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and
philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w.
“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and
somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr.
Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w.
“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so
competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan
life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above
all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w.
=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.= Tibet and Nepal. *$5. Macmillan.
“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He
describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country
through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He
has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being
reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are
portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches,
animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his
preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.
“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer
can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere
and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most
enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too,
for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute
artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur
of mountain scenery.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w.
“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it
impossible to follow his tour geographically.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w.
“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the
story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H.
Addington Bruce.
— =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and
even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture
of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The
colored pictures are striking and effective.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.
“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some
obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest
expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader;
but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters
far behind him.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Adventures among books. *$1.60. Longmans.
Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books,
Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish
romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted
cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An
old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w.
“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide
knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly
work.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w.
“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his
delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w.
“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before
they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s
‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w.
“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a
permanent quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of
teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up
this volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w.
=Lang, Andrew.= History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3,
*$3.50. Dodd.
The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins
with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s
rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully
considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St.
Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch
invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland,
finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of
theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles
of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But
out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain
commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr.
Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.”
(Outlook).
“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its
predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized
them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of
events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although
interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the
general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and
some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls,
Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.”
Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w.
“The impression received from this work is that the author is not
attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using
the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of
earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those
who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will
find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd
investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary
reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and
relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful
events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern
scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and
other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as
usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His
work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr.
Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh
light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and
enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in
his story.”
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w.
“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the
facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for
scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most
plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this
accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the
spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in
dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind
him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic
historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most
readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant
leader [Montrose].”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w.
“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s
‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal
more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”
— + + =Spec.= 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w.
=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.
In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to
get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He
criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives
much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle
with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much
gentle irony.
“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary
temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon,
gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think,
rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w.
“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the
best life of Knox we have.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular
traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to
the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John
Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the
resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading,
to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.
— =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is
a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he
writes a charming book is a matter of course.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his
biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human,
powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w.
“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general
assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits
history.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w.
* =Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or
etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines,
Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph
Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no
artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need
discussion now.”—Acad.
* “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w.
* =Lang, Andrew,= ed. Red book of romance. **$1.60. Longmans.
“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’
says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be
read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has
provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright
color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces,
perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of
the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of
Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.
* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its
compiler.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w.
* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s
Christmas books.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy
style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous
fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w.
* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old
person with a young heart.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has
done it admirably.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.
“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru
which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its
further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a
course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author
during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution,
London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted
into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two
hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs
of specimens in the Natural history museum.
* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful
collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’
there has been published no book on this subject combining so
successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w.
“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will
draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers
to its pages.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as
youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy,
somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary
technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by
no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific
readers.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v.
$4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.
“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who
wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general
history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and
useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with
discrimination.”—Ind.
“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions
conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use
of excellent and recent materials available in English.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w.
* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless
of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods
measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real
historical unity.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well
calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is
said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Larson, Laurence Marcellus.= King’s household in England before the
Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of
the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the
various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal,
butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the
development of their offices is traced.
“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average
doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid
style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas,
lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on
his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our
knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w.
“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr.
Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w.
=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations
from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with
descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected
series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham....
These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on
them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer
of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the
ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the
pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)
* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once
comprehensive and suggestive.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr.
Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great,
that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied
by plans.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of
knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy
realization of her work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w.
* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too
little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Laurvik, John Nilsen=, tr. See =Michaelis, Karin.=
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Pathfinders of the West. **$2. Macmillan.
This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored
the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the
Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for
him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an
account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of
which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author
to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name
from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an
historical appendix and an index.
“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the
Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first,
Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson
Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much
of Radisson’s narrative.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w.
“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always
be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch
of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w.
=Nation.= 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w.
“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western
United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of
historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions
of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her
characteristically clear style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de
Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.
Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French
and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of
Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of
the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he
took part is stirring.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w.
“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society,
and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting
sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis
Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.
An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted
his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy
king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying
in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up
as the son of a half-breed.
“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his
statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references.
He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w.
“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking,
Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having
recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest
altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical
mysteries.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
=Leach, Albert Ernest.= Food inspection and analysis, for the use of
public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food
economists. $7.50. Wiley.
“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of
America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of
chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions
necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The
mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with
the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the
author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred
carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of
fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants,
etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field
of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic
references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.
“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his
notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful
consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no
less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There
are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is
the best manual on its special subject in the English language,
possibly in any language.” William Frear.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w.
* =Learned, Arthur G.= Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from
world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G.
Learned. $1.75. Estes.
“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere
man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as
Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides,
Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ...
about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude,
the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well.
The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by
Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more
elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous
illustrations are not.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w.
* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing
gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for
pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Songs from the silent land. **$2. Brentano’s.
An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such
subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.
“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’
rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s
part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and
something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of
a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
=Lee, E. Markham.= Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.
The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s
exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is
helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses,
summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of
Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music,
orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn
with illustrations of the principal themes.
“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his
descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=Lee, Rev. Frank T.= Bible study popularized. *$1.25. Winona pub.
“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information
about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of
the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The
rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods
of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and
incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib.
World.
“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects
required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite
conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary
sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Lee, Robert Edward, Capt.= Recollections and letters of General Robert
E. Lee, by his son. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate
ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written
without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light
on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy,
seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living
personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal
commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by
defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United
States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern
Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A
private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the
South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The
reconstruction period.”
“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in
perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced
hand.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w.
“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt
Lee.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w.
* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who
finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those
who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of
peace.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s
disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder
that he developed qualities of leadership.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w.
“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier,
we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge
of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private
citizen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w.
=Lee, Sidney Lazarus.= Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century.
**$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures
delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an
opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the
personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser,
Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire
activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no
subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship
and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best
essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w.
“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has
handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of
essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
+ + + =Cath. World=, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w.
“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was
never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors
to place these men before us in the light of their personal
environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their
time.” J. W. Tupper.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w.
“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of
the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we
remember anywhere to have read.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with
minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the
facts.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays
on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through
the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius
loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna,
Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of
the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)
“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight
into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a
clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a
delightful companion.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w.
“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages,
and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers
and engaging of companions.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal
equation, the temperamental interpretation.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of
the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in
whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w.
“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they
are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause
thought in those who read them.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which
is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at
the genius of places.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal
enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth
reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.
* =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for
dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the
legend is necessary for the smile.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a
collection of John Leech’s pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Golden flood. †$1. McClure.
The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New
York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing
assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the
great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his
laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited
until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.
“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend
his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and
its excellent character touches.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most
ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very
simplicity of which lies its strength.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to
recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers,
Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they
are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive.
There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful
things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady
Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they
were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of
promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old
silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household
gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a
book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in
literature.
“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr.
Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine
literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life,
his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which
never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w.
“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of
beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s
attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”
— + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w.
“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things
in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted
shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or
very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He
does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance
to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.
+ =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Romances of old France. **$1.50. Baker.
Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in
pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains
the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile;
The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of
Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all
retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions
and comments.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited,
without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most
readers will care to hear.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near
enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an
undoubted interpretative value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard,= tr. See =Hafiz.= Odes from the Divan of.
=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the
history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4.
Oxford.
The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in
the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made
his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of
the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de
Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts
of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the
body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the
appendix.” (Dial.)
“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects.
The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner
and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out
of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among
university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w.
“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all
interesting.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has
lavished upon them.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming
refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the
serious student of the French revolution.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Ford, The. †$1.50. Lane.
“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with
those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between
the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the
millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say,
indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne,
unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s
wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the
jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens
not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s
sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike
in politics and love.”—Sat. R.
“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of
his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of
work.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and
tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters
are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the
ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is
interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w.
“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which
should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily,
and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious
epigrams.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to
the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A
book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w.
=Lent, Edward Burcham.= Being done good. *$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of
various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot
cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths,
patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy.
The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are
ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire,
upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w.
“In genuine humorous style.”
=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Leonard, Mary Finley.= Story of the big front door. 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings
of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey
Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors,
their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly
repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs
thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
* =Leonard, William Samuel.= Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr.
Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the
students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise,
comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools
is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The
names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in
general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop
practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Le Poer, John Patrick.= Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.
A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told
by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign
legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the
‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and
recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).
“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes
are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth
reading.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.
“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is
intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures
accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with
all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of
good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of
militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils
attendant upon armed strife.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w.
* =Le Queux, William.= Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love. 50c.
Smart set.
A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a
series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland,
Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots.
The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international
criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and
the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have
rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form
but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.
* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them
harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town and country. **$1.20.
Putnam.
“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents
of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and
manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude
recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this
light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family
organization, and their social status. On questions which are still
undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing
judgment.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in
attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w.
* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the
essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.
=Le Strange, Guy.= Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia
and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than
that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during
the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of
course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.
“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he
will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well
indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has
already given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w.
“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the
students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for
the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of
suggestion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells
such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a
strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at
the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable
work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of
Arabian geography.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Mediaeval art from the peace of the church
to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.
“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals
with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of
the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals
with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This
chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second
half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth
century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text
cuts.”—Nation.
“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of
foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 758. Je. 17. 1260w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 130w.
“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more
than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new
grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy
whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.
— =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 430w.
“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief
styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school,
and the western, or Gothic.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 260w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable
willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive
opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1230w.
“His book is crowded with illustrations, yet there is not one too
many.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 110w.
“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical
definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources
referred to.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1700w.
“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts
of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight
into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 270w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz.,
production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s
work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation,
forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.)
The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and
economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and
strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.
“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement
other books. The translators’ work is well done.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 110w.
“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost
incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Levasseur’s ‘Elements’ is fluent, commonplace, eclectic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to
several good textbooks which already exist in English.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 910w.
“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present
version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave
the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and
well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear
discrimination in dealing with new theories.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Levetus, A. S.= Imperial Vienna. *$5. Lane.
An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to
the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle
implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416),
an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages)
about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but
there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre,
dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the
common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all
there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches,
palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected,
and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in
charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).
“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most
interesting of European capitals.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are
scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and
atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is
so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 369. F. ‘05. 220w.
“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational
in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary
grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and
some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the
most careless proof-reader.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 140. F. 16, ‘05. 710w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.
Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region,
furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who
is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and
shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by
killing seven Indians before her eyes.
* “The book is not compelling in interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous
makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well
developed humor of their own.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western
tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 368. Je. 3, ‘05. 330w.
“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known
‘Wolfville days.’”
— =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and
gun play.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 210w.
“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of
quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he
is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra.
**$6. Putnam.
Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record
the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to
Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute
descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the
natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of
the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description
of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the
city.
* “Many interesting, unique, and valuable features.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 380. D. 1, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.
“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical
geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good
description of the present condition of the country through which the
Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative
is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 450w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 210w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman.
†$1.50. McClurg.
The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts
him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then
makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and
order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota
plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the
situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment
and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear
sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its
ground away.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Studies in religion and literature. *$3.25.
Herder.
“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are:
‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’;
‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s
life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.
“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility
displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But
whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s
work is always interesting and instructive reading.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Partners of the tide.
†$1.50. Barnes.
A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his
parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the
influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some
years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking
schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the
young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business
success.” (Dial.)
“Without being remarkable, the book inspires a hearty liking.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the
narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old
and the rather young.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether
about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 433. Jl. 1, ‘05. 630w.
“Honest fun and oddity of character make the tale lively reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.
“A salty story, full of quaint characters with quaint turns of
speech.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.
Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of
available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual
debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency,
choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art
of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas
debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at
Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by
Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the
campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of
Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).= Good form for
men. **$1. Winston.
The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct
and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough
to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of
established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in
treatment.
“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has
appeared in America.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 553. N. ‘05. 180w.
“What he says as a rule is to the point and unexaggerated.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 70w.
“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints
that should be helpful.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 940w.
* Liquor problem, **$1. Houghton.
“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of
the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time
through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes
embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of
considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was
occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one
with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.
* “For the general reader this little book is the most important
treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 150w.
* “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any
reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp
criticism made upon the work of the committee.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 871. O. 12, ‘05. 880w.
* “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the
investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real
conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small
compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers
contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 310w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 160w.
=Litsey, Edwin Carlile.= Race of the swift. †$1.25. Little.
Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their
trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run
of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the
story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white
but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a
gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old
raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic
tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope
depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated
by Charles L. Bull.
* “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of
them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly
and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and
without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“These seven tales ... are unusually interesting reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 300w.
=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.
“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the
world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full
experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically
and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is
especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with
unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and
Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various
approaches to that land.”—Spec.
“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere
original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are
vivified by their connexion with human history.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 361. S. 16, ‘05. 2400w.
“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some
time.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious
condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a
confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but
a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 1900w.
“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume,
full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an
essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading
public.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 626. O. 26, ‘05. 780w.
“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far
East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an
abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C.
Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 2510w.
“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite
enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with
the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and
people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special
interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 409. S. 23, ‘05. 1720w.
“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a
lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an
accomplished geographer.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 528. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
=Littlefield, Walter=, tr. See =Noussanne, H. de.= Kaiser as he is.
=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.
“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with
that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own
series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier
sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have
the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of
those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is
all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 775. Je. 24. 1590w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 264. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make
this section complete.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 604. N. 4. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work
commend itself to those who have to do with books.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 622. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
* “The value of the work will increase.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 843. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 947. Je. 24, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is nothing very remarkable in this portion.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of
Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, †$1. Scribner.
A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs,
her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real
estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled
Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in
the story, which overflows with good humor.
“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is
written by one who knows his ground.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 260w.
“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very
bright reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully
subtle thrusts at modern American society.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 100w.
=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.
A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance
morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his
clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a
Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his
slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the
end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.
“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his
admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an
essential—vitality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 664. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in
the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth.
Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a
peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 107. Jl. ‘05. 430w.
“It is clever throughout, despite the sentimentalism.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13. 280w.
“It is a refreshingly whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 364. Je. ‘05. 670w.
“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being
rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals
most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 820w.
=Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 60w.
“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out
with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 710w.
“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant,
and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well
written.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 812. Je. 17, ‘05. 510w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Robert Burns. *60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume
contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has
been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and
readers.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Sir Walter Scott. *60c. McClurg.
The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly
edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the
“Library of standard biographies.”
=Lodge, George Cabot.= Cain: a drama. **$1. Houghton.
A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic
defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion.
The fire and love of liberty, the pride
Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by
spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly
becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”
“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is
sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 740w.
“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with
smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He
has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression
of reversed dynamics.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due
abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise.
There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward
attention.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story
of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus
daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is
the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly
formalist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine
specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There
is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded
boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival
“the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism,
both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.
“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter
of style.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 809. Ag. 5, ‘05. 300w.
“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too
loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer
street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 138. Jl. 29. 300w.
“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the
present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”
+ + + =Bookm.= 22:35. S. ‘05. 620w.
“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the
dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”
— — =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element
and outside of the verities.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.
“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality,
and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has
led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion
of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
=London, Jack.= The sea wolf. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish,
but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of
hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the
captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a
creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the
hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle
between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last
product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather
more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between
the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds
our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf
Larsen.”—R. of Rs.
“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but
we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and
brutality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 310w.
“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an
American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though
powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a
novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C.
Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 452. Ap. ‘05. 610w.
“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of
character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a
narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological
study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned
to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its
telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.”
W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Outline of plot).
“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale,
yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with
a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 39. Ja. 5, ‘05. 820w.
“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power.
Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into
literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a
hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the
cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr.
London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for
babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would
ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before
him.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 378. F. ‘05. 600w.
“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr.
London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification
of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of
their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and
strength.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 500w.
=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into
them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse
nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish
patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty
of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The
stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but
dramatically.”—Outlook.
“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others
as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
* “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its
heroism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show
first-hand work.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 140w.
=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class
struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A
review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a
socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to
“enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.
“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and
pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is
scarcely a safe guide.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and
cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War
of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the
sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.”
Robert C. Brooks.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 61. S. ‘05. 1990w.
“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in
these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in
the text have not been more carefully edited.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1190. My. 25, ‘05. 140w.
* “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his
characteristically forcible and striking style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 550w.
“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need
statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read
this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of
conditions or its proposals for remedies.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 520w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 390w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Loney, S. L.= Elements of trigonometry; with answers. *90c. Macmillan.
This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane
trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.
“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher
compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other
text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call
for special mention.”
+ =Nature.= 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories, †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which
gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer
and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The
siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who,
at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The
remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;”
“Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.
* “His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 686. N. 18. 280w.
* “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack
of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent
them from being wholly bad.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety
seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and
he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it
sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. †$2.50. Lippincott.
A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins,
Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various
full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the
interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from
England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new
and subtle charm.
* “In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his
well-known style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his
heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed,
tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his
farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s
reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart.
Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while
old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into
the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the
end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.
* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the
far north. *$1.50. Ginn.
“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of
Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children
home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that
caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going
out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family,
that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and
leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar
bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild,
unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence
and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr.
Long has made so popular.”—Ind.
* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for
children attain.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or
intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid
descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord
this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.
“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the
reasonableness of his inferences.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.
* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories
are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the
Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
Long day. See =Richardson, Dorothy.=
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a
return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.
A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon
and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn
in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book,
stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.
* + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w.
“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a
time.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep
the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after
the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in
Minerva.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w.
* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and
it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis
offers. They are surely worth a reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w.
“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the
subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in
America. $1.50. Buck.
“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the
prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and
material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the
argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first
of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the
country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of
disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and,
thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts
himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and
thinking.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat
objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of
the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is
much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w.
“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w.
“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a
potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w.
“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and
in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable
book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w.
“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows
have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and
the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner
of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for
the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w.
“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.
=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller, *$2.50. Revell.
A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco,
Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor,
Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is
given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps
and pictures.
“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not
been done by a classical expert.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w.
“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in
others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and
misprints.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries
bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what
elsewhere must be picked out of several.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w.
=Loring, Andrew.= Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George
Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.
“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and
Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented
vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the
letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has
fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the
divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes
key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.
“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger
still without being any better.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.
“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but
truly scientific.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“This may be a very useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=Loring, J. Alden.= Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring,
Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.
“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently
effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the
tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself
is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily
managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* =Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)= Ben Pepper.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The
hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy.
Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand,
Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks,
and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or
enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the
features of the story.”—Outlook.
* “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper
family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Lott, Noah, pseud.= See =Hobart, George Vere.=
* =Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.
A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author
has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying
and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of
the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to
arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals
about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox,
mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and
others.
=Lovett, W. J.= Complete class book of naval architecture; practical,
laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full,
worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions.
*$2.50. Longmans.
“This work is intended primarily for British students attending
technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture,
theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.
“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited,
and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except
elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.
+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w.
=Low, Berthe Julienne.= French home cooking. **$1.20. McClure.
The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country
twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants,
hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed
their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal
dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple
and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which
I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is
called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the
very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks
by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their
cookery.
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w.
“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be
invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
=Low, Sidney.= The governance of England. *$2.25. Putnam.
“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the
government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the
British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained
by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low
gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the
prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses
of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in
Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord
Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is
declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and
especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)
“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual
excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to
whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has
given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much
interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally
available, he has mastered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w.
“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is
easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion
that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w.
“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but,
in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is
superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w.
“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived
and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first
reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional
drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere
hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional
slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence
of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of
the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book
is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent
comparisons instituted between the English and American political
systems.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w.
“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and
comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly
complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* =Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson=, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous
pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous
pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie
Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.
“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor
writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture
under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and
sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into
verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures
and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these
certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that
are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many
of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante,
Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.”
(Ind.)
* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’
is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the
arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* =Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of
the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.
“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish
colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals
with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its
predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An
interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal
organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The
work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and
critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.
* “Scholarly work.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as
embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the
vexed themes involved.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and
citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his
book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of
distinct value to the historical student.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
=Lowrie, Rev. Walter.= Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon
the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.
Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice,
confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is
designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services,
and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.
=Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* =Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe
Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews,
Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who
is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia
and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous
style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the
relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame
Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the
religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the
co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity
of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths,
she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.
* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little
of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will
not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the
ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness
of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives
of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Lucas, Abner H.= Call of to-day. *50c. Meth. bk.
Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair,
N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The
commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of
usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.
Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith,
Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others
have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful
volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.
“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such
collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be
something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life
to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries....
At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his
own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period
in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb
between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of
these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin
Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips,
Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of
the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and
artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived....
For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb
the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two
volumes.”—Lond. Times.
* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something
like over-confidence in his minute research.”
+ + — =Acad.= 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w.
* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from
the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively
image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features
of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s
contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from
travesty.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w.
* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of
‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the
editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of
Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote,
much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely
fresh.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w.
* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of
entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to
overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is
the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which
ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w.
* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so
generously told the story of both lives in the language of his
subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W.
Mabie.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the
essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast
compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not
thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and
indexed in a masterly manner.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w.
* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly
delightful writer and admirable man.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as
illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to
intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr.
Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a
more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not
only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of
our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.
“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or
Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the
travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume
should have a warm welcome.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.
“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this
charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland
voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like
sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.
* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his
untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to
one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one
would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if
one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.
“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description
for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original
qualities.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.
“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor
dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise
reflection.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.
“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art
that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
=Luccock, Rev. Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c.
Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which
apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the
titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a
surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The
gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The
song of Moses and of the Lamb.
=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by
H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered
idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities
of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They
sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic
serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the
False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of
the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the
‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth
volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to
classical biography and mythology.
* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a
work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some
daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is
secured.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s
‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.
“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of
their translations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.
“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors
are to be thanked.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity
reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned
not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive,
of ancient authors.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.
=Lucke, Charles Edward.= Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.
“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with
rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses
on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder
arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The
necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with
both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.
“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.”
Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.
=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish
to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a
foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count
Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his
attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era
of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of
lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now
famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof,
Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely
the results of the most recent research on technical points in
conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of
Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing
characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and
succinct English. Excellent book.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the
style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a
compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest
added.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.
=Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn.= Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of
Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was
big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of
the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he
served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to
St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is
compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his
friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in
regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that
have been going on during the last thirty years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.
“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even
the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really
great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.”
Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.
=Ind.= 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.
* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by
delicacy of perception.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.
“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also
in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes,
dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained
throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a
work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct
value to the historical student, and of interest to the general
reader.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to
tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.
=Lydston, G. Frank.= Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal,
the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers
are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the
oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and
labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The
book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It
is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many
blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the
book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in
hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social
problems.” C. Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his
inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times
crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the
subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises
and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of
craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains
here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither
sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the
student. Nor is the style attractive.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical
standpoint.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.
=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering
Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who,
refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their
services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian,
Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the
exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon
on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of
thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from
intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial
courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a
shut-away Missouri farm.
* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of
absorbing it.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which,
far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s
style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.
“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a
new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.
“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the
book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.
“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no
doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and
power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.
* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast
importance and fairly accurate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes.
$1.25. Amsterdam.
The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman,
lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the
Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a
biography.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a
good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has
indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary
of dates.”
+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.
=Lynch, Frederick.= Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.
A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort
showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is
but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life
eternal.
=Lytton, Lord Bulwer-.= Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed
on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather,
and contains a frontispiece of the author.
M
=Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz).= My poor
relations. †$1.50. Appleton.
Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where
the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother”
Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love
of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,”
“The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all
horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost
too real.
“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”
— =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to
tragedy.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will
undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so
uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly
to that master’s best.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Fairy tales every child should know. **90c.
Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various
countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of
today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali
Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red
riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack
and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not
state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics
was written.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright,= ed. Myths every child should know: a
selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c.
Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It
collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen
myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the
young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’
furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr.
Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from
Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’
are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.
* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before
a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
* + — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too
difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time
misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl,
Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to
white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career
and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is
negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the
uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the
negro question.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy
washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the
wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town
inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make
the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A
change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two
Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and
sentiment.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron.= Essays; ed. by Lady
Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the
essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister.
There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and
portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay
as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to
put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey,
yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to
compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an
easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up
small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the
requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it
possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall
a better edition than this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.
=Macbean, L., and Brown, John.= Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here
reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters
hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including
pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious
possession.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of
her.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Dial.= 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.
=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has
been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American
minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of
the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty;
and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young
Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her
father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful
sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the
keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the
tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the
year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more
intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual
concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the
gods.’”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but
the end is disappointing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.
“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully
comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the
Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is
interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent
fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of
its conclusion.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40.
Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by
Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken
together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is
rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the
important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest
of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and
value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a
man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib,
fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching
study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of
those great movements which they have generated.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality
of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent
reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later
English politics.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Dial.= 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us
anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy
writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the
essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully
be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly
readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry,
tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism
to say that he has not written a weighty history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)
“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes
affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness
of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of
recent events.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of
reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed
enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The
English is slovenly.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* + — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.
An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work,
his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902),
covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up
of the Nationalist party.
“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be
compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political
environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every
Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure
claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr.
Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual
documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and
anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.
“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled
near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a
dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed.
There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles,
enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the
interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.
“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy
has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled
it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has
not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”
— =Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the
supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
+ — =Ind.= 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.
“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an
impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather
pleasing piece of make-believe.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry
whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of
this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the
silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.
“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his
descriptions of the forest.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.
“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby
as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her
admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of
wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.
=Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping,
happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.
“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at
historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite
refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating
story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=McCaul, Ethel.= Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50.
Cassell.
An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect
the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is
given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical
of the land and the people.
“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a
tonic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume
under review cannot be questioned.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are
overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.
“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much
that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
=McClain, Emlin.= Constitutional law in the United States. *$2.
Longmans.
“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the
“American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical
bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together
furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt
with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ...
first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the
government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature
and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial
branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the
relations of the states to each other and to the federal government.
The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the
government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with
assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in
many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of
containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical
references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a
fairly satisfactory index.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.
“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for
classes of civics or history in our schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail,
and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of
topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the
whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a
considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=McClellan, Elizabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an
introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in
Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by
Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of
the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth
century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles,
commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations
being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic
sources.”—Reader.
“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at
completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its
greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of
regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more
frequent.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.
“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of
the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on
the subject.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.
* “A valuable book of reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been
offered.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Our presidents and how we make them. $2.
Harper.
The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to
date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a
narrative of its various conventions.
“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of
American national politics, and only here and there does the author
make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.
“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and
to the point.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w.
“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.= Senator: a threnody. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend.
It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes;
Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.
“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic
experience.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= Fair land Tyrol. **$1.60. Page.
An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled
beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and
innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The
traveller is shown where to find interesting sights and scenes and is
given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of
the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.
“The book is readable and interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — =Ath. 1905=, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w.
“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European
districts.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country,
the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an
intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the
country.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w.
“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and
not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the
Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following
Mr. McCracken as a guide.”
— + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes
slipshod.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w.
=McCracken, Elizabeth.= Women of America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as
she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States,
Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional
woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.
“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the
fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the
seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of
discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating
anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O.
H. D.
— — =Critic.= 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise,
illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a
serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is
a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful
canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them
well.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w.
“The book has far too wide a title.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w.
“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the
fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of
their occupations.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w.
“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader
has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50.
Dodd.
The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the
Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister,
forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing
extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero
stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he
has rescued by mistake.
“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring,
delightful and a little absurd.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for
critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than
‘beneath it.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well
fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Purple parasol;
with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25.
Dodd.
The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is
shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce
case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a
romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and
beautiful girl.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“A slight and rather foolish story.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=McCutcheon, John Tinney.= Mysterious stranger and other cartoons.
*$1.50. McClure.
Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the
past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume.
The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent
interest because of the great historical importance of the period they
encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to
genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and
glad-hander, and satires of child life.
* “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than
the pages of a daily newspaper.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious
sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the
whole we find the collection rather dreary.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w.
=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and
the Congo. *$6. Cassell.
The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the
origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State,
and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges
made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).
“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we
could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w.
=Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w.
“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt
into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated
special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as
a record it may possess.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=McDougall, W.= Physiological psychology. *40c. Macmillan.
This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the
elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to
date.”—Acad.
“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the
little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
* =McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75.
Armstrong.
“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results
in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive
assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will
get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of
criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been
arrived at.”—Acad.
* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully
brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the
several books.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical,
exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old
Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50.
Putnam.
“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he
was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as
the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples
misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still
misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a
Congregational minister.
“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on
Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this
newer treatise.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old
Testament prophecy.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right
and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent
specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of
religious values.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
=Macfarlane, Isabella.= Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25.
Dillingham.
A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and
widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other,
loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate.
Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son
attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft.
Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters
and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor
Maximilian, all ends happily.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Macfarlane, Walter.= Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a
graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.
“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for
beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It
consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp
of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of
developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to
furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys
follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which
the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from
their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few
elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the
analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w.
“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and
can be recommended for their use.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Return: a story of the sea
islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.
In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of
colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of
Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall
figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly
jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and
how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and
upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)
“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic
novels of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w.
* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have
actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w.
“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w.
“A capital tale of love and adventure.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w.
“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well
done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with
characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as
well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The
characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the
whole picture excellently drawn.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w.
“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of
picturesqueness enters more effectively.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Enchantment. †75c. Bobbs.
A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel
situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the
lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the
golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper,
“Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The
enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.
“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and
entertainment.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
* =MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal
participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are
mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the
innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up,
furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.
* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the
first page to the last.”
+ =Dial.= 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure
enough to last a lifetime.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Princess elopes. †75c. Bobbs.
The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap
Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable
marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American
consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the
princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn.
That she finds the young American with her on this journey is
certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long
lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are
facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.
“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly
real.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture,
to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture.
*$1.50. Bureau of University travel.
“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the
word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and
forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman
sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded
by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when
known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved,
and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.
“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He
states his conclusions boldly and independently.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.
“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we
cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as
wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the
university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great
service to the student.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w.
=McIvor, Allan, pseud.= Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.
This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of
the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the
“Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat
“Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal
ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States
railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids
him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands
when England is finally defeated.
“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in
the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w.
“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast
number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing
of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot).
=Mackaye, Harold Steele.= Winged helmet. †$1.50. Page.
France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling
against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and
adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid
who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into
quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady
are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of
Ravelle.
“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of
the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned,
does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot
carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w.
“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes
are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is
unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual
narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with
his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the
betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that
Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate
and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the
conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes
before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in
prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.
+ =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w.
“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and
thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study
his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or
that we might see it acted.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely
because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a
poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be
nothing but admiration.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Vortex. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist
husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get
possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil
Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece
Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations
to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply
designing nature.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in
expression, and quite unnecessary.”
— — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great
charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an
English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, after
which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography
and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general
index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative
to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.
“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something
better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as
a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry
Lewis Cannon.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w.
“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest
critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the
requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well
planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of
Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w.
* “Very readable book.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna
Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility
in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet
reasonableness.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w.
“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of
Richard Thompson.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w.
“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a
text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit.
Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated
question.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.
“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond
criticism or revision.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w.
=McKibben, Julia Baldwin.= Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.
Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an
old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and
educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood.
After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover
and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored
daughter in the home where she was once a slave.
* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to
fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Mackie, Pauline Bradford.= Girl and the kaiser. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love
story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no
real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in
America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland,
and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval
officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she
learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and
navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is
where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a
fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the
sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.
“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a
great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English
colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or
developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has
not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in
the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the
colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”
“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with
Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground
seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The
immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of
its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the
organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for
the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w.
=McKinley, Charles E.= Educational evangelism: the religious discipline
for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of
boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay,
which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as
to how the church may meet them.
“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what
the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit
and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an
original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.
“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of
thoughtful consideration.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w.
=McKinley, William.= Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.
“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of
Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways
and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative
and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most
attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing
with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my
honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the
events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as
possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of
the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures
actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend
and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this
economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully
justify its being put into book form.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w.
=McLain, John Scudder.= Alaska and the Klondike. **$2. McClure.
The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a
special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska
in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper
discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These
articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical
information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.
“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be
believable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w.
“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its
class that has appeared up to the present time.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w.
“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an
authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations,
resources, and problems.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w.
“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are
mostly of slight importance.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the
claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and
trustworthiness of a public document.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w.
“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of
the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably
the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information
derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the
treatment is adequate.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w.
“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is
broadly comprehensive.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=McMahon, Anna Benneson=, ed. See =Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=
=McManus, Thomas J. Luke.= Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.
The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he
witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections
of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded
mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to
conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures
comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young
lawyer and others figure.
“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of
pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
=Macphail, Andrew.= Essays in Puritanism. **$1.50. Houghton.
Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman
and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written
a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual
types than of Puritanism.
“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism
a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive
side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an
impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w.
“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also
sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing
with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his
style, is journalistic.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with
which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the
past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real
greatness of the men whom he describes.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w.
=Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden.= Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50.
Scribner.
“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent
observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria....
The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by
describing their physical characteristics and relating their
conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the
characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w.
* “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many
tastes.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.
“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of
being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the
fifty original illustrations.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting
anecdotes.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w.
“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most
interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them
alone.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside
tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative
style.” Walter Littlefield.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w.
=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3.
per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.
“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’
comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660
to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch
designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which
the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked
another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired
by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced
taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and
sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but
to art students interested in wood-carving.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.)
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts.
1-2.)
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I,
pts. 1-3.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1.
pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.)
* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said
concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is
absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts.
6 and 7.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume
classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.
“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the
‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan
knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’
‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and
‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.
* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music
lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a
capital little book.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =McVickar, Henry Whitney.= Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years
after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that
they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an
American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young
cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was
prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young
Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take
the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N.
Y. Times.
* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which
frequently leaves something to be desired.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
=Macy, Jesse.= Party organization and machinery. *$1.25. Century.
Party organization is described in its relation to presidential,
congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party
development pathologically rather than historically from its real
beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county
organization, up through state, congressional, and national
committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and
the differing party management in various states are fully treated.
“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of
great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings
home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as
a fact.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of
presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w.
“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the
books available to the student of political science. There seems to be
nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party
methods or management could possibly wish to know.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w.
“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and
explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips
liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is
of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his
work.”
+ — =Outlook.= 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w.
=Madison, James.= Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs.
*$5. Putnam.
“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s
notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the
date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries
us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters
printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed
before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections
of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one
from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest
written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now
in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the
Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches
in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as
great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin
Jameson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much
care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty
proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and
judicious.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w.
* =Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door
studies. **$1.20. Dodd.
“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls,
and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an
air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M.
Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct
personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications
are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they
express.”—Dial.
* “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the
tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment
which have given all his books subtle individuality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w.
=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Prince of lovers. †$1.50. Little.
A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the
midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the
Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states
existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be
betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir
disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s
court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne
in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and
comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an
unscrupulous villain add to the plot.
“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”
— =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Ath. 1905,= 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w.
“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not
cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time,
that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w.
=Magnus, Hugo.= Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius
L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.
A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have
prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the
days of ancient Rome to the present time.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire.
$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and
brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only
the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of
Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general
views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits.
He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the
influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.
“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which
cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too
exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of
those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably
from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting
nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr.
Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a
compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w.
“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very
clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any
save finished scholars.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812.
2v. **$7. Little.
The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the
influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most
important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War
of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from
government and private documents, has treated with special clearness
the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given
emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the
train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great
Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.
“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in
all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The
vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill
and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and
the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w.
* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best
we know of anywhere.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w.
* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of
1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a
substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a
suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
=Mahler, Arthur.= Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in
collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.
“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art
gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the
early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the
part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez
and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these
artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and
others.”—N. Y. Times.
“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too
indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they
represent the originals.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w.
* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being
repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which
they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen,
Fry, and others.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be
relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely
commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious
avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish
paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity,
intelligence.” L. L.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.
* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this
commentary are quite readable.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w.
* =Maitland, John Alexander Fuller.= Joseph Joachim. *$1. Lane.
This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some
sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with
Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions,
each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner....
Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space
found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and
influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one,
is well summed up.”—Acad.
* “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
=Maitland, J. A. Fuller=, ed. See =Grove, George.=
=Major, Charles.= Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. * †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat
upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the
bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the
country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was
the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his
own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and
adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy
and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always
through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a
beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a very good story of its kind.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he
attempts ‘Yolande.’”
— =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Malcolm, Napier.= Five years in a Persian town. *$3. Dutton.
“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of
Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in
missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all
sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he
says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of
that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners
which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as
it is rare.”—Ath.
“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the
sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this
respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he
does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an
incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.
“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of
things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the
attractiveness of the volume.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.
“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at
some Persian characteristics.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.
“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive
account of Persian life.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief.
**$1.75. Harper.
“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either
‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or
in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr.
Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it
inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an
intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and
religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.
* “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The
attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the
cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure
scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book
is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the
case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable,
particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w.
* “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good
novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to
the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a
complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more
successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w.
* “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the
considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than
in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his
concluding book.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w.
* “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it
derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific
views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly
written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading
leaves something to be desired.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious
apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered
long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to
logical issue.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w.
=Mann, Henry.= Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.
“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to
the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other
fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has
brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story,
tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the
protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the
Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their
class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family
progresses.
“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to
take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows
the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial
basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and
as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed
and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less
good for incipient anarchists.”
(Outline of plan).
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving
of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances
and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to
action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse
side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel
rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than
broaden the thoughtless.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Mann, Hugh.= Bound and Free: two dramas. *50c. Badger, R: G.
An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the
family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas
which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief
characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as
the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love
but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will
consider this book immoral.
* =Mannix, Mary Ella.= Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.
A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home
in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the
experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last
summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot
Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to
sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the
missions played in it.
=Manzoni, Alessandro.= Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic
ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham.
*$3. Oxford.
The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The
Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait
of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical
introductions and critical notes.
“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the
original, one can recognize that he has given an equivalent for many
of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have
evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical
opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“We have nothing with this rendering.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
* =Mar, Alice=, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by
Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.
The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and
occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in
picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Books in their seasons. **30c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume
pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests
some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further
choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting
to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.
=Marchmont, Arthur William.= Courier of fortune. †$1.50. Stokes.
“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly,
viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the
ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son
Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a
remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young
man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de
Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in
plenty.”—Pub. Opin.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.
The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will
undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in
selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations
which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental
influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental
and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part
second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and
helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them
success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and
professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated
with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.
* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Making of a man. †$1.25. Lothrop.
“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous
books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks
especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are
cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes
are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of
opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to
perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success,
‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry,
thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 400w.
* “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35.
Putnam.
This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives
first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time
when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists
largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns
with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth
traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was
equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 510w.
“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the
prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development,
and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no
uncertain value.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 230w.
* =Marks, G. Croyden.= Hydraulic power engineering. *$3.50. Van
Nostrand.
In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the
purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with
hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing
illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been
fully revised.
=Marriott, Charles.= Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.
This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl
of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a
Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around
her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a
number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the
story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the
slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems
sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her
publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is
a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some
good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn
with pathetic humor.
“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it
easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character
contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts
in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them
to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the
possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his
previous book notable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= House of Merrilees. †$1.50. Turner.
A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly,
his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted
into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years
before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A
young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and
discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is
also a love interest.
“Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his
novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention
and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at
the finish.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 198. Mr. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically
concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of
pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its
inevitableness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 555. My. 6, 180w.
* “It all makes exciting reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.
* “Is surprisingly good reading.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and
possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 260w.
“The book will while away an unoccupied hour very pleasantly.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
=Marshall, Beatrice.= Queen’s knight errant. †$1.50. Dutton.
A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl
is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named
Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her
up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be
Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love
affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of
the queen.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“Too high-flown in style to suit the present taste.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 20w.
* =Marsland, Frank.= Occupations in life; a fund of practical
information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E.
Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.
The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company,
draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering
business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early
selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting
interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of
conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
=Martin, Edward Sanford.= Courtship of a careful man. †$1.25. Harper.
“A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar
quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background
of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among
different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit
a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.
“In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is
his wont, but as always, excellent company.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 240w.
* “Clever and disappointing book.” Frances Duncan.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 454. N. ‘05. 260w.
“Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but
we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 470w.
“The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and
easy and attractive reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as
alluring.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert.= Homer Martin; a reminiscence. *$1.50.
W: Macbeth, N. Y.
This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of
the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put
his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It
is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known
paintings.
“In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there
might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for
flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 550. Ja. ‘05. 150w.
“This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done,
Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Martin, Helen Reimensnyder.= Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25.
Century.
Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of
strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of
impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her
home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him.
Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation
for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her
people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the
Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 644. S. 30, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although
there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second
book does not equal the first.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 130w.
=Martin, Hiram=, ed. See =Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters
and travels of.
=Martindell, Mrs. Charlotte S.= Diary of a bride. **$1. Crowell.
“If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted
ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate
dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and
dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish
in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.
=Martineau, James.= Tides of the Spirit. *$1. Am. Unitar.
“Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited
by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic
introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the
spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the
human.’”—Dial.
=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 60w.
=Marvin, Frederic Rowland.= Companionship of books, and other papers.
**$1.50. Putnam.
The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many
subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s
life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s
chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on
autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles,
which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters
historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and
the brevity of their treatment make the book one which may be
profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.
* “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a
number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous
mass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 917. D. 23, ‘05. 300w.
* Mary the queen. 50c. Benziger.
A story of the virgin Mary for little people.
=Maskell, Alfred.= Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.
A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces
his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the
achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the
high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and
Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of
carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and
present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful
illustrations in photogravure and half tone.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 247. Ag. 19. 1540w.
“The first compendious account in any language of the progress of
ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of
excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as
the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick
W. Goodkin.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 239. O. 16, ‘05. 1750w.
“The present volume will be found satisfactory and very
comprehensive.”
+ + =Ind.= 59:696. S. 21, ‘05. 240w.
“If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further
he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps
have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 284. S. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still
remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display
of pictures.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1070w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
“In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information,
Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations
on the significance of the various epochs.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
“One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in
which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and
arrangement is to be found throughout.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
=Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley.= Truants. $1.50. Harper.
An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young
married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the
husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets
forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins
the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home
by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches
of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela
Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby
find their own happiness.
“There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a
very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the
Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special
study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“He writes in a prosaic manner of the most romantic passions.”
— =Ind.= 59: 216. Jl. 27, ‘05. 80w.
“‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that
the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s
style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to
be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 420w.
“Sure to awaken the reader’s interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=Mason, Arthur James.= Historic martyrs of the primitive church. *$3.20.
Longmans.
The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon
as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the
stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of
Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such
explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he
has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of
genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has
accomplished a most interesting task.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 653. My. 27. 460w.
“Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and
scholarly competence.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 397. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 160w.
“Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief
records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 810. Je. 17, ‘05. 1270w.
“A most valuable contribution to the history of Christian life.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 340w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Beethoven and his forerunners. **$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has
now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been
said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has
felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on
‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music
of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by
biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.”
(Dial.)
“Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as
well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of
sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never
pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and
development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece
of writing than its predecessor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 41. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.
“The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily
remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which
makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or
find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much
that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard
Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 530w.
“One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of
musical development in its relation to the general progress of the
world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The
touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its
greatness.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 110w.
* =Masson, Thomas Lansing (Tom Masson).= Corner in women. **$1.60.
Moffat.
“A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to
periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well
supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and
humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other
pictures.”—Outlook.
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in
both subject and manner of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1383. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 160w.
* “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what
might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many
really funny things.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
* =Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
“Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English
civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to
point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of
the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of
catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate
sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and
evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the
marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his
writing.”—Ath.
* “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s
eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a
good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of
balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style.
His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be
effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and
useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 38. Jl. 8. 1430w.
* “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their
cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a
very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive,
rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s
defects are the defects of his qualities.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 1480w.
* “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and
religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a
striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s
essays.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1260w.
=Matarazzo, Francisco.= Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503,
tr. by Edward S. Morgan. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni,
that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate
complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense
of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in
his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their
strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do
into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as
good as the Italian.”—Nation.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 634. Je. 17, ‘05. 1250w.
* “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably
done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct
charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we
think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be
better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 82: 412. D. ‘05. 530w.
“A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions
of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the
spirit of the original.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“A careful English translation.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 170w.
“In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque
style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Mather, Persis.= Counsels of a worldly godmother. †$1.50. Houghton.
“We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to
the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The
witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a
debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any
undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that
Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the
way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham,
snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed
primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be
followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious
womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.
“No less wise than witty are these ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 550w.
“While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a
lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures
may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and
another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to
Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy
with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest
perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare
and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)
“On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches
are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book
without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 216. Ag. 12. 840w.
“Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or
Mr. Walker painted.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it
interesting to others.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 280w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Billy Duane. †$1.50. Dodd.
A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an
estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue
house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy
objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette
at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making
establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and
numerous friends of their type form the plot, which works out happily,
ending with a reconciliation.
“With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The
book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability
in character-drawing seems to warrant.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 30w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern
and strenuous American writers.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 70w.
“It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is
written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to
read.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Marquise’s millions. **$1. Funk.
An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate,
learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to
bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should
return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an
ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate
the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts
itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life
alone.
* “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause,
light, readable and effective rather than well written.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1033. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“This is a sprightly tale.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 490w.
“An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made
much of.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
“A really delightful story.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Mathews, Shailer.= Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.
“The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion
for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the
messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment
and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the
basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its
forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body;
the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion
there is shown the distinction between the essential and the
formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such
an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.
* “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet
thoro in research.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Is the best monograph on the subject with which we are acquainted.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 982. Ag. 19, ‘05. 620w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 360w.
=Mathot, R. E.= Gas engines and producer gas plants. tr. from the French
by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.
A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and
producer design, the selection and installation of an engine,
conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their
possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a
chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded
in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander=, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum
library of American literature. v. 3.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Recreations of an anthologist. **$1. Dodd.
Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four
anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for
stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in
rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest
feat in modern magic.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“A volume of pleasant literary essays.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“Entertaining little volume.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 600w.
=Matthews, Mary Anderson.= Love vs. law. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who
returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair
Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case,
becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment
her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes
wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress
of her profession.
=Mauclair, Camille.= Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work. $4.
Dutton.
In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for
himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we
are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon
the education of other sculptors.
“Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book,
if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of
genuine interest.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 407. Ap. 1. 1360w.
“A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s
personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its
application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of
sculpture and his methods of work.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 160w.
“M. Mauclair is ... a violent partisan.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 439. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.
“M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know
the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 257. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1630w.
“From its pages a just appreciation of the artist can be gained.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 227. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1340w.
=Maude, Aylmer.= The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.
Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government
which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru
his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a
close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write
such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their
connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and
other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to
Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally
checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the
waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the
favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and
earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of
judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of
universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual
ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his
having helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government
as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.
=Acad.= 68: 608. Je. 10, ‘05. 810w.
“To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as
a pendant.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 103. Jl. 22. 1190w.
“The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the
large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a
conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 460w.
“At last we have a work from which the student of sociological
experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a
fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly
‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or
erroneous has been written.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 1470w. (Abstract of book).
“Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting
study of ‘a peculiar people.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need
of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 635. My. 13, ‘05. 700w.
=Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 560w.
=Maule, Francis I.= Only letters. **$1. Jacobs.
“In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay
record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his
brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read
on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there
between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.
“He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and
a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle
exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
=Maurer, Edward R.= Technical mechanics. $4. Wiley.
“The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the
beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the
conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the
need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be
mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the
qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and
analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and
energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of
units.”—Science.
“As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of
engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The
exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is
rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1300w.
=Maxwell, Donald.= Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the
Alps to the Thames. **$2.50. Lane.
The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps,
and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the
East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a
steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the
unique cruise.
“An agreeable novelty in the well-worn ways of European travel.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends
itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect
the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures
cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“Capital reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Condensed narrative.)
=Maxwell, Joseph.= Metapsychical phenomena, tr. by J. I. Finch. $3.50.
Putnam.
The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given
chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There
is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver
Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet,
and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.
“One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his
honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that
his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not
seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 898. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 693. Je. 3. 1570w.
“It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is
eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many
disfiguring gallicisms.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 285. O. 5, ‘05. 780w.
“Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.”
Pendennis.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 429. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1200w.
“Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty
addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason
of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and
experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards
the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is
unquestionably very high.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 249. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1220w.
— =Spec.= 95: 496. O. 7, ‘05. 2230w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Ragged messenger. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for
the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the
street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all
of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices.
The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.
“The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and
development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the
book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking
to himself.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 300w.
“As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something
more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable,
the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London
setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of
these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired.
But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books
and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one
may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one
somewhat daringly planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing
eye.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
“A powerful story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Vivien. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine....
The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain
being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life
when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom....
At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke
repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to
possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently
only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.
“Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct
for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for
rendering that humour effective.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 856. Ag. 19, ‘05. 890w.
“The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last
we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 640w.
“In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of
characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even
in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour;
he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention
through a very long and unevenly handled story.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 340w.
“Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense
in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 1160w.
“A novel of more than usual interest and strength.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an
emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a
fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective
characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of
life.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 378. S. 16, ‘05. 410w.
“The book is fluently written, and judged by its own standard, is
clever.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.
=Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler).= Mrs. Maybrick’s own story.
**$1.20. Funk.
The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for
the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the
fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The
recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal
digest of the case is appended.
“Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true.
To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of
value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while
avoiding.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =New England Magazine,= n.s. 31: 622. Ja. ‘05. 5830w.
(Condensed narrative of book.)
“There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of
British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of
appeals in criminal cases.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
=Meeker, Royal.= History of shipping subsidies. *$1. Published for the
American economic association by the Macmillan co.
Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under the
sub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary;
Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the
Theory of subsidies and is divided into: Theoretical arguments;
Popular arguments for subsidy; Political arguments for subsidy; and
Ethical considerations. There is also a bibliography and an index.
=Meigs, William Montgomery.= Life of Thomas H. Benton. **$2. Lippincott.
A life of a distinguished statesman of the middle period by one who
has made a thoro study of his career. The biography contains accounts
of the many historical events with which the great Missourian was
connected, such as the admission of his state into the Union, and the
election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. His service as United
States senator, his love of the Union, and his personal influence upon
the Democrats of his state are dwelt upon.
“A readable account of the Missourian’s career.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 20w.
“Meigs appeals to the student by a more judicial and critical
attitude. There is hardly an overstatement or a serious error to be
found.” W. H. Mace.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.
“This must be reckoned the most complete and authoritative biography
of Benton.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The author has consulted most of the available authorities on Benton,
and has gathered much material from hitherto unknown sources. The work
is the best life of Benton yet produced.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“It is a highly praiseworthy study of the great Missourian, sincere,
thorough and judicial.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 170w.
“Lacking in dramatic arrangement and wanting in painstaking accuracy
of statement.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Meigs’s narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in
anecdote and illustration. It gives an unusually clear and
comprehensive survey of a signally useful and pure-minded man.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 640w.
“There was distinctly room for a one-volume biography of Senator
Benton. [Mr. Roosevelt’s biography in the American statesmen series]
gives a picture of Benton superior to any which can be found in Mr.
Meigs’s book. The greatest praise that we can award the latter is to
say that it is the result of painstaking and laborious investigation
and it will be of considerable value to students of history. The
material, unfortunately, is put together with very little literary
skill, and the style is certainly not such as to attract the general
reading public. It is highly regrettable that Mr. Meigs cannot make us
take the interest in the character of his picturesque subject which he
tells he himself feels.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 1080w.
“More ambitious in scope than successful in accomplishment.
Altogether, we have read the work with distinct feelings of
disappointment, the disappointment being heightened by the reflection
that the author has undoubtedly grasped Benton’s historical
importance, and that had he but bestowed on the execution of his task
the care evident in gathering of materials, he would have given us a
biography well worth while.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.
=Meili, Frederick.= International civil and commercial law as founded
upon theory, legislation and practice, tr. by A. R. Kuhn. **$3.
Macmillan.
“The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international
conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part
suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with
international private law as distinguished from international public
law, and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this
branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated
the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and
English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies
complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole
field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not
the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from
few.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w.
“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make
it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large
legal topics in a scientific manner.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of
comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
“A very handy and valuable legal work.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Mellor, J. W.= Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to
the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.
“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short
and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the
engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of
the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of
what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in
general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and
steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due
preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.
“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr.
Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to
award it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w.
* “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book.
Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed
conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book
as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small
space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which
latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the
introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal
weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best
popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w.
“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is
described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident
lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will
permit.” A. McWilliam.
— + =Nature.= 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w.
=Melville, Lewis.= Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those
localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted
with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with
Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their
neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European
continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places
that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels.
Biographical information is also supplied connected with the
novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the
age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty
full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W.
Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed
it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected
short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large
portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject.
It is a poor production.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w.
“He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the
more, the better he knows the author.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.
=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.
“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr.
Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color
box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear
each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some
seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern
France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.
“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the
reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w.
“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of
seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point
of view.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w.
=Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats).= Wing of love. †$1.
McClure.
“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her
staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the
top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other
bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested,
the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart
being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop
very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.
“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of
making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has
lost much of its charm.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Merington, Marguerite.= Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.
A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of
the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the
dramatization.
* “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w.
“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs.
Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w.
=Merriman, Charles Eustace.= Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her
son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. †$1.50.
Putnam.
“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his
wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on
the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and
folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy
in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly
illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic
experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N.
Y. Times.
“Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”
— =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w.
“A cup of cambric tea is this book.”
— =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only
perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his
epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w.
“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this
book are positively depressing.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a
worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that
strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w.
=Merriman, Mansfield.= Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.
A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which
“deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic
properties of materials of construction and the application of the
laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and
structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.
* “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The
first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of
terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing
at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations,
giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later
still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w.
=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roof
and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.
“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book,
published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a
revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the
live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes
treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses.
The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges....
Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and
plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final
chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other
miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the
extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable
truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* =Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.
Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this
story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after
the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well
drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black
fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their
secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic
scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.
* =Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and
to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a
feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young
engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts
his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies,
natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but
he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.
* “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the
book is true to life.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is
an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that
is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own
growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every
other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=Metcalf, Maynard Mayo.= Outline of the theory of organic evolution.
*$2.50. Macmillan.
A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s
college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a
technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the
biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader.
It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals
with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.
“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the
subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking
reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it
aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It
is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in
America.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of
organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the
general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of
Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth
of clear and very well selected illustrations.”
+ + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the
clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented;
second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous
popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well
illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book
as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the
important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of
evolution.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
“The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is
far better than the least technical books on evolution previously
published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical
books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to
write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same
field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer
recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in
its non-technical bearings.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution
that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is
its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for
criticism.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the
French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public
with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass
together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their
toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and
microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection.
This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular
plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired.
The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of
experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity
always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective
activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably
unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic
activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w.
* “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a
purely practical point of view.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w.
* “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason
why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very
clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton.= Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional
commentary. *$1. Union press.
The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored
honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but
pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the
commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the
margin of each page.
* =Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study
of the experience of the United States, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly
convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or
their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest
Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously
enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the
book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated
railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up
conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.
* + — =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w.
* “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however,
Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is
summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the
railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of
federal legislation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w.
* =Meyrick, Rev. Frederick.= Memories of life at Oxford and experiences
in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.
“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it
throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as
on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and
incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last
fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a
considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university
social life at Oxford.”—Critic.
* “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and
incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt
laboriously through the pages of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it
belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.
* “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the
appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey,
of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in
the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are
more seldom drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w.
=Miall, Louis C.= House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.
This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the
University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth
of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the
cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract
his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an
interested observation of the things around us.
“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical
suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and
thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement
can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these
and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning
whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is
to teach teachers rather than pupils.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w. (Survey of
contents.)
=Michael Angelo Buonarroti.= Sonnets; now first tr. into rhymed English
by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. *$1.25. Scribner.
The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s
sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following
the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the
sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions
over which Buonarroti worked.
— =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings,
which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack
color and lightness of rhythm.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity and
taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Michael, Oscar Stewart.= Sunday-school in the development of the
American church. *$1.50. Young ch.
“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author
is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of
interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within
the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the
value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.
“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school
work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of
Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum=). Andrea, the
tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.
The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose
father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes
her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul
struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when
her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely
death.
“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story,
though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“The story is a classic.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w.
=Michelson, Miriam.= Madigans. †$1.50. Century.
Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very
names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity
that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the
foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in
too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the
rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart
of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty.
It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a
fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are
happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.
“Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w.
“Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the
author. *$2.60. Oxford.
Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which
contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the
author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for
the first time in this collection.
* “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr.
Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more
instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at
communicating it in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.
* “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of
the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in
both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the
phases of feeling expressed.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the
platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way
impressive.”
— =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Fleeing nymph and other verse. **$1. Small.
A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and
nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very
notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use
of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there
is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant
softness.” (Nation.)
+ — =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w.
“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted
with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical
qualities.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this
is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free
from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of
sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w.
“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that
makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his
narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w.
“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the
light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a
corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he
may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into
his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a
real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his
political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by
deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
— =Bookm.= 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his
performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to
consider its details.”
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and
characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous
book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to
its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as
execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”
— =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“A hysterical novel of political corruption.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w.
“Is a masterpiece among political novels.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Miles, Eustace Hamilton.= Boy’s control of self expression. *$2.
Dutton.
“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the
care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and
external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes
with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a
boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about
excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and
diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w.
“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training
of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it
in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the
wheat from the chaff.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
=Millar, A. H.= Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.
In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen
Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward
tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was
warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once
gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the
faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which
suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested
motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar
believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by
Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due
regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is,
in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan
through thick and thin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w.
“Well written volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **30c. Crowell.
This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty
of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish
service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Inner life. *50c. Crowell.
In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if
the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful,
this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for
us will be re-created.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= When the song begins. **65c. Crowell.
Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people
in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more
usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering,
The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly,
Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.
=Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller).= Kristy’s
surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.
“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends
besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which
Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.”
(Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago
fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue
of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic
adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N.
Farnsworth.
* =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle
youth.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w.
* “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Miller, Peyton Farrell.= Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New
York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting
reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van
Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R.
Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief
account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of
New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting
reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Mills, Edmund James.= Secret of Petrarch. *$3. Dutton.
“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has
turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the
lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own
theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some
translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and
genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive
chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her
identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her
relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)
“The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad
disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only
designed to introduce the drama.”
+ — — =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w.
“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He
found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where
twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a
self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’
ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his
poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than
do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“The volume lacks coherence.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w.
=Mills, Edmund Mead.= Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist
pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The
all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his
heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A
withered hand.
* =Mills, Weyman Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.
“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century
was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress,
yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to
enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s
aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly
important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the
meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub.
Opin.
* “A slight but spirited novelette.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and
setting. The style is flowery.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author
produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a
representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the
“Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him
calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of his discussion is to
reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical
circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The
author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the
political, social and religious life of a great world-power.
“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of
which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies
of its author on the transliteration of names.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w.
“With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best
available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from
the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 268. N. 1, ‘05. 760w.
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 1040w.
“A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but
will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 556. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1430w.
“A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present
constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven
and fermentation at present working in that state.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
* “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of
Russian conditions.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 200w.
=Minor, Benjamin Blake.= Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by
Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. *$2.
Neale.
“A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place
in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that
of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and
proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of
eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally
connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for
cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of
American literary history.”—Critic.
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
“In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s
book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 494. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1350w.
=Mitchell, Charles Bayard.= Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in
the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The
Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy
Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.
=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to
St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes
involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and
misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his
murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and
the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s
selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in
theme and characters.
“It is told in a masterly fashion.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 386. Je. ‘05. 1640w.
“A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated
less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the
use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular
power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his
success.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 490w.
“The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If
Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is
inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out
of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the
imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
— — + =Forum.= 37: 104. Jl. ‘05. 1000w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“This is a good story.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1011. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 540w.
“It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does
overcloud the romantic interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
“The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less
skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too
painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind,
full of insight, experience and skill.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“It is undeniably powerful. The workmanship is of a high order.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance
was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part
of Dr. Mitchell.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Youth of Washington: told in the form of an
autobiography. †$1.50. Century.
To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express
them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of
men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked
upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring
implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of
dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great
writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the
man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of
study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been
brought to bear on his unusual task.
“Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of
Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very
dull.”
— =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the
reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be
possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the
conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory
in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 444. Ja. ‘05. 430w.
“Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished
successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in
this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it
is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed
his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and
delightful.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
=Mitton, G. E.= The dog. $2. Macmillan.
The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good
home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class
retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes into the hands
of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the
dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to
end his days in luxury.
“The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his
fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 250w.
“Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a
dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or
supernatural attributes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and
girls, touching older hearts as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so
skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane
Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an
isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women
to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and
the England with which she was familiar.”
* “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the
praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds,
Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the
blame, to the author.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1170. N. 11, ‘05. 980w.
* “Is the next best thing to reading one of Miss Austen’s own
stories.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has
something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 150w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.
“Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell
the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have
a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and
the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the
famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast,
and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Scenery of London. *$6. Macmillan.
“Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text,
while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert
Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in
colors.”—N. Y. Times.
“As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over
long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a
fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are
entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done
some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1000w.
“Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real
addition to the literature of London.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 363. S. 16. 900w.
=Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 530w.
“Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that
called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is
her wont.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 280w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90.
Macmillan.
“The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work
is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the
table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency
of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and
subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally
easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’
is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for
those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references
indicate.”—Pub. Opin.
“A very solid book on the history of education.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in
analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although
there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional
grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition
of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for
purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is
the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles
Elliott Fitch.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 909. D. 23, ‘05. 2510w.
“This must be rated as a work of the first rank in its class.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.
“A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w.
* “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of
data.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the
16th century. **$1.20. Appleton.
This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning
point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is
important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete
information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth
century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the
spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational
activities of the times.”
“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical
and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.
* =Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Poet, Miss Kate and I. **$1.50. Baker.
Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is
David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but
twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months
bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write,
write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York
surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until
he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more
bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him
die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that
all is to be well with him.
* “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study,
and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided
charm.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Montgomery, David Henry.= Elementary American history, *75c. Ginn.
This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been
prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history
of our country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.
“Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language
is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only
another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with
shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.
+ — =El. Sch. T.= 5: 518. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Montgomery, David H.= Student’s American history. $1.40. Ginn.
For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many
facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and
constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on
the division of the nation. References have been made more complete,
and some new maps added.
“It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern
high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it
compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs.= First view of
English literature. *$1. Scribner.
“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English
literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy
teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that
especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each
epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for
their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the
form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.
“The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the
Renaissance and of Romanticism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative
matter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
* =More, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3.
Macmillan.
“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a
minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates
and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He
writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the
renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the
painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome
of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the
erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of
Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and
England.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly
allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand
without a reassertion of the most important of them.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 385. N. 9, ‘05. 980w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.
* “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same
creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which
characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But
where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to
the verge of iconoclasm.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 850w.
* “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced
classes in our universities and a reference book for readers
generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is
specially copious and exhaustive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early
love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are
devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a
semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and
their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel,
Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter
into the story.
* “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the
worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in
his present novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
* “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w.
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of
Byron the poet it is a failure.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do
with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose
every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 110w.
* “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of
his attempt.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 529. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Children of other days. †$1.50. Stokes.
The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after
paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended
to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book
of real value to little people.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 535. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that
is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of
lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples
of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with
engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing
how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen,
full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and
an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of
reference.”—Nation.
“A very handsome and interesting book.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the
agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 380. N. 10, ‘05. 1100w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 1530w.
* “A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest
days.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 797. N. 18, ‘05. 230w.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Dürer. *$2. Scribner.
An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s
paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically
considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of
his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four
copper-plates.
“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific
criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an
illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement
to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not
replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s
life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the
volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the
arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 173. F. 25, ‘05. 1100w.
“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified.
There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of
the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 247. F. 25. 1680w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 475 My. ‘05. 130w.
“An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 590w.
“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his
sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 190w.
“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book,
written for lay readers, should be.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 150w.
“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are
intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed
somehow escapes one.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 590w.
“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find
brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the
language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the
history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and
connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an
epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for
study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist,
and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting
than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating
addition to the series in which it finds place.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
=Moorehead, William Gallogly.= Outline studies in the New Testament,
Philippians to Hebrews. **$1.20. Revell.
“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians
as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now
dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the
Scriptures.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=More, E. Anson.= Captain of men. †$1.50. Page.
Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days
when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the
richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the
heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there
is much cruelty.
* “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w.
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 3 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work
of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived
a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit
of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of
Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses
the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains
papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and
FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature,
and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence,
Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history,
Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don
Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
+ =Acad.= 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.)
=Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.)
* “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’
reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that
he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth
century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third
series.)
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of
unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to
take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of
wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely
and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 670w. (Review of first series.)
“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought
sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although
the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they
were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. (Review of second series.)
+ + =Dial.= 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 410w. (Review of third series.)
“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is
likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its
predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in
his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 252. O. ‘05. 1320w. (Review of second series.)
“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the
critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American
literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 460w. (Review of third series.)
* “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the
most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of second and third
series.)
“His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every
nerve.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 104. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of second
series.)
“Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. (Review of second
series.)
“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner
realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent
and he thinks for himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 700w. (Review of third
series.)
“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man
of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous
endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as
genius is its inspiration.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 678. N. 18, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of first-third
series.)
“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of
well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something
called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the
old-school essayists.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. (Review of second
series.)
=Morgan, Lewis Henry.= League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed.
by Herbert M. Lloyd. **$5. Dodd.
This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition
of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal
reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of
Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of
Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many
illustrations.
“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable
in the way of critical apparatus.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 180w.
“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject.
For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of
information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of
literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all
students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with
genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 119. F. 16, ‘05. 2300w.
=Morris, William O’Connor.= Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the
revival of the military power of England. **$1.35; hf. lea. **$1.60.
Putnam.
“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations”
series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but
almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it
were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected.
The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter,
and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated....
The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of
the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There
are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and
plans.”—Nation.
“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a
correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for
the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M.
Johnston.
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 692. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
=Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career
and his influence on the military power of England that has been given
in compact and popular form.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s
conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high
authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of
the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably
be indorsed by most readers of the book.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in
this book more than a good example of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 76. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1050w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Green diamond. †$1.50. Page.
The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona
and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the
wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and
blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless
author and reader give up the chase.
“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of
mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’
is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of
the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 342. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 501. Mr. ‘05. 180w.
* =Mortimer, Alfred Garnett.= It ringeth to evensong. *$1.25. Whittaker.
The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for
people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it
to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out
drearily upon old age.
=Mother Goose.= Only true Mother Goose; ed. by Edward Everett Hale.
†60c. Lothrop.
A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in
Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has
furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose
fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old
songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
=Nation.= 81: 257. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “A quaint little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 60w.
Mother-Light: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the
headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the
Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its
mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida
Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.
* =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 290w.
=Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Mott, Frederick Blount.= Before the crisis. †$1.50. Lane.
A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and
during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of
graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading,
the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted
are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows
conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were
corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of
one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on
familiar, melodramatic lines.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those
readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors
in representing negro character and negro dialect.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in
the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian trapper, outlawed by the Hudson
Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of
the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the
frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can,
but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to
ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands
against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the
“petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly
with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted
him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole
being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of
happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis
content.”
* “The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older
readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the
trapper.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 220w.
* “It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not
be too much to say that it is great.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 450w.
* “It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and
dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
* “They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives
and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G.= Second epistle to Timothy: short
devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul. *$1. Union press.
The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the
single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading,
not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages
for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they
are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of
St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.
=Moyer, James Ambrose.= Descriptive geometry for students of
engineering. $2. Wiley.
This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight
revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of
diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the
left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end
of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand
pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the
student.” (Engin. N.)
“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering
colleges, and in a number of important features is the most
satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 535. My. 18, ‘05. 510w.
“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be
better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined
with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius
J. Keyser.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 160w.
=Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A.= Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and
coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic
Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.
“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and
is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture
considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation
of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of
Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth,
inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than
sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from
the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by
pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but
his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length
of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical
changes.” Shailer Mathews.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 343. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by H. B. Sharman.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 233. Mr. ‘05. 970w.
“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent
spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most
valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic
gospels.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Muirhead, Lewis A.= Times of Christ. *60c. Scribner.
“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly
and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of
junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition
of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive
and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish
people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
=Mulets, Lenore Elizabeth.= Stories of little fishes. †$1. Page.
This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with
the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to
catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the
reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a
mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the
combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.
* “They are entertainingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
=Mulock, Miss, pseud.= See =Craik, Dinah Maria.=
=Mumford, Ethel Watts.= Joke book note book. **75c. Elder.
This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried
out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant
jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes
reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces,
which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the
general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.
* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Mumford, Ethel Watts; Herford, Oliver, and Mizner, Addison.= Complete
cynic’s calendar of revised wisdom for 1906. **75c. Elder.
The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as
attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.
* “This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its
predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been
retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* =Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.
Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grand cañon of the Colorado, with
which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also
such little-known phenomena as the Meteorite mountain and the oddities
of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the
structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the
habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book
is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 120w.
=Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke=, eds. and trs.
Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors. *$1.25.
Century.
“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and
students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many
authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval
history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries
are limited in scope.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Prepared with praiseworthy care and good judgment.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 690w.
“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be
practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even
readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will
find much that is new to them.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Survey of contents.)
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
* =Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone.= Criticism and elucidations of
Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained. *$4. Stechert.
A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some
time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes
a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by
Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book,
have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh
notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made
occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book,
as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form.
This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge
of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical
scholar.”—Ath.
* “Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the
present generation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 190w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Americans; tr. by Edwin B. Holt. **$2.50. McClure.
“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently
published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the
American people—their history, their customs and their political and
social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting
such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro
question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.
“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen
incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the
style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one
gets somewhat barren generalities.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 389. Ap. 8, ‘05. 3090w.
“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one
is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in
years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far
as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s
desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the
aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to
indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his
treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have
dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.
— — + =Arena.= 33: 333. Mr. ‘05. 1700w.
“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place
in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr.
Bryce.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 490w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 150w.
“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the
work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The
self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but
with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements
or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that
we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot
candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced
into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 3900w.
“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little
of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once
betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at
random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 12. Ja. 5, ‘05. 450w.
“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American
traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It
is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English
people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement
and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a
distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen
such a complete record of American achievement, individual and
national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts
of our development.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 446. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.
“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national
character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 210w.
“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole
book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at
the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 894. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives
the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined
monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of
the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These
will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far
as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the
Oversoul.’”—Outlook.
“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with
extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space
allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the
theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us
unsatisfactory and weak.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 537. Jl. ‘05. 690w.
“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.”
Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 200w.
“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of
the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s
philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and
space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot,
in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 415. Je. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
=Murfree, Mary Noailles.= See =Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud.=
=Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery.=
Sketches on the old road through France to Florence. *$5. Dutton.
Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and
southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally
artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr.
Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to
both the mind and the eye.
“His book is beyond doubt the best colour-book yet issued.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 216. Ag. 12, 370w.
“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and
charm of the places he has pictured.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Murray, Grace Peckham.= Fountain of youth. **$1.60. Stokes.
The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along
the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set
forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated
handbook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 659. O. 7, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
=Mustard, Wilfred Pirt.= Classical echoes in Tennyson. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A
book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings
by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the
old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference
notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and
the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something
very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson
as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The
erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and
critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian
editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson
himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed
by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he
happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 401. Ja. ‘05. 840w.
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things
which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language.
Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception
of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his
imagination.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 670w.
=Muther, Richard.= Jean François Millet. *$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,”
gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is
pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 860w.
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we
find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
My garden in the city of gardens. See =Cuthell, E. H.=
=Myers, A. Wallis=, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905. *$1.25. imp.
Scribner.
“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during
the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo,
lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing,
coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by
biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The
illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions
of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y.
Times.
=Nation.= 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w.
=Myers, Albert Cook=, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative;
the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of
Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her
lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.
In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man,
is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah
Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles,
autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving
an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 723. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended
for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the
book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1, 393. Ap. 1. 530w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history,
and not unattractive to the general reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 270w.
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious
record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of
the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6, ‘05. 640w.
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home
life the book also has value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 397. Je. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Myers, Frederick William Henry.= Fragments of prose and poetry. *$2.50.
Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and
leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his
death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his
struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin,
Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him
into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his
poems. The whole is well illustrated.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 540w.
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a
poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are
so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of
rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 438. F. 23, ‘05. 870w.
* =Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the
days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in
unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western
tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are
strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in
northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The
book altho both novel and historical, is not a typical historical
novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles
Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs
not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text.
The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix
provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are
portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other
characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.
N
=Nansen, Fridtjof.= Norway and the union with Sweden. 70c. Macmillan.
A resumé given temperately and concisely from the Norwegian point of
view of the events leading up to the present crisis. These events
cover about a hundred years; the real strife beginning when in 1895 a
change in the Swedish constitution practically took the administration
of foreign affairs out of the hand of the king and placed them under
the power of parliament.
“A sound little book on the Norwegian side of the dispute, by the
Norwegian who is most competent to write upon it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 13. Jl. 1. 160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
* “Thus the book is one to be read before attacking Otté’s larger and
more exhaustive work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 882. D. 9, ‘05. 1540w.
“Nansen’s book, admirable in restraint, will certainly do nothing to
embitter feeling in either country.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Dr. Nansen states the Norwegian case in a lucid and forcible way.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Nares, Robert.= Glossary of words, phrases, names, and allusions in the
works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare and his
contemporaries; ed. by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. *$3. Dutton.
This work was originally published in 1822, and the present edition
follows the original text, but includes many new words, phrases, and
expressions which have been found since the publication of the first
edition or were overlooked by the author.
=Nation.= 80: 69. Ja. 26, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 202. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.
=Nason, Frank Lewis.= Vision of Elijah Berl. †$1.50. Little.
This story of California is the story of Elijah Berl, a dreamer and
fanatic, who undertook the great work of making a barren wilderness
“blossom as the rose,” and, blinded by the light of his glowing
vision, sought base methods to attain his noble end. His partner who
applies the “moral straight-edge,” the girl who helps, and the weak
wife who hinders are strongly drawn. The company’s affairs, the orange
industry, the building of the irrigation dam, and the feverish land
boom just before its collapse give the typical atmosphere of the early
West.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 440w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 260w.
“Mr. Nason has drawn the character of Elijah with excellent precision
and clearness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“The author evidently knows conditions in California, and is wide
awake in his study of human character.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
National documents: state papers so arranged as to illustrate the growth
of our country from 1606 to the present day. *72c; lea. *92c; pa. *42c.
Bell, H. W.
“A valuable little volume containing important state papers, from the
charter of Virginia, given in 1606 to the Panama ship canal treaty of
1904.”—Arena.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Naylor, E. W.= Elizabethan virginal book. *$2. Dutton.
“In his ‘critical essay’ on the contents of the Virginal book in the
Fitzwilliam museum at Cambridge, ... [the author] gives a careful
study of nearly 300 pieces of the Tudor period which are almost
entirely unknown.” (N. Y. Times.) These pieces of Elizabethan music
include 130 dances, 17 organ pieces, 46 arrangements of forty
different songs, and certain madrigals, and fantasias, etc.
=Acad.= 68: 562. My. 27, ‘05. 600w.
“But the volume as a whole is interesting and instructive; moreover,
it is the first book on the subject, and therefore welcome. It
contains many musical illustrations, and there is a capital index.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 510w.
* “It is a careful and scholarly work.” W. J. Henderson.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 60w.
“It is a valuable work of reference, for it embodies all that can be
required by one who is desirous of gaining a clear idea of the music
of this interesting period.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It must be admitted that he makes out a good case for his thesis.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“It certainly is a stimulating and graphic method of studying musical
history that he has embodied in the book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 770w.
=Needler, George Henry,= tr. See Nibelungenlied.
=Neidig, William Jonathan.= First wardens. **$1. Macmillan.
Thirty-seven poems upon such themes as Alvah and Azubah, The adoration
of the Magi, Wine of laurel, and Lex mundi. There is also a series of
sonnets called A woman’s ring.
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 130w.
“Much of Mr. Neidig’s verse, for all its originality and
unquestionably poetic diction, makes too hard reading to fulfill the
proper function of poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + =Dial.= 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 250w.
* =Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Alphabet of history. **75c. Elder.
“A thin little book done in brown tones and with a flexible cover....
It is printed in old art style and bound in Rhinos boards.... Taking
history alphabetically, the book goes from Alexander to Zenobia, and
includes such prominent people as Lucullus, Raleigh, William Tell, and
James Watt.... The illustrations show without overmuch seriousness the
eminent individuals whose life stories are told.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Twenty-six historical personages ... are portrayed with accuracy,
completeness, and much cleverness.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.
=Neville, James J.= Letters of a self-made president. $1. Ogilvie.
The apparent object of these letters is to ridicule Roosevelt, his
friends, and his official and unofficial acts. Altho names are
transposed and facts perverted, there is no real attempt to disguise
the identity of the executive who entertains Booker at dinner for the
sake of the negro vote, and assembles the navy at Clam bay for the
edification of a few visiting friends.
“Now and then the malice has a spice of wit, but generally speaking
the letters of a self-made president are rather heavy.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 543. Ag. 19, ‘05. 220w.
=Nevinson, Henry W.= Books and personalities. *$1.50. Lane.
“The reviews and criticisms of which this book is composed deal with a
varied company of literary personalities. The net is spread very wide.
Great and small—Mr. Belloc and Browning, Goethe and Aubrey Beardsley,
Æschylus and Mr. Yeats, Dolling and De Wet, Carlyle, Heine, and Mr. Le
Gallienne, and many others—are gathered in. And in dealing with them
all Mr. Nevinson either has his point of view, or manages to reflect,
brightly enough, the general tendency of educated opinion.”—Ath.
“Readable and stimulating these short studies undoubtedly are.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + =Atlan.= 96: 848. D. ‘05. 390w.
“Mr. Nevinson has a charming and lucid style that cannot but give
interest to his restrained thoughts.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“He writes in a brisk, self-confident, effective way, with no lack of
plausible generalizations (not based on painfully exhaustive
collection of particulars) and a ready supply of apt illustrations. As
short essays in criticism of the lighter sort, these chapters, despite
a slight tendency to the dogmatic in their tone are excellent
reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 320w.
“We have read them all with interest—seldom, indeed, have met with a
book of the kind which we were so unwilling to lay down—and many with
much pleasure.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=New, Edmund H.= Evesham. *50c. Dutton.
“Americans rarely see Evesham and the beautiful, broad vale in which
it lies, although they are near it when they make, as all good
Americans do, their Shakespeare pilgrimage. This little book, one of
the ‘Temple topographies,’ is, with its line drawings and pleasant
narrative, an introduction and an incentive to visit a charming
countryside.”—Outlook.
“In this volume thorough justice is done to the buildings of a
charming little Worcestershire town.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient
Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
A small volume which gives a comprehensive sketch of the Egyptian
monarchy from its founding to its disintegration, three thousand years
later. The story is told in the light of the many important
discoveries which have been made within the last decade. It is a book
that will arouse the student’s interest in the subject and lead to the
study of larger works.
“There is a painful lack of proper proportion. The presentation in the
little book of the new results from the archaic age deserves
consideration as a serious contribution. The American edition has some
serious misprints.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 843. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“They have written with exactness and clearness, and their product
should offer the reader an attractive synopsis of the latest
discoveries.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Newell, William Wells.= Words for music: symphonic series. *$3. Small.
A little volume of brief lyrics of nature and life.
“The most noticeable fault of the pieces is found in the frequent
omission of articles and other small words necessary to the
construction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“In ‘Words for music,’ ... a mild and rather wordy mysticism sometimes
bears poetic fruit in verse of a pleasing, gossamer-like tenuity.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 190w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
Mr. Newman’s fearless attitude toward music and composers results in
an iconoclastic treatment of some of the old masters and a
proportionately exalted consideration of others of more modern
schools. In the latter class is Strauss to whom “Mr. Newman
attributes ... pretty nearly everything except the creation of the
world.... The essay on programme music is unquestionably the most
lucid, original, and convincing discussion of that question ever
printed.” (Nation.)
“Our author is a clever and thoughtful writer, and even those who
differ from him will respect his frankly expressed opinions.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 280w.
* “His scholarship is good and his point of view established favorably
for perspective. He writes frankly of old and new masters, and his
comments are stimulating to the mind of the reader.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Newman takes his work with vast seriousness and digs very deep.
The subjects warrant such treatment, but as a result the reader must
look for matter rather than manner.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Newman also ventures to fly in the face of public opinion with a
few pages of very depreciative remarks on Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Here he is
decidedly in error. In the other essays of this volume we find our
author much more sane and satisfactory, and less self-contradictory.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 284. O. 5, ‘05. 1500w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
The average lover of music will find Wagner made comprehensible in Mr.
