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THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
[ANNUAL CUMULATION]
VOLUME III
BOOK REVIEWS OF 1907 IN ONE ALPHABET
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON
DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY
CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING
MINNEAPOLIS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1907
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
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PREFACE
This volume is the third annual cumulation of the Book Review
Digest. It includes principally the books of 1907 that have been
reviewed by the best book critics in England and America. It aims first
to record with unprejudiced exactness the scope, character and subject
content of books as they appear, and further, to supplement this
descriptive information from month to month with excerpts culled from
the best current reviews appearing in forty-seven English and American
magazines which give prominence to book criticism, thus furnishing to
the librarian a basis for the valuation of books. Frequently the best
reviews of a book appear during the year following its publication, so
in this volume will be found supplementary excerpts relating to books
which were entered in the 1906 annual. It will be observed that a number
of entries include only the descriptive note. Reviews for these books
have not yet appeared; 1908 will furnish the material for appraisal, and
excerpts will be included in current numbers of the digest as fast as
reviews are published.
In sending out this annual the publishers wish to emphasize the
coöperative phase of the undertaking. From three to six people have been
engaged during 1907 in the work of preparing descriptive notes to
approximately 2,800 books, and clipping from 1,000 copies of magazines
sentences most helpful for book selection. This card-index information
furnished to libraries for five dollars per year would cost them many
hundred times this sum should they do it themselves. For the time thus
given to a valuable and indispensable part of library work the
publishers look for an equivalent in the support of libraries all over
the country. The justice of the statement “Time is Money” is
commensurate with its economic terseness.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Acad.—Academy. $4. 20 Tavistock St., Covent Garden, London.
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 66
Fifth Ave., New York.
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.
A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34
Newbury St., Boston.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Princeton Avenue, Trenton, N. J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
Boston, Mass.
Bib. World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2.50. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave, N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Critic—Merged into Putnam’s on October 1, 1906.
Dial.—Dial. $2 Fine Arts Building, 203 Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
Press. Chicago.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
39 Paternoster Row London, E. C.
Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street. New York.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 110–114 West 32d
Street, New York.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
$3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $3. 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. $6. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co.,
Franklin Sq., New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
Lancaster, Pa.
Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 &
29 W. 23rd St., New York.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place,
New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St. Strand, 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. $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. 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.
Books noticed for the first time this month have an asterisk (*)
immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.
A Maltese Cross (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests
the books for first purchase. The letter S indicates that the same
publication recommends the book for small libraries.
* * * * *
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.
Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December 1907 magazines
A
=Aanrud, Hans.= Lisbeth Longfrock; trans. from the Norwegian by Laura E.
Poulsson. *65c. Ginn.
7–21362.
Norwegian farm life is pictured with quaint detail in this story of
Lisbeth, the little peasant who came to Hoel farm as its herd girl and
by faithful service won the proud position of head milk maid.
* * * * *
“Gives the best picture we have of Norwegian farm life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠
“A very neat translation of a very pretty little Norwegian story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 180w.
“A simple and delightful story.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Abailard, Pierre.= Abelard and Heloise: the love letters: a poetical
rendering, by Ella C. Bennett. **$1.50. Elder.
7–30637.
True only to the sentiment “upon which thread this rosary of love
letters has been strung” the author has rendered the letters of
Abelard and Heloise in rhyme.
* * * * *
“A sympathetic setting forth in English verse, of the letters of these
historic lovers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Abbot, Francis Ellingwood.= Syllogistic philosophy or prolegomena to
science. 2v. **$5. Little.
6–29755.
A posthumous work that represents a life time of study. “The
determining principle of the whole structure is that ‘whatever is
evolved as consequent must be involved as antecedent.’ The outcome of
this ‘principle of absolute logic’ is that personality, in the
philosophic sense of the word, is ‘both the source and outcome of all
that is,’ and that philosophy at last becomes ‘theology modernized as
scientific realism and scientific theism.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“We confess that we have found in his work little to clarify the
problems of philosophy and nothing besides the author’s own
earnestness and enthusiasm which we can call uplifting. In no way does
the book appear to us to be a prolegomena to science or an important
contribution to philosophy.”
− =Nation.= 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 530w.
“The novel terminology once mastered, the new method becomes
interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
“They are erudite and earnest, but dogmatic and ineffective. We do not
question the earnestness and sincerity which have produced these two
volumes, but we do question whether the absolute unit-universal will
save his philosophical children from their sins through the message of
the syllogistic philosophy.” R. B. C. Johnson.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 447. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Well equipped with wide and careful reading as Dr. Abbot evidently
was, he seems to have fallen upon an arid formalism which forces him
to serve up afresh, and with reiterated emphasis, many of the
contingent features peculiar to idealistic absolutism in the
nineteenth century.”
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 854. My. 31, ’07 1550w.
=Abbott, David Phelps.= Behind the scenes with the mediums. *$1.50. Open
ct.
7–27622.
From the point of view of the worker of magic, Mr. Abbott, who is not
a medium, reveals all the tricks of the séance. “The ardent believers
whose faith no number of exposures can disturb, the skeptics whom no
sort of séance has been able to convince, and the scientific
investigators toward whom the author is a bit contemptuous, will all
find in its pages matter in plenty either interesting or irritating.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“All those who have a kind of shamefaced desire to know just what
spiritualists do and how they do it will be entertained by his
exposures. Even those who go full of faith to consult palmists,
clairvoyants, fortune-tellers, and other modern sorcerers, will find
him interesting.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 212. S. 5, ’07. 840w.
“There will be racy reading for a good many different kinds of people
in Mr. Abbott’s leisurely turning inside out of mediumistic tricks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 1110w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 40w.
=Abbott, Rev. Edwin A.= Apologia: an explanation and defense. *$1.
Macmillan.
7–25561.
“In reply to friendly dissentients from his views, especially as
expressed in his previous book, ‘Silanus the Christian,’ the author
publishes this ‘explanation and defense’ of them as an introduction to
two volumes of a technical and critical character to appear presently.