Newman’s monograph; “not the whole Wagner,” but the “essential Wagner”
as a musician and a dramatist is the author’s province. Following a
chapter on Wagner’s development, each of his operas is studied in
turn, and the really essential motives are given. A chronological
table and bibliography are included.
“A refreshing independence of judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 463. Je. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“It is stimulating and refreshing to come upon so strong and original
and drastic a piece of criticism as he has delivered in this little
book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 660w.
“Mr. Newman always has something to say that is worth saying, and he
says it without indirection, uninfluenced by partisanship.” Richard
Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
=Newman, Eugene William. (Savoyard, pseud.).= Essays on men, things, and
events, historical, personal, political. $2. Neale.
The sub-title includes the following list of men, who with associated
events, “historical, personal, political,” are considered in this
volume: Roscoe Conklin, Thaddeus Stevens, Matthew H. Carpenter, Andrew
Johnson, John J. Ingalls, Seargent S. Prentiss, Oliver P. Morton,
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Samuel J. Tilden. The family of Field, Marcus A.
Hanna, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin H. Hill, George F. Hoar, Frank
Wolford, Stephen A. Douglass and Thomas C. Platt.
“The form on the other hand is very old-fashioned, with much
embroidery of classical and Biblical allusion and a generous supply of
adjectives of heroic size. Altogether people interested in men and
politics, whatever their individual bias, can hardly fail to derive
entertainment from Mr. Newman’s essays.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 19. Ja. 14, ‘05. 750w.
Nibelungenlied; tr. into rhymed English verse in the meter of the
original by G. H. Needler. *$1.75. Holt.
The first metrical translation of this great epic into the English
language will appeal to students and readers alike. The historical
background of the work has been supplied in a full two-part
introduction: the first of which treats of the Nibelungen saga, its
history, development and forms; and the second, of the Nibelungenlied,
and the various editions thru which it has passed.
“Mr. Needler does not show a very keen sense of rhythm nor a great
command of language. His translation lacks case, and indulges in
uncomfortable inversions.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 380w.
“The book is an interesting work of reference, the value of which is
enhanced by a scholarly introduction.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
“What distinguishes this translation of the great German epic from all
previous attempts is, in the first place, the faithful and happy
reproduction of its metrical form. Professor Needler has added a
succinct but adequate introduction ... altogether the best summary of
the whole subject to be found in English.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 94. F. 2, ‘05. 500w.
“The author of this book says that his apology for presenting it is
that none of the preceding translations reproduces the metrical form
of the original. His book certainly justifies itself, and stands in no
need of any apology. The scholarly introduction deserves unqualified
praise, and is, indeed, quite a model of what such a work ought to be.
At first sight the versification is not attractive, but the liking for
it will be found to grow with increasing familiarity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 510w.
“A very satisfactory piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Nicholl, Edith M. (Mrs. Bowyer).= Human touch: a tale of the great
Southwest. †$1.50. Lothrop.
This strenuous story tells of cattle feuds, train robberies, and
kidnappers, and of David Kingdon unhappily married to a woman who
leaves him and spends her life in travel. While she is on the
continent David meets Sylvia and “the human touch” draws them
together. The wife is reported lost at sea, Sylvia and David marry and
live happily on the great cattle ranch until the first wife reappears.
Heartbreaking scenes follow, the wife is selfish, but Sylvia and David
are brave and at last are reunited thru the medium of the divorce
court.
* — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7, 320w.
“In fact, it is a story of unusual excitement, and will hold the
reader enthralled just so far as his taste may run in this kind of
shotgun literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
=Nicholson, Joseph Shield.= History of the English corn laws. $1.
Scribner.
A volume which “emphasizes particularly the connection of the corn
laws with British social legislation in general, and warns against the
danger of appealing to historical precedents without taking into
account all the circumstances of the case.... He makes it clear that,
though the corn laws did not produce constant high prices, the
fluctuations in price which they did produce were an evil both to the
farmer and to the consumer.”—Nation.
“This volume, though avowedly prepared to meet the present
discontents, is entirely free from partisanship.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 437. Je. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“The book is a useful treatment, in popular form, of a subject always
of historical interest, and now closely connected with a topic of the
day.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
* =Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The story of a young man whose grandfather has willed him the house of
a thousand candles, which includes an Indiana estate, upon the
condition that he live in the house a year, otherwise the estate goes
to Marian. There is a villain, and there are secret passages, and
other mysterious things, there is shooting and slugging, until the
reader is prepared for anything, and cheerfully accepts the fact that
Olivia, whom the heir loves, is really Marian, and is quite prepared
at the end to greet the grandfather, who, it appears, is not dead
after all.
* “A story bristling with adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 380w.
* “The story is told with spirit and the people in it are alive—in one
case, even though dead.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* =Nicoll, Rev. William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.)= Garden of
nuts; mystical expositions with an essay on Christian mysticism. $1.25.
Armstrong.
“A brief series of articles dealing in detail with some texts in the
Old Testament. The method of Dr. Nicoll’s interpretation is to allow
Scripture to be the commentary on Scripture. Without deprecating
modern criticism, he claims that his exposition moves in a region
which criticism does not touch: ‘The great passages in the Word of God
are timeless.’”—Ath.
* “These pages should commend themselves to many who have been struck
by the sterility of much of the historical handling of the Bible which
is now in vogue.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 90w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 240w.
=Niemann, August.= The conquest of England; tr. by J. H. Freese. $1.50.
Putnam.
A translation of “Der weltkrieg-deutsch traume,” which is graphically
based upon the supposition of war between Germany and England. “For
the dreams of the German, in the view of this author, are of
overthrowing the English power, and of an imperial army taking
triumphant possession of London.... The story, considered as a
historical romance, is of a type familiar enough.... Throughout it is
taken for granted that England is the arch-enemy of civilization, that
its foreign policy is a complex network of rapacity and hypocrisy, and
that it is deaf to the voice of the higher idealism.” (Dial). “Is
related in a workmanlike manner. It is a fairly good story, and is
curiously interesting from the way in which it represents, upon every
possible occasion, the point of view of the German anglophobe.” W. M.
Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. *$1.25. Putnam.
Nine editions of this book have appeared in Japan. Bushido is the
Japanese feudal equivalent for chivalry, and signifies “the code of
moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to
observe.” “It embodies the maxims of educational training brought to
bear on the Samurai, or warrior class of Japan, the class that
throughout the feudal age, which ended only fifty years ago, set the
standard to the whole people in manners, ideals of character, and
mental and moral codes of obligation.”
“Is a misleading piece of special pleading. He makes out his case by
partial statement and wholesale suppression.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 1510w.
“Professor Nitobe’s work is not exhaustive. It is the only work,
however, on the subject given in a language of the West.” Adachi
Kinnosuke.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 430w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 180w.
“A delightfully written exposition of Japanese philosophic and social
thought.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 248. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1790w.
=Noble, Edward.= Edge of circumstance. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A sea story in which an English captain and a Scottish engineer
contend against every ill-hap that could befall a cranky,
theoretically-built steamship, owned by men who hypocritically profess
to make her a co-operative enterprise embodying every new patent and
labor-saving device, while they really mean to save money at the
expense of the crew’s comfort and safety.”—Outlook.
“‘The edge of circumstance’ is a striking book, one to be read. Mr.
Noble attracts immediate attention yet does not shout; he gives us
exciting situations, yet leaves something to the imagination. Mr.
Noble is too much of an artist to overload his picture.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* “In ‘The edge of circumstance’ Mr. Noble has created a book with the
qualities of a masterpiece. The portrait of the derelict alone will go
down as a wonder of sincere portrayal. The poetry of the things is
here plain, founded on a knowledge sharper than fancy.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 750w.
“It is a rarely good—even a great—book in some respects, and it seems
destined to take high rank in the sea literature of its class.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14. ‘05. 990w.
“The author’s method is much like that of Joseph Conrad, but we miss
Conrad’s glow of imagination.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “A sea-story quite exceptional in vivid strength and well worth
perusing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 30w.
“It is impossible to render full justice to Mr. Edward Noble’s
striking story in this column.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 710w.
=Noble, Esther Gideon.= Macbeth, a warning against superstition. $1.
Badger, R: G.
Dwelling upon the strong negative lesson conveyed thruout the tragedy
of Macbeth, viz., the warning against superstition, Macbeth himself is
viewed in the light of one steeped in superstition, and the Weird
sisters, whose material existence is denied, as doing no more “than
‘harp’ his fear aright.” “Shakespeare made Macbeth distinctly a man of
thought, calculation, and caution. It is the abuse, the misdirection
of this great power for thought which makes the tragedy,” so maintains
the author of this monograph.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
=Noble, Rev. Franklin.= (comp.) Thoughts for the occasion: fraternal and
benevolent; reference manual of historical data and facts; helpful in
suggesting themes and in outlining addresses for the observance of
timely or special occasions of the various orders. $2. Treat.
The book is divided into four parts which cover—Social and benevolent
brotherhoods, Beneficiary and fraternal orders, Religious
fraternities, and various orders and societies, and includes nearly
all the fraternal organizations in America.
=Noldin, Hieronymus.= Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, intended
especially for priests and candidates for priesthood; trans. from the
Germ. by Rev. W. H. Kent. *$1.25. Benziger.
“A history of the cultus and observations upon its theological and
ascetical importance.”—Cath. World.
“The historical sketch is brief but valuable. We think, however, that
this curious evasion of the twelfth promise question will be the sole
objection which devout clients of the League will make to this book.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 396. Je. ‘05. 590w.
* =Nordau, Max. Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy
tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The stories were told to Maxa, Mr. Nordau’s little daughter, from her
fourth to her seventh birthday, and are translated for the benefit of
other little ladies by Mary J. Safford. There are twenty stories in
all, and they are about everything from beetles to fairies and from
rosebushes to white mice. For instance ... there is a tragic account
of a last year’s fly, which shows how sad it is to outlive one’s
generation; there is a story of an ungrateful mouse; and a doll that
was excessively haughty—in fact, there are stories about
everything.... Young people—and even older ones—will read with
breathless interest. The book is illustrated with a number of line
drawings.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “Is worthy to be read and loved by many other children for its
originality, its pleasant style, and its gentle lessons with touches
of deeper meaning.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 270w.
* “The grown-up reader is as pleased as the child—with everything but
the pictures.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustav, and Andersson, Dr. Johan Gunnar.=
Antarctica; or, Two years amongst the ice of the South pole. *$5.
Macmillan.
“It will be remembered that the Nordenskjöld expedition, in the vessel
Antarctic, left Europe in the summer of 1901, and spent the following
Antarctic winter in the South polar regions.... The Antarctic was
caught in the ice, ‘nipped’ and sunk, and it took two relief parties
to finally rescue Dr. Nordenskjöld and his followers. Notwithstanding
the loss of the vessel, with many of the scientific notes, much of the
geographical and other scientific results were saved.... This volume
is Dr. Nordenskjöld’s own story (prepared in collaboration with Dr.
Andersson and Captain Larsen, of the Antarctic).”—R. of Rs.
“In the rapidly increasing literature of Polar enterprise Dr.
Nordenskjöld’s volume will take a high place. The translator, who has
preferred to be anonymous, has performed his task with success.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 466. Ap. 15. 2250w.
“It is mainly as a narrative that the book must be judged, for it
contains little of scientific interest.” Albert White Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 171. O. ‘05. 1300w.
“Their story is told in a sufficiently attractive fashion, tho it
lacks somewhat of the personal touch that ordinarily vivifies
narratives of polar exploration.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 455. Ag. 24, ‘05. 920w.
“To the general reader, the book’s main interest will lie in ... its
story of romantic adventure. It is as fascinating reading as Robinson
Crusoe. Antarctic scenery and natural phenomena are vividly
portrayed.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 720w.
“The story is vividly told, and the quaint English of the translator
rather adds to than detracts from the reader’s enjoyment and interest.
The illustration of the work is excellent; the index and maps are all
that could be asked.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 39. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
“A simple but effective account.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 708. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w.
=Norris, H. L.= Rice papers; stories and sketches of life in China.
†$1.50. Longmans.
In order to while away the leisure hours of a three years’ service in
China, the author wrote these nine stories of the Chinese as he saw
them, placid and cruel, childlike and shrewd. He has created Hong, the
gate-keeper, who spins marvelous yarns to a youthful audience of two,
and other characters, which might be real, but are not.
+ =Acad.= 68: 241. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“He has turned out capital stories, witty, satirical, yet seemingly
jumping with facts, even though he says the stories are not true. They
are better than true; they are well-found. Nine stories ... all good,
all worth reading and re-reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 410w.
“But Mr. Norris as a critic is perhaps too irresponsible to carry much
weight. His attitude is primarily that of the amused onlooker, and his
aim is plainly to entertain rather than to instruct. In this he is
almost uniformly successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 556. Ap. 15, ‘05. 660w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Barham of Beltana. †$1.50. Longmans.
Barham of Beltana is a prominent Australian and the love story centers
about his son and daughter and the son and daughter of Mr. March, an
Englishman. The book is full of complications, obstacles and
surprises, into which eccentric old Lady Warden and her secret, two
huge mastiffs, and a ghost enter.
“The scenes are pleasantly varied, the situations quietly effective,
and the characters consistent though not vital. The story is readable
because it runs smoothly from start to finish, and the interest is
allowed to accumulate cleverly.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is not particularly well-written.”
— + =Arena.= 34: 335. S. ‘05. 170w.
* “There seems almost as little to say against ‘Barham of Beltana’ as
in its favour.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 524. Ap. 29. 200w.
“Is fresh, vigorous, interesting; original in its situations,
unusually clever in its dialogue. A thoroughly enjoyable book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 710w.
“This author always writes pleasantly, and entirely in unexceptionable
English, but the humor and story-interest which his early books had
are here reflected only in a faint and feeble light.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Norris is always readable. The present novel contrives to avoid
the sameness from which some of Mr. Norris’s recent books have
suffered.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Embarrassing orphan; il. by Steeple Davis. $1.
Winston.
A South American millionaire leaves his daughter to her uncle, Sir
Edward Denne, with instruction that she and every one else are to be
kept in ignorance of the fact that she is wealthy until she is happily
engaged. His object is to save her from fortune hunters, but as it
happens, this provision leads her into refusing the right man. All
ends well, however, through the efforts of her uncle.
“The story is ingeniously complicated and amusing, though after all
somewhat monotonous.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 378. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.
“There are a few dry passages that detract somewhat from the
cleverness of the balance.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 90w.
=North, Sidney H.= Oil fuel; its supply, composition and application.
*$1.75. Lippincott.
“A concise and valuable record of the developments in the use of
liquid fuel for the generation of power ... he deals with the
distribution and sources of supply of petroleum ... the economic
aspect of liquid fuel ... the absolute economy as a fuel ... the
chemical composition of fuel oils ... conditions of combustion in oil
furnaces.... Turning from consideration of the oil itself to the
methods of burning it, the author gives a very useful historical
summary of the early experiments down to the year 1883.... A chapter
is then devoted to modern burners and methods.... [There are chapters
upon] the use of oil fuel for marine and naval purposes, [and] oil
fuel in locomotives.”—Nature.
“The whole work compares very favorably indeed with the far more
pretentious treatise on the subject which until now has been the only
book of reference.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 531. Ap. 6, ‘05. 760w.
* =North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an
old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from
his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“‘Old Greek’ was the nickname, or, more correctly speaking, the pet
name, by which Edward North, the professor of Greek [for fifty-eight
years] was known to the students and alumni of Hamilton college. This
volume, the primary object of which is a biography of Professor North,
will certainly serve as an illuminating document to explain the
genesis of the old-fashioned college in the United States, and the
reasons for its growth and persistence.”—Nation.
* + =Nation.= 81: 427. N. 23, ‘05. 2020w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 690w.
=Noussanne, Henri de.= The kaiser as he is; or, The real William II.;
tr. from the French by Walter Littlefield. **$1.25. Putnam.
From the point of view of one “who does not like the Germans and
hardly seeks to conceal his contempt for distinctive German
qualities,” we have an intimate, graphic, much biased, and at times
sarcastic sketch of the German emperor, including domestic, social,
political, national and international relations. There are chapters
dealing with Germany at the accession of William II.; with the manner
in which “this young man” rid himself of Bismarck; the imperial
treatment of the Poles; William II. and socialism; William II. as a
family man, as guest and landlord, at home and on his travels, as head
of the army, as bandmaster, painter, patron, etc.
“It is sensational journalism in all its horror. In the less
objectionable portions of the book there is a mixture of readable
gossip, more or less well founded, with mere padding.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 398. Ap. 1. 140w.
“The translator has, in general, done his work acceptably, though
numerous misprints and mistakes in capitalization are to be noted, and
there are many minor errors of statement that might well have been
corrected in the English version. The chief objection to the book is,
however, the prejudice of the author.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16. ‘05. 230w.
“Pity it is that M. de Noussanne did not use a finer satirical pen and
a less spiteful, even tho he has given evidence as to the healing of
the Sedan wound.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 725. Mr. 30, ‘05. 180w.
“There is obvious malice, obvious Gallic animus, obvious indulgence of
a spirit of levity and mockery, obvious hospitality to anecdotes in
which the kaiser is a figure of comic opera. Mr. Littlefield, whose
translation is at many points very happy and who has caught the spirit
of the whole excellently, regards the more serious parts of the book
with perhaps a little too much favor.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. F. 18, ‘05. 1570w.
“As a tirade, an example of skilful satire of the boulevard type, it
is a masterpiece; as sober biography or character analysis, it is
worth nothing.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“A very witty and keen arraignment of Kaiser William.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 10: 512. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“M. de Noussanne shows us the man behind the monarch, but spares the
relation of court tattle and backstairs scandal.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Noyes, Ella.= Story of Ferrara. $2; lea. $2.50. Macmillan.
“The city that was the birthplace of Savonarola, the home of Ariosto,
and the refuge of Tasso, will never be wholly forgotten.... The author
devotes about two-thirds of her book to the history of the city....
The whole account centres about the ruling family of Este.... In the
last third of the book we are given a descriptive view of the city,
its palaces, pictures, streets, churches, and abbeys. In forming an
idea of what remains of Ferrara’s greatness, the reader is aided by a
number of interesting illustrations drawn by Miss Dora Noyes.”—Dial.
“A readable book and a faithful guide to the city’s antiquities, but
not a history, in the large sense, admitting us to the council of the
fates.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 138. O. ‘05. 710w.
“The work is written in easy, dignified English, the narrative is
interesting, and the historian displays good taste and judgment both
in her choice and her rejection of materials.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“So comprehensive is the writer’s grasp of her subject that her little
volume might well be called a microcosm of the renaissance. It is hard
to do justice to Miss Noyes’s exquisite style and to the penetration
which comprehends the significance of the motley manifestations of the
vivid, passionate life of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 899. Ap. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The style is somewhat spiritless. At best, it will prove an
authoritative guide for the student tourist who has much time to spend
in Ferrara.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
The author deals with the subject of freight rates rather than
passenger fares, showing how rates are made, and how they should be
made, examines the questions of classification and discrimination,
considers the effect of free competition on the one hand and
consolidation on the other, shows the movement of rates for the last
forty years, and compares American rates with those of foreign
countries.
O
=“O,” pseud.= See Yellow war.
=O., E. G.= Egomet. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of fifty-three essays which “are simply the book-talk of
a book-lover, that and nothing more.” In them E. G. O. frankly states
his likes and dislikes, but allows his readers to agree or disagree
with him, just as they choose.
“They have the double merit of being sincere in themselves and of
being simply and naturally set down.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 14. 320w.
“The author makes no attempt to be profound, but he succeeds in
interesting even where he does not carry conviction with the statement
of his opinions. He is delightfully frank, and does not hesitate to
put forth various literary heresies.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= :7. F. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“His manifest sincerity in all his literary judgments, and his
abounding enthusiasm for a wide range of good books make his chapters
delightful reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 480w.
=Oates, William C.= War between the Union and the Confederacy, and its
lost opportunities. *$3. Neale.
“This is chiefly of interest to military students of the Civil war as
a criticism of the action of President Davis of the Confederacy, the
Confederate congress, and Confederate general officers in the field,
with the object of showing that under other management the South might
have won.”—Outlook.
“Rambling and careless in style, frequently in error as to events,
sometimes grotesque in opinions and occasionally prejudiced against
individuals. In one sense is worthless and in another is of the
highest importance as a revelation of men.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 2710w.
“Much matter which the future historian will be glad of. The General
himself speaks frankly as a partisan.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 530w.
=Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1.
Harper.
“Despite its title. Mr. Ober’s book comes under the category of
history rather than biography, for by far the greater portion is
devoted to the three years’ campaigning which ended in the Spanish
conquest of Mexico.... It may be commended to those desirous of
obtaining a brief, readable account of the conquest and an impartial
idea of the leading figure therein. An especially interesting feature
is the identification by its author (who has traveled widely in
Latin-American countries) of scenes and relics associated with the New
World exploits of Cortés.”—Outlook.
* “Readable it certainly is, to one who is not fastidious regarding
the historical accuracy of the book he is reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* “However the telling is well enough, and the facts seem sufficient
for the purpose in hand. Except for that purpose the book strikes one
as distinctly superfluous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Our West Indian neighbors. **$2.50; ¾ lev.
**$5. Pott.
The author, who has visited and studied the islands in 1879-1880, who
was commissioner to the world’s fair of 1891 from the West Indies, and
who has furthered his knowledge of them in late years, gives an
account of the islands of the Caribbean sea, “America’s
Mediterranean,” their picturesque features, fascinating history, and
attractions for the traveler, nature-lover, and pleasure-seeker.
“Many quaint and little known facts are recorded, but the total result
is very unsatisfactory. The account is rambling and superficial.”
— =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 134. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“A timely and good account of the islands of the Caribbean sea.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 90w.
“One of the most complete and authoritative of recent books.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Abraham Lincoln. **$1.25. Jacobs.
A full account in compact form of the development of a great man and
the circumstances which favored this development. The chief battles
which mark the course of the Civil war are treated rather summarily.
The book deals essentially with the man, his motives, and personality,
and the nation’s struggle forms an impressionistic back-ground.
“This double sectionalism and these standards of elegance are fatal to
the usefulness of a book which does not pretend to a ‘vast amount of
research into sources not before used,’ and which presents few new
ideas. Nor is the execution faultless.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ — — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 901. Jl. ‘05. 630w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 30w.
“The author has produced a well-balanced, readable, compact book, that
gives the important facts of Lincoln’s life. He has brought to his
work historical training and a practised hand.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer writes clearly and forcibly for the most part, but
with an occasional verbal arrangement that makes his meaning hard to
understand. The ‘Bibliography’ of this volume is remarkable for its
inadequacy. Dr. Oberholtzer’s predilection is for such memoirs as
serve the more sordid and vulgarizing conception of Lincoln’s
character.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 17. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1090w.
“No man, whichever his side of the fence can fail to find much
pleasure and satisfaction in contemplating Mr. Lincoln in the angle of
view in which Mr. Oberholtzer has chosen to look at him. The author
manages as a rule to be astonishingly fair to both sides and to get,
in most cases, very close to the truth. There are lapses of course.
Times, too, when in his eagerness to make bold generalizations the
author misses things he should have considered.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* =O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“William O’Brien, the energetic Irish member of the British
Parliament ... reveals a most interesting and complex personality in
this work. Many of this vigorous fighter’s recollections concern the
fierce, endless warfare over Ireland’s rights and wrongs. But he was a
poet in his youth. He has strong sympathies with the Gaelic revival,
he was an ardent theatregoer in his young manhood, and is still, it
seems, in the intervals when the Irish contingent in the House of
Commons is not active, a dreamer of brave dreams.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Mr. O’Brien writes as a rule in scholarly fashion; but there are
some passages which fail conspicuously when so considered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9 690w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “Although written from a standpoint differing somewhat from that of
Mr. McCarthy’s reminiscences, they recall the latter, not simply in
subject matter, but in tone and treatment. They are pervaded by the
same geniality, quiet dignity, pathos, tenderness, humor, and
unfailing optimism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=O’Connor, Mary Hamilton.= Vanishing Swede. $1.25. Cooke.
“The story has to do with the discovery of a long-lost silver mine,
the ‘Vanishing Swede,’ the finding of which was preceded by many
adventures, hairbreadth escapes from death by the wild beasts of the
forests, and leads up to the happiness of the young brother and
sister, who are the principal characters in the story, and of another
couple. The mysterious character is the Leather hermit, who turns out
to be the man who had discovered the silver mine.”—N. Y. Times.
“The humor of the ‘Vanishing Swede’ is of the primitive sort that
springs only from youth and health; it is not humor, indeed, so much
as animal spirits.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 150w.
“Interesting story of pluck and adventure in the forests of Oregon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My 6, ‘05. 150w.
=Oertel, Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm (W. D. Von Horn, pseud.).= Maria
Theresa; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“Masculinity of intellect, together with a strength and wisdom, a
firmness yet kindliness of disposition which but few men have
manifested” are gifts which enabled Maria Theresa to take her place
among the famous queens of the world. How she benefited her realm by
strengthening its laws and bringing about wise reforms is sketched in
a manner to interest young readers. The volume belongs to “Life
stories for young people.”
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Thru his experience on a New York newspaper, the author learned to
know and admire the men of the fire department, and in the
“Smoke-eaters” he has written an epic of the city firemen, a story of
danger and excitement. He follows the fortunes of a certain
hook-and-ladder crew and thru the smoke and flame their actual
characters reveal themselves, real and elemental. Captain Meaghan, who
earns his pension by thirty-five years of gallant service, Lieutenant
Gallagher, who wins a reputation and his chief’s adopted daughter, and
Sergeant Pim, whose grim humor relieves many a tense moment, are as
vivid as their flaming background.
“They are told with extraordinary simplicity, with no glow of rhetoric
or splash of color, but they carry complete conviction.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 90w.
“At last the American fireman has had something like justice done him
in our literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“This is a good book for boys, altho not designed especially for young
readers. It contains much healthful excitement, a mass of information,
and many lessons in manliness, but no false bravado.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 224. Ag. 12. ‘05. 820w.
“It is not too much to say that he has written the epic of the New
York firemen, and not only are they the best sort of stories about
firemen, but some of them would stand as models of all that any short
stories should be—so compact, so restrained, and yet possessed of a
vigor and force that keep expectation keyed to the highest tension.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 770w.
“The stories are full of action, fine character-drawing, and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 60w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 210w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Awakening of Japan. *$1.20. Century.
Assuming that the West has as much to unlearn about the East as the
East has to learn about the West, the author frames his evolutionary
study for general enlightenment. He answers the question “From what
sources are drawn the intellectual and moral qualities which have
enabled the present generation of statesmen, citizens, soldiers and
sailors, under an able emperor, to enter suddenly, as a first class
liberal power, into the company of nations?” The sketch touches the
conditioning factors of Japanese development from the period of
isolation during the dark Night of Asia, to the present period which
the author characterizes as the “dusk of humanity.” He shows Japan in
her chrysalis state when the shogunate exercised the powers of
government, in her rallying state when the power of the shoguns was
overthrown, and in her state of a developing national conscience which
made ready the way for Commodore Perry and the western aid in the
restoration. The author’s virility, enthusiasm and conscience are
stamped upon every page.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 176. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
“He is a poet, a philosopher and a historian, and he possesses in no
small degree an intimate knowledge of Occidental history and the trend
of our civilization, while his knowledge of our language enables him
to write of The awakening of Japan with the skill of a master of
English. For these reasons this work is a volume that no Occidental
student of the Orient can afford to slight.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 100. Ja. ‘05. 4950w.
“With Mr. Kakuzo’s views on the older civilization of Japan we
entirely disagree. Even his chronology is wrong by a thousand years.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 396. Ap. 1. 870w.
“The present work is simpler and more concrete than ‘The ideals of the
East;’ in its purely literary qualities it would do credit to an
author writing his own tongue. Now that Lafcadio Hearn is dead, Mr.
Okakura may be regarded as the foremost interpreter of his people to
the western world; an interpreter not less subtle, and obviously more
authoritative.” R. B.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 282. Mr. ‘05. 530w.
“‘The awakening of Japan’ is marked by the same epigrammatic style and
forceful utterance that characterize ‘The ideals of the East.’”
Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 40. Ja. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“It is a story of the new Nippon after the brilliant and unscholarly
fashion of Carlyle.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 500w.
“One of the best volumes, in brief compass, on Japanese historical
development, and answering the question, What has enabled the Japanese
people to escape the fate of the other Asiatic nations when in contact
with the West? is ‘The awakening of Japan.’ He writes in English with
a broad culture.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“No more fascinating book on Japan, or one bearing more distinctly the
character of a multum in parvo, has been produced than this.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
=Okakura-Yoshisaburo.= Japanese spirit; with an introd. by George
Meredith. **$1. Pott.
“The volume consists of reproductions of lectures delivered by Mr.
Okakura at the University of London. The essays take up and discuss
most of the peculiarly characteristic national traits of the Japanese
people.”—R. of Rs.
=Acad.= 68: 599. Je. 3, ‘05. 420w.
“They are illuminating and instructive, but lack the literary quality
of the two books by the author’s brother.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 60w.
“This book is not so strong or original as ‘The awakening of Japan,’
but it seems to do more justice to the work and influence of Buddhism
as the mother and nurse of Japanese civilization.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 63. Ag. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“His little volume has the distinctive characteristics of breadth,
lucidity, and felicity of expression which gained for the ‘Ideals’
such a wide and appreciative audience in this country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“To philosophic capacity he adds those of criticism and of logical
arrangement of his materials, all of which combined have enabled him
to produce a clear, succinct and well-expressed essay on his subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 151. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1050w.
“Really valuable analysis.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 915. Je. 24, ‘05. 2450w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Venice. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Mediaeval towns” series. The history of Venice as an
independent state, covering a period of more than a thousand years,
and including an account of Venetian art. The second part of the
volume describes the Venice of to-day, dividing it into twenty
sections and making the description a practical one for the use of
travellers. There are illustrations by Nelly Erickson.
“Will be acceptable both to travellers and students.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 271. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.
“This little work is a model of clear and concise narrative. The
author knows how to make the most of his subject and tells his tale in
a very attractive way.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 850w.
“The story is told compactly, but with sufficient fullness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.
“Such a book is a boon to many men, who will find it concise but not
perfunctory, learned but never dull.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 320w.
“He has had no easy task in compressing into the limits of even the
larger volumes of this series so great a mass of material; and he has
performed it with skill and success.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Older, Mrs. Fremont.= Giants. †$1.50. Appleton.
“One giant is an oil trust magnate; the other a young man who opposes
him. Scenes are laid in ‘Oilville,’ California, and New York, where
the young man has carried a reform campaign and become district
attorney. The book falls in with a popular tone of antagonism to
trusts as throttling competition.”—Outlook.
* “The whole narration is pitched in the highest key of
sensationalism, and the figures that take part in it have but slight
resemblance to real human beings.” Wm. M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“Some readers will consider it rabid, sensational trash; others a blow
on the right side.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= A journey in the seaboard slave states. 2v.
*$5. Putnam.
A series of letters written for the New York Times during a three
months’ trip in 1852-3. These letters were revised and published in
1856, and are now issued again in a two-volume edition. They contain
an account of the author’s impressions of the southern people, black
and white, of their institutions, and their social, political, and
industrial economy.
“They are like faithful daguerreotypes of the worst features of
southern civilization. The author’s spirit was so fiercely prejudiced
against the South....”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 382. F. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Occasionally one finds evidence of partisan feeling, but in the main
the story reads well, giving a distinct impression of a fair-minded
observer anxious to see just how things are, and equally anxious to
make a record of actual conditions.” Francis W. Shepardson.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 610. S. ‘05. 520w.
=Oman, Charles (William) Chadwick.= Seven Roman statesmen of the later
Republic. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The seven statesmen are the two Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, the younger
Cato, Pompey, and Caesar. Their lives ... completely cover the last
century of Rome’s ancien régime; or, more precisely, they cover the
course of the Roman revolution.... Each of Mr. Oman’s seven statesmen,
with the exception of Cato, ... represented the monarchial principle,
each more distinctly than his predecessor. Thus the true meaning of
the whole process, ... may be brought out by concentrating attention
upon the personal element.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Although the cardinal facts of the story are common property and
allow of no radically new explanation, yet they are invested with new
interest by Mr. Oman’s literary skill, his graphic and often
colloquial style, his genial and pungent wit—as of the Oxford
common-room, his thoroughly individual appreciation of each of the
leading figures, and his presentation of the whole movement in modern
and realistic terms.” Henry A. Sill.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1800w.
One hundred best American poems, selected by John R. Howard. 35c.
Crowell.
These poems are selected from the works of sixty-four American poets.
All living authors have been excluded and the editor does not claim
that he has chosen the one hundred best poems, but one hundred from
among the best. The selections are given in chronological order,
beginning with Philip Freneau (1752-1832) and closing with Richard
Hovey, who died in 1900. An index of authors and another of first
lines gives easy access to any poem.
* — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “The selection, as a whole, is very satisfactory.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 340w.
* “One may quarrel with some of the selections ... but it can hardly
be said that they do not all deserve praise and preservation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
Opal. $1.25. Houghton.
An unusual story of a living opal, a woman of wondrous beauty, who
feels “everything a little, but nothing much,” and who is a clever
reflection of each personality with whom she comes in contact, “a
thousand women in one.” Then there is the “one woman in a thousand,”
strong and homely, whose “character and features are at constant
warfare.” And there is the man in whom lay the possibilities which
might make of him either “a leader of men or a follower of women.”
This is the important material. Boston and the other characters are
mere background. The real woman loves the man, but gives him the opal
because she fancies it will make him happy. It is the usual story of
the unlucky stone which brings misfortune to the donor and possessor;
and the iridescent girl, with no more evil intent than the gem itself,
wrecks the lives of all who come in intimate contact with her. In the
end, when what she has done is legally undone, the finer qualities of
the real woman’s character keep her from her heart’s desire.
* “Written with such marked individuality of style.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 320w.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The argument is unusual, and it is strikingly presented. It seems,
however, to be a theme too extensive for treatment so brief, and there
are other evidences, slight but convincing, of lack of craftsmanship.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1. ‘05. 200w.
“Such a flat, foolish and unconvincing creature has, therefore, no
reason for existence, at least not in a novel.”
— =Ind.= 58: 1009. My. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“Of unusual interest and originality. The women are admirably drawn,
both of them, but the character of ‘the opal’ is a bit of portraiture
quite unique.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4. ‘05. 380w.
“Most of the story is made up of conversation, which is entertaining.
The action is rapid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The development of the story is skilfully managed, the conversations
as a rule are very entertaining, and the whole book has the touch of a
bright, keen, thoroughly trained woman, not by nature a novelist, but
able to turn her hand to the writing of fiction with unusual
adroitness both of judgment and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“Is unusually witty and readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The treatment meets the theme but half way. It ought to be a
masterpiece and it is not.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
A plotting archduchess hides her orphaned niece, direct heir to the
family’s millions, away in a convent, and substitutes her own
daughter’s claim to the fortune. By merest chance a young author
living a struggling bohemian life becomes the protector of the
unfortunate girl as she emerges into the world for a brief moment. His
efforts are strongly seconded by the “master mummer” a great actor,
who had loved the girl’s mother. Together they foil every attempt of
the arch-plotters, and bring about well-merited happiness.
“It has an ingenious plot, and a steady stream of romantic and
dramatic incident; he writes well, too, without exaggeration, and with
pretty touches of sentiment. In construction, management, style, and
variety of incident, we can recommend ‘The master mummer’ as one of
the best stories of its kind that has appeared for some time.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has the exciting and the dramatic elements that will render
it popular with a large class of readers who are less critical about
the form, presentation and probability of a tale than they are about
its absorbing interest.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 217. Ag. ‘05. 840w.
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 240w.
“Not that there is anything extraordinary or remarkable or great or
strong or wise or literary about it—it’s just a good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The story is frank melodrama, but is readable in its own particular
line.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Mysterious Mr. Sabin. $1.50. Little.
Mr. Oppenheim’s former books, “A prince of sinners,” and “Anna, the
adventuress,” as well as the present story, make an incognito
personage the central figure. The mystery in each case is the sort to
be dealt with non-professionally. The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an
unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a
conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of
securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for
which services he demands Germany’s conquest of France, and the
restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his
cousin, Helene of Bourbon. The coveted papers are the guarded
possession of an English admiral “partly crazed by the tragic
destruction of the Victoria, but still so profoundly wise on naval
matters and coast defenses that the spies of rival empires lay siege
to a study in which he works at plans to save his country.” Princess
Helene figures in a pretty romance which in spite of threatening
intrigue keeps free from politics and diplomatic complications.
“It is one of the most clever mystery tales of recent years, abounding
in highly dramatic situations, with a strong and well-sustained love
interest. In the present story there are many situations and
happenings that are highly improbable, and in some instances
practically impossible. Barring this grave fault, however, the story
is almost all that the lover of romantic fiction could desire.”
+ + — =Arena.= 33: 564. My. ‘05. 520w.
“We have the impression that the tale is, in fact, not a new one;
however, it is not bad of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 480w.
“The book has more thrills and less probability to the square inch of
text than can be found anywhere outside the pages of a dime novel.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“Skilful in plot.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 619. Ap. ‘05. 500w.
“It is all glaringly impossible, yet not without power or real
fascination.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 110w.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
This, the first of a two-volume treatise, deals with international law
in time of peace. An introduction discussing the foundation and
development of the law of nations is followed by four parts: States as
subjects of the laws of nations; State territory, the open sea, and
individuals as the objects of the laws of nations; Diplomatic envoys,
and the like, as agents of states in their international relations;
and International transactions. The work aims to be an elementary
text.
“Taken all in all, Mr. Oppenheim has given us the best treatment of
the Law of Peace that we have as yet had.” Leo S. Rowe.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 610. S. ‘05. 280w.
“The merit of the volume is that it presents a fair, well-balanced
summary of accepted results, and that it puts the reader in touch with
the best modern literature of the subject.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 158. My. 19, ‘05. 450w.
=Orcutt, William Dana.= Flower of destiny: an episode of the second
empire; with il. by Charlotte Weber. †$1.25. McClurg.
A charmingly told story of the romance of Napoleon III. and Mlle.
Eugénie de Montijo which ends with the crown of violets in the forest
of Compiégne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Altogether makes a pretty little gift to carry with one on a summer
vacation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
“A pretty romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
“But great names of themselves do not make a story, and in ‘The flower
of destiny’ we have little else to look to.”
— =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 110w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“The Scarlet pimpernel is the leader of a little band of titled young
Englishmen who make it their business—and pleasure—during the reign of
terror to assist condemned or suspected emigrés to escape to England.
An interesting complication arises when the young Frenchwoman married
to the lazy, careless English lord finds that in putting the French
agent on the trail of the scarlet pimpernel to save her brother’s life
she has in reality condemned her husband to death. Of course, he
doesn’t die, and of course they all, or most of all, lived happily
ever after.”—Pub. Opin.
“A thrilling story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 300w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 200w.
* “A melodramatic but picturesque and well told tale.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Osborn, Frank C.= Osborn’s tables of moments of inertia and squares of
radii gyration, to which have been added tables of the working strengths
of steel columns, the working strengths of timber beams and columns,
standard loads and unit stresses and constants for determining stresses
in swing bridges. $3. Osborn eng. co., Cleveland, O.
A thoroly modernized edition based upon the work of fifteen years ago.
“Though it does not meet all the needs of the structural designer in
its specific field, it promises to be a useful desk companion and to
regain much of its former prestige.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 440w.
=Osborn, Hartwell, and others.= Trials and triumphs: the record of the
Fifty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. *$2.50. McClurg.
“The Fifty-fifth Ohio was recruited in Huron county (of which Norwalk
is the county-seat), after the reverses at Bull Run had stirred the
North to greater efforts; it had its full share of the campaigns in
Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, and of the terrible work at
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. This is related with clearness and
graphic power by Captain Osborn; and, besides the narrative, the book
is unusually complete in regimental statistics, sketches of officers
and citizens, and personal notes and recollections of soldiers.
Photographs, both ‘wartime’ and modern, have been reproduced in
profusion.”—Dial.
“The work is in every way a real contribution to the literature of the
great struggle.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“Its record presents a good picture of the most stirring events of the
war. East and West.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9. ‘05. 390w.
“It is a book of incomparable interest to the veterans of the old
command, of considerable value to historians, and not without interest
also for the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1200w.
* =Osbourne, Lloyd.= Baby Bullet, the bubble of destiny. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“Baby Bullet is a motor car, a fifteenth hand ‘crock’ of early French
design, joyfully presented to two American ladies, a girl and a
schoolmarm, who are discovered by the roadside wearily enjoying a
tramp in England. The donor ... runs away lest his gift should be
thrust back upon him. Baby is in a state of sulks, and the two
Americans climb into her, and hire a carter to tow them behind a
furniture van. At cross-roads they meet another car, a gigantic and
glorious machine, with the power of sixty horses, unfortunately
unavailable because her mécanicien has forgotten the gasolene.... The
American owner of the big car borrows petrol from the American owners
of the little, and tows them in exchange. The result is a week of wild
romance and a thoroughly amusing book.”—Acad.
* “The light dexterous writing of the book pleases us like clever
juggling.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1231. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
* “The narrative is ingeniously contrived and ought to appeal to a
large public.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “The story abounds in slang and is neither exciting nor amusing.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* “The narrative moves at a speed suitable to the subject, and the
pitch of high-spirited comedy is never lowered.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 985. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. †75c. Bobbs.
This little pocket-book contains four short love stories, in each of
which an automobile is chief matchmaker. In the “Motormaniacs,” a
break down brings the right man into the story opportunely, and in
“The great bubble syndicate,” “Coal oil Johnny” and “Jones,” a
Fearless, a Despereaux, and a Porchar-Mufflin car play important
roles.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 210w.
“Lively, ingenious, and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 4w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5.
Macmillan.
“The first [volume] is given over to the abortive experiments of
Gilbert and Raleigh in founding settlements in the New world, to the
first proprietary province, Virginia, and to the corporate colonies of
New England; the second, to the later proprietary provinces and to a
systematic survey of the colonies as a whole, at the close of the
period under discussion.”—Outlook.
“In the main, however, the difficulties of the book are of a kind
almost inevitable from the nature of the topic chosen, and the serious
reader will find it not only instructive, but full of interest. For
the student of our institutional beginnings, Professor Osgood has
provided one of the few treatises which are really indispensable.”
Evarts B. Greene.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 149. Ja. ‘05. 1530w.
“Method of presentation and clarity of statement are other
commendatory traits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 754. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2380w.
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Education as adjustment: educational theory
viewed in the light of contemporary thought. *$1.50. Longmans.
“This new work, which is centered around the idea of adjustment, is
divided into three parts. In Part I. the present status of education
as a science is faithfully described.... The last chapter of Part I.
treats of the data for a science of education, discussing the
respective values of the various classes of facts contributed by the
study of biographies, autobiographies, and the survival of the fittest
in education, as well as by the experimentation and research advocated
by sane leaders in the child-study movement. Especially valuable is
the section which explains the evolutionary point of view.... Part II.
examines the meaning and aim of education.... Chapters VI., VII., and
VIII. of Part II. deal respectively with the implications of
adjustment as the end in education, with adjustment as affected by
social organization, and with the general effect of adjustment upon
teaching.... The method of obtaining adjustment is treated in Part
III.... Chapters XIII. and XIV. are devoted to the doctrine of formal
discipline.”—Educ. R.
“Looked at as a whole, ‘Education as adjustment’ does not reveal
marked originality; but it is a luminous and vigorous presentation of
the best educational thought of the present day. It is, furthermore,
refreshing in that it betrays neither superficiality nor dogmatism.
His work, tho written in untechnical, popular language, is,
nevertheless, neither inane nor inaccurate. It is worthy of occupying
a valued place among the text-books used in normal schools and college
schools of education.” W. S. Sutton.
+ + + =Educ. R.= 29: 191. F. ‘05. 1610w.
=Osler, William.= Aequanimitas, and other addresses to medical students,
nurses, practitioners. *$2. Blakiston.
A collection of 18 addresses and essays all pertaining to medicine.
The title gives the keynote to the volume, the successful nurse or
doctor must be imperturbable. Dr. Osler gives a review of medical
science in the nineteenth century, and his thoughts on education,
investigation, ethics, religion, and the conduct of life. He gives
advice to young physicians, suggestions as to their relations to both
patients and nurses, and tells them that the master-word of progress
is “Work.”
“Dr. Osler’s extensive sympathy, his elevation of thought, his
insistence on worthy ideals, his wide reading are all strikingly
exhibited in the volume before us.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 546. Jl. ‘05. 1060w.
“The style of Dr. Osler is most felicitous; and those who think they
care but little for the professional aspect of this volume, will be
charmed by its graceful expressions, its acute suggestions, its
thorough good sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 193. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1600w.
=Osler, William.= Science and immortality. **85c. Houghton.
The frankly agnostic spirit of modern “intellectuals” dealt with in
this volume is best summed up by quotations from the text itself:
“Though his philosophy find nothing to support it, ... the scientific
student should be ready to acknowledge the value of a belief in the
hereafter as an asset in human life.... He cannot be dogmatic and deny
the possibility of a future state, ... he will ask to be left,
reserving his judgment, but still inquiring.... Science is organized
knowledge, and knowledge is of things we see. Now the things that are
seen are temporal: of the things that are unseen science knows
nothing, and has at present no means of knowing anything.”
“The simple and charming style of the writer, as well as his apt
quotations from the masters, makes this book a delight to read.”
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 138. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander.
=Bookm.= 21: 521. Jl. ‘05. 960w.
“The importance of this little book is quite out of proportion to its
size. He writes with evident honesty. It is a crystallized statement
of much that had been in solution, as it were, heretofore; it makes us
know where the majority of modern scientists stand with regard to the
only matters that they themselves consider more important than science
itself.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 816. Mr. ‘05. 1450w.
“The argument is not of the strenuous sort; the words flow gently and
naturally, as they expose the mellowed thought of a mature and
reverent mind.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The brief pages of this lecture are of delightful literary charm and
of great interest as indicating the trend of present thought on the
subject of the future life.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 786. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven.= Experiments with plants; with a
preface by L. H. Bailey. *$1.25. Macmillan.
In this convenient handbook “Professor Osterhout of the University of
California has given us hints for the experimental study of
living-plants by means of the very simplest apparatus ... and suggests
innumerable contrivances which are to be made off-hand in any house,
and with which the plant can be severely cross-examined.... It is one
of the most helpful laboratory handbooks, and it deserves wide
employment in all classes of plant-laboratories.” (Nation.)
“On the whole we may commend it as one of the very best of its class,
and in some respects in advance of any similar book known to us. An
excellent index adds to its value.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15. 500w.
“The book on the whole will be most valuable for teachers of botany in
high schools.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 110w.
“The text is, for the greater part, extremely clear and interesting,
and needed only rather better illustrations to come into the very
first rank of attractive text-books.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 240w.
“In spite of some faults, the book will be found of value to anyone
compelled to give a course of physiological botany under conditions
which preclude the use of ordinary laboratory fittings.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch.
*$1. Macmillan.
“The main strength of Canon Ottley’s contribution to the now
voluminous literature on the subject lies in his able and earnest
effort to harmonize modern theory with church tradition.... The
chapters ... likely to be read with some special eagerness are those
on ‘The primitive religion of the Semites,’ ‘The contact of Judaism
with Hellenism,’ and ‘The final stage in pre-Christian Judaism.’”—Ath.
“Those belonging to the author’s school of thought—and their number is
very considerable—will, however, maintain that the good points of the
book far outweigh its drawbacks. We are ourselves able to commend it
as an earnest and serious contribution to a perplexing and deeply
interesting problem.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 430w.
“There is no work in English which tells in such brief compass the
story of Israel’s faith from Moses to the Pharisees with such
painstaking loyalty to establish fact.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 310w.
* “A compact, semi-popular account of the development of Hebrew
religion, as understood by a cautious and moderate critic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“It is well drawn and puts much into a small volume in clear as well
as concise form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 130w.
“The compiling is well done, and for a popular sketch of Old Testament
theology we do not know of anything better.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“His exposition is in fact an admirable specimen of the higher
criticism, exercised with discretion by one who is neither fettered by
traditional beliefs, nor bent, as some of the critical school seem to
be, on breaking with them altogether. We are not always in agreement
with the conclusions reached.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 900. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Ottman, Rev. Ford C.= Unfolding of the ages in the Revelation of John.
**$2. Baker.
Written in an expository style, conciliatory rather than
controversial, this work upon Revelation throws a new light upon the
symbolism of the book. The author accepts and advocates the theory
that “everything from the fourth chapter to the end of the book is
still future and will follow the removal of the church from the earth
at the appearing of our Lord.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w.
* Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.
“This story narrates the adventures among the rich, vain, and
reasonably well-cultivated of New York of a young writer and his nice
wife, and contains vivid and veracious pictures of the dinner party,
the coaching party, the theatre party, and many other ‘social
functions,’ glimpses of literary, artistic, and dramatic ‘sets,’ with
a study of the manners of a mannerless age, and a hint or two of its
morals.”—N. Y. Times.
* “This is not a great novel, nor even a good one, but it counts
because the author has caught the real levity of mannerism in that
filmy world.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “Another book in which the comedy of contemporary American society
is adroitly set forth and in a unhackneyed way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
* “A certain skill and comprehension of the situation is evidently
possessed by the anonymous author.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
Our holidays; their meaning and spirit. *65c. Century.
This group of stories belongs to the “Historical stories” retold from
St. Nicholas. Beginning with All-hallow-eve, each holiday is taken up
in turn, with both its historical and present day significance
emphasized.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
* =Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Outram has the remarkable record of nineteen ‘first ascents’ of
peaks among the Canadian Rockies, including the highest mountain in
Canada yet conquered by the mountaineer. He describes his experiences
among these majestic peaks with the enthusiasm that might be expected
of so experienced a mountain-climber.”—Outlook.
* “Mr. Outram certainly has had some unusual adventures amid the
Selkirks and Rockies, which he described with animation and a genuine
command of professional terminology.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 550w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 753. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Overton, Gwendolen.= Captains of the world. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The relations of labor and capital form the basis of this story in
which appear “The young mechanic who becomes a leader of
trades-unions; the lovely daughter of the plutocrat mill-owner, who
cannot marry the Italian prince and fortune-hunter because the
remembrance of the mechanic haunts her; the contrasted pictures of
boundless wealth and the misery of the poor strikers and their
families on the brink of starvation.” (Critic.)
“There is nothing in this book that can be called original in matter
or effective in manner.”
— =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“This underworld of labor among the iron furnaces, this moneyed
aristocracy, so resentful of its origin, so tenacious of its position,
are etched in with keenness and delicacy. Such books as this, with
their sympathetic comprehension, absence of rancor or partisan bias,
make for a better understanding and ultimate peace.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 624. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
* =Oxley, James MacDonald.= Family on wheels; adapted from the French by
J. M. Oxley. †75c. Crowell.
Four interesting French children left orphans, with a mountebank’s
wagon, an old horse, a trick dog and a remarkably clever elephant as
their sole possessions, bravely continue the business of their father,
and give little performances in one little provincial town after
another to earn a scant living. They meet with many adventures and
suffer many hardships, but in the end the happiness of all seems
assured. The children are plucky little things thruout, the dog and
the elephant are heroic, and the hearts of both young and old readers
will go out to them all.
* “An odd and attractive story.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w.
* “A readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A story, tender, humorous, pathetic, carrying the charm of the
French from which it is adapted, and appealing to any child or adult
interested in animals.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 60w.
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=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. British poets of the nineteenth century. $2.
Sanborn.
Selections from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats,
Landor, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and
Swinburne. There are also classified “reference lists” indicating for
each poet the various editions of his works, and all biographies and
important essays.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 100w.
“The selections are very full and for the most part complete poems.
They are designed to give the best of each poet’s work and to give
some representation of each important period and class of his work.
Selected such poems as would be prescribed for a college student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* =Page, Curtis Hidden,= ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by
Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and
Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“This volume, Mr. Page tells us, is in no sense an anthology ... it
‘attempts to give, for each one of the authors included, all the
material needed to show his development and achievement, and to give a
first knowledge of him as man and poet.’ The selection therefore, has
been made very full, and includes many poems of considerable
length.... The poems of each author are arranged in chronological
order and dated. Brief biographical sketches present a summary of each
author’s life, and there are notes and reference lists.”—Outlook.
* “A book to be heartily commended for small home libraries.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* “The whole work done with thorough intelligence and good taste.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. =See Rabelais, Francois.=
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“Mr. Page believes that there are only two possible ways to solve the
negro question in the South—either the negro must be removed, or he
must be elevated. Granted that the former method is out of the
question, it only remains to improve him by education.... The old idea
of educating the negro just as a white man is educated ... has been
found to be fallacious. The kind of education that Mr. Page advocates
for the negro is, in brief, just the kind that is given by such
institutions as Tuskegee and Hampton.”—R. of Rs.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 343. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
“A book the central interest of which is psychological rather than
scientific.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 315. My. 1, ‘03. 1850w.
“The book shows neither depth of thought nor thoroughness of research,
but is chiefly notable as the portrayal of the well-known views of the
less liberal leaders of the South with high authority and great
literary skill.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 556. Mr. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“We do not doubt his wish to deal candidly with his subject, but we
are forced to the conclusion that he lacks the unbiased mind which
would enable him to do so. His statements are too sweeping, and are
not supported in all cases by the actual facts, as has, we believe,
been shown.” Isabel Eaton.
— =Int. J. Ethics.= 15 :518. Jl. ‘05. 2130w.
“Mr. Page’s book is honest, kindly, and, barring a few extravagances,
moderate.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 1320w.
“A temperate discussion of the race question from a southerner’s point
of view.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Paget, Violet.= See =Lee, Vernon, pseud.=
* =Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls.
$1. Altemus.
“A chatty and truthful account of many of the most interesting phases
of plant-life. The subject of dispersal and its advantages, of
movements, and of pollination and the like, are briefly and
well-treated. The account of the servants which work for the flower is
admirably presented.” (Nation.) “The book is arranged according to the
calendar, and the illustrations are from photographs especially made
for each chapter.” (Critic.)
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 190w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Thomas Nast. $5. Macmillan.
This account of the life and times of “The father of the American
cartoon,” illustrated with hundreds of his drawings, is virtually a
political history of our country during the Civil war, and for twenty
years after.
“It is a story full of striking incident and human interest, skilfully
unrolling the picturesque career of a genius who had within him the
potentialities of an American Hogarth.” Chas. H. Levermore.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 907. Jl. ‘05. 740w.
“In this life of Nast, Mr. Paine has evinced excellent judgment and
wise discrimination; yet the work is characterized by that genuine
sympathy that is one of the requisites of a good biography. It is a
valuable work.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 850w.
“Mr. Paine’s book is an exceptionally good piece of work. He has not
attempted a minute personal biography; he has given a series of
striking pictures, which enable one to look over Nast’s shoulder, so
to speak, and to study at close range some of the most stirring
periods in the history of the nation and of New York city.” A. B.
Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 458. Ja. ‘05. 2850w.
“Paine has told of his life and described his struggles in a manner
worthy of the subject.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“It covers the artist’s life in a thorough and interesting way, and is
adequately illustrated.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 318. My. 1, ‘05. 1930w.
“The author is an enthusiast, and must be followed in the light of his
enthusiasm. In narrating the history of the caricaturist, he follows
that of his own times, and in this way has made, for anyone who
desires to understand the United States from 1860 to 1896, not only a
very entertaining, but a very useful volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“There is more history than biography in the attractive volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 130w.
=Palmer, A. Emerson.= New York public school. *$1. Macmillan.
A history of free education in the city of New York, authorized by the
board of education and written by its secretary. The book celebrates
the centenary of the founding of the New York free school system and
the proceeds are to go to the public school teachers’ retirement fund.
The history of the free school society and of the public school
society which succeeded it in 1826 are given, also an account of other
schools, all of which were finally merged into the existing system.
The story of the establishment and success of school libraries is told
in detail. There are portraits, illustrations, and an introduction by
Seth Low.
“The book meets a distinct need.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of
contents.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= With Kuroki in Manchuria. **$1.50. Scribner.
The author, a newspaper correspondent of experience in Eastern
campaigns, writes an account of his five months in the field. The book
is dedicated to the Japanese infantry and their skill and readiness,
and contrasted with the Russian war methods. The volume is illustrated
by numerous photographs.
“His entire book is vividly written, and will be found as informing as
it is interesting in its accounts of the actual fighting.” W. Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 9. Ja. 1, ‘05. 460w.
“It is fascinating, this collection of field letters. This truthful
and vivid portrayal is delightful.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 14. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1630w.
=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.
Fifteen English lakes “ranging from the lordly Windermere and
Ullswater, ten and a half and nine miles long, respectively, to
Loweswater and Rydalmere, which hardly exceed the larger tarns in
area” are reproduced here. The seventy-five illustrations in color
produce a panorama effect which is heightened by the descriptive
matter of the text.
* + =Acad.= 68: 911. S. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Palmer has written with taste and with commendable reserve in
distinguishing between poetic feeling and sentimentalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* “One finds a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind in turning over
his pages, if also some irritation.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 1260w.
=Paret, Jahlal Parmly.= Lawn tennis. **$2. Macmillan.
This article, by the foremost American authority on the game, contains
a history of tennis itself and of the leading players here and abroad.
It gives technical instruction, from the first rudiments to the most
advanced theories, and treats of the care of courts and management of
tournaments. There is a chapter on lacrosse by William H. Madden. The
volume is copiously illustrated.
“This is one of the best-written and most scientific treatises on
lawn-tennis that we have yet had, and forms a suitable companion to
similar works by Mr. Eustace Miles, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, and Mr. W.
Baddeley.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 272. Ag. 26. 1050w.
“Will be valuable to every player of the game.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 30w.
“A treatise which will be heartily welcomed by all lovers of this
healthy game.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 280w.
“Knows the conditions of play in this country and abroad equally well.
While Mr. Paret’s statement that lawn tennis may be taught nearly as
well by written instruction as by personal direction may be seriously
questioned, his remarks on the strategy of the game and the physical
training for big matches are full of common sense and instruction that
apply equally well to other forms of exercise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1110w. (Survey of contents.)
“Mr. Paret who is an authority on tennis, treats of the past, present,
and future of the sport.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This history of religion in China has the merit of being
both critical and impartial.... The story of the imported
religions—Christianity in various forms, Buddhism, Mohammedanism,
Judaism—is sketched in successive chapters, and lastly Shintoism ...
which the Japanese are now endeavoring to introduce.... Towards
missionaries, of whom Americans now constitute the majority if only
Protestants are counted, Professor Parker’s attitude is both
respectful and critical, but full value is assigned to their medical,
charitable, and educational work.”—Outlook.
* “Prof. Parker’s book is a storehouse of learning; it is free from
bigotry, and contains a fair and honest statement of what the
relations of the Chinese have been and are towards foreign religions.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4, 920w.
* “As the fruit of scholarly research pursued in a sympathetic spirit,
this history, most timely for the present interest in the now
beginning renaissance of China, should command the attention of those
who would understand the past which it builds upon.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Parmele, Mary Platt.= Short history of Russia. *$1. Scribner.
A new edition of this history of a great power which brings the
account down to June, 1904 and the siege of Port Arthur. It contains a
good index and a list of the princes of Russia from Rurik to Nicholas
II.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* =Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier
days. **$2. McClurg.
Mr. Parrish’s hope has been to provide a readable, interesting history
of Illinois, emphasizing the picturesque phases that would appeal to
the reader in a popular sense. He has related the adventures of such
men as La Salle, Henri de Tonty and George Rogers Clarke, depicted the
struggles with the Indians, traced the history of old landmarks, and
brought his narrative down to the coming of the railroad, concluding
with a chapter on “Historic spots as they appear to-day.”
=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier: a tale of Fort Chartres
and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
A “plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de
Coubert, one time captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year
1763,” in which he gallantly draws his sword for France and his
English lady-love in the stirring times of Pontiac’s conspiracy.
Meeting with treachery from both white men and red, he takes desperate
chances, escapes from his enemies and wins honor, wealth, and love.
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
There have been four preceding volumes in this missionary text book
series. “In this course an Introduction to the Study of Missions and
Outline Studies of India, China and Japan have already been issued and
studied.” This volume is an outline study of Africa. “Sir Harry
Johnston furnishes an introductory sketch of the geography, races, and
history of the Dark Continent, while the body of the book is devoted
to an account of the rise and progress of Protestant missions in the
several countries.”
“Concise, well written and readable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
“It is necessarily cursory, but it is certainly comprehensive. The
good example of the book remains even when the English student has
noted such occasional lapses.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 325. O. 6, ‘05. 410w.
“A useful handbook, containing much information in a compact and
readable form.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 219. S. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“We recommend these volumes as especially valuable for the members of
Christian Endeavor societies, and for pastoral use by ministers
endeavoring to awaken in their churches an intelligent interest in
Christian missions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 789. Jl. 22, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Paston, George, pseud.= See =Symonds, E. M.=
=Pattee, Fred Lewis.= House of the black ring. $1.50. Holt.
A story centred around a mysterious log cabin in a valley among the
Seven mountains. The valley is owned by a tyrant squire and farmed by
sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen. The squire’s daughter, the first to
thwart her father’s will, falls in love with the son of a new-comer to
the valley, whose business enterprise threatens the squire’s
undisputed sway. There is hard feeling, and there is murder, but all
is made clear by the discovery of a cave under the cabin, and in the
happiness of the squire’s daughter the traditional curse of “the house
of the black ring” is lifted.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“It is not from the literary side an artistic book, but it at least
may be described as both readable and amusing.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.
=Patterson, Charles Brodie.= Measure of a man. $1.20. Funk.
An optimistic message of good will to all men, basing its cheer upon
the supposition that in the great economy of the universe nothing is
lost. Mr. Patterson discusses, in part 1, the “natural,” the
“rational,” the “psychic,” and the “spiritual” man. In part II, he
considers the Son of man “as man,” “as idealist,” “as teacher,” and
“as healer,” in the last division giving the philosophy and therapy of
mental healing.
“It may be said to represent his ripest thought and to epitomize in a
remarkably clear and comprehensible manner the philosophy, ethics and
therapy contained in his preceding books.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 108. Jl. ‘05. 1320w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
This is a political history of England and its relations with the rest
of the world, beginning with the last Whig government of 1846. Volumes
1 and 2 bring the story down to the death of Lord Palmerston, Oct. 18,
1865. Volume 3 deals with the eleven years following, covering
important administrations of Gladstone and Disraeli, and closing on
the eve of the crisis in the East, 1876.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 463. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of Vol. III.)
“It is clear, vigorous, and direct. Its movement is rapid, its
interest seldom lags. It is preëminently readable, and, as a natural
corollary, highly entertaining. His opinions and especially his
estimates of character are often improbable, not infrequently absurd.
This, as has been said, will probably remain the most serious
criticism of a book in most other ways excellent. Such work as that of
Mr. Paul may not be judged by the standards of final and definitive
statement.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 430. Ja. ‘05. 1810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“On the whole, matters become of importance to the author when they
rise above the political horizon, and too often not till then. Mr.
Paul’s vigor seems unimpaired thus far ... his courage seems tempered
somewhat more by discretion, and his politics diluted with somewhat
more of those matters which find little place in Parliamentary debate
or Times editorial.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 161. O. ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Though written with the ability and impartiality of its predecessors,
it is not so well proportioned.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 10. Jl. 1. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is no reason to suppose that Mr. Paul could not have done
better work, had he chosen.” Edward Fuller.
— — =Bookm.= 21: 608. Ag. ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Here, much more than in the earlier volumes, he offers valuable
characterizations of activities and of men not wholly concerned with
the purely political field.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 90. Ag. 16, ‘05. 890w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Generally speaking, he has impartiality and insight, and his survey
of a group of historic facts, more especially of a social or religious
movement, is often just and penetrating.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 39. Jl. 6, ‘05. 680w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
“A most charming style. His book is exceedingly good reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The third volume now at hand, exhibits the characteristics of its
predecessors. The charmingly incisive, direct, easy, and epigrammatic
style, the vivid informativeness, the detachment, the liberality of
judgment which distinguished them are apparent. The treatment, too,
remains the same, with all its virtues and its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 880. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1980w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, it is an invaluable political history of the past sixty
years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We do not know where else to find so good a narrative of domestic
politics from 1865 to 1876. If it is rarely deep, it is never dull; if
it is occasionally bitter, it is almost always impartial.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 674. My. 6, ‘05. 1630w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Payne, William Morton,= ed. American literary criticism. See Wampum
library of American literature. v. 2.
Peace congress. Official report of the thirteenth universal peace
congress, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Oct. 3 to 8, 1904;
reported by W: edited by the secretary of the congress. pa. n.p. Peace
congress committee (B. F. Trueblood, sec’y), Boston.
A stenographic report of the proceedings of the Universal peace
congress, Oct. 3-8, 1904, including the addresses given in Boston and
a brief résumé of the numerous successful and influential meetings
held after its close in several cities. An account of the preceding
peace congresses, not only of those held in the modern series
beginning 1889, but also of the remarkable series of conferences held
from 1843 to 1853 is prefixed.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 100w.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= House of Hawley. †$1.50. Appleton.
The story of a family in southern Illinois which had remained true to
the Union, but was southern in all its traditions. The heroine has to
contend against the whole connection and their prejudices in order to
marry a young Republican lawyer. Her grandfather, Major Elias, head of
the family, his quiet wife, and their lazy son are lifelike, their
southern ways are well pictured; and descriptions of such things as a
chase with blood hounds after a negro house-breaker, a negro barn
dance, and an electioneering expedition with Chicago politicians, add
greatly to the interest and the atmosphere of the book.
“A careful picture of average life in a small town in southern
Illinois, drawn with a loving accuracy of minor detail, and pleasantly
aglow with local color, both physical and social. A skillful touch.
There is a wholesome womanliness about Mr. Peake’s heroines that makes
them seem very convincing. Most of the men, however, impress one as
rather poor specimens of humanity.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 181. Ap. ‘05. 410w.
“The book fails of greatness because the plot is too slight and does
not trouble the deep places that exist in the life of every town,
however isolated; nor does it ruffle the soul of the reader.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The interest of the book lies not in the story, but in descriptive
passages. The story, if it shows no particular art or invention, it
remains true that it is about the sort of thing which would have been
likely to happen in the place where the author has chosen to plant
it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 110w.
=Pease, Edward R.= Case for municipal drink trade. P. S. King & son.
“The argument for the municipalization of the liquor traffic is here
set forth as follows: The system of licensing does not stand the tests
of efficiency, consequently some drastic reform is called for; high
license is incomplete and politically impracticable; local veto is
wrong in principle and likely to be futile in practice;
municipalization is the only other method suggested.”—J. Pol. Econ.
Reviewed by I. W. Howerth.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 137. D. ‘04. 140w. (States argument of
book.)
=Pease, George William.= Outline of a Bible-school curriculum. *$1.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“Those who are interested in raising the standard of biblical
instruction in this country will find ... many valuable suggestions.
In this book there are outlines for reading and study courses for the
kindergarten and primary grades, as well as for the junior,
intermediate and senior departments.”—R. of Rs.
“The most exhaustive study of this subject that has yet appeared.
Predominantly from the psychological point of view, but with careful
study also of the biblical side.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 25: 160. F. ‘05. 30w.
“This book will prove of great practical service to many Sunday-school
teachers because it is specific, and should be suggestive to students
of religious education because of its scope and detail. It is too
timely not to be read now.” Richard Morse Hodge.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 376. My. ‘05. 880w.
“Any one desirous of pursuing independent lessons with a class of any
grade would find help in these outlines.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 70w.
“Its value lies rather in its application of an intelligent
educational philosophy to a concrete and apparently practical scheme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 144. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
“The book is fully in line with the principles and methods advocated
by the Religious education association.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The minute topical references will be of great help to any serious
Sunday school teacher.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 653. O. ‘05. 60w.
* =Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
A little volume of verse which sings of old-fashioned gardens and
fields, of rosemary and bitter-sweet, and of the minuet and the
spinet. There is a time-long-ago atmosphere to many of the poems.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
This study of Prescott gives an account of the historian’s life and
personality and a criticism of his works. An opening chapter treats of
“The New England historians,” then follow biographical chapters based
largely upon the letters and memoranda contained in Ticknor’s “Life of
Prescott,” and a discussion of Prescott’s work and its merits.
“A volume seemingly of no distinctive merit.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“With the exception of his introductory chapter, Professor Peck has
produced, it seems to me, an excellent biographical and critical
account of ... the accomplished author of ‘The conquest of Mexico.’
Here and there a careless sentence may be found as well as a trivial
error or two.” W. P. Trent.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 382. Je. ‘05. 1260w.
“It is of real interest for its discussion of the historical accuracy
and permanent value of his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Professor Peck writes of Prescott pleasantly and in his usual popular
vein.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“His view of Prescott strictly as a writer ... is concise, clear, and
judicious. The introductory chapter, on the literary history of the
country, is to say the least, eccentric.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 489. Je. 15, ‘05. 450w.
“For the most part his narrative is plain pedestrian ‘copy’ quite
lacking in the distinction which the author praises in the historian,
equally lacking in ‘fire’ and the ‘intimate touch.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 1420w.
“Now and again Dr Peck allows an excess of enthusiasm to overpower his
judgment, but, as a rule, he is discriminating.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 150w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of Old Bennington.
†$1.50. Fox.
Revolutionary times in the Green mountain state when it was a part of
the so-called Hampshire Grants furnish the setting of this story whose
incidents center mainly about Bennington. A real flesh and blood girl
patriot, quite as daring as the usual historical novel heroine but a
bit more winsome is the leading spirit, while a turn coat father, two
despicable soldier lovers and one gallant one, General Stark, and
Ethan and Ira Allen figure prominently.
“A panorama of the times which deserves careful reading and much
commendation.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
“We are persuaded that she has it in her to write a book well worth
the reading, which, despite its merits, ‘Hester of the Grants’ is
not.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.
“On the whole is a very good story of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
“The author has opened one of the most dramatic pages in American
history, and adorned it with a picture worthy of the text.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps,
social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50.
Houghton.
Mr. Peckham and his wife have made a close study of the lives, habits,
intelligence, and individuality of wasps, and they tell about their
investigations in a way that is none the less instructive because it
is interesting.
“The book has good and vivid illustrations, but it would have been
better if the actual size of the insects had been indicated in every
case.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 150. Jl. 29. 720w.
“There is ‘a hidden wealth of thought and of austerity’ which makes
the book a worthy contribution to science and a monument of patient
and skillful research in a difficult field.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 687. N. ‘05. 600w.
“While exceedingly pleasant reading, the book is in no sense ‘written
down’ to its audience, nor popularized in the sense of being diluted
to superficiality.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The book is written so untechnically that a reader who does not know
a wasp from a bee can understand and enjoy it.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.
“The charm of the book is in the directness with which the story is
told, and in the obvious sympathy manifested by the authors with the
struggles and aims of the active little nest-makers. While the book is
engagingly written, it is also scientifically accurate.”
+ + + =Nation= 80: 444. Je. 1, ‘05. 680w.
“Important work on the manners and customs of North American wasps.”
W. F. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 160w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 219. Ap. 8, ‘05. 840w. (Abstract of book.)
“An outdoor book as entertaining as it is instructive.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 140w.
“This book reminds one of Fabre’s work. It is not so well written, but
its information is quite as curious and close as Fabre’s, and we
should say as trustworthy.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ‘05. 150w.
“There is much detail which, however valuable in itself from the
scientific point of view, overwhelms the ‘general reader.’ This
individual may be forgiven for wishing that the authors would
sometimes give him more generalization or summaries of their
observations.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Peel, George.= Friends of England. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Peel establishes, elucidates, and illustrates two large
propositions in this companion volume to his “Enemies of England”:
first, that England built up her empire beyond the seas thru the
necessity of defence, and not by accident nor by deliberate motives of
expansion; second, the same European pressure from without is the
chief cause of the maintenance of the empire.
“Mr. Peel is no pedant, no formalist, no Dryasdust. Intensely
interested in his subject, he writes of it with animation; eager to
convince, though not with the sophist’s eagerness, he is precise
whether right or wrong and at all times clear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 270. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1420w.
“The subjects with which Mr. Peel deals are of the deepest interest,
and he shows wide reading on every page.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 660w.
“There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of
the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had
not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It
brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past
writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 88. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1930w.
“The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed
discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it
deals.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 670w.
“A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a
theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist
to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has
generally obtained.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 275. S. 30, ‘05. 1930w.
“The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better
told before.”
— — + =Sat. R.= 100: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1510w.
“Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is
merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide
perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be
perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then
he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is
on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 439. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1780w.
=Peet, Louis Harman.= Trees and shrubs of Central park. $2. Manhattan
press.
Mr. Peet says: “The purpose of this book is to put within the reach of
the non-technical city nature lover a handy means of identifying trees
and shrubs which he meets in his park rambles.” On sixteen maps
covering the park, two thousand trees and shrubs have been plotted; a
table accompanying the maps gives both the common and botanical names.
There is also an index to the common names, wherein the number of the
page, chapter, map and location is placed for quick reference.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“We cannot too much commend the fullness and accuracy of the lists
which Mr. Peet here gives us.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 430w.
“It is not only a description of the trees, but is a real guide and
companion, pointing out that which it describes in a manner that is
wholly comprehensible to the reader. The text is lucid and readable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 420w.
* “In every particular it is a handy and useful little volume.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Hundred days. †$1.50. Appleton.
Napoleon’s hundred days between Elba and Waterloo form the setting of
this historical novel which exploits the adventures of a young
Englishman and a French maid in the secret service of Napoleon. “Mr.
Pemberton has borrowed the very lady who appears in Mr. Bernard Shaw’s
‘Man of destiny’—Mr. Shaw himself borrowed the lady from more or less
authentic history—and provided her with adventures enough to fill the
usual number of pages which, outwardly, at least, constitute a novel.”
(N. Y. Times.)
“It is a stirring tale, and the characterization is skillful.
Occasionally the author’s style fails him.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 290w.
“The story offers the conventional blend of fact and romantic fiction,
is narrated in somewhat indistinct fashion, and proves but moderately
exciting.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is stirring and the tale is picturesquely told; the plot is
hackneyed.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Pepys, Sir William Weller.= Later Pepys; ed. with introd., by Alice C.
C. Gaussen. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
“The letters included in these two handsomely bound and finely
illustrated volumes have been selected from the correspondence of Sir
William Pepys between the years 1758 and 1825. Sir William Pepys was a
descendant of the elder branch of the family to which Samuel Pepys
belonged, and was generally well-known in the latter part of the
eighteenth century as a friend, and in some cases the intimate, of
distinguished literary characters of the period. His letters are
therefore primarily of literary interest, very little reference being
made in them to ordinary political or social conditions of the times,
even the stirring events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
receiving but scant notice.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The only direct historical interest is in the occasional references
to contemporary historical writers and criticisms upon them. They
frequently do present some striking incident, or some intimate
characterization of figures in the field of contemporaneous
literature. In this connection alone are they valuable for the student
of history.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 688. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Sir William’s letters, though sometimes dull and prosy, often catch
something of the vivacity of his correspondents, and those to his son
in school and college are delightful.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 150w.
=Perkin, Frederick Mollwo.= Practical methods of electrochemistry.
*$1.60. Longmans.
“After a general account of electrical magnitudes and units, measuring
instruments, and electrolytic apparatus, the author gives practical
instructions for electrochemical analysis.... The last and longest
section of the book deals with preparative electrochemistry.... The
references to original papers are numerous, and a convenient table of
five-figure logarithms, with instructions for its use, is contained in
an appendix.”—Nature.
“The practical instructions are on the whole adequate and accurate, so
that the student could acquire with little assistance a sufficient
acquaintance with the working methods of electrochemistry. Whilst the
book is satisfactory in this the most important feature, it shows in
other respects many signs of hasty composition, which greatly detract
from its value.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 5. My. 4, ‘05. 530w.
=Perrin, Raymond St. James.= Evolution of knowledge. *$1.50. Baker.
In his review of philosophy the author compares the chief systems of
ancient and modern thought, “the object being to measure the approach
of each system to the goal of philosophy which is the demonstration of
the unity of all things ... to demonstrate the fact that knowledge can
be unified by co-ordinating the sciences.” Pt. I. deals with the
pre-evolution period of Greece, England, Scotland, Germany and France;
pt. II. discusses the evolutionary philosophy of Spencer and Lewes.
The keynote of the treatment is that religious devotion and
intelligence must develop together.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 269. Ag. 26. 80w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
“In the demonstration of his thesis the author enters such a labyrinth
of the metaphysical and mystical that we altogether refuse his lead.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 160w.
* “Interesting, if not quite fascinating.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Perris, George Herbert.= Russia in revolution. **$3. Brentano’s.
“Mr. Perris’s volume on ‘Russia in revolution’ is a sketch of the
Russian revolutionary movement from about 1870 down to the present
time. It consists chiefly of a series of short biographies of the
principal leaders of the Liberal movement, together with a few
chapters on the Russian government, and on the financial and economic
conditions of the country.... The subject, however, is an interesting
one, and the personal sketches and life stories of Stepniak,
Volkhovsky, Dr. Soskice, Mark Broido, Mme. Kovalsky, and numbers of
other revolutionists, often recounted in their own words, are
significant and thrilling.”—Lond. Times.
“Is lively and interesting, but somewhat open to the charge that he
fails to name a good many of his sources and some of his equally
interesting rivals. Mr. Perris takes pains and knows his subject.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 180w.
“It cannot be said that the author has anything very new to tell us,
and most of his information has been obtained at second-hand. He sees
Russia only from the point of view of the extremists.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“These quotations will serve to show M. Perris’s sincere effort to be
fair and impartial, but the same paragraph furnishes two other
quotations which equally well illustrate his defective vision in
consequence of his prejudice against nearly everything in Russia in
its present form.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 504. Je. 22, ‘05. 1740w.
“The chief value of this book, however, lies in the personal (and
frequently pitiful) records and brief autobiographies of the martyrs
in the cause of Russian political liberty, and also in the
miscellaneous data on topics which are not contained in Russian
government reports.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 940w.
“No doubt the book is put together in an easy, entertaining fashion.
Although from a non-revolutionary standpoint most of its deductions
are untenable, the chapters touching upon the economic and political
condition of the country are not without value and interest.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 520w.
“In arrangement it is not free from defects, particularly from a
tendency to retraverse the same or similar ground; but this drawback
is connected with what is perhaps Mr. Perris’s most distinctive claim
on the attention of his readers,—his extensive and intimate
acquaintance with Russian revolutionists, over a long period.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 321. S. 2, ‘05. 1880w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Amateur spirit. **$1.25. Houghton.
Six essays in which the author commends “combining the professional’s
skill with the zest and enthusiasm of the amateur.” There are two
chapters on the college professor, and one entitled “Hawthorne at
North Adams.”
“There is a flavour of this conscious condescension in these essays,
and it takes away from the charm which they possess in spite of it,
charm both of phrase and anecdote. The ideas are not very subtle; nor
have they any marked freshness; but to the main idea we heartily
respond. Mr. Perry is not precise enough; he does not know that
different things in life should be approached in a different spirit.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 332. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w.
“In spite of what we have just said, the quality of the best of the
contemporary American essayists is rare; and outside Mr. Howells and
Mr. Alden we know no one who possesses greater gifts of taste and
style than Mr. Bliss Perry.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 558. My. 6. 720w.
* “No one wants to hear the crack of a whip in these leisurely papers,
but there might be a little more mental activity without any sign of
the strain.” F. M. Colby.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 473. Ja. ‘05. 880w.
“To apply to him words of his own, he is one of the ‘speculative,
amused, undeluded children of this world.’ Sanity, balance,
kindliness, unite with insight and imagination to give his pages their
peculiar charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“The curious thing about Mr. Perry’s plea for The amateur spirit is
that it should seem to slight so glaringly the virtue of the mean.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 383. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“All the six essays in the volume have some reference to the working
of the amateur spirit in the world.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 138. F. 16, ‘05. 940w. (Survey of contents.)
“The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what
American writers can do in this branch of literature.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 290w.
=Peters, John Punnett.= Early Hebrew story: its historical background.
**$1.25. Putnam.
“The substance of the book was delivered as lectures on the Bond
foundation at Bangor theological seminary in November, 1903.... In
chap. 1, ‘Introductory: literary and archæological,’ the author gives
a simple, yet clear, sketch of his conception of the literary origin
of the early books of the Bible, and a general view of the history of
Palestine before the Israelitish occupation.... In chap. 2, ‘The
formation of Israel: The origin of the twelve tribes,’ the view that a
group of Aramean tribes settled among and absorbed tribes already
resident in Canaan is worked out with considerable detail. In chap. 3,
‘The patriarchs and the shrines of Israel,’ it is pointed out that the
stories of the patriarchs cluster about certain shrines.... In chap.
4, ‘Survivals—legendary and mythical.’ Dr. Peters gathers together a
considerable residuum of material, which remains after one has
subtracted from the patriarchal stories the elements representing
tribal movements and sanctuary traditions, and in which survivals of
myths or legends are probably to be found. Chap. 5, ‘Cosmogony and
primeval history,’ deals with Gen., chaps. 1-11, which is analyzed
into its various elements.... Chap. 6, ‘The moral value of early
Hebrew story,’ forms a fitting climax to the whole.”—Bib. World.
“The book is written for the ordinary reader of the Bible, is
unencumbered by erudite notes, is written in a clear and attractive
style, and can be strongly recommended to the untechnical reader, who
desires to learn how critical study affects the early books of the
Bible. The book throughout bears evidence of wide reading. The marvel
is that in such a work, where evidence is often scanty and much has to
be supplied from analogies often remote, one finds so little from
which to dissent. The work merits high praise and deserves a wide
recognition.” George A. Barton.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 313. Ap. ‘05. 790w.
“The book is uncommonly readable.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“We can very heartily recommend the book. It is thoroughly readable,
pre-eminently scholarly and entirely trustworthy; it is replete with
valuable archæological knowledge; it has all the marks of an
accomplished exegete, and its conclusions are in harmony with those of
many able scholars of the present day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 841. Ap. 13, ‘05. 760w.