His view of the Biblical miracles is ‘that some are literally true,
but in accordance with what are called laws of nature; others are not
literally true, but are metaphorical or poetical traditions
erroneously taken as literal; others are visions that have been
erroneously taken as non-visionary facts.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It may be pointed out that Dr. Abbott’s reason for calling Christ
supernatural has nothing to do with the evidence furnished in the New
Testament and it is therefore not easy to see why there should be such
a waste of interpretation as there is in his books.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 640w.
=Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
=Abbott, Rev. Edwin A.= Silanus the Christian. *$2.60. Macmillan.
7–25561.
Dr. Abbott addresses himself to readers who are not ready to accept
the miraculous element in the New Testament and who at the same time
do not reject the doctrine of Christ’s divinity. He shows that the
belief is not rendered impossible by the disbelief. The book is in the
form of an autobiography of an educated Roman. “The gist of its
teaching—and it is solely intended to teach—is summed up in the words
of Clemens. It has been said, he tells Silanus, that the religion of
the Christians is a person—and nothing more. ‘I should prefer to say
the same thing differently. Our religion in a person—and nothing
less.’” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Abbott’s writing is itself interesting on account of the literary
skill with which he presents innumerable points of exposition and
criticism, and on account, too, of the beauty and strength of many of
its passages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 766. D. 15. 1040w.
“While the book aims to be popular, the author’s wide knowledge and
competent scholarship lift his efforts entirely above the level of the
usual endeavor to teach Biblical and Christian history by means of
fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 210w.
“The book is interesting; it is ably written; it is in parts striking;
and yet one feels that somehow it misses effect as a whole. And we
think that the reason is obvious. Dr. Abbott in writing it had two
diverse ends in view and each interfered with the other.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 25. Ja. 25, ’07. 740w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 560w.
=Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“It would be unfair to lay stress upon the weaknesses of a really
impressive book, and after all they are only prominent in one part of
its argument where the writer has been carried away by his own pet
theories.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 530w.
“As to whether he has succeeded or failed in his religious purpose his
readers will no doubt form diametrically opposite conclusions. We
think, however that those who are most convinced of his theologic
failure will not deny him a literary success. He has written a deeply
interesting theological book in the form of a story.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 569. O. 20, ’06. 2110w.
* =Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England
border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.
In Miss Abbott’s rambles one may live over again the delights of many
of New England’s quaint byways. “She has caught the spirit of New
England, and introduces incidentally curious and charming
out-of-the-way places, historic spots, Indian legends and New England
folklore.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“She has traced it all with a literary skill which is above the
average, and has succeeded in charging her text with animation and
entertainment without the loss or historical accuracy.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Christ’s secret of happiness. **75c. Crowell.
7–10562.
Eleven essays are included here whose keynote is sounded in the first,
“Three kinds of happiness.” “There are three kinds of happiness,” says
Dr. Abbott, “pleasure, joy, blessedness. Pleasure is the happiness of
the animal nature; joy, of the social nature; blessedness, of the
spiritual nature. Pleasure we share with the animals, joy with one
another, blessedness with God.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 60w.
=Abbott, Lyman, ed.= Parables. $2.50. Appleton.
7–31966.
A very illuminating introduction shows that Jesus resorted to the
parable to allay the wrath which his plain truth-teaching had stirred
up against him. “He veiled the truth which unveiled had been rejected
with such wrath, and he did so that they might listen to him without
perceiving the truth to which they would refuse to listen if they did
perceive it.” The scriptural version of the parables follows, with a
well-executed illustration here and there suggesting the modern
prodigal, the modern foolish virgin and the present-day house builded
upon the sand, etc.
=Abendschein, Albert.= Secret of the old masters. **$1. Appleton.
6–40200.
How did the old masters produce their results? How have these results
defied time and atmospheric changes? Twenty-five years of study have
been devoted to these questions by the author and “he has proved to
his own, and we may say, to our satisfaction, that the great Venetians
and Flemings used no mysterious varnishes whatever, their vehicle
being plain linseed oil, and their reliance for permanence and
brilliancy being plenty of time for drying between successive
paintings and upon prolonged exposure to direct sunlight to burn out
the excess of oil.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Few serious workers in oils, though they omit the book, will fail in
the next year or so of coming upon the track of his researches.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 400w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 660w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 110w.
=Abhedananda, Swami.= India and her people. $1.25. Vedanta.
6–24887.
A book which aims to “give an impartial account of the facts from the
stand point of an unbiased historian, and to remove all
misunderstandings which prevail among the Americans concerning India
and her people.” It sets forth for popular reading phases of Vedanta
philosophy. “In this system the people of India, according to the
author, find the ultimate truths of all sciences, philosophies, and
religions. There are instructive chapters upon the religion of
present-day India, the social status and the system of caste,
political institutions, education, the influence of Western
civilization, and woman’s place in Hindu religion.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“This compact little volume, written in an attractive style, and
dealing with the life, philosophy and religion of India should prove a
useful addition to the literature of a fascinating and as yet largely
unknown subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 140w.
“From the historical point of view, which is assumed by the Swami, it
is to be regretted that the author has not made himself better
acquainted with chronology.”
− =Nation.= 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 920w.
=Acton, Sir John.= Lectures on modern history; ed. with an introd. by J:
N. Figgis, and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–2153.
“In the present volume we find Acton’s inaugural lecture as Professor,
his scheme for ‘The Cambridge modern history,’ and nineteen of his
lectures, covering in giant strides the ages of the Renaissance, the
Reformation, the Counter-Reformation. the wars of religion, the rise
of political parties, the creation of the Prussian and the Russian
powers, and the American revolution.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Finest and best of all is the noble and ennobling fairness in his
treatment of all men and all ages.” G. S. F.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 621. Ap. ’07. 980w.
“Great lectures as they are, they still are lectures only—knowledge
cut up into sections to last forty-five minutes.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 359. S. 29. 1990w.
“The highest form of art in historical writing is that which narrates
events without specifying directly the ideals it is sought to convey,
and yet does emphatically convey such ideals to the reader. Of this
form, Lord Acton’s lectures are excellent illustrations; while that on
Luther may well stand as an almost perfect example.” E. D. Adams.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 222. Ap. 1, ’07. 580w.
Reviewed by P. F. Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 164. Ja. ’07. 1200w.
“Are at once satisfactory and disappointing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1130w.
“The result is, on the whole, disappointing. To begin with, notes for
lectures generally make poor books, and it is so in this case. Again,
the subject is too large for the space in which it is treated, and
suffers from overcompression.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 990w.
“It is, in fact, a primer of history. Every sentence carries with it
the conviction of truth, and every page creates an impulse to delve
deeper into the subject-matter.” Henry James Forman.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 306. F. 1, ’07. 790w.
“In the main there can be little question of the soundness of his
views, the correctness of his attitude. And, what is not unimportant,
the lectures show that, ‘scientific’ historian though he was, he was
keenly alive to the human element in history.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 640w.
“Those who love the beauty of line, and the mysterious effect of
chiaroscuro will enjoy these works to the utmost, and recognize them
as masterpieces of the graphic arts.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 170w.
“His judgment is always rational and his conclusions invariably just.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 205. F. 16, ’07. 1480w.
=Acton, Sir John.= Lord Acton and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis
Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.
6–42915.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by E. D. Adams.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 221. Ap. 1, ’07. 1080w.
“The book is not very accurately printed; some sentences are made
unintelligible by errors of punctuation, and a large number of proper
names are misspelt.”
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 410. Ap. ’07. 650w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 272. Ja. 31, ’07. 620w.
“Rather unfortunate introduction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1140w.
=Adams, Andy.= Reed Anthony, cowman. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–16751.
Autobiographical in form, this book follows in a matter-of-fact way
“the career of a young man, who, after serving his four years in the
Confederate army, made his way from his native Virginia to Texas,
there to become foreman of the ‘cattle drives,’ and so by degrees
ranchman and owner of many acres and many herds.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The account of the cowman’s worldly success is, let us admit, by no
means free from exaggeration, but the book gives the best picture of
the life of the times of any we know, and we heartily recommend it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 732. Jl. 27, ’07. 270w.
“This ingenuous bit of biography, like the author’s earlier books,
will be read not because it is so well done but because it pictures a
passing phase of American life.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 790. Je. 29. 240w.
“In reading these pages, which bear the stamp of downright honesty,
the reader feels that he is in contact with the actual history of an
important formative period of national industry—a period which, tho
outside of the beaten track of history, is not without significance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.
“The pleasant thing about the narrative is its ingenuousness.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
“In spite of the sameness due to the likeness of one year of the
cattle business to any other year, the book is interesting with the
interest which belongs somehow and anyhow to all that is genuine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=Adams, Charles Francis, jr.= Three Phi beta kappa addresses. **$1.
Houghton.
7–17400.
Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902;
Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these addresses Mr. Adams
arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college régime. The
license of electives leads to the “way of least resistance:” college
athletics are but the “overgrowth of the superficiality which rules
the curricula,” etc. He offers helpful reform suggestions on the
limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of
the student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into
smaller units.
* * * * *
“While they can hardly be said to make a book of history at the
present time, they will certainly be regarded by the future historian
of education in the nineteenth century as an important part of his
source-material.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 192. O. ’07. 170w.
=Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
Reviewed by Wm. E. Dodd.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 1060w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 470w.
=Adams, Henry.= Cassell’s engineers’ handbook; comprising facts and
formulae, principles and practice in all branches of engineering. $2.50.
McKay.
“Not a mere formula book nor an ordinary student’s text-book, but
rather an _aide memoire_ for those who have passed through their
elementary training, and are now in practice.”
=Adams, I. William.= Shibusawa; or, The passing of old Japan; il. by E.
Dalton Stevens. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–41721.
“The period selected is the early part of the last century, and the
plot revolves about the struggle between the Shogun and the Mikado,
ending with the victory and restoration of the latter. Shibusawa, a
true Japanese warrior, son of a daimio, fought well both in war and
love, and in the end won honors and the maiden of his
choice.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The story, while for the most part descriptive, with little dialog
and only ordinary fancy, lacks snap and fire, while perhaps a good
general picture of old Japan.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 70w.
“For the most part the people and their actions seem to belong quite
in their Japanese frame.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
“The style of the book is somewhat too serious and prolix for a
successful artistic effect.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 20w.
=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in accents: studies in the Hebrew text: a
book for preachers and students. *$1.80. Scribner.
“An attempt to make Hebrew accentuation interesting and helpful to the
average preacher and Bible student, for whom Wickes’ treatises are too
elaborate and wearisome.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“As an introductory manual preparatory to the use of a more thorough
and complete treatment the work may be recommended to the student
beginning his studies.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 110w.
=Adams, John Coleman.= Honorable youth. *75c. Universalist pub.
6–45015.
A manual of instruction on life success, how to conceive it, and how
to attain it.
* =Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.
7–37737.
A practical, thorogoing, working knowledge of electricity can be
obtained from this handbook for boys. “It tells how to make cells and
batteries, switches and insulators, armatures, motors and coils. It
shows how easily experiments may be made with home-made appliances at
small cost. Every-day uses of electricity are explained so that boys
will understand and at the same time be stimulated to put forth their
own skill and ingenuity.” Numerous cuts of apparatus are given.
=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s outdoor book for boys; with
contributions by Kirk Munroe, Tappan Adney, Capt. Howard Patterson,
Leroy Milton Yale and others. $1.75. Harper.
7–21249.
Instructive, above all things practical, this book is based upon
experience, whose aim is to show boys how to do accurately all manner
of out-of-door things within their powers. Beginning with the
backyard, detailed information is given for such contrivances as pet
shelters, windmills, aërial toys; going farther afield the interest
centers in coasters, skees, kites, fishing tackle, etc.; then come
boat building and boat management; while the fourth part of the book
is devoted to camps and camping, tree-huts, brush-houses, etc.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠
“We have seen no book of the kind so thoroughly practical and so well
adapted to its aims as this.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.
“No book better suited to develop ingenuity and mechanical ability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 120w.
“It is a reference book that is worth while to have on hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 120w.
=Adams, Oscar Fay.= Sicut patribus, and other verse. $1.60. Oscar F.
Adams, The Hermitage, Willow st., Bost.
6–7734.