* “Wealth of archaeological information lends special value to Dr.
Peters’ scholarly ‘Early Hebrew story.’”
+ =Ind.= 50: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their
part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th
anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.
The author has prepared this volume for popular use and states in his
preface: “It is a book of facts rather than opinions.... The book is
written with the hope that it may modify the views which the Gentile
world holds with regard to the position of the Jew, and the author’s
fervent prayer is that its facts may lead Christians to grant to the
possession of the Jew the mental, moral, social and spiritual
qualifications which history affirms.” To this end he has set forth
facts culled from various sources showing the part which the Jew
played in the discovery of America, in pre-revolutionary settlements,
in the wars of the republic, American politics, finance, arts and
sciences. There are also chapters upon The number of Jews in the
United States, Characteristics of the Jews, and Anti-Semitism in
America. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Jews prominent
in various professions.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 330w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Will the coming man marry? and other
studies on the problem of home and marriage. $1. Winston.
Under such titles as: How to be happy though married; Why so many
divorces? The ideal wife; The duties of a husband; Money and
matrimony; The culture of the child; The home and the higher education
of women; Woman’s rights; and Good mothers the makers of great
nations, Dr. Peters emphasizes the serious side of matrimony, gives
good advice to both husband and wife, and discusses education,
deplores modern extravagance, and makes many suggestions, which, if
followed, will help to make daily life easier and more worth while to
both the married and the unmarried.
=Peterson, Maude Gridley.= How to know wild fruits: a guide to plants
when not in flower, by means of fruit and leaf; il. by Mary Elizabeth
Herbert. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“We have examined every one of the 80 woodcuts in this volume, and
must pronounce them correct and helpful ... while descriptions of
three hundred fruit-bearing plants are careful and scientific enough,
and a key will send the botanist to the order and species, the plants
are arranged for the use of the casual student by the color of their
fruits.”—Ind.
* “This study opens to amateurs a new and comparatively unfamiliar
field and one in which the writers of botanical handbooks have
heretofore made few contributions.”
+ =Country Cal.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It meets a want, and we are glad to recommend it as a useful guide.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“As a help to the beginner and a means of stimulating observation it
may be commended. It is well got up, remarkably free from misprints,
appropriately illustrated, and provided with an index of vernacular
names and one of the Latin designations of the plants described.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 428. Ag. 31, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 220w.
=Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Spec.= 94: 948. Je. 24, ‘05. 120w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“This is not a work on manners and customs or religion, but is purely
history, very largely original and representing the author’s own
researches and conclusions.... The period covered in this volume
extends from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty, about 1300 B.
C., the most brilliant period in Egyptian history, to 342 B. C., when
the last native king of the thirtieth dynasty lost the throne, and the
rule passed over to the Persian Ochus. This period is illustrated by
161 pictures of monuments, mainly halftones, with all the known
cartouches.... When we remember that the period treated covers the
entire relation of Israel to Egypt, from Abraham to Jeremiah, the
value of the volume to biblical students is obvious.”—Ind.
“His English is still slipshod. The lists of the monuments of every
king, with provenance and abiding place, that he gives will be
extremely useful to students; and for the care and pains that he has
bestowed on their compilation all Egyptologists should be grateful.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 434. S. 30. 760w.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 720w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“We may not always assent to his conclusions and combinations, but the
archæological facts on which they are founded are stated without
omission or bias, and the conclusions themselves are often brilliant,
usually ingenious and always stimulating.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 1100w.
=Pettit, Henry.= Twentieth-century idealist. †$1.50. Grafton press.
“The heroine, who ‘loves and seeks the truth for its own sake,’ is a
young and charming girl. She has her own ideas of the ‘true’ faith,
and tells them to those who argue with her. Adele Cultus, her parents,
and her friend, join two gentlemen in a trip to the Orient. Paul
Warder falls in love with the heroine. Together they visit the many
interesting places, and finally come to understand each other very
well.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel ... is probably an attempt to write biography in the form
of fiction. It is an introspective, retrospective, meditative,
idealistic tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Peyton, William Wynne.= Three greatest forces in the world, and the
making of Western civilization, pt. I, The incarnation. *$1.40.
Macmillan.
“This trinity of forces is constituted, says the author, by the
Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.... In the present
volume, limited to the first of the triad, he insists at length on the
extension of virgin generation from the lower creation, as in bees, to
the higher creation, as in the virgin birth of Christ.”—Outlook.
“While the author is a man of considerable originality and
independence of thought he is too much lacking in critical judgment
and too fond of large sounding generalities to make his work of
value.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 160w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Early Christian conception of Christ; its
significance and value in the history of religion. *$1.25. Putnam.
“An expansion of a lecture delivered by the author before the
International theological congress at Amsterdam, in September,
1903.... The book has been divided into five chapters—‘Christ as son
of God,’ ‘Christ as conqueror of Satan,’ ‘Christ as a wonder-worker,’
‘Christ as the conqueror of death and the life-giver,’ ‘Christ as the
king of kings and lord of lords.’”—N. Y. Times.
* =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 773. O. ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
=Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 410w.
* =Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. **$1.10. Houghton.
“It has been Mr. Phelps’s effort in this latest addition to the
‘American commonwealths’ series to give a broad survey setting forth
Louisiana and its place in the development of the United States.”
(Outlook). “The fortunes of Louisiana under French and Spanish rule
are described in the first half of the volume, and its history as part
of the United States forms the second half of the volume.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “While the specialist may not find much that is new in this work, it
has for the general reader the advantage of being based upon the
sources, and is not a mere compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 350w.
* “From the narrative standpoint little fault is to be found, the
style being graceful and flowing and the interest unfailingly
sustained.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Phelps, Charles Edward Davis.= Accolade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
In this story of the fourteenth century “the hero, son of a worthy
Englishman, being kidnapped into France by a ship’s captain, betakes
himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallantry, and returns to
his native England with wealth and honor just in time to prevent his
sweetheart from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets are
reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Petrarch, and it is from a
careful study of the writings of the former that the rather difficult
and multifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps’s book are constructed.... The
rudeness of the England of the period and the refinement of Italy
serve as foils, each for the other, and the whole tale is in the
nature of a treasure house for the student of customs.” (Dial.)
“The book shows the most careful study and great painstaking, and
abounds in varied adventure.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It cannot be said that the mantle of the old storyteller has
descended upon the modern.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“At times the Chaucerian English in the sprightly conversations daunts
even the conqueror of polyglot dialect, but the real interest of the
tale carries him safely through to the satisfactory final scenes.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.
* =Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“In commendably brief space the author gives us a comprehensive survey
of Florentine history, the part played by all its leading citizens
both in politics, literature, and art, the origin of all its important
buildings, with extensive architectural notes about them and excellent
illustrations of its churches, palaces, groups of sculpture,
altar-pieces, frescoes, and noteworthy details.” (Nation.) There are
170 illustrations. The lives of the Florentine painters and
descriptions of their principal works are also given making the volume
a good supplementary guide book for the artistic traveler.
* “The book suffers from being crudely translated from the German.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 510w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling
against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be
downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he
hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants,
makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a
girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds
to win her love.
* “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance
deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire
Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 260w.
* — =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05, 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. $1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is
driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of
a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad
bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county
prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer
for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a
rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in
the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru
which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had
renounced in his days of poverty.
“It is in our judgment far and away the most important novel of recent
years, because it unmasks present political conditions in a manner so
graphic, so convincing and so compelling that it cannot fail to arouse
the thoughtful to the deadly peril which confronts our people.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 663. Je. ‘05. 6180w.
“This novel is definitely better than its predecessors, even though
its author has not even yet progressed very far in the art of
portraying women.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
* =Phillips, David Graham.= Reign of gilt. **$1. Pott.
“This work consists of a series of brilliant essays dealing with the
overshadowing questions of the hour—Plutocracy and Democracy. The
first half of the volume deals with plutocracy.... Such subjects as
Plutocracy at home, Youth among the money-maniacs, Caste-compellers,
Pauper-making, The made-over White house, and Europe laughs, are
discussed.... The second half of the volume is entitled ‘Democracy.’
In this division Mr. Phillips considers such subjects as The compeller
of equality, Democracy’s dynamo, A nation of dreamers, Not generosity,
but justice, The inevitable ideal, Our allies from abroad, The real
American woman, and The man of to-day and to-morrow.”—Arena.
* “Therefore, we say that he who loves the republic should buy, read
and circulate ‘The reign of gilt.’ The more such books are circulated,
the more certainly and swiftly will come the democratic reaction for
which we are all striving.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 661. D. ‘05. 1610w.
* “It is a most vital subject, and one upon which Mr. Phillips speaks
earnestly and with an iteration almost Rooseveltian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The delightful story of the daughter of an old Washington family, who
undertakes to carry a western senator’s wife to the top of the
official-social wave, and succeeds. Incidentally she is rewarded for
her service by a large salary and—something more. The various types of
people found in the struggle for social and political supremacy at the
national capital are well and amusingly drawn.
* “It is not up to the level Mr. Phillips has maintained in his latest
works.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 740w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Phillips’s airy tale is a fascinating one, and, perhaps, if one
looks closely, he may find beneath the daintily flavored meringue some
food for thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “Besides the froth there is some really admirable character drawing
in the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
“The story is distinctly clever and humorous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, E. C.= See =Looker, Mrs. Horace B.=
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Plain Mary Smith: a romance of Red Saunders.
†$1.50. Century.
Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story
will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original
humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the
indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward
the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the
lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for
Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters
into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he
fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of
tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.
“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them
all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous
whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr.
Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an
action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play
opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the
English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for
the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made their marriage
possible, and their punishment.
“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr.
Phillips’s previous work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 155. F. 4. 840w.
“‘The sin of David’ is even cleverer than ‘Herod’ and ‘Ulysses’ in its
superficial dramatic quality, its superficial poetry. But the true
dramatic fire is not in it.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ‘05. 140w.
“To one who has read all four plays of Mr. Phillips it appears
unhappily evident that The sin of David is inferior in movement to
Ulysses, even as this must rank below Herod, nor is it equal in pathos
to Paolo and Francesca. There are passages in the play which would
drag in presentation.” Louis H. Gray.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 554. F. ‘05. 970w.
“Has the fine literary qualities we associate with the name of the
author. But as an acting play it can have at best a success of esteem,
for while there are some strong and moving scenes in it, the general
air is of the closet rather than the stage.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 91. Ja. ‘05. 710w.
“The verse is dignified and filled with a haunting melodious charm.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 47. Ja. 16, ‘05. 440w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
“A play better calculated to ‘place’ him critically than any of its
predecessors. The chief impression made by it is that it is the
product of a moderate poetic faculty guided by an industrious and
self-poised intelligence.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 72. Ja. 26, ‘05. 590w.
“As a play it ranks lowest in the four plays Mr. Phillips has written;
this position it maintains as a poem. The work is deftly knitted
together; it has beauty of form, if not many beauties of line; but it
has no great situations.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 382. F. ‘05. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 40w.
=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
This volume is the result of a layman’s investigation of religious
truth from heathen, Jewish and Christian standpoints. Under two
general divisions, The history of pardon, and Evidence of pardon and
the church as an organization, it makes a plea for unity, sets forth
the original phases of Christianity, reviews all cases of pardon in
the New Testament, and compares Jesus with other religious teachers.
* “The author sketches the history of Christianity with all the
assurance of ignorance and then with equal assurance expounds his own
theological views.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1259. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 80w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= The farm of the dagger. $1.50. Dodd.
A story of a family feud in Dartmoor, early in the nineteenth century.
The hero is an English gentleman, and a captured American plays an
important role in the exciting tale, which ends in the sacrifice of
the parents and the happy union of the lovers.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is
grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs
and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all
are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways;
Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.
=Acad.= 68: 906. S. 2, ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising
vividness.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 370w.
“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a
certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 470w.
“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour.
There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that
can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain
readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“Dartmoor sketches in sombre shades, and excellent of their kind.
There is a suggestion of Hardy, too, without Mr. Hardy’s later
morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 510w.
“Taken as a whole, the volume leaves a delightful impression of quaint
character, soft dialect, and exuberant but not grotesque fancy.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
This is another story of Dartmoor, and the Dartmoor peasants the
author knows so well. After twenty years of married life, Anthony
Redvers, the father of the two grown sons, finds relief from the
temperamental coldness of his wife, in an intrigue with an unknown
woman. The discovery, the revenge of the wife and the beautiful
devotion of the younger son fill out the plot.
“It is a remarkable novel, a living, breathing piece of work.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 83. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.
“Is constructed on what is almost a Sophoclean scale. Mr. Phillpotts
moves simply among primitive emotions, and moves with great natural
insight. He has psychological subtlety, and he has great tenderness.
He has a sense of the dramatic which materially assists him. Too much
praise cannot be given to the author for his handling of this big
theme. The characterization is always good, and sometimes more than
good.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 105. Ja. 28, 610w.
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 550. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“Those who care to read literature and not mere books will find what
they want in this great novel.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 378. Ap. ‘05. 830w.
“A study that rivals ‘The scarlet letter’ in earnestness and
psychological penetration.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The psychology of a weak man and a strong woman is etched with the
hand of a master.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 559. Mr. 9, ‘05. 290w.
* “‘The secret woman’ is a great story of the wrong kind.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Phillpotts’s strongest story. A tragedy as grim and inexorable as
any ever told by ancient Greek. He knows his Devon peasants, and it is
with humility that we enter one or two protests against his portrayal.
One may wish the theme less painful, our keen joy in the perfection of
literary workmanship less marred by the continual constriction of
heart to which the author compels us. It is not only its author’s
masterpiece, but it is far in advance of anything he has yet
written—and that is to give it higher praise than almost any other
comparison with contemporary fiction could afford.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 700w.
“A book of unusual power and passion—by far the best work in fiction
that Mr. Phillpotts has put forth within the past two or three years.
There are at least four characters in this book that are original in
conception, carefully consistent throughout, and subtle in their
psychological development. Altogether the situation is as strange as
it is compelling in its force, and it is handled with skill and vigor.
In all, this is a grim but forceful romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“It is a story of terrible frankness, dealing without evasion with the
elemental forces of the human tragedy, but without morbid interest or
curiosity, and binding the penalty to the sin.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Assuredly the best novel of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“His themes are simple, but they are far too heavily orchestrated.
Thus his style, though marked by fine descriptive passages, threatens
to become laboured and ornate, and is occasionally disfigured by
recondite epithets and literary preciosities. He seems to us to err by
the artificial and deliberate invention of incidents designed to
enhance the tragic quality of the narrative, by a piling up of the
agony which defeats its own aim, and suggests the element of
gratuitousness where all should march inevitably to the crowning
catastrophe.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 331. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1130w.
=Picard, George H.= Bishop’s niece, †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“Although the comic element is the last that one expects in a story of
‘mixed marriages,’ that is to say of matrimonial alliances between
Catholic and Protestant, it is really very droll, thanks to the demure
eccentricity of his pacific Lordship, the Bishop of Isle Madame, and
the contrasted orthodoxy of his brother, a domineering layman.”—N. Y.
Times.
“A neat piece of literary workmanship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
“The little story shows ingenuity, a quaint humor, and some pretty
fancies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“Is a well-balanced little conceit with delicate and simple humor.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Little Burr: the Warwick of America. $1.50.
Robinson-Luce.
A book which deals with the youth of Aaron Burr, and his career in the
Revolutionary war. It tells of his marriage, chronicles the birth of
his daughter Theodosia, and thruout contradicts all accepted ideas of
his character by presenting him as a noble gentleman, true to his
ideals and the victim of unmerited social and political ostracism.
“Is not very coherent as fiction.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 480w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“‘The ancient grudge’ is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one
young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main
the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men.
They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the
same girl, and in the end the mercurial, sanguine, visionary Stewart
dies heroically and dramatically, while the heroism of Keith (who as a
boy has saved his friend’s life) takes the form of steady persistence
and strength of mind and purpose. To some extent the story deals with
labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in
an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the
subject.”—Outlook.
“In thus making a ‘problem novel’ out of what had better have remained
a story of private interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“It is wholesome in tone, high in its ideals. The author has made a
decided advance in his art since the publication of ‘The triumph,’
handling his material more firmly, and making a stronger human
appeal.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.
“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work
in character-study than this book, which is, moreover distinctly well
written. The weakest point is construction.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace.
*$1.10. Macmillan.
“In this work the author considers the question of not what have
arbitration and conciliation done, but rather what ought they to do,
and how they ought to do it.” (R. of Rs.) “The first part of the book
is historical and descriptive; the second treats of ‘The principles of
industrial peace.’ The table of contents contains a summary of the
book, and in appendices problems of wages and industry are treated of
diametrically.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book would have provided easier reading and commanded more
attention if Mr. Pigou had been more willing to ‘take sides.’”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 705. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 339. My. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“His spirit appears to us throughout fair, his understanding and
appreciation of the point of view of both parties to the industrial
conflict remarkable, and his advice generally to be both based on
sound principles and practical of application.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 133. S. 16, ‘05. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“Our one criticism of the book is that the author hesitates a little
between two different intentions. Some of the preliminaries would be
in place in a large organon, but in a popular handbook they read like
platitudes, and might well be taken for granted.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 290. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1730w.
“His general judgment is keen and vigorous, and he has remarkable
powers of exposition, among which a good literary style is not the
least. Thus far, at least, I have been unable to see that the economic
reasoner extracts from his careful labor on curves and diagrams an
iota of truth which he had not assumed or put in, at the beginning.”
N. P. Gilman.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 224. Ag. ‘05. 640w.
=Pike, Godfrey Holden.= John Wesley: the man and his mission. *$1. Union
press.
Illustrated and written in a quaint old-fashioned style, this brief
account of the life of John Wesley, “one of the greatest evangelists
who ever carried the Gospel to the people,” seems to breathe the
simple Christian spirit of the man. It is a book which is well adapted
to children, altho not written for them.
=Pitkin, Helen.= Angel by brevet. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is the first book of a young New Orleans newspaper writer. The
story deals with French Creoles of the old regime, and the voodouism
of the negroes. The heroine invokes the charms of a sorcerer to aid
her in securing the affections of the man with whom she fancies
herself in love, and in the course of the complications which follow
discovers that she is really in love with a clergyman who has long
been her admirer.
“The testimony of those in a position to know is that Miss Pitkin has
not transcended facts. Her development of this fruitful theme is,
however, most unequal. The entire book, indeed, is full of
affectations, not only in choice of words but in their collocation.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“The style is precious and exotic to the extreme limit of license and
beyond. Miss Pitkin’s command of unfamiliar words is marvelous; her
use of familiar words more marvelous still.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Outline of plot.)
“Miss Pitkin handles her material with much strength; but her hand
lacks the sure and discriminating touch which comes from practice. Her
details of plot do not always avoid confusion, and the movement is
sometimes labored.” J. R. Ormond.
+ — =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 97. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and
other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“It was a very happy thought to bring together the myths of Plato and
examine the lesson of each. We are grateful, moreover, to Professor
Stewart for giving us the Greek in every case on the page opposite to
the English rendering.... The excellent account of the Cambridge
Platonists, More, Cudworth, Clarke, and Smith, will be to some not the
least interesting part of a work full of thought and learning.”—Acad.
“Jowett’s translation is so good that it seems churlish to say that
the present rendering is even more perfect, and reads even more like
an original composition in English.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 325. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1300w.
“It may be said in conclusion, that Prof. Stewart’s book—dealing, as
it does, with a side of Platonism which has been too much neglected—is
the finest contribution to the knowledge of Plato’s thought which has
been made in this country of late years.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 1390w.
“One cannot read Professor Stewart’s discussion without being moved to
wonder again and again at the felicitous phrase by which he conveys
impalpable emotions, by the fineness with which his perception is
pitched to detect frail sympathies.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 3150w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 155. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w.
“Though in detail interesting and exegetic, the book does not draw
very much to a point, and is perhaps rather overweighted. Mr.
Stewart’s translation, it must be said is not as good a representation
of the original as Jowett’s.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1320w.
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 895. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.
=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Walt Whitman. **75c. Small.
Mr. Platt’s biography is the outgrowth of partisan beliefs and fancies
rather than a development from so-called legitimate biographical
material including clews to Whitman’s inner life. The volume is the
latest issue in the “Beacon biographies.”
“It is frankly the statement of a partisan; it contains little or no
new material; it follows closely the phraseology of previous writers
and quotes rather too liberally from them; but it is clear, compact,
sensible summary of the facts of Whitman’s life, so far as they are
known, and as such deserves commendation.” G. R. Carpenter.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 64. Mr. ‘05. 670w.
“A concise and highly eulogistic account of Whitman and his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 20w.
“A believer to the fullest extent in the greatness of his work. And
yet he does not spare criticism.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Plummer, Rev. Alfred.= English church history: four lectures from the
death of Archbishop Parker to the death of King Charles I. *$1.
Scribner.
“Dr. Plummer aims to be judicially fair in his estimate of men and
measures in the momentous period in English history from 1575 to 1649,
but on every page he makes it patent that he is an ardent adherent of
the church by law established. Elizabeth’s character was far from
worthy, but it was good of her to fight the Romanists and the
Puritans, and to preserve the Anglican church intact. James I, the
wise fool, reached ‘the lowest depths of unpopularity with his
subjects,’ but, ‘by solid conviction, during the whole of his reign he
was neither Romanist nor Puritan, but an Anglican.’ Five or six
particulars are specified in which he served the Church of England a
good turn. Charles I, the impersonation of ‘incurable duplicity and
intrigue,’ carried despotism to its utmost limit, and through his
‘criminal wrongheadedness and perfidy’ brought about the overthrow of
both episcopacy and monarchy. Dr. Plummer does not venture to
enumerate the particulars in which his reign was helpful to the
Anglican cause.”—Bib. World.
=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 376. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
Reviewed by E. B. Hulbert.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 317. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Plunkett, Horace.= Ireland in the new century. 60c. Dutton.
A popular priced edition of this now famous book which “begins with a
chapter on ‘The English misunderstanding,’ and traces the whole
question of politics, religion, economics, and education to the final
chapter, which is on ‘Government with the consent of the governed.’”
(R. of Rs.)
“It is dull, labored in style, pedantic, and egotistical.”
+ — — =Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 790w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 730w.
“Unquestionably a sane and a healthful contribution to the settlement
of the ever-difficult Irish question.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 280w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= School-house in the woods. †$1.50. Little.
In her story for young readers Miss Plympton portrays the sweet
influence of a child who comes to live with her guardians, two
bachelor uncles,—a child whose “realization of the relationship
between human beings, so keen as to make her oblivious to the
distinction made by rank, race, education or even morals” fosters a
democratic spirit among her school friends. Her sympathy and affection
for a little colored girl form the larger part of the story.
* “It is a book which would do best service in being read aloud by a
judicious editor, who should cull the flowers and skip the thorns.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 868. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.00. Little.
A feud, which began in the Irish land league troubles, is transplanted
and finished in Arizona where, among Indians, outlaws, and cowboys,
young Lord Balshannon finds a wife in the plucky daughter of a robber
chief. The story is real and stirring and the author has lived the
things of which he writes.
“The real enjoyment of the book is ... due to the breezy dialect in
which the book is written, the picturesque vernacular of the ranch.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“The style in which the cowboy tells the stirring tale is crisp,
vivid, vigorous and only occasionally marred by coarseness; the
offense is in expression alone—the thought is not coarse.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 110w.
“Seems to us quite the best cowboy story since Owen Wister’s ‘The
Virginian.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 40w.
“There are several obscure statements and situations in the story.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 180w.
“Among current books of adventure, ‘Curly’ is especially good.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
* Poems every child should know; a selection of all times for young
people; ed. by Mary E. Burt. *$1.25. Doubleday.
The poems contained in this volume are those which children actually
love and with but a few exceptions they are brief enough to be
committed to memory. They have been divided into five groups each of
which appeals to a different stage of childhood. The division
headings: The budding moment; The little child; The day’s at the morn;
Lad and lassie; On and on; and Grow old along with me, strike the key
notes of their contents. Nearly all the old favorites and some new
ones are to be found here. The volume is bound in soft green suede and
is decorated with drawings by Blanche Ostertag.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation,
1489-1556. **$1.35. Putnam.
An addition to the “Heroes of the Reformation series.” An attempt to
clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Cranmer, which, the author
says, are mysteries of the atmosphere he breathed, rather than of
character. His great work in the compilation of the Book of common
prayer, and his translations of the Collects is set over against his
weakness in failing to stand by his convictions against Tudor tyranny.
“The author has a competent knowledge of what was then going on
throughout Europe and is safe-guarded against the insularity or
provincialism which marks the authors of the volumes in Stephens and
Hunt’s ‘History of the Church of England.’ Its impartiality and lack
of partisan writing is also to be commended.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1210w.
“No one could be better qualified for the task. The book can rightly
claim to be the first considerable biography of Cranmer which has been
written according to the canons of modern scientific historical work.
It is clear, and for the most part consistent and convincing; and
though it contains nothing that is startlingly new, it arranges in
useful and readable form a vast amount of hitherto scattered and not
always trustworthy information. Mr. Pollard’s treatment of the
archbishop’s career under Henry VIII seems to us ... much less
satisfactory.” R. B. Merriman.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 861. Jl. ‘05. 920w.
“This book is an inspiring work, both as a fine biography of a most
admirable man and as an addition to the conscience literature that is
so needed to stimulate the moral energies of our age.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 110. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
“The present work reaches, we think, the high-water mark of his
achievement. It will form, and rightly form the standard life of
Cranmer for some time to come. Mr. Pollard in this book is certainly
not without a bias.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 200. Ag. 12. 1530w.
“Mr. Pollard offers as good a plea for him as can be offered, and
offers it in a temperate spirit. His volume is almost a model of what
such a biography should be.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 330w.
“The character and ability of Cranmer are skilfully portrayed, and the
work may be counted as a real contribution to popular knowledge on
this important period.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“Mr. Pollard has done the Archbishop something like justice, and has
done it in a way that maintains the interest of the reader to the
last.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 510w.
“Mr. Pollard writes pleasantly, with a clear arrangement of his
subject, and a fair sense of proportion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2190w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 110w.
“Very able and interesting volume. We are grateful to Mr. Pollard for
his fine vindication of a man who was not without elements of true
greatness.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 58. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1720w.
=Pollock, Walter Herries, and Pollock, Guy C.= Hay fever. $1.25.
Longmans.
“Mr. Henry Tempest, stockbroker, is suffering from a severe attack of
the malady which gives the book its title; to cure it he takes an
overdose of an Egyptian remedy, recommended by a friend with a
careless turn for archaeology. The effects of this overdose are
amazing and mischievous. The stockbroker is transformed from a staid
and benevolent man of middle-age into a boy of pranks.... He has one
frantic day of irresponsible delight, and his adventures ... carry one
on from peal to peal of laughter.”—Acad.
“It is an excellent farce.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ‘05. 260w.
“The book has all the freshness of a humorous idea worked out and
finished in the heat of the moment.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 150w.
“It’s all rather pleasant and funny after its fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 380w.
“A farce with only one defect—it is not funny.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 10w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 674. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
=Pool, Bettie Freshwater.= Eyrie and other southern stories. $1.
Broadway pub.
Seven short stories, some of which are in the negro dialect, a dozen
simple poems on various subjects and a concluding story. The
monstrosity, by Gaston Pool, complete this volume.
=Porter, Frank Chamberlain.= Messages of the apocalyptic writers, the
books of Daniel and Revelation and some uncanonical apocalypses; with
historical introductions and a free rendering in paraphrase. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“These mysterious writings, most of them not in our canonical
Scriptures, are our chief source for later Jewish eschatology, and for
the momentous matter of Messianic dogmatics.... [The author] gives a
summary view of their nature and subject-matter, and analyzes, at
considerable length, the books of Daniel and Revelations. In smaller
space he studies the apocalypses of Enoch, Ezra and Baruch.”—Cath.
World.
“A very useful and convenient manual of Jewish and Christian
apocalyptic from the historical point of view.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 79. Jl. ‘05. 20w.
“An excellent manual. Professor Porter’s introduction to the study of
these writings is done in a clear, systematic, and erudite manner. His
tone throughout is scholarly and objective.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 248. My. ‘05. 490w.
“A little book thoroughly to be recommended.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* “Is perhaps, the best introduction to the study of Daniel and
Revelation available.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“In ample introductions and notes Professor Porter has given a
confessedly obscure subject the lucid treatment it requires.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Porter, Mary (Mrs. Horace Porter).= Secret of a great influence. *$1.
Macmillan.
In these “Notes on Bishop Westcott’s teachings, the reader ... has set
before him considerations as to the bishop’s ethical and dogmatic
teaching.... He then passes to the subject of ‘Bible study.’ ... The
fifth section treats of Bishop Westcott’s teaching on ‘The Christian
church’ and ‘The Christian creed’; the sixth is devoted to ‘Worship,’
public and private; ‘Foreign missions’ and a variety of other subjects
are also mentioned; and finally we have a paper on Bishop Westcott’s
‘Commentaries,’ by Rev. A. Westcott.”—Spec.
=Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Purple and fine linen. †$1.50.
Appleton.
Fashionable New York forms the background for this story of the
development of Camilla from a child into a woman. Young, thoughtless,
fresh from school, she marries Anthony Stuart, who is rich and
handsome, but who makes of her a plaything not a part of his life.
Another man comes to cheer her lonely existence, and she awakens on
the brink of marital shipwreck.
“The author’s manner of handling her subject is the excuse for the
book’s existence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 290w.
“There is some clever characterization of modern society, and several
individuals stand out clearly as real people.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Pott, Francis L. Hawks.= Sketch of Chinese history. **$1.80. Wessels.
This volume was written to meet the need of a short history of China,
it is intended primarily for teachers, and is a brief survey of a
large field. It contains three divisions, The conquest of China by the
Chinese (B. C. 2852-206), The first struggle with the Tartars (B. C.
206-A. D. 589), The second struggle with the Tartars (A. D. 589-1644),
and includes a chapter on The war with Japan, and Recent events in
China. There are five maps.
=Pottenger, Milton Alberto.= Symbolism. $2.50. Robertson.
A treatise on the soul of things, which demonstrates that the natural
world is but a symbol of the real world, explains why there are but
ten digits in our mathematical system, and shows the pack of playing
cards, or book of 52, to be an ancient Masonic Bible, each card a
symbol of universal law. It reveals new things about many Masonic
symbols and Biblical expressions and declares that the United States
is a Masonic nation whose duty and history are to be read in these
ancient sacred symbols. There are charts and drawings.
=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Potter’s first book is a study of the principles that underlie
the misery resulting from two unhappy marriages. The main action
sympathetically follows the awakening of Agnes Sidney from the
condition of care-free girlhood to the state of restricted wifehood
with Ferdinand Ballington lording the right of financial despotism
over her. The author has drawn a spiritually minded woman whose great
love and keen sense of duty buoy her up when the discovery of
pettiness and low aims would tend to submerge her. In contrast to the
tyranny of withholding is portrayed in the sub-action the tyranny of
giving, in which a wealthy girl, mistress of her own fortune, marries
a quiet, refined bank clerk. Here a man’s sensitive longing for
independence is opposed by the dominant freeheartedness and
worldliness of his wife.
* “A distinctive book not soon forgotten like the average novel.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 120w.
“Here and there the workmanship is a bit crude; here and there the
book would have gained by compression and excision, but, take it all
in all, it is the most remarkable novel that has come to our desk for
many a long day. It takes its rare and high place because, as we read
we say again and again, not ‘This is lifelike,’ but ‘This is life.’”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 810w.
* “It is conspicuously lacking in finish of style in places, and is
not at all points well put together; but it is a real piece of work,
full of true feeling, genuine insight, and a sincere and sound ethical
judgment.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Drink problem in modern life. **30c.
Crowell.
A frank exposition of the drink problem as Bishop Potter views it. He
believes that the secret of mastery over the great evil of
intemperance lies not in “legal enactment,” but in “the Spirit of
Jesus Christ.” He says, “The world waits, we say, for better laws—or
for better men to administer the laws! No, my brother, it waits for
love—the vigilance of love, the service of love, the sacrifice of
love.”
“... Loose texture and somewhat irrelevant quality of much contained
in his pamphlet.”
+ — — =Reader.= 5: 788. My. ‘05. 230w.
=Potter, Margaret.= Fire of spring. $1.50. Appleton.
A mother, regardless of the sleeping fires of youth, marries her young
daughter to a millionaire plow manufacturer of Chicago. The girl,
excited by the whirl of preparations, gives little thought to her
fiance and when she realizes at their first tête-à-tête dinner, that
this bald, red-faced man audibly eating soup, is her husband, she
loathes him. A cousin, handsome and worldly, appears and intrigue,
suspicion, quarrels, and other unpleasant things follow. In the end
the cousin meets a death of the husband’s planning, and the
ill-assorted pair, less lovable than when they first met, forgive, and
come to care for each other.
“The story has the fault so frequently found when women handle sex
problems; as though fearful of not being understood, it insists upon
unsavoury details with unnecessary and repellant frankness. The book
is irritatingly uneven.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 182. Ap. ‘05. 680w.
“Miss Potter has evidently aimed at writing a ‘strong’ novel, and has
certainly succeeded in producing something very rank.”
— — — =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“No one could call this story dull or badly written; but, recognizing
what will inevitably be called its strength, one must regret the
novelist’s use of her real power in the working out of such obnoxious
phases of life—if it is life—in Chicago.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 860w.
“‘The fire of spring’ belongs to the very best in the season’s
American fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 160w.
* =Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief
history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as
descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their
artists. **$2. Page.
In this volume the author has treated each room in the Royal gallery
of fine arts in Venice separately, and in her own chosen order. The
greater pictures she has given in detail while some of the lesser ones
she has merely outlined, reserving as much space as possible for
comments upon the artists themselves. The book is well illustrated.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “This particular volume is well enough for its class.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* “Evidently designed as much to decorate ‘the center table’ as to
illuminate the mind.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “The author shows care and discrimination in her criticism and
suggestions.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
* =Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest; a book of sport in
Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.
“Sir Henry’s volumes deal with many phases of sport, from elk hunting,
in which he is a veteran and an adept, to the successful pursuit of
trout and salmon, from sport with Norwegian red deer to pleasant days
with ryper and other game birds. The author was one of the earliest
sportsmen to wet a line on the famous Tana river. This was nearly
fifty years ago, but the narrative of the expedition and its results
is so fresh and so vigorous that it is certain to capture the reader’s
attention.” (Acad.) The volumes are illustrated.
* “To our thinking, although some of the matter is by no means
entirely new, these are two of the pleasantest sporting volumes that
we have encountered during the last three or four years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1253. D. 2, ‘05. 1280w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* “We like the temper of the book and a good part of its contents; but
think it might, with distinct advantage from a literary point of view,
have been compressed into one volume of moderate length.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
=Poulsson, Anne Emilie.= Runaway donkey, and other rhymes for children.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
Printed in large type upon heavy paper and abundantly illustrated,
these rhymes, the majority of which are about animals, will appeal to
all imaginative little folks.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 15w.
* “Miss Poulsson’s book should be a welcome addition to every child’s
library.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 712. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Country home. **$1.50. McClure.
The author, a fruit-farmer of New York state, deals with the problem
of successful country home making under such headings as: Selecting
the homestead, Growing a house, Water supply, Lawns, Orchard, Flowers,
The insects, The animals, The beautiful and the useful.
“Is one of the most valuable and practical works of recent months.
With the witchery of the poet’s art he leads us from page to page,
until all too soon the end of the volume is reached.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 449. Ap. ‘05. 800w.
“For practical information, Mr. Powell’s is the best book on this
general theme of a home in the country that has appeared—in America at
least—for many a day.”
+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 9f. My. ‘05. 240w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.
“The charm of Mr. Powell’s book is that it urges simplicity of living
and practical and successful ways of doing things, along with full
enjoyment of all that is beautiful and healthful in rural life.”
Priscilla Leonard.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 337. Ap. ‘05. 3890w. (Abstract of
book.)
“All lovers of rural life will appreciate it. It is full of common
sense, practical advice, a commendation rarely to be bestowed on books
of this class; and besides the advice it is excellently good reading.
The book greatly needs a subject index, for it is good enough to be in
frequent use as a reference work. It is so completely and so simply
what it starts out to be—a practical account of a life in the country.
‘The country home’ should be put into every country library, and also
into every school library, for from there it would reach a class of
people who need just its suggestions and ideas.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 96. Ja. 12, ‘05. 700w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.
“The greater part of this book is taken up by advice as to the best
varieties of fruit to plant, ranging from apples to small fruits and
including some little-grown fruits and some nut-trees. The usual order
is reversed here, for after this long dissertation on kinds of fruit,
there follow a few chapters on culture, training, packing, and
marketing.”—Dial.
“It is a good book for the seeker after country living.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Our chief criticism on Mr. Powell’s book would be that in these last
sections he gives ear to too many other advisers. He is at once
conservative and progressive, and has given us a book valuable to have
at hand. A serious defect, however, is the lack of an index.” Edith
Granger.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“The illustrations are for the most part good and are well chosen, and
the practical directions are generally judicious.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.
“His book has the value of accurate, scientific knowledge.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 170w.
=Powers, Caleb.= My own story. **$1.50. Bobbs.
“An account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination
of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my
indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity in his murder.”
It is also the story of Powers’s life, and of his early days, his
brief romance, his political career, and the five years of trial and
imprisonment. The book is written in confinement and is, of course, a
complete vindication of the author. It is illustrated with
photographs.
“On the whole it is done temperately, even complacently, in spite of
the tragic nature of the circumstances for the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 650w.
=Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 20w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“This volume has been written for traders as well as the general
reader to show them the actual position of British railways with
regard to the complaints advanced from time to time on the subjects of
rates and charges, and the origin, operation, and circumstances of the
railways of Britain as compared with those abroad.”—N. Y. Times.
“We find it hard to believe the average railway is so immaculate as
Mr. Pratt makes out. On the other hand, the book brings out clearly
the strong points of English railways, their safety, and the superior
accommodation they give to both passengers and goods.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 635. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2, ‘05. 350w.
=Sat. R.= 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 270w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Trade unionism and British industry. *$1.50. Dutton.
These articles appeared in the London Times in the fall of 1901 under
the title of “The crisis in British industry.” They comprise a study
of the industrial conditions in England. The trade-union situation in
twenty of the leading British industries is fully treated, and a
rather severe judgment on trade-union policy and practice is given.
“Seemingly intimate bearing upon the fiscal controversy. The book,
taken as a whole, is a severe indictment of what is called the ‘new
unionism’—the militant unionism. Hostility to trade-unionism is
written large on every page from cover to cover, and the author’s very
evident bias makes one question rather than accept his conclusions.
The book is interesting and informational. The impression grows upon
one as he reads that the investigation was not a colorless seeking
after truth, but an attempt to find facts which would bear out a
theory already formed, and that the trade-unionist was really judged
without notice and without a hearing.” Edith Abbott.
+ — — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 129. D. ‘04. 1140w.
=Prentys, E. P. and Kametaro Sesamoto.= Japanese for daily use. 75c.
Jenkins.
“A booklet which will fit the pocket and help the traveller. It is
full of real talk, brief, to the point, and wholly free from that
exaggeration of honorifics heard on the stage and overworked by
novelists and Japanophiles.... Numbers, money, postal rates, and helps
to pronunciation have not been forgotten in this capital
manual.”—Nation.
“We have failed to find a misprint in its sixty-three pages.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 80w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 40w.
=Prindiville, Kate Gertrude.= Two of the guests. †$1.25. Pott.
Letters to their friends by the various guests at a house party
comprise this volume. They are very masculine and very feminine and
tell the love story of Margaret Exeter, whom the men called an angel
and the women considered a “bold creature,” and Arnold Gresham, a Sir
Galahad.
“The letters are cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“A pretty love story.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Psalms in human life. *$2. Dutton.
A new edition of this book which cites numerous incidents showing the
influence of the psalms in historical crises and in critical moments
in the lives of prominent men and women.
“With skill, sympathy, and infinite patience he has traced the
influence of this great hymnary upon successive generations, from
Origin to our day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 375. My. 11, ‘05. 490w.
=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy.
50c. Ginn.
A report of a discussion before the economic club of Boston, March 9,
1905, in which President Roosevelt’s railroad policy is reviewed by
four men of varying interest in the great question.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Reminiscences of
peace and war. **$2. Macmillan.
For this new edition of her popular book the author has prepared new
chapters, one of which describes the origin and first celebration of
Decoration day in this country; she has also added a number of
illustrations. The volume gives a pleasing picture of social life in
the South, beginning with the Washington of President Pierce’s
administration and ending with the conclusion of the civil war.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 482. Ja. ‘05. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.
* “This is one of the best and most readable books of its class.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 50w.
Publisher’s confession. **60c. Doubleday.
“All persons who have written a book not yet published or who hope to
write and publish a book in the future will be interested in this....
The anonymous author defends the publishers against the charges ...
brought against them by unsuccessful authors. It explains fully the
way a book is selected, printed, advertised, and sold, and discusses
the relations between author and publisher as they are and as they
ought to be.”—Ind.
“The writing is generally clear, and, apart from some repetitions,
effective. Of the ‘literary’ class the publisher has a poor opinion.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 2270w.
“It may perhaps be shop-talk, but it is so well done, there is in it
so much sense and sincerity that it will entertain and impress you, no
matter how far remote you are from books and their makers. Frankly,
the book is a brief for the publisher.” Beverly Stark.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 384. Je. ‘05. 1200w.
=Ind.= 58: 903. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 720w.
“We commend the book to writers (to the experienced publisher it will
hardly contain any novelty). There are some hints, however, which may
be useful.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 396. S. 16, ‘05. 310w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
Eight papers upon—Criticism and aesthetics, The nature of beauty, The
æsthetic repose, The beauty of fine art, The beauty of music, The
beauty of literature, The nature of dramatic emotion, and The beauty
of ideas.
“Miss Puffer’s method of treatment is precise and logical without
being over-technical.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 330w.
“A careful and closely woven study.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Pullan, Rev. Leighton.= Church of the fathers; being an outline of the
history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. *$1.50. Macmillan.
Volume II. but the first in date of issue, of an eight volume series
which will deal with the “Church universal.” This volume contains an
outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. It
begins with the death of St. John’s last apostle and ends with a
consideration of the work of St. Leo and St. Patrick.
“Conscientious and scholarly labor with which Mr. Pullan has brought
so much valuable information into comparatively brief compass.” A. G.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 170w.
“This is a well-arranged and lucidly wrought introduction to the study
of the important period it covers.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 80w.
“Altogether it is a book which students, and especially those already
on Mr. Pullan’s side, will find valuable for reference and
information; but we doubt whether it will prove an introduction or a
stimulus to further study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 210w.
=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
“The work will be complete in twenty volumes. It is a continuation and
enlargement of Hakluyt’s ‘Voyages.’ It is made up of unpublished
manuscripts of voyages, left by Hakluyt after his death, which came
into the hands of Samuel Purchas. The latter added to them his own
accounts of the many travels and voyages of Dutch, Spanish, and
Portuguese explorers and English travelers, besides including numerous
translations from early books of travel which were then becoming
scarce.... The text of the present edition is a reprint of that of
1625, with the exception that errors in spelling and punctuation have
been corrected and contracted forms of letters extended. Among the
contents are the accounts of the early expeditions fitted out by the
East India company, of the adventures of Capt. John Smith in Turkey
and Virginia, the Arctic discoveries of Barents, Baffin, and Henry
Hudson, and translations from Acosta, Oviedo, Las Casas, and others.
All the maps and illustrations of the original edition have been
included in this reprint, and there is also a facsimile of the
original engraved title page.”—N. Y. Times.
“Their real claim to consideration lies in their style, their
pungency, their wit, their unexpected turns of expression, their
irresistible quaintness. There is an equal quality about the book
regarded as a whole.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 234. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Acad.= 68: 575. My. 27, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
* “The volumes with increasing force and power speak for themselves.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1095. O. 21, ‘05. 1250w. (Review of v. 5-8.)
=Nation.= 81: 55. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w.
=Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 171. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.
“Too much respect cannot be given to the work of Samuel Purchas. With
Hakluyt, it shows the advances made by civilization. It is one of the
foundations on which modern geographical study rests.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 380w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 561. Ag. 26, ‘05. 440w. (Review of v. 5 and
6.)
“It is because Purchas helps Hakluyt in making us understand all this
that he is worth reprinting and rereading.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w. (Review of v. 1-4.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 500w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
+ + =Spec.= 94: 440. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1620w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Spec.= 95: 199. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
=Purves, Rev. David.= Life everlasting: studies in the subject of the
future. *$1.50. imp. Scribner.
“The subjects treated in this volume by a Presbyterian clergyman of
Belfast, Ireland are: The life everlasting, The resurrection (of
Jesus and believers), The future life, and Immortality in
literature.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Putnam, M. Louise.= Children’s life of Lincoln. $1.25. McClurg.
A new and thoroughly revised edition of a book designed not for
children’s amusement, but for pure instruction.
=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.
Edmund Pyle, chaplain in ordinary to George I., Archdeacon of York,
and Prebend of Winchester, “represents the Church of England, so far
as the clergy constitute the Church sunk in coveteousness and sloth.”
(London Times.) “The letters are valuable for the display not of a
specially elevated or attractive clerical character, but of the facts
and feelings of that age from the point of view of a minor
ecclesiastical politician.” (Nation.)
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 743. Je. 17. 1930w.
* “He makes an unusual revelation of the scheming and jobbery in
church preferment.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. Hartshorne’s labors have at least furnished a useful source-book
for historians of the period, however lacking it may be in the
continuous absorbing interest.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“If there is nothing in this volume to excite admiration or
enthusiasm, there are some curious facts, and one or two amusing
incidents. Notes should be brief, accurate, and germane to the matter.
Mr. Hartshorne’s are none of the three.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2280w.
“He writes with no waste of words, with great frankness, and with
pretty full and accurate information, as to a large range of
externals.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
“Whatever Pyle says is worth reading. It is only when Mr. Hartshorne
intervenes that we are sorry.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1470w.
=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50.
Scribner.
“A companion volume to Mr. Pyle’s ‘Story of King Arthur and his
knights,’ illustrated as that was with wood cuts admirably suited in
manner and tone to the pseudo-antique style of narrative in which the
deeds of Sir Launcelot and his fellow-knights are retold.... To boys
not too young and of the right imaginative cast of mind the book
should have the fascination which Malory’s tales still have for a like
class of elder readers.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is evident that this writer brings to his task wide knowledge
and great enthusiasm; we could wish that he did not in large measure
spoil the good effects of both by diffuseness, affectation of style,
and prosy sermonizings.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 210w.
“Mr. Pyle succeeds unusually well in preserving the legendary and
chivalrous atmosphere of his subject without dulling the interest by
over-indulgence in archaic language.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.
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=Quarles, Francis.= Sions sonets sung by Solomon the king. *$4.
Houghton.
A reprint of this poetical paraphrase of the song of Solomon which
combines the merits of the editions of 1625 and 1680.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 424. Je. 16, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 60w.
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=Rabelais, Francois.= Selections; ed. by Curtis Hidden Page. *$2.
Putnam.
A volume in the series of “French classics for English readers.” In
the selections the aim of the editor has been to “keep all the
essential parts of the story, and all the scenes which had most
literary value and human interest; to retain all the best of the
historical satire; and to include other parts which have some special
interest, such as the chapters on education.”
“Mr. Page has done his task as well as it could be done.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“The edition is very well got up and generally attractive.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 521. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w.
“Dr. Page’s introduction is an interesting and scholarly study of his
author.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
* =Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint
of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical
sketch and notes by Charles Whitney Mixter. *$4. Macmillan.
“Rae’s book is a refutation of Smith’s system, and in the course of
chapter after chapter he carefully takes the author of the ‘Wealth of
nations’ to pieces. The result is that he arrives at a defense of
protection as opposed to free trade and of legislative interference as
opposed to the laissez-faire policy. Professor Mixter in his
recrudescence of Rae has split the book in the middle, giving the
first and last parts in an appendix.”—Pub. Opin.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* “A readable book where only the dismal science existed before.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.
* “He has not been content with making a mere reprint, but has
carefully scrutinized and rearranged the original work so as to make
it of distinct use for modern readers and valuable as a text-book in
advanced courses.” I. F.
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 330. N. ‘05. 1250w.
=Ragster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
In these “chats” the history of the violin, historical and
biographical sketches of Italian and German makers, and anecdotes of
great players are given, followed by chapters on the manner of
preserving and playing the violin and an appendix upon the life of
Paganini. The illustrations present a series of types of the violin
from the ninth century to the present day.
“Miss Ragster’s treatment is clear and concise, and not of such a
technical nature as to burden the ordinary reader.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 90w.
“Miss Ragster’s English style is frequently vivacious, but often
unfinished, and she is imperfectly informed as to the spelling of many
foreign proper names and other words.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 580w.
* “While the book is not technical in any sense, it should be of
considerable value to all students of the violin.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Rambaud, Alfred Nicholas; Simkovitch, Vladimir; and others.= Case of
Russia: a composite view. **$1.25. Fox.
“A presentation of certain phases of Russian life and history by five
writers who have a first-hand knowledge of the subjects they discuss.
It comprises: an outline sketch of the successive steps in the
expansion of Russia; a brief psychological study of the Russian
people; an interpretation of the Russian autocratic system; an inquiry
into the progress and possibilities of the Slav; and a survey of the
religious situation in Russia.”—Outlook.
=Critic.= 47: 411. N. ‘05. 320w.
“The proof-reading is inadequate, and the translation is not always
quite what it should be.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 462. Je. 8, ‘05. 21??w.
“Most of the matter, however, is somewhat vitiated by having been
written some time ago.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“As with all ‘composite views,’ the effect is in some respects
elusive, in others bewildering. But, on the whole, the symposium is
distinctly helpful, and especially in the direction of assisting to a
clearer understanding of the dominant traits and qualities of the
inhabitants of the unhappy land.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
“There is a good deal of psychological interest in the essays,
particularly in that of Mr. Novicow.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Letters to the seven churches of Asia and
their place in the plan of the Apocalypse. *$3. Armstrong.
“A prophet of Christianity, and one who for many years has devoted his
best efforts to the study of a solution of the problem that confronts
the religious world upon the meeting of the Asiatic and the European,
when the barriers of the lofty mountains and arid plains of East and
West are no more, believes that the great issue is with Christianity,
and he has written this book to set forth a number of convincing
proofs of the world-evangelizing principles that have won and are
winning triumphs for the Christian faith.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 81. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.
“Ramsay’s fresh and rich book adds much to our knowledge of the Roman
province of Asia in the first century A. D., and the influence of
Christianity therein. The book combines the merits of scientific and
popular history-writing. In three special ways this volume is
valuable: (1) as a contribution to the understanding of the apostolic
age; (2) as an aid to the interpretation of the New Testament
Apocalypse; (3) as a practical study in comparative religion.” C W.
Votaw.
+ + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 552. Jl. ‘05. 1180w.
“His archaeological and historical skill makes [it] of peculiar
interest.”
+ =Bib. World.= 25: 158. F. ‘05. 20w.
“The first half of the book is worth more than the last half. The
style is diffuse; repetitions are frequent; and there are
long-expanded commonplaces. The book will be welcomed chiefly because
it contains many items of interesting information and throws much
light upon the environment of the early Asia Minor Christians.” D. A.
Hayes.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 71. Jl. ‘05. 980w.
“In scholarly detail, the story of the seven cities and their various
symbols is related, and the usages and customs of the early Christian
era are succinctly set forth.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“His interpretation of particular passages is open to question, but
his historical, geographical and archæological material on the
churches addressed in these letters is very full and valuable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, 05. 130w.
* “Some of his interpretations may be questioned, but the wealth of
information and fact makes his book valuable for reference.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 81. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1690w.
“Is rather an introduction than a commentary, and it has much value as
an introduction to the whole of the New Testament.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 980. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1180w.
“Requires careful study, which it will amply repay.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 470w.
* =Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1.
Grafton press.
The well-known martial elegy. The bivouac of the dead, and a lyric
called The old pioneer, penned at the grave of Daniel Boone, by the
same author, are included in this little volume with a story of the
poems and a brief biography of Theodore O’Hara prepared with the full
cooperation of his family. The whole forms a fitting tribute to the
Kentucky soldier-poet.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
=Ranke, Leopold von.= History of the reformation in Germany; tr. by
Sarah Austin; ed. by Rob. A. Johnson. $2. Dutton.
This new low-priced edition of Ranke’s great work is “a reproduction
of Mrs. Austin’s translation which only included the first six of the
ten books into which Ranke divided his complete work. It includes the
history of the German reformation down to the year 1534.” (Acad.)
=Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1290w.
“We have only a fragmentary translation, and ‘editing’ worthy of the
publisher’s office-boy.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and
beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
“A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has
been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as
it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources;
from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual
handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by
many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.
“It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly
contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject
is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not
entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to
the student of archæology.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16. ‘05. 180w.
“The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well
chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful
research and sound scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 130w.
=Int Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 170w.
“The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is
almost better, the application of much common sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 590w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w.
“A work of scholarly research in a limited special field.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 10w.
=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Dr. Rashdall is an efficient representative of the Broad church group
in the Anglican establishment. In this volume of discourses he
addresses himself especially to educated men and women. He is
concerned lest religion be crowded out of life, either by revolt
against narrow ecclesiasticism or by the pressure of other
concerns.... To explain some Christian institutions, ideas, and
practices to educated hearers, with a view to promote an interest in
the Church and its ordinances at once rational and reverent, is
therefore the main object of these discourses. Starting from a review
of the Oxford movement as having restored the idea of the Church to
its due prominence in Christian thought. Dr. Rashdall discusses in
considerable detail the institutional side of Christianity.”—Outlook.
“His outlook is historical. These discourses serve at any rate for a
temperate and eminently clear expression of what many educated but not
professional readers will recognize as an intelligible common-sense
view on points of current controversy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 140w.
“Characterized by transparent lucidity and an unadorned simplicity of
diction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 652. My. 27. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“The breadth and thoroughness of the discussion make the volume a
helpful contribution to the reconstructive work now going on in
religious thought. The general aim is practical. There is a note of
reality, and of an intentness on reality, running through all these
discourses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
“In literary quality, too, as well as in the matter and tone, these
sermons commend themselves to the discerning and sympathetic reader.”
H. N. Gardiner.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 735. N. ‘05. 280w.
“He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally
conservative, as well as critical.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=Rateau, A.= Experimental researches on the flow of steam through
nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water;
authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof
Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The
object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing
the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in
a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin.
N.
“His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious
typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the
literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L.
Kneass.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 533. My. 18, ‘05. 650w.
“The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English
readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in
foreign units.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 210w.
=Rathbone, Eleanor F.= William Rathbone: a memoir. $3. Macmillan.
In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives
his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various
philanthropic movements.
“Very capably written biography.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 218. Ap. 8, ‘05. 350w.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 258. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1870w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= By the good Sainte Anne: a
story of modern Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
A new edition of this story of a typical Englishman, a Canadian of
English descent, and a young French-Canadian, all of whom pay court to
bright, vivacious Nancy Howard, who with her father, a New York
physician, drop in among the guests at the Maple Leaf. The scenes and
points of interest in and about Quebec furnish a setting for the
bright conversations in which the story abounds.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.), and Fuller, Hamilton Brock.=
On the firing line: a romance of South Africa. †$1.50. Little.
Africa during the Boer war furnishes the setting of Miss Ray’s story
of love and combat. The hero, a stalwart Canadian, follows an impulse
to enter the fray as a private and in his narrow field demonstrates
broad soldierly ability which operates for its full value, not only
with the girl he loves, but with his rival, the young captain of his
troop.
“There is movement and life on every page.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 140w.
“In spite of its conventional plot, holds a lively interest for the
reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“The collaboration in this novel is very successful. A
well-constructed, entertaining, bright story, permeated by the spirit
that recognizes and appreciates high ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Sidney: her summer on the St. Lawrence. †$1.50.
Little.
In this new book for boys and girls, Sidney Stayres and her little
brother Bungay spend an eventful summer with their cousins and their
friends on the St. Lawrence. There are picnics, and general good
times, there are accidents and anxious hours, but these doings of the
true hearted little heroine and those who loved her will prove
wholesome and entertaining reading for all young folks.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.
“The characters seemed posed and artificial.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
=Raymond, Edward Brackett.= Alternating current engineering, practically
treated. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“This book is written by a member of the staff of the testing
department of the General electric company; it consists of two parts;
the first part contains the general theory of electricity and
magnetism and a special theory of alternating currents; the second
part treats of transformers, alternating current motors and
alternators.... There is a great need for such a book, a book in which
a young man just starting in practical electrical engineering work
after college or any other school could find a clear, concise
exposition of what he needs, what is done in practice, and why it is
done so and not otherwise.”—Phys. R.
“In summing up it seems that notwithstanding some defects the book can
be well recommended to young electrical engineers and to those who
would like to refresh their memory on the subject of alternating
currents. It is to be regretted that Mr. Raymond did not write his
book in coöperation with somebody more familiar with the theoretical
part of the subject and particularly with the approved methods of
presenting them in a simple, lucid way. Then the wide practical
experience of Mr. Raymond would find its right place in the book and
make it one of the most valuable additions to our engineering
literature.” V. K.
+ + — =Phys. R.= 20: 190. Mr. ‘05. 1380w.
=Raymont, T.= Principles of education. *$1.40. Longmans.
The author’s object in writing this book was “to present a brief but
comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have
shaped themselves in my mind during several years of experience in
teaching.... It is for the younger members of that profession that my
book is primarily intended.”
“Readable and suggestive.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w.
“An interesting and comprehensive treatise on education.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 12. Jl. 1. 690w.
“The main quality of his book we should describe as common-sense.” J.
Welton.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 113. O. ‘05. 800w.
=Rea, Hope.= Tuscan and Venetian artists, their thought and work.
*$1.50. Dutton.
A new and enlarged edition of these essays which treat of the broader
aspects of Italian art, using individual artists and their work as
illustrations. In “Builders and goldsmiths,” the influence of these
arts upon painting is shown thru Botticelli, while Angelico, the
idealist, and Signorelli, the realist, are contrasted to show the
relation between imagination and reality in art, and the fusion of the
two is illustrated by Raphael and the Venetians. Giotto, Duccio,
Carpaccio, and Raphael are treated under artists story tellers. There
is also a chapter on Della Robbia ware. There are thirty-eight tinted
half-tones.
“The author writes intelligently, if with no great originality of
thought, and in a pleasing if not over-exact style.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 170w.
“It is particularly valuable as a study of the causes which lead to
the transference of an emotion from the individual to the canvas or
marble.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 470w.
“The book may be recommended to those whose sympathy has not yet been
aroused as it should be for the art of Tuscany and Venetia. Such a
little book of criticism as this is always needed, not only for the
unthinking tourist or student, but sometimes also for the thinking.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.
=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“By metaphysics Professor Read means the ‘study of the validity and
adequacy of knowledge and belief’ ... the addition ‘of Nature’ is
intended to rule out ideals, the matter of ethics, politics, religion,
and art. Within these limits he claims that his work is conciliatory
and constructive.”—Ath.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 803. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.
“Signs are not wanting that he approaches his subject as a man of
science rather than a philosopher, that is, in a spirit of vindication
rather than unbiased inquiry.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 47. Jl. 8. 640w.
“Professor Carveth Read’s ‘Metaphysics of nature’ is a book that must
take rank at once for importance with Mr. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and
reality’ and Professor Ward’s ‘Naturalism and agnosticism.’” T.
Whittaker.
+ + =Hibbert. J.= 4: 205. O. ‘05. 1990w.
“One of the best parts of the volume is the general discussion of the
test of truth.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 527. O. 21, ‘05. 1620w.
=Read, Opie.= American in New York, a novel of to-day. $1.25. Thompson &
Thomas.
Short sketches are welded together to form this book. There is a
gallant Kentucky millionaire; “there is a very lovely widow who talks
to him in the tea room, and to whom he tells quaint tales of the West;
there is a young man, the millionaire’s adopted son, and a young
woman, the widow’s niece.... To add to the zest of it too, the
Colonel—so the millionaire is called—is very fond of playing Haroun Al
Rashid. There is a villain also.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Really, the present volume furnishes some very good reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 220w.
“Tells some humorous stories and moralizes more or less shrewdly at
times. There is too much, however, of his political and social
dogmatism, and the personal story involved is of the weakest.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 90w.
=Redgrave, Gilbert R., and Spackman, Charles.= Calcareous cements: their
nature, manufacture, and uses, with some observations upon cement
testing. *$4.50. Lippincott.
“In its present edition this book is noteworthy for its discussion of
cement manufacture. Over one-third of the space is devoted to this
subject. The next largest space is given to composition, chemical
analysis and constitution. In these sections and in its historical
notes on the development and early manufacture of hydraulic cements
the book is superior to any other treatise of which we have
knowledge.”—Engin N.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 645. Je. 15, ‘05. 360w.
=Rée, P. J.= Nuremburg and its art to the end of the 18th century; from
the German by G. H. Palmer. *$1.50. Scribner.
“The librarian of the Bavarian museum at Nuremburg has written a
careful survey of the art treasures in that city. He scarcely touches
the history of the place ... but traces the development of German art,
as illustrated by the buildings and in the museums of Nuremburg, in
painstaking and elaborate fashion. His treatment of the artists and
craftsmen who succeeded Dürer will be found especially valuable by
English tourists who wish to learn something more of designers and
artist-craftsmen.... This volume of the “Art cities” series is
abundantly illustrated by one hundred and twenty-three
photographs.”—Ath.
“In spite of its merits, we fear that English readers will find it
hard to digest. The translation of the book looks as if it had been
‘made in Germany.’”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 121. Jl. 22. 650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ‘05. 230w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.
This is the first volume of a second series of the “Brenda” books; it
is a story for girls and tells of the experiences encountered by Amy,
her mother, and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled
Acadians. These experiences acquire a peculiar interest thru their
romantic setting and their historical background.
“The author manages, with indifferent skill, to convey much
information for the benefit of young readers—that is, if they do not
rebel at Amy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 40w.
=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.
Optimistic in tone, looking forward to a glorious and peaceful future
for a United States truly united, this book, altho written by a
Southerner, and, to a certain extent, a plea for the South, makes for
a better understanding between North and South by giving an account of
the causes which led up to the Civil war in a fair-minded manner which
admits of the statement that “the brothers on each side were true
patriots and morally right.” It is an interesting volume and it
discusses political parties, the great men upon each side, slavery,
the race question and the Ku-Klux Klan, in a spirit so generous toward
the North that it will not alienate even a reader in whom strong
partisan feeling still remains.
=Reed, Myrtle.= At the sign of the Jack-o’-Lantern. **$1.50. Putnam.
A New York newspaper man and his bride begin their honeymoon in their
heirloom house which was set on a hill and known as the
Jack-o’-Lantern, because its arrangement of doors and windows made
hideous resemblance to a human face. The eccentric donor had added
wing after wing to the main portion of the house, the reason for which
becomes apparent when relations, singly and in groups, swoop down on
the pair to make their annual visit—“to sponge on a dead man as they
did when he was alive.” In this pandemonium Howard Carr tries to write
his first book.
“The author gives us a commonplace farce, all bustle, noise and
confusion, with scenes and characters that have long ago lost all
novelty.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1009. S. 30, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and
shrewdness. Some readers will think the book a mere tissue of
nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 433. S. 30. 260w.
* “Miss Reed has certainly provided us in this instance with an
original form of entertainment, and the story should prove
popular.”—Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 140w.
* “Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen
observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of
human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 420w.
“Miss Reed is mistress of a delicacy of thought and style which lends
itself gracefully to the light and airy exaggeration of human
foibles.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 710w.
“We do not find this tale altogether successful in its alternating
attempts at sprightliness and sentiment. The characters neither act
reasonably nor talk naturally.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in
American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in
historical and political science.” The study centers about the
unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of
the Trinity river in Texas.
=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.
“While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader,
this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the
work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused,
concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease,
especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held
to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never
transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has
another origin than that of the action of the environment of the
germ-cells.”—Outlook.
“What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and
serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions
involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be
nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar
with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1110. N. 9, ‘05. 760w.
“He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter
written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of
thought.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 184. Je. 9, ‘05. 1340w.
* “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity
one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of
biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A.
D. D.
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 121. D. 7, ‘05. 1330w.
“He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought,
and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 350w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by
Florence Simmonds. **$2. Scribner.
“A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It
includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea,
and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before
Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus;
Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece;
Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West;
Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture;
the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the
renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da
Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo
and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and
the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century;
the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art
in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations
in the book.”—Bookm.
“Is a clever and valuable rapid sketch written by an authority.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 706. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is
occasionally clumsy.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 343. Mr. 18. 490w.
“The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as
a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise
of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes
fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by
the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in
its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather
the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P.
Thieme.
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.
“Excellent as is the treatment of ancient art, it is surpassed by the
clear and scholarly exposition of art in the Christian era, so that we
have no hesitation in saying that this book is an indispensable work
for every library, whether large or small, throughout the land. It is
a matter of sincere congratulation for the author to find so much
knowledge in so small a space. The setting given to the text is of the
same high order as the text itself.”
+ + + =Boston Evening Transcript.= Feb. 8, ‘05. 1140w.
“A book both critical and fascinating. The translation, by Miss
Florence Simmonds, is admirably done.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“Well translated and copiously illustrated.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: 84. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is a little masterpiece. His taste and judgment are as sure
as his knowledge is exact. It is assuredly the best brief general
history of art, if not the best such history of any length, that has
yet appeared. It deserved a better and more faithful translation than
has been given it by Florence Simmonds. One is never certain whether
he is getting the opinions of M. Reinach or those of Miss Simmonds.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 58. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1590w.
“The translation is unusually careful and successful, and the reader
of it loses nothing of the practical utility of the work. The
distinguishing trait of M. Reinach is his combination of poise and
alertness. He is not a partisan.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 398. Je. 17, ‘05. 910w.
“In the style there are surprising vivacity and individuality. The
individual common sense, the happy and sometimes sharply incisive
phrases, and the broadly critical spirit of the book are traits rare
in an outline of this sort.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 260w.
“Has given us a work of exceptional educational value in his
splendidly condensed ‘Story of art throughout the ages.’ It serves the
double purpose of reference book and of introductory work to the art
of any period. Readable narrative. All that a well-equipped special
library on art should contain is given in condensed and miniature form
in this one volume.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 297. F. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“The rendering into English is clear and satisfactory.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
* =Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume in “The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and
sociology,” “is rather a statement of the various problems confronting
colonial governments, and an indication of the main lines of solution
that have been attempted than a complete and conclusive discussion of
the principles involved. The book gives in small compass a broad
survey of the most important activities of modern colonial
governments, and deals with the facts of colonial administration
rather than with the underlying philosophy. Such topics as education;
finance; commerce; currency, banking, and credit; agriculture; the
land policy; and the labor question, are tersely and instructively
discussed.”—R. of Rs.
* “The temper and language of Prof. Reinsch’s introductory chapter
could scarcely be improved. He has for the most part made good use of
the numerous books cited in his notes.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 580w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 110w.
=Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin.= Atonement and modern thought; with an
introd. by B: B. Warfield. $1. Lutheran pub. soc.
“Dr. Remensnyder makes a vigorous presentation of the Lutheran
conception of the Atonement in its antagonism to the characteristic
tendencies of modern thought. As thus conceived it was an objective
transaction in which Christ as the sinner’s substitute bore the
punishment due to sin. The Atonement thus viewed is presented as the
central truth of Christianity.”—Outlook.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Renan, Joseph Ernest.= Life of Jesus. 68c. Bell, H. W.
A reprint in popular form of the scholarly “Life” written by the great
French Liberal “from the view-point of one who saw in him a great
prophet, but a son of the Infinite only in the sense that the noblest
and purest of earth can be termed the sons of God.” (Arena.)
“Is a volume that should be found in the libraries of all broad-minded
people. This work will ever remain the loving and masterful labor of
one of the bravest, ablest and most honest thinkers and scholars of
the nineteenth century.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 610w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Compromises. **$1.10. Houghton.
A group of entertaining essays with pure literary merit. The subjects
which Miss Repplier treats are: Luxury of conversation; The gayety of
life; The point of view; Marriage in fiction; Our belief in books; The
beggar’s pouch; The pilgrim’s staff; A Quaker diary; French
love-songs; The spinster; The tourist; The headsman; Consecrated to
crime; Allegra.
“She has always a point of view; she writes in an agreeable style; and
she is well informed and has taste.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 21. 320w.
“They are not meant for the frivolous, but for those who can
appreciate good literature. She has her own ideas on the subject about
which she writes, and states them without hesitation or
qualification.”
+ =Cath. World.= 80: 689. F. ‘05. 220w.
“The subjects of her essays vary pleasantly and they are all written
in a purely literary style. Her vivacity is not nervous, but
intellectual, and the thread of her thought is so interwoven with the
golden warp of older writers like Johnson, Montaigne and others that
for once we have the tone of time upon the fresh tapestry of modern
life. Her reflections shade back into old philosophies. All are
seasoned with that pleasant gossip which a good-tempered intelligent
woman has acquired from a wide knowledge of and close friendship with
the best writers of the last four hundred years.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 154. Ja. 19, ‘05. 450w.
* =Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.
Charming personal reminiscences of the author’s childhood in a
French-American convent school. The stories are real, they are true to
human nature, true, so those who know declare, to the atmosphere of
the school itself, and certainly true in that many of the little girls
who lived and had adventures and murmured profound confidences inside
those convent walls are prominent women to-day.
* =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w.
* “Is in Miss Agnes Repplier’s happiest style.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 370w.
* “She has never been more delightful than in this little volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 440w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
* “Delightful studies of girl nature told with humor and literary
grace.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 40w.
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by
William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
These essays have been selected with the object of supplementing the
technical works on methods and forms. The volume includes Literature,
by John Henry Newman; Style, by Thomas de Quincey; The philosophy of
style, by Herbert Spencer; The principles of success in literature, by
George Henry Lewis; Style in literature—its technical elements, by
Robert Louis Stevenson; Style, by Walter Pater; and Our English prose,
by Frederic Harrison. Professor Brewster has included an introduction,
notes and questions, and an index.
“Has performed a useful service for teachers of literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w.
“A volume likely to be of good service to academic students of
literature and composition.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
“The introduction ... makes skilful use of the material which the
editor has carefully selected for the body of the volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“A very welcome work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 575. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
Revival; a symposium, ed. by Rev. J. H. MacDonald. *75c. Meth. bk.
Seven addresses which were first delivered before the Chicago
Preachers’ meeting. They are designed to awaken a more general
interest in revival work and include sermons by Bishop McDowell, Rev.
E. B. Crawford, Rev. Chas. Little, Rev. John Thompson, Rev. W. E.
Tilroe, and Rev. P. H. Swift.
* “They are excellent as far as they go, but the collection as a whole
lacks completeness and proportion.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
=Reybaud, Henrietta Etiennette Fanny (Arnaud) (Mme. Charles Reybaud).=
La belle paysanne; tr. from the French by Remus F. Foster. $1. Neale.
A young French student falls in love with the pastel of a beautiful
woman which he finds in his uncle’s house, and he hears her story from
an old lover of hers and a priest, and learns how, as a young girl,
she broke her troth to the marquis and married a handsome peasant,
whom she afterwards murdered. In the end he finds in his uncle’s
repulsive old housekeeper the original of his fancy.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.
=Reynolds, Cuyler=, comp. Classified quotations: compiled for general
reference and also as aids in making up lists of toasts and in the
preparation of the after dinner speech and occasional address; with
suggestions concerning the menu and other details connected with the
proper ordering of a banquet; being a reissue of “The banquet book.”
**$2.50. Putnam.
“The book is a collection of quotations on all sorts of subjects,
intended to help persons preparing menus for dinners. It evidently
fills the place for which it was intended, for this appearance is the
fifth.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The collection is a good one; more general, besides than the needs
of the banquet. The index is rather meagre.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “Mr. Reynolds has the capacity for taking infinite pains, as all his
work shows, and this collection is remarkably complete.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 140w.
=Reynolds, George F.= Some principles of Elizabethan staging. 50c. Univ.
of Chicago press.
This study is only a part of a more comprehensive one now in
preparation, discussing not only Elizabethan plays but also the actual
construction of the stage itself and the properties which furnished
it.
=Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).= That Preston girl. †$1.50.
Wilde.
A story which depicts the loneliness and suffering of a girl who is
ostracized because of her father’s dishonest means of attaining
wealth. She is a refined, unselfish, loyal type of girlhood, a helpful
acquaintance for any young reader.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise
of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“Confidence has grown with each succeeding volume that the great
history of the Civil war is being written.” (Ind.) This fifth volume
covers the years 1864-66. “In the beginning of this volume, Mr. Rhodes
gives a brief recapitulation of the salient events of the Civil war,
and follows this with a detailed account of Sherman’s Georgia
campaign. Grant’s Appomattox campaign, Lee’s surrender, and the
assassination of Lincoln are all treated within the limits of a single
chapter. A long chapter is devoted to an account of society at the
North during the war, and a similar chapter to society at the South.
Another chapter is assigned to the treatment of prisoners of war. The
volume closes with a fair and impartial account of reconstruction.”
(R. of Rs.)
“But it would be unfair to regard Dr. Rhodes’s slips in military
matters as impairing the value of his work. The present volume is a
perfect storehouse of valuable facts and records. If anything, it is
too full of material and not sufficiently ordered.” A. R. Ropes.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.
“I cannot think of another historian who so constantly produces the
effect of complete candor, who is so indefatigably minded to tell all
that can be reckoned of consequence, and to display unreservedly the
sources of his knowledge and the grounds of his opinions.” W. G.
Brown.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 181. O. ‘05. 2800w.
“As a whole it comes up fully to the high standard set in the
preceding volumes. In the treatment of the controversial questions of
the time Mr. Rhodes shows the same spirit of impartiality and breadth
of view which has won for him the admiration of students.” James
Wilford Garner.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 352. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
“To the specialist, the work will appeal as authoritative until more
evidence is forthcoming. The author has performed a distinct service
in showing that a non-partisan account of our great Civil war need not
be colorless.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 230. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.
“It is hardly possible that the theme will ever be treated with fuller
detail, more skilfully wrought into a dramatic story. Concerning this,
as concerning the whole work, it must be said that it will be most
authoritative among those who are most familiar with the sources of
information. The general reader may grow to believe fully in the
author’s conclusions, but the specialist will be convinced by the
unquestionable force of the testimony offered.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 151. Ja. 19, ‘05. 680w.
* “This masterful accomplishment entitles Mr. Rhodes to the first
place among American historians.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
“The writer’s method and his even narration make pleasant reading.
There is the same painstaking examination of authorities, the same
skilful arrangement of facts, the same balanced (sometimes hesitating)
judgment, and the same desire to be eminently fair to all parties in a
controversy.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 177. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1800w.
“Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of the war itself, and of the issues growing
out of the war, is that of an unbiased historian, and will meet, we
think, with the cordial approbation of southern as well as northern
participants in that great struggle.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 180w.
“A considerable part of this volume is given to a chapter describing
the conditions of society in the northern states during the war, and
another chapter to society in the southern states. These are among the
most important and interesting contributions to our historical
literature. They are hardly entitled to be called brilliant, but they
are full of good sense, of sound judgments, and of well-proportioned
groupings of facts. They are likely to be read as long as any
historical writings of our time. His style is not brilliant, but it is
a good working style, with the fundamental merits of clearness and
dignity; and his judgments are the judgments of a man of great common
sense. All preceding books have at best been materials for such a
history. Mr. Rhodes’s work is the best narrative of this stirring
time.”
+ + + =World’s Work.= 9: 5982. Mr. ‘05. 700w.
=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan (Mrs. Cale Young Rice).= Sandy. †$1.
Century.
In turning away from Mrs. Wiggs and Lovey Mary, Mrs. Rice has chosen
to import the irresponsible, hot-headed, impulsive Irish boy, Sandy.
All the way from stowaway on an American liner to the successful
college graduate, and the hero of an ambitious romance, he runs a
curious round of chance which claims him for a boot-black, newsboy,
peddler, and finally drops him into the keeping of a kind-hearted old
judge, who starts him along the road to fortune.
“The story is a good deal more than readable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3, 210w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“The book possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of her two earlier
volumes. There is no denying Mrs. Rice’s pleasant manner of telling a
story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 630w.
“It possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of the philosophy of the
Cabbage patch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“A simple, lifelike story full of quiet humor, pathos, and charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 80w.
“An interesting study of the stuff that Americans are made of, and of
a variety of cleverly drawn Kentucky types.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 872. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“Mrs. Rice’s reputation will receive a fine impetus from this
delightful little story.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 95. Je. ‘05. 140w.
“Mrs. Rice has given too much attention to the outsiders in ‘Sandy,’
and the boy and the girl who are the chief actors suffer. The story is
sketchily drawn; too sketchily, the average reader will think.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 300w.
“Nothing but the dreariest herbage of sentimental commonplace.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (Mrs. R. H. Richards).= Art of right
living. *50c. Whitcomb & B.
This small volume proffers much commonsense advice on the limitations
of food, the need of air, exercise, amusement and work.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11. ‘05. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe. Mrs.= Tree’s will. †75c. Estes.
“The reader of Mrs. Richard’s series beginning with ‘Captain January’
will meet old acquaintances here. Mrs. Tree herself, though dead,
seems more alive than anybody through her will, its effects, and the
anecdotes her survivors narrate.”—Outlook.
* “The book is a gem in its own way.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Is a worthy successor to ‘Mrs. Tree’ in affording quiet amusement
for an idle hour. Mrs. Richards writes brightly, humorously, and with
excellent taste.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
“There are certain touches of pleasant humor here and there in the
book that almost give it a reason for existence.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
“The picturing of village life, though amusing and touching at times,
lacks strength and body, seems trivial and fantastic.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14. ‘05. 60w.
=Richardson, Clifford.= Modern asphalt pavement. $3. Wiley.
This book successfully covers a field hitherto but inadequately dealt
with. It is “the first authoritative presentation of the subject by a
representative of the asphalt paving companies, thus making public the
results of long and patient investigation by them, not heretofore
accessible to the municipal engineer.... Structurally, Mr. Richardson
divides an asphalt pavement into three parts or courses; the base, the
intermediate course and the surface course.” (Engin. N.) He treats his
subject exhaustively from the selection of materials to the proper
execution of the work.
“In conclusion it not too much to say that Mr. Richardson’s book
should be classed with those which appear too infrequently, but whose
appearance marks epochs in the industry to which they relate. Even if
the dictums of the authors are not always accepted or vindicated, they
set people to thinking and mark out new paths for future progress.” S.
Whinery.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 633. Je. 15, ‘05. 4240w.
“The book is likely to prove of great value to municipal authorities.”
T. H. B.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 316. Ag. 3, ‘05. 600w.
=Richardson, Dorothy.= Long day: a true story of a New York working girl
as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.
A country bred girl tells of her experiences in New York city. She
came friendless and unskilled with but a few dollars in her pocket,
she sought honest work, and found short jobs as a box maker, a
sweat-shop worker, a liner of jewel-boxes, a “shaker” in a steam
laundry and at various other occupations all equally unpleasant and
equally underpaid. The pictures she draws of the working girls’ home
are painfully sad and realistic.
* “The book deserves a reading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 170w.
* “Written with so much understanding and insight.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 890w.
“The woman who tells her own story is terribly in earnest about it
all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 330w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 150w.
* “A story that is nothing less than fascinating.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 180w.
=Richardson, Norval.= Heart of hope. †$1.50. Dodd.
“This story of the Civil war offers drama and romance in about the
usual proportions, but the former of a quality quite unusual—the siege
of Vicksburg being pictured with cycloramic realism.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.
“This is an uncommonly interesting story of the Civil war. The
sentimental motive is skilfully woven into the account of the siege.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 240w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Handbook for superintendents of construction,
architects, builders, and building inspectors. $4. Wiley.
“The subjects which receive particularly thorough and careful
treatment are: excavating, laying out foundations, testing and
analysis of stone, stone and bricklaying (which is especially well
illustrated), testing of soil, piling, timber specifications, steel
sheet piling, building stones, etc.... A fair amount of space is
devoted to cement and concrete.”—Engin. N.
“In general, the book is meritorious and well presented, almost all of
the matter being of value to building inspectors or superintendents.
The book compares very well with other books of its kind.” Wm. W.
Ewing.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 560w.
=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10.
Houghton.
A volume in the “American commonwealths” series. “There can be no
doubt that the distinctive characteristic of Rhode Island as a
political entity has been its separatist tendencies. Founded as a
protest, it has clearly demonstrated its innate individualism in every
crisis of its history.... There is reason for Mr. Richman’s assertion
that even to-day the influence of the old-time thought is making
itself keenly felt in the political life of the state.... Mr. Richman
writes with enthusiasm [and gives] concise retrospective
summaries.”—Outlook.
* “Mr. Richman has made one of the most instructive and readable
contributions to the ‘American commonwealths’ series.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ‘05. 580w.
* “His conclusions, on the whole, show discrimination, and his
treatment is adequate, developing the social and economic as well as
the political and constitutional history of the state. The most
serious defect—and it is serious—is an occasional obscuration of
salient facts in a mass of detail.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
=Richmond, Grace S.= Indifference of Juliet. †$1.50. Doubleday.
An “account of Juliet’s repeated refusals of a nice, tall,
broad-shouldered young man named Anthony. Anthony had been rich, but
unfortunately lost all his money. Nevertheless he continued to love
Juliet.... At last, goaded to desperation, he worked out a pretty
little plan of arousing the lady’s jealousy, which was quite
successful. With Juliet’s aid he fitted and furnished a dear little
box of a house in the country, ostensibly for a lovely California
girl.... After it was all ready for its new mistress Juliet permitted
herself the luxury of going over it all alone one evening and crying.
And there Anthony found her. But this is not the end of the story. In
fact it is only the beginning, and several other romances crop up
before it is finished.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.
“A pleasant little love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 220w.
=Rickert, Edith.= Reaper. †$1.50. Houghton.
A story of the primitive life of the Shetland islands where the sea is
“the great fact of life.” The hero reaps his harvest of content after
years spent in patient service to a widowed mother, whose fondness for
drink he strives by eternal vigilance to hide from others. The call of
the sea is forever in his ears, but in the end, when he is free to go,
he finds that the desire is conquered and his real happiness lies at
home in the love of a woman and a little child.
“The dialect is not particularly unintelligible, but there is a good
deal of it.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“It is worth reading for itself, and those who love the sea,
especially, will like it because it is full of the atmosphere of the
sea, of the simplicity and the mysticism and primitiveness of true
sea-dwelling people.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 503. Mr. 2, ‘05. 290w.
“A new field, and a new strong writer in that field. There is much
quiet power in the story.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 256. Ja. ‘05. 280w.
“As to its intrinsic interest and picturesqueness there can be no
doubt whatever.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 670w.
* =Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse.
*$3.75. Macmillan.
“Treats not only of all the chief breeds of British domestic horses
known in historical times, but also takes a survey of all the other
living equidae, as well as of the ancestors of the genus. He has made
an attempt to treat historically the origin of the various colors
found in English horses; at the same time indicating the influence
exercised on the history of the chief nations of the ancient,
mediaeval, and modern world by the possession of horses.... Besides
all this he has ‘also tried to point out the lessons of supreme
importance to the breeder.’ ... A supplementary chapter has been
included considering ‘The development of equitation.’ There are also
addenda and a full index, besides numerous illustrations.”—N. Y.
Times.
* “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it
in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his
audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular
proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested,
stimulated, but not won.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 313. S. 29, ‘05. 1710w.
* “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the
problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist,
and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of
gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which,
from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 126. D. 7, ‘05. 1950w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 240w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 36, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the
‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to
modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting
down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a
dexterity which perplexes the reader.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 655. O. 28, ‘05. 1540w.
=Ridley, Alice, Lady.= Daughter of Jael. $1.50. Longmans.
With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story,
kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her
brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was
inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that
retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of
unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.
“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a
question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal
way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every
page.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w.
“It fairly bristles with problems. In spite of the undercurrent of
gloom the story is light and even gay in some of its passages.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 26. Ja. 5. ‘05. 250w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
Over fifty of Mr. Riley’s happiest verses have been collected into
this volume which is profusely illustrated by Will Vawter. The
all-golden; A Christmas carol; The first bluebird; Mister hop-toad; A
passing hail; The twins; A song of the road; and While the heart beats
young, are included among other old favorites.
* + + =Arena.= 34: 660. D. ‘05. 480w.
* “There is a good deal of commonplace work in the book, but there are
also bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* “It is a great pity that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley’s publishers
should persist in vulgarizing verse so fine as his by cheap and silly
illustrations.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
* “Wholesome verse, it is, and tinged with a sentiment that is genuine
though often commonplace.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Riley, Theodore Myers.= A memorial biography of the Very Reverend
Eugene Augustus Hoffman. $5. Priv. ptd. at the Marion press, Jamaica,
Queensborough, N. Y.
A biography which covers fully the facts of a life upon which the
author comments as follows: “He was never primarily a theologian, or
indeed primarily anything but an admirably well-balanced man, in whom
the note of our common nature was always predominant.... He wrote no
great books; he ventilated no schemes of sociological or of
theological improvement to the world; he offered no advice to the
public for the reconstitution of human society. He simply abode in the
path of achievement marked out for him by his office as a priest, and
by his gifts of constitution and rule.... And so he became great,
because he was faithful, humble, wise, modest.”
“It is appreciative, orderly, and so full that its 795 pages of noble
type leave nothing to be desired except an index.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 57. Ja. 28, ‘05. 170w. (Statement of
contents.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 580w. (Abstract of
contents.)
=Riley, Thomas James.= Higher life of Chicago. *75c. Univ. of Chicago
press.
A study of the culture interests of Chicago has resulted in the
exposition of some of the agencies that are working for the betterment
of the city, including the schools, libraries and the press, civic
associations and women’s clubs, social settlements, charities, etc.
“To many who think of Chicago as a great commercial centre merely,
this account of the higher life will be a revelation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 594. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is a book of much value both for reference and for the further
stimulation of cultural and altruistic endeavor.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis.= Briefs on public questions, with selected
lists of references. *$1.20. Longmans.
A book which “is sure of favor with the young debating community, but
is also well calculated to enlarge the understanding and settle the
convictions of journalists and legislators. Its themes are logically
ordered under three heads, Politics, Economics, and Sociology.”
(Nation.) Twenty-five individual topics are treated, among them
Naturalization, Woman suffrage, Negro suffrage, Restriction of
immigration, Reciprocity with Canada, Government ownership of
railways, single tax, etc.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 56: 594. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Great judgment and fairness have been displayed by the author, who
has been able to sink personal considerations to a marked degree in
his effort to impartially present a brief outline of the principal
arguments on each subject discussed.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 329. S. ‘05. 250w.
“High-school and college students will give this book a warm welcome.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The scheme and the execution are to be commended, and Mr. Ringwalt
has had in mind in his bibliography the resources of ordinary public
libraries.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 1160w.
“Within its chosen field a valuable reference book. The work has been
done with much care and thoroughness, and the book is not by any means
limited in its usefulness to those preparing for debates, although its
peculiar adaptability to that purpose is evident.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
=Riordan, William L.= Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.
A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by
ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from
his rostrum—the New York county courthouse bootblack stand—and
recorded by William L. Riordan. “For more than forty years he has seen
the political game played in New York city.... His has been the
peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time
and drawing salaries for three of them.... He is the old-fashioned
type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has
a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that
would be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that
afflicts this man.”—Pub. Opin.
=Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 370w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 170w.
=Ripley, William Zebina=, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80.
Ginn.
This volume is “a compilation of special articles, mainly by other
well-known legal writers, on the great cases which have arisen
relative to the status of corporate bodies. These cases extend over a
period of thirty-five years, from the Michigan salt association ... in
1868 to the recent Northern securities company and the United States
shipbuilding company.”—N. Y. Times.
“Doubtless the book will prove a valuable adjunct to the equipment of
the student. But a further compilation and classification of cases
would have been more reassuring to the student.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 593. My. ‘05. 170w.
=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w.
“An important and valuable contribution to economic literature.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 540w.
* “A book of very considerable value.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 290w.
“The introduction is a clear and unbiased discussion of the trust
problem.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
=Rishell, Charles Wesley.= Child as God’s child. 75c. Meth. bk.
A discussion of “baptism and church membership and the teaching of the
home and Sunday school from the point of view of one who believes in
gradual growth into the religious life.” (Ind.)
=Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 144. Mr. 4, ‘05. 210w.
=Rives, Amelie.= See =Troubetzkoy, Amelie.=
=Rives, Hallie Ermine.= See =Dickens, Charles=
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Red fox: the story of his adventurous
career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies
of his kind. †$2. Page.
“The history of a hero fox of singular beauty and strength, united
with rare intelligence, adaptability and foresight.... His range was
the forest, rocky slopes, and backwoods farms of the Ringwaak country
in eastern Canada. Here he ran the full gamut of fox-experience ...
leading a joyous and adventurous life till the brightness of his
renown made him a shining mark for capture. Then, taken by a trick
formidable for its simplicity, he was sent to the states to make a
Roman holiday for a fashionable hunt club, but escaped by almost
super-vulpine sagacity and found safety in the mountains.” (Nation.)
Fifty full page drawings by Charles Livingston Bull illustrate the
volume.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 50w.
* “Has the fascination of a real jungle story, without owing any
apparent debt to Mr. Kipling.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9, 210w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* “It is as charming in style as it is in atmosphere.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “It is intensely interesting throughout; it ends happily; the
natural history is sound; and the pictures are numerous and worthy.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 150w.
“Mr. Roberts appears to tell his story chiefly for its own sake, but
he impresses us quite as deeply as if he had tried to enforce it by
didacticism.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.
“Is a rare thing among animal biographies. The interest, at least, is
quite human.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.
* “Certainly the story is entertaining, and wins and keeps the
sympathy of the reader for the four-footed hero.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 120w.
* “Red Fox is one of the most interesting characters in all the annals
of woods life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
“The treatment is sufficiently literal to answer all that the author
claims for his book, and certainly nothing is lost in charm by the
insertion of what Mr. Roberts considers the animal psychology.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
=Roberts, Edmund Willson.= Automobile pocketbook: a compendium of the
gasoline automobile. $1.50. Gas engine pub.
The object of this little book is “to place before the designer and
the operator, in a brief manner, a few general notes on the design and
the operation of the gasoline automobile.” “Somewhat more than
one-half the book is devoted to the design of various parts, such as
valve mechanisms, mufflers and axles; and detailed descriptions of the
best forms now in use are given, accompanied by lettered drawings,
which enable the average reader to grasp the idea at a glance....
Several chapters are devoted to the care of various parts of the
automobile, how to locate troubles and how to make repairs.” (Engin.
N.)
“This pocketbook fills a place in automobile literature occupied by no
other book.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 636. Je. 15, ‘05. 280w.
=Roberts, George Simon.= Old Schenectady. *$4.50. Robson & Adee,
Schenectady, N. Y.
A book which “carries the reader back to 1682, when the Dutch Van
Curlers, the Vedders, the Tellers, and other Dutch families settled
there. The author does not attempt a historical narrative, but gives a
series of pictures of the quaint town in the early days: its pioneer
settlers; its defenses against Indian attack; its French and Indian
massacre; its Dutch heirlooms. The value of the book is much enhanced
by appropriate and well-executed cuts and halftone illustrations.”—Am.
Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“Some history, more genealogy, and a modicum of biography well served
by the compiler of the neatly printed volume, make an interesting
story. The book bristles with anecdote, reminiscence, and tradition of
the families ... whose names still count for much in the Mohawk
valley.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 61. Ja. 28, ‘05. 520w.
=Roberts, Isaac Phillips.= Horse. **$1.25. Macmillan.
This book “includes an account of the development of the horse from
the early times and the introduction of improved breeds; a description
of kinds and grades now in use; a careful study of the different gaits
and paces of the horse; and many chapters dealing with the most
approved and practicable methods of training, feeding, driving,
breeding, and caring for horses.”—Outlook.
“Even the man who breeds horses for the market may find helpful
suggestions here. Told in an entertaining way, with an enthusiasm for
the subject that adds sparkle to the story.”
+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
Reviewed by Charles Tracy Bronson.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 570w.
“The book has unquestioned value, and contains in compact form but in
clear language much that is valuable.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 100w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Lady Penelope. †$1.50. Page.
The lady Penelope Brading, orphaned daughter of an English earl and an
American heiress, is a young woman of ideas, and ideals. From a host
of suitors, and there are many as she possesses all things save a
sense of humor, she chooses eight; a poet, a captain, a successful
Jew, a young nobleman, a war correspondent, a balloonist, an artist,
and an American millionaire, and puts them in training, finally
announcing that she has married one of them secretly. Each pretends to
be the one and the reader is thoroly mystified even when a baby
arrives to further complicate the situation.
“In the present book we find neither matter nor manner.”
— =Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 320w.
“‘Lady Penelope’ is the best book we have seen for the use of those
newspapers which a few years ago offered prizes for guessing how the
story would end.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 440w.
“It is all in its airy way an amazingly clever satire, touching upon
an astonishing number of solemn and respectable matters in a manner of
cheerful and spontaneous audacity, which disarms resentment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 790w.
“This is an amusing and audacious comedy of cross purposes and
dramatic situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“Original, clever and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Witty and ingenious.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 140w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Brothers of peril. †$1.50. Page.
The two brothers of peril are a brave Indian boy and a young English
cavalier seeking adventure in the New world. The scenes are laid in
Newfoundland among the Beothic Indians. The author says: “I have dared
to resurrect an extinct tribe for the purposes of fiction. I have
drawn inspiration from the spirit of history rather than the letter.
But the heart of the wilderness, and the hearts of men and women, I
have pictured in this romance of olden time as I know them to-day.”
* “A well-fancied tale of old Newfoundland.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 50w.
“We admire Mr. Roberts’s modesty, and commend him for his temperate
description.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 182. O. ‘05. 200w.
“A rarely good tale of adventure in which the characters are vividly
drawn and the interest is never allowed to fall below the properly
breathless point.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 870w.
“A fabric pulsing with thrills, jealousy, pirates, Indian treachery
and other necessities of a thoroughly good story of adventure.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 12. ‘05. 90w.
=Robertson, Charles Grant,= ed. Select statutes, cases and documents to
illustrate English constitutional history, 1660-1832; with a supplement
from 1832-1894. **$3. Putnam.
“The book is the outgrowth of the author’s own needs in teaching
modern history at Oxford, where he found that ... there was a hiatus
that needed to be filled by a collection of documents for the epoch
that opens with the restoration of Charles II.... Among the statutes
and documents included may be mentioned the Act of uniformity, the
Test act, the Coronation oath, the Bill of rights, the Act of
settlement, the Act for the union with Scotland, the Act for the union
with Ireland, the Abolition of the slave trade. All of the most famous
cases in English legal history, within the period treated, are
included.”—N. Y. Times.
“Careful notes indicate when statutes have been repealed, though the
system employed does not always make clear just what portions. It is
spread out too thin to suit the needs of intensive work. The value of
the bibliography and of many of the page references is much lessened
by the failure to give the date and place of publication of the
editions cited. Other examples seem to indicate that the editor’s
knowledge of the general history of at least part of his period is
somewhat faulty.” Arthur Lyon Cross.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 877. Jl. ‘05. 790w.
“In his selection and editing of the statutes and cases that were
available Mr. Robertson has certainly displayed excellent judgment and
sound learning.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22, 230w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 540w.
“Is indispensable to the reader and student of modern English history.
The volume forms altogether one of the very best collections of
documents illustrative of English history.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 300w.
=Robertson, James Alexander.= See =Blair, Emma Helen=, jt. auth.
=Robertson, Morgan.= Down to the sea. †$1.25. Harper.
Fourteen stories on various subjects, but all of men whose real home
is not on land. Under such titles as—“A cow, two men, and a parson,”
“The mutiny,” “The vitality of Dennis,” “Fifty fathoms down,” “The
enemies,” “The rivals,” and “A hero of the cloth,” we hear of war
vessels and other craft, of humorous and exciting happenings, and come
to know some most enjoyable characters.
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 180w.
“Are in the last degree ingenious in construction and clever in the
telling. They have, however, two serious faults: they are so
far-fetched ... and, except for the adventures of Finnegan, they are
painful to the point of being disagreeable.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“In his characterization of the men whom he brings into these stories
there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that
would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the
sea.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 860w.
“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue
of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr.
Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is
master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his
characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both
men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“These stories of his have the genuine salt savor and the salt sting.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 140w.
“A volume of thoroughly good and amusing stories of many seas.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Robertson, T. W.= Society and Caste, ed. by T. Edgar Pemberton. 60c.
Heath.
A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are
printed from the English acting editions which follow the original
manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a
bibliography are included.
=Robertson, William Graham=, il. French songs of old Canada; with
translations into modern English verse. *$10. Dutton.
A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories
found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet
contains good English translations of the songs.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 368. F. ‘05, 400w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the
life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have
been included which add both to its historical and biographical value.
The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains
chronology, bibliography, and index.
=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a
prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of
the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine
Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however,
concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful
girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry
her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a
fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with
a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor,
described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely
remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of
commerce.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 651. My. 27. 250w.
“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking
quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 516. Jl. ‘05. 820w.
“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to
interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and
literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.
— — =Forum.= 37: 103. Jl. ‘05. 610w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 370w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for
competent craftsmanship.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 460w.
— =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 660w.
“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of
sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in
emotional force it is far out of the common.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 830w.
“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the
strength of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 50w.
“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able
characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she
does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 320w.
=Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim.= Ethics of the Christian life; or, The
science of right living. **$2. Am. Bapt.
“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life:
the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for
moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the
Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self,
duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the
method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one
tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 387. Ap. ‘05. 440w.
“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions.
His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 100w.
=Robinson, Albert Gardner.= Cuba and the intervention. **$1.80.
Longmans.
A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of
peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw
off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the
island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a
statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained
self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes,
Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view,
however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.
“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives
valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the
American authorities.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting
incidents in our national history.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w.
“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in
assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it
can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and
unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 319. S. 2, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba
with admirable impartiality.”
+ + =Spec.= 91: 644. Ap. 29, ‘05. 190w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.
A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all
cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks,
and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous
half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for
city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.
“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject
both widely and concretely.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 379. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
Reviewed by Ralph Clarkson.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 15. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.
“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete
and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes
possible.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 268. Ap. 6, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.
“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has
been published of this valuable volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Robinson, E. Kay.= Country day by day. **$1.75. Holt.
In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird
life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the
drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the
things of feathers and of petals.
“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing
hours of the rolling year.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 367. Mr. 25. 570w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.
Reviewed by May Estelle Cook.
* + =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book
may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident
ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.”
R. L.
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 418. Mr. 2, ‘05. 250w.
“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of
nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It
is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for
the beautiful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 621. Ap. 29, ‘05. 710w.
* =Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night, **$1. Scribner.
“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them
‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the
reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood
is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive
sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his
verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a
wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.
* “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he
has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had
he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to
Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and
good faith.’”
+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less
indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more
securely himself.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 250w.
* “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo
poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor
poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in
this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which
qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this
kind.” T. Roosevelt.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 913. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1270w.
* =Robinson, Harry Perry.= Black bear. *$2. Macmillan.
“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his
troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes
the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But
‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She
tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of
loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the
winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated
by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting
disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not
otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to
feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the
end.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 500w.
* =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ‘05. 350w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 692. 4, ‘05. 190w.
=Robinson, Sir John Richard.= Fifty years of Fleet street: being the
life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy
Thomas. *$4. Macmillan.
Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr.
Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of
everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing
health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to
write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals,
jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed
his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the
world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty
years had been the personal friends and associates of the great
journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria,
Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant,
Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes,
Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan,
Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.
“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature
and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 56. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1190w.
“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no
two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the
task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for
during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend
of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those
of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of
memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected
and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to
feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and
edited.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 49. Ja. 28, ‘05. 2330w.
=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2.
Forest & stream.
A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer
tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of
the woods, but does not harm them.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 407. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.
=Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Houghton.
Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared
in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage”
is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family
save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her
lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A
letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love
motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck,
frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old
frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman
who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern
men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.
“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his
portrait.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are
revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long,
personal acquaintance among these people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 284. Ap. 29, ‘05. 340w.
“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s
stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and
country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and
neighborly qualities.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18. ‘05. 150w.
=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Sir Walter Raleigh. 75c. Macmillan.
“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis
of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands
for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the
English colonies in the new world owed their existence. The sketch of
Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of
dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.
“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them
with much skill.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 483. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.
“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of
many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir
Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual
conditions.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1570w. (Survey of contents.)
“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes
the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well
maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted
himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a
creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Rogers, A. W.= Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a
chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom.
*$3.50. Longmans.
A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as
recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which
connects the geological structure with the scenic features.
“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South
African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of
information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous
scientific journals and official reports.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 22. 570w.
“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive
handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 35. My. 11, ‘05. 830w.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= Thomas H. Benton. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed
account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political
events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which
his public work ended.
“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular
statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“The work is careless and superficial.”
— =Dial.= 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than
properly belongs to the biographer.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 420w.
“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true
Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is
marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between
Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement
to a degree constituting a serious defect.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas
H. Benton.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects;
his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too
large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 593. O. ‘05. 470w.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and
environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great
statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography,
which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He
is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the
“economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world
had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff
protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as
sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes
alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While
physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was
constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).
“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into
errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for
the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor.
Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This
biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the
national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader
a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 900. Jl. ‘05. 880w.
“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of
Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects
and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 160w.
“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a
painstaking care is evident.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the
weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or
sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble
grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults.
The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so
far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 280w.
“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality,
gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and
philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the
founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 241. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1090w.
“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that
has yet appeared.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
=Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles.= See =Green, Anna Katharine.=
=Rolfe, William James.= Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in
Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland,
Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. *$1.50.
Houghton.
In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised,
corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes
in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a
plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.
* =Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3.
Scribner.
“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting
trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and
bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions,
from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti,
white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are
also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the
outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island
home.” (Outlook.) The volume is illustrated from photographs by the
president himself or by members of his family.
* “All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous
President will be delighted with this book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 60w.
* “This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for
the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness
and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the
President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 830w.
* “To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy
interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a
President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book
should prove a valued addition to its class.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 1670w.
* “Altogether it is an unusual book, and of interest to every one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous,
wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the
remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of
any subject in which he is interested.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 610w.
* “Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is
well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do
something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 230w.
* “President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of
preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention,
and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every
sportsman must agree.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ‘05. 430w.
=Root. A. I.= A B C of bee culture; rev. by E. R. Root. $1.20. Root.
“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It
is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and
the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be
practically a new book.”—Outlook.
“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on
this subject.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Rosadi, Giovanni.= Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich.
*$2.50. Dodd.
This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and
now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor
Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a
warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a
purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a
noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and
(we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the
word.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 660w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 120w.
“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in
the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the
use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 40w.
“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard
Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems
to serve no particularly good purpose.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 1080w.
“It is a thoroughly scholarly study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two
facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives
it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the
personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of
readers usually indifferent to religious books.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 170w.
“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We
cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book
with more misprints.”
+ — — =Sat. R.= 99: 638. My. 13, ‘05. 440w.
“Is throughout deeply interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 390w.
=Rose, Achilles.= Carbonic acid in medicine. $1. Funk.
The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and
used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern
science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness
of the properties to medical science.
=Rose, John Holland.= Napoleonic studies. *$2.50. Macmillan.
Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the
author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few
exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the
chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt
against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The
detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions
relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during
the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A
British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s
food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,”
“Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation
at Waterloo.”
“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the
subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient
unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the
subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of
antiquarian interest.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 658. Ap. ‘05. 1270w.
“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the
research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to
prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the
Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D.
Adams.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 41. Ja. 16, ‘05. 1520w.
“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and
carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not
dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and
inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a
generalization.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.
=Rose, Mrs. Mary.= Women of Shakespeare’s family. *50c. Lane.
“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be
expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about
Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to
say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts
that she has to deal with.”—Spec.
+ =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Roseboro’, Viola.= Players and vagabonds. $1.50. Macmillan.
Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the
author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character,
are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the
scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the
pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for
chance to play the hero in a burning theatre. “The embroidered robe”
is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success”
makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly
actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the
missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten
year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua
maker,” “A marriage de covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,”
complete the volume.
“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and
softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 298. F. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful,
charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs,
darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful
helping of others.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 257. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing
charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays
of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for
them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the
cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic
crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of
that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of
the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard
experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally
his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he
writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like.
But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ
which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject
are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin
Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The narrative is a strange and powerful one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 500w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and
dignity.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 120w.
=Rosenthal, Herman,= tr. See =Ganz, Hugo.= Land of riddles.
Roses and how to grow them. See =Barron, Leonard=, ed.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially
sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work
this same following will find difficulty in singling out any
censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology,
the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the
social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in
sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the
American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of
investigation in sociology.”
“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the
content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs
out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather
than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some
time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in
sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 129. Jl. ‘05. 1400w.
* “No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the
understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl
Kelsey.
* + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 759. N. ‘05. 540w.
* “Brilliant but somewhat capricious.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to
most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ...
that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions
of a real practical problem.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81:42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“His style is rather exuberant, but it is picturesque and rapid.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 1410w.
“The book is of value to the lay reader in that it clarifies not a few
of the foggy statements and definitions that have been associated with
this newly developed science to its popular detraction. Professor Ross
is a clear and forcible writer.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Old Florence and modern
Tuscany. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author, who has lived among the Tuscan peasants for over thirty
years, has written a series of fifteen papers, eleven of which have
already appeared in various magazines. The book opens with the history
of the Misericordia, the brotherhood of pity in Florence, then follow
chapters upon “A domestic chaplain of the Medici,” “Two Florentine
hospitals,” “A September day in the valley of the Arno,” “Popular
songs of Tuscany,” “Vintaging in Tuscany,” “Oil-making in Tuscany.”
“Virgil and agriculture in Tuscany,” “A stroll in Boccaccio’s
country,” “The dove of the holy Saturday,” “San Gimignano della Belle
Torre,” “Volterra,” “Mezzeria or land tenure in Tuscany,” and “The
jubilee of the crucifix.”
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 760w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.
“Well deserve being collected into book form on account of their
historical research and of their keen observation of actual conditions
of peasant life in Tuscany. The most attractive article of all in this
volume is on the popular songs of Tuscany.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 218. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Written with a distinct and common inspiration and with undoubted joy
in transcription.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Hewlett have been enlightening us as to
Tuscany; now comes Mrs. Ross in a smaller volume but with almost equal
information, especially as to the Tuscan peasants. While we learn more
about modern Tuscany than about old Florence ... Mrs. Ross’s account
is noteworthy, although for a more exhaustive treatment one will turn
to the volumes by Mr. Gardner, M. Yriarte, and Mrs. Oliphant.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.
=Rosse, Florence James.= Philosophy and froth. 50c. Broadway pub.
Almost 200 little epigrammatic sayings, some of which are clever and
some of which are not.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w.
=Rouse, Adelaide Louise.= Letters of Theodora. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A girl, who has left a position in a New Jersey college and a faithful
lover to seek literary honors in unfeeling New York, writes of her
struggles to a girl friend. A life of grape-nuts in a hall bedroom
does not discourage her and she has many experiences and flirtations
which introduce various interesting characters; but in the end she
marries the original John.
“Though she really has nothing much to write about, her letters make
pleasant reading.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 270w.
“‘The letters of Theodora’ do not constitute a psychological
brain-twister, but a light and pleasing romance.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 60w.
“It must be confessed that Teddy has a vivacious way about her which
makes her letters very pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 630w.
“A clever entertaining book.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“May not appeal to a very large public. The public to which it does
appeal will be select and worth having.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=Rouse, G. H.= Old Testament criticism in New Testament light. *$1.
Union press.
An address given before the Bengali Christian conference of Calcutta
has been expanded into this volume which is addressed to the general
reader. It presents “modern views” upon subjects included under the
chapter headings, Our basis—Christ made no mistakes; Christ’s
treatment of the Old Testament; The relation of the Levitical law to
the prophetic history and teaching; The Pentateuch; The authorship of
Psalm cx.; The historicity, accuracy, and authoritativeness of the Old
Testament; The book of Daniel; Prophecy; and Critical methods.
“The higher critics will find in this work much to learn, and much to
moderate their views, while the uncritical Christian will find much to
deepen his faith and to strengthen his hold on the Old Testament as
well as the New Testament.” T. H. L. Leary.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1100. O. 21, ‘05. 710w.
=Spec.= 95: 56. Ag. 8, ‘05. 180w.
* =Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
A dramatic poem in which Quetzal is sent by “the all-father, the high
Tonaca,” to rule over Mexican Tollan and become a power for good. The
god of darkness, “lest man should be all blessed,” took the form of
Lord Tezca who basely seized the throne and “scoffing all but
careless, jovial wit and witty joy,” ruled until “hostile tribes flung
down the bronze-wrought gates.” Kingdom followed kingdom, while the
people dumbly waited for “Quetzal’s hoped return.”
=Rowland, Helen.= Digressions of Polly. †$1.50. Baker.
Polly and her fiancé furnish the airy dialogue of this book. There are
twenty-three chapters, each a complete little chat, with its own
setting and its own amusing climax; but thru them all Polly, the
light-hearted, with her curls, her dimples and her chiffon ruffles,
and Jack the resourceful, very human and very much in love, are true
to their frivolous parts.
“The result is not equal to the effort.”
— =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 30w.
“One of the brightest volumes of dialogue of the season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“If it is lacking in originality ... the conversations of the fair and
frivolous Polly and her fiancé, never dull, are often unusually
diverting.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 60w.
“Her froth and her frills make her very good company, indeed, for
others than the agreeable young man who takes her balls and
occasionally sends back a very respectable one of his own.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 250w.
“She is certainly entertaining, though, perhaps for too many pages.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
* =Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.
“There are contained in this volume eight stories of adventure, having
a slender thread of connection in that all are narratives by Doctor
Leyden of strange experiences in his career as a collector for
museums.” (Pub. Opin.) “They deal with strange and exotic regions such
as Papua, the Orinoco, Borneo, Curacao, Sulu, the South Sea islands,
Hayti, and the Malay peninsula.... Drinking, murder, abduction, fraud,
brutality, cowardice—such are the contents of the book.” (Nation.)
* “Some of the most unpleasant short stories it was ever the fate of
an author to invent. There is no denying that in spite of some
exaggeration and tall talk, the stories are exceedingly well told, but
why tell them?”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 200w.
* “The tales are vivid and strange.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
* “Joseph Conrad would have told the story differently, and doubtless
better, but it is doubtful if he could have created a more convincing
atmosphere of horror.”
— + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Wanderers. †$1.50. Barnes.
The story of a young Irishman who, fearing that his father’s will has
given his yacht to a brother, runs away with the coveted boat. He
takes an artist friend with him, and later picks up an American
professor’s daughter, with whom both young men fall in love, and her
chaperone. After many and varied adventures, which include dueling and
piracy, Brian legally acquires both the yacht and the girl.
“The style is simple but adequate, there is plenty of humor, and the
book admirably fulfils its purpose.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“An unpretending tale, entertaining for an hour or two, agreeable in
its main personages, pleasantly written, abundantly varied in its
kinds of interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Rollicking, jovial story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 520w.
“A light, breezy tale of the sea, with less of storm and stress than
is common to novels of a marine cast, but sufficiently spiced with
adventure to keep the interest alive. Leaving numerous improbabilities
out of mind, the book will serve well to while away a couple of
hours.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w. (Outline of plot.)
“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without
mental effort.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 180w.
=Rowlands, Samuel.= Bride. **$3.50. Goodspeed.
“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’
register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to
bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German
bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now
reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The
poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens
concerning the respective advantages of the single and married
estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line,
stanza.”—Nation.
“Will add little to Rowlands’ fame.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1030w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 720w.
=Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of
our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 160w.
=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and
gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent
of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson;
Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon
Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and
citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John
Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the
appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of
prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting
statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.
“We can at all events congratulate Mr. Seebohm Rowntree upon having
produced an amusing contribution to the faddist class of literature of
the day.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 410w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 505. O. 14, 670w.
* “Mr. Rowntree treats of the evil of betting in the thoro and
dispassionate manner he has employed in his other studies.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“Such a book as this has long been needed. It is the work of
specialists for the abatement of a national evil.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.
“As a study the book is very good reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 260w.
“This volume will be found very valuable as a reference-book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 430w.
* =Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an
historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from
the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
This “true story of events in New York city during the Revolution,”
has seen over one hundred editions, and the present reprint corrects
many errors which have crept into the various texts and gives an
historical introduction showing that the people concerned in this
account of the beautiful and ill-fated Charlotte, who eloped at
fifteen with an English army officer and died broken-hearted and
deserted some two years later, concerns people well known in their
day. The language of the book is quaintly old-fashioned, and the
unpleasant truths are plainly treated. The story was originally
intended as a warning to young girls.
* “Mr. Halsey’s introduction is extremely interesting: a bit of
bibliographical work of high order, adding enormously to the literary
value of the volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 820w.
=Royce, Josiah.= Herbert Spencer; an estimate and review; together with
a chapter of personal reminiscences by James Collier. **$1.25. Fox.
“Exactly one-half this volume is occupied by Professor Royce’s
estimate of Spencer.... Having sketched the general history of
evolution in bold and strong lines, he reviews the origin and
significance of Spencer’s own view of evolution.... The third quarter
of the volume is given to a criticism by Professor Royce of Spencer’s
educational theories.... The volume is brought to a close by some
personal reminiscences of Spencer by Mr. James Collier, who was for
nine years his secretary, and for ten his amanuensis.”—Nation.
“[Belongs] to the supplementary order of biographical material.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 390w.
“This little volume is one of the best ... contributions to
Spenceriana which have been called forth by the publication of
Spencer’s Autobiography.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 254. My. ‘05. 570w.
“A most apt supplement to the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 71. Ja. 26, ‘05. 2180w.
“Professor Royce has given us a rather dreary picture of the
Englishman, Mr. Collier ... gives a more sympathetic account in his
personal reminiscences in the latter part of the book.” H. Heath
Bawden.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 361. My. ‘05. 730w.
“One need hardly ask better help toward a just estimate of the great
career so lately closed than is afforded by this little book in which
historical, biographical and critical insights are happily blended.”
Edward H. Griffin.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 205. Je. 15, ‘05. 700w.
* =Rudy, Charles.= Cathedrals of northern Spain; their history and their
architecture: together with much of interest concerning the bishops,
rulers and other personages identified with them. **$2. Page.
The author of this well illustrated volume in the ‘Cathedral series’
“has an unbounded love not only for Spain but for the Spanish people.
He sees the cathedrals of the Castillian country with enthusiastic
eyes, and he writes as he sees.” (Ind.)
* + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the superficial
reader.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
* =Ruskin, John.= Complete works. $37.50. Crowell.
Thirty volumes containing besides the usual texts of Ruskin’s works at
least two volumes of author’s notes, bibliography and indices not
usually found in current editions. The volumes are strongly bound for
library purposes, the type is large and clear, and the illustrations
for the set include thirty photogravures, 341 half-tones, and 10 color
plates, some of which are reproductions of Ruskin’s own sketches, as
well as Turner’s. The books are boxed and appear in three styles of
bindings.
=Ruskin, John.= Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by
C. E. Norton. **$4. Houghton.
These letters, covering a period from 1855 to 1887, are edited by
Professor Norton himself. They are the intimate letters of a man to
his best friend, some, indeed, have been omitted as too intimate for
publication, and, beginning where “Praeterita” ended, they form a
sequel to it and a valuable addition to Ruskin’s autobiography. The
letters describe the changes which took place in Ruskin’s views of
art, religion, and life during that period, they show him as a social
reformer, and political economist, and give his opinions on American
and European politics. His sketches of the people and places that he
loved, his inner purposes, his work, and the doubts and perplexities
that beset him, reveal the writer to us in a new and more lovable
light. There are a number of illustrations.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 123. F. 11, ‘05. 1240w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 425. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
“The graceful dignity and consummate skill of the comment which
accompanies them. Not only are they a continuous record of Ruskin’s
intellectual and emotional life from 1856 on, and thus almost
completely supplement the unfinished ‘Praeterita,’ but they have the
advantage over ‘Praeterita’ in being records contemporary to the fact,
and thus not subject to contamination through subsequent changes of
mood and of memory. In that of purest friendship, merely as the
spontaneous record of his inner as well as his outer life. With just
reticence and balance of judgment, Mr. Norton sums up the work of his
friend. Ruskin’s comments on his contemporaries are interesting.” G.
R. Carpenter.
+ + =Bookm.= 20: 455. Ja. ‘05. 1360w.
“He [Norton] has performed a delicate task with exquisite taste.”
Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 117. F. ‘05. 950w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 957. Ap. 27, ‘05. 560w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 36. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2430w.
“Read with an eye single to the revelation of personality, there is
hardly a letter here included that does not yield something of value,
and the effect of the whole is to give us the conviction that we may
now approach closer to the real Ruskin than has hitherto been possible
even with the assistance of his ablest interpreters.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 139. Ja. 14, ‘05. 2170w.
“The letters are indeed revelatory, but, for the most part, they are
revelatory of a woeful instability of purpose and of a pitiful misery
of mind. Except incidentally and occasionally, they cannot be said to
add dignity to the name of the man they characterize.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 497. Mr. ‘05. 710w.
“Professor Norton was one of Ruskin’s closest friends, and these
letters make an excellent biography of the great Englishman.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.
“Fascinating as these letters are to read, their one subject is
Himself, his own troubles, his own work, his own knowledge: from
beginning to end it is I.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 407. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1930w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Twin immortalities, and other poems. *$1.50;
special ed. *$2.50. Hammersmark.
The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of
music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the
classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely
allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost
democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the
“Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.
“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and
the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland
between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 182. F. ‘05. 140w.
“Rich and varied volume of verse.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1110w.
“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its
finger tips.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 850w.
=Russell, Constance, Lady.= Three generations of fascinating women, and
other sketches from family history. *$10.50. Longmans.
“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past,
and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of
former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with
Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell,
Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information
concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was
“incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most
likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter
Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered
among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the
third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris
was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.
=Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“You might call Lady Russell’s book a story of fleeting beauties. Are
not so much idealizations as realities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1260w. (Survey of
contents.)
* “This is an admirable literary work now revised and reproduced in a
most admirable manner.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
=Russell, George William Erskine.= Sydney Smith. **75c. Macmillan.
A volume in the “English men of letters series.” A full treatment of
the life and personality of a man celebrated for his wit, but whose
more solid qualities as a man of letters, a founder of the Edinburgh
Review, a lecturer on moral philosophy, a writer of pamphlets, a
politician, and a clergyman, deserve respect. His humor found him a
ready audience, and his keen shafts were used to point his morals more
effectively.
“Mr. George Russell’s biography is adequate and sympathetic. He has
selected his material with discretion, and has let Sydney Smith tell
his own story as far as possible. Now and again the biographer permits
his own prejudices to intervene, and so strikes a jarring note. The
book is a coherent, intelligible account of a great man.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 122. F. 11, ‘05. 1800w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 234. F. 25. 1500w.
“He seems, in short, pretty thoroughly to have summed up the Sydney
Smith question; no more elaborate study of him is likely to be
needed.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 276. Ag. ‘05. 690w.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Russell’s chief merit, then, consists ... in the shrewd and
kindly criticism which he bestows upon Sydney Smith’s energy,
goodness, wit and occasional foibles.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 420w.
“If there is any fault to be found with Mr. Russell’s book, it is that
he does not dwell long enough on the purely social side of Sidney
Smith. Mr. Russell’s brief but interesting biography is well indexed,
and provides such copious extracts from Sydney Smith’s writings on all
possible subjects that it is not a bad substitute for his ‘Works,’
which are not easily accessible to the general reader.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 297. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1200w.
“If Mr. Morley made a mistake in selecting his subject he has shown
his editorial wisdom in his choice of author. No one is better suited
to treat of the great Whig wit than such a representative of the great
Whig family, the Russells. Having something of a conscience, Mr.
Russell does not say much about Smith’s literary qualities and
capacities.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 145. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w.
“A very readable life of the great English wit by an interesting
biographer. Suffers nothing by brevity; for Mr. Russell has succeeded
in conveying the personality of Sydney Smith and in making his pages
live in the light of that personality.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.
“A very readable monograph.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 40w.
“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for
themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged
to a nicety.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 668. My. 20, ‘05. 1900w.
“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever
seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of
quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the
matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of
what he considers a bad job.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 441. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w.
* =Ryan, Thomas Curran.= Finite and infinite. **$1.50. Lippincott.
The author says, “My purpose is to consider, first, such evidences of
God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of
nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and
philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such
attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from
personality.”
* “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result
that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
S
Sabbath-school teacher training course. 1st year: a series of
thirty-nine lessons designed for use in normal classes. **25c. Presb.
bd.
This volume “contains a course of study for three-quarters of a year,
and a forth-coming volume will complete the scheme. At the end of the
first course the Presbyterian board of publication, Philadelphia, will
arrange for an examination for such as desire it, and a teacher’s
diploma will be granted to such as satisfy the examiners.... Even if
the book is not used with a view to a diploma, many Sunday school
teachers will find it advantageous to make it the ground-plan of
private study.”—Ind.
“This first year’s course is admirable in every respect. The well
selected range of subjects is concise, but sufficiently
comprehensive.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4 ‘05. 110w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= Beaufort chums. †$1. Crowell.
The real adventures of real boys are interestingly told here for young
readers. The Mississippi river furnishes the scene for camping,
hunting, fishing, and kindred fun. There is the full quota of
happenings, and live boys keen on the scent for them.
* “Real boy books are scarce these days, and ‘Beaufort chums’ ought to
be hailed as an acquisition to the juvenile library.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 140w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.
Humorously sympathetic recollections of the days when “you” played
ball with the North star nine, preferred illness to the awful
alternative of going to school, fought “your” fights, made a chum of
“your” dog, went fishing, swimming, and skating, or, amid “your”
companions’ jeers, saw “your” first “girl” home from a party. Fifty
real boy illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele illustrate the volume.
* “Will probably outrival most of their predecessors in popular favor,
since they treat of life from a boy’s standpoint.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 39: 576. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18. ‘05. 100w.
* “His boys are quite as ‘real’ as Judge Shute’s and a trifle less
coarse. The reflections of a man of mature years run between the
lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 180w.
* “It is all very amusing and to many of us reminiscent.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during
the winter of 1904-1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.
An anthology of verses written about the horse, including selections
from Browning, Byron, Bayard Taylor, Scott, Kipling, Longfellow,
Kingsley, Quiller-Couch, and others. “No claim is made to have
exhausted the literature of the English language upon this subject,
but it is hoped that a sufficient variety, in respect to the types of
horses and the tasks accomplished by them, has been offered to enable
those who may read, each to find some horse to his liking or the story
of some gallant effort that must command his admiration.”
* =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “Within its limits the collection is a good one.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Wayward Winifred. $1.25. Benziger.
A story of Ireland in which an American finds Wayward Winifred, a
mysterious child who lives in an out of the way castle with a blind
old woman, and takes her to America to be educated in a Catholic
school. In New York the child by chance meets her father and what
seemed a great mystery turns out to be a very little mystery after all
and the child and the father both return to Ireland to do honor to
their old Irish name and restore their old Irish estate.
* =Sage, Elizabeth, and Cooley, Anna M.= Occupations for little fingers:
a manual for grade teachers, mothers and settlement workers. **$1.
Scribner.
“This little manual illustrates and describes simple forms of
handwork; including cord and raffia-work, coarse sewing, paper-cutting
and folding, clay modelling, furniture and upholstery for a doll’s
house, and crocheting and knitting. The writers are teachers who have
worked out with their classes the things of which they write. Their
models are simple and useful articles that will interest the child and
give his work practical connection with the world about him.... They
give with each lesson the necessary cost.”—Nation.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. ‘05. 140w.
* “This is eminently a practical book of instruction and suggestion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.
A delightful fairy tale of mystery and gallant chivalry. The hero, a
young prince, is rewarded for kindness to the King of the Gnomes by
the privilege of beholding in the pool the face of a fair princess. He
seeks this much beleaguered Astrella, and wins her after many a
conflict with a wicked fairy. The illustrations are the author’s own
and include full page colored plates besides a number of pen and ink
drawings.
* “Will be read by advanced as well as by juvenile readers.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as
good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=St. Luz, Berthe.= Black butterflies. $1.50. Fenno.
The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of
Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more
miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather
vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a
jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead,
and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming
love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he
nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.
“It is not exactly clear what the author is driving at.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 499. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the 17th century,
historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. **$2.50.
Putnam.
Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century
have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says
of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du
Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some
passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have
long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made
clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person
have appeared in the different series, they are here put together,
omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and
illustrated.
“Our enjoyment ... has been greatly marred by the lamentable
inefficiency of the translation. Miss Wormeley has fallen a victim to
the fetish of an exaggerated literalness with the most distressing
result. Her structure is frequently not English; at times it is even
ungrammatical.” Horace B. Samuel.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 790w.
“Although the finer shades of his style have not always been exactly
rendered by Miss Wormeley, yet the translation, on the whole, is
fairly good. The value of the work is impaired by the absence of a
good index.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 430w.
“Diverse as are the characters treated of, each one is examined with
the same charm, the same absence of exaggeration or trivial gossip.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w.
“It presents in sound, idiomatic English some of the best work of the
man who holds rank as one of the greatest critics in all literature.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 533. Jl. ‘05. 1510w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 75. Ja. ‘05. 190w.
“To those who have no French, Miss Wormeley’s volumes may be
commended. She has chosen wisely, and has translated accurately, if
without distinction.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 476. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1530w.
=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of criticism and literary
taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. V. 3.
*$3.50. Dodd.
The author, professor of rhetoric in the university of Edinburgh,
devoting this third volume to a survey of the nineteenth century,
includes a study of English criticism from 1860 to 1900, and gives
sixteen pages to American critics.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 106. Jl. ‘05. 470w.
“A trial balance of the qualities and defects of this great work might
run somewhat as follows: Professor Saintsbury is unreliable, but
frequently admirable, on the authors who touch his heart—the
romantics; he is almost invariably inadequate and unfair to the
critics he dislikes—the doctrinaires, among them the Germans
especially; and he is safe only on the critics who bore him—the small
fry generally. The volume, although its matter is on the whole the
most attractive of the three, is less readable than its predecessors.
It is chiefly valuable because the deposit of facts, which careful
straining will separate, is considerable. Bad guide as he is for the
highroad, the byways of criticism become accessible through Professor
Saintsbury’s labors.” F. J. Mather, jr.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 450. Ja. ‘05. 1820w.
“It is however, only fair to say that Professor Saintsbury never
allows his political or religious beliefs, strong as these are, to
interfere with his judgment. We are a little surprised, perhaps, to
find the section on Lamb one of the best of the book—a good piece of
writing without qualification. The poorest chapters of the book—and
they are poor beyond forgiveness—are those which deal with topics that
require ideas or the understanding of ideas. A book of irritating
qualities. He is interesting—despite the continual faults of taste and
despite the tedium of the subject, he never allows the reader’s
attention to flag, and that is high praise.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 501. Mr. 2, ‘05. 720w.
* “In spite of its author’s rather slap-dash fashion, is on the whole
a valuable, even an indispensable compendium for students of that very
special criticism which is concerned with books almost exclusively.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“One must always remember, in reading him, that he writes with the
strongest possible bias, and that, however useful and even
indispensable to the student of literature his history is, it is
rather a work of reference than as a storehouse of reliable literary
judgments. The style of the volume is deplorable. His offences against
taste are of various kinds; perhaps the most exasperating is his
reference to great men by their Christian names.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 155. F. 23, ‘05. 2570w.
“With all its wealth of material and faithful investigation of
original sources, it is the work of a cloudy and often incoherent
mind. ‘Exhaustive’ is the word which comes to the reviewer’s mind as
he surveys the range of this history. No work in this field covers the
ground so completely or with such wealth of knowledge.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 397. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.
=Saintsbury, George.= Minor Caroline poets. 2v. v. I. *$3.40. Oxford.
“This volume contains Chamberlayne’s ‘Pharonnida,’ a ‘heroick poem’ of
heroic length; Benlowes’ ‘Theophila,’ a ‘divine poem’ in many cantos;
the poems of Mrs. Katherine Philips, ‘the matchless Orinda;’ and the
poems of Patrick Hannay, a very obscure person of whom nothing is
known, and of whose book only six copies remain. Indeed all the
writers collected in this book are more or less obscure now, and you
must be interested in the history of English poetry before you can be
expected to read them.”—Lond. Times.
“It is well and judiciously edited as a whole, the notes being sparing
and adequate, while the prefaces—both the general preface and those to
single authors—if one can stomach the editor’s most unappetizing and
contorted style, are excellent in substance, alike critical and
informative.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 2: 168. Ag. 5. 1900w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 229. Jl. 21, ‘05. 2320w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 107. Ag. 3, ‘05. 400w.
“We can and do applaud the zeal for true literary criticism and for
scientific literary history, which prompted Professor Saintsbury to
reprint and edit the minor Caroline poets, but we cannot and do not
pretend to endorse all his conclusions as to the merits of the four
included in the volume before us.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 375. S. 16, ‘05. 960w.
=Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of.= Essays,
v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. *$2. Dutton.
“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who
had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The
interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man
otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert
Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble
parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That
they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are
divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of
‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N.
Y. Times.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 450w.
“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not
only for their intrinsic value, but for the light they throw upon the
mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 690w.
“The first volume is by far the more interesting.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 430w.
“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest
pretensions, admirable.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 194. Je. 16, ‘05. 740w.
* “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord
Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks,
however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in
foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 1250w.
“Very well worth reading on many accounts these essays are. But
perhaps most of all as showing how a highly cultivated modern man and
acute dialectician may still represent and embody an antiquated theory
of politics.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 305. My. 13, ‘05. 4430w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in
Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.
Although this volume “consists largely of catalogues of pictures,
frescoes, friezes, stained glass groups, and so forth, it is not
designed chiefly as a historical study of the works of art with which
it deals; its main interest is for the Franciscan student.... The
representations of Francis, his followers and indeed all things
Franciscan, and the influence of the Saint in early Italian art
generally, are followed up and chronicled with a pertinacity and
thoroughness which only the special student can appreciate.”—Acad.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 380w.
* “We have found it rather dry reading from any point of view, but
doubtless there are those who can profit by the information it
conveys.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* “Presents the first attempt ever made to bring together into English
and in small compass the stories around the pictures of Franciscan
saints.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
=Salter, William.= Iowa: The first free state in the Louisiana purchase.
**$1.20. McClurg.
This is not the story of Iowa as a state, but an account of the
incidents in American history which concern it, from 1673 to 1846,
from its discovery to its admission as a state into the Union. Its
varied history, under France, under Spain, in the Louisiana purchase,
and the territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
at last Iowa is followed. The book is illustrated with portraits and
plans.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“The work is painstaking and careful but its scope is limited.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 56: 594. S. ‘05. 140w.
“A vast amount of information is given in this condensed and readable
shape.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is told in a style that is clear, but without distinctive
merit of any kind. Neither new knowledge nor original treatment of old
information is in evidence.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 370w.
“His narrative lacks the flowing interest one would naturally expect,
being retarded both by a peculiar inclusiveness of treatment and a
somewhat halting style.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
* =Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.
†$1.25. Wessels.
“The perfume of Eros” was first published serially under the title,
“The yellow fay.” It deals with some unlovely members of New York’s
inner circle. Loftus, handsome and wealthy, picks up a tailor’s pretty
little daughter and after solemnly promising to marry her establishes
her in handsome apartments, takes her abroad and finally deserts her
for the wife of his closest friend. The murder of Loftus on the eve of
this elopement brings about a trial in which the characters who have
thus far been good altho weak, perjure themselves and thereby smooth
things over for the happiness of two of the weakest and wealthiest.
* “The story is interesting, especially if you regard it as a hooded
satire.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 420w.
=Sample, John Calvert.= Properties of steel sections: a reference book
for structural engineers and architects. *$3. McGraw pub.
A work related to the well-known “Osborn’s tables,” in ground covered.
An essential difference is that, in the tables of properties of
compound sections, Sample gives I and r, while Osborn gives I and r2.
“The book will be frequently found a convenient handbook where much
designing in steel is to be done.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 230w.
=Sanborn, Alvan Francis.= Paris and the social revolution: a study of
the revolutionary element in the various classes of Parisian life.
**$3.50. Small.
“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic
philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its
propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the
anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’
outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.
“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of
society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human
caricatures.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 595. S. ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it.
Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his
quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for
they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such
diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library
of revolutionary literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 690w.
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 890w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1510w. (Outline of
contents.)
“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian
life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical,
but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way
contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 260w.
“An unusually earnest presentation of what modern anarchy stands for.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 757. My. 13, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. (†)$1.50. Little.
The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington,
where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden,
the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan
congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are
slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is
restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct
and unassuming people.
* “Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort
of way which interferes in nowise with the gentle reader’s nap between
chapters.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 110w.
=Sandars, Mary F.= Life of Honore de Balzac. **$3 Dodd.
The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose
loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for
labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount
of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he
died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came
fame.
“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of
fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really
worthy of the occasion.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 760w.
“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French
romancer.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its
sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie
Russell Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 413. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w.
“Miss Sandars explicitly disclaims all critical intentions. But her
attitude toward her author implies a judgment. And that judgment, it
seems to us, errs, if anything, in taking Balzac rather too
seriously.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 520w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“In Miss Sandars’s work is presented, for the first time, an
exhaustive account of Balzac’s life. The story is told simply,
directly, with sympathy, and not infrequent humor.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 419. My. 25, ‘05. 970w.
“While sympathetic and unquestionably entertaining, adds little of
importance to our knowledge of the subject. It is essentially a volume
of literary ‘small talk’ ... all very diverting, to be sure, but
hardly constituting a biography.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“Miss Sandars has succeeded, where many have failed, in writing a
readable and intelligent Life of Honore De Balzac. She has made little
attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and
therein she is wise, for such few specimens of criticism as she does
present show neither sympathy nor understanding. Miss Sandars’s sketch
is not without either coherence or verisimilitude.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 86. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1510w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ. **$1.25.
Scribner.
“This volume is a reprint of the article ‘Jesus Christ,’ contributed
to Dr. Hastings’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ ... A notable feature is
an improved map of the sacred sites, taken from various sources, and
brought up to the latest stage of knowledge on the subject.”—Spec.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 75. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“His article on Jesus has been recognized as a careful piece of work,
but it falls short where one most wants light, in the point of a
clear, satisfying statement of Jesus’s own thought and belief.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1013. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.
“Strongly conservative in his tendencies, but open-minded, and
candidly conceding much to the fellow-critics whose conclusions he
rejects.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 110w.
“Few scholars can approach the central subject of their religion with
deeper learning, and with a happier combination of criticism and
reverence than Dr. Sanday.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 446. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
=Sanders, Henry Arthur,= ed. Roman historical sources and institutions.
(Humanistic series.) **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The University of Michigan devotes the initial volume of her
‘Studies’ to a collection of essays dealing with Roman historical
sources and institutions.... Apart from Professor Dennison’s
discussion of the singing of the ‘Sæcular’ hymn, all the papers are
historical in theme.... Miss Mary G. Williams” contributes a “study of
Julia Mamæa.... Dr. Duane R. Stuart investigates Dio Cassius’s use of
epigraphic material.... Professor Drake ... traces the rise and
decline of the principalitas in the pre-Diocletian army. Dr. G. H.
Allen ... presents a valuable study of centurions as substitute
commanders.... Professor Sanders ... collects all versions of the
Tarpeia myth, following Krahner, and adds some allied stories,” and
also gives a “discussion of the lost Epitome of Livy.”—Am. Hist. R.
“They display diligence and zeal. It is perhaps ungracious to object
to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays
shows a facile pen.” Charles Upson Clark.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 621. Ap. ‘05. 500w.
=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches **$1.75. Macmillan.
Mr. Sandys, author, artist, naturalist, and sportsman, has brought
together here “picturesque accounts of shooting and fishing, pleasant
descriptions of out-of-door experiences, practical information for the
camper, fisher, and hunter.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Sandys stands between the genuinely literary sportsman, such as
Henry Van Dyke, and the mere spinner of wildly improbable yarns. There
is a swagger in his style that seems unduly artificial now and then.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The only trouble with the stuff is its essential artificiality.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 240w.
“Rarely are sporting sketches found of interest to so wide an audience
as this book will attract.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 90w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 40w.
=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning
under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The
theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice,
Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of
Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.
“A readable and scholarly work.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Dr. Sandys combines with a profound knowledge of books a light touch
and an appreciation of the spirit of the place.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 175. Ag. 5, 850w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 90w.
“When we consider the mass of names and facts handled, the dexterity
with which Dr. Sandys beguiles our attention is really extraordinary.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
=Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 60w.
“It is a sad pity that so much patient investigation should be so
little clarified by a sense of proportion and historic insight.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 1120w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 569. O. 14, ‘05. 1320w.
=Sanford, Frank G.= Art crafts for beginners. **$1.20. Century.
“To those who feel the need of some art expression, but who cannot
attend an art school; to those who wish to follow the art of the
craftsman; to those teachers upon whom demand is made for knowledge of
the crafts—this little volume is addressed.” Instruction is given in
design, thin wood carving, pyrography, sheet-metal work, leather work,
bookbinding, simple pottery, basketry, and beadwork. The book is aided
in its helpfulness to the beginner by the author’s working drawings,
and reproductions of photographs.
“The treatment is terse, careful and suggestive. As a useful little
manual for the teacher and as a practical guide for the amateur, this
book should prove of great value.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
* =Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood,
**$1. Bobbs.
This “book for the twentieth century mother,” gives good council for
the mothers of children at various stages of development. It discusses
baby days, religious training, school, outdoor life and pets, manners,
home reading and play-mates. There are chapters upon When children
marry: The grandmother: Motherhood in fiction: Motherhood in the
Bible: and Questions for the mother’s clubs. There is much that is
helpful in the volume and it is written in a spirit which approaches
motherhood reverently, and makes of it a thing both noble and ideal.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
A five volume series. Vol. I, “Introduction, and reason in common
sense,” and Vol. II, “Reason in society,” are already out. Vol. III,
“Reason in religion,” Vol. IV, “Reason in art,” and Vol. V, “Reason in
science,” are to follow. “Vol. I, ... ‘Reason in common sense,’ has
chapters on ‘The birth of reason,’ ‘First steps and first
fluctuations.’ ‘Discovery of natural objects.’ ‘On some critics of
this discovery,’ ‘Nature unified and mind discerned.’ ‘Discovery of
fellow-minds.’ ‘Concretions in discourse and in existence,’ ‘Relative
values of things and ideas,’ ‘How thought is practical,’ ‘The measure
of values in reflection,’ ‘Abstract conditions of the ideal.’ ‘Flux
and constancy in human nature.’ Vol. II, ‘Reason in society,’ deals
with love, the family, industry, government, and war; the
‘aristocratic ideal.’ democracy, ‘free’ society, patriotism, and
‘ideal’ society.” (N. Y. Times.)
“He can be brilliantly brief and weighty, and deliver long-drawn-out
expositions with harmonious grandeur. He too brings us inspiration in
a manner as delightful as it is distinguished.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 588. Je. 2, ‘05. 1100w.
“The style is unfamiliar and singularly disconcerting to anybody who
is anxious to get at the gist of Prof. Santayana’s message. Trope and
epigram, flaming phrase and pervasive metaphor, so blur the outline of
his meaning that impatience gives way at times to absolute
exasperation.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905. 2: 269. Ag. 26. 740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For one, therefore, who is willing also to think, the work is
essentially readable throughout. It is full of keen insight wedded to
apt expression.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 349. My. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is, in fact, an eclectic philosophy, and. like other works of that
sort, is likely to have more literary than scientific value. Professor
Santayana’s style is highly polished, in parts too much so.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 190w. (Statement of contents
of v. 1 and 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 189. Mr. 25, ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Ingenious, keen, and brilliant in a purely intellectual way, as all
must confess Professor Santayana’s pragmatic treatment of the life of
reason to be. those who are intent on a profounder moral pragmatism
will, we fear, lay the volume containing it down with disappointment
and regret.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Seldom has a materialistic philosophy been presented in finer
literary garb than in this series of volumes, or with stranger
contradiction of experimental facts.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“He is always sufficiently independent without being in the least
eccentric, and has much to say that is highly suggestive; but, in his
praiseworthy attempt to avoid both dogmatism and polemics, on the one
hand, and a too schematic and rationalistic method, on the other, he
seems to the present reviewer constantly to run the risk of treating
in a very general and somewhat superficial way some of the fundamental
problems of philosophy.” Ernest Albee.
+ + — =Philos. R.= 14: 602. S. ‘05. 2250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The first volume seems to us to be disappointing. It seems to lack
definiteness of both purpose and expression. The second volume on the
other hand, seems to us to be somewhat original in substance and
manner of treatment, and is certainly fruitful in suggestion as well
as principle.” George S. Painter.
+ + — =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 334. O. 15, ‘05. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“He writes with a real command of language and power of imagery, and
to most readers his brilliant illustrations and epigrams will be the
chief attraction of his work. We should be the last to deny their
charms, but at the same time the thought is apt to be a little
confused by the splendour of its presentation.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1740w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= Manual of the trees of North America. *$6.
Houghton.
Information concerning the trees of North America (exclusive of
Mexico) in a convenient form for the use of students and all those
interested in trees and tree culture. The book includes a “Synopsis of
families of plants,” an “Analytic key to families of plants,” a
“Glossary of technical terms,” tend a complete index. There are six
hundred and thirty trees described, each one accurately illustrated by
the drawings of Charles E. Faxon. Professor Sargent has had thirty
years’ experience in dealing with indigenous trees in the Arnold
arboretum at Harvard, and the results of the knowledge thus acquired
are here included, while Mr. Faxon has reproduced leaf-bud, leaf,
flower, and fruit so ingenuously that each tree may be readily
recognized at any season, and assigned to its proper group.
“A book which is indispensable to all students of American trees.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15, 470w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 320w.
“There is no reason why this manual should not become at once
extensively used by all those interested in trees.” J. M. C.
+ + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
“It is hard to see how a better or a different manual could be made.
No serious student of American trees can do without it.”
+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 223. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“It will be especially valuable to students in the West and South,
where the trees are not so well covered by other manuals.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 217. Jl. 27, ‘05. 300w.
“This task of providing a handy book of reference in fieldwork fell
naturally to the author and illustrator of the ‘Silva.’ Both have done
their work well.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4. ‘05. 930w.
“It cannot fail to be of the greatest value to students of botany and
forestry.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 197. Je. 29, ‘05. 400w.
“The arrangement is such that reference is easy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w.
“Is so written that with the least amount of trouble you may find to
what family of species any particular tree belongs.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 216. Ap. 8, ‘05. 670w.
“The book is one of permanent value not only to the student of
forestry but to all who wish to identify the species and genus of
trees in all parts of the country, so that the work really holds with
regard to trees such a place as is held in another field by Gray’s
‘Botany.’”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 170w.
“It is an excellent book to put in the hands of all who are interested
in village and park improvement, while owners of country places will
find it indeed a vade mecum.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“This is a book for the reference library in all our high schools.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is thoroughly satisfactory, and must at once become a
standard among systematic manuals.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 914. Je. 16, ‘05. 690w.
=Spec.= 94: 645. Ap. 29, ‘05. 50w.
* =Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A genuine picture of life in New Zealand.... A story—genial, kindly,
void of bitterness, and perfectly free from platitudinous unreality.
The author presents a charming heroine, two brothers (one colonial
born, and one a ‘new chum’ from England), a delightful old colonist of
the early days, and at least five other characters who are too well
and faithfully limned to be called simple sketches.”—Ath.
* “It has a rounded completeness, a full and broad humanity, which are
by no means characteristic of contemporary fiction. A story full of
real characterization, and at the same time alive with action,
movement, and even with adventure.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 574. O. 28. 320w.
* “There is about the whole book a freshness and flavor of the wilds
that give it a most welcome individuality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w.
* “There is an atmosphere of freshness and truth about the book that
is most satisfying, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 600w.
* “It has a thrilling story and not a few vividly written and exciting
incidents. It seems to us far the best of the recent tales which have
come to us dealing with Australasia.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is worth reading chiefly on account of its minor characters such
as Pine the Maori, and certain passages describing the wonderful
depths of the bush. The hero and heroine and their love story, and
with unnecessary complications, are tedious and commonplace, and the
dialogue is for the most part stilted and rhetorical.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* “The book is to be heartily commended as an able and original piece
of work.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 821. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Saunders, (Margaret) Marshall.= Princess Sukey: the story of a pigeon
and her human friends. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
Altho Princess Sukey, the thorobred pigeon, flutters thru the story,
the plot is chiefly concerned with the little boy who saved her life
and with his grandfather, a retired judge, whose heart becomes
softened to all weak things thru her and who fills his silent house
with young life, letting the poor and the orphaned find a place in his
heart and his home.
“It might be a tract promulgated jointly by the societies for the
prevention of cruelty to animals and children.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 20: 434. Jl. 1, ‘05. 350w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35.
Putnam.
The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet
given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The
volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from
the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.
* + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 190w.
* “Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of
phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage
serious poetic criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 160w.
* “The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr.
Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal
without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety
in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of
appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world?
**$1.35. Putnam.
“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the
questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself
on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world,
believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are
suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and
all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.
“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have
thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as
a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 896. S. 2, ‘05. 1490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 820w.
“The discussion is luminous, rational, and effective.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Savoyard, pseud.= See =Newman, Eugene W.=
=Scaliger, Julius Caesar.= Select translations from Scaliger’s Poetics,
by Frederick Morgan Padelford. 75c. Holt.
This twenty-sixth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series
includes “such chapters or portions of chapters as bear most vitally
upon the fundamental problems of poetics.... The table of contents has
been translated in full in order that the reader may gain an
impression of the Poetics in its totality.”
=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“In this volume the stirring narrative of the pioneer settlements in
the territory now embraced in the states of Oregon, Washington, and
Idaho is told in detail, while the organization and political progress
of the three state governments are briefly sketched. The author has
wisely selected for amplification ... the processes by which the
wilderness was subdued, homes multiplied, commerce extended to all
parts of the world, and a great civilization developed in a portion of
our continent that we once called remote and inaccessible.”—R. of Rs.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 11: 229. O. ‘05. 50w.
“A reading of it leaves the impression that it is the work of one who
knows his field and whose conclusions may be relied upon.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“He shows a fine grasp of the relative importance of events. The early
period of its development is treated with great fullness and in style
that fascinates the reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 840w.
“The treatment is clear and logical, the tone impartial, and the style
direct and agreeable. The book, in fine, is a useful addition to the
literature of its subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
=Scherer, James A. B.= Young Japan; the story of the Japanese people,
and especially of their educational development. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Dr. Scherer tells in detail the development of Japan as a nation,
with much information concerning succeeding rulers and their reigns.
He discusses every influence that has gradually led the Mikado’s
empire to its present position among the nations of the world, and
what this position has meant or means to the native literature, arts,
or sciences. Anecdotes and legends are used to illustrate certain
points.... It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of
photographs taken by and for the author, and drawings by Japanese
artists.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a useful pendant to his former work, ‘Japan to-day,’ and is, in
effect, a sort of short philosophic history of Japan, which, however,
is not treated critically.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 490w.
“He does not, however, go very far behind the looking-glass.” Wm.
Elliott Griffis.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w.
“The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and marked by ease
and poise. It is the book for the hour; for the chief problems about
Japan just now concern her real purpose and moral force.” Wm. Elliot
Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 62. Ag. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“A large portion of the book would make an excellent school-text
book.” Adachi Kinnosuke.
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“When he discusses Japanese history, Dr. Scherer is at once accurate
and philosophical; and his descriptions of Japanese school, street,
and home life in town and country afford instruction and
entertainment.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 470w.
“It is perhaps the general view of the long education of the Japanese,
though but slightly touching upon the philosophy which has nourished
the leaders of modern thought and action.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.
“The story is concise and interestingly written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“His work is based upon a pretty solid foundation, and will be found
both entertaining and informing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
* =Schnabel, Carl.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
A second English edition of this treatise on metallurgy which is a
translation of the second German edition. As the preface states: “The
work is divided into two volumes. The first embraces the metallurgy of
copper, lead, silver, and gold.... The remaining metals are treated of
in volume 2, and the most important among them being zinc, nickel and
mercury.”
* “If the data were only up to date, the book would form an excellent
text book for students of metallurgy.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 643. D. 14, ‘05. 2070w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “The merits and defects of the book remain much the same as the
first edition. Prof. Louis is to be congratulated on the translation,
which makes a valuable work available to British students.”
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 124. D. 7, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).= Electrical instruments
and testing; how to use the voltmeter, ammeter, galvanometer,
potentiometer, ohmmeter, and the Wheatstone bridge. $1. Spon.
“This book is intended for practical use and also as an introduction
to the larger work on electrical testing. The apparatus described is
modern and universally adopted. The lists are such as occur daily in
the work of the engine room, power house, or technical school.” It
consists of practical explanations with numerous examples worked out
and fully illustrated with diagrams and drawings.
=Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.).= Model library, v. 1.
$1. Spon.
This volume is divided into four books. The study of electricity and
its laws for beginners, comprising the elements of electricity and
magnetism as applied to dynamos, motors, wiring, and to all branches
of electrical work. How to install electric bells, annunciators and
alarms, including batteries, wires and wiring, circuits, bells,
alarms, thermostats, annunciators, and the location and remedying of
troubles. How to make use of them, giving full detailed instructions
for the manufacture of dry cells of any shape and size. Electrical
circuits and diagrams illustrated and explained, new and original
drawings, comprising annunciators, alarms, bells, dynamos, batteries,
etc. The whole is fully illustrated. There is also a complete general
index.
=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxon’s drama of Christianity in the North.
$1.50. Hammersmark.
“There are forty persons of the drama, besides fairies, gnomes, a
dwarf, and a witch, classified as the ‘Saxon unit,’ the ‘Roman unit,’
the ‘Greek unit,’ and the ‘Supernatural.’ The distinctions between the
classes are not sharply made, and unless the reader is thoroly
informed or highly alert his mind will become more or less befogged in
following the flight of the Saxons away from the Christians and the
complicated relations among Oswald, Father Benedict, Sigurd, Selena,
and Canzier.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a long, confused drama in blank verse, where the ambition of
the author is more praiseworthy than the result of it.”
— =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 20w.
“‘The Saxons’ has the advantage of an unhackneyed theme ... but the
story is not very clearly told.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w.
=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in
lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
After an introductory chapter treating of the problem of apologetics
and its history, Dr. Schultz free from dogma and creeds discusses the
nature of religion, postulates, and the reasonableness of the
religious view of the world, philosophy of religion, religion in its
historical phenomena, the nature of Christianity, the Kingdom of God,
Christ, Jesus in history, &c. The volume is well annotated.
“Thoroughly scientific, and therefore failing to meet the requirements
of orthodoxy, Professor Schultz’s apologetic is certainly evangelical
in the best sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 885. Ag. 5, ‘05. 400w.
=Schumann, Robert Alexander.= Fifty piano compositions. $2.50. Ditson.
Mr. Xaver Scharwenka has selected and edited the fifty compositions
which are included in this addition to “The musician’s library,” and
has also contributed an introductory study of Schumann. There is a
bibliography in English, German and French.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “While every amateur may miss this or that pet piece, the editor has
succeeded remarkably in his choice of the half-hundred most precious
nuggets.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.
“As an interpretation this introduction is not equal to the
introductions of some of the other volumes in this series.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 90w.
=Schuster, Arthur.= Introduction to the theory of optics. *$4. Longmans.
A text-book for teachers and students who are already acquainted with
the phenomena of light as described in college books of general
physics. “The first two-thirds of the volume are elementary; that is,
they explain only polarization, interference, diffraction, the theory
of optical instruments, and the peculiarities of the different
crystalline media—phenomena that result simply from light’s consisting
of transverse vibrations. The remaining third of the book contains the
deeper theory of light, and is written on a novel plan, the idea being
to direct students to the original memoirs without repeating their
contents.” (Nation.)
“The reviewer feels that Professor Schuster, by clearness of
exposition and the painstaking work spent in the preparation of such a
timely and useful book, has put students and teachers of physics under
no inconsiderable obligation.” E. F. N.
+ + =Astrophys.= J. 21: 382. My. ‘05. 780w.
“Prof. Schuster has been completely successful within the limits which
he has laid down for himself. We recommend the work heartily to all
advanced students of physics, with only a hint of warning that the
information should be supplemented from other sources.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 53. Ja. 14, 910w.
“A notable addition to the literature of optical theory, and one which
will prove of value to every student.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 198. Mr. 9, ‘05. 480w.
“Fills a very obvious gap. The treatment is marked throughout by the
author’s well-known and admirable lucidity of style.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 457. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1030w.
=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Wilderness babies. †$1.50. Little.
Sixteen delightful stories which tell of sixteen equally delightful
animal families. Young folks, when they have read them, will feel a
truly friendly interest in: The one with a pocket: the opossum; The
one that eats grass in the sea: the manatee; The biggest one: the
whale; The one that lives in a crowd: the buffalo; and all the rest,
elk, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, bear, fox, wolf, panther, seal, shrew,
mole, and bat.
* “To make the stories quite perfect, it would be well that a
naturalist should give them careful revision, so they may teach as
well as charm the children, for whom they are written.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 390w.
* “The stories should not only prove attractive to children, but they
should give them much interesting information about the children of
the woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton,
N. Y.
The dream note in poetry, the traditional, and the patriotic are all
sounded again and again thru Mr. Scollard’s new group of verse. His
seven pieces are The dreamers, Lawton, On a copy of Keats’s Endymion,
Elegy in autumn, The march of the ideal, The stars of morning, and The
Oriskany.
“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most
characteristic trait of his muse.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination
and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt
him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of
difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of
poetic diction.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June,
1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years
of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms,
when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they
were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of
divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of
morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against
all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all
in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of
their king.”
“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need
to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 750w.
“Miss Scott has given us a second book worthy of the reputation she
gained by her first and we must not leave it without a special word of
praise for her description of, and constant reference to, her
authorities, and for the admirable index.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 300. O. 12, ‘05. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 323. My. 20, ‘05. 1270w.
“An adequate and rather minute account of eight years of
vicissitudes.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w.
“She has not the tact to present the facts which she has mastered in
an intelligible or artistic shape.”
— + =Spec.= 94: 513. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1560w.
=Scott, Leroy.= Walking delegate. †$1.50. Doubleday.
This novel, by an author who has been active in social settlement work
on the East side, concerns New York labor unions and tells the story
of the struggle between “Buck Foley” and the walking delegate who
defeated him.
“There is genuine power in the book, and it holds the interest of the
reader until the very last.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 832. Ag. 12, ‘05. 270w.
“The characterization of the story is gripping, and the dialogue is
better than the curate’s famous egg. The style is picturesque without
being purple.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 74. Jl. 15. 210w.
“Impresses one from the start as a work of uncommon power and
realism.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 86. S. ‘05. 420w.
“Tragedy, sentiment, and lively narrative give the book a real
interest.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 400. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“A book written without any pretence of style, yet crudely impressive
by virtue of its picturesque speech and its close acquaintance with
the conditions depicted.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 230w.
“The tale is an interesting, and even powerful narrative. The
workingmen of the story are generally true types. But the author has
somewhat overdone the matter of endowing them with faulty syntax and
cheap slang.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 140w.
“Characters, incidents, conversations, setting are of the latest and
seem impressively real. It is a strong story notable even among good
novels.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“Mr. Leroy Scott has planted a literary standard in the field of
American labor. Strictly speaking ‘The walking delegate’ is not a
literary work, and, to judge by this example of his diction, Mr. Scott
is not a stylist.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 341. My. 27, ‘05. 1550w.
“There is little doubt that ‘The walking delegate’ is one of the
strongest books that the season has produced.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“There is more genuine, living, human sociology in it than is to be
found in half of the avowed studies of the relations of men in human
society.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“Both as a human document and as a work of art, ‘The walking delegate’
is a book of extraordinary worth.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 140w.
* =Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.
An exhaustive account of a three year Antarctic expedition which
sailed in 1901 and spent two years below the Antarctic circle, making
a new farthest south record. The geographical and scientific
discoveries made are given in detail, the adventures met with and the
new lands, mountains, and glaciers seen, are elaborately described.
For the benefit of future voyagers there is a minute account of
management and equipment of the “Discovery.” The books are written by
the commander of the expedition and are illustrated from photographs
and sketches, many of which are in color.
* “Looking on the book as a whole we cannot but think that it would
have gained by compression, and by a somewhat more definite marking of
the main lines.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1096. O. 21, ‘05. 1410w.
* “We cordially congratulate the author and the publishers on having
combined to produce a book which is in every way worthy of so
remarkable an expedition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 581. O. 28. 2510w.
* “The freshness and novelty of the subject matter command an
immediate hearing, and the charm of the narrative, the well balanced
perspective, and above all the manly record of heroic endeavor here
revealed bid fair to make Captain Scott’s modest account one of the
classics of polar exploration.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 432. D. 16, ‘05. 2880w.
* “Lieutenant Mulock’s maps deserve special praise for their beauty,
their accuracy, and their fulness of detail, while it would be
impossible to speak too highly of the 260 illustrations that are not
only an adornment to the book, but enable us almost as much as does
the text to realize the conditions amidst which this expedition spent
over two years.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 334. O. 13, ‘05. 1460w.
* “Capt. Scott has written a book that will have a conspicuous place
among the annals of polar effort, and it is worthy of it.” Cyrus C.
Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 793. N. 25, ‘05. 2340w.
* “Captain Scott has a singularly happy style, free from the stiffness
of Cook and the formality of Ross, yet terse, vigorous and direct.
This book comes as near perfection as we ever expect a book of travel
to be.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 685. N. 25, ‘05. 2060w.
* “Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part
of it is the production of the ablest and most interesting record of
travel to which the present century has yet given birth.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 566. O. 14, ‘05. 1490w.
=Scott, Samuel Parsons.= History of the Moorish empire in Europe. 3v.
**$10. Lippincott.
“Two volumes cover the whole period of Moorish occupation in the
peninsula, while the third contains kulturgeschichtliche material of
some interest and value. This is brought forward in the form of a
series of essays on the arts, institutions, and influence of the
Muslims, as well as on the Jews and the Moriscoes in Spain.”—Am. Hist.
R.
“Mr. Scott’s three volumes are obviously the result of conscientious
and comprehensive reading in some half-dozen languages, but their
author lacks the historical temperament. His work, though not without
a certain old-fashioned dignity of style, is too monotonous to be
popular and too uncritical in its affirmations to content the trained
student of history.” F. W. Williams.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 372. Ja. ‘05. 850w.
“It cannot be said that on the whole the ‘History of the Moorish
empire in Europe’ is either a safe or a well-balanced book.” A. C.
Howland.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 354. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Waverley novels. 25v. $31.25. Crowell.
The world created by Scott in his Waverley novels and peopled with
vitally real characters will never grow old-fashioned nor
uninteresting. The Waverley novels hold the present day fiction reader
no less than the student of literature who appreciates the
significance of the Scott novel as the forerunner of historical
romance. The present edition is made from newly set type; each story
contains the author’s own introduction, besides notes, glossary and
index to characters and scenes. There are excellent illustrations,
many of them being reproductions of paintings by the Fine arts
association of Scotland. The books are strongly bound, boxed and sold
only in sets.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Ivanhoe. $1.25. Crowell.
The issue of Ivanhoe as one of those attractive little pocket volumes,
the “Thin paper classics” series will be welcomed by all lovers of
Scott.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Kenilworth. $1.25. Crowell.
That this thin pocket volume with the limp leather binding of the
“Thin paper classics” series can contain Kenilworth complete and in
readable type, will be to the reader both a surprise and a
satisfaction.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Kenilworth. $1.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Luxembourg” library, Kenilworth
appears attractively bound in cloth with gold decorations, a
photogravure frontispiece and seventeen full page illustrations.
=Scott, William Fry.= Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams
and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with
calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.
“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten
and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are
necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work
provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of
structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual
features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of
diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.
“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of
information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it
has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and
correct.” R. P. Miller.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 1250w.
=Scruggs, William Lindsay.= The Colombian and Venezuelan republics.
$1.75. Little.
The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former
editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest
canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal
projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal
company and the organization of a new company to take over the
franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the
new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with
Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the
Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y.
Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence
in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the
results of his own observation.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 593. My. ‘05. 100w.
“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He
writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Statement of scope).
“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in
its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should
be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors
of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1450w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“His book is probably the most reliable and authentic of any by an
American author. The chapter on Panama which Mr. Scruggs adds to his
book contains nothing that is new either in the way of history or of
conclusion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 254. F. 18. ‘05. 450w.
“A volume full of interesting and valuable information.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
=Seaman, Louis L.= From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese.
**$1.50. Appleton.
The immediate purpose of Dr Seaman’s journey to the front with the
Japanese army was that of inspecting the sanitary and medical work
among them. His experiences and adventures incident to that
undertaking are most interestingly narrated in the present volume. His
chronicles thrill with the spirit of Banzai Nippon, the shout of
patriotism in the “Land of the rising sun.” He shows the course of law
and order that transforms a Japanese citizen into a patriot and
warrior, and points to the masterly preparation for war, based on
scientific principles, which Japan has made a national business. The
book is valuable for its generous amount of general information.
“Breezy, readable in the first degree. It is spicy and, like red
pepper, is calculated less to irritate than to stimulate.” W. Elliot
Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 170w.
“If Mr. Palmer’s book is taken as proof of Japan’s capabilities in
destructive warfare, that of Dr. Seaman’s ‘From Tokio through
Manchuria with the Japanese,’ is equally important as showing their
constructive and conserving qualities.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 10. Ja. 1, ‘05. 830w.
* “It is one of the most interesting and intrinsically instructive of
the now numerous studies of the Russo-Japanese war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
“The text is colloquial in manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 216. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1320w.
=Outlook.= 79: 195. Ja. 21, ‘05. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 125. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 504. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Seaman, Owen.= Harvest of chaff. **$1.25. Holt.
A group of clever parodies which array Browning, Wordsworth, Tennyson
and other poets of the Victorian era in an almost grotesquely modern
light. The volume is a companion to “Borrowed plumes.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
“In many ways a riper book than any of the others. The humor of it,
while quieter, is more subtle, and the phrase and versification of a
more finished poetic style.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 250w.
=Sebring, Arad Joy.= Girdle of gladness. $1. Badger, R. G.
Fourteen short poems upon such subjects as, The twenty-third psalm,
The power of the church, Supremacy of Christ, and Amen of Lord’s
prayer.
“Other collections of verse, pleasant but not dynamic, ... comprising
a dozen or more rather monotonous but sincere devotional poems.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Sedgefield, Walter John=, ed. See =Battle of Maldon.=
=Seeberg, Reinhold.= Text-book of the history * of doctrines; rev. 1904,
by the author; trans. by C: E. Hay. 2v. $4. Lutheran pub. soc.
The first volume of Dr. Seeberg’s work treats “History of doctrines in
the ancient church”; the second, “History of doctrines in the middle
and modern ages.” The material from which the history is built has
been drawn entirely from original sources.
=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.
“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into
which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very
clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his
pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of
imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for
grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little
monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the
book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.
“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the
best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in
realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with
conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 152. Jl. 29. 2100w.
“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in
the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right
relation to his people and his time.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as,
if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied
themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will
form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its
kind.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 700w.
“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most
approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is
impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“His criticism is sympathetic and illuminating.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 160w.
Senior lieutenant’s wager, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them
touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several
a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love
stories containing no question of faith.