“The title selection is an ode read at the annual meeting of the Tufts
chapter of Phi beta kappa in 1902. It is an arraignment of American
‘imperialism,’ touched with that saeva indignatio which has stirred
William Vaughn Moody, the late John W. Chadwick, and others of our
poets in approaching the same theme. The cathedral poems, filled with
the atmosphere of English closes, and reinforced by Mr. Adams’s
architectural studies, seem of the entire sheaf to be most truly
characteristic.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Book of sincere and thoughtful verso.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 460w.
“A collection of correct, derivative pieces in many modes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 130w.
“Throughout the book, indeed, technical variety and facility are to be
noted, and if there be few striking lines, there are a certain
reflective grace and fine traditions of men and literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 335. My. 26, ’06. 280w.
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v.
*$5. Putnam.
4–18620.
=v. 2.= “The second volume ... covers the years 1770 to 1773.... The
volume contains ninety-two pieces in all; of these forty-one are
newspaper articles, twenty are reports or memorials prepared in
committee, and thirty-one are private letters.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His private letters, of which Mr. Cushing has made a goodly
collection are more illuminative of his character than his public
papers. Mr. Cushing shows great industry in locating his material, but
is much too sparing in his notes, leaving too many references
unexplained. There are errors of dates and names, and a wrong
committee of Congress is given in the note to p. 336.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Like its predecessors, is a valuable addition to the documentary
study of the revolutionary period.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
“By thus carefully collecting and editing these writings, Dr. Cushing
has rendered a distinct and meritorious service to American history.”
Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 143. Mr. ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Addams, Jane.= Newer ideals of peace. (Citizens’ lib.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–4377.
For the dogmatic, even sentimental peace-notions bruited about the
world by ardent advocates, Miss Addams substitutes the newer dynamic
peace embodying the later humanism, whose meaning is implied in such
words as “overcoming” “substituting,” “re-creating,” “readjusting
moral values” and “forming new centers of spiritual energy.” She
offers the moral substitutes for war that are an outgrowth of a
definite national background.
* * * * *
“I think in logical organization this book suffers more than her
earlier writing. On the other hand, perhaps, nowhere can one find the
social point of view, which we must assume, presented with so much
inherent necessity as here.” George Herbert Mead.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 121. Jl. ’07. 3300w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.
“The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy
expression which has characterized her work.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 409. Mr. ’07. 310w.
“This is a very suggestive book. Its one weakness is that, though it
does not quite neglect the ethical and spiritual standards of life, it
allows them to be overshadowed by the economic and the merely
utilitarian.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 677. Ag. ’07. 960w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 417. Ap. ’07. 1080w.
“As an immediate and effective solution of the main problem indicated
by its title, this treatise may well prove less successful than as a
manual of instruction in methods of mutual service and a plea for
mutual sympathy and good-will.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 246. Ap. 16, ’07. 1530w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 280w.
=Lit. D.= 84: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Miss Addams’s observations are so acute, and her criticisms often so
well aimed, that her book is worth reading. We cannot but wish,
however, that she had ploughed a little deeper, and shown us more
clearly how the evils on which she dwells are to be removed.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 720w.
“It is the expression of an exceptional citizen on subjects that
concern everybody. Whatever may prove to be its concern for the
student of literature, it should be tolerantly read by the student of
affairs, for whom it was written.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 763. Ap. 5, ’07. 1490w.
“‘Newer ideals of peace’ is not a felicitous title for Jane Addams’s
interesting and suggestive volume. It is imperfect because she has
studied only one phase of our national life, and, in American
fashion ... she draws too large generalizations from her too
specialized observations.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 720. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.
“On the whole, Miss Addams has given us a presentation of the peace
argument from a wholly new point of view.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 220w.
=Addis, Rev. William E.= Hebrew religion to the establishment of Judaism
under Ezra. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–2577.
A non-technical study of Israel’s religion from the earliest times to
the middle of the fifth century B. C. “The sections which treat of the
primitive forms of Semitic religion and the early Jahveh worship are
of special excellence.” (Nation.) The volume includes a chronological
table of Jewish history.
* * * * *
“Well suited to the needs of the nonspecialist reader for whom it is
intended.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w.
“His discussion is marked by the precision that his volumes on the
Hexateuch would lead us to expect. While exception may be taken to a
few points, they leave the essential value of Mr. Addis’s volume
unimpaired.” Crawford H. Toy.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 702. Ap. ’07. 1400w.
“On the whole, Professor Addis keeps well within the safe ground of
established fact, with caution to the reader when opinion is
uncertain. His graphic style and ability to render a situation clear
in a few words make his essay suitable for popular or general use.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 400w.
“We fear we cannot follow him ... in some of his critical assumptions;
but yet we can recommend his book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 650. N. 24, ’06. 260w.
=Addison, Julia De Wolf.= Art of the Dresden gallery. (Art galleries of
Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
6–42448.
This sixth volume in “The art galleries of Europe” is Miss Addison’s
third contribution to the series. “In the plan it is similar to its
predecessors; it consists of notes and observations upon a large
number of the finest paintings, both ancient and modern, in the royal
collection at Dresden, arranged in schools or grouping together the
works of one or two great masters.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“From beginning to end there is no evidence of any personal knowledge
or understanding of the art of painting, there is no lucid explanation
of its virtues, no independent analysis of the peculiar charms and
merits of a master.”
− =Acad.= 72: 396. Ap. 20, ’07. 730w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 37. F. ’07.
“The text furnishes as much detail as the ordinary traveller will care
for, and he will find it of a more manageable and useful sort than
that offered by most guides and catalogues.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 260w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“One might spend half a life-time with catalogues and yet gather less
real knowledge than may be pleasantly acquired by a perusal of this
book, every essential fact of which is dressed out with episode,
anecdote, and pertinent criticism.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 590w.
“In the present handy volume the American authoress exhibits the
instincts, knowledge and merits of style that characterised her former
works.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 870w.
=Ade, George.= In pastures new. †$1.25. McClure.
6–38894.
Mr. Ade’s “pastures new” are chiefly in London and Egypt. He
characterizes humorously without his usual slang. “The foibles and
follies of tourists, the humbug and charlatanry of those who live off
them, the fact that foreign travel has its tiresome side as well as
its joys—all these and other phases of ‘being abroad’ are dealt with
in an amusing way.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.
“The harmless fun Mr. Ade is capable of producing has been put into it
in good measure—wholesome, human, natural fun.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, 06. 50w.
“Shorn of its glamour of slang, Mr. Ade’s humor turns out to be of
thinner substance than we had supposed.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 150w.
“We get here fun of the real Ade flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
“The secret of American humour is perhaps to exaggerate and travesty
realities with a serious countenance. When this is well done it is
amusing: and Mr. Peasley does it well.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 190w.
=Ade, George.= Slim princess. †$1.25. Bobbs.
7–17384.
The slim Princess Kalora of Morovenia is the despair of her father and
fat younger sister because there is a Turkish law which reads that the
elder must marry first and there is a Turkish preference for fat
wives. Kolora is not only slim but spirited and she merrily takes her
destiny into her own hands and, assisted by a kindly Fate, succeeds in
marrying a venturesome young Pittsburgh millionaire. The story is
breezy, clever and full of cheerful irony.
* * * * *
“Is one of the brightest phantasies of the season.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 250w.
“Was in his best comic opera mood when he wrote ‘The slim princess.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 220w.
“A highly amusing bit of grotesquery.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 80w.
Adventures of Uncle Sam’s sailors by R. E. Peary, A. V. Wadhams, Molly
Elliot Seawell, Franklin Matthews, Kirk Munroe and others. (Harper’s
adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.
7–24286.
A group of spirited sea stories that shift scene from the Arctic
circle to the tropics and from China to Hatteras and the West Indies.
The stories mingle wholesome excitement, fascinating fact and
entertaining fiction and lend an undertone of courage and endurance.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07.
Adventures of Uncle Sam’s soldiers, by General C: King, J: Habberton,
Capt. C: A. Curtis, Lieut. C: D. Rhodes, and others. (Harper’s adventure
ser.) †60c. Harper.
7–26959.
How the soldiers of the west cleared the way for civilization, how
women and children as well bore their full share of frontier burdens
may be seen reflected in these tales of “picturesque incident and
thrilling experiences” which while they are usually fiction are based
upon some incident or actual occurrence. While the volume aims only to
be a side-light upon history, it is thoroly suggestive for students
who wish to look into records of the regular soldiers.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07.
* =Ady, Cecilia M.= Milan, the house of Sforza. (Historic states of
Italy.) **$3.50. Putnam.
“Not only is the political life of the time of Francesco I. of Milan
and the five other dukes of his house who ruled over Milan dealt with,
but also the social and commercial impulses of the people, as well as
the art and literature of the state. This volume will be followed
shortly by ‘Milan: the house of Visconti,’ ‘Naples: the house of
Anjou,’ and others on the different Italian states.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“She is to be congratulated on giving agreeable proof of hereditary
talent by her accomplishment of a sufficiently difficult piece of
work.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 580w.
=Ady, Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Henry Ady).= Early work of Raphael. 75c.
Dutton.
“It gives in readable form the facts of Raphael’s life and career, up
to the year 1508, as they are received by the Moreilian school of
criticism. Much more than that it hardly pretends to give, and for any
detailed appreciation of the artistic qualities of Raphael one must
look elsewhere.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 115. Ja. 31, ’07. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 35. Ja. 19, ’07. 440w.
=Ady, Julia Cartwright.= Madame: a life of Henrietta, daughter of
Charles I. and Duchess of Orleans. *$2.50. Dutton.
The twenty-six years of the Duchess of Orleans are here sketched with
sympathy and insight. The courts of Charles II and Louis XIV,
respectively brother and brother-in-law of the unhappy duchess “are
here brought before the reader with vivid reality as no romance could
reveal them. The characters of the two monarchs, of Madame, and of
most of the notables of their time, have fresh light thrown on them by
letters preserved in the French ‘Archives du ministères des affaires
étrangères’ and documents from state papers on French affairs in the
British record office, many of them here published for the first
time.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Her work may be recommended to the seeker after diversion and to the
historical student alike. Mrs. Ady’s mania for idealizing, while
attractive no doubt to many lovers of the beautiful, has the fault of
obscurantism.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1440w.
“It would be difficult to find a biography less illuminating than this
life of the spouse of Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 240w.
“When the presentation of fact can be made so absorbingly interesting
as Mrs. Ady convincingly proves possible in this volume of memoirs,
one is tempted to wonder that the demand for fiction exists.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 190w.
=Aegidius, Assisiensis.= Golden sayings of the Blessed Brother Giles of
Assisi; newly tr. and ed., together with a sketch of his life by the
Rev. Fr. Paschal Robinson. *$1. Dolphin press. Phil.
6–46746.
“One of the earliest and closest companions of St. Francis of
Assisi ... was Brother Aegidius, better known to English readers by
his Anglicized name, Giles.... The present volume treasures his
‘Golden sayings’ held in high esteem by the Roman Catholic church, and
introduces them by a brief sketch of his life.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 449. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“The ‘Golden sayings’ themselves are of historical value as
illustrating the spiritual side of early Franciscan teaching, an
aspect hitherto inadequately recognized; and historians will
appreciate especially the editor’s scholarly introduction.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 920. Jl. ’07. 270w.
“In the editing and translating of the ‘Sayings,’ Father Paschal
displays the erudition and the grasp of historical method which have
won him a place in the front rank of the large band of scholars who
today have devoted themselves to the study of ‘Franciscana.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 255. N. ’07. 360w.
“Well worthy the careful and pleasing translation ... as well for
their sincere and earnest piety as for the singular beauty and
picturesqueness of their expression.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 80w.
“It is the interest of his quaint personality that imparts interest to
his ‘Aurea dicta’ which, to speak frankly, are not of great intrinsic
value. But the English enthusiast must not fail to possess himself of
Father Robinson’s translation.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 700w.
“The little volume is quaint and original and will appeal to many
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 50w.
“It is well worth reading and reflection by Protestant Christians,
often too content with discarding the ascetic form of mediaeval
saintliness, and too neglectful to replace it by a form of piety as
impressive on the present age as that was on the past.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Aero club of America.= Navigating the air. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–20981.