=Sergeant, Philip W.= Courtship of Catherine the Great. *$2.50.
Lippincott.
“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds
of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on
this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski
and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of
the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the
present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of
1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.
“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written
ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing
enough.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 207. Ag. 12, 170w.
“Of new information in his book there is virtually none.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 640w.
“The book however, granting its right to existence, is well put
together.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.
=Setchell, William Albert.= Limu. 25c. Univ. of Cal.
“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially
those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr.
Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several
years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the
different kinds of limu.”—Science.
Reviewed by Charles E. Bessey.
=Science,= n.s. 21: 756. My. 12. ‘05. 130w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a
dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.
The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or
less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal
hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat
whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux
is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart;
Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of
The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a
jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box
marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white
reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.
* “The author’s power has increased as his style has become more
simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 240w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice
animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or
less entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Woodmyth and fable. *$1.25. Century.
A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some
of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the
wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them
with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a
book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find
beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn
something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the
stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 70w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 130w.
“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these
matters—especially when self-illustrated.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 87. S. ‘05. 200w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 250w.
“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger
things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 38: 386 Je. 1, ‘05. 360w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know
him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 18, ‘05. 30w.
“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which
children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to
read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 346. My. 27, ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05, 50w.
“The stories are short and admirably adapted for children.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 100w.
* “Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull
for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can
arrest the attention.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 30w.
=Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh.= Laboratory and factory
tests in electrical engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a
manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a
brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance
tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation
(direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then
alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing
chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up,
such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test,
calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes
some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.
“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise
for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good
study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become
acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 570w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and
New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance
company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had
himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by
an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.
* “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly
badly written book.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 30w.
* “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary
complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the
highest class,—after Poe’s.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Shafer, Sarah Andrew.= Beyond chance of change. †$1.50. Macmillan.
An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the
doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the
first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and
her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this
drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which
invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession
and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking
the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of
Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan
of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find
the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”;
and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of
July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“Mrs. Shafer comprehends the divine ingenuity of the childish spirit.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful
transcription of life in a little community in the central West before
the fever and rush of recent years set in.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=Shahan, Very Rev.= Thomas Joseph. The middle ages. *$2. Benziger.
A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of
the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and
contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,”
“Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and
bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.
“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the
author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such
eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will
prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 914. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic
higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to
constant use in the class-room of history.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 674. F. ‘05. 350w.
“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the
Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and
obviously sincere.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 220w. (Gives contents).
=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke. **50c; limp lea. **75c. Crowell.
“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of
Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative
material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface,
introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument,
sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions,
illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 60w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard
Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). *$4. Lippincott.
“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six
editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides
an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first
hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with
the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French
criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.
“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious
zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full
apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully
condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources,
and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more
important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a
preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and
forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history
of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 231. F. ‘05. 1250w.
“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As
usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for
there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his
material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 184. Mr. ‘35. 490w.
“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable
in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring
single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his
huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in
every page.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 135. F. 16, ‘05. 1940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.
+ + + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 110. Ja. ‘05. 330w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Merchant of Venice. 35c. Holt.
Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for
student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and
introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and
history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six
drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary
prints.
=Shakespeare, William.= Sonnets; with introd. and notes by H. C.
Beeching. *60c. Ginn.
“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically
Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the
variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and
punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and
carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent
theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors
of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.
“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets
where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to
each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and
psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory
compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets,
or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 510w.
* “Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to
be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an
excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the
strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day
Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 475. Ap. 15. 360w.
=Ind.= 58: 839. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate.
But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 290w.
“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every
explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 620w.
“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able
contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 177. F. 4, ‘05. 1500w.
* =Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter
and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The latest volume in the “First folio” Shakespeare.
* =Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Fox.
Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of
power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the
Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The
future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have
for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and
dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the
duty that comes therefrom.”
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Gun room, *$1; *$1.25. Lane.
This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a
gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries
as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his
gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a
mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.
“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his
tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little
book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of
practical hints as to the care of a gun.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.
* =Sharp, Mary.= Point and pillow lace: a short account of various
kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them. *$2. Dutton.
“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French,
Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The
closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about
laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other
foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book
showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the
Goldenberg publication of last year.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.
=Sharp, William.= Literary geography, *$3.50. Scribner.
“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the
country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The
numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the
reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of
George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray,
Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English
lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared
in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 100w.
“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is
one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well
written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly
novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the
illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and
uncommonly beautiful.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Sharp’s anecdotes are numerous and amusing.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 120. F. 9, ‘05. 570w.
“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to
geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of
criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most
book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1840w. (Survey of contents).
=Sharts, Joseph William.= Hills of freedom. $1.50. Doubleday.
The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The
action takes place in the author’s native state during the period
preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran
general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and
her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many
interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway
figure conspicuously.
“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures
irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 334. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and
patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a
piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions.
The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not
all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for
epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 255. Ja. ‘05. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
=Shattuck, George Burbank,= ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck
served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each
a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely
made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal
and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical
sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ...
is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.
“The work is done throughout in the most scholarly manner.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“Each special student will find his own subject well handled.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 271. Ag. 25, ‘05. 710w.
“Is a monograph of high and varied interest and general readability.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 397. My. 18, ‘05. 240w.
“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than
usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 154. Je. 15, ‘05. 1470w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
Reviewed by W. M. D.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 953. Je. 23, ‘05. 1900w. (Abstract of
contents.)
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.
Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the
ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who
views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the
woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a
new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the
wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied happiness
with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband
operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too.
You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your
position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give
a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is
called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”
“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the
flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not
by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of
conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt
against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1094. O. 21, ‘05. 1170w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 420w.
“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was
no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of
Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original
morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the
book now as being out of date.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ‘05. 830w.
“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and
considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love
among the artists.’”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 350w.
“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much
brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute
observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 320w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him
through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will
sustain others through the labour of reading it.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. N. 18, ‘05. 780w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.”
75c. J. W. Luce.
Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted
for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all
the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism
and make a man content with something less than the best work of which
he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons
read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the
services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a
loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its
brimstone-flavored hot gospel.
=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck
and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75.
Longmans.
This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book
written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three
authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the
biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on
shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds
up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The
illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually
fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not
only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N.
Y. Times.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 373. N. 8, ‘05. 240w.
* “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that,
while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also
excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 430w.
* + — =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
=Shearer, J. B.= Modern mysticism. *75c. Presbyterian com.
A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the
scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Glenanaar. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Glenanaar” is an Irish story, partly historical, whose motif is the
stigma which to the mind of the Irishman must be visited upon the kith
and kin of an informer—any one who has given evidence in a state
trial. The central figure of the tale is Daniel O’Connell who in
British parliament as well as in Glenanaar fought for the freedom of
his native country. A sprightly modern romance claims a good share of
interest in which an Irish-American, an Irish widow, her two daughters
and a parish priest figure prominently.
“The book is of course, written from the point of view of partisan,
but we confidently believe that even readers as strongly prejudiced on
the other side will be unable to resist its fascination.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 711. Jl. 8, ‘05. 330w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 250w.
“Canon Sheehan has suffered from his wealth of imagination, and, by
condensing into one story materials that should have served to set
forth two, has injured the unity of his creation.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 832. S. ‘05. 1260w.
“It is deep-rooted in its racial element, interpreting Irish character
with an eye by no means blind to its faults, but always with
penetration and tender sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected in
sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and withal, not lacking in
touches of humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“Abounding Irish humor and delightful bits of character-sketching are
to be found in this novel.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 540w.
“A vigorous and skilful piece of work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“The well-told tale is so full of humor, pathos, and romance that it
cannot fail to win the interest of every reader.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 447. Jl. 8, ‘05. 370w.
“Is a story of Irish life filled with a delicate humor and pathos.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 22, ‘05. 60w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w.
“Irish peasants—real, not stage Irishmen—are excellent company, and
Canon Sheehan is a good guide.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 390w.
“The machinery of the story is, then rather cumbrous, but the
shortcomings of its structure and arrangement are not likely to affect
a reader who can appreciate eloquence, enthusiasm, and geniality.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 292. Ag. 26, ‘05. 880w.
=Sheldon, Anna R., and Newell, M. Moyca.= Medici balls. *$3.50.
Doubleday.
The title is derived from the balls on the Medici coat of arms, which
was everywhere encountered by the authors during their wanderings. The
journeys consist of trips from Florence to the Mugello, Prato,
Chianti, Lucca, Pistoja, Brancoli, and Barga. There are over a hundred
photogravures of people, landscapes, buildings and works of art, an
index and a full list of illustrations.
“A charming portfolio of studies to be enjoyed by all.” Anna Benneson
McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, 05. 300w.
“Is narrated in a chatty, discursive fashion, with a due amount of
historical reminiscence and a vivid description of present
conditions.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“The excursions of the authors are of particular interest to the
lovers of Tuscany, because we are taken into rather untrodden
districts. The out-of-doors life of these districts is described for
us in pleasant detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Sheldon, Charles Monroe.= Heart of the world: a story of Christian
socialism. †$1.25. Revell.
“The story of an Episcopal minister, who wrote and published,
anonymously, a book entitled ‘The Christian socialist’ and on the
occasion of his consecration as a bishop renounces his office and the
pulpit because of the consecrating bishop’s charge to him to oppose
socialism and this book in particular.”—Ind.
“It abounds in thrilling situations and sensational episodes which
have nothing essentially to do with the story.”
— =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“The principles and aims of Christian socialism are here presented
with dramatic effect in the form of a story.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Sheldon, Walter L.= Duties in the home and family. $1.25. Welch.
Lessons on household duties prepared for children ranging from ten to
thirteen years of age. The book has been added to the author’s “Ethics
for the young” series, and its “ethical keynote is the preservation
and strengthening of family ties not only in childhood and youth, but
thruout adult life.” (Educ. R.) “The motives and limits of conduct are
developed by questions and dialog and enforced by aphorisms, stories,
poems and illustrations.” (Ind.)
“This elasticity of treatment strikes us, by the way, as one of the
most useful characters of this eminently practical work. At the same
time, Mr. Sheldon’s ethics have a strong backbone.” Wilmon H. Sheldon.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 312. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
“The instruction is not sectarian or markedly religious, and could be
used in any school.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 673. Mr. 23, ‘05. 60w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Complete poetical works, including material
never before printed in any edition of the poems; ed. with textual notes
and bibliographical list of editions by T: Hutchinson. *$2.50. Oxford.
“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse
that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large
amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is
the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early
editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr.
Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar
matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own
scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.
* “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and
ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 840w.
“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final
authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“An authentic, complete, and accurately printed text.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson
McMahon. **$1.40. McClurg.
The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley
which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The
selections are grouped under the various years included in the time
covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page
illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art
of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from
England during the last four years of his life.
* “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a
fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the
point.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 470w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* “The whole forms a delightful sort of poetic itinerary, whether for
persons who are actually in Italy, or for those who travel in
imagination only.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 270w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.
* “A very attractive and interesting book to all lovers of Shelley.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Red cravat. $1.50. Macmillan.
A novel of the Prussia of Frederick William, that fantastic monarch
whose giant grenadiers wore the badge of the red cravat. A tall young
Englishman is seized and thrust into the royal guards through the
influence of his rival for the hand of the beautiful English girl,
Lady Joan Chrystal. Later the unfortunate guardsman receives the
king’s orders to marry a certain peasant lass—but he doesn’t. The
characters are all very human but not at all modern.
“Compared to the general average of historical fiction, this novel
must be pronounced a decided success.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3. 230w.
“The novel owes much to its setting, and, while a story of adventure,
seems made upon almost new lines from its leisurely style.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 520w.
“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it
drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of
quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his
characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself.
But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling
along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not
spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is
some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The
style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind
of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance.
The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality,
which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Sheringham, Hugh T.= Angler’s hours. $1.50. Macmillan.
Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy
are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.
+ =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.
“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which
practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures
of the delightful surroundings of the art.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 620w.
“Mr. Sheringham wields the pen of a cultured gentleman.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 490w.
“There is a pleasant and old-world flavour in his style. There is
instruction in his essays too.” L. W. B.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 220. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 740w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
“Mr. Sheringham’s book is delightful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 220w.
=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Taper lights, $1.10. Gordon-Flagg.
Eleven cleverly written essays upon such subjects as, The salt lake of
literature, being the salt tears shed by sympathetic readers, thruout
the ages; Just a few of the reasons why love grows cold; Between the
lines, meaning facial lines; The devil’s fancy-work; and The lifting
of veils in literature.
“This is a readable though not a striking book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 1: 558. My. 6. 450w.
* =Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c.
Macmillan.
“A book ‘for students who have at least reached high school age.’ ...
The volume is divided into two parts, ‘Studies in American
citizenship’ and ‘Collegeville.’ In the first, Land and government,
Civil organizations, Banks, Civic and municipal institutions, Justice,
etc. are treated. In the second, ‘Collegeville’ represents a township
and the various problems of American citizenship are solved in an
ideal fashion. The Declaration of independence and the constitution
are appended.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* “The purpose is worthy indeed, and some of the methods of
presentation show that the author is concrete and understands how to
instruct. But he should not have undertaken to write this book before
thinking himself out clearly and fully. The sins against good English
are numerous, and seriously affect the educational purpose of the
book.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 752. N. ‘05. 140w.
* “Highly practical in its bearings.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 130w.
* “An excellent handbook for the training of young men for
citizenship.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
=Shields, Charles Woodruff.= Philosophia ultima, v. 3. Scientific
problems of religion and the Christian evidences of the physical and
psychical science. **$3. Scribner.
“The late Professor Shields, of Princeton, obtained deserved
reputation as a highly appreciated academic preacher, and as a man of
literary genius.... The best part of his life was given to working out
the scheme of philosophy whose prolegomena in pamphlet form appeared
in 1861, and whose concluding volume is now issued. The goal of the
final philosophy is justly conceived by Professor Shields as combining
‘the perfectability of science and the demonstrability of religion.’
In the present volume the scientific problems of religion and its
scientific evidences are successively discussed.”—Outlook.
“He was a man of learning, in a certain obsolescent way, and the work
may be used to advantage by others than psychologists, for whom it
should be a document.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 200w.
“As to the scientific evidence of religion, one must say that
Professor Shields’s argument so oscillates from strict to loose, and
from maximum to minimum claims, as to yield rather limited
satisfaction, except to a somewhat thin-spun conception of the term
‘scientific.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 290w.
* =Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khay-yámi. **$1.50. McClurg.
“This account of the life of Omar from the Persian standpoint,
together with an explanation of his philosophy as understood by
admirers in his native land, has been modestly and carefully written.
The volume is well illuminated with Persian designs.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Shirazi’s English style is clear and simple, and his
presentation of his points exceedingly interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.
* “The only real blemish on the book is the author’s anti-religious
bias, which he doubtless regards as ‘smart.’ His transliteration of
Persian names and book-titles shows little consistency. On the other
hand, he has evidently read deeply in Persian sources for the material
of his biography.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 470. D. 7, ‘05. 590w.
=Sholl, Anna McClure.= Port of storms. † $1.50. Appleton.
A young New York physician is loved by a dancer whom he has cured of
pneumonia, by a lovely young girl, and by a rich and cruel
enchantress, whose aim in life is social recognition. The little
dancer hides her secret and sensibly marries someone else, the
enchantress drives the hero into brain fever by deciding to marry a
leader of the coveted exclusive set, and the sweet young girl is left
to claim her doubtful reward.
“A strenuous story with a problem ending.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 263. Ap. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“An interesting analytical novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22. ‘05. 20w.
=Shore, W. Teignmouth.= Dickens, $1. Macmillan.
An addition to Bell’s “Miniature series of great writers.”
“Mr. Teignmouth Shore knows his subject thoroughly; his admiration is
tempered by sound judgment, his praise is never exaggerated. The
book ... is marked by scholarship, critical ability and good taste.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11. ‘05 80w.
“The criticism is just on the whole.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
* =Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, **$1.
Scribner.
A brief enthusiastic biography which supplements Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life”
and includes many of Charlotte Brontë’s letters which had not appeared
when that life was written. The depressing story of the whole Brontë
family is given, and there is much minute detail about the strangely
intertwined lives of the three sisters and the circumstances under
which their works were produced.
* “He is able to correct Mrs. Gaskell on many points. His style, too,
is of the sloppiest.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1149. N. 4, ‘05. 850w.
* “Written without prejudice, and with sincere love and admiration of
the famous sisters, Mr. Shorter’s book is a welcome addition to Brontë
literature.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 110w.
* “But the little book cannot honestly be said to have much life or
interest about it. Its most original point is the view taken by Mr.
Shorter of the importance of M. Héger in the making of Charlotte
Brontë.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 381. N. 10, ‘05. 940w.
* “The task, on the whole, he has performed with much skill, with an
entire power of making even less enthusiastic readers share with him
something of ‘the glamour of the Brontës.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 1340w.
* “Mr. Shorter, to put it briefly, tries to compress far too much into
one modest volume.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 714. N. 25, ‘05. 200w.
=Shorthouse, Joseph Henry.= Life, letters, and literary remains of J. H:
Shorthouse; ed. by his wife. 2v. *$4.25. Macmillan.
The first of these volumes contains a critical introduction by the
Rev. J. Hunter Smith, a great variety of letters written by and to the
author of John Inglesant, and a detailed account of his quiet life
which was devoted to culture, literature, and the family chemical
works at Birmingham. The second volume contains his literary remains,
including three short stories and other hitherto unpublished writings.
+ =Acad.= 68: 437. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1760w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 683. Je. 3. 2840w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 170w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 169. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1760w.
“The book is a worthy and illuminating account of a man whose most
characteristic work is not destined soon to perish.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 1570w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“On the whole the first of these volumes gives a fair sketch of the
man, though the growth and origin of the books, which should be the
most interesting things in the life are scamped.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 22. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1440w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 713. My. 13, ‘05. 1870w.
=Shute, Henry Augustus.= Real boys. †$1.25. Dillingham.
The doings of Plupy, Beany, Pent, Puzzy, Whack, Bug, Skinny, Chick,
Pop, Pile, and some of the girls are here recounted. There are
snowball battles, fishing excursions, parties, races, fights and
adventures. The illustrations catch the spirit of the text.
“The matter is but a variation on the old topics, while the manner has
no startling touch of brilliancy; but the adventures of Plupy and his
friends cannot fail to make comfortable reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 340w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 120w.
=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3.
Dutton.
In this faithful biography the queen regent of France is shown in her
true colors and appears as an ambitious woman in whom was both good
and evil, not as the monster of cruelty which history has made
familiar.
“Well written, authoritative, and sincere, it is a model of biography.
Above all, the author has made a patient attempt to brush aside
superstitions, and to arrive at the truth. Now and again we are not
able to agree with Miss Sichel.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 439. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1650w.
“A high standard of literary ability pervades the volume in spite of a
few lapses.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 521. Ap. 29. 1890w.
“Miss Sichel’s essays are interesting, and the book as a whole marks a
distinct advance on the author’s ‘Household of the Lafayettes.’”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 530w.
“An extremely interesting and comprehensive history of the first
two-thirds of the life of Catherine de’ Medici.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 1690w.
“Is a subtle analysis and vivid presentation of the personalities and
ideas of the reigns of Henri II. and Francois II.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.
“An industrious and careful volume.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 183. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1080w.
“A series of interesting and attractive historical studies.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 896. Je. 17, ‘05. 2090w.
=Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred.= Professor’s legacy. †$1.50. Holt.
A German professor bequeaths his work on corals and his only daughter
to his favorite pupil, a young Englishman. The completing and
publishing of the unfinished work prove a simple task in comparison
with the undertaking to win a girl’s heart. To be sure this scholarly
individual pursues one steady course instead of resorting to many
devices, and it is due to a fault of method rather than purpose that
the end desired is deferred so long.
“Is one of the most interesting and well-told novels of the season,
and it should be one of the most popular.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1130. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ‘05. 460w.
* “The tale as a whole is quite as entertaining as any of the earlier
romances of the same type.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 320w.
* “Is a very readable little romance—a good companion for a railway
journey or a rainy afternoon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 450w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
* “The story is, all in all, well worth reading, although hardly
likely to become one of the great literary successes of the season.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“The many-sided activity of the late professor of moral philosophy at
Cambridge is strikingly represented in this collection of essays and
addresses. Sixteen in number, they take for theme subjects of an
ethical, sociological, economic, educational, and purely literary
interest.... An idea of the varied contents of this helpful volume may
be conveyed by a few chapter titles: ‘Ecce Homo’ (a criticism of J. R.
Seeley’s ’Study of the life of Jesus’), ‘The poems and prose remains
of Arthur Henry Clough,’ ‘The scope and method of economic science,’
‘The economic lessons of socialism,’ ‘The relation of ethics to
sociology,’ ‘The theory of classical education.’”—Outlook.
Reviewed by F. Kettle.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 45. Ja. 14, ‘05. 820w.
“As an expression of the personality of Henry Sidgwick the collection
has interest and value; as an embodiment of the Cambridge spirit it
has enduring significance for all who care about tracing intellectual
tendencies. The expression throughout is accurate; nothing is said
more or less than is intended. The style is lucid, subtle,
stimulating, never unpleasant, now and again humorous; never
brilliant, persuasive, or charming. Stronger in criticism than
construction. Entirely without magnetic quality.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 75. Ja. 21. 2390w.
“The form of an essay or address is especially suitable to topics of
this kind, which belong to the border land between the sciences rather
than to the content of any one of them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 250. O. ‘05. 1210w.
“What they give us is a series of side-lights on the development of a
mind of singular openness to contemporary influences.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 3: 604. Ap. ‘05. 3500w.
“It includes a wide range of subjects—economics, education, and
literature—and it treats them all with a solidity, a fullness of
knowledge, a many-sidedness, and an occasional sparkle of dry light
which keep them alive and informing even when their immediate interest
has begun to shift or wane.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 185. Ag. 31, ‘05. 3870w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Survey of contents).
“... These characteristics are palpably apparent—the intellectual
sincerity, the openmindedness, the faculty of acute analysis, the
precision of statement, the discriminating taste that were so
emphatically his.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 500. O. 7, ‘05. 570w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures
and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The late Professor Sidgwick, a masterly critic, left unpublished
lectures and fragments which occupy the larger portion of this volume.
They discuss the philosophical teachings of thinkers so widely
contrasted as Kant, Thomas Hill Green, and Herbert Spencer. The
remainder of the volume consists of essays reprinted from ‘Mind’ and
the ‘Journal of philology.’ Of the lectures much the greater part is
devoted to a vigorous criticism of Kant, and these were finished to
their lamented author’s satisfaction while the others remain less
complete.”—Outlook.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1360w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
=Sidis, Boris, and Goodhart, Simon Phillip.= Multiple personality: an
experimental investigation into the nature of human individuality.
**$2.50. Appleton.
In the main this work is the analysis of a reactionary second
personality resulting from an accident befalling the Rev. T. C.
Hanna a few years since. When he returned to consciousness, he was
possessed of an entirely different self, “which may be understood
only by comparing it to the birth of a person possessed immediately
of matured mental and physical functions.” The phenomena of this
state, the return to his primary personality, and the struggle which
the physicians experienced in establishing him once more on the
mental basis of his former self—there being for some time a Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendency to alternate between the two human
individualities—make a study as strange as it is interesting and
important to the scientific world.
“The close and accurate study of Mr. Hanna’s case throws a flood of
light on personality and cognate themes, and is a most valuable
contribution to the literature of psychopathy.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 185. Ap. ‘05. 1480w.
“The most original as well as most interesting portion of the volume
is given over to a painstaking account of a remarkable loss of
personality, in many respects the most complete on record.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“Dr. Sidis finds corroboratory evidence in support of his view that
multiple consciousness is the law, not the exception.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1419. Je. 22, ‘05. 720w.
“Truly one of the most fascinating of the fairy-tales of science, for
the observing and recording of which Dr. Sidis and Dr. Goodhart
deserve all credit.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“The volume deserves, as it doubtless will find, a useful place in the
psychologist’s equipment for the comprehension of the varieties and
the variations of personality.” J. J.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 284. Ag. ‘05. 890w.
“Whatever its positive merits may be, the extraordinary jargon in
which it is written and the painful dogmatism of its authors go far to
obscure those merits.”
— — + =Spec.= 94: 613. Ap. 29, ‘05. 900w.
=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= Quo vadis, a tale of the time of Nero. $1.50.
Crowell.
This new volume in the “Luxembourg” series contains “Quo vadis” as
translated from the Polish by Dr. S. A. Binion and A. Malevsky, and
seventeen illustrations from drawings by Jan Styka.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Wedding of the Lady of Lovell: and other matches
of Tobiah’s making. $1.50. Doubleday.
Six short love stories in each of which unromantic Tobiah, the
dissenter, acts as matchmaker. They are wholesome tales of crude
times, and each has its own unique adventure in which there is the
superstition and witchcraft found among the marsh-men; but the will of
the Lord as manifested in the sturdy Tobiah, always triumphs, and the
little blind god triumphs also.
“Miss Silberrad has quality; she has the power to create atmosphere.
The stories in this book have all the hallmark of real ability, though
their artificial nature makes them difficult to handle.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
“As regards actual writing and imaginative quality, this sheaf of
short stories is above the usual, if not her usual, level.”
+ =Ath.= 1: 494. Ap. 15, ‘05. 160w.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“A thoroughly enjoyable book. Stories more interesting or more
wholesome it would be hard to find; still harder to find any of equal
originality and excellence of workmanship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
“Something of the dream-spirit of the Norse saga and folklore dwells
in the stories, so full are they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true
romance. Full of genuine humanity, too.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=Simpkinson, C. H.= Thomas Harrison, regicide and major-general. *$1.50.
Dutton.
“In this life of Thomas Harrison there is to be found the history of
the leader of the Fifth-Monarchy men and one of the ablest soldiers of
the seventeenth century.... Mr. Simpkinson’s book shows how noble a
character this regicide had. Harrison was as brave on the scaffold as
he was at Marston Moor or at Appleby Bridge, where his personal
bravery saved the army.”—Acad.
“Had the story been written with a clearer style and with fewer
digressions it would have been more valuable.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 273. Mr. 18, ‘05. 540w.
“A good half of this book consists of quotations, and long quotations.
His quotations are inexact; he is not discriminating in his use of
authorities; his evidence occasionally fails to bear out the
assertions based upon it; and his judgment is not sound.”
— — — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 153. O. ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Simpkinson’s ‘Life of Harrison’ is scholarly and sympathetic
without being marred by the parade of extenuation.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 820w. (Abstract of
contents.)
“[The story] is entertainingly, if somewhat unskillfully, told.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 260w.
=Simpson, George.= Naval constructor: a vade mecum of ship design for
students, naval architects, ship-builders and owners, marine
superintendents, engineers and draughtsmen. $5. Van Nostrand.
“This handbook is a compilation of rules, formulas and tables
pertaining to shipbuilding, with just sufficient descriptive matter to
make the application of the rules clear.”—Engin. N.
“The author has endeavored to arrange the book in a logical manner,
but he has not succeeded in attaining his object as completely as
might be desired. He also repeats somewhat. The index is not as
complete as it should be, and the table of contents is simply a list
of headings for which no pages are given. The book is certainly
up-to-date and should receive a warm welcome from all who are
interested in ship design.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“There is compactly stowed nearly, if not quite, all the material data
needed by those engaged in the design, construction, equipment, and
maintenance of ships.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Simpson, W. J.= Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.
The obvious need of scientific study along the lines of the history
and therapeutic aspect of plague in India is partially met by Prof. W.
J. Simpson’s work of four hundred and fifty pages “elaborately
illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams, in which are presented
the results of the latest studies of the disease made by competent
specialists throughout the world. Dr. Simpson speaks appreciatively of
the Clayton gas process of disinfection in India.” (R. of Rs.)
* “It abounds in points of practical importance, and should,
therefore, prove a most serviceable text-book to all whose duty brings
them into contact with plague either directly or indirectly.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 450w.
“It marks a distinct and important addition to what has hitherto been
written about the subject. We have no doubt that it is destined to
become a valuable and important aid to the student, the medical
officer of health, to the epidemiologist, the sanitarian, and last,
but not least, to the administrator.” E. Klein.
+ =Nature.= 72: 529. S. 28, ‘05. 2940w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.
Savage Keith Rickman, son of a cockney book dealer, has in him the
divine fire of genius which burns within him until, with the passing
years, all the grosser parts of his personality are consumed. When the
book opens he has written a tragedy, a classical thing, which makes
friends for him among the critics even though they do not ask him home
to dine because he is “not quite a gentleman.” In fact “his notion of
pleasure was getting drunk and making love to Miss Poppy Grare,” of
the Variety theatre. His meeting with Lucia Harden, typical of
refinement and tradition, on whom he inflicts almost physical
suffering when he “drops his aitches,” gives him an ideal to work
toward, and he is never really untrue to it, even when he is engaged
to marry Flossy, the little clerk. With a sense of honor almost too
keen for the world in which he lives, he struggles on as journalist
and poet until he reaches success, fame and his ideals. The book is
unusual in its strength of plot and character, and it is most real
when it forsakes the ideal and tells us that even the divine fire
cannot shut out the coarser cravings of a man’s nature when he is
young, a genius half-awake.
“Has an acceptable style, in all ways suited to the matter it
embodies, a style with flexibility and humor employing a large
vocabulary, cultivated and agreeable. As yet, she lacks that final
touch of mastery by which a line condenses the whole result of
ingenious mental processes.”
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 699. My. ‘05. 630w.
“Author has accomplished the difficult feat of taking a genius for its
hero and making him seem plausible. A sound plot. Its faults are
mainly those of excess. But no page bears evidence of careless work.
It shows throughout unusual knowledge and an unusual degree of skill
in applying it, and it ranks unmistakably among the best of recent
novels.” F. M. Colby.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 66. Mr. ‘05. 1070w.
“One does not hesitate to pronounce this book literature. A keen
understanding, an ethical interpretation, and a lyric style have
combined to produce one of the noblest, most inspiring, and absorbing
books we have read in years.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 129. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It is scarcely a spontaneous work of genius; but it is at least a
brilliant piece of workmanship, of unusual range and power. The
comfortably ample canvas abounds in masculine characters, and it is
not too much to say that there is not a failure, not even a
commonplace achievement, among them. In dealing with her small group
of women the author’s penetration becomes blunter, her power weakens.
Supremely interesting. Admirably constructed. A positive hardness,
almost a lack of fineness, somewhat disqualify her as a ‘mouthpiece of
humanity.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 183. F. ‘05. 630w.
“Drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one’s admiration. It
rises, moreover, to real distinction of style, besides being of
absorbing interest from cover to cover. It is the sort of book that
one begins by skimming, and ends by giving the closest attention to
paragraph and phrase.” W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 437. F. 23, ‘05. 1160w.
* “Aside from the literary shop talk in this novel the author has
touched the heights and depths of inspiration. This is why parts of
the book seem to sag so woefully.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The aim is high, the treatment is eminently appropriate, the interest
absorbing.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 1010w.
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1150w.
“Pervaded by ... seriousness of invention and stamped with the
distinction of high-class workmanship. This story has great nobility
of spirit; although somewhat too elaborate, it is a novel to be
reckoned as one of the real things of the time.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“It is to be regretted that the story, as a whole, does not reach the
height achieved by the characterization. The impression one receives
from the whole production is that of a tremendous and generous power;
a power that includes humor, wit, analytical and philosophical power,
scholarship, vivid and trenchant strength in characterization.
Something that critics call ‘fusion’ ... is absent from the book, or
is not there in full.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1760w.
* “Though a mediocre piece of construction, marred by diffuseness and
irrelevancies, this novel should be read for its splendidly successful
character studies.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 170w.
“She writes remarkably well, though with a tendency to exaggeration
and exuberance, and she has the usual feminine weakness for
adjectives.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 420w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Manassas. $1.50. Macmillan.
This novel without a heroine is really a romantic history of the years
preceding the Civil war. The story ends with the first battle of
Manassas. The southern hero attends college in Boston, and there
becomes an abolitionist; on returning home his eyes are more fully
opened to the horrors of slavery and he eventually joins the Union
army. “Manassas” is the first of an epic trilogy, the volumes to come
being “Gettysburg,” and “Appomattox.”
“It is one of the most thrillingly interesting books of its kind that
we have ever read. The real drama of the book is the historical clash
of the two civilizations, and individuals seem to be made use of only
by way of incidental illustration. It is history written with warmth
and an eye for dramatic effect, ... but it is nevertheless essentially
history. It is a work deserving of very high praise.” W. M. Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 630w.
“His power is well sustained through the long narrative.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition
and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth
Higginson. **$1.50. Small.
“This book gives the educated negro’s own view regarding the fitness
of his race for full citizenship. It contains a complete record of the
civil history of the American negro, showing what the race has done
for the country in peace and in war, and what the negro has
accomplished for his own uplifting.”—R. of Rs.
* “The style is clean and forceful. Of its kind it is the best any
negro has written. It is the thesis of a special pleader making strong
his case by ignoring the other side.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 752. N. ‘05. 240w.
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 190w.
“He is an able advocate if not altogether a wise one, and his book is
very readable. He bases his case upon evidence which the other side
refuses to admit and makes assumptions which they deny.”
+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 1350w.
“He is not intelligent in interpreting Southern conditions or southern
sentiment.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10, ‘05. 160w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05 430w.
“His partiality is not envenomed, his plea is glowing, and his
historical facts have more than common value.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 594. O. ‘05. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 100w.
=Singer, Hans.= Albrecht Dürer. *$2.50. imp. Scribner.
A critical essay upon Dürer’s work forms a preface to 48 exquisite
plates printed in tints and mounted on paper to harmonize.
=Critic.= 46: 475. My. 05. 70w.
“In spite of the closeness with which Professor Hans Singer has
studied the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, it can scarcely be claimed
that he has succeeded in fully grasping the characteristics that
render them unique. Moreover, in his efforts to be strictly faithful
to his own convictions he commits himself to several assertions that
will hardly pass unchallenged.”
+ — =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“Compact for the use of students, and almost a necessity for any art
library.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 240w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= Great portraits as seen and described by great
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
This volume “contains fifty-two ‘process’ reproductions of famous
portraits ... with words written about them (or inspired by them) by
writers who are not all great.... The selections are well chosen and
will be useful to the discriminating student. These is also a list of
the abiding places of these pictures. Knackfuss, Moreau, Vauthier,
Julia Cartwright, J. A. Crowe, J. B. Cavalcaselle, Humphry Ward, ...
Larroumet and Lefroy are among the most authoritative critics of the
fine arts quoted.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “Is likely to prove of great value to persons not very well-grounded
in the knowledge of art, and of use, in its way, to many others, who
are.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* “On the whole, the compilation has little to recommend it, and some
of its faults are inexcusable.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Singleton, Esther=, ed. and tr. Venice as seen and described by famous
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
Fifteen chapters which include extracts from Gautier on “The gondola”
and “The grand canal”; from Yriarte on “The Rialto”; from J. R. Green
on “Venice and Rome”; from Ruskin on “St. Marks”; from Taine on “The
tombs of the Doges”; and from Symonds on “A night in Venice.” The
volume is profusely illustrated with half-tone plates.
“A skillful collecting of the best things that have been written by
the best authorities.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 60w.
“A book that is charming to read anywhere, and will be useful for
travellers in Venice to consult.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“The book will be especially useful to those who have never seen and
do not expect to see Venice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 175. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“If an anthology of Venice was wanted, Esther Singleton has supplied
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w.
“Its editing has been done with judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 140w.
=Skene, Norman Locke.= Elements of yacht design. $2. Rudder pub.
The author aims to give “‘a concise and practical presentation of the
processes involved in designing a modern yacht’ ... so that the
operations may be readily grasped by men without technical
education.... There are chapters on displacement, the lateral plane,
design, stability, ballast, the sail plan, and construction. A
thirty-foot cruiser is made the basis of the calculations, and a
number of tables is appended to abridge the figuring of important
details. The book is illustrated with numerous outline drawings and
plates.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book will undoubtedly be serviceable to every one interested in
the subject and possessed of enough technical knowledge to understand
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 181. Mr. 25, ‘05. 290w.
=Skinner, Harriet Pearl.= Boys who became famous men. †$1.25. Little.
These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are
founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl
readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s
keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron;
Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six
hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and
Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.
* “The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are
pleasing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five
years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in
England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of
book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is
crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.
“The text is generally accurate.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 468. O. 7, 990w.
“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great
assistance.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 80w.
* “No one but a real collector could have set forth what Mr. Slater
has put into his volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1374. D. 14, ‘05. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 1020w.
“With these slight exceptions, which will prove almost immaterial to
the beginner in book collecting, the manual may be taken as a most
reliable, though somewhat dull, guide in this fascinating pursuit.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 160w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.
=Sloan, Anna L.= Carolinians, an old-fashioned love story of stirring
times in the early colony of Carolina. $1.50. Neale.
Mistress Damaris Johnson, the governor’s daughter, whose heart is as
true to her lover as her father’s is to his king, in coquetry with her
true feelings offends the man she cares for. He starts for England, is
captured by pirates, a message from her miscarries, they become
estranged on his return, and she is piqued into promising her hand to
an unloved suitor, who in the end nobly releases her.
“It is a picturesque tale, prettily told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 470w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago
press.
An exposition of the main development in sociological theory from
Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The purpose of the work is to furnish a
working syllabus for a year’s course of lectures and a three years’
program of seminar work given in Chicago university. “The main objects
of this syllabus are, first, to make visible different elements that
must necessarily find their place in ultimate sociological theory; and
second, to serve as an index to relations between the parts and the
whole of sociological science.”
=Smart, George Thomas.= Studies in conduct. *75c. Pilgrim press.
“In this survey of wisely conducted life the subjective interest of
disciplined and rationalized feeling comes to its full rights, and
carries the authority of experience.”—Outlook.
“A book that cannot be exhausted in one reading, or in two.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether these studies in conduct offer a rational and agreeable
program for making the most of ourselves and our brief span of life.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 507. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
=Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant.= Story of Edinburgh. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume, which belongs to the ‘Mediæval towns series,’ is to a
considerable extent a reproduction of a book which the author
published last year. Additions, however, have been made, and ‘it has
been almost entirely re-written.’” (Spec.) “The scheme of the volume
is sensible. The first portion, dealing with the history of Edinburgh,
traces the general fortunes of the city without special regard to
topography; it is briskly enough written, and suitably seasoned with
classical anecdotes. The second, and in this instance more important,
division presents a detailed description of the city itself, and
discusses the places and objects of historic interest.” (Ath.) There
are many illustrations.
“The instructions are clear and practical, the comments are generally
to the point, and the illustrations are decidedly good.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 468. O. 7. 200w.
* “The book is compact, comprehensive, and portable, and conveniently
arranged in walks to points of historic, literary and ecclesiastical
interest in the city and its environs.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 180w.
“Has put together a charming volume, full of matter but with little in
it either of the guidebook or the town history.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 640. S. 30. ‘05. 120w.
“This volume packs an amazing amount of information in small compass,
and serves it up, moreover, with commendable freedom from dryness and
encyclopaedic method.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 170w.
“A book about Edinburgh can scarcely fail to be interesting, and as
written by Mr. Smeaton, who knows his subject thoroughly and writes
about it con amore, this may be ranked with any volume in the series.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
=Smedley, A. C., and Talbot, L. A.= Wizards of Ryetown. †$1.50. Holt.
A clever fairy tale interspersed with nonsense rhymes in which a fairy
princess goes out into the world with her hero prince to help him
conquer his kingdom. After wars waged against castles, witches and
wizards they share their realm in proverbial fairy-tale peace and
prosperity.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean
de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot
Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
An account of the life and work of the missionary priest in the
unopened West, recorded chiefly in his own simple words, as found in
manuscript journals, and his printed works. There are copious notes
and a life of De Smet by the editor.
“We strongly recommend this valuable work to all who are interested in
the history of the North American West and in its aborigines. Also,
and particularly, to those interested in missions.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 274. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2060w.
“The most valuable part of this book is that which deals entirely with
Indian life, and the editors are to be congratulated upon their
success in keeping this essential and vital part continually the most
prominent. As no other man has so fully and so deeply understood the
Indian, so no other has contributed so much information about his life
and customs or served the cause of justice so well in uprooting the
prejudice against the aborigines of this country. [The Indian] has
received his meed of praise, and the final judgment upon his
character.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 66. F. 4, ‘05. 2310w.
=Smith, Adam.= Wealth of nations; ed. by Professor Edwin Cannan. *$6.
Putnam.
This new edition of the famous work of the father of political economy
follows the text of the fifth edition in all details. The editor has
added elaborate notes and a comprehensive introduction.
“Will henceforth be the standard. It is hard to see how the editor’s
work could be improved save by the discovery of new sources of
knowledge.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 135. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“What promises to be its definitive form for many years to come. Along
with his demonstrated insight into the heart of this classic, Mr.
Cannan brought other gifts of a rare order to his task,—tireless
scholarship in ferreting out the ipsissima verba of the text, and
withal an invigorating freshness of vision into the realities of
industrial life, a doughty logic, and a dash of cynical humor.”
+ + + =Atlan.= 95: 562. Ap. ‘05. 510w.
“Marks of extreme care as well as of full and critical knowledge are
visible on every page. The editor’s notes are of great value even to
students who are not greatly interested in the niceties of textual
criticism. In a great measure they serve as cross-references, and
serve also to keep in mind and define Adam Smith’s characteristic
inconsistencies and limitations.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 310w.
* =Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido H.= Machine design. $3. Wiley.
A volume which “treats in logical sequence the elements of mechanism
and machine design, followed by construction in detail of machinery,
and an excellent chapter on ‘Riveted joints.’ It is well written and
illustrated, and the effort to lead elementary conception into actual
construction is consistently followed out, giving the reader, or the
student, the satisfaction of learning the means and the reason for the
result obtained.”—Engin. N.
* “Briefly characterized this is a college treatise, broad and
elementary in its introduction, thorough in detail, elaborate in
formulas, limited in references to modern devices and inaccurate in
some of its practical data.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 890w.
=Smith, Bertha H.= Yosemite legends. **$2. Elder.
Six short legends each representing some folk song of the tribe of
Ah-wah-nee-chee or Yosemite dwellers. The charm of the text is
enhanced by the artistic work of Florence Lundborg, who has conceived
a barbaric pattern, an Indian design for the margin, and has
contributed thirteen wash drawings reproduced in half-tone. The whole
make-up of the book suggests the “eerie and the unseen in air, crag,
and water.”
“The stories are told with an attractive simplicity that retains a
flavor of the primitive Indian poetry.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.
A new life of Christ, simple in style. “It throws some light on
incidents in the life of Christ from portrayal of Jewish habits of
life and thought. It accompanies the words of Jesus with some
interpretation, but not with exhortation. It is free from
scholasticism on the one hand and from ecclesiastical pietism on the
other.”—Outlook.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 336. O. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
* “Theoretically, the spirit of the writer might be defined as that of
a broad-minded and free-minded evangelical.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* =Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Noah’s ark; told and pictured by E. Boyd
Smith. **$2. Houghton.
“The building of the ark, the assembling of the animals, and the
adventures of the voyage, are all made to yield their full measure of
entertainment. The dinosaurs that had to be left behind because they
were too big for the door, the host of other strange beasts ... that
refused to go in and were therefore ‘doomed to be lost and become
fossils,’ the other host that went in and, being tossed by the waves,
regretted it ... all these episodes are pictured with remarkable
expressiveness and a clever but never too extravagant caricature....
The plates are artistically reproduced in color.”—Dial.
* “An amusing book with illustrations gay enough and text simple
enough to attract any well-regulated child.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 15w.
* “The pictures are the feature of the book, but they would not be
half so amusing without the sly and subtle humor of the brief
descriptions which accompany them.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1392. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* “Mr. Smith is too good a draughtsman to be side-splittingly comical,
but he has a humorous imagination. His text is far less droll, and he
should procure a literary running-mate for his next venture.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* “A capital piece of story-telling by colored pictures—humorous but
perfectly respectful to Noah and all his family.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 40w.
=Smith, F. Berkeley.= Parisians out of doors. *$1.50. Funk.
Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their pet cafés,
pelting each other in the fete des fleurs, or enjoying the more
serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or
jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or
Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their
own distinctive atmosphere.
“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy
as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects
of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and
Monte Carlo, and so forth.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that
make his volume most entertaining reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an
enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the
perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 490w.
“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The
real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1350w.
“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay
and the picturesque.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 80w.
“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French
festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that
festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting
description, and what more interesting people can you find than the
modern Parisian?”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations
are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= At close range. †$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the
volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things
in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at
the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does
not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders,
as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N.
Y. Times.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be
taken to his literary style.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 44. Jl. 8. 220w.
“The chief characteristic of these nine short stories, tales of ‘the
road,’ is a realism described with a poetic touch.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 240w.
“He has set down with humor, compassion and wit the real life that we
live every day on the outside of story-books and made it refreshing
with faith and virtue.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 957. Ap. 27. ‘05. 410w.
“He has the snag-less style of long literary training, yet he shuns
prolixity.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“The stories deserve reading, and the circulation of such a volume
will not bring benefit to the author alone.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 235. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“This latest collection of short stories renews the impression which
the earlier volumes from the same hand made of great clearness of
sight, fresh and vital interest in all forms of life which express
either beauty or character, a keen sense of humor, and admirable power
of characterization.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Always Mr. Smith is the artist—not a photographer.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 320w.
“The author, who writes tersely and well, shows that he has keen
powers of observation, he is also endowed with a sense of humour and a
capacity for sympathy, and he can in a measure touch, as it has been
said, both the springs of laughter and the source of tears.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 250w.
“The problems contained in the book are not very subtle, but almost
all the stories are pleasant reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 228. Ag. 12, ‘05. 140w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
F. Hopkinson Smith invites his readers to join a circle in Bohemia
about a log fire “that can sparkle with merriment, or glow with humor,
or roar with laughter, dependent on your mood.” The “High priest of
the Temple of jollity” is Sandy MacWhirter whose “wide personal
experience, his many adventures by land and sea make him the most
delightful of conversationalists ... talking as a painter talks, one
who sees, and therefore can make you see.” He and his group of friends
draw up around the fire and swap stories, impressions and terse
convictions. “Mac” on studio teas is especially convincing; “Art is a
religion not a Punch and Judy show. Whole thing is vulgar. Imagine
Rembrandt showing his ‘Night watch’ for the first time to the rag-tag
and bob-tail of Amsterdam.... Sacrilege, I tell you, this mixing up of
ice-cream and paint; makes a farce of a high calling and a mountebank
of the artist.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “MacWhirter and his friends are thoroughly individual. They all know
stories well worth the telling, and they tell them extremely well.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* “Has the charm with which Mr. Smith invests all that he writes, a
charm which is one of projected personality, and must therefore miss
some uncongenial readers, though these will usually be few.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Smith never fails to infuse a certain invigorating good
fellowship into his stories. The book as a whole does not reach the
high level of Mr. Smith’s more serious fiction.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
* =Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as
interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“We welcome this attempt to estimate the present state of the science
[of war] in the light of the new precedents created.... [The authors]
have reviewed the whole history of the operations, and dealt with
every point raised, from the volunteer cruisers to the use of wireless
telegraphy, in a lucid and scholarly manner.... A large number of
useful documents are reprinted in the appendices, and the authors have
written a short but admirably clear introduction on the meaning of
international law.”—Spec.
* “By far the most interesting part of the volume consists of the
chapters, full of detail, and well considered, relating to neutrality;
chapters so full and complete that they might with small change form
parts of a treatise on international law. It is a piece of well-knit,
solid work. It embodies research and care. A spirit of moderation, a
sense of responsibility, is present.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 299. S. 22, ‘05. 1480w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 650w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 690. N. 25, ‘05. 470w.
* “The work may be warmly recommended to all lawyers and students of
public policy.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ‘05. 370w.
=Smith, Rev. George Adam.= Forgiveness of sins, and other sermons,
**$1.25. Armstrong.
“Sermons preached by Dr. George Adam Smith, in the pulpit of Queen’s
Cross Free church, Aberdeen.... They are spiritual expositions of
theology.... Biblical in substance but not textual.”—Outlook.
“His new volume of sermons offers an example of the art of expository
preaching, the more persuasive in that it is not professedly
expository.” A. K. P.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 155. Ag. ‘05. 750w.
“His discourses are direct, practical and earnest, excellent examples
of the expository preaching for which Scotch ministers are famous.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.
“They constitute good models for the minister and good reading for the
thoughtful and the devout layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w.
“The volume of his sermons just published may do something to dispel
false notions of Professor Smith’s theological system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 490w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= My memory of Gladstone. *75c. Wessels.
This volume is written by one who knew Gladstone, both socially and in
a business way and who knew even better the men who were his
associates in public life. He says that it is thru their eyes that he
saw Gladstone and he gives his memory of the man and his colossal work
in a concise and sympathetic manner. The little book will give a
glimpse of Gladstone and his career to those who have not the leisure
to read Morley’s Life, to which Prof. Smith pays handsome tribute.
* + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Smith, J. Russell.= Organization of ocean commerce. $1.75. Ginn.
This is one of the Univ. of Penn. publications and belongs to the
series in political economy and public law. “The author confines
himself exclusively to the presentation of facts and the description
of processes.... The result is a careful, accurate and minute analysis
of over sea commerce, which cannot fail to be of the greatest
interest, not merely to the student of commerce, but to those who are
actually engaged in the business of ocean transportation. The book is
divided into three parts, viz.; Traffic, Routes and shipping and
Harbors and port facilities.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Dr Smith has produced one of the most satisfactory pieces of economic
investigation which has appeared in recent years.” E. S. Meade.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 610. My. ‘05. 970w.
=Smith, Rev. John.= Magnetism of Christ: a study of our Lord’s
missionary methods. $1.75. Armstrong.
“This book is composed of the Duff lectures on evangelistic theology,
which were delivered in 1903-4 by the author, who is a minister of the
United Free Church of Scotland.... He discourses on such subjects as
‘The distinctive method of Jesus,’ ‘Christ dealing with individual
inquirers,’ and ‘Prayer as bringing in the kingdom of God.’”—Spec.
“Although Dr. Smith wrote his lectures for students, his style is
almost as simple as that of a Welsh evangelist.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.
=Smith, Mary Prudence Wells.= Boy captive in Canada. †$1.25. Little.
This is the second story in the “Old Deerfield series,” and the sequel
to, “The boy captive of old Deerfield.” It tells of the experiences of
little Stephen Williams, son of the minister of Deerfield, as he lived
a captive and a burden bearer among the Indians. It describes his
wanderings with them in northern Vermont, the cold hard winter they
spent in Canada, and it finally chronicles his liberation and return
to Deerfield. At the end the varied and thrilling experiences of other
Deerfield captives is given as revealed by the researches of Miss C.
Alice Baker.
=Smith, Nicholas.= Masters of old age. *$1.25. Young ch.
The value of longevity is here illustrated by practical examples. The
lives of Mommsen, Holmes, Geo. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, S. Weir
Mitchell, Whittier, and numerous other masters of old age serve to
show how much of the world’s work is done by its old people. There are
some good ideas upon the value of keeping in the harness, and on the
care of both mind and body.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
“As a record of the victories over old age and bodily infirmity won by
men and women of many sorts this book has a tonic quality both of
physical and moral efficacy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Smith, Orlando Jay.= Balance the fundamental verity, **$1.25. Houghton.
“‘A key to the fundamental scientific interpretations of the system of
nature, a definition of natural religion, and a consequent agreement
between science and religion.’ What Mr. Smith has really tried to do
is to show that religion and science stand on the same rock, and that
the law of compensation will explain away many philosophical
difficulties. There is an appendix containing critical reviews by a
number of eminent scientific and religious writers, most of which
commend Mr. Smith’s thesis and the way he has worked it out.”—R. of
Rs.
“Mr Smith in his book endeavors to deduce human immortality, and other
things, from Newton’s postulate that ‘to every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction.’ The result is unsatisfactory to the
materialists, who do not accept his demonstration as valid, and
equally so to those who like the other side of the wall, because it is
the other side.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 88. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Smith, Reginald Bosworth.= Bird life and bird lore. *$3. Dutton.
A lover of books and of birds writes of his friends the owl, the
raven, the wild duck, the magpie, the rook and others, giving his own
observations of them and showing the place they hold in history,
literature, poetry, and folklore.
“A well-written and attractive book, of which the only material
demerit is the rather patchy and uneven effect almost inseparable from
volumes made up of papers originally published at divers times and in
divers manners.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 360. Ap. 1. ‘05. 850w.
“It is pleasantly and allusively classical, for Mr. Bosworth Smith is
a ripe scholar, and it is written in a style which is always accurate
and often picturesque.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 495. Ap. 15. 710w.
“A series of capital essays on British birds.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 221. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is one to be on permanently good terms with, for its genuine
love of all feathered folk, its hatred of cruelty ... its delicate
humor, and its poetical perspective.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w.
=Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“The particular claim of the book is that it has a local nexus and
that the tale of the birds is not separated from the life of the
place.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 161. My. 19, ‘05. 1140w.
“Has the happy faculty of combining his personal observations with
those of his predecessors and confreres into a series of pleasing and
instructive sketches.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 250w.
“Besides giving excellent information tells some interesting
anecdotes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 230w.
“Perhaps the best parts of his book are those in which he has brought
together the references to his favorite birds from ancient and modern
literature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“These essays have a certain charm of style which should appeal to
nature-lovers the world over.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
“He is a real observer of the birds he delights in and he has written
a very delightful account of the old Rectory and the old Manor house.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 240w.
“Very pleasant book. The charm of the book ... lies chiefly in the
writer’s great love of his subject.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 751. My. 20, ‘05. 1050w.
=Smith, Sara Trainer=, trans. See =Denk, Victor Martin Otto.=
=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke
of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester,
seneschal of England. *$6. imp. Scribner.
“So far as we are aware, this is the first detailed study of the
personality and career of ‘Old John of Gaunt, time-honored
Lancaster.’ ... Mr. Armitage-Smith has faithfully explored all manner
of sources of information bearing on the exploits and character of
this favorite son of Edward III. and favorite brother of the Black
Prince, this titular king of Castile and Leon and uncrowned king of
England. The search yields to us a fascinating story of chivalry,
pageantry, and war, a story of many personages and many
scenes.”—Outlook.
“A scholarly but also a highly interesting work.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 86. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1240w.
“He must be congratulated on a width of research and a clearness of
judgment which more practised hands might envy. He has done much to
reconcile apparent inconsistencies in the career of the father of the
first Lancastrian king and to unravel the tangled skein of English
politics in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.” James Tait.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 563. Jl. ‘05. 900w.
“Is an ample and scholarly work.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 520w.
“He has turned out a book that is at once scholarly and eminently
readable. Moreover, his work scarcely runs the risk of being
superseded.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 1180w.
“Told with feeling and intelligence by one who breathes the spirit of
the times.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.
=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
From 600 B. C. to the Mohammadan conquest, including the invasion of
Alexander the Great. A great deal of space is devoted to the invasion
of Alexander, while the chapters dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms
of the north, the Deccan and matters of purely local interest are
brief. The closing chapter outlines the history of the South.
“Will be welcomed for its very able research into Alexander’s India
campaign. McCrindle, whom we had thought to have said the last word on
the subject, is corrected in so important a matter as the place where
Alexander’s army crossed the Hydaspes.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Smith is unusually well qualified for the work he has undertaken.
This knowledge, combined with a high ideal of the office of the
historian, ability in the sifting and criticism of evidence, and
finally the power of presenting in remarkably clear and attractive
form the fruits of his investigations has led to the production of a
work of exceptional merit.” George Melville Bolling.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 121. O. ‘05. 1010w.
“Nearly a third of the volume is occupied with Hellenic activity and
influence in India, and there is nowhere so complete and vivid an
account of the great campaign as is to be found in these pages. Even
those not interested in India for itself cannot fail to be attracted
by this chapter in the life of Alexander, which in some regards at
least may be accepted by historians as a definite statement.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.
=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.
The author is a southerner and a professor in Tulane university, but
he tries to give an unbiased scientific treatment of the race problem,
taking up the question of miscegenation, the danger of the
“mongrelization” of the white race in the South, and social and
political future of the negro.
“The argument is largely rhetorical and contributes nothing to our
knowledge of what is going on. The book abounds in extreme statements.
As a plea of an intelligent partisan the book has value, but otherwise
is not to be compared with the recent volume of Mr. T. N. Page, who
holds very similar views.”
— — + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 594. My. ‘05. 230w.
“There is much that is new in the conception and in the detail of the
present study. Whether the reader agree or disagree with Professor
Smith’s conclusions, we can promise him that this is by far the most
elaborate and important study of the American negro that has yet
appeared, that it deals with fundamentals and not with the superficial
manifestations of the conflict between black and white, and that its
tone is such as to command respectful attention from the reader,
whatever his prejudices. A style full of terse, vigorous phrases, at
times enlivened by humor, and again and again shot through with
illuminating allusions revealing the breadth of culture, the fund of
reading upon which the scholar can draw at will.” Pierce Butler.
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1140w.
“Professor Smith of Tulane University writes as an ‘irreconcilable,’
but his arguments are strong and well buttressed, and he views the
subject on several sides.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Smith’s book is a naked, unashamed shriek for the survival of the
white race by means of the annihilation of all other races.” W. A.
Burghardt DuBois.
— — =Dial.= 38: 315. My. 1, ‘05. 430w.
“It is only valuable as an effort to substantiate the South’s
treatment of the negro. It contains neither scientific accuracy nor
literary excellence.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 843. Ap. 13, ‘05. 290w.
— + =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 1130w.
“It may be Professor Smith has allowed his predispositions to color
his conclusions somewhat.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 82. F. 11, ‘05. 1820w.
“In six passionately written chapters brimming with science and
statistics, Professor Smith makes a strong presentation of the
position of the South on the negro question.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 297. F. 25, ‘05. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
* =Smythe, William Eilsworth.= Constructive democracy: the economics of
a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This volume presents the evils of the present industrial system and
proposes three remedies. The first is Senator Newland’s plan for
dealing with the transportation problem.... The second remedy is Mr.
Garfield’s plan.... The first remedy would put the railroads, the
second the trusts, under the supervision of the National government.
The third remedy is National irrigation for the development of our
unused lands, and adequate protection of them from the land-grabber,
that they may furnish an opportunity for the ‘surplus man.’”—Outlook.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 280w.
* “We see no evidence that he is familiar with the economic history of
the past. His book is journalistic rather than academic in its spirit.
We should like to see his book read and pondered by all journalists
and congressmen.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 290w.
* =Pub. Opin.= 39: 572. O. 28, ‘05. 320w.
* “His book impresses one as the work of a keen observer of modern
industrial life and a thoughtful student of its problems.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 130w.
=Snell, F. C.= Camera in the fields. $1.25. Wessels.
“The first part of Mr. Snell’s manual is entitled ‘The camera and the
dark room’; in this the processes are explained.... Parts 2-5 are
devoted to the several subjects of Ornithology, Zoölogy, Entomology,
and Botany; in each the special subject—how bird, beast, insect, or
plant is to be best ‘taken off’ by the camera—is dealt with. The
volume is amply illustrated.”—Spec.
“His sensible remarks on the matters of which he is clearly a master
himself should be of great value to students of ornithology, zoölogy,
entomology, and botany.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* “An excellent handbook for those who are interested in the finer
problems of photography.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“It is of its kind excellent.” W. P. P.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 153. Je. 15, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 250w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 599. Ap. 22, ‘05. 110w.
Society in the new reign; by a foreign resident. $4. Wessels.
This book supplements “Society in London,” published by the same
author in 1886. It gives a present day view of “persons and things, as
well as of a social state generally” both in and out of London, under
such chapter headings as—The new court and some state pillars, Society
at school and at play, Where wit, wealth and empire meet, Hencoops and
heroes, Counter and coronet, Society’s tradesmen and their social
claims.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.
“The volume comprises the papers and discussions at the first meeting
of the (British) Sociological society, 1904.... Among the subjects
discussed, ‘Eugenics,’ or what in this country is called
stirpiculture, takes the leading place.”—Outlook.
“Marks the opening of a new stadium in the progress of sociology.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 103. F. 4, ‘05. 1130w.
“The book is welcome not merely because of the excellent papers, but
also because of the light it throws upon the headway sociology is
making in England.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 594. My. ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 239. F. 25. 630w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1. 05. 120w.
“The sociological society is to be congratulated on the appearance of
its first volume.” W. D. Morrison.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 507. Jl. ‘05. 1250w.
“The one real addition to knowledge that the volume contains is by an
outsider, Mr. Harold H. Mann.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 960w.
Reviewed by F. W. H.
+ =Nature.= 71: 605. Ap. 27, ‘05. 540w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 280w.
Reviewed by J. H. T.
* + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 422. D. 15, ‘05. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 724. D. 2, ‘05. 1090w.
=Solberg, Thorvald.= Copyright in Congress. 65c. Supt. of doc.
“A complete bibliography of all the bills relating to copyright which
have been introduced into Congress, the resolutions and laws which
have been enacted, and those reports, petitions, memorials, messages,
and miscellaneous documents which have been printed, together with a
complete chronological record of all action taken in Congress, in any
way relating to the subject of copyright, showing how each proposal
has been dealt with.” The record begins with April 15, 1789, and
extends to 1904.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 949. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
“A work of great historic interest.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 270w.
=Somers, Percival.= Pages from a country diary. $2.50. Longmans.
This diary of a country sportsman treats of English rural life in all
its phases. There is social life, scenery, and a criticism of hunting
customs and sporting laws. The whole is enlivened by clever anecdotes
and original reflections in the things about them by the author and
his wife, Belinda.
=Country Calendar.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 130w.
“It can be confidently recommended to all who care for records of
outdoor life flavored with the philosophy of a genial observer of men
and animals.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 249. Mr. 30, ‘05. 490w.
“A delightful raconteur is the author, and his stories are short and
to the point.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 19. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1000w.
* =Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.= Francis Hopkinson, the first
American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist:
two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of
Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A piece of research in American history based on an examination of
original sources.... Hopkinson, who was born in 1731, was a man of
unusual talent; a writer, a politician, an inventor, and an
enthusiastic musician....* Hopkinson himself laid claim to the title
of first native composer in a letter dedicating his volume of ‘Seven
songs’ to Washington.... His rival for historical precedence, James
Lyon, is a substantial, if less interesting figure.... It is an
extremely interesting monograph for those who are concerned with the
neglected past of music in this country.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is an invaluable contribution to the history of American music,
and its production reveals the achievement of a formidable task.” W.
J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “Though the graces of English style are not Mr. Sonneck’s, he knows
how to make his history not only minutely correct, but interesting.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1060w.
=Sorley, W. R.= Recent tendencies in ethics. W: Blackwood & sons,
London.
“This little book consists of three lectures on ‘Some leading features
of the ethical thought of the present day,’ delivered at Cambridge
(England) to a summer meeting of clergy held there in July, 1903. The
chapters in the book are headed respectively: ‘Characteristics,’
‘Ethics and evolution,’ ‘Ethics and idealism.’ In the first chapter
Professor Sorley says that in ‘English ethical thought during the last
century ... the controversies of the time centered almost exclusively
round two questions: the question of the origin of moral ideas, and
the question of the criterion of moral value.’ ... A misapplication of
the biological doctrine of ‘natural selection’ is also responsible for
a large measure of the present confusion of ethical thought. This
brings the reader to Chapter II., in which this misapplication is
dealt with at length.... Chapter III. deals with the ethics of modern
idealism.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Is avowedly addressed to those whose interest in life is practical
rather than theoretical; its aim is obviously to be practically
helpful to such people. It must be owned that to the present critic it
seems chiefly to warn off from the realm of philosophy all students of
the quality described. It is perhaps not too much to say that both in
method and in implied point of view Mr. Sorley’s book is too slight
and too old-fashioned to do justice either to recent philosophy or to
Professor Sorley’s position in it.” May Gilliland Husband.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 232. Ja. ‘05. 2340w. (Abstract of book.)
“The qualities of careful and exact thought, of methodical
arrangement, and of clear expression are found to characterize the
volume.” James Seth.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 212. Mr. ‘05. 1560w.
=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de
Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
“A complete and authoritative ‘Narrative of the career of Hernando De
Soto,’ as found in the original documents, chiefly based on the diary
of Rodrigo Rangel, his private secretary, together with an account of
the great expedition to the Southwest of the United States, translated
from Oviedo’s ‘Historia general y natural de las Indias’ by Buckingham
Smith. There is an historical introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne,
professor of history in Yale university. The conquest of Florida is
told by a knight who was a member of the expedition. Several
portraits, hitherto unpublished, of De Soto himself appear in the
volume, to which is appended his life and some of his letters.”—R. of
Rs.
“Prof. Bourne’s editorship is of the best, and the translation
excellent reading.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Ind.= 58: 726. Mr. 30, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 960w.
“A boon alike to the student, to the ordinary reader, even to the
romance-loving boy.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 65. F. 4, ‘05. 2370w.
“The volumes will be regarded as a valuable and convenient addition to
both history and literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 130w.
“It would be difficult to find in any language a more direct and
forceful account of heroic adventures and careless lust for new sights
and strange experiences. Together with the narratives of Coronado’s
expedition in the Southwest, an earlier volume of the “Trail makers’
series,” it is the best possible account of the aboriginal condition
of the southern United States.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
=Sousa, John Philip.= Pipetown Sandy. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of Pipetown, its boys, its schools, and its grown people.
Sandy, the hero, already a leader on the playground, leaves the foot
of the class and wins the prize in arithmetic and geography thru the
influence of Colonel Franklin’s weak little son whom he makes his
friend. Sandy also helps the store keeper to win the widow Foley, and
takes an active part in the tragic scenes which follow her worthless
husband’s reappearance in Pipetown.
“Here we have the annals of a typical American village told with the
simplicity and the charm of a Goldsmith and the added interest of a
writer whose intensity of feeling and vivid imagination have enabled
him to invest simple life and homely circumstances with compelling
fascination.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 200w.
“Parts of the story are really human and attractive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“It is difficult to see how it can be of any real value. It cannot
contribute to the formation of an exalted taste in literature; and a
boy with a good taste already formed would not care much for it.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 90w.
=Spalding, Rev. Henry Stanislaus.= Race for Copper island. 85c.
Benziger.
This is a boy’s story and tells of the adventures of young Paul
Guibeau of Quebec and others who ventured into the Indians’ country in
search of the copper mines in the region of the Great lakes. They
encounter Iroquois, Hurons, and Miamis, unbroken forests and unknown
waters, but after the copper ridge is located, Paul, undaunted, writes
to his people, as the volume closes, that he is setting forth with
Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to discover “the great river called
the Mitchi-sipi.”
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Bishop Spalding year book: comp. by
Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
Quotations from the writings of Bishop Spalding for each day of the
year.
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Religion and art, and other essays,
**$1. McClurg.
Besides the title-essay the volume contains, The development of
educational ideas in the nineteenth century, The meaning and worth of
education, The physician’s calling and education, Social questions.
“The strongest and bravest voice that speaks for righteousness to the
people of this country is Bishop Spalding’s. Bishop Spalding’s
writings are brave and beautiful and inspiring.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 529. Jl. ‘05. 1050w.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* =Spalding, Phebe Estelle.= Womanhood in art. **$1.50. Elder.
There are in this group of interpretations six of the best known ideal
conceptions of womanhood in art; Venus de Milo, Eve, Mona Lisa,
Beatrice Cenci, Madonna of the chair and the Sistine Madonna.
* “Any good book that celebrates good art is worth while, so Miss
Spalding’s book is welcome.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 15w.
* “The text is intended neither for artists nor students of painting,
but for the ordinary observer who is interested merely in the moral
significance of the picture, caring nothing for its history or
technique. Such criticism leans inevitably towards the fanciful and
the sentimental, but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of
readers.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 40w.
* — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “The book is of the popular sort—full of elemental, moving
impressions but marred by insufficient historical and critical
reading.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Sparks, Edwin Erle.= Men who made the nation. $1. Macmillan.
The history of the United States from 1760 to 1865 is given
biographically in an account of the lives and labors of Benjamin
Franklin, Samuel and John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton,
George Washington, Jefferson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and finally
Abraham Lincoln.
“On the whole, thanks to the author’s lively style, we get, in a very
small compass, a better history than many a historian with a more
ambitious method might have produced.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The process of the evolution of the nation is thus given a
biographical character in a novel method of writing history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 630w.
=Sparks, Edwin Erle.= United States of America. **$1.35. Putnam.
This is essentially a history of our constitutional evolution, and
treats of the great movements in our federal life and “those
centralizing or decentralizing factors which have aided or hindered
the unification of the states,” of finances, internal improvements,
the tariff, slavery, and the constitutional aspects of the Civil war
and reconstruction, little space is given to war and war-time events.
“His judgments are acceptable; he shows discrimination in the
selection of materials, a fine art in presentation, a vivacious
style.” James A. Woodburn.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 883. Jl. ‘05. 810w.
“The purpose is well carried out, and the work is therefore eminently
a timely one.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
“One can hardly call the work a history in the truest sense; it is
rather a prose epic of American nationality.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 418. Je. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Hardly any former attempt to write our history has taken into account
so many of the different forces that have influenced its progress. In
fact, the book is a good summary of the best work done on American
history. The style is clear and pleasing, except for a tendency to
sententious truisms.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 785. Ap. 6, ‘05. 360w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“On the whole, Dr. Sparks’s interpretation of the subject commends
itself to us as sound.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 217. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w.
“Prof. Sparks’ work is a rather agreeable reaction from the
bellicosity which has been so much in vogue with writers of popular
histories. Yet we cannot help thinking that Prof. Sparks pays too
little attention to military affairs.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 740w.
“Rather a commentary on history. All readers will find the book
interesting, and to many it will give a wholly new point of view for
the consideration of American history. Dr. Sparks prefers to treat
American history as the story of our national expansion. A suitable
sub-title of his present work would be, ‘A study of national
development.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 180w.
=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Strategy of great railroads. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“A volume illustrating the field of railroad competition. The various
subjects treated are the Vanderbilt lines, the Pennsylvania system,
the Harriman lines, the Hill lines, the fight for Pittsburg, the Gould
lines, the Rock Island system, the Atchison, the big granger lines
(St. Paul and Northwestern), the rebuilding of an American railroad,
the first trans-continental railroad, the early day in
railroading.”—Bookm.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 629. My. 20. 1660w.
“He writes with a familiarity with his subject that enlightens, and
with a style that entertains and fascinates.” John J. Hasley.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 196. Mr. 16, ‘05. 820w.
“But, after proper allowance has been made for shortcomings
attributable to Mr. Spearman’s optimism, it must be said that his book
is on the whole, an admirable study of the American railroads of
today.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 620w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and accurately
follows the life of the first American admiral from his birth in a
frontier log cabin to his honored death and the erection of his statue
in Farragut square. It is the story of years of hard work and
ceaseless effort put forth in the service of his country. Maps and
charts illustrate the volume.
* “Some of Mr. Spears’ eulogies and comments seem a little
far-fetched.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 845. D. 2, ‘05. 520w.
* “May be especially commended to parents in quest of a soundly
suggestive as well as really entertaining book for their boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
* “The well-known accuracy of Mr. Spears’ writing on historical
subjects insures in the present volume a painstaking regard to the
facts of history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 120w.
* =Speed, John Gilmer.= Horse in America: a practical treatise on the
various types common in the United States, with something of their
history and varying characteristics. **$2. McClure.
This interesting treatise “gives a great deal of information about the
various equine types common in the United States. Mr. Speed is
merciless in exposing false pedigrees. Some of his comments on origins
of famous breeds of American horses will probably be unpalatable to
partisans of this or that great name in the horse world. Yet on the
whole the book is reassuring to the breeder and admirer of horses.”—R.
of Rs.
* “Taken all in all the book should serve its purpose, to interest and
forward the breeding of good types.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* “It points out the characteristics of the true thoroughbred with the
unerring skill of the expert.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Sperry, Charlotte Grace.= Teddy Sunbeam. **$1. Elder.
Printed in large type upon Teddy Sunbeam’s own gold these “little
fables for little housekeepers” point many homely morals. Teddy
Sunbeam is wise, and he talks about Princess Lend-a-hand, gives
dissertations upon microbes, tells how to sweep, and how to perform a
number of other daily duties, but tells it all in such an attractive
manner that little folks will be glad to listen. The book is copiously
illustrated by Albertine Randall Wheelan.
“Is a nice little book for nice little girls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
* “A rather original series of little fables.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 130w.
* =Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway.
*$6.50. Putnam.
“In half a hundred colored plates and many black-and-white pictures we
find beauty and delicacy pre-eminent and child-loveliness rendered
with sincerity and sympathy. Such pictures measure a sweet, true soul,
and the story of Kate Greenaway’s life and the gentle revelations of
her letters and her friendships (the correspondence with John Ruskin
most notably) bear out the inference.” (Outlook.) “It is a visit to
Miss Greenaway at her home, a view of an active mind at work, a
conversation with authors and artists led and directed by one whom
they all acknowledged as leader.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “The authors have felt to the full the quaint charm of this art,
they do justice to the ‘sweet and fragrant perfume’ that floats about
the name of Kate Greenaway.”
+ =Acad.= 68: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 1420w.
* “The peculiar competence of the present writers lies in their eager
seizure upon all possible points of interest, and their strong sense
of proportion, which assigns to each item its proper space in a volume
that has not a dull page or a bit of superfluous ‘padding.’” Edith
Kellogg Dunton.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 437. D. 16, ‘05. 2320w.
* “With some of Messrs. Layard and Spielmann’s opinions we are not at
all in agreement.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 394. N. 17, ‘05. 1630w.
* “The book is thus more than an ordinary biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
* “Really charming book.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “One can read with real profit other parts of the book, notably the
introductory chapter, and, at the close, Mr. Spielmann’s judgment on
Kate Greenaway as artist, delicately worded, enthusiastic yet nicely
balanced.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 3. D. 9, ‘05. 1410w.
=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“This volume of essays, nine in all, and printed in full, is
illustrated by a photograph of a medallion portrait, a bas-relief, by
Lanteri, and by many architectural views and details, some of them
photographic, others made up by the author from different sources or
drawn from recognized authorities.”—Nation.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 439. Ap. 8. 640w.
=Nation.= 80: 421. My. 25, ‘05. 670w.
* “The writer of these essays has the power of making technical
matters plain to the reader who has no special knowledge of
architecture.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
=Springer, Frank.= Cleiocrinus. Museum of comparative zoology, Harvard
college, Cambridge, Mass.
“A complete paper on one of the oldest of known crinoid
genera—Cleiocrinus.... Various authors ... have had great difficulty
in placing it in the system of classification.... Mr. Springer does
not now establish the family Cleiocrinidæ, in so many words, but ...
it is finally concluded that the genus is intermediate between the
great groups of flexibilia and camerata; nearest, apparently, to the
reteocrinidæ. The memoir is illustrated by a beautiful plate of
drawings by K. M. Chapman and E. Ricker, showing not only aspects of
cleiocrinus, but also reteocrinus and glyptocrinus for
comparison.”—Science.
Reviewed by T. D. A. C.
+ + =Science,= n.s. 21: 388. Mr. 10, ‘05. 420w.
=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to
Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50. Scribner.
Under such chapter headings as—The gods of the Gaels, Finn and the
Fenians, The war with the giants, The gods of the Britons, The Gaelic
Argonauts, The gods as king Arthur’s knights, and The treasures of
Britain, are given the legends and traditions of the early inhabitants
of the British islands, the Gaelic and the British Celts.
“Altogether, then, Mr. Squire may be congratulated on a partial
success. His research does not penetrate into German authorities; he
is not fully alive to the anthropological side of the argument; his
archaeology is not complete. But he knows and loves his subject within
the boundaries presented by these limitations, and he has the peculiar
charm of carrying his readers along with him in an attitude of love
for the subject.” Laurence Gomme.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 58. Ja. 21. ‘05. 790w.
“A book which brings together so great a store of knowledge on an
obscure and fascinating subject in so readable a fashion is indeed a
treasure, and one cannot but praise the author for his work.” Louis H.
Gray.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 58. S. ‘05. 960w.
“His treatment of this subject is thorough and conscientious, and he
has realized his hope of presenting it in a lucid and agreeable form.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 146. Je. 15, ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Squire has handled his refractory subject very ably, and has made
the story of British mythology both lucid and interesting.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 1600w.
* “This book supplies a great literary vacuum. From some of the
writer’s conclusions scholars may differ.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 4. D. 9, ‘05. 1340w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael
Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
Uniform with a series of monographs on the great masters, the “mode of
presenting Raphael’s life’s work is particularly interesting, while so
much is being written of his changing place in the rank of the great
artists, as ascribed to him by current criticism. One has an
opportunity of studying the various forms in which his genius
expressed itself: Single figures of saints and angels; biblical and
historical subjects; renderings of sacred and profane legends; and
portraits. Then, again, there are the various mediums in which the
artist worked, as on canvas, and in fresco, etc. In his mural
paintings, we see how excellently his composition was fitted to the
various exigencies of architectural decoration.” (Int. Studio.)
“An excellent volume of illustrations of Raphael’s work. In the clear,
short, and eminently satisfactory account of Raphael’s life the author
neither indulges in extravagant praise, nor accepts theories of scant
foundation.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 200w.
* =Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“The scenes and events through which Mr. Blaine moved in the most
stirring years of his life are now matters of history, and a clear-cut
biography, such as Mr. Stanwood has written makes a capital medium
through which the younger generation of American readers and students
may be made familiar with the post bellum period of our politics. Mr.
Stanwood gives especial attention to those episodes in Blaine’s career
which were most frequently represented by his enemies as more or less
discreditable ... and ... makes an able defense of Blaine against the
attacks of his political opponents.”—R. of Rs.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 370w.
* “Nevertheless, the biography is in some respects highly valuable,
and should be welcome if only for the new material assembled in a
scholarly and interesting way.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 270w.
* “Mr. Stanwood has done his subject full justice without overdoing
it.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 370w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 190w.
Statesman’s year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states
of the world for the year 1905; ed. by J. Scott Keltie and I. P. A.
Renwick. *$3. Macmillan.
The 1905 edition of this annual is its forty-second issue and shows
extensive enlargement and revision.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 527. Ap. 29. 360w.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 617. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 110w.
“Not a page of the book is unnecessary or can be spared.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w.
“One of the few reference-books which may accurately be described as
indispensable.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 40w.
“The editor has improved this annual from year to year, and the issue
for 1905 is the best yet.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 220w.
“‘The statesman’s year-book’ continues to grow in size, while its
arrangement is developed in the direction of completeness and
convenience.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.
=Staunton, Schuyler.= Fate of a crown. $1.50. Reilly & B.
A tale of the revolt which overthrew the monarchy of Dom Pedro in
Brazil. The central figure is young Harcliffe who is secretary to Dom
Miguel the leader of the revolutionists. His hair-breadth escapes on
his way to the home of Miguel in the interior, and the following
intrigue and adventure which culminate in the overthrow of the
government supply the historical setting of a romance in which the
hero supposes himself to be at the mercy of a rival—one who turns out
to be a spy, a woman masquerading in men’s attire.
“The character drawing of the book is splendid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 524. My. 20, ‘05. 550w.
* =Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50.
Lane.
“A compilation from Japanese sources of all manner of facts calculated
to throw light on the achievements, aspirations, and problems of
Japan.... Mr. Stead’s purpose, briefly, is to exhibit the efficiency
attained by the Japanese in the various departments of life, and to
show how this efficiency springs from the ‘earnest, thinking and
eminently practical patriotism of the people.’ With this as a text
Lord Rosebery contributes a foreword.”—Lit. D.
* “Mr. Stead’s book largely repeats his work ‘Japan by the Japanese’
published last year.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 680w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 430w.
* “To give a full summary of the volume, which displays many of the
characteristics of the encyclopedia and many of the handbook, is quite
beyond the limits of a review.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 321. O. 6, ‘05. 3430w.
* “Mr. Stead’s book is one of the most interesting recently produced
on the inexhaustible subject of Japan. It does for that country much
what Mr. Bryce did for the United States with his ‘American
commonwealth.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 1670w.
* “His work abounds with the exaggeration to be expected from a
professional panegyrist.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 990w.
* “A study, as we said, to begin with, the work has no claim to be,
and even as a compilation it might have been better done. A great deal
of verbiage might have been omitted, certain crudities of style might
have been corrected.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 714. N. 4, ‘05. 2160w.
=Stead, Alfred=, comp. and ed. Japan by the Japanese. **$5. Dodd.
A collection of papers written by many of the high officials of the
Japanese government, and native men of well-known literary ability,
including Sannomiya, Ito, Inouyé, Oyami, Ariga, Saito, Shibusawa,
Naruse, Nitobe, Hozumi, and many others. Among the subjects treated
are the army, navy, finance, schools, religion, commerce, politics,
art and literature of Japan. There is a preface by the editor and a
carefully prepared index.
“It is about as useful as an almanac and not half as good as a
dictionary. A desk-book of facts and figures concerning political and
economic Japan. Quite unique as a gazetteer.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
— + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 180w.
“His profound ignorance of the real significance of the work of such
men as Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William G. Aston, Prof. Basil Hall
Chamberlain, and Capt. Frank Brinkley is manifest. The bad
proofreading and continual misspelling of Japanese names and terms are
disgraceful. In its cast and scope, the book seems intended mainly for
the British reader. The facts and figures concerning the army, navy,
revenue, taxation, and things outward and material are invaluable in
their way. In treating of art and literature, the writers correct some
errors of foreign writers, but contribute little that is fresh or
revealing.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 118. F. 9, ‘05. 1530w.
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Cambridge sketches. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the
literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England....
Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are
but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also
includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the
Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of
forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial
celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.
=Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim
at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however
unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the
author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”
— + =Dial.= 39: 69. Ag. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“The book is not without interest, but is decidedly untrustworthy.”
+ — — =Nation.= 80: 458. Je. 3, 05. 370w.
“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary
generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its
readableness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.
“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and
admiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 957. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.
“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to
enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of
religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show
how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are
related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate
attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The
third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies.
Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with
graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y.
Times.
“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof.
Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has
treated it.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 220w.
* “The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of
Egypt.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 10w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 597. S. 9, ‘05. 250w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 350w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Freethinking and plain speaking. *$1.50. Putnam.
“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book
form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years
has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects
connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human
society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by
literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.
“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily
misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on
religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward
Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 244. S. ‘05. 770w.
“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented
author commemorated.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.
This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas
Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies.
It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to
the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal
characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent
the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material
system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs,
explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic,
voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a
sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited
authority.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by Frances Duncan.
=Critic.= 46: 280. Mr. ‘05. 1030w.
“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional
philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the
general reader could not be desired.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 208. Ja. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy;
sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the
substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who
is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the
gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own
manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull
ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 391. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the
fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment,
and that his judgment is likely to be final.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 35. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2380w.
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hours in a library. *$6. Putnam.
A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects
including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott,
Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays
on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s
writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.
+ =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 160w.
“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These
adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist.
They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often
baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind
spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H.
W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 33. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most satisfying and pleasing collections of literary
essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
=Stephens, Kate.= American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women.
**$1.50. Lippincott.
Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of
Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New
England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet
science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.
“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and
pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 85. S. ‘05. 340w.
“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and
vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich
scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as
she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in
polyglot.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 470w.
“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style
as to make the title quite appropriate.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 170w.
“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in
them that is worth recording.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a
cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and
who does think.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
“A clever book of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.).= Letters from an Oregon ranch.
**$1.25. McClurg.
One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of
the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts
are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its
text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to
those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the
volume.
* “A breezy, rather likable book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 405. Je. 17, ‘05. 400w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.
“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the
lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s
pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the
Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are
fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make
love.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Stephens, Thomas,= ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.
This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays
by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and
heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for
religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious
training of the child in the church of England; The religious training
of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New
church training; The religious training of children among the Jews;
and The child and the Bible.
“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these
essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and
helpful.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 540. O. 21, ‘05. 440w.
* “The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and
heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and
interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so
highly.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 533. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 125. Jl. 22, ‘05. 290w.
=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.
A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled
largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old
prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an
account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque
presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main
highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book
closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those
boisterous days.
“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no
less than to the general reader.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 120w.
* “The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than
for the satchel.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 160w.
“The book is worthy to have a much fuller index.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1210w.
“Interesting and apparently correct in its statements.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 960w.
“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of
London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked
out, and in that the description is eminently readable and
entertaining.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 110w.
“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an
exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 80w.
“Good use is made of the descriptions left by contemporary writers.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 40w.
=Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii).= Russian
peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion. *$1.25.
Dutton.
“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a
Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first
hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking
place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without
revision.”—Outlook.
=Acad.= 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 659. Je. 24, ‘05. 620w.
=Nation.= 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 130w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
* =Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.
Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which
Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the
Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but
know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will
Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take
part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And
who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it
is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught
to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays
came to him from sources outside his own life experience.
* “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a
charming bit of imaginative writing.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=Sterne, Laurence.= Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald;
ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.
“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and
definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the
material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of
letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of
Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.
“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but
in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 638. Ag. ‘05. 2580w.
“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid
introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Reviews vol. I.)
“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross,
whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in
the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious
material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s
scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of
editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the
editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation
that we have hitherto seen of him.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25, ‘05. 1130w.
=Sterner, Ira Ibson.= Picture gallery of souls. $1. Badger, R: G.
Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and
arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and
society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems;
and Toil and genius.
=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics.
**$2. Macmillan.
“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first
chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the
second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste
Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of
the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school
against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr.
Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the
guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.
“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a
sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and
inconclusive.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 852. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1380w.
“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and
enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 453. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 680w.
=Stevens, Frank.= Adventures in Pondland. $1.25. McClurg.
This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a
natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by
Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they
go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make
friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they
learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they
find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master
Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end
of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s
sleep.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 60w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 30w.
* “The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders
of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.
* “This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all
children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at
command.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Works. per v. $1. Scribner.
A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume
form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The
literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written
by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the
circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light
on Stevenson’s life and work.
=Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general
form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading
purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the
prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes.
There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 436. Jl. 1, ‘05. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 500. Jl. 29. ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.
“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like
those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of
Thackeray.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w.
=Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 30w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50.
Scribner.
Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these
exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings
and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which
makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “The whole conception of the book is in perfect good taste.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* + =Lond.= Times. 4: 408. N. 24, ‘05. 150w.
* “Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of
instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 580w.
“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which
might be more complete and perfect.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 40w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 170w.
=Stewart, Charles David.= Fugitive blacksmith. $1.50. Century.
Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the
jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive
blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in
Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect,
and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith,
Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is
hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures,
and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the
devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health
and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.
“A peculiarly fascinating story.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 569. My. 27, ‘05. 390w.
“Stumpy’s story is well told and worth telling.” G. W. A.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 544. Jl. ‘05. 430w.
“A more diverting story has not appeared in many a long day.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 290w.
“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and
‘Huckleberry Finn.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the
achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this
story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and
unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation,
and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained
eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the
fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 940w.
“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish
dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous
interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect
itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully
managed. The story is jolly and original.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly
original.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be.
He is good enough as he is.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly
illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of
the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 621. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
=Stewart, Wentworth F.= Evangelistic awakening. *75c. Meth. bk.
“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present
evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to
this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need
emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the
conditions of the future.”
“As far as it goes it is an excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Stiles, Henry Reed.= History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut,
comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington
and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of
earliest settlement until the present time. 2v. *$25. Grafton press.
“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late
Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical,
but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical
monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as
Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s
share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Stimson, Henry Albert.= Right life and how to live it. **$1.20. Barnes.
“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book
has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York
city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to
help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his
preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching
which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory
interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in
its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to
provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and
criticism of after-life.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 779. O. ‘05. 230w.
Reviewed by John Angus MacVannel.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 423. N. ‘05. 970w.
“It is clear ... its tone is distinctly hopeful, wholesome and manly.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 616. Mr. 16. ‘05. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in
our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand
including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the
other dealing with the social problems of the day.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 210w.
=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and
the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It
includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,”
an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the
general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the
many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and
others.
“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any
language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been
faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book
has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 18, ‘05. 710w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 219. Jl. 6, ‘05. 770w.
=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50.
Lothrop.
A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing,
mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she
corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the
shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the
priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those
created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their
beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Pleasant story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.
“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it
teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly
love and the overcoming of false pride.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a
minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a
moral.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
=Story, Douglas.= Campaign with Kuropatkin. *$3. Lippincott.
An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the
East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph
he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the
Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by
the author.
“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions,
individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this
volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of
irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives;
there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 196. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1590w.
“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As
much as I was able to see of it.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 109. F. 18, ‘05. 1670w.
Story of the Welsh revival. pa. **15c. Revell.
A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales,
brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement
in this country.
=Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 60w.
=Stow, George W.= Native races of South Africa. A history of the
intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the
Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of
information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot
immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a
sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much
information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and
west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of
Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But
it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the
cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder,
almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.
“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and
praiseworthy investigations.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w.
“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition,
Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and
habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work,
we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is
entirely to be trusted.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably
correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the
ethnology of South Africa.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w.
“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It
is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On
this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w.
=Stowe, Harriet Beecher.= Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly.
$1.25. Crowell.
This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper
classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom
and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.
=Strang, Herbert.= Kobo: a story of the Russo-Japanese war. †$1.50.
Putnam.
“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the
perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British
employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences
of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of
individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being
enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.
— + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 80w.
“A thorough boy’s tale, on the order of the Henty books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 200w.
“A dashing, exciting story of the sort that boys are fond of.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.
Stray leaves from a soul’s book. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and
show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.
=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men.
**$1. Fox.
Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative
men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII.,
Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie,
King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is
humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword
which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have
power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him
in his whim for substantial reward.
* + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Shows no exhaustion of his satiric vein.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 80w.
“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the
author has written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* =Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot;
with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“Many who have visited the interesting island of Mount Desert, have
wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first
colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at
Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A
century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came
from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of
the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well
illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent
map.”—Ind.
* “Is the only history of the island ever written.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 15w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy
life. $1.50. Houghton.
“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of
trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games.
Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to
town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and
conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.
“Entertaining story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w.
=Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w.
=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu.
†$1.50. McClure.
About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went
to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The
story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American,
British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.
“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel,
sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a
vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w.
* =Strong, Josiah.= Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.
A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that
the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to
Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher
plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured
and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The
subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world;
The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws
of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social
teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual
quickening.
=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress for 1905. **$1. Baker.
Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and
encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics
met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the
new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more
comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and
criticisms.
“As it is, however, no student and no library should be without it.”
— + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 597. S. ‘05. 180w.
“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first
in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is
strictly up-to-date.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, 05. 60w.
“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number
of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty
handling of the statistical tables.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1191. My. 25, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 287. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
“A clear improvement is made by the present volume upon its
predecessor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 120w.
“More complete and hence more valuable than ever.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.
* =Strong, Josiah.= Times and young men. 75c. Baker.
A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s
personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life
in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men
who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and
immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The
table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the
physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which
never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice,
The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem,
and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century
outlook.
=Strunk, William=, ed. See Juliana.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= River’s children, $1. Century.
This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of
the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low
valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady
at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an
account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received
prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the
story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s”
little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath
the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a
happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.
“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so
familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 190. F. ‘05. 30w.
“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote
of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s
children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one
that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther
back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered
around the great river.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 377. F. ‘05. 400w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories,
†$1.25. Harper.
Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second
wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April
foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 182. O. ‘05. 230w.
“All the sketches are written in her touching, witty style.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 320w.
“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor
and pathos of plantation life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘06. 530w.
“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she
shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the
naturalness and interest of her style.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 290w.
+ + — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 50w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Letters of William Stubbs,
bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. *$4. Dutton.
A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian
to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.
“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his
task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to
the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal
biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 236. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in
these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian
pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend,
combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 130w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 3550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 524. Ag. 5, ‘05. 900w.
* =Sturge, Ernest Adolphus.= Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For
sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.
A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends,
historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.
Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy,
sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle
and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work.
His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls
him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the
first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with
tragic results.
“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of
the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of
construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and
perception.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 1970w.
“Admirably well-written book.” Witter Bynner.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 473. My. ‘05. 650w.
“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“There is nothing hopeful or right in the book.”
— — =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and
then a suggestion of Thackeray.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable
analytical study.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘03. 100w.
“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the
wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous
subject.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of
aristocratic English life.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 280w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great
arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted
to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field
the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of
picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of
appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated
historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s
“Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats
pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations
reproduced from rare paintings.
* “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much
unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear
reasoning.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long
and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of
knowledge.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 200w.
* “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already
possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be
more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some
notion of what art is.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21. ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Sturgis has filled the requirements of the situation fully.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of sculpture. **$1.50. Baker.
To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the
prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the
same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now
offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the
light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon
the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the
criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of
analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other
sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the
general reader.
Reviewed by Wm. Walton.
+ + =Architectural Record.= 17: 189. Mr. ‘05. 2610w. (Abstract of
book.)
“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical
explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us,
the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as
to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s
previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a
companion.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 95. Ja. 12, ‘05. 560w.
“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both
profit and pleasure.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The
art institute of Chicago, 1904. *$1.75. McClurg.
Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by
ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation
and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects
are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial
arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture,
and Painting as used in architecture.
“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not
altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more
readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any
idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 110w.
* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 30. D. ‘05. 140w.
“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than
like a formal treatise.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 150. Ag. 17, ‘05. 1160w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 100w.
* =Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various
handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are
formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description
of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to
the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the
‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination,
costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one
hundred and nineteen illustrations.
* “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched
succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional
expression of personal judgments and speculation.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “A comprehensive work.” C. de K.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 742. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.
Sturmsee: man and man; by the author of Calmire. † $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a
share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His
story deals with many characters in many classes of society but
chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to
America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western
commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions,
and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.
“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book,
because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But
then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 822. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.
* “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the
general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in
lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 82: 417. D. ‘05. 170w.
“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially
a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form
of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 980w.
“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is
studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”
+ — =Ind.= 59:451. Ag. 24, ‘05. 170w.
“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably
human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down
from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish
economic fallacies.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w.
“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect
sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of
either.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 140w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.= St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W.
Wilson co.
One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in
America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s
translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation
of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German
peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St.
John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates
back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes
the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian
centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the
unregenerate man.
=Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 20w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 40w.
“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter
of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither
slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.
+ + + =St. Paul Dispatch.= 8. Ap. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. *$8.35. (*25s.) Oxford.
Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps
and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I.
deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods,
cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.;
Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the
‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the
Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the
Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South
America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the
continents.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The English version faithfully follows the original, and supplies
adequate renderings of the German technical terms.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 82. Jl. 15. 400w.
“No work on geology since the day of Lyell’s ‘Principles’ has exerted
so profound an influence upon geological thought as has Suess’s
‘Antlitz der erde,’ and no one has mastered the broad geographical
facts that are associated with the science of the earth, the
world-concept, in a manner at all comparable with his presentation.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 134. F. 16. ‘05. 430w.
“Excellent translation of the first volume of the work.” J. W. G.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 193. Je. 29, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 90w.
Super flumina: angling observation of a coarse fisherman, **$1.25. Lane.
“A volume on the art of Isaak Walton.... Among the topics discussed by
the ‘fisherman’ are ‘Dashing dace,’ ‘Perches and plants,’ ‘A charge of
pike,’ and ‘The club of melancholy.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The book might be summarized briefly as a modern and more erudite
revival of Izaak Walton, so gentle and so humane is its attitude
towards the finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its learning.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“Is a book to irritate the curious rather than to please the
well-informed or to instruct the ignorant. There is a great deal in
this book that the learned angler (the appeal is to no other) may
enjoy in spite of its overload of learning.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 860w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w.
=Sutro, Emil.= Duality of thought and language: an outline of original
research. $1.50. Physio-psychic society.
“The author professes to have made the discovery that there are two
voices in man, the one of the larynx and the other of the œsophagus;
and that these two possess unique relation to the ‘soul’ element of
speech. Tortuous and commonplace repetitions and variations of this
theme make up the volume.”—Dial
“Has no claim to consideration except as an example of the confusion
which may be the fruit of interest and enthusiasm unfortified by
appreciation of what scientific investigation is or what it has
accomplished.”
— =Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=Nature.= 71: 317. F. 2. ‘05. 95w.
=Sutro, Theodore.= Thirteen chapters of American history, represented by
the Edward Moran series of thirteen historical marine paintings.
**$1.50. Baker.
Full-page reproductions of Edward Moran’s thirteen famous paintings
with a descriptive essay upon each picture, an introduction and a
brief biography. Portraits of the artist and his wife, as painted by
their nephew, Thomas Sidney Moran, are also given.
“Thirteen excellent half-tone reproductions of scenes connected with
the history of the United States by the late well-known marine
painter, Edward Moran, coupled with an interesting descriptive essay
and prefaced by a careful biography of the artist.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the
series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in
American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty,
aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking
phases of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The text ... is rather injudicious in tone.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 220w.
“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to
young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book
and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.
* =Suyematsu, K., baron.= Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.
In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu
gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and
authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land
of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)
* “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps
natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 210w.
* “Altogether Baron Suyematsu’s book is a valuable contribution to
history.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 792. D. 9. 450w.
* “The book is a superb piece of polemic, with a refreshingly cool and
judicial temper like Franklin’s and with eloquence that reminds us of
Beecher.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 200w.
* =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* “The book is somewhat disjointed, patently showing that it is not a
unified production. But its text is alike interesting and valuable.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.
* “The Japanese sun is certainly risen, but when in future,
distinguished authorities, such as Baron Suyematsu, relate the story
of her progress they will better attain historical truth, if they give
some credit where credit is so justly due.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 596. N. 4, ‘05. 550w.
=Swan, Helena.= Girls’ Christian names their history, meaning, and
association. $1.50. Dutton.
The author “has undertaken to give the origin of the baptismal names
of women common in English-speaking countries, and to each name to add
references as to its associations and history.” Her “method of
treating a name is to give what she declares are its derivatives, then
its derivation in the form of a statement; then to tell of the
distinguished women who have borne it, and to give the titles of books
wherein the name appears.”—N. Y. Times.
=Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 310w.
“A book of considerable interest, though of no importance. She has
evidently brought more enthusiasm than judgment to her task.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 610w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 15w.
=Swedenborg, Emanuel.= Four doctrines with the nine questions; tr. by
John Faulkner Potts. Am. Swedenborg.
The first volume in a new translation of Swedenborg’s theological
writings. “The four doctrines,” first published at Amsterdam in 1763,
include the following: I., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem
concerning the Lord, followed by the nine questions, relating to the
Lord, the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit; II., The doctrine of the New
Jerusalem concerning the Holy Scripture; III., The doctrine of life
for the New Jerusalem from the ten commandments; IV., The doctrine of
the New Jerusalem concerning faith. The volume is supplied with full
tables of contents, and an index to Biblical texts.
=Ind.= 58: 845. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w. (Review of vol. I.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“A new translation by a competent scholar. In paper, typography, and
binding the volume is all that a library edition should be.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 002. F. 25, ‘05. 100w. (Review of vol. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 70w. (Review of vol. 1.)
=Sweet, Frank Herbert.= Hobby camp. $1. Pilgrim press.
Kitty, a stenographer with an artistic temperament, is given a
vacation by her employers and spends it in Hobby camp with Mrs.
Rounds, whose hobby is doughnuts; Zeke, her son, the hobby boy; two
college fellows who collect bugs and things; and Mr. Bailey who is
writing a woodsy book. They all have adventures, especially Zeke, but
the most wonderful things happen to Kitty, for she finds recognition
for her drawings and wins the love of a great bear and—someone who is
not a bear.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=Swift, John N., and Birge, William S.= No surrender. $1.50. Broadway
pub.
The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates
the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her
piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every
experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former
officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies
with the Chilean naval department.
=Swift, Jonathan.= Journal to Stella, together with other writings
relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott.
*$1.25. Scribner.
Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.”
“The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear
type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of
modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)
+ =Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the
“Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of
four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women
and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and
behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and
grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and
ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet
with something noble behind it; and the background is one of dreary
country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)
“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay
reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic
episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between
one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”
— + — =Acad.= 68: 726. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1490w.
“The prose is among the best that the poet has achieved. It would be
hard to exaggerate the concision, the polish, and the perfect
prose-rhythm of these letters. The letters as a whole are pungent
satire on British morality, its sensual sentiment, and its capacity
for whitewashing the moral sepulchre.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 165. Ag. 5. 2420w.
“It is pure comedy, both high-spirited and restrained, both caustic
and tender.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 230w.
“We are not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great novelist on the
strength of this performance, but may fairly call it a clever, almost
brilliant piece of work in a difficult form.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“They will add nothing to Mr. Swinburne’s fame.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 582. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“For our part, better than the story, better even than the incisive
prologue, we love the dedication with its rioting periods and its
kingly courtesies.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 950w.
“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not
peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more
telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 510w.
“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s
cross-currents.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1050w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 60w.
“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure
for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page
which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 184. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1090w.
“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many
characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief
introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 157. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1130w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Selected poems, ed. by William Morton
Payne. Heath.
A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty
poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings:
odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before
sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments,
imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of
writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.
“In form and method Mr. Payne’s introduction must be pronounced a
model. The selection of poems could hardly be improved upon.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“It is as good an anthology of Swinburne as we can expect during the
poet’s lifetime. The notes are exactly what the reader desires and
needs.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 525. Ag. 12, ‘05. 3980w.
* =Swing, David.= Truths leaf by leaf, with a characterization by Newell
Dwight Hillis, and introd. by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus; also a poem by
Dr. Gunsaulus; ed. by Sophie Burt Kimball. $1.50. S. B. Kimball,
Chicago.
“When proceedings against David Swing for heresy resulted in his
quitting the Presbyterian church, thirty years ago, and forming the
Central Congregational church in Chicago, it was a clear gain both for
preacher and people. His sermons, attractive in their breadth of view
and depth of feeling, and distinguished by their literary quality,
drew congregations with an unusually large proportion of men, and were
regularly printed in his weekly paper, the ‘Alliance.’ The present
volume draws its contents from ‘his most mature and last unpublished
writings.’ Characterizations of the beloved preacher by his
like-minded successors, Drs. Hillis and Gunsaulus, supply the personal
element required for an adequate memorial.”—Outlook.
* “Beauty, spirituality, the value of high ideals in life and thought,
fill these inspiring pages.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
* =Swingle, Calvin F.= Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and
answers. $3. Drake, F: J.
A plain practical treatise on the construction, care and management of
modern locomotives. “The book is presented in an attractive form in
flexible covers. The print is large; the illustrations, of which there
are many, are clear, simple, and yet comprehensive.” (Engin. N.)
* “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only
much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has
also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and
interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ‘05. 1430w.
=Sylvestre, Joshua, ed.= See =Christmas= carols, ancient and modern.
=Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.).= * B. R. Haydon and his
friends. **$3. Dutton.
“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in
our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his
egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and
things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with
knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed
volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and
limitations.”—Outlook.
* “Miss Symonds is rather too cold a biographer.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1099. O. 21, ‘05. 1550w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 347. O. 20, ‘05. 1590w.
* =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time
in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest
to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s
volume is pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 850. D. 2, ‘05. 1470w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
* “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book,
and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive
with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 715. N. 4, ‘05. 1290w.
T
=Taber, Harry Persons.= Rubaiyat of the commuter: being quatrains
concerning the affairs of every day. 25c. John Bridges, Briarcliff
Manor, N. Y.
“The woes of the commuter, with the 30-second breakfast, the 8:16
train which occasionally goes at 8:32, the futile struggle with two
bushels of Peter Henderson’s seeds and the neighbors’ chickens are too
feelingly set forth to have been only imagined. The author explains
his use of the particular form of verse that he has selected on the
ground of its being an obsessive measure.”—Baltimore Sun.
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 240w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Nut brown Joan. †$1.50. Holt.
A story for girls. The heroine, a brown, lanky child of fourteen,
dissatisfied with her world, develops into a most attractive young
woman, the joy of her father, the relief of her invalid mother, and
the confidante and help of her numerous brothers and sisters. There is
much wholesome fun, there is trouble, incident, and, above all, real
human nature.
“‘Nut-brown Joan’ is to be commended both for its literary merit ...
and also for its thoroughly wholesome atmosphere. The volume holds a
very practical lesson for young girls, and the lesson is excellently
presented.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 411. Je. ‘05. 170w.
“Points a moral at the same time that it tells a very entertaining
story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 130w.
“A wholesome and pretty story.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 40w.
=Tannenforst, Ursula, pseud.= See =Tilghman, Emily.=
=Tanner, Amy Eliza.= Child: his thinking, feeling and doing. $1.25.
Rand.
“A résumé of the child-study literature.... Such topics as these are
treated: the problems of physical growth and abnormality; the feelings
and ideas of sex; the mental processes; religious and moral ideas;
emotions; interests; movements; imitation; language; rhythm; music;
drawing and play. At the beginning of each chapter are definite
suggestions for collecting data along the line of the chapter. The
bibliographies at the close of each chapter are most ample.”—Psychol.
Bull.
“For normal or college students who should have some groundwork in
general psychology before studying child psychology, Miss Tanner’s
book is inferior to that of Dr. Kirkpatrick; for general readers it
will prove most serviceable.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“It is profuse in facts, though sparing in generalizations and
conclusions, and can hardly fail to promote a more judicious study of
the individual children with whom its readers may have to do.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 142. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.
“Without doubt, it is the most complete, systematic and painstaking
work of its kind extant. It is certainly unique in its sphere,
presenting in convenient and readable form a vast amount of
information regarding child life. It should meet with great favor at
the hands of those for whom it was written.” Irving King.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 32. Ja. 15, ‘05. 600w.
“There are special chapters that deserve special mention, some because
of their merit, such as those treating of ‘Memory,’ ‘Imagination,’
‘Conception,’ and ‘Reasoning,’ and the chapter on the various forms of
‘Movements’; and others, especially those chapters that deal with the
so-called physical nature of the child, that might, with advantage, be
replaced in the text or even rewritten.” D. P. MacMillan.
+ — =School R.= 13: 578. S. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =School R.= 13: 648. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Tapp, Sidney C.= Story of Anglo-Saxon institutions; or, The development
of constitutional government. **$1.50. Putnam.
“While Mr. Tapp’s book runs along special lines, it is intended for
the general reader as well as for the specialist. The writer’s purpose
has been to demonstrate from historical facts that the Anglo-Saxon
race is the only race that has ever had a true conception of
republican institutions, or solved correctly the problem of
self-government. It is only fair to say that Mr. Tapp has accomplished
his purpose in this book.”—Critic.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 136. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
* =Tappan, Eva March=, tr. Golden goose, and other fairy tales; tr. from
the Swedish. †$1. Houghton.
Six fairy tales from Scandinavian sources told in simple language.
“‘The golden goose,’ which gives the name to the book, is little Rose,
the beautiful daughter of a king, whose stepmother, after much cruel
treatment, has turned her into a goose.... There is the story of a
giant, the roof of whose house was made of sausages; of the good
little girl, and the bad in ‘The red and the black box.’ ... There is
the simple-minded giant who killed himself, not to be outdone by a
small boy, and other stories, all with excellent pictures in black and
white, full pages and text, with interesting head pieces.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “Told in an interesting manner.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* “Is a good addition to the useful work she has done for children in
other fields.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.
“An elementary text-book for high schools, by the head of the English
department in the English high school at Worcester, covering English
literature from its beginnings in the earliest periods down to the
novel of the nineteenth century, with numerous illustrations in the
form of portraits, facsimiles of manuscripts, pictures of objects of
interest, and with an excellent map in colors.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= History of the Standard oil company. **$5.
McClure.
An account of the origin, growth, and influence of this first and
greatest of American trusts. The methods by which the corporation
gained control of the petroleum output are disclosed, railroad and
other interests bearing upon the trust’s development are carefully
investigated. The oil regions themselves and the chief characters in
this industrial drama are put vividly before us.
“‘The history of the Standard oil company’ is one of the most
important contributions that has been made to the vital historical and
conscience literature of our opening century. The absorbing interest
of the work, the masterly marshaling of facts and the careful handling
of details are only surpassed by the judicial spirit that is
preëminent throughout the work.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 436. O. ‘05. 6230w.
“It is calm and dispassionate, and calculated to do quite as much if
not more good than if it were pitched in a high and noisy key. Is to
the present time the most remarkable book of its kind ever written in
this country.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“The book is a genuine contribution to that knowledge of the real
inwardness of things industrial which Americans as a people so lack.”
Frank L. McVey.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 313. My. 1, ‘05. 2190w.
“Miss Tarbell’s success, for she has achieved a very distinct success,
is in having made her story in its logical simplicity and directness
as fascinatingly interesting as it is disagreeable. She has preserved
her position as historian and has not abandoned it even temporarily
for that of the prosecuting advocate.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“This book seems to have been written for the purpose of intensifying
the popular hatred. The writer has either a vague conception of the
nature of proof, or she is willing to blacken the character of Mr.
John D. Rockefeller by insinuation and detraction.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 15. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1970w.
“The value ... lies largely in the fact that the author has no thesis
to sustain and is willing to let her readers draw their own
conclusions. It is a model of condensed, graphic statement. The
dramatic aspects of the story are not lost in the telling, while the
arrangement of the materials is convenient for the purposes of the
student and the legislator as well as for general reading.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 394. F. 11, ‘05. 2190w.
“The author never gets excited, however exciting her story may become;
she sets forth the facts, and to a considerable extent leaves
inference and conclusions to her readers. It is, in effect, a liberal
education in the fundamentals of the trust problem; it is the
Blackstone of the literature that is growing up around this problem,
in its entirety the most important of all in commercialized America.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 25. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1140w.
“Is an exhaustive and yet succinct presentation of the rise and
development of a great American industry. Her book is in every sense a
history—not an economic dissertation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 210w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.
This is the story of a young Italian of high family and low purse, who
was forced into shaving his head and using the bald poll as an
advertisement for a Parisian ballet. It is also the story of “the
beautiful lady” who saw him sitting ignominiously in a café and was
sorry for him. Later the young Italian, by reason of his shaved head,
secures a position as tutor to a young millionaire, and is able to
save the girl who was sorry from an unfortunate marriage and at the
same time to make his dashing benefactor happy.
“A mere trifle, but a delightful trifle, which, lacking the dramatic
action of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire,’ equals it in the originality of its
conception, in its pathos, and surpasses it in its whimsical humour.”
Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 615. Ag. ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made us see what might have been done; but he has
failed to do it.”
— =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 440w.
“The sentiment in it is very pretty, and Mr. Booth Tarkington never
writes other than gracefully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
* “He tells it, too, with the fine artistic flavor distinguishing his
‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 760, D. ‘05. 70w.
* =Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.
Canaan is a small Indiana town, a hot bed of personal grudge and
prejudice and this story tells of how Joe Louden, returning to Canaan
to practice law after years of hard study in New York, finds that his
reckless youth and his departure from his home town under a cloud have
neither been forgotten nor forgiven. But championed by Ariel Taylor,
the one true friend of his boyhood, who has just returned from the
study of art in Paris, he succeeds after a hard and upright struggle
in conquering circumstances and the prejudices of his townspeople. The
love story of these two strongly individual characters is unusual and
well handled.
* “It contains some admirable chapters of life in a small, gossipy,
spiteful town, and the characters, all of them, including the dog, are
alive and interesting, but it is clumsily put together and weakly
conventional in the concluding portion.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
* “For pure humor in an author, we commend the conversations of the
old window owls in the National house.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1480. D. 21, ‘05. 900w.
* “There is no doubt that the book is the best that Mr. Tarkington has
yet written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “‘The conquest of Canaan’ has not lost the note of refinement, but
it has gained in solidity and distinctness of outline, it is an
original story in point of plot; it is witty, spirited, romantic, and
beautifully human in its spirit.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= In the arena. $1.50. McClure.
Six short stories of western politics, which deal with reformers and
machine politicians, lobbyists, law-makers, office seekers, bosses and
voters. The characters are real and vigorous types created by an
author who has had practical experience in the game of politics.
“They have no special excellence of any kind, but they are very
interesting and clever, and are written with a sound knowledge of the
subject with which they deal.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 472. Ap. 29, ‘05. 460w.
“The material is ugly in every case except one; but the telling in
each case is good. Mr. Tarkington writes with force and feeling, and
has respect for the literary virtue of restraint.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 210w.
“There is some very good workmanship in ‘In the arena.’ One lays the
book aside with the conviction that the author’s estimate of the
situation is a pretty true one, and that he made singularly good use
of his experience in Indiana politics.” Perry Enders.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 188. Ap. ‘05. 720w.
“Doubtless, unpretentious as they are, they are among Mr. Tarkington’s
best work.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 80w.
“There is the ring of truth and reality in these stories. The
characters are human and interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 790w.
“Decidedly clever and human tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 40w.
“There is no doubt that it will afford much entertainment to those who
do not resent a touch of pessimism in comedy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 230w.
=Taylor, Alfred Edward.= Elements of metaphysics. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“In the volume under review, Mr. Taylor has given us an exposition of
the principles of metaphysics from a point of view which is in the
main that of Mr. Bradley.... Mr. Taylor divides his work into four
books, the first of which is devoted to a preliminary discussion of
the problem, method and subdivision of metaphysics. This is followed
by a discussion in Book II. of the general structure of reality....
The remaining books deal with the more special questions involved in
the interpretation of nature and the interpretation of life.”—Int. J.
Ethics.
“... A full recognition of the many merits of Mr. Taylor’s work, and
of the value and suggestiveness of his treatment of various
metaphysical topics. His book is certainly one which all who are
interested in the present position of metaphysics ought to read.”
James Gibson.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 251. Ja. ‘05. 1950w. (Statement of
fundamental position of book.)
“Compact and well written book. It is the only English book in recent
times treating metaphysical problems with some completeness that is
arranged in such a concise and orderly fashion as to permit its being
used as a text-book on this subject. It gives evidence not only of the
author’s industry and earnestness, but of unusual vigor and acuteness
of thought, as well as of a pleasing clearness and definiteness in
mode of expression.” J. E. Creighton.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 14: 57. Ja. ‘05. 3090w.
“The strength of Professor Taylor’s book lies not in his constructive
ontology but in his clear and masterly analysis of general
metaphysical concepts ... and in the fact that the whole treatment is
both modern and systematic.” G. T. W. Patrick.
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 11. Ja. 15, ‘05. 1840w.
=Taylor, Charles M., jr.= Only a grain of sand; il. by Clare Victor
Dwiggins. **$1. Winston.
Into the simple story of the life of one of the sands of the sea is
deftly woven both satire and philosophy. It is an autobiography of a
little grain that was carried from sea-depths to sea-shore and from
there was taken to a dingy building where it passed through a fiery
furnace and became a part of a graceful iridescent vase.
* =Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This is a discussion of economics as applied exclusively to
agriculture.... It belongs to the series entitled ‘The citizen’s
library of economics, politics, and sociology.’”—Outlook.
* “It discusses principles in a judicial spirit, and presents in
concise form, facts that are of significance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* “One of the excellent and useful volumes lately contributed to the
‘Citizen’s library.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 130w.
=Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).= On two continents. **$2.75.
Doubleday.
Mrs. Taylor was the daughter of the noted German mathematician and
astronomer Hansen, and in this book of memoirs she speaks of her
girlhood in Gotha, her meeting with her husband, their marriage, their
travels, and of her husband’s literary and diplomatic career. Her book
is chatty and entertaining in style, and her anecdotes of the
Brownings, the Stoddards, Horace Greeley, the Cary sisters, Thackeray,
and other famous men and women of letters with whom she and her
husband came in contact are of particular interest.
* “Though she is rather apt to devote four or five pages to an
incident for which half a page would be ample, she always rambles
pleasantly.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 330w.
“Mrs. Taylor writes pleasantly and she has many interesting things to
say.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 344. O. ‘05. 1860w.
“Altogether, a more agreeable book of its kind could not well be
imagined.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 200. O. 1, ‘05. 2150w.
“In this book and in no other is to be found the most attractive and
sympathetic record of one of the most interesting of all Americans.”
L. L.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1680w.
* “By temperament and association Mrs. Taylor is peculiarly qualified
to depict the inner and outer forces that co-operated in the
development of her gifted husband’s genius, and his reaction upon his
environment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is of value, not, as one would at first suppose, primarily for
its biographical material, but because of the exquisite simplicity of
its diction and the charm of the author’s personality.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 828. D. 23, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= My lady Clancarty. †$1.50. Little.
A child-wife’s loyalty to her Jacobite husband during his years of
absence, and in spite of strong family opposition, furnishes the theme
for a spirited romance. Then when he does return incognito he devotes
himself to the re-wooing of Lady Betty, fights duels for her, is at
the mercy of her whims and fancies, and a father’s Whig prejudices,
but finally thru her courage in daring to beg clemency of the king is
released from the tower.
“A trifle, but a rather pleasant one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 300w.
“A pretty romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
“The characterization is consistent and the relations of character are
drawn ‘on scale,’ so that the effect of human display is harmonious.
Considered critically, the story is not reasonable or natural any more
than other romances of the exaggerated class to which it belongs.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 460w.
=Taylor, Rev. S. M.= Ministers of the Word and sacraments; lectures on
pastoral theology, delivered in King’s college, London, Lent term, 1904.
*$1.50. Longmans.
“Archdeacon Taylor prints here some lectures delivered to a class of
students preparing for ordination.... His tone is that of a High
churchman, but he condemns some of the most objectionable of extremist
practices.”—Spec.
“They are full of good sense throughout.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 410. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.
=Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-.= Twenty-four negro melodies, transcribed for
the piano. $2.50. Ditson.
“There are twenty-four transcriptions of folk-melodies, both African
and American, used as themes for compositions in the style of
fantasias.”—R. of Rs.
“This is an extremely interesting work.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“He is well grounded in technique, and he expresses himself with
freedom. Although in inventiveness his range seems so far rather
limited, he is spontaneous and genuine in what he writes.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has preserved the distinctive traits of these
melodies, but has given them form and structure.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w.
* =Tchaikovsky, Modeste.= Life of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. and
abridged from the Russian and German eds. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.
This “volume contains many portraits and excellent views of scenes
connected with Tchaikovsky’s life, with a striking portrait, and
facsimiles of letters written by the musician. The editor has tried to
preserve, in spite of the cutting of three volumes to one, the
autobiographical character of the work, and has included the series of
intimate letters which relates the romantic episode of Tchaikovsky’s
life—his friendship of thirteen years for a woman with whom he never
exchanged a personal greeting. An account of the composer’s visit to
America ... is also included in the form of a diary, kept for the
benefit of his relations.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Yet in its kind it possesses great value, not only as a
contribution to the psychology of art, but as a most illuminating
commentary on Tchaikovsky’s music. We may add that the translation is
easy and fluent, and that the volume is well arranged and well
illustrated.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 397. N. 17, ‘05. 590w.
* “The book is one of great interest to musical people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “But the present life, containing, as it does, an enormous amount of
interesting material, still fails to hold one’s attention for the
simple reason that it is too long and is padded out with stuff that
ought not to be in any biography. On the whole, the book was more
stimulating in its original condition; but in its present form it will
serve a future biographer.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* “Must content ourselves with congratulating Mrs. Newmarch on the
zeal and intelligence with which she has accomplished her task. Of the
delicacy, the candour, and the affection shown by M. Modeste
Tchaikovsky it is impossible to speak too highly.” C. L. G.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 864. N. 25, ‘05. 1400w.
=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his
son. **$4. Macmillan.
A new edition which includes in a single volume “all the material in
the original issue. There are extracts from a number of unpublished
letters and poems; some FitzGerald letters, others to Aubrey de Vere,
Rawnsley, and other persons.... The book contains for the most part
the account of Lord Tennyson’s life, gleaned either from his letters
and poems or from the writings of his friends.... The impressions and
general recollections of T. Watts-Dunton, F. W. H. Myers, F. T.
Palgrave, the Duke of Argyll, and others, have been put in an
appendix, which also contains some notes ... and a very full index
besides these, the volume also has a chronology of the books and poems
by the poet-laureate.” (N. Y. Times.)
=Dial.= 39: 246. O. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The entire get-up is free from any suggestion of cheapening.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 625. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
=Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 20w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Works. Cornhill ed.; ed. with biography,
bibliography, and special introd. by W. P. Trent, and J. Bell Henneman.
$37.50. Crowell.
The “Cornhill” Thackeray has achieved a well merited distinction above
all recent issues of the great novelist’s works in that it includes
material heretofore unclaimed for the author, but conclusively
identified as his during recent months of research. There are two
thousand pages thruout the various volumes which have never appeared
in any set before. The editorial work in charge of Prof. Trent of
Columbia college, and Dr. Henneman of the University of the South,
includes special introductions to every volume, notes and critical
comments of exceptionally high character, a complete bibliography
based on the chronology of Thackeray’s life, and a full topical index
to the entire set. Aside from the better known novels, are the essays,
burlesques, Christmas stories, criticisms of letters and art, quips in
Punch, drawings, poems and a new collection of typical personal
letters. Among the three hundred and more illustrations are a series
of photogravure portraits of the author, and many of Thackeray’s own
quaint and whimsical drawings. The books with their substantial
bindings, heavy paper and good type, deserve a prominent place among
the great book achievements of the day.
“The edition is highly satisfactory, both for completeness and
inexpensiveness.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 70w.
“By far the most satisfactory edition of Thackeray we have seen in
recent years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 121. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Henry Esmond. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics” series this volume contains the
history of Henry Esmond, Esq., with an introduction by J. B. Henneman,
and a portrait of Thackeray as a frontispiece.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton
Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.
An annotated edition of Henry Esmond planned to meet the needs of
advanced high schools and elementary college classes. The text is that
of the new “Dent edition.”
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an
introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray, **$1.50.
Century.
Thackeray the man, with his habits, opinions, prejudices, genial
friendship, love for home and his own, lending an active personal
charm, fascinates the reader no less than Thackeray the better known
objective master of the novel. These letters, all of them heretofore
unpublished, were written to various members of a New York family in
whose home the novelist was a frequent visitor during his two lecture
tours in America. They include mainly, letters written from his
lecture points, full of bright, frank comments upon American people
and their ways. There are facsimiles of portions of letters, and of
Thackeray’s own characteristic drawings.
“Not a line inconsistent with his published writings is to be found.
‘The style’ is emphatically ‘of the man’ himself. The so-called
cynicism that sought to mask a tender heart and too expressive face,
the great fondness for children and old friends, the gentleness and
the whimsical humor,—all these traits and qualities are here revealed
in letters as charmingly colloquial as were ever written. The
introduction by Miss Lucy W. Baxter strikes just the right note as to
revelation and reserve, and enables us to realize the charm of the
‘brown house’ in Second avenue which Thackeray found so potent.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 284. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
“The charm of these letters, written in grateful affection to his
friends ...”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 187. Mr. 16, ‘05. 890w.
“The half-humorous, half-tender familiarity and freedom of these
communications ...”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 502. Mr. ‘05. 390w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 120w.
“A number of easy conversational and very characteristic missives.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 257. F. 18. ‘05. 970w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Vanity fair. $1.25. Crowell.
“Vanity fair” has been compressed into one small volume of the “Thin
paper classics” series, and appears in this handy form without
sacrifice of clear type. It contains a frontispiece from a drawing by
Frank T. Merrill.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Johnny-Ivan Winslow, the man of the hour, is the son of an Iowa plow
manufacturer and a Russian princess whose altruistic dreams took shape
in championing the Nihilists’ cause. Believing in the redemption of
the toiler, this mother’s son throws himself and his money at the feet
of struggling strikers, working in the midst of rioters with the best
against the worst. The intensity of his subjective relation to his
cause records only failure in the end, not because of his inability to
stand at the helm, but because of the operation of a wrong principle.
There is a steadfast Peggy in the tale whose magnificent faith in the
triumph of Johnny over his Ivan theories is fully rewarded.
“This novel considered as fiction merits special notice. It is one of
the best romances of the year. As a sociological study, it is
impossible to speak in such favorable terms, for though there is much
that is fine and true in its spirit, and though we believe that the
author desires to be fair and just, she has signally failed at many
points.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 445. O. ‘05. 800w.
“While the story is not lacking in strength, nor in that finer
character-drawing that the writer’s previous work has associated with
her name, one feels more than once that the plot has been moulded to
fit a preconceived thesis.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 133. O. ‘05. 390w.
* “Miss French has given us a book of very genial and human sort, and
brought to it a gift of shrewd and sometimes humorous observation,
such as comes only after long practice in the art of fiction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 660w.
“The latter half of the book is stuffed with not very enlightening
discussions of labor problems, and it ends in an absurdly conventional
way.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 140w.
* “Octave Thanet is at her best in depicting children. She loves them
in any rank of life, and gets them on paper in all their whimsicality,
their straight-to-the-mark directness, their consistent
inconsistency.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.
“It is interesting and well developed. Its pages are full of evidences
of the author’s keen and kindly study of men and things and of her
aptitude for the lively narration of the results of her observations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 590. S. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“Fine in spirit and thoroughly readable also as a story of character
and incident. It is not a novel of purpose in the sense that argument
is substituted for entertainment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Miss French seems to us to have done as good work in this truly
American novel as in her many admirable short stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 110. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.
A collection of jests, anecdotes, and repartee culled from the “Tales
worth telling” column of the Philadelphia public ledger.
=Thatcher, Oliver Joseph, and McNeal, Edgar H.= Source book for
mediaeval history: selected documents: illustrating the history of
Europe in the middle ages. *$1.85. Scribner.
“The documents include ... the charter of the Ministerials of the
Archbishop of Cologne, 1154, ... the charter granted by the bishop of
Hamburg to the colonists, ‘the Hollanders,’ in 1106; the privilege of
Frederick I, ... for the Jews of the Worms, in 1157; the charter given
to the Jews of Speyer by the bishop of that city, 1084; a few market
charters issued at the time of the freedom of the cities of Germany,
several documents illustrating the rebellion of these cities against
the lords who governed them, and their acquisition of municipal
rights, &c. There are also the important charter of Magdeburg, and
some documents concerning the origin of the Rhine league and the early
history of the Hanseatic league. An explanatory note, and the names of
authorities consulted, precede each document. Following is the charter
given to the Jews by the bishop of Speyer.”—N. Y. Times.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 430w. (Survey of contents.)
=Thaw, Alexander Blair.= Inaugural ode. *50c. Brentano’s.
“[This] ode written for the inaugural of President Roosevelt ...
breathes the same spirit of desire that the American republic should
fulfill its destiny as that destiny has been conceived by the best and
finest of its citizens.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 30w.
“It is agreeable to find in a poem for such an occasion an abstract
idea conveyed with dignity and free from silly optimism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 190w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
In this one volume the history of Venice is given from the origin of
the city in 452 to its fall in 1797. It sets forth the growth of the
republic, the greatness of the Venetians and compares Venice and her
contemporaries.
“The first chapters of this history leave much to be desired but the
final portion of the book is, on the whole, just, admirable and
inspiring.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 132. O. ‘05. 1930w.
“It is readable and interesting.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Thayer’s outline of Venetian history is a vivid sketch of a
considerable historical and literary merit. Mr. Thayer is, however, a
little too one-sided in his undisguised hostility to the Church.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“We must relegate small cavils to the background, and speak with warm
recognition of the skill, discernment, and idealism which mark this
book.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 221. S. 14, ‘05. 2220w.
“We are acquainted with no other writing in the English language,
which is a better introduction to a prolonged, serious study of the
subject.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 640w.
“It is open to criticism in almost every essential respect.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
“A model ‘Short history of Venice’ has been written by Mr. William
Roscoe Thayer.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 110w.
“This is a book of considerable value, telling the story of Venice
succinctly and lucidly.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.
=Thiers, (Marie Joseph) Louis Adolphe.= Moscow expedition; ed. by
Hereford B. George. *$1.25. Oxford.
This is a reprint of an extract of Thiers’s “Histoire du consulat et
de l’empire,” which was published between 1845-1862. It follows
Thiers’s text in the French but is supplemented by explanatory notes
in English, and a personal and geographical index.
“On the whole, however, this volume deserves a cordial welcome. It is
the first time that a competent authority has produced a careful and
critical commentary on this portion of Thiers’s work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 82. Ja. 14, 370w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. Ja. 18, ‘05. 670w.
* =Thirlmere, Rowland.= Letters from Catalonia. 2v. *$6. Brentano’s.
“In addition to attractive descriptions of Ribas, Alcoy, Jativa, and
many other places visited by English travellers, the book contains a
large amount of information on Spanish politics and most other aspects
of Spanish life.”—Ath.
* “The tone and temper of the book are excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 630w.
* “Though they make no special appeal to travellers, can be read with
pleasure by any one who has a taste for light reading of a
miscellaneous nature.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 167. My. 26, ‘05. 680w.
* “But the whole book undoubtedly has character and reality, a record
of such sensations, impressions and ideas as lead to essential truth.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 310w.
* “He is a good observer and a good narrator.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mr. Thirlmere pays more attention to life than locality, but he
never forgets his backgrounds. His thumb-nail portraits, his
meditative and fanciful humor, his apt quotation, and his continual
cheerfulness leave a very pleasant sensation in the mind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 921. Je. 24. 210w.
=Thomas, David Yancey.= History of military government in newly acquired
territory of the United States. *$2. Macmillan.
“Prof. Thomas discusses, not only the legal status of the new
territory and the legal basis for military government, but also
presents an account of the actual management of new acquisitions from
the time of occupation until the organization of territorial or state
governments. Dr. Thomas contents himself with a statement of the facts
connected with our military occupation of Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and attempts to give no verdict as to the character and
accomplishments of the military governments.”—R. of Rs.
“There is failure also to give the general constitutional and legal
basis of military government. The manner in which the foot-notes are
handled is open to serious criticism. The existence of a monograph of
this kind is of doubtful utility, if references are not plentiful and
exact. Frequently the details of military government are overlooked or
cast aside. The best part of the author’s work is that relating to
Florida, New Mexico, and California. These acquisitions have been
remarkably well treated and in general the judgment passed upon events
is very fair and to the point. Turning to California, we reach the
most satisfactory portion of the book. Mr. Thomas has given a
comprehensive outline of the government of territory acquired by the
United States before the Civil war. His work in that field will
undoubtedly stand the test of time, and it is questionable if other
writers can add much to the results obtained.” A. H. Carpenter.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 678. Ap. ‘05. 1200w.
“The fullest and most valuable part of the book is that dealing with
the four great acquisitions of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, and
California. The treatment of military rule in other annexed
territories ... is much briefer and on the whole less satisfactory.
There is probably nowhere in print a better summary of military
government in the Philippines and Porto Rico than that given us by Dr.
Thomas. The work throughout is based on the best of documentary
materials, and these are referred to in the foot-notes with a fair
degree of frequency. The index to the work is rather inadequate.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 800w.
=Thomas, Edith Matilda.= Cassia and other verse. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The initial poem has a tragic love theme from Zola’s “Rome.” There are
poems dealing with the soul struggles met with in life to-day, and
over two score sonnets.
* “Her level is a high one, and she seldom falls below it. On the
whole, it is higher than that of any other woman who has written
poetry in America.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 130w.
“Too reflective a singer for the higher sort of lyrical utterance, but
there are touches of distinction upon nearly everything she writes.
Plainness of speech and subtlety of thought mark her work, and make it
very precious to lovers of the graver kind of verse.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 450w.
=Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Cassia is a most charming poem, but without the splendor, pomp, and
grim reality of the ancient city in which the fable had its birth.
Miss Thomas is most felicitous on her own ground, spending her
abundant and chastened fancy upon the moods that arise from modern and
personal associations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 50. Ja. 28. ‘05. 320w.
=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E.
Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
A picturesque treatment of Wales with brush and pencil, by Mr. Fowler,
with descriptions and quaint tales by Mr. Thomas.
* “Between the illustrations and the letterpress there is absolutely
no connexion.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 270w.
“The illustrations are excellent; some of great beauty and admirably
reproduced in color. Mr. Thomas is flippant and tiresome; in at least
one place he is decidedly irreverent.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“The color-pictures show a fine, strong sense of distance and
perspective, and the artist is also to be praised for his restraint in
his color-schemes. The literary part of the work is somewhat rambling
and inchoate, and the note of jocosity is at times forced.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
“The illustrations have some merit. The author’s egoism and style are
irritating.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1450w.
=Thomas, Frederick Moy,= comp. and ed. See =Robinson, John R.= Fifty
years of Fleet street.
=Thomas, Theodore.= Theodore Thomas: a musical autobiography; ed. by
George P. Upton. 2v. *$6. McClurg.
This work was well under way at the time of Mr. Thomas’ death January
4, 1905. Volume I., entitled “Life work,” tells in the great
orchestral leader’s own words of his life, his back-sets, his
determined struggles “to make good music popular,” and his final
success. Mr. Upton, his friend for thirty years, adds a chapter upon
“Last days of Theodore Thomas,” and there is further reminiscence and
appreciation. Volume II., “Concert programmes” has an introduction by
Mr. Thomas and contains selected programmes covering fifty years,
beginning with the Mason chamber concerts and ending with the concerts
of the Chicago orchestra. Both volumes are illustrated with portraits
and views.
“To students of musical history in particular, as well as all music
lovers and musicians, this record of the life and work of Theodore
Thomas is of great and permanent value.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 650. Ag. ‘05. 860w.
“The interest of this book naturally centres in the hundred pages or
so of the autobiography. These chapters constitute a very
matter-of-fact statement, bare of all ornament, and devoid of the
slightest literary pretense, yet highly important by virtue of their
subject-matter.” William Morton Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 227. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2990w.
“A final record of ‘Works introduced into this country’ by Mr. Thomas
is a disappointment and lacks the expected value because of its many
inaccuracies and misstatements.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 329. Ag. 10, ‘05. 770w.
* “Is a fascinating record of a noble life. It is accompanied by 1,200
of the great conductor’s programs, a collection of the highest value
for its indication of the development of musical taste and
appreciation in America.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 359. My. 4, ‘05. 1320w.
“His own writing is a highly characteristic expression of the man, and
the book as a whole makes interesting and important contributions to
American musical history, and to the knowledge of the part played in
it by Theodore Thomas.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 273. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1940w.
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 476. S. ‘05. 550w.
=Thomas, W. H. Griffith.= Apostle Peter: outline studies in his life,
character and writings. **$1.25. Revell.
This is a suggestive handbook, which will be of value to anyone who is
preparing sermons or lectures on this subject.
“It is well arranged and full.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1014. My. 4, ‘05. 50w.
“His book is of a higher type than many manuals of Bible readings, and
abounds in materials for expository addresses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 447. F. 18, ‘05. 60w.
=Thompson, A. Hamilton=, ed. See =Elton, Isaac.= W. Shakespeare, his
family and friends.
=Thompson, Arthur Ripley.= Shipwrecked in Greenland. †$1.50. Little.
A party of four boys and three men, one of whom is a sea captain and
another black Caesar the cook, while camping near St. John’s,
Newfoundland, find a steamer abandoned and adrift and set out to
rescue her passengers and crew. They pass thru many thrilling
adventures on the coast of Greenland and Labrador in which icebergs,
sunken rocks, an arctic hurricane, shipwreck, fire and other perilous
things have a part. They see life as it is lived in the Eskimos’
villages, but in the end the faithful Caesar succeeds in bringing Phil
Schuyler safely home to his mother.
* “A capital book for boys and boys’ sisters.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“An exciting story of life in the arctic regions based upon fact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Thompson, Garrett W.= Threads. †$1.50. Winston.
A tragic tale of an unhappy marriage in which a wife sees only neglect
of her interests in her husband’s devotion to his career. Her morbid
imagination fraught with jealousy and hatred works her ruin. There is
retribution in the visitation of her weakness upon her child. It is a
negative lesson of psychological import.
=Thompson, Vance.= Diplomatic mysteries. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Particular mysteries of which the veil is supposed to be rent away in
this case include that of the madness of Ludwig of Bavaria.... Another
story purports to relate what really happened when the powers took a
hand in Crete and gave that island autonomy.... Yet other stories
pretend to tell what really happened during that delightful comedy
wherein the crown prince of Germany gave his grandmother Victoria’s
ring to Miss Gladys Deacon; yet others are of how President Faure of
France came to his end, and how the present great war between Japan
and Russia ... was ‘made in England.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Thompson’s style may never be free from affectation and
unnecessary embellishment, but at least he has done far better work
than this.”
— =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rather fascinating reading, in spite of the circumstance
that the real truth is probably as different from Mr. Thompson’s
version as Mr. Thompson’s version is from official history.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 390w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The chief thing that they lack, however, is verisimilitude.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.
“The stories themselves are engaging and well told.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
=Thonger, Charles.= Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical
gardening, v. 25.) *$1. Lane.
“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of
garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity,
avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with
suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out
drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this
scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic
plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive
lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.
“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who
take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a
garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with
everything that they want.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 230. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N.
Y.
Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most
energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or
student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry
away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the
human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the
pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is
the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts;
Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life:
physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.
“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the
practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the
principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the
chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“This book differs from other brief psychologies in being
pre-eminently teachable. The book is distinguished from its rivals by
its comprehensiveness and balance.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
=Thorndike, Edward Lee.= Introduction to the theory of mental and social
measurements. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Thorndike has prepared this book primarily as an aid in
doing statistical work of the sort required in laboratories of
experimental psychology.... It begins simply, and by affording
abundant material for the student to practice what the text preaches
gradually develops in his capacity to master the more difficult later
chapters. The writer makes a point of keeping within the comprehension
of young students.... The topics to which most attention is given are
the choice of units of measurement; the measurement of individuals, of
groups, of differences, of changes, and of relationships; and the
reliability of measurements and sources of error. Strong emphasis is
laid upon tables of frequency.... The last chapter contains references
for further study, and the appendix a multiplication table up to
100x100, a table of square roots up to 1,000, and a collection of
miscellaneous problems for additional practice.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In its special field the book is worthy of a man who is a teacher as
well as a psychologist.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 697. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“An extremely practical and well-planned volume.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The author has written in an attractive style ... and has made this
one of the best products of his active pen.” Edward Franklin Buchner.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 210. S. ‘05. 650w.
=Thorpe, Francis Newton.= Divining rod: a story of the oil regions.
†$1.50. Little.
A romance which deals with the early days when oil was discovered in
Pennsylvania. It follows the fortunes of a farmer in whom the divining
rod which points out his first well awakens a thirst for the wealth to
be gained by developing his own land. His daughter is the center of
the love motive, but the strength of the story lies in the oil, the
crowding out of the small producers by the large, the uncovering of
unscrupulous methods, the mad desire for more land, more wells at any
price.
* =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
=Thorpe, Francis Newton.= Short constitutional history of the United
States. *$1.75. Little.
A brief “history of the state and federal constitutions, their
origins, principles, evolution, and the interpretation of them by the
courts.... As an appendix, the constitution of the United States, with
citation of cases, is printed. There is a special index to the
constitution, giving article, section, and page, as well as a general
index to the work at large.... After a rapid survey of the early
colonial unions and congresses, and of the Articles of confederation
and their defects, there is a short chapter on the making of the
constitution, followed by an analysis of The Federalist to show what
were and are the fundamental principles of the constitution.”—N. Y.
Times.
“The style is not attractive, though not often very bad; the
arrangement is unsatisfactory, and the general method of presentation
is not telling; the author’s conception of his subject, as in his
early volumes on constitutional history, is limited. These faults
might be passed over without too serious consideration if the book
were accurate in details, and if, with all its apparent weight and
sturdiness, it were done with care and circumspection.”
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 923. Jl. ‘05. 360w.
“The book is to be especially commended for its well assorted
information upon recent constitutions in the various states.” Jesse
Macy.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 355. Mr. ‘05. 300w.
“There is a lack of digestion and a want of perspective. This failure
to give proper emphasis makes the book sure to fail as a text-book—a
use for which the author designed it—except in the hands of a very
experienced teacher.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “Exhibits an immense amount of learning on that subject, ill
arranged and almost devoid of historical sequence.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“For so small a volume its scope is remarkable; and, notwithstanding
the heaviness of his theme, and an occasional involved sentence which
detains the reader, the author presents his matter in a manner to hold
the interest of even the layman in politics.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 810w. (Outline of scope.)
=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Girl of Virginia. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this story of the lovable, light-spirited
daughter of a professor of the University of Virginia, and a picture
of college life from the towns-people’s point of view.
* =Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants.
*$4. Van Nostrand.
The author who has designed turbines both in America and in Europe and
who has had charge of the hydraulic work in important constructions in
Canada, says: “The object of this book is to give such information in
regard to modern turbines and their installation as is necessary to
the hydraulic engineer in designing a water-power plant, and no
attempt has been made to treat of the design of turbines.”
=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; the fact that vows do not
make a priest free from temptation; the struggle in a high-minded
priest’s nature between right and passion; the serious meaning of duty
and renunciation—all these things are clearly set forth. The author
has intimate knowledge of the priesthood and has no intention of
disrespect to the cloth. Father Tom, the elder of the two priests
described, is a capital character—humorous, shrewd, and
practical”—Outlook.
+ =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
“It is one of the strongest pieces of psychological fiction that has
appeared in English in many a long month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 268. My. ‘05. 340w.
“In his zeal the author has introduced too many mechanical instances
for the proving of his cherished point, permitted himself too many
passages of didacticism and argument,—so that his novel, strictly
speaking, is spoiled.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 150w.
“It is a story of considerable power, but its frankness exceeds the
bounds of what is artistically permissible.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“It is an interesting book and a clever pen picture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point
of style and manner.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w.
“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that
lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of
first quality.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles
frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a
noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to
some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge
whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his
enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl;
but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling,
compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming
old roué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently
respectable lover.”—Outlook.
* “If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to
the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courage
to work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia
Howard Dunbar.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ‘05. 300w.
* “The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we
could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“The defects of Mrs. Thurston’s literary style and the crudity of her
methods are more obvious here than in ‘The masquerader.’”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 140w.
“Is not inferior in interest to her most widely known novel, while it
greatly surpasses its predecessor in the vitality of its characters,
the cohesion of its plot, the fidelity of both to possibility and its
literary art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 380w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
“The moral lesson is obvious, perhaps too obvious. As a story the book
will not compare well in force and originality with ‘The
masqueraders.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
* “While it is not likely to run through as many editions as ‘The
masquerader,’ it has a higher ambition than that absorbing modern
fairy tale in that it tries to present a serious study of character as
well as a series of more or less dramatic incidents.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 110w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Masquerader. $1.50. Harper.
The chance meeting in a London fog, of a wealthy member of parliament,
who is an opium eater, and a young writer in reduced circumstances,
reveals the fact to each that he has a double. This strange revelation
is seized upon by the former as a means of providing himself with a
political substitute when the craving for the drug is upon him. They
change places temporarily with the result that the masquerader wins
political distinction and the affections of his double’s alienated
wife, who fancies that she has fallen in love with her husband. In the
end the drug does its work and the masquerader is made to see that his
duty lies in quietly continuing the deception.
“The development of Loder’s character is so well shown and the
interest of the story is so great that it is only when the book is
finished that we realize the impossibility of the whole thing, an
impossibility which militates very strongly against the artistic
excellence of the novel.” Mary K. Ford.
+ — =Current Literature.= 38: 321. Ap. ‘05. 1340w.
“The story is so ingeniously told and cleverly constructed that its
very boldness is in a measure justified.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The author performs the feat of fitting an impossible plot into the
realities of daily life, and doing it in a way that deceives the
reader and holds his interest—while he reads. There is a sense of
strain about the whole thing—the style, as well as the plot, is
artificial.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 320w.
“The quality of the particular adventure is delicate and perilous and
the book’s evasion of pitfalls is not less admirable than its more
positive qualities. The critical sense of the reader is stilled by the
hypnotic and engrossing nature of the narrative. One is delightfully
deluded and beguiled.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 259. Ja. ‘05. 290w.
“The ethical problem involved in the secret change of place is solved
in a new and eminently sane manner. The gradual disintegration of
Chilcote’s character is a strong piece of work, as is likewise the
description of Loder’s inner growth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748-1846: a series
of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary
volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic
conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early
American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
Thirty-one volumes containing accurate reprints of rare manuscripts.
They have been carefully chosen from the mass of material descriptive
of travels in the North American interior which this century of
continental expansion (1748-1846) provided, and no manuscript has been
included unless it possessed permanent historical value. The result is
a series which the casual reader will find interesting, and the
historian, teacher and scholar, will find invaluable, as it makes
available sources of information without which the development of the
West, its history and its people cannot be fully understood. The
editor has provided numerous footnotes and an introduction to each
volume which contains a biographical sketch of the author, an
evaluation of the book reprinted and bibliographical data concerning
it. The closing volume is devoted to a complete and exhaustive
analytical index to the entire series.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 694. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Statement of contents
of vols. VII-XII.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 120w. (Review of vols. XI. and
XII.)
* “Like their predecessors are amply and intelligently edited.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 13-15.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 227. O. ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 16-18.)
=Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 80w. (Review of vol. VI.)
“The works included naturally vary in literary merit and
attractiveness, but many of them will compare favorably with the
better class of modern books of travel, while some, like John
Bradbury’s ‘Travels in the interior of America, 1809-11,’ to which
vol. V. is devoted, are as fascinating as the best fiction.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vols. I.-V.)
“Much of the material is as entertaining as it is quaint, and will be
thoroughly enjoyed by the ordinary reader no less than the
specialist.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 18.)
“Thus far the whole series of ‘Early western travels’ is worthy of
hearty commendation.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 611. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w. (Review of vols. IV-VIII.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 9-17.)
=Nation.= 80: 152. F. 23, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Nation.= 80: 209. Mr. 16, ‘05. 320w. (Review of vols. XI. and
XII.)
+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 660w. (Review of v. 10.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 590w. (Condensed narrative
of Vol. XI.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 500w. (Review of Vol.
XII.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 240. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w. (Review of vol.
XIII.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 14 and
15.)
“He [Mr. Thwaites] leaves out dates.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 532. Ag. 12, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 16 and
17.)
“The present editor has done little for it except provide an
introduction and make clear a few points. He corrects a month date in
a note, but seems unable to insert year dates at all.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 810w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w. (Review of v. 11.)
“His story is not often thrilling in its manner of telling, but it has
some value as a record of early observation of Indian customs and of
the primitive life of white pioneers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13.)
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 870. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. (Review of v. 10 and
11.)
=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.
This tale of the Red Keg lumber region sets well into the foreground
the villainy of a country editor whose vicious attacks and
blackmailing schemes all but wreck the happiness of a town. The “man
from the Red Keg” is one of the many whose reputations have been
hammered and slashed by the odious editor of “Chips,” but who
determinedly resolves to reform his enemy. He works out his
metaphysical problem patiently disregarding the call of his fellow
townsmen to deal with the offender summarily, bides his time, and wins
his reward.
* “It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the
instructive value of a biography.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “The story is not quite as good as its predecessors.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis.= Harm Jan Huidekoper.
*$2.50. Clarke.
An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796
at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and
became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the
founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and
genealogy.
“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from
family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the
style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a
literary point of view.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland
land company should have some historical value.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 153. F. 23, ‘05. 380w.
“A volume nominally biographical but ... picturing a vanished state of
American society.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“The book is full of instructive and charming reminiscences of those
early days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13. ‘05. 580w.
=Tigert, John James.= Christianity of Christ and his apostles. 80c. Pub.
house of M. E. ch. So.
A book provided as a shelter in the present storm of theological
criticism.
=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar:
a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
Life at Mount Cedar seminary is vividly given in this story of its
teachers and its students, their pranks, plays, merriment and
misfortunes. Interest centres about the group of girls who call
themselves “the thistles,” and especially about the wild little
Hungarian, Verena.
* — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“It is most refreshing to stumble over a book that can be safely
handled by our children, or our sisters, without fear of antagonizing
their morals or giving them a false idea of life in general.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.= Literature of the French renaissance. *$4.50.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying
between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of
Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French
language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters
of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not
only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary
or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times).
There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which
merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming
fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in
this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is
hardly so full as might be desirable.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 647. My. 27. 2270w.
“The critical attitude of our author is judicious and eminently safe.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 215. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1420w.
“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly
arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment
of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his
conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation.
It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes
all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students
of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes
much of little.” Christian Gauss.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 17. Ja. 14, ‘05. 3100w.
=Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.= Woman’s confessional. 75c. Life pub.
Epigrammatic extracts from the diary of a woman who was born of a
distinguished family in Vienna, came to America and “lived and loved
and erred.”
* “All of the epigrams are worth reading, even if one does not always
agree. The strong personality is pervasive and attractive.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The smartness of the woman’s sayings is indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Tipple, Ezra Squier,= ed. See =Asbury, Francis.= Heart of Asbury’s
journal.
=Tobin, Agnes.= Flying lesson. **$2. Elder.
“This is a second series of translations from Petrarch—containing ten
sonnets, two canzoni, a ballata, and a double sestina.... If they do
not succeed in achieving the impossible, that is, in a perfect
reproduction of the Petrarchian spirit, they have, at any rate, much
of the rare atmosphere which pervades ‘The house of life’ and
Rossetti’s translations from the Italian.”—Ath.
“These translations are of great poetical merit.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 190w.
“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and
we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not
wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”
— =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 730w.
* “Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure
beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s
impassioned lament.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
=Todd, Mary Ives.= American Abelard and Heloise. $1.50. Grafton.
A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his
congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter
of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she
could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother
and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and
starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of
the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed
shall have become a reality.
“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary
love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 260w.
“Mushy contents.”
— =Reader.= 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaievich.= Anna Karénina. $1.50. Crowell.
This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg”
series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell
Dole.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Soldier of the wilderness. †$1.50.
Wilde.
Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on
history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort
Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The
adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young
hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent
in those times.
=Tomson, Arthur.= Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25.
Macmillan.
A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet
and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with
“the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and
Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic
school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules
Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and
two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include
examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists
studied.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 735. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.
The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a
young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West
Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has
always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in
the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light
of great danger, comes to know her own heart.
* “Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every
page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea
and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its
simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 803. N. 25, ‘05. 510w.
“Told with not a little spontaneity and incident.”
* + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.
* “The author develops a very pretty romance and refreshes us with
much charming sea-lore.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Tooley, Sarah A.= Life of Florence Nightingale. *$1.75. Macmillan.
A biography written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the
famous mission to Crimea. The story of that two years’ service which
made Miss Nightingale’s name a household word throughout the British
empire is fully given, and the dignity which her noble and efficient
labors give to the hitherto stigmatized profession of nursing is well
described. There is a full account of her life from her birth in
Florence, 1820, of her childish ministrations to dolls and animals,
her labors in field and hospital, her work for the soldier after her
return from the front, her friendships, her literary career, and her
life at the present day. There are twenty-two illustrations.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 452. My. ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 460. Je. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 1750w. (Condensed narrative
of book.)
“The story is here told with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 170w.
“The story has been well told by Miss Tooley.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 350w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Reuben Larkmead. †$1.25. Dillingham.
An unsophisticated young millionaire whose fortune was founded upon
western beet sugar, comes east to New York and ingenuously relates his
experiences. Ridiculed in society, fleeced in his business
transactions, the prey of an army of grafters, he ends by marrying the
widowed mother of the girl he failed to win.
“The supine insipidity of the hero destroys whatever interest might
have been aroused in him at the beginning of the book. A thin plot of
sentimentality runs through this recital of Reuben’s adventures.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 490w.
“A crude social satire.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=Townsend, Fitzhugh.= Short course in alternating-current testing. *75c.
Van Nostrand.
“Eight sets of experiments are outlined, in each case preceded by a
concise discussion of the operating characteristics of the machine in
question. They deal with: (1) Properties of circuits; (2) the
alternating current generator; (3) the voltage wave of a generator or
of a circuit; (4) the transformer (operation, losses and efficiency);
(5) the induction motor (operation and efficiency); (6) the
synchronous motor (operation and phase characteristic); (7) the rotary
converter (operation when driven from either end); and (8) operation
of alternators in parallel.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 110w.
=Tozer, H. F.=, tr. See =Dante Alighieri.= Divina commedia.
=Tozier, Josephine.= Travelers’ handbook: a manual for Transatlantic
tourists. **$1. Funk.
“A little book to be put in the handbag of all who are making their
‘first trip.’ Money values, how to buy tickets, send luggage, to tip
the foreign hordes that have to be tipped, to avoid being overcharged
by cabmen and hotel clerks ... all these things are intelligently
explained, and many little hints given that will grease the wheels of
a European trip most acceptably.”—Critic.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
“Is one of the most intelligent of its kind. We have detected no error
worth noticing in the writer’s advice to travellers.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 320w.
“Her book supplements the ordinary guide books admirably.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Great mogul. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures
of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian
realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the
man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as
they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son,
and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful
princess Nur Mahal.
“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will
reward reading.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
Trade unionism and labor problems, ed. by John R. Commons. *$2.50. Ginn.
This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is
“planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a
deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of
the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in
view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite,
typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further
the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the
study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The
chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide
field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross
references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader
as well as to the student.
=Train, Arthur.= McAllister and his double. †$1.50. Scribner.
“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a
blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly
at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told
in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen
illustrations.
* “The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but
the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of
‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1232. N. 23, ‘05. 150w.
“The stories are certainly lively and readable in a high degree, and
the book is sure to meet with popular success.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 70w.
* “Is immensely entertaining in an irresponsible sort of way.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Tremain, Henry Edwin.= Last hours of Sheridan’s cavalry. *$1.50.
Bonnell.
“A reprint of war memoranda by a late brevet brigadier-general, major,
aide-de-camp in the United States volunteers, originally published in
sundry journals, and now reprinted in response to frequent requests,
with an additional chapter compiled from official records and an
appendix containing further interesting matter. The illustrations are
a portrait of Sheridan, a map of the Appomattox campaign, and a
picture of the holding up of Lee’s supply train.”—Critic.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
“A sprightly and vivid account of the operations which brought that
war to a close. An unusually valuable compilation of contemporary
notes. Sheridan’s work in weaving the final toils around the fated
Confederacy is here graphically narrated.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Valuable as a historical record, the volume has also the merit of a
personal story charmingly and unaffectedly told that will make it of
interest not only to the participants in the campaign, but to those
thousands of others who like to read the stories of battles fought and
victories won. So complete, so personal, and so interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=Trench, Rt. Rev. Richard Chenevix.= English, past and present. *75c.
Dutton.
“This is a new edition of Archbishop Trench’s well-known book
published many years ago. Emendations and corrections are supplied by
Dr. A. Smythe Palmer, though surprisingly few of these have been found
necessary.”—Outlook.
“The editor has very seldom laid himself open to criticism, and has
performed a task which cannot have been light with care, tact, and
skill.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 622. My. 20. 430w.
“Dr. Palmer ... has done his work carefully without insulting his
author’s memory.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 627. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
=Trent, William P.= Brief history of American literature. *$1.40.
Appleton.
A thorogoing text book containing a condensed account of the
development of American literature, rather than a series of essays on
leading American authors. The study is presented with marginal topics,
and has at the end of each chapter a bibliography which has been based
upon the equipments of the average school library, and which also
contains helps for further study.
“A manual both sound and stimulating.” Charles Sears Baldwin.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 317. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
“It is marked by some errors of perspective and emphasis, by a certain
indiscriminateness and at the same time a curious timidity of
judgment, and also by a peculiar dryness; but it shows also a rather
unusual first-hand knowledge of the facts and an equally unusual
orderliness and lucidity in disposing of them.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author has restricted himself to the limitations of immature
pupils, and has tactfully written on the level of their
comprehension.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers.
**$1.20. Crowell.
Eight papers which are designed especially for “those interested in
the problems that confront the critic and the teacher of literature,”
but which will not fail to claim a larger audience by reason of their
timeliness, and their sane, wholesome, and thoroly delightful
treatment. The first paper takes up the question of, Greatness in
literature; the second gives, A word for the smaller authors and for
popular judgment; then follow, The aims and methods of literary study;
Criticism and faith; Literature and science; Teaching literature; Some
remarks on modern book-burning; and The love of poetry.
* “Though Professor Trent is a very clear and fluent writer, there is
a certain lack of savor, of closeness of grain, in his style.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 650w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Southern writers. **$1.10. Macmillan.
Altho the Intention Has Been That of Furnishing Supplementary Reading
for Students, Professor Trent Has Prepared an Instructive Book for
General Use. the Literature of Representative Writers Of the South Has
Been Divided Into Three Periods: 1607-1789, the Literature of the
Colonies and the Revolution, Including Records Taken From diaries of
colonial gentlemen; 1790-1865, the literature of the Old South,
including speeches by distinguished southern statesmen; and 1866-1905,
the literature of the New South, reflecting the spirit of the literary
renaissance.
“Is altogether an admirable piece of editorial workmanship.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 121. S. 1, ‘05. 860w.
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 249. O. ‘05. 400w.
“On the whole a praiseworthy effort, and in the main a successful
effort, to redeem the South from the charge of actual literary
sterility.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 332. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is open to the criticism that it tends to foster the
provincial illusion that the larger the number of names the greater
the repute of the locality. For reference it is valuable, and appears
to be well done.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
“May be confidently recommended to all students of American
literature, North or South.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 440w.
“This volume has a distinct educational quality for the average
Northern reader. He will find it in many things of permanent value and
much that will delight and inspirit him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Trent, W. P., and Henneman, J. B.=, jt. eds. See =Thackeray, W: M.=
Works.
=Trevathen, Charles E.= American thoroughbred. **$2. Macmillan.
“This is the latest volume in the ‘American sportsman’s library.’ ...
The author has supplied the book with pictures of some of the best
known racers and other ‘thoroughbred’ horses. He opens it with a
chapter entitled ‘Whence the American thoroughbred?’”—N. Y. Times.
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 670w.
=Ind.= 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ancestry of the
American race horse.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Interesting and useful, though ... marred by typographical errors in
the names of both horses and owners that ought not to mar such
volumes.” Charles Tracy Bronson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 1320w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England
from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is
written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is
noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of
England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the
outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the
significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the
continental people of Europe attained nationality only through
military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the
same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting
and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His
personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this
being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the
second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and
Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into
the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook).
“The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious
aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)
“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the
word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned
and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary
qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of
real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and
condensation.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 135. F. 4. 2780w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 330. Mr. 18. 2580w.
“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.”
Edward Puller.
— =Bookm.= 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its
outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 38. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1860w.
“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and
atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is
undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a
discriminative use of authorities.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 454. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.
* “Is one of the best pieces of historical writing that has appeared
in recent years.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“This book brings sound scholarship, sensitiveness of temperament, and
breadth of outlook to bear upon an historical theme of perennial
importance.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 366. N. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
“The book ... is evidently an attempt to combine what may be called
the Green and the Traill methods. The early part of his volume might
be termed an abstract of Gardiner, while the latter is merely a
summary of Macaulay with improvements. This strict restriction to the
political history in the latter part of the book is especially
unfortunate. Altogether, Mr. Trevelyan’s treatment of Cromwell is
scarcely illuminating, either on the military or the religious side.
Allowing for his plan, is carried out with a skill and ability worthy
of his family tradition, but the plan, I must still contend, is a
faulty one.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 1840w.
“Succeeds in interpreting the period ... in terms at once attractive
and convincing. His style is that of the picturesque school, his
treatment that of the philosophic, a combination calculated to produce
excellent results. This must be accounted a work of high merit,
embodying the results of the latest research and developed along sound
lines.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 330w.
=Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.= American revolution. 3v. ea. *$2.
Longmans.
A new edition in three volumes of a work which originally appeared in
two parts. It is issued now with a new preface, a portrait of the
author, and some revision and rearrangement. “The special features of
this history are the fullness with which it brings out English
sentiment before and during the Revolutionary period, and the
clearness with which it presents the Revolutionary struggle as a part
of the great fight for Liberalism in England.” (Outlook.)
“It is certain that, as far as the revision goes, the author has left
uncorrected several mistakes of which he had been duly apprised, in
all three volumes.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 230. Mr. 23, ‘05. 350w.
“[The revisions] have been performed in a truly careful and judicious
manner. “As our recent notice called attention to some uncorrected
errors, it is only fair to say that many others in part I. have been
expelled.””
+ + =Nation.= 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
=Trevelyan, Lady=, ed. See =Macaulay, Lord.= Works.
=Trevelyan, R. C.= Birth of Parsifal. *$1.20. Longmans.
“This may be described as a lyrical-dramatic fragment ... the theme of
which is drawn from those Graal romances which furnished Wagner’s
great music-drama.... The writer’s task is to make us feel the dread
and impressiveness of a curse denounced by ... the Graal and its
vague ... priestly knighthood; and to move us by the sorrows and
interior struggles of the dim figures affected by that curse.”—Acad.
“Mr. Trevelyan has poetic feeling and a measure of accomplishment. But
his resources are not equal to the ambitious demands of poetic passion
and imagination which he makes upon them.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 171. F. 25, ‘05. 440w.
“Of more than ordinary merit. It is to Mr. Trevelyan’s credit that
there are no purple patches.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 850w.
“Mr. Trevelyan has used, to his own loss, the dramatic form for a poem
that is never dramatic. The poem as a whole will disappoint those who
know Mr. Trevelyan’s earlier work.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 145. My. 5, ‘05. 410w.
* “If it does not rise to any great heights, at least is free from the
faults of much of the blank verse put forth at the present time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25. ‘05. 120w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Other side of the lantern: an account of a
commonplace tour around the world. $5. Cassell.
The other side of the lantern, as seen by the king’s physician, is not
bright. His story is tinged by the sadness of the scenes he saw by
sick beds and in hospitals, but what he saw, he saw clearly and
describes with color, charm and reality. He tells of Gibraltar, Crete,
Port Said, India, Burma, China and Japan, and gives a few words to
America, which he visited on his way home.
“Written throughout with an animation obviously unforced.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 91. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
“The point of view is that of a cultivated man of the world who is
able to set his impressions down in excellent English, and the result
is thoroughly readable.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, 05. 840w.
“The book is both trivial and ordinary, pictures and all. Those who
like the commonplace may enjoy this book.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 459. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“A book written in terse and epigrammatic style, as full of cleverness
as anything written by Kipling, and intensely interesting. But there
is nothing deeper in the book than first impressions. It is the best
book of travel that has been written for years.” T. H. H.
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 553. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1470w.
“He has at times a very pretty knack of description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 990w.
“... So vivid are the pictures which the traveller draws for us, so
penetrating his criticism of life and manners. It is the chapters on
Japan that we find the most interesting part of a highly interesting
book. We have to thank Sir Frederick Treves for a quite admirable
volume of travel.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 442. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1970w.
Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an
empress. *$1.50. Harper.
“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent
passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly.
It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany,
describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a
wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’
and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies
desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.
“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its
composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material
of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 643. S. 30, ‘05. 590w.
=Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Trollope, Anthony.= Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.
“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most
industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of
the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the
excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same
publishers.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 450w.
=Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
=Trollope, Henry M.= Life of Molière. Dutton.
Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable
sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with
it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky
volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a
useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing
concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.
* “It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again
for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read
it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance
of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal
style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had
it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1193. N. 18, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is with honest regret that a reviewer is forced to record his
opinion that this biography of Mr. Trollope’s is not worthy of its
theme, and that the biographer has been unable to rise to the height
of his subject. So far as the mere compilation of the facts is
concerned, it is possible to praise the book, although not without
many reservations in matters of detail. But he has not succeeded in
casting any new light on the facts, and he has failed totally to evoke
the noble figure of Molière himself and to make us realize the real
achievements of the greatest of comic dramatists.” Brander Matthews.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 816. D. 2, ‘05. 2310w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Selene. **$1.20.
Harper.
A dramatic poem in blank verse which gives a version of the story of
Endymion and the moon goddess.