Here are given the personal experience of men best known in the field
of aerial navigation. The book “contains, in over twenty chapters ...
practical and clear accounts of what has been accomplished by many
experimenters with kite-sustained aeroplanes, motor-driven balloons,
and other dirigible air-ships.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Both text and illustrations will interest the average reader as well
as the specialist.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07. S.
“There is much in the book to interest the reader, but whether he will
glean much knowledge from it is questionable. However, as the purpose
of the compilers, apparently, was just that of arousing interest, the
book may be considered reasonably successful.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 181. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w.
“Altogether the book, to which but scant justice can be done here, is
full of interest and instruction, and the Aero club of America
deserves high praise for getting together so much that is fairly
authoritative on a subject of such importance.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 1320w.
=Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=Aflalo, Frederick George=, ed. Half a century of sport in Hampshire;
extracts from the shooting journals of James Edward, second Earl of
Malmesbury with a prefatory memoir by his great-grandson, the fifth
earl. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The volume is made up of extracts from the ‘Sporting journals’ of
James Edward, second earl of Malmesbury.... A memoir of the Earl has
been written for the book by the present owner of the title. The
Journals cover the period from 1798–1840. Besides describing hunts in
the Hampshires and the hunting seat of the Earl of Malmesbury, there
are also records of trips in Hungary and Austria. The volume is fully
illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.
“We cannot say that the editor’s notes and comments on the journals
are instructive or much to the point. Even the journals themselves
will disappoint the reader who expects anything that can compare with
Colonel Hawker’s diaries.”
− =Spec.= 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 500w.
=Aflalo, Frederick George.= Sunshine and sport in Florida and the West
Indies. **$4. Jacobs.
“This volume is divided into three parts, treating, respectively, of
‘The way there,’ ‘Tarpon-fishing and other sport,’ and, finally, ‘Home
by the Spanish main.’ Although fishing was the pole star which held
steady through the trip of eleven thousand miles, this Briton had eyes
for many other things.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Aflalo’s account of the natural history of the tarpon, in so far
as it is known, is very thorough and fascinating, and were any further
inducements required to persuade fishermen to go west for tarpon it
would be found in the pages of this interesting book.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.
“Had Mr. Aflalo gathered his impressions at greater leisure, and
generalized less from trivial instances, he would have informed his
volume with the more genial spirit which we associate with the men who
go a-fishing. For we can find no fault with Mr. Aflalo’s story of his
tarpon fishing.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 373. D. 1, ’07. 560w.
“His frank and generous comments reveal a fair-mindedness only too
rare in travelers. The volume should appeal to a far wider circle of
readers than the ‘English anglers’ for whom the author chiefly intends
it.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 530w.
“Mr. Aflalo’s chapters on tarpon fishing and alligator hunting are
sportsmanlike, and, there being fewer opportunities, show less of a
disposition to carp at American customs and institutions that differ
from those of the British.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 682. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
“There is much shrewd observation in these pages, especially of
American life and ways.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 211. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.
“It is the best thing that we have read from Mr. Aflalo’s pen, and
written in his vivid, if flowery style. Mr. Aflalo contributes
something to our knowledge of the natural history of the Florida
fishes.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 360w.
=Aimes, Hubert Hillary S.= History of slavery in Cuba, 1511–1868. **$2.
Putnam.
7–23727.
From a economic, political and social standpoint, this work is an
exposition of the Spanish policy governing the slave trade in Cuba;
and it throws much light on the historical relations between Spain and
her Antillean dependency. A later work is promised dealing with the
domestic régime on the island. A bibliography adds to the value of the
book.
* * * * *
“In a sense, this is a scholarly work. It is the result of much labor,
and is based upon the best authorities, Spanish, French, and English,
both documentary and printed. But the narrative in which the author
presents the result of his work is something fearful and wonderful in
its raw and careless crudeness.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 450w.
“On the whole, it can be heartily said that Dr. Aimes has gathered,
compiled and addressed into acceptable form an exhaustive chapter of
institutional history. He has also done it under a system that makes
reference easy and verification available.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 390w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 503. O. ’07. 70w.
“A work of real value though rather heavy reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 381. S. ’07. 110w.
“The book is a useful one and the reader will hope with the author
that it may aid in solving some of the problems connected with the
island.”
+ =Yale. R.= 16: 333. N. ’07. 260w.
=Aked, Charles Frederic.= Courage of the coward, and other sermons.
**$1.25. Revell.
7–23636.
Fourteen sermons, “vitally evangelical in their adaptedness to the
spiritually deaf or blind or lame in this year of grace.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“They impress us as devout, evangelical, constructive, and
sufficiently forceful in thought and earnest in feeling to be called
good preaching.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The sermons are good. Perhaps he overindulges in poetical quotations,
and perhaps an occasional personal note sounds a bit egotistic. But
these are small blemishes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
“Utterly free from conventionalism, fresh in thought and phrase,
dynamic with earnest conviction of reality, they speak from the
experience of one who knows the world, sees things whole, understands
men, and, having thought through their deepest problems, would lend a
hand to any who are doubting, erring, falling.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 134. S. 21, ’07. 140w.
=Albright, Evelyn May.= Short-story: its principles and structure. *90c.
Macmillan.
7–16475.
The aim of the book is not that of tracing the origin or the
development of the short-story, but of setting forth “some standards
of appreciation of what is good in story-writing, illustrating by the
practice of the master as contrasted with amateurish failures.”
Material, the technique of the short story, the plot, movement,
emotional element and spirit of the author are all discussed. There is
an undertone of sound advice to the would-be writer, and by way of a
standard for self-criticism there has been appended a reading list of
model short stories.
* * * * *
“It is to the reader rather than the writer that such a book is really
useful.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 232. S. 12, ’07. 270w.
“Seems to us a very useful book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.
“Miss Albright’s treatment of the subject is more than creditable; it
is masterly.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 120w.
=Alden, Hazel Gillmore.= Kingdom of heaven: an instruction in the
Catholic faith for children. *$1.20. Church pub. co., N. Y.
7–31385.
A simple, direct and devout story of the Christian year for Catholic
children. Its aim is to foster reverence.
=Alden, Isabella Macdonald (Pansy, pseud.).= Ruth Erskine’s son. il.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
Readers who have followed Ruth Erskine thru other Pansy books will be
glad to meet her again. She is now the widow of Judge Burnham, and
devotes her entire energies to the welfare of her son. The story tells
of his marriage and the crosses it brings to her, her fortitude and
good sense, and the son’s unfailing devotion.
* * * * *
“This is hardly a wholesome book for young people.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Alexander, De Alva Stanwood.= Political history of the state of New
York. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Holt.
6–21392.
“The author’s style is clear and vigorous. His narrative is
interesting and reveals his firm grasp upon the subject matter,
especially as it approaches the later period. Although the work adds
little to the actual knowledge of the specialist, it is a distinct
advance over the old style of state histories, and will serve the
general reader as a reliable and interesting guide through the almost
bewildering maze of the politics of New York state.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 1090w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 410w.
“The personal side of New York politics has been over-emphasized. This
defect deprives the reader of a feeling of continuity in the narrative
of New York’s political history, but while it is a defect, it does not
detract seriously from the value of the work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 214. Ja. 24, ’07. 510w.
“When all possible points of criticism have been raised, his work
merits recognition, not merely because it is practically the only
occupant of its field, but because it is in several important respects
a soundly informing contribution to American historical literature,
useful alike to the general reader and to the special student.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 131. S. 21, ’07. 1020w.
“In spite of a certain monotony which pervades the author’s numerous
character sketches, his style has decided merits; in vigor and fluency
it far outrivals the older but in many respects more substantial work
of Jabez Hammond. The characterizations of men are clearly designed to
be eminently fair, although the reader finds little difficulty in
discovering the author’s sympathies. The statements of facts are
usually careful, but occasional expressions are open to question.”
Charles A. Beard.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 141. Mr. ’07. 850w.
=Alexander, Edward Porter.= Military memoirs of a Confederate. **$4.
Scribner.
7–16778.
“A critical narrative for soldiers and students of campaigns, rather
than a glorification of or an apology for the success or failure in
the war.” (R. of Rs.) It is a criticism of the war on both the Federal
and Confederate side.
* * * * *
“The narrative is clear and concise, praise is worthily bestowed and
criticism generally well taken and temperate. To some of the extremely
critical it will be disappointing, in that the maps are not as good
and as full as they should be and foot-notes are wanting to show the
authority upon which some novel statements are made.” E. A. Carman.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 163. O. ’07. 1810w.
“Aside from its value as a contribution to the records of the civil
war the book will be found delightful reading because of its graphic
portrayal, its personal reminiscence, its admirable temper.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 155. O. ’07.
“To a layman this book appeals as little short of epoch making in the
history of military criticism.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 605. N. ’07. 400w.
“Is remarkable for three reasons. First, it is a critical account of
which the object ‘is the criticism of each campaign as one would
criticise a game of chess only to point out the good and bad plays on
each side, and the moves which have influenced the result.’ Second,
the work is noteworthy as a contribution from the lower South.
Finally, it is the work of one who was a good soldier and is now a
sound philosopher as to the political results of the war.” Walter L.
Fleming.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 332. Je. 1, ’07. 2940w.
“It is unfortunate that so excellent a book should be marred by so
inept a conclusion.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 513. Ag. 29, ’07. 1530w.
“It is an exceedingly clear and impartial narrative, and is perfectly
intelligible to the lay reader. A large amount of entirely new matter
is introduced, and many important events are set forth in a new light.
The book is likely to take a prominent place among authoritative
records of the civil war.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.
“No preceding book by a southern soldier surpasses this in good
temper, wise discrimination, and graphic portrayal.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 542. Je. 13, ’07. 2380w.
“There have been several works of this kind published by confederate
generals and others who knew something of military affairs, but none
that the reviewer recalls equals this in fairness, in apparent
keenness of observation, in appreciation of the difficulties of the
situation on both sides.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 569. S. 21, ’07. 1820w.
“A very valuable and interesting and personal book on the civil war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“General Alexander consistently develops from battle to battle the
lessons emphasized by the experiences of both sides. His work, indeed,
is intended primarily for military students. But it is so constructed
as to be of great general interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 494. N. 2, ’07. 2200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Alexander, John H:= Mosby’s men. $2. Neale.
7–2744.
Mr. Alexander tells how Mosby’s men “played and how they worked and
how they fought.” Not a history of Mosby’s command, only a narrative
of what an alert young soldier saw of the men and their doings
following the spring of 1864.
* * * * *
+ − =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 240w.
“The book is interesting for its story-telling qualities alone, and it
is not without value as a contribution to the records of the civil
war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 470w.
“This book has less of real dramatic quality and less of humor than
that by Mr. Munson of which we recently spoke, but is still a readable
true story. It is illustrated by many portraits.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 100w.
=Alger, Horatio, jr.= Backwoods boy; or, The boyhood and manhood of
Abraham Lincoln. 75c. McKay.
A reissue of an 1883 publication. It is a picture of Lincoln for boys
especially, and follows his career from the log cabin to the White
house.
=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Freedom in the church. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–7180.
The aim of the author is to show that heresy trials such as the one to
which Mr. Crapsey was recently subjected are contrary to the
principles of the English reformation and the whole spirit of the
Anglican church. He considers historically the ordination vows and the
various articles of the creed, and shows that their original
significance has been lost sight of in the interpretation given them
by heresyhunting churchmen of to-day, and that the doctrine of the
virgin birth in particular has been emphasized out of all proportion
to its importance.
* * * * *
“Interesting and timely volume.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 460w.
“As a tract for its times, however, this volume presents important
considerations on a vital question, and the effort of the author to
secure and establish freedom in the church as well as his endeavor to
impart correct information as to the history of symbols now in
controversy, should secure him wide sympathy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.
“There is of necessity something of what opponents will call special
pleading about Dr. Allen’s arguments. But he never falls for a moment
into the pitfall of most theological pleaders. He never vilifies his
opponents.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 665. Ap. 27, ’07. 1900w.
=Allen, Grant, and Williamson, George Charles.= Cities of northern
Italy. $3. Page.
6–26502.
A two volume work, the first of which being devoted to Milan, and the
second to Verona, Padua, Bologna, and Ravenna. “The author’s aim is to
supply the tourist with such historical and antiquarian information as
will add to his understanding and appreciation of the architecture,
sculpture, and painting.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“Preferable for library use especially if there are not many good
photographs or prints in the library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 24. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
“The scheme is most happy, its execution most charmingly carried out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 550w.