“There seems, to us, in the choice of theme and in its treatment, a
true revival of essential poesy, opulent, free, unclouded by
psychological problem or symbol-compelling obscurity.” Edith M.
Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 561. Je. ‘05. 850w.
“Through the major part of the long piece the princess has written
admirable blank verse.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“There is no demand upon intense sympathies, the story is well and
swiftly told, and the poetry fulfills at least two-thirds of Milton’s
requirement.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 390w.
“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in
delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its
imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 200w.
=Trow, Charles Edward.= Old shipmasters of Salem, **$2.50. Putnam.
“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to
sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East
Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages, down to the
decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text
is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies
are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody
(1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of
ships.”—Nation.
“Seems to know little of its connexion with English or American
history.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 750. Je. 17. 240w.
“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up
with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 241. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to
hold the general reader.”
— =Ind.= 58: 1251. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The field of narration is not extensive, and the subject is treated
with all the fulness it deserves. The writer commands an excellent
style.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 1560w. (Abstract of
contents.)
“The author seems to have made a faithful study of the documentary
materials, and the result is a book of no little historical and
biographical value.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 372. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
=Trumbull, Charles Gallaudet.= Pilgrimage to Jerusalem; Pilgrim’s ed.
$2.50. S. S. Times co.
An account is here given of the “cruise of the delegates to the
World’s Sunday-school convention held in Jerusalem and of the travels
of the members of the party elsewhere.” (Outlook.)
+ =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 100w.
“Long and over-detailed.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Tschudi, Clara.= Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian
by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.
Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the
present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in
the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has
given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to
make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a
distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it
seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of
private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a
study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.
— + =Acad.= 68: 732. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1300w.
“Is rather too slight in substance to make a book of.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most
women’s books of its brand.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes
slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to
the author.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Tuckwell, Rev. William.= Reminiscences of a radical parson. $2.
Cassell.
“All unconsciously the Radical parson reveals to us in this book a
very charming and thoroughly human personality. A college don, a
schoolmaster, and then, in later years, the incumbent of a college
living, Mr. Tuckwell first attracted public attention by his
unconventional methods of working his parish.... He was getting on in
years before he delivered his first political speech, though ... he
had delivered nearly a thousand orations before he decided to
retire.... There are many political reminiscences of Gladstone, and
indeed of many other famous men.”—Acad.
“Mr. Tuckwell’s latest volume is full of entertainment.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 360. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 455. Ap. 15. 1780w.
“The combination of scholarly polish, graceful wit, and hard common
sense in the author of this veracious and on the whole convincing
narrative, is very pleasing.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 80. Ag. 16, ‘05. 2040w.
“Mr. Tuckwell writes with a vigor and a directness, and a positive
candor, and an intensity of conviction that make interesting reading.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w.
“With himself the preacher is exceedingly well contented.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 705. My. 27, ‘05. 1140w.
* + — =Spec.= 95: 688. N. 4, ‘05. 790w.
=Tuker, M. A. R., and Malleson, Hope.= Rome: painted by Alberta Pisa.
*$6. Macmillan.
Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate
the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people,
religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.
“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and
paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy
between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best
in all this fine series.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 633. Je. 17, ‘05. 770w.
* “Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth
of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of
inaccuracies.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 620w.
“The text is almost as fascinating as the illustrations.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 740w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 2, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s
existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less
valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 373. Je. 10, ‘05. 1730w.
“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many
acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the
people of Rome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
=Turbayne, A. A.= Alphabets and numerals designed and drawn by A. A.
Turbayne. *$2. Van Nostrand.
Twenty-seven full-page plates which give “severe readable types” of
letters and numbers. They have been designed “for the designer or
craftsman to copy, alter, and arrange in their handicraft after their
own fancy,” and they are based upon old Roman, Gothic, and Italic
forms.
“One of the best books for practical purposes that we have had before
us for a long time.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 310w.
“A splendid and inspiring vade mecum for the artistic ‘letterer,’
whether engaged in designing posters, advertisements, or elaborate
lettered signs.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
=Turner, Harry Winthrop, and Hobart, Henry Metcalf.= Insulation of
electric machines. $4.50. Macmillan.
This book is “the result of twenty years of practical work.... Among
the topics discussed are some properties of insulating materials, the
insulation on ‘magnet wires’ employed in armature and field windings,
mica and mica compounds, drying insulations, taping machines and tapes
and bands, transformer insulation, impregnated cloths and fabrics, oil
for insulating, &c. There are a bibliography and an index, a large
number of diagrams, plans ... tables and footnotes. The book appears
in the ‘Specialists’ series.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will be welcomed by the electrical engineer as a most valuable
addition to his library.” Ernest Wilson.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Turner, Henry Gyles.= History of the colony of Victoria from its
discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. $7.
Longmans.
“The history begins with an unsuccessful attempt to found a convict
settlement at Fort Philip, and carries the story of Victoria down to
the end of the nineteenth century.... The municipal history and the
astonishing growth of Melbourne ... are particularly well told. The
same may be said of the chapters dealing with the discoveries of gold
and with the political and social turmoil which the discovery of gold
entailed; also of those describing the methods of parceling out
government lands, ... the causes of the panic and the financial
disasters of 1890-1893, and ... the long-drawn-out agitation which
finally led to the establishment of the Australian commonwealth. There
is an admirable index.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Turner’s work is obviously that of an old settler—a labor of love
on which many years have been spent. Regarded as such, his history of
Victoria is well done, and far above the average of colonial histories
written from this standpoint. It is written in a good clear style, and
generally carries the marks of much industry and care. While few but
specialists will be likely to read Mr. Turner’s two volumes from
beginning to end, they contain much that is of value and usefulness to
more general students, and especially to students who are interested
in the various new phases of democratic government as it has been
developed in Victoria.” Edward Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 676. Ap. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Turner is more at home in dealing with politicians than with the
natural features of the country, so that, while the early history can
be perhaps read with more profit elsewhere, the political story from
1850 downwards is told with great trenchancy and knowledge.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 270w.
“Their sustained interest depends on the fact that he is in truth no
mere chronicler of passing events, but a reflective historian. It is
plainly and frankly critical.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 249. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2000w.
=Turner, Herbert Hall.= Astronomical discovery. *$3. Longmans.
Six papers comprising the matter originally given in a series of
lectures at the University of Chicago. Their object is “to illustrate
by the study of a few examples, chosen almost at random, the variety
in character of astronomical discoveries.” The subjects treated are:
“Uranus and Eros,” “The discovery of Neptune,” “Bradley’s discoveries
of the aberration of light and of the mutation of the earth’s axis,”
“Accidental discoveries,” “Schwabe and the sun spot period,” and “The
variation of latitude.”
“The book is readable and interesting; and also accurate and
trustworthy, as much ‘readable’ popular science is not. Judged
according to its scope and purpose, there is little fault to be found
with the book.” C. A. Y.
+ + =Astrophys. J.= 21: 383. My. ‘05. 560w.
“There is ample internal evidence, not only that the lectures were
carefully prepared, but also of judicious selection. The second
chapter or lecture is probably the least satisfactory in the book.” W.
E. P.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 410. Mr. 2, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“Even to a non-scientific reader, and to the amateur of astronomy the
book should prove absorbing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 126. F. 25, ‘05. 640w.
“Apart from such bearing as it may have on the philosophy of discovery
Professor Turner’s book gives excellent accounts of several
interesting chapters of astronomic history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 633. My. 13, ‘05. 1030w.
“Lucid and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 30w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec. Tweedie).= Sunny Sicily. *$5.
Macmillan.
An Englishwoman’s observations of Sicily, “its rustics and its ruins,”
as they now are. Descriptions of real Sicilian eating-houses, market
places, lotteries, the Mafia, the superstitions of the evil eye,
Sicilian theatres, etc. There is also a brief Sicilian history and an
account of various visits to places of interest. The volume is
illustrated with photographs and a map.
“Mrs. Tweedie is certainly flippant, with a recklessly slipshod style,
many inaccurate statements, and spelling that is peculiar either to
her or to her printer. Is valuable as a sort of ‘chatty’ Baedeker,
being not only readable, but full of practical hints for the
travellers who may be attracted by it to this wonderful island.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 122. F. 9, ‘05. 330w.
“Provides in a very informal and personal way both information and
entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 690w.
“Though by no means so erudite, the present volume, in actual
information as to present conditions, is worthy of a place alongside
that standard work, Mr. Paton’s ‘Picturesque Sicily.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“She has the delightful, but uncommon, quality of an entertaining
style wedded to a real knowledge of how to tell a story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“A brighter and more lively book of travel we have seldom read.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 618. Ap. 29, ‘05. 560w.
=Twigg, Lizzie.= Songs and poems. 60c. Longmans.
“Miss Twigg’s ... muse belongs frankly to Ireland. The hills, the sea,
the bogs, the sunset and the dawn, she celebrates in verse that is
sincere and frequently moving. She ... sings only the earthly charms
of the green island. The sky and the soil breathe beatitudes for her,
and she beholds the flowers and cliffs and fields through an
atmosphere of golden sentiment.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“It takes a well-nigh perfect ear for music to write such verse as
this. We may well be glad that it is so spontaneous and unaffected, so
free from bookishness and imitative endeavors.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 30: 350 N. 1, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 500w.
Tybout, Ella Middleton. Wife of the secretary of state. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
A story of cosmopolitan Washington of no particular time or
administration which weaves mystery into a strange mixture of love,
intrigue and credulity. The wife of the secretary of state plays with
fire thru her traitorous delivery of valuable state papers into the
hands of a Russian diplomat. How she manages to come thru apparently
unharmed, and how the count relinquishes his villainy in a very
un-Russian like manner are strangely at variance with the expected
outcome that might require retributive punishment. The khedive’s opals
owned by the secretary’s wife flash a sympathetic accompaniment to her
heart moods all thru.
* “It is a story replete with adventure and excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 280w.
* “The conversation is lifelike and the characters are distinctly
individualized. An entertaining novel burdened by no especial
problem.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Tynan, Katharine.= See =Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan.=
U
=Ular, Alexander.= Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.
After announcing in his preface that his book will come as a shock to
some very sincere friends of Russia and that the facts he reveals are
authentic altho they “do not make pretty reading” the author proceeds
to give “a series of brilliant pictures, written manifestly from the
standpoint of the revolutionist and lashing furiously the heads of the
Russian state.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Though not without its faults, it has the conspicuous merits of being
clearly and forcefully written and of leaving a series of definite
impressions on the mind of the reader.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 409. N. ‘05. 920w.
“The book is not without value for him who can sift the facts from the
fiction and the denunciation; but it is altogether untrustworthy, and
cannot but mislead the untrained reader.” Charles H. Cooper.
— =Dial.= 39: 269. N. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“The historical portion is full of inaccuracies. Having warned our
readers that Dr. Ular’s statements require confirmation, we must admit
that his book is interesting and suggestive, that his knowledge is
considerable, that his view of M. Witte’s regime appears to us to be
very just, and that the remarkable story of the elaborate ‘oligarchic’
intrigue which eventually led to the war in the Far East certainly
contains an element of truth.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 222. Jl. 14, ‘05. 710w.
“People who like to read strong statements couched in language which
is plain to the verge of violence at times, and never courteous, will
thoroughly enjoy Mr. Ular’s arraignment of everybody and everything in
Russia—save, possibly, the revolutionists.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 363. N. 2, ‘05. 2060w.
“The rashness of language which makes the book particularly readable
serves, of course, to discredit it as a serious study—but it is
infinitely suggestive.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 1360w.
— — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 150w.
“It is certain Mr. Ular’s readers—if he has any—will not take him
sufficiently seriously to experience any shocks but those of
contempt.”
— — =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘04. 420w.
“Much of his work is of value, but we confess that his account of the
characters of the Emperor and his Court does not convince us. It is so
full of a lurid sensationalism that it fails of its purpose.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 340w.
=Underhill, Evelyn.= Gray world. $1.50. Century.
An imaginative story which dwells experimentally upon the transition
from life to death, and upon reincarnation. A little slum-child dies
in a hospital, carrying a vague consciousness of his earthly existence
to the Gray world of spirits. The awful terrors of the new realm crowd
in around him until his soul cries for release. So he goes back to the
world as the son of a London tradesman—bewildered, as once more a new
consciousness dawns, in the process of unifying his former existence,
his world of spirits, and the present life. The book follows the
development of this being thru the struggle to conquer the Gray world
and its depression. The book is unusual, with language and scheme
wholly in keeping with the vague, and the unreal which envelop it.
“Her book, then, is not only readable, but gives rise to that
intelligent form of gratitude which has been defined as a lively sense
of favors to come.”
+ =Atlan.= 95: 698. My. ‘05. 240w.
“A book of unusual imaginative quality, but too morbid to win a
general popularity. The volume is a very curious and unique
psychological study, along the borderline of madness.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 183. Ap. ‘05. 660w.
“It is intensely serious, no doubt, but it is also animated and even
enlivened by touches of a highly effective humor.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 124. F. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 540w.
“A weird and fantastic story. The best thing in the book is the pathos
of the description of the unrestful ghosts.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
“The earthly side of the book is as original as the spiritual, though
far less attractive.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 390w.
=Underwood, Earl.= Representing John Marshall & co. †$1. Dillingham.
A genial, slangy, and withal good-hearted drummer “spills” his inmost
thoughts into the white pages of this book. He jauntily tells of many
happenings so peculiar that as the news of each of them reaches Mame,
his queen, she promptly breaks off her engagement. Each chapter
chronicles a spicy adventure, a break, a reconciliation, but in the
end Mame seems thoroughly convinced that her drummer is a hero.
“It is amusing in its way if taken in small doses.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=United States. Library of Congress.= Catalog of the Gardiner Greene
Hubbard collection of engravings; presented to the Library of Congress
by Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Lib. of Congress.
“The plan of the compilation was very generous, and included the
catalogue proper of engravers, and index of engravers under a
chronological scheme, by centuries, an index of artists, a portrait
index, and a list of authorities.... The collection was presented to
the nation in 1898 by Mrs. Hubbard, and in default of a national art
gallery the Library of Congress was the most fitting place of
deposit.... The editor of the volume is Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, who is
in charge of the collection.”—Nation.
“The catalogue is clearly arranged and carefully written.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 718. Jl. 8, ‘05. 300w.
“No similar catalogue exists of an American collection of engravings;
it will, therefore, prove a convenient book of reference for
collectors.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 353. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
=United States. Library of Congress.= Some papers laid before the
Continental Congress, 1775. 15c. Supt. of doc.
The papers here published are: The declaration on taking arms, July 6,
1775; Franklin’s Articles of Confederation, July 21, 1775; Reports on
the Trade of America, July 21, October 2, and October 13, 1775; Report
on Lord North’s motion, and reports on the committees on Recess and
Unfinished business.
“The value of the pamphlet lies principally in the care which has been
taken to show the evolution of the final document in each case from
the first draft through the intermediate forms.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Upson, Arthur.= City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.
In this new edition of “The city,” a poem-drama in which Abgar, King
of Edessa, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Tiberius is cured of
his infirmity thru a message from the great Healer crucified at
Jerusalem, the author has made a few changes which, while they add to
the poetic effect of his work, do not detract from the dramatic
strength. The volume also includes Octaves in an Oxford garden,
written under the spell of the things of which he sings, and some
two-score sonnets, upon such widely different topics as Sultan’s
bread, Mona Lisa, The Rezzonico palace and our own Wheat elevators and
The statue of liberty.
* “Has something of the cool charm that springs from the imitation of
Greek models together with appeal that inheres in a Christian theme.
It never, however, attains any considerable tragic power.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
=Upward, Allen.= International spy: secret history of the Russo-Japanese
war. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The latest doings of that marvelous man, Monsieur H. V., are
chronicled in this volume, in which he himself tells of his adventures
when sent to Russia by England in the hope of averting war. He carried
a peace message from the Czar to the Mikado, was adopted into the
Japanese royal family, returned to Russia and after barely escaping
death at the hands of various enemies he succeeded in stealing a
torpedo boat from the Kaiser for which he was forgiven when his
mission became known. The beautiful and desperate Princess Y— has an
important role in this intimate story of courts and rulers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
V
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Brothers. †$1.50. Dodd.
These two brothers are each half of a complete whole, they succeed
together, each fails alone. Archibald, strong and magnetic, delivers
the sermons written by his weak and stammering brother, and by their
spiritual and intellectual force he wins Betty Kirtling, who discovers
after she has married him, that it is his brother whom she loves.
“It is an exceedingly well-told tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“The book is free from annoying defects, has a well-sustained
interest, and may be accounted a worthy addition to the season’s
output.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 220w.
=Vacher, Francis.= Food inspector’s handbook. $1.50. Van Nostrand.
The fourth edition of this handbook has been brought down to date and
an additional chapter on “Statutory powers” included.
“The author gives sensible advice, and his little volume should be
found very useful to those for whom it is written.” C. S.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 243. Jl. 13, ‘05. 320w.
=Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington.= Hecla Sandwith. †$1.50. Bobbs.
This story of a woman of moods, the daughter of a Pennsylvania iron
master, who married a young mining engineer, regretted it, left him,
and later awoke to the realization that she loved him, is also the
story of the mines, the iron workers, and the blast furnace.
“A leisurely and very charming picture of a Quaker settlement in
Pennsylvania in 1856.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 330w.
“It is a pleasure to notice a romance of American life so instinct
with artistic, literary and scientific excellence as ‘Hecla Sandwith.’
Here speaks the poet, the historian and the psychologist.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 106. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“The chief fault of the book is lack of concentration.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 380w.
“There is too much narrative here. The descriptions of nature are
poetic, the minor characters are particularly well drawn, and many of
the pictures linger in the memory.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
“The story is a long one, and not firmly knit together. A book that
preserves with almost photographic fidelity the manners and customs of
a time fully departed.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“The book has the merit of careful husbandry in an unworked field, and
it is well written; a novel of unusual power and interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“It is unevenly written. But, on the whole, the sense of the art of
literature is so high and fine and the adhesion to this sense so
accurate and faithful, that the entire result should be greeted as a
reawakening among us. There are pages that any novelist, living or
dead, might have been glad to claim.” James Lane Allen.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 241. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Charming style, keen powers of analysis, and skill in snapshot
portraiture as well, characterize this study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.
“His book is full of nature and of human nature: it rings true.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50.
Wessels.
Terence O’Rourke, an Irish gentleman and soldier, in the capacity of
commissioned defender—tho backed by the courage and chivalry which
make an undertaking his own affair—arrays himself in a series of
adventures against unscrupulous, even villainous royalty. Thru his
quick wit and marked swordsmanship he rights the wrongs of good women,
at last winning for himself the love of the princess for whom most of
his battles are fought.
+ =Ind.= 59: 697. S. 21, ‘05. 170w.
“Readers of many and varied tastes will delight in the author’s
fertile imagination and the ever-ready humor which produces and
disposes of Terence’s trials and tribulations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“A bit of simple and entertaining romance of the old-fashioned style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 487. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“There is plenty of action, humor, and romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
=Vandam, Albert Dresden.= Men and manners of the third republic. **$3.
Pott.
“In part a posthumous work; a charming review of the principal events
of the third republic as seen in the men and events of the times....
We have a glimpse behind the scenes, and ... we are brought into such
intimate relations with the actors that we are able to form for
ourselves a clear and accurate conception of the motives that caused
the movement that led to the establishment of the third republic. We
are introduced to Thiers and Gambetta.... But it is idle to mention by
names the great Frenchmen who appear in the pages of the work; suffice
it to say that none of those who were prominent in the days following
the downfall of Louis Napoleon are neglected, much less
omitted.”—Baltimore Sun.
“Delightful collection of facts and thoughts.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 500w.
“Much that is here said about the iniquities of French political life
may be quite true, and the book, taken in small quantities at a time,
is not devoid of a certain interest. But a rigorous criticism would
show that the historian must quote it, if at all, with care.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 440w.
=Van de Put, A.= Hispano-Moresque ware of the 15th century. *$4. Lane.
“A contribution to its history and chronology, based upon armorial
specimens.” This is a small quarto containing 34 plates illustrating
pieces taken from many public and private collections. There is a
brief general treatise which, while stating frankly that material for
a history is lacking, gives much historical information. There is a
full description of some of the plates.
“This is the first orderly and intelligent treatise devoted to it.
Goes far to supply the obvious need of a manual.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 121. F. 9, ‘05. 490w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A group of twelve essays and addresses, which may be generally
characterized as the creed or confession of an idealist, and an
application of his principles to life.”—Outlook.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 957. D. 23, ‘05. 750w.
“These essays bear his stamp. They are not written solely for
scholars. They are easily understandable, readable, while his ‘sane
idealism’ shines through them all.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 520w.
=Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things.
†$1.50. Scribner.
“The thirteenth edition of a well-known series of essays arranged in
the form of a holiday book illustrated with most agreeable drawings by
F. Walter Taylor.” (Critic.) The volume contains beside the title
essay: The thrilling moment; Talkability; A wild strawberry; Lovers
and landscape; A fatal success; Fishing in books; A Norwegian
honeymoon; Who owns the mountains? A lazy, idle book; The open fire; A
slumber song.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 40w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Van Dyke, Henry=, ed. Little masterpieces of English poetry, by British
and American authors; ed. by Henry van Dyke, assisted by Hardin Craig.
6v. ea. **75c; set, **$4.50. Doubleday.
“A companion to the ‘Science,’ ‘Fiction’ and ‘Humor’ series.... For
the many ... such a collection as this, wisely selected, and adapted
to the limits of both time and purse of the average reader, is of real
and not inconsiderable value.” (Outlook.) “In the first of the six
little volumes we find ballads old and new, in the second, idyls and
stories in verse, and in the four remaining volumes lyrics, odes,
sonnets and epigrams; descriptive and reflective verse; and elegies
and hymns. Each of these major divisions is subdivided according to
subjects. Living poets are excluded.” (Critic.)
* “The principle of arrangement followed in this new one is as
excellent as it is novel. As a rule, admirable judgment has been shown
in combining these handy volumes, the most remarkable defect being the
omission of Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “Dr. van Dyke’s name is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of
the selection.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Music and other poems. **$1. Scribner.
A collection of poems which take many forms and follow many themes.
The opening “Ode to music” is followed by sonnets, lyrics, and other
verses treating of the open, the silent hills, and the hearth and
home.
“Dr. Van Dyke’s work is that of a scholar in poetry endowed with a
graceful gift of lyric speech.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 420. S. ‘05. 570w.
“They are delicate and graceful in workmanship, the expression of a
refined and sensitive poetic instinct rather than the outpourings of a
creative mood.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 197. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“Dr. Van Dyke has nearly every good poetic gift except creative
genius.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “In spite of his popularity even Dr. van Dyke, who attempts to
supply our want of a reflective poet, leaves much to be desired in
depth and significance.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“There is much that is charming and appealing in these verses. From
first to last there is evidence of an unusual gift for verbal music.
If they are a little too honeyed, too academic, they are also the
production of a skillful artificer in words and of a mind of high
culture and high ideals.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 498. Mr. ‘05. 430w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= School of life, **50c. Scribner.
In this thin little volume is “eloquently expressed an optimism based,
not on temperament, but on faith in character, discernment of the
spiritual possibilities of life, and sound judgment of ethical
values.” (Outlook.)
“The characteristic charm of Dr. van Dyke’s former works is extended
to the present volume.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 328. My. ‘05. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Spirit of Christmas. **75c. Scribner.
Four essays for the Christmas tide. The first, “A dream story,” shows
how power and knowledge are both insufficient to reclaim the world
from sin, but that the secret of success lies in greater love; the
second, “Christmas giving and Christmas living,” offers helpful
suggestions on the spirit of giving; the third, “Christmas keeping,”
shows the possible purification in the Christmas thought; and the two
Christmas prayers make a plea for the home and the lonely ones.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “Full of Dr. van Dyke’s spirit of helpfulness, and pervaded by the
very human charm of his style.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
=Van Dyke, Paul.= Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.
Professor van Dyke’s survey embraces “the England, Germany, and Italy
of the sixteenth century. His concern is primarily with three
individuals—Pietro Aretino, the Venetian satirist; Thomas Cromwell,
the unscrupulous minister of the still less scrupulous Henry VIII.,
and the Emperor Maximilian I.—but the standpoint from which they are
regarded is such as to necessitate a close examination of their
times.”—Outlook.
* “His book appears to have been printed without the proofs being
read, though this appearance may be due to the author’s own style,
which is vicious.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 852. D. 2, ‘05. 1240w.
* “The results, not the details, of research are here exhibited, and
in a setting of idea which gives color and meaning and movement.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 310w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A novel with a ‘poor white trash’ mill-girl heroine, and a dissipated
labor agitator for hero, does not sound promising.” (Outlook.) It “is
clearly meant as a tract on industrial conditions in the new South....
[It] pictures the life of the factory hands in the cotton mills—a
life ... which is mainly sickness, suffering and death. There is much
in the book to arouse sober thought, and certain passages are rich in
description and characterization.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Apart from errors in style, and, here and there, in feeling, there is
a capacity to portray life which shows real power.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 230w.
“Is not a strong story, though it shows in places, the wish, if not
the power, to say something vital about love and life and death.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w.
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
+ — =Forum.= 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
“Mrs. Van Vorst paints with a strong hand the terrible life in the
mills.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 610w.
“Interesting and good work, although its story is improbable and over
weighted with propagandist theories and statistics.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
“In ‘Amanda of the mill’ she does not control her material; it
controls her. Over-seriousness forces her into melodrama, with
improbabilities that were never intended.”
— + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.
“An interesting but rather improbable story.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 30w.
=Vardon, Harry.= Complete golfer. **$3.50. McClure.
“Mr. Vardon has four times won the open championship of Great Britain
and once the American championship. There is no doubt, therefore, that
he knows how to play golf; and this book proves that he knows how to
tell others how to do it.” (Outlook.) The book is amply illustrated.
“Will be read with unusual interest as being the work of one who is
not only original in his methods and fascinating in his style, but
also perhaps the most finished and graceful player that has ever
lived.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 295. S. 2. 1300w.
“It is a very good book. He never leaves one in doubt as to his
meaning, and he brings to the succour of his pen a pleasant geniality
and optimism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 202. Je. 23, ‘05. 530w.
“Vardon’s manner of writing is as straightforward and interesting as
his manner of playing golf.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“He has accomplished what has often been called the impossible, the
writing of a helpful book in an entertaining manner by one who is an
acknowledged expert of the game.” F. W. C.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 652. O. 7, ‘05. 1720w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“His descriptions of his style are simple, clear, and interesting, and
his stories of experiences on the links in this country, England, and
Scotland are rarely entertaining. His book is full of valuable hints,
not only for the novice, but for the experienced golfer as well.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1270w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 56. Ag. 5, ‘05. 280w.
=Veblen, Thorstein B.= Theory of business enterprise. **$1.50. Scribner.
“The work deals rather with the methods of modern financiering and the
quest of profit rather than with the other less prominent commercial
data. If we have to choose between the ten chapters of which the
volume consists, we should particularly recommend the last five as
appealing more generally to the unbiased reader.... The first five
seem rather to lead up to the others, and to be an attempt at more
technical and erudite writing. Much is new of what the author says
about crises.... The ‘Theory of modern welfare,’ ... the significance
for the business world at large of the advance in workingmen’s
wages, ... and the theory of wasteful expenditure” are fully treated.
“The excellent remarks (pp. 319, 320) about business thinking, and the
equally keen observation about the absence of thrift among the modern
industrial workmen and its causes (pp. 325-27) are among the most
timely in the book.... The points of interest are many, and it is to
be regretted that we cannot here call attention to all of them.”—J.
Pol. Econ.
“The book lacks the desirable quality of terseness and the writer at
times wanders from the main line of his subject. A commendable feature
is the formulation of many of his statements in symbols of
mathematics, which are not incorporated into the text, but in
foot-notes.” John C. Duncan.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 612. My. ‘05. 250w.
“Professor Veblen has a preternaturally vivid insight into the
pathological side of business and society: and he follows
remorselessly the poisoned tract which his critical scalpel has
discovered. And yet, despite the fact that the author’s attitude
renders the highest approval of either the scientific or the ethical
standpoint impossible, the book is an uncommonly suggestive one. The
penetrating glance into certain broad and seamy aspects of our
industrial life prompts to a reflective testing of one’s social
beliefs and ideals.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 558. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“Professor Veblen, except in his satiric moods, tends to an oracular
and often to a tortuous mode of expression. By reason of its many
evidences of keen and profound thought, of a high grade of scholarship
and of a breadth and sureness of vision, the book is notable among
recent contributions to economics; and tho its usual style is
difficult, it is yet penetrated by flashes of inimitable satiric wit
that is delightful.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 570w.
“Our objection to this work ... is ... the constant use of terms which
to the lay mind seem unnecessarily studied and anachronistic. The
excellent qualities of scholarly reasoning and scientific
demonstration which characterize this book, besides the author’s wide
acquaintance with the existing economic literature....” A. M.
Wergeland.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 115. D. ‘04. 930w.
“Such a theory as is here set forth may impress the readers of
sensational magazines: but it is a travesty of economics and an unjust
aspersion of our business morality.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 37. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2280w.
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 96. My. ‘05. 550w.
=Vesey, Arthur Henry.= Clock and the key. †$1.50. Appleton.
An American girl in modern Venice sets her two lovers the task of
bringing to her a casket of jewels which disappeared five centuries
before. One man is an Italian duke, the other an American. With the
girl as the prize, the search for the jewels soon results in a series
of complicated and exciting adventures, but at last by the aid of an
old and intricate clock, which is itself the key, the jewels come to
the girl, and the girl to the man she loves.
“It is mysterious without being sensational, sparkling without being
trashy.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 80w.
“It really makes a very good mystery story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
Views of early New York; with illustrative sketches; prepared for the
New York chapter of the colonial order of the Acorn. priv. ptd. Colonial
order of the Acorn, N. Y.
This volume “contains six copper plate engravings made by Edwin Davis
French from views of New York in the early stages of its history....
‘These views were selected with care, and graphically represent the
gradual growth of the city from the little Dutch trading-post,
situated at the Battery, to the more important city depicted in
Rollinson’s view of 1801.’ Each view is accompanied by an explanatory
sketch from a well-known authority.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The little volume is full of interest to students of New York
history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 290w.
=Vigfusson, Gudbrandur, and Powell, Frederick York,= eds and trs.
Origines islandicae: a collection of the more important sagas and other
native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland.
2v. *$14. Oxford.
These volumes are divided into five books: “Landnámabok—the book of
the land-taking.... Islandingabok (Libellus islandorum) a collection
of notes made in the eleventh or twelfth century ... relating to the
old law and customs of the Norsemen settled in Iceland.... Tales and
legends relating to the conversion and early church history of
Iceland, Sagas relating to the history of Iceland during the first two
centuries ... divided into four sections, which treat of the South,
the West, the North, and the East quarters respectively.... Sagas
relating to the exploring voyages of Icelanders.... All or nearly all
of this matter has, we think, been printed before in Iceland or in
Denmark, but much of it is now accessible only in books that have
become scarce, and in texts far from accurate.”—Nation.
* “The present work is by no means free from some of the faults which
marked its predecessor, the ‘Corpus poeticum boreale’; but fortunately
the comparison of the two works will hold for the merits as well as
the defects.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 2650w.
Reviewed by W. P. Ker.
* + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 779. O. ‘05. 1080w.
* “Deeply as we must regret the loss of these two distinguished men
before completing their work, the book as it stands is one of great
value, and will doubtless find a place on the shelves of every
university library and of every scholar of the old Northern
literature. The translation is clear, direct, and simple, slightly
archaic as is right.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 260. S. 28, ‘05. 2910w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 577. S. 2, ‘05. 250w.
* “In this case the peculiar gifts of mediaeval temperament and
curious linguistic knowledge of the English translator have given us a
translation equally spirited and faithful on the whole, often very
near the picturesque quality of the original and yet good honest
idiomatic English prose.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 627. N. 11, ‘05. 2020w.
=Villard, Henry.= Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier,
1835-1900. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
Henry Villard landed in New York in 1853, a mere boy, without friends,
money, or a knowledge of English. After suffering almost incredible
hardships, he finally succeeded as a journalist, representing the N.
Y. Tribune as war correspondent during the Civil war. His memoirs
contain valuable accounts of battles, estimates of the commanders, and
personal descriptions of Lincoln and others. Later he left journalism
for finance, attaining eminence in this calling also.
“What separates it from other books of its class is that it is a
characteristic illustration of American possibilities.” M. A. De Wolfe
Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 131. Ja. ‘05. 810w.
=Villari, Luigi=, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.
A symposium on the Macedonian question, past, present, and future. Its
object is to draw the attention of Englishmen to the situation in the
Balkans, to show that Turkey cannot be reformed from within and that
the time is ripe to bring about European control. There are chapters
by English writers on the various aspects of the problem, and by
French and Italian writers on the attitude and duty of their
respective countries.
=Critic.= 47: 410. N. ‘05. 460w.
“To be sure, it is a piece of liberal propaganda and tells only one
side of the story, but it is nevertheless a lucid explanation of a
very complicated situation.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 540w.
“There is, in the book before us, considerable repetition, an
occasional contradiction, and some diversity, not only as to points of
view, but as to such minor matters as the spelling of geographical and
proper nouns.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 424. My. 25, ‘05. 1340w.
“It is a most informing and interesting volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“We know of no other volume exhibiting the subject so comprehensively
and so clearly from the pro-Macedonian standpoint.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 200w.
“Undoubtedly the most instructive two chapters are those by Mr.
Valentine Chirol and Mr. Bourchier.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 634. My. 13, ‘05. 1020w.
=Villari, Luigi.= Russia under the great shadow. **$3.50. Pott.
“Unless all the auguries should prove false, the war in the Far East
should mark the transition of Russia from the Middle ages to the
twentieth century, from the Eastern to the Western world, from
barbarism to civilization,” gives the keynote of Mr. Villari’s
optimism which characterizes this work, altho he brings the reader
face to face with the dark facts of present conditions. One of the
strongest chapters in the book is that in the industrial development
of Russia whose conclusion proves that “M. de Witte’s scheme of making
agricultural Russia an industrial country was a mistake both
politically and economically.” (Sat. R.)
“The book is so good that we find little to say about it. The only
point upon which we find Mr. Villari inclined to go wrong concerns the
defects of the Eastern church.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 747. Je. 17. 480w.
“If it does not claim to be a very profound study, it is,
nevertheless, a very pleasant book to read, and contains much
interesting, and even valuable information.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 222. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.
“Mr. Villari has written an excellent account of the Czar’s empire in
war-time.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 2310w.
“The work itself strikes us less as that of an observant traveller
than a compilation of material taken from well-known standard works.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 700w.
“Is full of shrewd observation and vivid description, and is admirably
illustrated.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 130w.
=Villiers, Frederic.= Port Arthur: three months with the besiegers.
*$2.50. Longmans.
An English war correspondent’s story of three months with the Japanese
army before Port Arthur. It is a vivid and stirring account as far as
it goes, but unfortunately the author left the army two months before
the actual fall of the fortress.
“Mr. Villiers’ impressions ... form a series of word-pictures which,
although at times they are somewhat disjointed, make interesting
reading, and this, too, despite the irritating and frequently
recurring fact that unimportant and somewhat egotistical information
about the writer and his field companions is unnecessarily obtruded
upon the attention of the reader.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 174. F. 25, ‘05. 550w.
“The text is brightly written, in a vein altogether cheerful.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“It is simply the diary of an experienced observer.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 316. Ap. 20, ‘05. 3650w.
“It is as a study of human nature exposed to exceptional conditions
that it holds the interest of the reader from the first page to the
last.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 760w.
“Taken only for what it claims to be—a picturesque, gossipy narrative
of personal observation and experience—the book is enjoyable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 467. Mr. 25, ‘05. 690w.
“The narrative throughout is written with a cheerful good feeling and
fairness which command respect.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 130w.
=Vilmorin-Andrieux, et cie.= Vegetable garden. *$4.50. Dutton.
“The new issue of the English version of Mm. Vilmorin-Andrieux’
vegetable encyclopedia makes a volume of nearly 800 pages.... The book
shows its mixed origin inevitably: the general notes on culture are
chiefly founded on the practice of the Paris market-gardens; and these
are followed by directions in smaller type intended for British
conditions. There is bewildering choice of varieties of every root and
herb—French, German, Italian, or American.... The botanical and
historical information is rather disproportionate to the cultural
directions.... Small woodcuts illustrate the book.”—Sat. R.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 815. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 320w.
* “With Professor Bailey’s valuable ‘Cyclopaedia,’ and with this minor
cyclopaedia supplementing that, our gardeners, professional and
amateur, are well equipped.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 472. D. 7, ‘05. 560w.
“The book will probably be of more value to the experienced gardener
than to the beginner.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 45. S. 2, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 155. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
=Vincent, Marvin R.=, tr. See =Dante, A.= Inferno.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A volume based upon lectures given at Oxford in the summer of 1904,
and addressed primarily to students of general history. The author
gives a full treatment of manorial origins; he states in his preface:
“All periods of English history had their bearing on the life of the
manor. Some germs of manorial institutions may be found in the Celtic
age; the Roman occupation of the island had undoubtedly a powerful
influence on its economic arrangements; the old English period is
marked by the full development of the rural township; the feudal epoch
finds the manor at its height; the dissolution of the manor forms one
of the processes by which modern commercial intercourse was brought
about.”
“His method and the mastery of the details of his subject combine to
produce a notable book; but we confess to disappointment that he did
not pursue to a greater extent the test of comparative polity. Broad
as it is in outline, it is full to the highest degree of the most
valuable details. A mass of material brought together and classified
in a manner which must remain of permanent value.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 125. F. 11, ‘05. 780w.
“On the whole, Dr. Vinogradoff is not convincing in his argument.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 322. O. 6, ‘05. 1050w.
“This power of brilliant scientific intuition in individual instances,
along with his vast general erudition, is what makes Vinogradoff so
admirable. He is preëminently a ‘case historian.’ But the power of
summation, of vividly portraying the march of change in its broad
currents, he does not possess.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 223. S. 14, ‘05. 1490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 330w.
“In handling a subject that promises so much Dr. Vinogradoff has
displayed an accuracy rare among holders of British professorships.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“Scholars will not find it easy to accept Dr. Vinogradoff’s
conclusions in full, but all will perceive in his treatise an
illuminating contribution to a difficult problem.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w.
“Dr. Vinogradoff in stating his case has also carefully set forth the
views of those who differ from him, and the result is a book of
singular value as well as of extraordinary fascination.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 594. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2250w.
=Vitelleschi, Marchesa.= Romance of Savoy. *$7.50. Dutton.
The romantic rise of the House of Savoy is sketched from its
subservient position under the insolent protection of the King of
France to an independent state worthy of the respect of the whole of
Europe. Two important personages are the center of development, Victor
Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and Anna Maria of Orleans, granddaughter
of Charles I.
“Certain peculiarities of diction betray deficient knowledge of
English on the part of the author or the translator, if it has been
found necessary to call in the latter.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 488. Ap. 15. 1800w.
“If she had not attempted to prove too much, to dwell too strongly on
the importance to Savoy of its connection with the Stuarts, her book
would have been more convincing.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 533. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1050w.
“She has been an industrious worker, and has unearthed from the papers
put at her disposition some interesting things relative to a
picturesque period in Italian history. She has also, however,
unearthed some things of rather doubtful permanent worth, and the
printing of these at times clouds the clearness of her narrative.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w.
=Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred.= Emile Zola, novelist and reformer. **$3.50.
Lane.
A life of Zola by his authorized translator, the son of one of his
first publishers. Zola’s school days at Aix, his youth in Paris, his
position with the publisher Hachette, his connection with the Dreyfus
episode, and the history of his writings, particularly the long
Rougon-Manquart cycle, are given in full. There is much of his
contracts with publishers and theatrical managers, and the business
detail incident to his work.
“Not one of the five hundred and fifty pages that make up this life is
out of place.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 120w.
“In some respects Mr. Vizetelly’s ‘Zola’ is a satisfactory, and is
likely to remain for some time a definitive work. With regard to the
facts of Zola’s career there is probably no one capable of speaking
with more authority than Mr. Vizetelly. The book is unnecessarily
crowded with ‘shop.’”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 266. F. 2, ‘05. 700w.
* “Tho wanting in conclusion and proportion, is likely to be for some
time an authoritative source for the facts of the novelist’s life.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Preparation of manuscripts for the
printer. *75c. Funk.
A series of directions to authors as to the manner of preparing copy
and correcting proofs with suggestions on submitting manuscripts for
publication.
* “It contains much useful information and sound advice from a man of
experience in the publishing world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “Altogether, this is likely to be a useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 934. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Von Horn, W. D.= See =Oertel, Phillipp Friedrich Wilhelm.=
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties: their origin by mutation;
lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel
Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.
“The present work consists of twenty-eight lectures arranged in six
groups. The first lecture is an introduction dealing with ‘Theories of
evolution’ and ‘Methods of investigation.’ ... The second division of
lectures (II.-IV.) deals with ‘Elementary species in nature.’ ... In
lectures V.-XV., the author presents the evidence to show that
‘varieties’ are produced either by the loss of some marked
peculiarity, or by latent characters becoming active, or by the
acquisition of others that are already present in allied species....
Lectures XVI.-XXIV. Although the author tested many species, only one,
the evening primrose, Œnothera, gave positive, mutating, results. He
finds that the various mutations obtained from this species take place
with a great degree of regularity. Very simple rules of general
validity, he assumes, govern the whole phenomenon.... Lectures
XXV.-XXVIII. There is selection of two kinds, between species and
between varieties.”—Philos. R.
“‘Species and varieties,’ then, within the field of natural science,
is clearly the book of the year. On the practical side it gives unity
and significance to the random observations of every lover of plants.
On the theoretical side, the work articulates with Mendel’s old
doctrine of the unit character, the heredity atom which either is, or
is not, and never splits in passing from one generation to the next.”
E. T. Brewster.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 683. N. ‘05. 850w.
“‘The greatest contribution since Darwin’ is the universal testimony.”
H. C. Cowles.
+ + + =Bot. G.= 40: 148. Ag. ‘05. 900w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1187. My. 25, ‘05. 810w.
“The book is, considering its bulk, very free from misprints.” A. D.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 314. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1560w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“Evidently the work of de Vries may well prove to be an epoch-making
contribution to the advance of knowledge.” Edward G. Spaulding.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 354. My. ‘05. 2760w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 344. Mr. 4, ‘05. 970w.
“The great service of de Vries’s work is that, being founded on
experimentation, it challenges to experimentation as the only judge of
its merits. As to the literary qualities of the book, one has first to
praise the general method of exposition. It is quite a model.” C. B.
Davenport.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 369. S. 22, ‘05. 2800w.
W
=Wack, Henry Wellington.= Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet.
**$1.50. Putnam.
A bundle of letters written to Hugo by Madame Drouet in 1851 and
discovered by Mr. Wack on a ramble thru the island of Guernsey, forms
the basis of this book. An introduction by M. François Coppée, the
story of the relations of the poet and Juliette for fifty years and of
the poet’s life at Hauteville house by Mr. Wack, and many
illustrations complete the volume.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 509. Je. ‘05. 790w.
“His book is quite without adequate raison d’etre.”
— =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 530w.
“The introduction by François Coppée is especially interesting not
only on account of the view that it furnishes of Hugo as seen by an
enthusiastic young poet, but because of its literary excellence and
the charming delicacy with which he has related his experiences.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 42. Jl. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“One more superfluous example of literary indiscretion.”
— =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The literary value of this book lies in the charming introduction by
François Coppée; the human interest, in the conscientious work of the
author, who, however, is sometimes in danger of beating his gold leaf
out too thin.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Wellington Wack proves such a pretty apologist that we can easily
persuade ourselves that we are not reading scandal at all, but a
‘worthy literary record.’”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=Wack, Henry Wellington.= Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50.
Putnam.
“Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of
government in central Africa. After personal research among the
documents in the administration office, to which he was given free
access by the king of the Belgians, the author presents this volume as
a true and complete history of the affairs of the Congo Free State.
The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic
sketches.”—Bookm.
“His refutation of the British charges is so violent that, considering
the sources of his information, the argument is not convincing.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 595. My. ‘05. 180w.
“But apart from its value as a plea for the equity and wisdom of King
Leopold’s administration, the book has an interest which makes a
strong appeal to the general reader.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 82: 126. O. ‘05. 620w.
“We heartily thank the author for the abundant documents, pictures,
statistics, appendices, and index even more than for his narrative,
which, while liable for discount as a statement of truth, is rich in
facts.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
“As a polemic it is plain that ... Mr. Wack writes from a prejudiced,
anti-British standpoint.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 300w.
“The most interesting as well as the most trustworthy feature of the
book is its profuse photographic illustration.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 276. Ap. 6, ‘05. 940w.
“Mr. Wack’s book, however, seems to be ‘the real thing,’ and is the
most complete work on the subject that has yet appeared.” James
Gustavus Whiteley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 129. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1710w.
“He makes it evident at the very outset that he did not approach his
task with an altogether unbiased mind. If his monograph fails as a
refutation, it is not, however without value as contributing useful
information in regard to the history and resources of the Free State.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 465. Mr. 25, ‘05. 970w.
=Waddell, Charles Carey.= Van Suyden sapphires. †$1.50. Dodd.
Miss Gwendolen Bramblestone, one of the guests, at Mrs. Van Suyden’s
country place for a week-end house party, becomes implicated in a
mysterious jewel robbery. The story follows her efforts to establish
her innocence and to recover the gems. Her Scotch lover, the
“gentleman burglar,” and an ex-jockey detective add to the plot and to
the character interest.
“Exceedingly interesting tale in spite of its thinning out toward the
end.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 347 My. 27. ‘05. 560w.
“An absorbing story from start to finish.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 160w.
“The plot is most ingenious.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 130w.
=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries; with a record of
the expedition of 1903-4. *$6. Dutton.
This detailed account of the expedition to Lhasa is written by the
chief medical officer of the military escort which accompanied Sir
Francis Younghusband. There is an historical introduction, and there
are diagrams, plans, maps, and illustrations from photographs taken by
the author.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 423. Ap. 8. 2210w.
“His book is decidedly interesting. It contains a great deal of new
matter regarding the country. The author has seen a great deal, but he
does not impress us as a man of a scholarly, independent, and broadly
cultivated mind.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 484. Je. 15, ‘05. 2760w.
“In the matter of authoritative backgrounds, at all events, Col.
Waddell’s book on the Lhasa mission and its antecedents is the most
complete which has so far appeared.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1640w.
“Inferior in literary quality to both Mr. Landon’s ‘The opening of
Tibet’ and Mr. Candler’s ‘The unveiling of Lhasa,’ it deals with the
subject more broadly and intimately than either.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 241. My. 27, ‘05. 1920w.
“We may therefore accept the statement made in ‘Lhasa and its
mysteries’ as an authoritative description, so far as opportunity
allowed, of the inner life of the people.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 56. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1990w.
“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque
and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every
type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an
occasional tendency to egotism.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 320. S. 2, ‘05. 1370w.
=Waddington, Mary Alsop King.= Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.
**$2.50. Scribner.
The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in
1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of
France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years
later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and
a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and
notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.
“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a
cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and
good-natured mind.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 443. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1500w.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 494. Ap. 15. 770w.
“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most
interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the
past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 506. Je. ‘05. 780w.
“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its
predecessor in interest.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘03. 460w.
“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a
friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand
in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and
interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 418. My. 25, ‘05. 1270w.
“Mme. Waddington in Italy is not perhaps Mme. Waddington at her best.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1230w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety.
Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free
from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like
malice or scandal.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 240w.
“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its
class.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 836. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 596. O. ‘05. 260w.
“The stream of pleasant babble flows along so easily and briskly and
vividly that only a veritable churl could refuse to be vastly
entertained.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 710w.
* =Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Best of All” was blessed not only with a fertile imagination but with
a husband, “The Other One,” who entered delightedly into all her
schemes, and together they turned an old fashioned Italian garden into
a pink garden filling it with all the things that bloom pink and
gazing at it thru rose colored glasses. Here they and Best of All’s
sister, called “The Prevaricator,” because she wrote stories, whiled
away much of a happy summer. A dozen garden photographs printed on
thin paper and mounted on separate pages, also various border designs
drawn by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and printed in pink and green, create a
real pink garden atmosphere.
* “A novelty in garden books.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.
* “A charming volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Coming of the white men: stories
of how our country was discovered. †75c. Wilde.
This is the first volume in a series known as “Uncle Sam’s old-time
stories.” It aims to interest young readers in the beginnings of
American history, and to arouse patriotism. The present narrative
covers the period from the time when the Norsemen set foot upon our
soil down to the establishing of the Maryland colony.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Ten big Indians. †$1. Wilde.
A companion volume of “Ten little Indians.” This sketch includes the
chiefs and leaders of the tribes from which the ten little Indians
were drawn. The qualities of the red men and the different periods of
American history and different sections of the country are represented
while the author shows that thru such means as bravery, oratory,
cunning and in a few instances kindness, these braves won power and
prominence.
=Wagner, Charles.= Busy life; or, The conquest of energy; tr. from the
French by G: Moorhead. 60c. Ogilvie.
A book of moral teaching intended to instill into the minds of the
readers the desire for the real things of life, among which there is
none comparable to energy, which is virtue itself, stimulating in us
and in others, life, joy, and hope.
* =Wagner, Charles.= Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee.
**$1. McClure.
“‘A disposition to unfairness, bad faith, and evil speaking, is abroad
in every field,’ says the author in his preface, ‘and a matter over
which men do not contend at daggers drawn, is hard to find.’ To
counteract this evil, the little book teaches the lesson of sweet
reasonableness and Christian charity.” (Dial.) The contents include:
The birth of righteousness; Dominion and voluntary service; Mine and
thine; Science and faith; The love of country—Humanity; The
churches—The church—Religious justice; Society and the individual
social justice; The religious conception of work.
* “Fluent and apparently careful translation. These new chapters
contain little that is essentially new to those familiar with the
volumes that have preceded.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 244. O. 16, ‘05. 320w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 650w.
=Wagner, Charles.= My appeal to America; being my first address to an
American audience. **50c. McClure.
An appeal for active goodness and the “simple life,” with an
introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and notes and appendices. The
profits of the book are to go to a fund to furnish a site for a church
of which Mr. Wagner is to be the pastor.
“In remarkably lucid English, occasionally quaint, and always naïvely
serious, even when expressive of a saving sense of humor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Wagner, Charles.= On life’s threshold: talks to young people on
character and conduct; tr. by Edna St. John. **$1. McClure.
“In talking to young people ... is it necessary to ... be genuine,
direct and simple. In this respect these talks are excellent, and can
profitably be studied as models by many of our preachers and teachers.
The ethical instruction is developed by a process of reasoning instead
of being based on dogma and authority, and is not even very definitely
Christian, so there ought not to be any objection to the use of the
book in the public school of any locality.”—Ind.
“Pastor Wagner’s power lies in the fact that he is not ashamed to put
commonplaces in plain language.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 729. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w.
“The volume is a careful guidebook to everyday life.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 220w.
“Another little volume of thought-provoking, cheerful philosophy.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘03. 100w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner;
arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.
A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not
difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven
operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of
excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen.
The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all
that such a foreword should be.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 393. Ag. 17, ‘05. 90w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W.
Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great
achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and
she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring
des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This
remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of
the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their
relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not
propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its
artistic results.”—Lond. Times.
“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read
them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 216. S. ‘05. 1050w.
“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has
been no improper discrimination in the selection from private
correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real
character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as
it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 520w.
“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether
reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest
praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and
for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended
to them.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 174. Je. 9, ‘05. 2150w.
“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent
reflected in the English version.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 126. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.
[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s
German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so
illumined.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 670w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
=Wakefield, Frank H.= Marriage—limited. $1.50. Neale.
The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year
marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its
expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may
marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and
educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and
some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it
is the unique state of society that is exciting.
=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s.
The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven
handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his
principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage
music, orchestral works, solo instrument music, chamber music, and
piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his
music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected
qualities.
“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very
striking and suggestive kind.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 235. Jl. 21, ‘05. 600w.
“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and
suggestive withal.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 464. Je. 8, ‘05. 150w.
“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened
and sympathetic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 440w.
=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6.
Dodd.
“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There
is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is
written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is
largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and
other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four
sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different
readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the
famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the
naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at
home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent
contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic
problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.
“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse
the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P.
Pycraft.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1119. O. 28, ‘05. 1870w.
* “Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a
model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample
forgiveness for its prolixity.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 649. N. 11. 1040w.
“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere
and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and
continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high
order, seem faded or forced.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 348. O. 20, ‘05. 2550w.
“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in
many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has
followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s
self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the
greater part of it worth the reading.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 526. O. 21, ‘05. 1670w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Lure of the Labrador wild. **$1.50. Revell.
The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of
Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas
Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and
a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of
hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate
provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having
caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were
forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed,
and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and
graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he
still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire
is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps
it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard
began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three
original and accurate maps.
“It is one of the most interesting accounts of exploration we have
seen.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 596. My. ‘05. 70w.
“Seldom has a story of hardship bravely endured been told so
movingly.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 472 My. ‘05. 210w.
=Nation.= 80: 256. Mr. 30, ‘05. 910w. (Condensed narrative.)
“It is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and
starvation. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong
if you would go exploring.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 98. F. 18, ‘05. 1620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“It is a wonderfully interesting record, told in a simple and
straightforward manner.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 717. My. 6. ‘05. 180w.
“Presents, in a graphic, literary style, the tragic story.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring
expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 918. Je. 24. ‘05. 340w.
=Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.= Russia. $5. Holt.
An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in
1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the
history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and
the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while
the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants,
burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government,
religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told
in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long
residence among them.
“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of
its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views
which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading
value.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of
the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained
in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real
information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose
books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 37. Jl. 8. 1990w.
“It covers a much broader field than M. Ular even thinks of
attempting.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 410. N. ‘05. 230w.
“As a masterly attempt to facilitate one nation’s understanding of
another, ‘Russia’ stands in the same class as Mr. Bodley’s ‘France’
and Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 205. Je. 30, ‘05. 2940w.
“A book of extreme value on a remarkably difficult subject has been
rendered invaluable nay, indispensable—for those who wish clearly to
understand present conditions and future possibilities in the realm of
the Tsar.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1110w.
“Almost every subject is treated of in a method in keeping with its
nature.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 603. S. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Is the finished product of a man who in every respect is competent to
deal in a masterly manner with his subject.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 170w.
“The work is a large and exhaustive one. It is regarded by many
Russians as the best work about their country ever written by a
foreigner.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 341. S. 9, ‘05. 1480w.
“Sir Donald Wallace writes of modern parties with a serene
impartiality, and a clearness and fulness which are only too rare in
works on the subject. We may differ from the author’s conclusions, but
we are compelled to respect them; and since he gives his data frankly
and fairly, he provides the reader, if he be mistaken, with materials
for an independent judgment.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1030w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Daughter of the rich. †$1.50. Little.
A favorite among young readers whose popularity demands a new edition
to which Ellen Bernard Thompson has contributed six full-page
illustrations.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Sanna. †$1.50. Harper.
“The heroine is the center of an admiring circle of homely Nantucket
folk, one of the vivid blossoms that glow in the fresh salt breezes.
Each character in the story is distinctly individualized, and humor
and pathos mingle in their shrewd talk. Somewhat apart, but always
sympathetic with the village people, are the members of the Torrence
family, within whose bounds are found the seeds that ripen into
tragedy and give a dramatic touch to the well-managed plot.”—Outlook.
=Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“The author’s art falls below her invention. Nevertheless, ‘Sanna’ is
a well-written, wholesome, breezy tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 360w.
“Altogether this is a novel quite above the average in construction
and sustained interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.
* =Wallis, Louis.= Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion,
$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
The author discusses the proposition that “egoism is the only ‘force’
propelling the social machine,” which thesis he demonstrates by
evidence drawn from biblical history; he further maintains that the
historical criticism of the Bible must be made in the light of
sociology; finally, he shows the practical bearing of this on the
present social problems.
=Walpole, Horace.= Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes
and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
Twelve of these sixteen volumes have been published to date. They
contain the letters in as complete form as possible, giving four
hundred letters not included in the “Latest edition of collected
letters,” and which have never before been printed. There is
additional annotation and an exhaustive index. The edition is
illustrated by fifty portraits in photogravure, and three facsimiles
of original letters.
=Acad.= 68: 195. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1210w. (Review of v. 9-12.)
“It is sufficient to say that there is no indication that the editor
has become weary in her work, for the foot-notes still contain ample
information and represent much labor.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 708. Ap. ‘05. 110w. (Review of vols.
IX-XII.)
“The value of Mrs. Toynbee’s work ... does not lie in fresh
discoveries so much as in the patient devotion with which she has
sifted and sorted the whole correspondence. The notes ... are
unobtrusive, and admirable in clarity and conciseness, and, as editing
goes, this collection of letters could not be bettered.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 40. Ja. 14. 1440w. (Reviews vols. IX.-XII.)
“It is superfluous to repeat how eminently Mrs. Toynbee’s edition of
Walpole overtops all others. To render it supremely enduring it needs
but one addition ... a companion volume of annotations. Mrs. Toynbee’s
too chary annotation is always pertinent.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 231. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1810w. (Review of vols.
IX-XII.)
“This edition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee’s is as complete as possible, and
otherwise as pleasing and attractive as an edition can be made.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13-15.)
“If these letters, then, have not all the airy volatility and gay
sparkle of Walpole’s earlier days, it is still astonishing how he
retains his freshness and wit, and these volumes yield to none in
their interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 748. My. 20, ‘05. 2060w. (Re-review of v. 9-12.)
=Walpole, Spencer Horatio.= History of twenty-five years, 1855-1881. 2v.
$10. Longmans.
The author, who held official positions in the war and post-office
departments from 1858 to 1899, is the only English writer who has had
the advantage of being in active service in Downing street while
engaged in historical research. “The better acquainted a student is
with the other histories of the middle years of the nineteenth century
the greater is his indebtedness to Sir Spencer Walpole for the many
little asides in which he introduces new material, based not on books,
official or non-official, but on his own personal experience, and on
information which he acquired first hand during his long and
distinguished career in the British civil service.... His history
covers Europe, and to a large extent the United States, as well as the
United Kingdom and the over-sea possessions of Great Britain. He cites
an authority for every statement he makes; and his authorities,
appended as foot-notes, show that there are few sources—British,
American or European—on which he has not drawn.... The first hundred
pages in the second volume are devoted to the War of the rebellion and
to the attitude of England to the Federal and Confederate
governments.” (Ind.)
“The style is commonplace and diffuse. At times it is wordy in the
extreme. The marshaling of all this material has been excellently
managed.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 436. F. 23, ‘05. 900w.
* =Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= History of ancient pottery, Greek,
Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15.
Scribner.
“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received
was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857....
Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered
that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results
of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous
volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well
provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in
the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their
decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian
pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the
pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of
earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the
Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in
color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text
illustrations.”—Nation.
* “Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for
many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those
branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every
page attests the care and thoroughness with which published
authorities have been consulted.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 475. O. 7. 890w.
Reviewed by Arthur Howard Noll.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 301. N. 16, ‘05. 1280w.
* “The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything
now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or
foreign, having been neglected.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 88. N. ‘05. 470w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 283. O. 5. ‘05. 1530w.
* “Other and more expensive volumes have surpassed it in beauty of
illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient
pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have
come down to us.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.
* “The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow
outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps
surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of
material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with
success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions
of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be
summarised without danger.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 1300w.
=Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.= Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There
is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the
drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of
divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by
birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien
found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook
to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the
new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon
a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)
* + =Ind.= 59: 1229. N. 23, ‘05. 150w.
“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her
reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a
less vigorous hand.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 340w.
“Many of the personages are drawn with vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“An exciting story from start to finish.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 50w.
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40.
Longmans.
These three volumes form the beginning of a series which when
completed will illustrate the development of the various forms of
American literature. Each volume treats of a single species, tracing
the evolution of this definite form and presenting in chronological
sequence typical examples chosen from the writings of American authors
born prior to 1850. Volume I, “American short stories,” edited by
Charles Sears Baldwin, contains a comprehensive introduction, and
selected stories which he divides into two periods, the “tentative”
and the “new form.” Under the former are selections from Irving,
Austin, Hall, and Pike; under the latter, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe,
Willis, Kirkland, O’Brien, Hart, Webster, Taylor, Bunner, and
Frederic. Volume II, “American literary criticism,” edited by William
Morton Payne, deals with the development of the critical spirit in
American literature. The introduction shows literary insight and
critical ability and ranks with the essays which follow. The essays
selected are entirely upon literary themes, and include selections
from Dana, Ripley, Emerson, Poe, Ossoli, Lowell, Whitman, Whipple,
Stedman, Howells, Lanier, and James. Volume III, “American familiar
verse,” edited by Brander Matthews, who is also editing the edition as
a whole, contains a, lengthy introduction which defines Familiar verse
as—“the lyric of commingled sentiment and playfulness, which is more
generally and more carelessly called vers de société.” A rather
catholic choice of authors follows—Freneau, J. Q. Adams, Moore,
Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Saxe,
Lowell, Stoddard, Stedman, Aldrich, and many others.
“Two compilations, which are fitted to serve a good purpose in advance
English classes.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 832. Mr. ‘05. 390w. (Reviews vols. I. and
II.)
“If the succeeding volumes are as capably edited as the three now
published, the series will prove of great value in the historical
study of our literature. From the character of these three volumes it
is evident that the series when complete will place in their proper
proportions the successive steps in the evolution of these distinct
literary forms. The one unfortunate feature in the general plan of the
library is the arbitrary restriction which prohibits a selection from
any ~living~ American writers whose birth has occurred since December
31, 1850.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 13. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1350w.
“The ~genre~ of familiar verse is so well adapted to this particular
purpose, and Mr. Matthews has shown such skill in selection, that his
own volume will probably bear the test of time as the standard
anthology. The value of the illustrative material in the others is
more doubtful.” G. R. Carpenter.
+ + =Educ. R.= 29: 424. Ap. ‘05. 490w. (Reviews vols. I.-III.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 290w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Trixy. $1.50.
Houghton.
This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for
its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping
death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in
court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses
the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by
his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and
kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the
vivisectionist.
“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has
avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 80: 833. Mr. ‘05. 290w.
“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that
is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we
question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make
her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far
as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her
warning against vivisection.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 99. Ja. 12, ‘05. 850w.
=Ward, H. Marshall.= Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the
woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a
guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume
is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The
series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences:
Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the
tree as a whole.
“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value,
then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26, 480w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The book is not only an excellent text-book In forest botany, but is
a capital study in pedagogy as well.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is, like the earlier volumes in the series, thoroughly interesting
and accurate.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work will be found indispensable to those students who wish to
make an expert study of forest botany. At the same time it is
expressed in language so clear and devoid of technicalities that the
amateur who wishes to know something about our trees and shrubs will
find this one of the most useful guides to which he can turn.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 291. Ja. 26, ‘05. 620w. (Reviews vols. I. and
II.)
“There is also a very useful and exhaustive index at the end of the
book.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 482. S. 14, ‘05. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ward, H. Snowden.= Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
“The interest of the book centers around two great tragedies: the fall
of Thomas the archbishop, and the fall of Thomas the martyr. These are
bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy: the collapse of a
grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and
short-comings, had done a noble work for those who had needed it most,
the poor, the weak, the suffering.” The text has been improved by many
illustrations of churches, shrines and relics, and sketches of the
“pilgrims’ way.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for
the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life
that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 28, ‘05. 840w.
=Ward, John.= Our Sudan: its pyramids and progress. *$8.40. Scribner.
The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress
and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of
Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give
interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry
episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty
centuries, combined with details of explorations and military
expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)
“There can be no doubt of its interest or its future popularity.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 430w.
“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt
for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious
guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”
— — + =Sat. R.= 100: 23. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1160w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Marriage of
William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
A novel presenting the political and social order existing in London a
hundred years ago. William Ashe, a rising young statesman of English
solidity and force, falls in love with Lady Kitty, beautiful,
eighteen, just released from a French convent, and neglected by a
mother of doubtful reputation. He marries her and she leads him gayly
from one scandal to another, ridiculing his influential friends,
making enemies of the prime minister, Lord Parham and his wife, and
capping all by writing a bitterly real satire upon the social set in
which her marriage has placed her. A fragile, captivating creature of
varying moods, with an hereditary moral madness in her blood, she
holds our interest, excites our pity, and dominates the book. But
there are other characters; William’s mother, the strong aristocratic
Englishwoman, Mary Lyster, cold, narrow, and selfishly hard, and
Geoffrey Cliffe—a villain with a dash of genius, whose power over
Kitty began with her desire to penetrate the secret history of a man
whose poems filled her with a thrilling sense of feeling and passion
beyond her ken.
“It is one of the best that Mrs. Humphry Ward has written, the chief
fault of it being the wearisome middle. The work is not organically
built up, and though the interest revives towards the end we still
feel that the book is imperfect. One can well understand that it would
have been twice as good if Mrs. Humphry Ward possessed the saving gift
of humour, but she takes many things in life and particularly her own
sex much too seriously.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 227. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1570w.
“It is not in any real sense a remarkable book. There is little or
nothing in it that has not been given before both by the writer
herself and by others. The hand of the experienced literary artist is
visible—too visible in fact.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 730w.
“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in
incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle
and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 269. My. ‘05. 500w.
“In spite of its lack of humor the book is never dull.” C. Harwood.
+ =Critic.= 46: 472. My. ‘05. 640w.
“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective
dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of
deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and
confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 100. Jl. ‘05. 1470w.
“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her
latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s
stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens.
The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s
method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of
William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight
of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s
story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of
William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.”
C. H. Gaines.
+ + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 49: 392. Mr. 18, ‘05. 2060w.
“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty
that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a
literary artist.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 668. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1290w.
* “Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only
one to survive.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 336. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1710w.
“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself
more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty
with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has
triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and
with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily
have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not
die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom
the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1680w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which
Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of
experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among
the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing
chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 771. Ap. 1, ‘05. 300w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full
of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The
marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It
is an absorbing one.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 783. My. ‘05. 920w.
“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance
may be predicted.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 350w.
“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of a ~roman à clef~,
but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of
all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her
work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained
eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating
analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty
and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one
notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the
handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill,
and charm in presentation.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 443. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2020w.
=Ward, Wilfrid Philip.= Aubrey de Vere. *$4.60. Longmans.
A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of
Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and
rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself,
revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic
descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth,
Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief
which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the
famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and
pen, are given in detail.
“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread
a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 180w.
“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the
least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of
a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his
fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and
friend.” Clark S. Northrup.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 7. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1760w.
“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 360w.
“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and
delicate art of the biographer.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 290. F. 25, ‘05. 1680w.
=Warden, Florence.= House by the river, $1. Ogilvie.
A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of
curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is
in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.
=Ware, William.= Aurelian, a tale of the Roman empire in the Third
century. $1.50. Crowell.
The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely
bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks
among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late
additions to this series.
=Warner, Anne.= See =French, A. W.=
=Warner, Charles Dudley.= Complete writings; * ed. by Thomas R.
Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.
The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical
sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of
the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing
the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in
permanent form.” (Outlook.)
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 12-15.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. (Review of v. 9-15.)
* “Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give
Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it
deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography
which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 440. Je. 17, ‘05. 970w.
=Warner, George H.= Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost
whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and
present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics
of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what
the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew
is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence....
Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the
writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)
* =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 25w.
* “Mr. Warner negatives too much and constructs too little.” Edith J.
Rich.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 302. N. 16, ‘05. 1360w.
“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a
single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 530w.
“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact,
held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned,
which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 350w.
“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining
marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book,
except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man
who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful
study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not
work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable
information—and full of contempt.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ‘05. 430w.
=Warner, Horace Everett.= Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the
International Union by Ginn.
This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers
read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and
after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of
heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the
authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and
Some objections.
“Although the book is somewhat academic in tone, it is worth reading.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 118. O. ‘05. 370w.
“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be
placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 414. S. 23, ‘05. 340w.
=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Mirabeau and the French revolution.
**$2.50. Lippincott.
“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of
the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the
storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.
“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the
enthusiastic amateur.”
+ — — =Acad.= 68: 778. Jl. 29, ‘05. 690w.
“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear,
sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred
Morrow Fling.
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 157. O. ‘05. 950w.
“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 86. S. ‘05. 270w.
“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the
style is sometimes absurd.”
+ — — =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 130w.
=Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the
book is melodramatic.”
— — — =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 320w.
“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It
has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous
literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr.
Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the
exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05.
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters,
his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is
of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany
it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 242. S. 21, ‘05. 410w.
“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in
his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments.
He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and
intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable
qualities.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1850w.
“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his
account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Warwick faces his subject fairly.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a
history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate
and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 200w.
“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French
revolution.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains
absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is
certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=Washburn, William Tucker.= First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.
These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One
is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of
Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most
unfaithful wife.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Tuskegee and its people: their ideals
and achievements. *$2. Appleton.
A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal
and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial
direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The
problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the
intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished
by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.
“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee
movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 41. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1190w.
“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the
circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think
they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 400w.
“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 180w.
* =Washington, George.= Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.
This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early
copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly
bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s
famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History
of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address
to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in
1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the
states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of
the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of
congress.’”—Arena.
* + =Arena.= 34: 665. D. ‘05. 290w.
* “Excellent in point of literary discrimination and value.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 731. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
=Washington, George.= Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September,
1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a
commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr.
Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake
practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated
phase of his character.
* “It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with
Washington, the man and the statesman.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 663. D. ‘05. 410w.
* “An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by
certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his
task.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 480w.
“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the
diary.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 460w.
“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively
disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 200w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 634. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.
* + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 110w.
* =Wasson, George Savary.= Green shay. †$1.50. Houghton.
“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the
harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the
background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the
drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many
of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and
spiritual help.”—Outlook.
* “The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book
is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in
seasoning and overdone in cooking.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
* “As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a
little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal
of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Waters, N. McGee.= Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c.
Crowell.
Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and
the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has
changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares
that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and
questions the infallibility of the Bible differs from the faith of his
fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new
they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.
* =Waters, Thomas Franklin.= Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony;
with seven appendices. *$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.
The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but
in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes
and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of
learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions,
their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a
typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history
has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of
several of which are given.
* “Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be
praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and
construction.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 820w.
* “An interesting history of an interesting New England town.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 666. O. 14, ‘05. 590w. (Review of pts. 1 and
2.)
* =Watkinson, William L.= Inspiration in common life. *35c. Meth. bk.
A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible
happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development
of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of
faith” series.
=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By
Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.
Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the
author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some
of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata,
closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the
words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Hurricane island. $1.50. Doubleday.
A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht
of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping
with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew
discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the
hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is
exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor
and the princess.
“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are
so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a
spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second
thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling
adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 184. Ap. ‘05. 370w.
“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis
Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys
pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s
‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even
if improbable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 253. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything
that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world;
probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting
for a quiet evening.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 392. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.
“Is a capital romance of love and piracy ... and delightfully
related.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
* =Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales.
The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn;
the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed
upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking
Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress;
when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in
carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting
her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)
* “The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the
Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.
* “The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the
novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is
interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type
delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment
which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.
* “Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’
and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an
achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 400w.
* “It has passages which may be distasteful to some readers.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
=Watson, Thomas Edward.= Bethany: a story of the old South. $1.50.
Appleton.
Bethany, a village in middle Georgia, is the scene of a novel which
describes southern life during the period immediately preceding and
during the earlier years of the Civil war. The author is a well-known
writer of both biography and history and his present work is almost an
autobiography, for he tells of the old South as he knew it in his
boyhood. The greater part of the book is taken up with the comparison
of Toombs and Stephens, their characters and the issues for which they
stood. The slavery question is discussed freely, but while showing a
burning loyalty to the South, there is no bitterness toward the North.
“A novel of a rambling sort, although the element of truth is much
larger than the element of invention. The fire-eating southerner has
not often been exhibited, in either history or fiction, more
truthfully and vividly than in the present work. We fear that Mr.
Watson is still sadly in need of reconstruction.” W. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“Is scarcely a novel at all. It is history localized and presented
from the deliberately provincial point of view. Is probably more
nearly veracious than any picture of southern life ever given by a
southern author. It is a brilliant interpretation, based upon
impressions received with the vividness of adoring youth, and written
out with the restraint and judgment of a mature mind. Mr. Watson’s
literary style is not always good, is often too insolently local in
phrasing, but it is always graphic and honest.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 209. Ja. 26, ‘05. 600w.
=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.
In this new edition of his works, the author “has made several
alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend undoubtedly
to perfect the original. The two volumes before us are not large,
though they contain a good many poems not to be found in the
‘Collected works.’” (Spec.) The poems are critical, philosophical, and
political.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 328. Mr. 18. 2460w.
* “This is such an edition of a poet’s work as one usually waits for
till the author has ceased to be, or at least to write.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 160w.
* “An edition that is nearly all that could be wished.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 506. D. 21, ‘05. 640w.
“We would make but one censorious comment. The political verses should
have been kept out.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 217. F. 11, ‘05. 1370w.
* =Watson, William.= Prayer, *35c. Meth. bk.
In this little volume uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series, the
author discusses the nature, purpose, conditions, difficulties, and
gain of prayer.
* =Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R.= Art of James McNeill Whistler: an
appreciation. $2. Macmillan.
A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on
Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some
of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It
is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing
except in outward details from its predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.
* “Their method is rather eulogistic than critical.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w.
=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.
A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find
himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and
beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of
an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown
prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has
come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a
fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other
conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been
forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange
influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only
after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his
American fiancée.
“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features
of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively,
entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 290w.
“Here we have still another modification of the Zenda story and one
which shows ingenuity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.
“The colors in which this comedy are dressed are over strong, but the
comedy itself is fairly consistent and interesting.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 180w.
“The initial idea in this story is quite promising. The book is
amusing.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 25. Jl. 1, ‘05. 300w.
* =Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50, Century.
The wheat princess, an American girl whose father has cornered the
wheat market, is living with her aunt and her uncle, who is a
philanthropist, in an old villa on the outskirts of Rome. The wheat
famine tells heavily upon the Italian peasants; the newspapers blazon
her father’s name, the peasants rise in hot indignation, with cries of
“Wheat! wheat!” and her uncle, who has given so much for them, is
besieged in his luxurious villa. In the end the Americans, their
altruistic plans laid low, return to America, but the troublous times
among the poor of Italy have brought to the big hearted wheat princess
the love of her uncle’s friend, the man who has shared his unselfish
dreams.
* “An entertaining and well-written story upon somewhat novel lines.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* “Strong, graphic, truthful.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 160w.
=Webster, John.= White devil and The duchess of Malfy; ed. by Martin W.
Sampson. *60c. Heath.
A volume of the Belles-lettres series. The play-wright’s two
masterpieces, “The white devil,” and “The duchess of Malfy,” in
critical text with the original spelling. An introduction and critical
notes are included among the editorial helps.
=Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.= Symphony since Beethoven; tr. by Maude
Barrows Dutton. $1. Ditson.
This book about modern symphonies, by the conductor of the Berlin
royal symphony concerts, and of the Kaim orchestra, is in its second
German edition. “He holds that no other symphonies comparable to those
of Beethoven in lofty grandeur, deep significance and perfection of
beauty, have ever been composed.... He has small praise for the
successors of the god of his idolatry in the symphony: a kindly word
for Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruckner; condemnation for Schumann and
Brahms; mere cursory mention of Tschaikoffsky, Dvorak, Rubinstein,
Borodin, Raff, Goldmark, Saint-Saens, César Franck and Sinding ...
Favoring criticism on Berlioz and Liszt for their symphonic poems....
Discussion of Richard Strauss, whose earlier tone-poems the author
says he admires, but whose later, and greater works he cannot
appreciate.” (Ind.)
“An interesting and stimulating essay, albeit so short as to be
fragmentary in parts. The translation of this essay into English was
worth while, but one regrets that it was not more skilfully done.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 43. Ja. 5, ‘05. 300w.
“A sympathetic study.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 100w.
=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.
“This book aims to bring together as much information as possible from
ancient and modern literature, from the reports of archæologists, and
from the study of specimens in museums and elsewhere, in regard to all
that relates to color as used by the Greek painters of old. The book
is amply illustrated.”—Outlook.
“Miss Weir possesses a delightful enthusiasm for the Greek painters’
art, supported by knowledge of ancient and modern archæological
writings as well as familiarity with art works.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w.
— =Ind.= 59: 40. Jl. 6, ‘05. 340w.
“A decidedly interesting if somewhat formal story of the least
generally comprehended of the arts of Greece.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 89. Je. ‘05. 290w.
“A curiously offhand and chatty book upon one of the most difficult
subjects known to the archæologist.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 390w.
“It is a most important addition to the popular literature of the
subject. Its scheme is as original as it is entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 590w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“Miss Irene Weir has ... rendered art students an incalculable service
in giving them the advantage of the new light which modern discoveries
have thrown upon the lost art of Greek painting.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 300w.
“Although we have to recognize how little we know, we are able to find
an account of that little in the present volume.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w.
=Weiss, Bernard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
The object of the book is “to give a ‘brief but clear’ answer to the
question, what is the religion of the New Testament?... The book is
divided into three parts. In part I, Dr. Weiss describes the
suppositions or conditions of the redemption described in the New
Testament. In part II, he discusses the redemption in Christ proper.
Here the subjects discussed are the redemptive acts of God. In the
third part he treats of the realization of redemption in the
individual and in the congregation, in the present and in the world to
come.”—N. Y. Times.
“With all his splendid exegetical and critical qualities, Professor
Weiss does not write in the spirit of the historian. But this is the
only serious general criticism one feels compelled to pass upon what
is, in fact, a remarkably able work.” S. M.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 392. N. ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“As an exegete Dr. Weiss excels. Men of all schools will find
something to learn from it.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 250w.
“His treatment of the subject is thoroughly objective, and strongly
conservative. A somewhat less close adherence to the style of the
original would have made many sentences of this translation easier
reading for the unlearned, for whom the author intended it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w.
=Wells, Amos Russell.= That they all may be one. **75c. Funk.
A plea that Christ’s wish that “His followers might be kept from
schism, and that His church might be maintained in perfect unity,” may
be realized in the unification of denominations. To this end the
author advocates union Bible schools and pastorates, and under such
chapter headings as, Working together; The search for truth; Churches
and men; Church union and patriotism, he finally arrives at, The
united church of Christ.
“It is not so incoherent as its typographical form would indicate.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance domain; a story. †$1.50. Wilde.
Four energetic Dorrances left to the care of their Grandmother
Dorrance once wealthy, now skilfully supporting a large family on a
small annuity, bemoan their boarding house existence which seems an
unbearable hardship after the free life in their Fifty-eighth street
home. A part of the Grandfather’s legacy was the Dorrance domain, a
rambling summer hotel, which was not easily disposed of and which
these daring children propose opening and running for a season. The
success of their scheme and the enjoyment which the novel experiment
afforded them are told in Miss Wells’ usual sprightly and humorous
manner.
* “Miss Wells is just the writer to make it the kind worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 40w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Patty in the city. †$1.25. Dodd.
The friends of “Patty at home” will find her quite as delightful to
know amid the conditions of New York life, where “she resides in an
apartment overlooking Central park, attends a fashionable school,
makes new friends, and keeps her old ones.” (Outlook.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
* =Wells, Carolyn.= Satire anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Beginning with the ancients (Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal) ...
the selections work down to such very modern exemplars of the species
as Mr. Owen Seaman and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the list
of authors we note such out-of-the-way names as those of Ruteboeuf,
Abraham à Sancta Clara, Villon, and Béranger. The collection is,
however, mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans on.”—Dial.
* “The selections, from innumerable authors, have been made with
skill; but certain of the pieces from very minor modern authors might
have been spared in favor of some omitted bits from Lowell and Holmes,
both of whom are rather inadequately represented.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “May safely be depended upon to provide both amusement and
instruction.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We
are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 610w.
* “Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this
sort of literature.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 70w.
=Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons.= Matrimonial bureau. †$1.50.
Houghton.
The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her
maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and
decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a
friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer.
Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger
arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and
amusing, but is untangled in the end.
“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing
and some of the conversations hang together well.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 70w.
“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so
completely failed to amuse.”
— — — =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 220w.
“The small volume is packed with jokes of the kind visible without a
glass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w.
“Here and there are some love scenes very human, very delicately
wrought. Briefly, ‘The matrimonial bureau’ is like the ‘Summer girl,’
passing fair, fair but passing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.
“It is an excellent book for summer reading, being as light as air.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“A book of the slightest sort, hardly comedy, more accurately
described perhaps as a summer farce.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.
“As a literary soufflé, light, well-flavored and well-browned, this
little story will be a tasty addition to the midsummer feast of
reading.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 190w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: a monograph. †$1.50. Scribner.
“An uneducated, awkward, and uncultivated clerk in a London draper’s
establishment suddenly has a large fortune left him, attempts to get
into high society, is made use of and swindled right and left, but
finally has the courage to break away, to marry the girl of his
choice, even though she be a servant girl, and to live his own life.
In the end fortune smiles on him a second time, but now in moderation,
and he is left a happy, contented husband and father; and, by a twist
of Mr. Wells’ whimsical fancy, is made the proprietor of a bookshop
which he manages on the theory that ‘one book is about as good as
another.’”—Outlook.
“The book, in fact, has a purpose, but that purpose is not allowed to
interfere with its vivacity; and ‘Kipps’ is, indeed, the most amusing
book and at the same time the tenderest book that Mr. Wells has ever
written.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1129. O. 28, ‘05. 900w.
* “He has set aside the speculations of scientific imagination, and
deals with warm human life to-day. This is the work which was designed
for him in the end, and we cannot doubt that he will continue to
devote himself to it.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 650w.
“Deals with his subject in a strong, broad manner, intensified by his
understanding of such detail of life as the minor incidents of retail
trade.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 220w.
“The merit of the novel, however, is not in the story, but in the
observation. He never, for a single page, fails to be amusing.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 358. O. 27, ‘05. 780w.
“Is a humorous story, but it is not a trifling one, and though it
deals largely with humble folk, it has to do, in a broad and forceful
way, with much of the seriousness of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 500w.
“The story in its substance is rather sordid and dull.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 170w.
“Kipps, indeed, carries a social question to be long pondered, and the
author’s side-talks are an important contribution to the old but
never-ended discussion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
* “Is another triumph in the art of presenting character.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “Mr. Wells, as usual, writes cleverly, brilliantly, wittily.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 658. N. 18, ‘05. 820w.
* “We have found Kipps in many ways the most human and sympathetic of
Mr. Wells’s stories.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 718. N. 4, ‘05. 1060w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wells departs from the Utopia-makers of the past in that his
Utopia is a world-state using a universal language. The author deals
“with strictly modern and current conditions, and imagines a new state
of society, whose social basis has been improved and whose social
problems have been settled.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Seems to us to mark an advance even on the high level of excellence
which Mr. Wells had before attained.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 414. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1290w.
* “We can discover nothing in this sample, however, that goes beyond
good-natured satire of conditions which none would be so poor as to
defend.” A. W. S.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 430. N. ‘05. 250w.
“There has been no work of this importance published for the last
thirty years.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 519. Ap. 29. 2450w.
“The form he has chosen for ‘A modern Utopia’ is exceedingly
unfortunate. The essay appended ... is a contribution of real value to
the theory of thinking and written in a style as witty and original as
that of Professor James.”
— + =Ind.= 58: 1307. Je. 8, ‘05. 740w.
“Mr. Wells meant this work as a very serious one. Many readers of it
will find its perusal trying, and will fail to realize, as proper
compensation for the task of reading the same, whatever grist it
offers for the mind.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 990w.
“Mr. Wells’s Utopia is far the most interesting, imaginative, and
possible of all the Utopias written since the inventions and
discoveries of science began to colour our conceptions of the future.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 144. My. 5, ‘05. 1650w.
“In the present book Mr. Wells has become still more moderate and
practicable and hopeful, without in the least derogating from his
ingenuity and originality.” F. C. S. S.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 337. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.
“It is carefully thought out and reasoned, and holds together much
better than the ideal commonwealths imagined by his predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w.
“The method of presentation adopted is exceedingly happy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“It is an admirable piece of literature and a book of unlimited
suggestiveness. As literature and as philosophy, ‘A modern Utopia’ is
Mr. Wells’ masterpiece.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 220w.
“The book, both in matter and in form, has been carefully studied and
thought out. Mr. Wells’s book seems hardly likely to rank as, or to
remain, a classic Utopia.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 610. O. 21, ‘05. 2040w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Twelve stories and a dream. †$1.50. Scribner.
In this volume of stories Mr. Wells “has but rarely any prophetic or
scientific axe to grind. His stories deal with the marvelous under
many aspects, but always in the light of his half-joyous,
half-whimsical humor.” (R. of Rs.)
“None of them is equal to the best of his former tales, but there are
some that are very amusing and some quite gruesome.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1308. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.
“Enough have surely been mentioned to show the varied entertainment
which Mr. Wells offers and to indicate our opinion that he has never
offered any better.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 327. My. 20, ‘05. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“In at least half of these stories Mr. Wells is seen at his best.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 160w.
“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as
an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Welsh, Charles=, ed. See Famous battles of the Nineteenth century.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature.
**$1.50. Scribner.
“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard
university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered
on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into
a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English
literature ever given by an American at an English university.
Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden.
The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner
in which the national temper of England, as revealed in
seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally
common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before
the century closed, something which later time must recognize as
distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.
“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or
not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with
perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 190w.
“Smoothness of style ... Though this volume is of such high merit that
it will take a place at once as one of the recognized authorities on
its subject, it is not likely that all its positions will be accepted
without a demur.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 36: 407. Ja. ‘05. 1970w.
“The title of this book is more philosophical than the contents
warrant; instead of obtaining one final impression, we remember the
separate remarks—often wise, suggestive and illuminating—on separate
authors.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 130w.
“Its author seems wholly destitute of any pretension to critical
discernment. The diction and style, as might be expected, are on a par
with the rest of the book. It is scandalous that a great university
like Cambridge should tolerate such standards of information and
criticism as this volume exhibits.”
— — — =Sat. R.= 99: 704. My. 27, ‘05. 1960w.
=Wertheimer, Edward von.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
Dr. Wertheimer’s monograph on the Duke of Reichstadt makes use of a
vast deal of new biographical material. The study covers the political
setting of the life in detail, painstakingly going over the whole
piece of statecraft involved in Napoleon’s Austrian marriage, dwelling
at length upon the influence which the alliance exerted upon the
policy of Napoleon and of his opponents. The short uneventful life of
Napoleon’s son is of less interest than the stirring history which the
father tried to shape for the glory of a permanent kingdom. “It is to
the fact that he was his father’s son that the fame of the Duke of
Reichstadt is due ... the shadow of a great name surrounds him, and
historical writers record and discuss his every act as if he had been
a real king, instead of merely the If, Yes, and Perhaps of Modern
European history.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1124. O. 28, ‘05. 1780w.
“As a rule, however, the narrative runs easily—perhaps more so than is
the case with most translations.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 536. O. 21, 2040w.
* “The translation, on the whole, is very satisfactory, though there
are occasional lapses into awkwardness or obscurity. Here and there
one may question the justice of Dr. Wertheimer’s remarks. But these
and a few other blemishes do not detract from the value of a most
careful and interesting work, which presents the first complete and
authoritative account of the life of this unfortunate prince.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 337. O. 13, ‘05. 1360w.
“Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is a valuable contribution to historical
knowledge. The author’s style, however, is somewhat confused, and his
judgment is far from critical.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 386. N. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“He has scraped everything together, sorted it out, sifted it, and
arranged it in what must be acknowledged to be an interesting story.
The matter is not important, however. The English translation of Mr.
de Wertheimer’s book is good.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 669. O. 14, ‘05. 860w.
* “It is as interesting as it is valuable as a contribution to a
strangely neglected period of European history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad
career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a
scholar.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 1410w.
=West, George Stephen.= Treatise on the British freshwater algae.
*$3.50. Macmillan.
“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for
which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent
years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the
freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of
multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to
the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the
particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the
specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ,
Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book
is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful
effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more
recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.
“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is
greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently
characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys
are good.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 90w.
“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a
treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book
will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written
by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to
say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 184. F. 3, ‘05. 900w.
=West, W. K.= George Frederick Watts. $1.25. Warne.
A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his
art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book,
by Romualdo Pantini.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w.
=Westcott, Rev. Frank Nash.= Church and the good Samaritan; mission
addresses to men. **$1. Whittaker.
A series of Lent addresses to men. They include The lawyer’s question,
The Jericho road, The priest and the Samaritan, The Samaritan and the
Jew, The wayside inn, The two pence.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 60w.
* =Westcott, Frank N.= Heart of catholicity. $1. Young churchman.
A defence of the conception of the church which is held by the “high
church” party of the Anglican communion. It regards the church as a
divine institution let down from above, the dispenser of truth and
salvation as against the view held by the members of that communion in
common with other protestants that the church is a historic growth
which has developed out of human needs and which is seeking truth and
salvation. The author means by “catholicity” the former conception of
the church, but the term ought to be big enough to include both views.
=Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 150w.
=Westrup, Margaret.= Coming of Billy. $1.25. Harper.
“Billy’s coming will be a pleasure to readers of all ages, for Billy
is a delightful addition to the real small boys of fiction. His
parents send him from India to Rose Cottage, England, where he is a
source of continual surprises, not always agreeable to his maiden
aunts. He takes a hand in the love affairs of the ‘youngest and
prettiest’ Miss Primrose.”—Outlook.
“The reviewer fancies that the whole book is much more likely to
interest mature, and even elderly readers, than children.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 230w.
“A delightfully humorous story that is told with a wholly charming
grace and simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 470w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.
“The story is placed in the early part of the last century; the
heroine, engaged to one man, elopes with another, on whose head there
is a price. The couple are captured the day of their flight from the
girl’s home, but the man escapes, leaving the girl in the hands of the
law. The world thinks her an accomplice, and as her family repudiates
her, she has to fight her battle alone.”—Pub. Opin.
“A novel that is likely to be read with delight on a wet day in a
country house or on a railway journey.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
“It is as good as any of those which have preceded it from the same
pen, and to say this is to pay it a high compliment.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 420w.
“Its structure is rather flabby. Looking back over the book, we feel
that we ought to have been more excited over it than we were; but the
truth is that Mr. Weyman is both wordy and a little uncertain.”
— =Lond. Times.= 4: 295. S. 15, ‘05. 510w.
“It goes—goes a-cantering and takes you along with it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 440w.
* “Like the others, a thoroughly readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
— =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“In ‘Starvecrow farm’ there are the same easy flow of narrative, the
lively dialogue, the dramatic sense, and the well-developed plot which
characterize all that this author does.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 110w.
“As a vigorous, wholesome, and well-constructed tale it deserves to
win wide acceptance.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 740w.
=Whall, C. W.= Stained-glass work. **$1.50. Appleton.
A simple text-book, which the author has written “in a gossipy style,
using very few technical terms and explaining every seemingly
difficult passage, just as though he were giving oral instruction.”
(N. Y. Times.) There are photographic reproductions of windows in
English churches, and many diagrams.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 474. Jl. 15, ‘05. 390w.
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 352. S. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.
A society novel, cruel in its reality. Lily Bart, beautiful and
twenty-nine, the orphaned child of a New York merchant, feels her
whole being calling for the stamp of permanent possession upon the
luxury which she has always enjoyed at the hands of her friends.
Relentlessly the author enmeshes her in the toils of debt incurred at
bridge; in scandal, the price of a trip upon a friend’s yacht; and,
almost in a loveless marriage,—only the wealthy Rosedale himself
recoils from it when society no longer smiles upon Miss Bart. She is
dropped from stage to stage of society, the unhappy victim of
circumstance and environment, but holding the reader’s full sympathy
thru an innate nobility which is submerged but never eliminated. The
end is hard—but could it all have ended otherwise?
“Mrs. Wharton has done many good things—she has never done anything
better than this. Her dialogue is clever, fresh and sparkling; she has
a fine discrimination—a natural, unstudied discrimination—in the use
of words; and her style is graceful and fluent.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
* “It is a pitiful story, told with restraint and insight and not a
little subtlety.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 160w.
* “As a piece of artistic creation, it falls short of supreme
excellence.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 509. D. ‘05. 580w.
“She still has a fine manner, but it is like the fine gowns of her
heroines, a fashion of the times for interpreting decadent symptoms in
human nature. What she says will not last, because it is simply the
fashionable drawing of ephemeral types and still more ephemeral
sentiments.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 150. Jl. 20, ‘05. 820w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 250w.
* “Miss Bart is a blend of Becky Sharp and Gwendolen Harleth. She is
not as compellingly human as the one, nor as inspiring as the other.
Frankly, Mrs. Wharton has surpassed George Eliot in this theme. Not
only is Lily Bart more congenial and better, as a human variation,
than Gwendolen or Becky, but Mrs. Wharton’s style is more plastic and
seductive than that of Mrs. Lewes.”
+ + =Lit.= D. 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 820w.
* “A dozen other novels of the year are good; but this book is really
good. What Mrs. Wharton appears to lack is in a word the creative gift
at its fullest. She sees with certainty and her hand is as sure as her
eye. But with the richest imaginations something takes place beyond
this.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, ‘05. 790w.
* “A feeling for fair play obliges us to protest Mrs. Wharton’s
picture as a prejudiced one, yet it is not consciously unveracious.
Though depressing, it is not wholly unprofitable.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 1100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
“The story is the product of the most carefully calculated, the most
skilfully handled, artistic values and effects; but the workmanship is
the manner, not the substance of the novel. A story of such integrity
of insight and of workmanship is an achievement of high importance in
American life.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 404. O. 21, ‘05. 1590w.
* “It is by all odds the greatest novel of recent years.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 490w.
* “We have touched only the main theme, which like the whole story, is
worked out in a manner to stamp the writer a genius, and give her name
a place in the history of American literature.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 380w.
“Her reputation will certainly not suffer any decline by the
publication of her new novel.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 660w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= Italian backgrounds; il. by E. C.
Peixotto. **$2.50. Scribner.
Mrs. Wharton says, “As with the study of Italian pictures, so it is
with Italy herself. The country is divided not in partes tres, but in
two; a foreground and a background. The foreground is the property of
the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseers; the
background, that of the dawdler, the dreamer, and the serious student
of Italy.” The nine chapters are—An Alpine posting inn, A midsummer
week’s dream, The sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps, What the hermits
saw, A Tuscan shrine, Sub umbra liliorum. March in Italy, Picturesque
Milan, and Italian backgrounds: then there are twelve illustrations
reproduced from Peixotto pictures.
“The book is written with genuine knowledge, with large and generous
sympathy, and in excellent English.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 798. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1220w.
“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and
inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 609. Ag. ‘05. 550w.
“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible
grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a
genuine enthusiasm.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 150w.
“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of
savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in
travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as
impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, ‘05. 930w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and
sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too
impartial in her appreciation.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 640w.
“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art
of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic
research and a catholicity of taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 270w.
“Like the text, they [the illustrations] press the ‘culture’ of
elusive expression very near to the vanishing point.” Walter
Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“This attractive quarto shows the combination of thorough knowledge
based on original research, ability to enter into and value different
aspects of life and different forms of art, and a finished and
suggestive style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w.
“The book is full of exquisite impressions concerning matters not to
be found in the guide books.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 220w.
“An intimate acquaintance with Italian art and nature, an insight into
southern life, and an exquisite literary style,—all of which belong to
this writer—are necessary for such a study.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
“A great deal of charming description is scattered through this
volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 470. S. 30. ‘05. 2560w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Italian villas and their gardens; il. with pictures by
Maxfield Parrish, and by photographs. **$6. Century.
To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is
possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color
interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has
visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in
its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to
laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does
Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian
gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects
of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of
the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins;
adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense
of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and
orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the
landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black
and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and
sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the
harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought
into the book workmanship is exquisite.
“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and
satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the
illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 166. F. ‘05. 1260w.
“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the
villas and gardens selected for treatment.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 179. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and
historical associations which it recalls.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 118. Ja. 28, ‘05. 70w.
=Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.).= Doubledarling and the dream
spinner. †$1.50. Fox.
Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful
as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded
red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he
promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all
night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg
by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about
these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and
her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary
burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith
has illustrated the volume.
* + =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the
constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy
manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before
the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make
it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with
the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not
unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the
constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies
of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the
famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to
the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of
hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases,
and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.
=Am. Hist.= R. 10: 717. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory.
Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects
through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer
view of the principles of the constitution.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 950w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations
governing the movement of population to and from the British empire,
the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and
Scandinavia.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.
* “Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or
legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 110w.
“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a
serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 430w.
“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in
parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter of
international concern.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 578. S. 7, ‘05. 180w.
“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief
discussions with which he accompanies them are illuminating and to the
point.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is more useful than any other bearing on the same subject.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 720w.
“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and
immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States
will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent
books that is now somewhat extensive.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which
he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 510w.
* Where the road led and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic
authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love,
some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors
include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E.
Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.
=Whibley, Charles.= Literary portraits. *$2.50. Scribner.
Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland,
Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond),
Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.
“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be
congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the
simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that
high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s
published works.” Frank Schloesser.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 600w.
“The level of performance here is singularly even and singularly
high.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 580w.
“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is
certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic
understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 475. My. ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 323. My. 1. ‘05. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among
the books of criticism of the higher standard.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.
“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful
pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will
both find his work attractive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the
historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the
practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of
accomplishment.”
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 180w.
“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the
most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in
subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care
and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are
presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have
now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full
enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a
body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are
admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful,
and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 87. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1830w.
=Whibley, Leonard=, ed. See =Companion= to Greek studies.
=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes,
Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the
life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the
Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and
win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells
of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of
foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third
drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother
reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In
the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover
the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.
=Whitaker, Herman.= Probationer, and other stories. †$1.25. Harper.
Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them
deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson
bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand.
The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is
a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.”
(Outlook.)
“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In
narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not
always his own.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“A book which is unusually vigorous and suggestive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 770w.
“The stories are full of strength and vigor and the atmosphere of the
woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“No one has so pictured the life of the trappers and traders of that
country since Gilbert Parker wrote of ‘Pretty Pierre’ and his people.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=White, Andrew Dickson.= Autobiography of Andrew D. White. **$7.50.
Century.
A record of diplomatic service which began in 1854 when Mr. White went
to St. Petersburg as attaché of the American legation, and ended when
on his seventieth birthday, 1902, he resigned his duties as ambassador
to Germany. The two volumes contain an account of his work as state
senator, as a college professor, and finally, president of Cornell, as
a commissioner to Santo Domingo, and the Paris exposition (1878), as
minister to Germany and Russia, as a member of the Venezuelan boundary
commission, and president of the American delegation at the peace
conference of the Hague (1899). There are descriptions of the emperor
of Germany and Czar Nicholas II, and their courts, and many anecdotes
and crisp comments. The man, his life, his many fields of labor, and
the great men and events with which he came in contact, are all set
forth in detail.
“The value of the volumes seems chiefly to arise from the charmingly
simple tale of personal experience told by a man of wisdom and
insight, a tale told with considerable literary skill.”
+ + + =Am. Hist R.= 10: 925. Jl. ‘05. 470w.
“In ‘The autobiography of Andrew D. White’ we have one of the most
brilliant, interesting, instructive and in many ways important works
of recent decades. These examples will be sufficient to illustrate the
reckless character of our author’s statements whenever the facts run
counter to his prejudices and views which in later years he has
imbibed from the privileged interests and reactionary influences that
have environed him.”
+ + — =Arena.= 34: 97. Jl. ‘05. 7000w.
“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill
arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would
have been attracted.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 880w.
“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book
is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of
truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T.
Munger.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 556. O. ‘05. 7900w.
Reviewed by John W. Russell.
+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 603. Ag. ‘05. 1460w.
“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story
of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 449. My. ‘05. 1460w.
“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of
material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has
made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 260. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1780w.
“To the student of the problems of higher education in America, Dr.
White’s ‘Autobiography,’ full as it is of matters of general interest,
should prove especially interesting and important.” Clark S. Northup.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 101. Je. ‘05. 1030w.
“Altogether this is a full book, with something for everybody, putting
one in touch on many sides with modern times; an adequate narrative of
an exceptional career.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 812. O. 5, ‘05. 1080w.
“A better account of the founding of Cornell, of which he was so long
the honored and successful head, has never been given, and perhaps in
no other of his pages do we see so clearly the practical idealism,
which, running throughout his life story like a golden thread, makes
it so well worth the telling.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 630w.
“Viewed as a narrative the book is excellent, and only needs more
continuity; viewed as a collection of essays, it is naturally
inadequate.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 149. My. 12, ‘05. 2680w.
“By the side of the recent contributions of Hoar, Stillman, Newcomb,
Dwight, Le Conte, Villard, and Conway, the autobiography of White will
hold an honored place.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 272. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“Nor does it possess that intimate charm which has made a literary
classic of more than one ingenuous personal narrative. There is little
in these two volumes which can fail to interest the serious reader in
one way or another.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 321. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.
“If he is not entirely without prejudice of egotism, he displays those
qualities after the manner of great men.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
“These volumes ... have a value for all his countrymen not surpassed
by any American autobiography within our knowledge.” James M. Whiton.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 132. My. 13, ‘05. 5600w.
“Mr. White is an octogenarian, with a full life behind him, but two
hundred pages would have been ample space for it.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 28. Jl. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is eminently characteristic of its country of origin.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 740w.
“There is a want of continuity. Repetitions occur, and sometimes when
they were unintended. He has written a book to interest all who are
interested in the modern world.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 210. Ag. ‘05. 1770w.
=White, C. V.= Peace conference: poem. $1. Badger, R: G.
This poem is dedicated to the American delegates of the International
peace conference, which met at the Hague, May 18, 1899. It sets forth
the harm which war has done thruout history, and declares that the
time for universal peace is here. It closes with the prayer,
“Lord God endow
Us with thy blessings now,
And plenteous peace the whole world o’er
Establish thou forevermore.”
=White, Fred M.= Crimson blind. $1.50. Fenno.
The strands of this story are marvelously twisted. A villain, a fiend
in human shape, has plunged his family into dishonor to gain his ends,
but by the aid of a clever doctor, whose future had also been involved
in the general ruin, a young novelist who applies fiction methods to
the case, and a girl cousin who feigns death in order to be free to
solve the mystery, the whole is ferreted out, bit by bit. It is an
ingenious plot with manifold complications.
“This is a really fine sensational novel.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 735. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 210w.
=White, George.= Practical course of instruction in personal magnetism,
telepathy, and hypnotism. $1.25. Dutton.
A practical course of instruction setting forth the manner in which
any student may acquire powers over himself, over his fellow men, and
even over time and space.
— =Acad.= 68: 683. Jl. 1, ‘05. 740w.
Reviewed by Pendennis.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 680w.
=White, T. Hyler.= Petrol motor and motor cars: a handbook for
engineers, designers, and draughtsmen. *$1.40. Longmans.
A book which the author feels is needed, because recent automobile
literature has not been written for the benefit of designers.
Practical rules for the design of the essential parts of motors and
motor cars are given, accompanied by figures. There are tables of
various kinds to facilitate calculations and to convert English units
into metric measures. The illustrations are good, but are not drawn to
a given scale.
“The formulas which are given seem to be of a rational nature; but to
the reviewer it seems a fault that the derivation of the same are
never given. The author discusses at various places the several
alternatives for the many parts of a modern automobile; he gives his
reason for his choice very clearly and never uses superfluous words,
for which fact he deserves praise. Of course it ought not to be
necessary to state that it is not always possible to agree with his
conclusions. As a book for the special purpose of helping the
designers of these engines it appears to the reviewer that it is the
best existing book in the English language, notwithstanding the
criticisms which have been made above.” Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 750w.
=White, W. Hale.= John Bunyan. **$1. Scribner.
This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to
furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s
life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation
of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand
and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any
kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with
its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress”
is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,”
the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”
“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this
book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he
would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and
gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages
by Mr. White are able to furnish.”
— =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 377. Ap. ‘05. 140w.
* “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very
well the personality of the great John.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 230w.
“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and
Puritanism.’”
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to
say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he
should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of
Bunyan’s principal works.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 299. F. ‘05. 920w.
“The book proves to be a sympathetic, even a devout, study of its
interesting theme.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 79. Ja. 26, ‘05. 940w.
“An interesting and well written biography. But it lacks background.
The picture of the times is inadequate.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. White has made us see Bunyan the man, and through him the great,
sober, deadly earnest English folk, of whom he was the interpreter.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Whitefield, George.= Selected sermons; ed. with introd. and notes, by
Rev. A. R. Buckland. **50c. Union press.
The text of this volume is with some slight changes that of the
“Sermons on important subjects” published in 1828. The six sermons are
entitled—The necessity and benefits of religious society,
Regeneration, A penitent heart the best New Year’s gift, The almost
Christian, Glorifying God in the fire, and Jacob’s ladder.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in
the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage
Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance,
the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth
century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and
American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes,
and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances
Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and
women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is
handsomely illustrated from photographs.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity
is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary
virtues of restraint and selection.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 370w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.
* “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her
pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far
oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the
grace of the trained writer.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 180w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right
now and here through the great power of love is the problem which
Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that
neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in
any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its
energy.”
=Whiting, Lilian.= Outlook beautiful. *$1.25. Little.
In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal,
Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme
purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on
any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the
relation of this life to the life eternal.
“It is unusually rich in helpful thought for those who enjoy
transcendental and broadly religious discussions.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 330. S. ‘05. 320w.
“The book is entirely characteristic of the author, and as such will
recommend itself to her considerable public.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w.
“It is a rhapsody, a carnival of spiritual joy.” David Saville Muzzey.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 526. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“She weaves a fabric not overstrong, but light, and firm enough for
every-day uses.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“Her philosophy and style are very stimulating and suggestive.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
* =Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure
and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“Recent travels in the Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and
Siam.... The record of a trip prompted by the lust of adventure, and
by the desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, and to hunt
strange animals. Mr. Whitney has caught the trick of making a little
human interest enhance the vivid story of some thrilling or stirring
hunting adventure.... Hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the
mental and moral habits of the natives of the countries
described.”—Dial.
* “Mr. Whitney has written a volume of travel and adventure that will
make his name conspicuous among American hunters.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.
* “If he had been less journalistic in style and the printer more
careful, the reader’s pleasure would have been increased. Mr. Whitney
has given us a pleasing account of a region little known to the white
man.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 770w.
* “Is a most interesting and informing volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 570w.
* “His descriptions of some of his guides and hunters are intensely
diverting. He makes very real the life in the jungle.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.
“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of
temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain
a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the
other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness,
touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open
also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N.
Y. Times.)
“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even
an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“Love poems, of a passion and sincere subtlety that are none too
common.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.
=Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.= Verses for Jock and Joan. †$1.50. Fox.
The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by
Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is
illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.
* “A pretty book with graceful verses and dainty illustrations.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 10w.
* “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’
of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle
more sophisticated.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 60w.
* “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that
‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis
Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 110w.
=Whitson, John Harvey.= Barbara, a woman of the West. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young
woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to
literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and
becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to
Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite
the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second
marriage.
=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.
Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer
are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who
enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who
sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the
rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out
clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 160w.
=Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.
“Is a wonderfully vivid presentation of the largeness of Western
horizons. Mr. Whitson is not so happy in his love stories as in his
politics and adventure.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 360w.
=Outlook.= 80: 246. My 27, ‘05. 40w.
Who’s who, 1905; an annual biographical dictionary. *$2. Macmillan.
A book of biographic data about living Englishmen. This edition
contains over seventeen thousand biographies, each of which has been
submitted for personal revision.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 370. F. ‘05. 60w.
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 90w.
“Improved in arrangement.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 197, Ja. 21, ‘05. 60w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 532. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Apostle Paul. *$1. Jennings.
Sixteen lectures upon the apostle Paul, which follow his life and form
a comprehensive study of him as preacher, pastor, man of prayer, and
chief of sinners, from the first lecture, Paul as a student, to the
last, Paul the aged. Five sermons, and an appreciation of Walter
Marshall are also included in the volume.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus
Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
Addresses offered to the multitude which are “innocent of criticism,
but beautifully devout and sweet.” (Outlook.)
“Is composed of original, somewhat visionary, studies of the life of
Christ.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 50w.
“Is a simple in thought, not obtrusively original, and expressive of a
genuine personal religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w.
=Wiborg, Frank.= Commercial traveller in South America; being the
experiences and impressions of an American business man on a trip
through Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and Brazil. **$1.
McClure.
“Mr. Wiborg’s business trip around the coast and across the continent
of South America is ... an individual view of a business proposition,
and is made readable by descriptions—a business man’s descriptions—of
the beauty of the country, and enlivened by some travelling
‘anecdotes.’ A well-drawn map elucidates the whole considerably and
makes a very unified piece of work.”—Pub. Opin.
“Its descriptions of the country where conditions have changed rapidly
have some value because of their freshness and of the writer’s candid
expression of an alert business man’s ideas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 620w.
“Principally as a plea for more intimate business relations between
the north and south continents of this hemisphere the work is of
value.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 448. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river.
†$1.25. Houghton.
The simple story of Rose, a country girl, “a fragile pink rose
blossoming on the river’s brink,” and Stephen Waterman, a sturdy young
farmer who lives on the other side of the Saco, is prettily told in
this volume. Rose’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love for a
time, but in the end she returns happily to Stephen. As a background
for the slight plot, Mrs. Wiggin gives us the dangerous trade of the
lumberman, and the river, a thing of beauty, strength and passion.
“Mrs. Wiggin has contributed a charming picture to the ever-increasing
gallery that shows us American country life.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 330w.
* “This is a rather slight and mildly interesting story.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 190w.
“With a slight plot and commonplace incident, the author, through her
clever delineation of Maine manners and peculiarities, makes up an
amusing story that may be read in a couple of hours.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 266. N. ‘05. 210w.
* “The originality and humor that belong to Mrs. Wiggin’s best work
are altogether lacking. In spite of a certain rather specious charm,
‘Rose o’ the river’ must be classed with the pot-boilers.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w.
“A pretty story, pleasantly told by Mrs. Wiggin in her usual limpid
style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
* “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow
‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”
— =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty
moral.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 200w.
* “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print
on the merits of an author’s name.”
— =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always
part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and
Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“The author, as is usual with her, keeps well on the right side of the
line that divides sentiment from sentimentality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is certainly inferior to the author’s usual excellent work.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
“Her shrewdness and humour act as antiseptics to her strong vein of
sentiment. She is tender without being effusive, reticent without any
taint of priggishness, entertaining without resort to extravagance of
facetiousness.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 570. O. 14, ‘05. 850w.
=Wight, Emily Carter.= Denim elephant; il. in colours. †50c. Stokes.
This little volume in the “Christmas stocking” series presents in a
succession of colored pictures and their accompanying text an episode
in the life of the denim elephant which belonged to the baby and
interfered with the rest of the farmyard, the woolen rabbit, tin cat,
china pig, rubber dog, cotton goose, and wooden cow, which belonged to
Edith and Philip.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=Wilbrandt, Adolf.= New humanity; or, The Easter island; tr. by Dr. A. S
Rappoport. $1.50. Lippincott.
Helmut Adler, an enthusiast and the hero of this story, is modeled
after Nietzsche. He has a plan for improving the human race by taking
a few chosen followers to a secluded isle where they may rear a
perfect race. He loses his reason and dies, and his daughter and her
lover decide that the island of perfection can exist only in their own
souls.
“But we have seldom seen a worse piece of work as translation than the
volume before us.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 567. My. 27, ‘05. 960w.
“The story is told with a certain morbid power, but drags heavily in
the telling, and is only moderately successful in the delineation of
the several types of character which people its pages.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 160w.
“If the book is doctrinal and the doctrines heavy, it is not therefore
a heavy book. On the contrary, there is so much sincerity in each
point of view, combined with so much lightness of pen, that it is even
absorbing reading; the way is tortuous, indeed, but not slimy.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 780w.
“The translation is sufficiently clear to carry the meaning of the
German writer to the English reader. It is certainly not a work of
literary art, but that does not matter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10. ‘05. 540w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.
A masterpiece of literary expression penned by Oscar Wilde during his
detention in Reading jail, and the last prose he ever wrote. Into it
he has put his bitterness in his downfall, his misery in the first two
months of prison discipline, and the final triumph of a chastened
spirit, a conviction that “there is not a single degradation of the
body which I must not try to make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”
“He has added to our literature a work which from its intrinsic value
is sure to command the attention of thinking men, from its style the
admiration of literary artists, from the tragedy of which it records a
part the pity of human hearts.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 1070w.
“The essay has ... great literary charm, and possesses unquestioned
authenticity as a contribution toward the comprehension of the
abnormal and in many ways inexplicable psychology of its author.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 359. My. 16, ‘05. 330w.
“‘De profundis’ is one of the orchids of literature. As a
self-revelation, for it is sincere even in its manifestation of his
fundamental insincerity, this little book ranks with the ‘Confessions
of Rousseau’ and the ‘Journal of Amiel.’ Both from its style and as a
study in abnormal psychology ‘De profundis’ is one of the most
noteworthy and interesting books that have appeared for a long time.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 842. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.
* “Is one of the saddest, most terrible, yet most fascinating books of
recent times.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is one of the most sincere, of all self-revelations, and will go
far towards setting Oscar Wilde’s memory right with the world for
which he affected to care so little.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 58. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“The analysis of sorrow, which occupies a considerable part of the
volume, is without question, worthy of living and doubtless will live.
Least of all its qualities should this book be commended for its
literary style and yet for its style alone it is worthy of reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 592. Ap. 15, ‘05. 470w.
=Wilde, Oscar.= Intentions. *$1.50. Brentano’s.
Four essays which gayly and ruthlessly assail what we have thought
were truths, and give us others in their place. The decay of lying,
defends lying as a fine art; Pen, pencil and poison, is an artistic
appreciation of that prince of poisoners, Thomas Griffiths
Wainewright; The critic as artist, in dialogue form, is divided into
two parts containing some remarks upon the importance of doing
nothing, and upon the importance of discussing every thing. The
concluding essay, The truth of masks, is styled A note on illusion.
* “Disciple-wise, the editor of the present reprint is rather zealous
than judicious in his manner of introducing the text.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 847. D. ‘05. 600w.
* “‘Intentions’ is an interesting book to the student of literature;
it contains much that is well put; but even its virtues are vitiated
by a false conception of the real meaning of life.” Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 568. D. ‘05. 390w.
=Dial.= 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 50w.
=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Sunny side of the street. **$1.20. Funk.
Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the
jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and
various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute
to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and
pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own
merely “the string that binds them together.”
“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s
writing is on a par with his speaking.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 50w.
“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting
around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w.
“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine
of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 360w.
“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive
shadows on the sunny side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book
is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Wiley, Harley Rupert.= Treatise on pharmacal jurisprudence, with a
thesis on the law in general. $2.50. Hicks-Judd.
This text-book is “A pioneer in its peculiar field” and aims to give
“a presentation of the principles, with a collection of the leading
cases, which define the legal aspects” of the profession of pharmacy.
Over 200 cases are cited and the ground defined is fully covered.
* =Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
“A priestess of classic song comes with two-fold, precious offering,
in this presentation of Iphegeneia, that flower of Argos ... and in
the retold story of Alcestis, whom Hercules brings back from the gates
of death.”—Critic.
* “A beautiful and welcome work, shone upon as by the white light of
Greek art, has been contributed in this volume to the poetry of the
year.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 47: 511. D. ‘05. 130w.
* “Mrs. Drummond’s treatment of the fables has no very novel features,
but she has realized its mood very vividly, and made of it a compact
and moving little drama.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* =Wilkins, Augustus Samuel.= Roman education. *60c. Macmillan.
“In ninety-two pages the whole system of Roman education is
presented.... Dr. Wilkins divides the story of Roman education into
two periods: the ‘purely national stage, when as yet there was no
outside influence,’ and the effects of Greek influence from the middle
of the third century, B.C. onwards on ‘the distinct departments of
literary—or what we might call now secondary—education,’ and in the
higher training of rhetoric and philosophy.... In four chapters,
‘Education in the ‘early republic,’ Education under Greek influence,’
‘Elementary schools and studies,’ and ‘Higher studies—rhetoric and
philosophy,’ he gives all the information that can be possibly
discovered on record and the natural inferences from it.... The final
chapter deals with the Endowment of education in ancient Rome.”—Acad.
* “There are few teachers who will not benefit by it; few interested
in any way in education who will not read it with pleasure and
profit.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 966. D. 16, ‘05. 910w.
* “We know no other work to which one could go for so complete and
accurate an exposition of what is known about Roman education.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1760w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 360w.
* “It contains in six chapters and a hundred pages all that is really
known upon this subject, and it is the best compendium which we have
seen. Its style is pleasant, and the method of treatment makes the
book easy to read.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 683. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “The present volume offers a singularly clear, accurate, and
trustworthy statement of the somewhat scanty information that is to be
found in Roman writers on the subject of education.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 817. N. 18, ‘05. 1750w.
=Wilkins, Philip A.= History of the Victoria cross. *$6. Dutton.
This volume contains an account of “the 520 conspicuous acts of
bravery which have called for as many bestowals of the decoration,
instituted in 1856 and made retroactive for the Crimean war. These
plain tales are accompanied by a remarkably large number (392) of
portraits of the recipients; by statutory and narrative appendices; by
a table of awards of the cross by branches of the service; and by a
personal index.” (Nation.)
“The scheme has been very carefully and soberly carried out.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“A very interesting account of the 520 men who have won the cross.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w.
“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald,
and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr.
Wilkins’s records are interesting.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
* =Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5.
Longmans.
“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage
of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last
seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that
marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these
papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this
volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs.
Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George
IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is
fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and
grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman
would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.
* “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both
as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his
subject.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1219. N. 25, ‘05. 1930w.
* “Mr. Wilkins displays his usual lucidity in narrative and firm grasp
of his subject. These things [errors] do not detract materially from
the merit of Mr. Wilkins’s well-written and historically important
work.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 716. N. 25. 1860w.
* “If Mr. Wilkins’s ideas are not remarkable, nor his style brilliant,
he may be congratulated upon having accomplished the task he set
himself by clearing the memory of an injured woman.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 393. N. 17, ‘05. 1920w.
* “Mr. Wilkins has handled his material ably, making a book at once
interesting and valuable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Wilkins has made a very complete biography of Mrs.
Fitzherbert.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ‘05. 650w.
* “The book is fustian from beginning to end, and is not at all below
Mr. Wilkins’ form.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 722. D. 2, ‘05. 1850w.
* “It is easy in such a work to fall into the role of mere purveyor of
scandal, but Mr. Wilkins never loses sight of his main theme, and the
book is primarily a study of character. If now and then he seems to
speak from a brief, on the whole he sticks soberly to facts, and his
comments are generally fair and convincing. He has performed a
delicate task with good taste and good sense, and has produced what is
not only a volume of entertaining gossip, but a solid contribution to
the history of the epoch.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 788. N. 18, ‘05. 1480w.
=Wilkinson, Kosmo.= Personal story of the upper house. *$3. Dutton.
The main purpose of this book is to set forth “how the peers of
England, from being an estate of the realm, grew into an independent
parliamentary assembly; how and by what personal agencies the
hereditary chamber became in a sense the parent of the elective; on
what issues, by what degrees, it co-operated with other agencies to
establish the house of commons; how then, from seeing in that chamber
its natural ally, if not its political offspring, the upper house
gradually discovered in the lower a rival and a foe.”
“He has undoubtedly succeeded in his intention of writing what is most
likely to find acceptance with those who read to be interested as well
as informed.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 391. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w.
“Is a good book of gossip about the Lords, in which there are plenty
of stories and few mistakes.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 160W.
“There is no partisanship in his estimates and judgments. There are
some really masterly characterizations, especially among those of
later times. References to authorities are few and far between, and
here and there he makes statements which seem to need the support of
good authorities.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Wilkinson writes agreeably. He also shows a considerable range of
reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 400w.
“A book that is neither pure history nor pure gossip, and yet comes
near to being both.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 404. Je. 17, ‘05. 1680w.
“As history the value of the work is, to be sure, of rather negative
character.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 131. S. 16, ‘05. 1680w.
“In his concluding pages Mr. Wilkinson is obviously hampered by the
fact that he is dealing with events and men too near our own time, and
writes too much in the style of the professional parliamentary
lobbyist. But this book as a whole is a most valuable addition to the
series of useful manuals to which it belongs, and is perhaps the most
readable of them all.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 916. Je. 24, ‘05. 2290w.
=Wilkinson, William Cleaver.= Modern masters of pulpit discourse.
**$1.60. Funk.
Criticisms and appreciations of the foremost preachers of France,
England and America. “As critical sketches of homiletic art they have
a special value for every preacher who is, as he should be, a student
of the art.” (Outlook.)
“The author evidently enjoyed writing it. But. personally, we prefer
the ‘formless infelicity’ of Newman.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 754. S. 28. ‘05. 90w.
“For the general reader there is enough of warm life in them.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 293. Je. 10. ‘05. 160w.
“The essays are all eminently readable, and have the appearance of
carefully formed judgments.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 262. Ag. 19, ‘05. 280w.
=Williams, Henry Smith=, ed. See =Historian’s= history of the world.
=Williams, Henry Smith, and Williams, Edward Huntington.= History of
science. 5v. Harper.
“The plan followed by the editor in chief and his collaborator (Dr.
Edward H. Williams) is to give a brief biography of the scientific men
to whose labors the world of to-day is indebted, prefacing these
biographies by a brief account of the beginnings of science and
connecting them by references to the circumstances amid which each
investigator worked.... In his second volume Dr. Williams carries on
his story through the dark ages, among the Arabians, the most famous
investigators of their time, into the western world, giving the
biographies and telling of the labors of astronomers, physicists,
physicians, down to Franklin and Linnaeus.... In the last three
volumes Dr. Williams treats of the development of the physical
sciences, of the chemical and biological sciences, and of the present
aspects of science.”—N. Y. Times.
“Inevitably, the murmuring shallows of science are more in evidence
than its silent deeps; its thaumaturgics than its revelations. All
this is somewhat trying to the student. For the student, however,
there is already no lack of adequate works in this field; he should be
the last to begrudge to the general reader the one book which best
meets his demands.” E. T. Brewster.
— + =Atlan.= 96: 690. N. ‘05. 390w.
“He has diligently collected an abundance of material of an
encyclopedic kind. His treatment of many topics is disproportionate
and cloudy. Some of the blunders are inexcusable.”
— — + =Ind.= 58: 381. F. 16, ‘05. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 56. Ja. 28, ‘05. 440w. (Outlines scope and
contents).
“Without many noticeable omissions or slurring of important events.
The story he tells, dry as it might be under certain circumstances, is
fascinating as told by Dr. Williams. The volume might almost be a
history of modern British science alone; to Dr. Williams apparently,
American contributions to the subject are merely incidental.
Proof-reading is careless. Inconsistent in the spelling. An index of
little value makes part of the last volume; the work is worthy of a
good one.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 99. F. 18, ‘05. 1190w.
“Error is by no means absent, and some of the defects which the work
betrays are surprising, but, viewing it in the large, it must be
agreed that its excellencies far outweigh its faults and that it is of
genuine value to both student and general reader. The style is
picturesque, fluent, and clear. Altogether, the fifth volume, in
striking contrast to its predecessors, must be accounted ill advised
and weak.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 956. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1030w.
* =Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A set of biographical essays entitled ‘Queens of the French stage,’
which cover the period from Louis XIV to the Revolution, beginning
with Armande Béjart (Molière’s wife) and ending with the celebrated,
and notorious Clairon.” (Nation.) “Mr. Williams gives both the
‘backstairs’ and the theatrical biography of his subjects.... The
picture is not a pleasant one, for the book resolves itself into the
story of liaisons, jealousies, infidelities, intrigues, and scandals
in high life and low.... The book, a substantial volume of some three
hundred and fifty quarto pages, is pleasantly illustrated with eight
or ten full-page half-tone reproductions after contemporary drawings
or paintings.” (Dial.)
* “Culled from many sources, these gossiping lives of six actresses
make very entertaining reading.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Written in a clear vigorous style, the book makes interesting, if
not very stimulating reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 280w.
* “The volume is readable and accurate in most matters save that of
French quotations, in which elementary blunders are altogether too
frequent.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 140w.
* “The author’s not inconsiderable learning, tact, taste, and elegant
literary style, actually do honor to the careers of the ladies whose
portraits painted by famous contemporary brushes are among the art
treasures of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 430w.
=Williams, John Rogers.= Handbook of Princeton. **$1.50. Grafton press.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson has written a sympathetic introduction to this
volume which “in very good taste describes most of the interesting
objects and places of patriotic association in that university town of
Revolutionary memories.... The book is fully illustrated for the eye
of the absent.” (Nation.)
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 30w.
“Except in one or two very minor matters, the accounts here given are
accurate and sympathetic.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 143. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“A very readable manual.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The consolations of a Roman lover done into English verse. Twenty-four
elegies of books I., II., III., and two short pieces of book IV., in
the translation of which the author has “always been faithful to the
thought and spirit of the original except in the few passages where
euphemism was required.”
“A free but exquisite translation.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Though it is in no sense a slavish rendering, it does present the
substance of Tibullus with remarkable fidelity.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 30w.
=Williams, William Henry.= Specimens of the Elizabethan drama from Lyly
to Shirley, A.D. 1580-A.D. 1642. *$1.90. Oxford.
“Nearly a hundred typical and representative scenes, complete in
themselves, have been selected.... A short appreciation is prefixed to
each section, notes being added.”—Dial.
“Mr. Williams does not in our judgment always do the best with the
material that his plan leaves him.”
— =Acad.= 68: 521. My. 13, ‘05. 560w.
“It is pervaded by the atmosphere of ripe literary scholarship.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 150w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
“In all substantial matters—connecting introductions, notes, and
text—(so far as we have, tested it) his work as an editor seems to be
well executed.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 105. Ag. 3, ‘05. 820w.
“The specimens are generally well chosen, though it is easy to
complain of some omissions.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 420w.
=Williamson, C. N., and A. M.= Lightning conductor. †$1.50. Holt.
The popularity of “the strange adventures of a motor-car” has
warranted this revised and enlarged edition, including a frontispiece
by Eliot Keen, and sixteen full-page illustrations from photographs of
the scenes of the story in France, Spain and Italy.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My
friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
This book “relates the incidents of a motor-car trip through southern
Europe of two young Englishmen (one a lord masquerading as a
chauffeur), and three American women, a widow of thirty-nine
masquerading as twenty-eight, her daughter of seventeen, masquerading,
for her mother’s sake, as thirteen, and her niece, an heiress,
masquerading as a poor relation. A prince, poor but dishonest,
masquerading as a man of property and honor, hovers around as the
villain of the piece.” (Outlook.)
+ =Acad.= 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 370w.
“Altogether a bright and pleasing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“There is a certain charm and pleasantness in this work, which
inclines one to approbation, though, truth to tell, there is but
little solid merit in it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 220w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris and Alice Muriel.= Princess passes: romance
of a motor car. $1.50. Holt.
A traveling love story, half of which takes place in the automobile of
the heroine of “The lightning conductor”; the other half is an Alpine
walking tour. Lord Lane, lately jilted, finds consolation in a
delightful boy, his “little pal,” whom he meets in his travels, and
whom he later discovers to be an American heiress, the Mercedes for
whom the Winston’s car was named. The story wanders over northern
France, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes, ending at Monte Carlo.
“This story is so delightful that we are not disposed to carp
over-much at the impossibility of its central situation.” William
Morton Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It seems almost too slender to be gravely criticised in matters of
plot, character-drawing, and the like. Its staple is sheer, wholesome
fun, brisk and bubbling, but not loud or crude.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The descriptions of the road are unusually good and the breath of the
high Alps is in the book.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 110w.
“If the story taxes belief, the characters are lifelike enough to
satisfy any novel reader in good standing.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 20: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 530w.
“Is, if anything, more saturated with the sunshine and fun of
automobile adventure than ‘The lightning conductor.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“There is a pretty little romance in the book, and delightful
descriptions of scenery, castles, quaint inns, and travel by donkey.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 220w.
=Williamson, James M.= Life and times of St. Boniface. *$2. Oxford.
“Dr. Williamson gives us, in a sufficiently readable and popular
manner, the life of the Englishman who, in the turmoil of the eighth
century, was raised by fortune and his own merits to the primacy of
the church in Germany.”—Acad.
+ =Acad.= 68: 33. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w.
=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American
colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
“A review of our experience as a nation in governing the Philippine
islands and an appreciation of the main elements of the Philippine
problem as it now presents itself.” There is a frank discussion of
civil government, civil service, legal and judicial systems,
constabulary, political parties, the church, American education in the
islands, social conditions, and kindred subjects, all treated from the
view point of an “anti-imperialist.”
* “It needs to be stated at the beginning that this book is frankly
critical of our Philippine policy, and particularly of the
administration thereof. Further perusal and analysis of the book will
convince many readers, perhaps unwillingly, too, that the criticisms
and charges it contains are not only serious and grave in the extreme,
but that their authenticity seems unquestionable. In style it is
unusually readable and entertaining.” J. E. Conner.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 761. N. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Is a careful ‘study of American colonial policy,’ well deserving
the attention of the politician and historian. The author is
thoroughly master of his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 646. N. 11. 300w.
* =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Willis somewhat prejudices his case as an impartial critic by the
expression of his own adverse opinion in the preliminary chapter,
before he has presented his evidence to his readers. No modern
government has ever been more severely impeached of high crimes and
misdemeanors against the spirit of the institutions of its people,
than has the government at Washington in these chapters.” John J.
Halsey.
— =Dial.= 39: 271. N. 1, ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 2720w.
“The serious defect of the book is that it is not what it purports to
be. It is really an almost unqualified accusation against the American
government, not only of unfitness and failure, but of prejudice,
insincerity, and sordidness.”
— — =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 510w.
* + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 240w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 150w.
=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the
United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
The seventh volume in the “American state series.” The field covered
in Dr. Willoughby’s discussion is that of the actual policy and the
action taken by the United States in respect to the government and
administration of the various dependent territories which have
successively come under its sovereignty, and the conferring of
political rights upon their inhabitants.
* “Mr. Willoughby’s volume will repay careful study.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 471. D. 7, ‘05. 480w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1140w.
“Generally speaking, the treatment is concise yet thorough.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
* =Willson, Robert Newton.= American boy and the social evil: from a
physician’s standpoint. $1. Winston.
Four plain talks—originally delivered to students and now published by
Dr. Willson “for the purpose of more widely introducing a difficult
and delicate subject in a plain but thoroughly clean way.” The talks
are: The nobility of boyhood: the boy’s part in life’s problem,
delivered to the boys of Philadelphia during the summer of 1904, at
the request of the department of public health and charities; Clean
living: a problem of school and college days, a talk to the students
of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1903; The social evil in
America and The relation of the citizen to the social evil, addresses
to the students of the Union Theological seminary, April, 1905.
* =Wilson, Bingham Thoburn.= Village of Hide and seek. $1.25.
Consolidated retail booksellers.
The village of Hide and seek lies at the end of a perilous cliff
journey over which Aunt Twaddles, a fat, coarse-skirted witch of the
mountains, conducts two children in search of pennyroyal. In her own
realm the witch is transformed into a beautiful fairy queen of the
dolls, and with her brother Santa Claus furnishes rare entertainment
for the visitors.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 200w.
=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClure.
This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and
includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be
included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work
and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses
carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.
=Wilson, Ella Calista.= Pedagogues and parents. **$1.25. Holt.
It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the
power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show
what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and
privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent,
the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher
advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their
natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The
book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern
for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they
dare consult their own reason in the education of their children,
rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”
“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are
cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing
glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read
from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether
you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 81. F. 11, ‘05. 2140w.
“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to
teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers
in our women’s clubs.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 200*. F. ‘05. 230w.
=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Man limitless. $1.25. Fenno.
In eleven papers treating of such subjects as love, work, memory,
suggestion, and accomplishment, is given a metaphysical and psychic
study of the possibilities of man, unlimited power resident in one’s
selfhood, which may be made use of thru discipline.
“Mr. Wilson’s cry is: Down with the chains! Down with limitations! And
he succeeds in persuading us fully that there is no need for any of
these.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w.
=Wilson, Harry Leon.= Boss of little Arcady. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“Mr. Wilson writes of an Illinois village just before and just after
the great war, of a shy boy who adored a schoolgirl with two yellow
braids tied with a scarlet ribbon, of another boy who was not shy, of
a marriage and a going-away to the stricken field with a sad little
miniature inside a blue coat.... He writes of black Clem, who came
from Virginia, and was ‘Miss Cah’line’s pus’nal property,’ in spite of
the Emancipation proclamation ... of ‘Miss Caroline’ herself ... Miss
Caroline’s daughter, Katharine Lansdale ... and Jim, a setter dog.”—N.
Y. Times.
“It is a whimsical book that Mr. Wilson has given us this time, a book
that is scarcely a novel at all, in the accepted sense, a book that
drags somewhat at the start, at the same time that it is
surreptitiously fastening its hold on you.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 134. O. ‘05. 370w.
“His new book has leisurely ease of movement and a humor that is
simply captivating.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 250w.
“A picture of the Western town more truthful, because more
affectionately touched with misty hues of the imagination, than are
the raw splotches of ‘local color’ miscalled ‘novels of the West.’”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 400w.
“The scheme of writing the novel in four books is a lazy one that
disturbs the unities. We want the illusion of all the balls in the air
at once.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 420w.
“It is a fine thing of its kind, and will please many, the pleasing of
whom is worth a man’s time and trouble.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 900w.
* “A delightfully human, kindly and refreshing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“There is real pleasure to be derived from its perusal if too much is
not expected in the way of incident and action.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 90w.
=Wilson, James Grant.= Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6.
2v. **$10. Dodd.
A two-volume account of Thackeray’s visits to the United States. His
lecture course on the English humorists and the Georges are described,
and various anecdotes, conversations and letters are given. There is a
bibliographical list of the writings of Thackeray published in the
United States, followed by Thackerayana, and the numerous mentions of
him in periodicals. There are twenty-six portraits of Thackeray, many
of his drawings, and several facsimiles of letters.
“Small faults are easily found, and though the book may not be as
learned as possible, it is surely one that should have distinct
popularity.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 110w.
Reviewed by M. F.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 189. Mr. 16, ‘05. 900w.
“American readers will find in these two volumes nothing to complain
of everything to correct an ancient notion we all had that Thackeray
was cynical.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1308. Je. 8. ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 6. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1460w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Two garrulous and amiable volumes.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 1380w.
=Wilson, William Robert Anthony.= Knot of blue. †$1.50. Little.
This is not an historical romance altho the scene is laid in old
Quebec. The heroine, the ward of the governor, and the hero, her
childhood playmate, are both the victims of the wicked plots of the
villain thru whom the hero is made to appear faithless to both his
country and his love. There are many thrilling scenes, enacted by many
players, but in the end each wins his true deserts.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w.
“A story of love and adventure, full of movement and romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 50w.
=Winkley, Jonathan Wingate.= John Brown, the hero: personal
reminiscences, *85c. West, J. H.
The author was a boy in Kansas in 1856, and there came in contact with
the great abolitionist hero. The object of his little book is to throw
some side light upon John Brown’s character, and he gives some new
historical material, and recounts adventures in which he was too young
to participate except as an eye witness. There is an introduction by
Frank B. Sanborn. The illustrations include a representation of a bust
of John Brown and two views of the Adair cabin.
=Am. Hist R.= 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“We are glad Dr. Winkley has set down his personal experiences and
impressions in so interesting and vivid a manner.”
+ =Arena.= 33: 672. Je. ‘05. 160w.
“Although the matter of the book is slender in amount, and spread thin
by both author and printer, and although the glimpses we get of John
Brown are few and fleeting, the publishers are still within the truth
in announcing that ‘The book has the interest of a romance,’ and that
‘the young will read it as if it were especially “a story for boys,”
and the old will find in it matters to revive their enthusiasm.’”
+ =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Another slight, and wholly unpretentious volume, quickly read.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 400w.
=Winslow, Charles Edward Amory.= Elements of applied microscopy: a
text-book for beginners. $1.50. Wiley.
A presentation of the elements of microscopic study under the
headings: Function and parts of the microscope. Manipulation of the
microscope, The mounting and preparation of objects for the
microscope, Micrometry, and the camera lucida, The microscopy of the
common starches, Foods and drugs and their adulterants, The
examination of textile fibers, The microscopy of paper, The microscope
in medicine and sanitation, Forensic microscopy, Microchemistry,
Petrography and metallography.
“Mr. Winslow’s text is practical.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 295. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.
=Winter, Alice.= Prize to the hardy. $1.50. Bobbs.
Mrs. Winter’s story of early Minnesota days is built up around a
successful financial magnate of a typical western town, his daughter,
in whose veins flows a trace of the blood of Indian chiefs,—a very
modern, very feminine, very human specimen of lovable young womanhood,
a young Maineite who demonstrates his fitness to be called the
“hardy,” and his rival, the near approach to a contemptible villain.
There are close range views of the typical Swede farmer, dips into the
hardships to be endured in the small Dakota towns, and a thrilling
picture of a forest fire’s devastation. The local coloring thruout is
consistent and characteristic.
“Told in a spirited manner. It is a story that will appeal to the
general reader in search of a pleasing and somewhat exciting
love-tale.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 250w.
“The book is not incapably written. The book’s greatest fault is its
utter lack of originality.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“In short, without being remarkable in any special way, ‘The prize to
the hardy’ is a good readable, human story, and cleverly written at
that.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Lion’s skin. †$1.50. Doubleday.
On the surface the book is the story of a certain Powhatan Carrington,
who bore arms in his ‘teens for the Confederacy, and became a Richmond
lawyer and politician. On turning Republican he found himself so
unpopular among his townspeople, that he removed to New York, where he
and his northern wife prospered exceedingly. Underneath is an analysis
of the conditions of the South since the Civil war, and a political
history of Virginia from the first steps in reconstruction to the
election of the governor in 1885.
“‘The lion’s skin’ spells information rather than diversion.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 651. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“In this book there is far more history than fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 290w.
— =Ind.= 58: 1132. My. 18, ‘05. 320w.
“As a novel Mr. Wise’s book, while it contains some excellent material
will not hold the average reader’s attention. But it only ostensibly a
novel. It is rather a personal explanation, and as such will interest
persons who know who Mr. Wise is.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 630w.
“Mr. Wise cannot be accounted a success as a novelist, but as a
historian he is clear and forceful, and his book calls for careful
consideration.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“As a piece of fiction the book is a negligible quantity, but as the
narrative account of the movement of events and the development and
importance of the predominant feelings in the South before, during,
and immediately after the war it is a worthy contribution to our Civil
war literature.”
— + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 160w.
“A new kind of reconstruction story, cleverly weaving together fact
and fiction, and discussing the negro problem frankly and
impressively.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
* =Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.
Seven essays, intended to state in a simple and practical manner the
essential principles of religion, and to clear it from confusion
arising from theological changes and historical criticism.
* “They are well adapted by their brevity and simplicity to the need
of the average man. If they fall short in any point, it is in not
recognizing the essential identity of religion and morality beneath
their superficial differences.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Wisser, John P., and Gauss, Henry C.=, comps. Military and naval
dictionary. 50c. Hamersley.
Authentic and clearly worded definitions of all terms used in the
United States army and navy, with a well-defined statement of the
powers of each department of the United States government and the
duties of all government officials.
“The work has been condensed into a small handbook, and constitutes a
handy volume of reference, the words selected having been clearly
defined in simple English. It will be of use not only to the general
reader unfamiliar with the terms who wishes to learn their meaning,
but also for the Navy, Army, the National guard, the Naval reserve,
and others interested in military matters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Witchell, Charles Anderson.= Nature’s story for the year. $1.25.
Wessels.
Under such chapter headings as—The universal strife, Signs of spring,
April days, May muses, June joys, An August song, Signs of autumn, and
Wintry days, is given the story of the denizens of nature’s own land,
the thickets and the tree tops; history of a year and what the
changing seasons bring to the things that creep and fly.
* =Wittigschlager, Wilhelmina.= Minna, wife of the young rabbi. $1.50.
Consolidated retail booksellers.
Minna, a beautiful girl of unknown parentage, born among poor Russian
Jews, is forced to marry when only thirteen years old a man whom she
has never seen. The morning after her marriage she runs away from her
bridegroom and leads a wandering life buffeted by fate and humanity
hither and yon, caring for her little son as best she may. She comes
to America, but later returns to Russia as an anarchist, only to
discover, upon the assassination of Alexander II., that the czar she
has plotted to kill is her father. She is sent to Siberia, but is
pardoned, and in the end is reunited to her husband, whom she has come
to love. This is but a small part of an exciting story, which gives a
remarkably vivid and most unflattering picture of the Russian Jew.
* =Wolf, Edmund Jacob.= Higher rock: sermons, addresses, and articles;
comp. by a committee of the Board of publication. $1.50. Lutheran pub.
soc.
A memorial edition of Dr. Wolf’s sermons, papers and addresses. “They
are the ripe fruit of a thoughtful and scholarly mind. Laymen and
ministers alike will find the book not only readable but clear and
profitable.”
=Woljeska, Helen.= See =Tindolph, Helen Woljeska.=
=Wollant, Gregoire de.= Land of the rising sun; tr. from the Russian by
the author, with the assistance of Madame de Wollant. $1.50. Neale.
“The first portion of M. de Wollant’s study is a short description of
the Japanese islands, following which there is a historical sketch of
the people and an outline of the history of Christianity in Japan.
Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day,
impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as
southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and
domestic life are well considered, and in addition M. de Wollant
appends some interesting observations on economic and financial
Japan.”—Pub. Opin.
“While he evidently aims to be accurate and impartial, his
observations and opinions are naturally colored by his nationality,
but we nevertheless find the book very interesting.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 180w.
“Where he has occasion to refer to authorities his choice is usually
the best, and his personal comments on contemporary conditions reveal
an observer of such insight that it is a matter for regret that he has
not often seen fit to delve a little deeper beneath the surface which
he portrays so admirably.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 280w.
“An interesting and impartial book on Japan. The book is decidedly
worth reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 1370w.
“A Russian’s estimate of Japan is interesting. It is especially
interesting, as in the present case, when it is given by a clever,
keen-sighted Russian.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“The narrative is lacking in literary merit and is at times
incoherent, but as the book is a translation, a great many of the
faults of style and composition may be due to that fact.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 479. O. 7, ‘05. 130w.
=Wollaston, Arthur Naylor.= Sword of Islam. *$3. Dutton.
“This book is an enlargement of the author’s previous work,
‘Half-hours with Muhammad.’ The first half of the book gives the story
of Mohammed’s life and teaching, the early history of Islam, and a
sketch of the dynasties under which Islamic civilization reached its
highest development: the second half is devoted to a description of
the more important tenets of the Mohammedan faith and the beliefs of
the various sects into which Islam is divided.”—Spec.
“Such statements are inexcusable, all being devoid of foundation
beyond popular misconception due to ignorance.”
— =Acad.= 68: 800. Ag. 5, ‘05. 980w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 751. S. 28, ‘05. 160w.
“This volume may stimulate an interest which it cannot satisfy.”
— =Nation.= 81: 199. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 12, ‘05. 270w.
“He has done his work of choosing and mingling in an able manner. Mr.
Wollaston has made a connected story out of many diverse books and
articles. The result of his work we consider valuable, as being many
riches in a little space.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1590w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 40w.
“‘The sword of Islam’ may serve a purpose as a book of reference for
the general reader; but it can hardly ‘awaken an interest in the
history of a religion and its followers.’”
+ =Spec.= 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 560w.
=Wood, Charles Seely.= Camp fires on the Scioto. †$1.50. Wilde.
The third story in Mr. Wood’s series on the opening up of the
Northwest territory. It is based on the historical records of surveys
made after the Indians had been driven to the northwest. The hardy
courage of these government surveyors forms the undertone of the tale,
which in particular sketches the heroism of Morris Patterson, a lad
who had been orphaned by the cruelty of the Indians, and who resolves
to take his father’s place in the company at Massie’s Station on the
Ohio river, and to support his little sister.
=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
Stories which will carry all those who, in childhood, have known the
country, thankfully back to the old school-house, the Sabbath-school,
the swimming hole, the county fair, the circus and the many other
things of youth which were once delightfully real and now seem
delightfully funny. The illustrations by A. B. Frost add greatly to
the book.
* “His style, too, is that of the tricky journalist, and not of the
literary artist. That Mr. Wood is not lacking in ability, whatever may
be his deficiences in taste, is shown by the sustained excellence of
one chapter, ‘The firemen’s tournament.’”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 660w.
“The human touch that makes the whole world kin is to be felt in these
homely, humorous sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
“They are well worth reading two or three times over.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern
application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“The burden of Mr. Wood’s attempt here is to free the Bible from the
old, hard, literal infallibility which has at once hidden its deeper
spiritual meaning from its friends and been the most telling weapon in
the hands of hostile critics.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ‘05. 200w.
“Those who are familiar with the inspiring, optimistic tone always
struck by Henry Wood in his various writings on new thought topics
will not be disappointed in this, his latest volume.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 476. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.
=Wood, T. Martin.= Drawings of Sir E. Burne-Jones. *$2.50. Scribner.
An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory
essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly
reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,”
designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The
nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The
sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a
study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted
on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is
printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.
“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a
few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the
drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 190w.
“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that
great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various
processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we
have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin
Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s
draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* =Wood, T. Martin.= Drawings of Rossetti. *$2.50. Scribner.
“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is
an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase
of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the
proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and
the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as
illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable
detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough
paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from
the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so
characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.
* “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating
piece of criticism.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* “Valuable addition to the Newnes series.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 210w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861-1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the
British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser
Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is
convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national
life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a
whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there
is much in it which the general public may read with profit and
interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended
rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)
* “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have
named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its
accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have
to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which
has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the
volume.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 431. S. 30. 1070w.
* “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less,
and omitted some of the many details with which they load their
pages.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 720w.
* “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion
in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser
Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military
pronouncement on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 1030w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 240w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 412. S. 23, ‘05. 290w.
=Woodman, H. Rea.= Noahs afloat. $1.50. Neale.
A jocular account of the voyage of the ark, which begins with the
third day out and ends when the Noahs and the stowaway, John Smith,
have packed up their belongings and are ready to land. The book is
largely taken up with humorous family discussions of up-to-date
subjects. Some lively incidents are furnished by the animals.
“It is carefully written, and those who like this kind of humor may
like it very much.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 600w.
=Woodward, William Harrison.= Desiderius Erasmus concerning the aim and
method of education. *$1.30. Macmillan.
“This study of the life work of Erasmus as an educator is
characterized by ... thoroughness, lucidity, and sympathy.... Erasmus
as sketched here is not an altogether attractive personality.”—Int. J.
Ethics.
“To inquirers into the origins of modern culture, and to students of
the history of education generally, this book will prove invaluable.”
R. E. Hughes.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 390. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
Working men’s college, 1854-1904. See =Davies, J. Llewelyn=, ed.
=Workman, William Hunter, and Workman, Fanny Bullock.= Through town and
jungle: fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and peoples of
the Indian plain. *$5. Scribner.
A book devoted to the “temples and people of India,” giving studies of
the six styles of Indian architecture, the Buddhist, Indian-Aryan,
Jain, Dravidian, Chalukyan, and Mohammedan, and the innumerable
variety of people and adventures encountered “from Cape Comorin to the
Himalayas and beyond.” There are over two hundred illustrations.
“It is a worthy record of a remarkable journey.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 1580w.
“It would be most unfair to deny the value of the material, both
textual and pictorial, here gathered together, however unsystematized,
or the fact that no other recent work on India gives any such general
impression of the Indian peoples and architectures.” Wallace Rice.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“The incidents and excitements, as well as the studious results, of
this trip are well told.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6, ‘05. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 188. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1280w.
“The narrative does not quite justify one’s expectations. In spite of
their unusual powers of endurance, these seasoned travellers found a
good deal to grumble about.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 260w.
=Wright, John, pseud.= See =Bourne, R. William.=
=Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright).= Southern girl in ‘61:
the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. **$2.75.
Doubleday.
“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s
child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston,
carries the thread of the public story rather than her own,
reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She
reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends
with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced
in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.
* + =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social
histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 269 N. 1, ‘05. 920w.
“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to
show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by
writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 100w.
* “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not
understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later.
So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are
pleasing, although often thin.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 405. N. 16, ‘05. 1890w.
“Not even a tag of poor verse ... can rob ‘A southern girl in ‘61’ of
its literary quality or historical value, its pathos, and its fine
humanity.” L. L.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1160w.
* “Mrs. Wright’s book is decidedly one to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
“The book has a substantial interest that only the author could
supply, and some of the correspondence introduced has the value of
historical documents.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, 05. 200w.
* “‘The feminine spirit of the Confederacy,’ which has been made one
of the chapter titles of this book, is cleverly interpreted by this
writer, who was actually a part of the stirring scenes which she
narrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 160w.
=Wright, W. Aldis=, ed. See =Ascham, Roger.= English works.
=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: * beacons of the past
rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
A study of the cities of Tarsus, Tyana, Ancyra, Philippi, Old and New
Corinth, Ephesus, Colossai, and Thessalonica, which not only shows the
setting of the Apostle’s life and helps to our understanding of the
Pauline epistles, but points out that the Apostle encountered the same
vices, social, political, and commercial, that threaten our own
municipalities today, and shows how he dealt with them.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
* “With such a purpose Dr. Wright has put his ample knowledge to a
highly instructive as well as entertaining use.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle, †$1. Little.
Orphaned Johnny Beal becomes the little “human hand-me-down” of the
Smithville sewing-circle. Each member takes charge of him for two
months at a time, and with all the divided management, it is no wonder
that the little fellow jumbles his various parting injunctions. His
only solace is Tab, his cat which kind fate smuggles past the wrathy
spots in his foster mothers’ tempers.
=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted
and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
This volume “deals with territory between the metropolis and the sea,
and is included in the ‘Beautiful book’ series.... It is described by
Mrs Wyllie and the many colored pictures and other sketches are by W.
L. Wyllie, A. R. A. The party ‘does’ London to the Nore, along the
Thames, and the Medway to Rochester. The book is made up of a series
of traveler’s impressions with what might be called a partly
historical and partly contemporaneous background.”—N. Y. Times.
“In Mr. Wyllie’s pictures in ‘London to the Nore,’ we are struck
chiefly by the wholesome sentiment and the microscopic eye. Mrs.
Wyllie’s text is a too frivolous accompaniment.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 400w.
* “Amongst the many delightful publications resulting from the happy
collaboration of an artist and author that have recently appeared,
high rank must certainly be given to ‘London to the Nore,’ with its
sympathetic interpretations of typical river scenes and vivid
word-pictures of their environment.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 520w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 485. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“In every way a most delightful book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
=Wyman, Rev. Henry H.= Certainty in religion. 50c; 10c. Columbus press.
“Father Wyman has met many doubters in his long missionary career, and
this book is a summary of his most persuasive arguments with them. It
will serve, we trust, as a manual for many other zealous
priests.”—Cath. World.
“A book of really convincing power.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 251. My. ‘05. 380w.
Y
=Yechton, Barbara, pseud. (Lydia Farrington Krause).= Some adventures of
Jack and Jill. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A pretty story of a group of English children who lived in Santa
Cruz, West Indies. Little Jill, the narrator, looks up to her brother
Jack with loving admiration. The mischief they get into and the honest
way they get out make delightful reading.”—Outlook.
* “The story is well told.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “It is a good story for boys and girls, any one in fact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “Refinement and gentleness characterize this wholesome chronicle of
childish thoughts and doings.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 60w.
Yellow war, by “O.” **$1.20. McClure.
Dramatic episodes of the war in the Far East are given here with a
touch of imagination which only adds to their reality: we see things
as the yellow men must see them. There are scenes of war on sea and
land, scenes at the front, and at home, most of which tell of the
systematic subordination and sacrifice of the individual to the
system.
“It is a book which gives an excellent idea of the actors in the war.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 172. F. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“There is much idealization rather than a precise report, and the
result is an impression even more veritable than the others have been
able to convey, notwithstanding a certain sense of the fiction that is
truer than mere fact.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 417. Je. 16, ‘05. 890w.
“On its face a collection of detached recitals, many of them
thrilling, but not incredible, this volume, when carefully read,
reveals more than tales of adventure. The anonymous writer is clearly
distrustful and unsympathetic, but he tries to be impartial.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 204. S. 7, ‘05. 1480w.
“On the whole, it is a book of blood-stirring reading—a sort of prose
glory song of the wonderful little yellow man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 550w.
“Remarkable for their vividness and intensity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
“It is quite likely that this fiction is a truer picture in spirit of
the Japanese than much of the fact we have been fed on.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 360w.
“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has
studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it.
The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life
and color.”
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 180w.
“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book
can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is
never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The
book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and
then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a
kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 800w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of
intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland
adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that
the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be
preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.
* “Knows his subject and its surroundings thoroughly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and
other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book,
as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to
point a moral.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “There is plenty of adventure and danger, animal jealousy and human
love. The book is pleasant—fascinating indeed—and morally healthy.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Young, Janet=, comp. Psychological yearbook. **$1. Elder.
Quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for
gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity.
=Young, Jeremiah Simeon.= Political and constitutional study of the
Cumberland road. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The introductory chapters on the early transportation difficulties
and the first roads to the West are a most convenient summary of that
interesting problem in our early economic history. The two following
chapters on the genesis of the Cumberland road, its location,
construction and administration, will be welcomed by everyone who has
had to lecture on the subject. The long constitutional controversy is
clearly outlined, taking up the question of eminent domain,
jurisdiction, Monroe’s veto, and the final surrender of the road to
the states through which the road passed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The treatment is in the main historical. The style of the author is
both good and bad. It is clear, but marred by numerous repetitions of
lines and even paragraphs, giving us the impression that the chapters
were written at widely separated times. There is, moreover, an
unfortunate failure of correspondence at times between the text and
citations. The book is a very readable and logical discussion of a
most interesting subject. It is marred, however, by certain faults of
style and inaccuracies in details.” Alonzo H. Tuttle.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“This is an admirable little monograph, a source study of a
constitutional question of great historical significance. The
monographic study will greatly aid the general historian in getting a
sure grasp of the main questions involved.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 346. Mr. ‘05. 130w.
=Younghusband, Francis Edward.= Heart of a continent. *$2. Scribner.
This narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, thru
the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894, was issued several
years ago, and is now republished in cheaper form, owing to the
renewed interest which recent events have awakened in both Colonel
Younghusband and the entire region traversed. At the time of this
expedition Manchuria was practically a closed country, Russia had not
thought of occupying it, and the account is one of thoro pioneer
explorations, of interesting experiences and observations on the
people and the general conditions. There are half a dozen
illustrations.
“For full details of their remarkable journey, Mr. James’s book must
be consulted; but the brief account of it given by Col. Younghusband
is sufficiently full for ordinary purposes, and is replete with both
interesting and valuable information.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 157. F. 23, ‘05. 1960w.
=Ystridde, G.= Three dukes. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A story portraying life among the upper classes of Russia. A pretty
English girl accepts the position as a governess to two grown
daughters of an eccentric Russian nobleman. The mother is very anxious
to get her daughters married. Three dukes are attracted by the beauty
of the governess and the fancied dowries of her pupils, but the path
of love is very rugged.”—Bookm.
“Nowhere is there a glimpse of the author’s self, the book is as free
from personal feeling and bias as a police report. She records what
she has seen and heard, and her photographs of scenes and people bear
the stamp of truth and individuality.”
— =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“A vivacious and readable picture of Russian life, containing a good
many sharply drawn characters who sound as if they had human
prototypes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 50w.
“The genuineness of the local coloring is undeniable, and the deft
manipulation of both characters and incident shows unusual talent. The
book has a charm. The interest is kept up throughout.” W. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 125. F. 16. ‘05. 210w.
“To an English speaking, American thinking reader much of it seems
futile and much else of it dull. Similarly all of it seems to lack
that sense of humor which is nothing more or less than a sense of
proportion.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 20. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w.
Z
* =Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
A volume in “The Langham series of art monographs.” “This little book
gives a rapid but comprehensive survey of the art of Rome, piloting
the reader with considerable skill through the successive
phases—classical, Christian, renaissance—down to the present day, and
leaving him at last in a position ‘to distinguish the characteristic
note in her art, and to divine the secret of its world-wide
reputation.’ ... The scheme of the book is suitably assisted by a few
photographs of typical buildings and pictures.”—Ath.
* “The general tone is modest.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 160w.
* “It is surprising to find the amount of information he has got into
this narrow space.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 430w.
=Zangwill, Israel.= Celibates’ club, being the united stories of the
bachelors’ club and the old maids’ club. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Genial stories of how the old maids’ and bachelors’ clubs came to be
united. A dramatic critic married in order to have some one handy to
make use of the second complimentary ticket, and then the theatres
began to send but one ticket. An epicure married his bad cook that he
might be free “to hire a good one.” Young Dickray married the daughter
of his father’s ghost in a spirit of atonement; this is not as weird
as it sounds. There are many other stories in the same vein.
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 312. My. ‘05. 520w.
“‘The celibates’ is not to be stolidly masticated—it is tabasco rather
than oatmeal porridge, and should be used accordingly.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 780w.
“The author’s humor is not all British any more than that of George
Bernard Shaw.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7. ‘05. 340w.
“Is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches. But the
book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for
writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or
fancy.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“It is clever—only too clever, witty, lively, cynical, even
sentimental. Yet, after its fashion, human also. Above all, it is Mr.
Zangwill’s own.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 194. Ap. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“Whimsicality too elaborate and often forced is made to take the place
of humor, with the result that the reader is often puzzled and
sometimes wearied.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 716. My. 6, ‘05. 500w.
“All the stories abound in wit and humor in detail, and ... some of
the verses are brilliant.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 220w.
=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George
P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
The life of Bach, contrary to most artists’ careers, manifests no
repression of spontaneous, all-around development. “He was an
affectionate father, laboring manfully and incessantly to support a
large family; a good citizen ... a musician without an equal in the
profundity of his knowledge and the richness of his productions; the
founder of modern music, the master of the organ, a composer of the
highest forms of sacred music; a plain humble man.” This view of the
man fills the volume which belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
* “The story is well told, with commendable fidelity to fact, and the
translation is exceedingly good.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the
various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“M. Zilliacus writes primarily for Finlanders, who have no à priori
sympathy with Russian democracy, and require to be convinced that the
cause of their nation is bound up with the larger cause of reform. He
therefore gives a summary of recent history, showing the steps in the
development of the autocracy, the consequent misgovernment, and the
elements in the state which have now been arrayed against it.”—Spec.
* “We are able for this and other reasons to commend this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 560w.
“The account is of absorbing interest, and may well be read by all who
desire to obtain an inside view of the underlying causes of present
conditions in Russia.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* “He claims to have misrepresented no facts, and to have verified
them, so far as possible, by reference to other than revolutionary
sources, a claim which appears to us to be thoroughly well-founded.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 580w.
“He frankly sympathizes with the revolutionists. But his general
statements are abundantly supported by specific facts.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. ‘05. 400w.
“A word of praise is due the unnamed translator, whose version is
smooth, flowing, and altogether readable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.
“The book is conspicuous by a rare moderation of tone.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Zimmer, George Frederick.= Mechanical handling of material. *$10. Van
Nostrand.
This is the first book written in English devoted to the subject of
mechanical loading and transportation of materials. It treats of
elevators and conveyors of various kinds, of ropeways and cableways,
grab buckets, dump cars, unloading by coal tips, automatic weighing
machines, floor and silo warehouses for grain, cantilever cranes, etc.
There are 542 illustrations.
“The scarcity of data and the apparent unreliability of some of the
data given form the most disappointing feature of this volume. There
are many otherwise good illustrations whose value is greatly reduced
by the absence of dimensions.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 1240w.
“The book will be indispensable to all engineering firms, consulting
engineers, and architects who have to deal with this important
question.” T. H. B.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 290. Jl. 27, ‘05. 810w.
=Ziwet, Alexander.= Elements of theoretical mechanics. *$4. Macmillan.
This is a revised edition of “An elementary treatise on theoretical
mechanics,” by the junior professor of mathematics in the University
of Michigan, and is intended especially for students of engineering.
Kinemetics, statics, and kinetics are the main divisions of the book,
which states in its preface: “This work is not a treatise on applied
mechanics, the application being merely used to illustrate the general
principles and to give the student an idea of the uses to which
mechanics can be put.”
“Is an excellent introduction to the science of analytical mechanics.
His exposition is in general sound and logical.” L. M. Hoskins.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1120w.
=Zola, Emile.= Selections; ed. by A. G. Cameron. *80c. Holt.
In choosing these selections the editor has endeavored to illustrate
Zola’s “patriotic, sociological, and descriptive sides, expressed in
the mastery of his style and literary workmanship.” The text includes
L’Attaque du Moulin, Le grand Michu, Le paradis des chats, Les Halles,
L’Ile du diable, and nine other selections. An English introduction,
notes and bibliography fits the book for student use.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 90w.
“It would have been better if Mr. Cameron had given the source from
which he took each of the pieces he has chosen.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
=Zollinger, Gulielma, pseud. (William Zachary Gladwin).= Widow
O’Callaghan’s boys. $1.50. McClurg.
Widow O’Callaghan’s boys have lost not a whit of their popularity
during the seven years since their first appearance. The brave
cheerful struggle of the mother in launching seven boys upon useful
careers is as refreshing and helpful as ever. Mrs. O’Callaghan brought
her boys up on the teaching that “The Lord niver puts little b’ys and
big jobs together. He gives the little b’y a chance at the little
jobs, and them as does the little jobs faithful gets to be able to be
the men that does big jobs easy.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Quite inimitable in Mrs. O’Callahan’s Irish way of putting things,
which furnishes the salt to the solid nutriment of the story.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
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42. Enclosed spaced font in ~tildes~.
The structure is
a) information about the book, b) publisher's blurb (or
excerpt from a review), c) review information including
rating.
The text has been formatted to hopefully make it easier for
a programmer to extract the data.
Book information
Are preceeded by two blank lines.
Are not indented in order to assist with extraction.
Generally follow the format: =Author.= Book title. Price.
Publisher.
Some listings did not include an author. As previously
mentioned, bold format was removed form the book titles to
assist with extraction.
Authors titles and honorifics were placed within the bold
(=) markup.
Person job titles such as editor or translator were placed
outside the bold markup just before the book title.
Occasionally additional information such as translator or
editor are included after the book title and before the
price.
Many listings are cross references (“See”) to another place
in this digest.
Publisher's blurb (or excerpt from a review)
Are wrapped paragraphs indented two spaces.
If there are two paragraphs following the book information
then the first one is generally the publishers blurb.
Subsequent paragraphs until the next book are exerpts from
reviews.
Review information including rating was formatted as follows
Asterisk (if any) indented one space.
Plus and minus ratings (if any) occupying the fourth through
eighth positions, right justified.
Abbreviated magazine title enclosed in equals ‘=’ signs
beginning at the tenth position then the reference data
follows.
In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to
the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the
date.(Quoted from Other Abbreviation section.)
Word count (if any) is included as the last item of data in
the reference.
Book information extraction regex example:
Probably needs to be a two step process:
Step 1 extract the works where the author is listed, for
example:
regex: (?<=\n{3})[\* ]{0,2}\=([^=]+?)\=
output: Author: $1
Step 2 extract the works without listed authors, e.g.:
regex: (?<=\S\n{3})[\* ]{0,2}([A-Z][^\=\d\$\*†]+?) [\*\†\d]
output: Title: $1
The full solution of capturing the title and publisher are
left to the user.
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