=Allen, Horace.= Gas and oil engines: a treatise on the design,
construction and working of internal-combustion engines. $5. Scientific
pub. co., Manchester, Eng.
“A very large part of the book contains more or less elaborate
descriptions of a large number of gas and gasoline engines; these
descriptions, in general accompanied with good illustrations, are
preceded by a consideration of details of the engines, which
arrangement seems just opposite to what it ought to be.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“In a great many respects it is decidedly inferior to the last
editions of Clark and Robinson’s books. In the arrangement of the
subject Mr. Allen’s book is very faulty.” Storm Bull.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 510w.
=Allen, John Kermott=, ed. Sanitation in the modern home. $2. Domestic
engineering.
7–12989.
“Broadly speaking, this book deals with the planning and equipment of
houses for health, comfort, and convenience, and for economy of
domestic operations. It is designed to be ‘a suggestive guide to the
architect and house owner in designing-homes.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book contains few technicalities, no illustrations and, sad to
relate, no index. It covers a broader field than would be expected
from its title, but omits any discussion of sewage disposal for
country residences.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 200w.
=Allen, Philip Loring.= America’s awakening: the triumph of
righteousness in high places. **$1.25. Revell.
6–38914.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 5. Ja. ’07. S.
“The book, written in a popular style, gives the average reader, at
practically one sitting, a comprehensive idea of the condition of
reform politics at the present day and of what we may expect of
permanent good as the result of the movement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 340w.
“Is a good book and especially refreshing because it sails close to
the facts and avoids the sins of declamation.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 240w.
“A little book which contains in excellent shape a deal of really
important information which busy people may have got but hazily from
the daily press.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w.
=Allen, William Harvey.= Efficient democracy. **$2. Dodd.
7–18590.
A book in which the author “maintains the thesis that to be efficient
is more difficult than to be good.... In his book he shows how in
various departments of philanthropic educational work such
substitution has actually been made.”
* * * * *
“A very fresh and invigorating volume to be read with profit by every
social worker.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 171. Jl. ’07. 480w.
“It covers a large and important field, but it does not cover it very
well or present it to the best advantage. The idea underlying the book
is excellent.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 324. O. ’07. 50w.
“His work is vigorous and suggestive, worth the attention of the
officers, paid and unpaid, of charitable agencies of all kinds and of
our governments. Undirected and misdirected benevolent impulses are
common nowadays, and the wide circulation of Mr. Allen’s book would do
much to check waste of money and energy and to prevent the
discouragement which comes from the failure of good intentions.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 39. Jl. 4, ’07. 760w.
“Undoubtedly the most impressive characteristic of the volume in an
intellectual sense is its significance in favor of the validity of the
democratic principle of government, which in certain quarters is
thought to have been impaired by recent economic developments.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
“The most serious defect ... is found in the first chapter on ‘The
goodness fallacy,’ which, briefly stated, argues that it is a false
supposition to think a good man will make a capable officer. A very
unworthy meaning of goodness is placed in opposition to a somewhat
dangerous conception of efficiency.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
“It is a good book, and ought to do good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 1160w.
“He writes in a clear, lucid, epigrammatic style, perhaps with too
great fondness for epigram. But the volume will be valuable to all men
who are doing things if they will select from it what they
specifically need, and will be especially valuable to students of the
various social activities of our modern life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 300w.
“The common man fails to understand the mental attitude of Mr. Allen
who seems to gloat over a statistical table or a graphical curve as a
joy in itself, without too much reference to what it is that it proves
or indicates.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 120w.
“An exceedingly well-written little book. The book is full of
suggestions to officers and directors of charitable institutions,
pastors of churches, and all others who have to do with philanthropic
administration.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w.
“Straightforward, forcible, clear, and scintillating with wit, it must
be understood; it is educative in the highest sense. A copy of this
book ought to find its way into the hands of every school board in the
land.” J. Paul Goode.
+ + =School R.= 15: 620. O. ’07. 990w.
=Allen, Willoughby C.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel
according to St. Matthew. (International critical commentary.) *$3.
Scribner.
7–25562.
For the student who desires to have some understanding of the growth
and development of the gospel literature in the first century, A.D.,
and of the meaning which this particular gospel had for the evangelist
and his first readers. “While the author has striven to preserve the
distinction between the sphere of the commentator and that of the
historian, questions of credibility and theological implication are
not entirely avoided, his attitude being for the most part
conservative.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Partly owing to its formal defect, the book is lacking in breadth of
outlook and religious penetration. Hence he has obliged even his most
grateful readers to admit that this edition, while marking a distinct
advance upon any English work cannot be described by any means as a
final commentary upon our first gospel. It is, however, a good book
for the advanced student to work with. Sound labor has gone to the
making of it, and the very sense of problems in the gospel which it
leaves on the mind of the reader will be stimulating, if not
satisfying.” James Moffat.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 677. O. ’07. 1470w.
“This important work exhibits the well-known critical qualities of the
‘International series,’ and should claim a leading place among
commentaries on the first gospel.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 50w.
“A thoro and sane ‘Commentary on Matthew’ which is notable especially
for its painstaking interpretation of the Greek text and scholarly
observations on the sources and structure of the gospel.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 235. Jl. 26, ’07. 1180w.
“The chief merit of the commentary is its painstaking and sympathetic
interpretation of the Greek text, without improving observations or
wearisome cataloguing of discarded opinions. Especially praiseworthy
is his scholarly analysis of the sources of the gospel.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.
“The best type of Oxford scholarship is exhibited in this work,
conservative, but strongly modified by modern learning.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w.
“Such examination as we have been able to make of this very complete
commentary has gone to show the genuinely critical spirit in which it
has been put together.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 330w.
=Alston, Leonard.= Stoic and Christian in the second century: a
comparison of the ethical teaching of Marcus Aurelius with that of
contemporary and antecedent Christianity. *$1. Longmans.
7–11201.
A scientific, judicial and scholarly treatment. The following are the
ethical questions concerning which the two doctrines are compared: Man
as a rational and social being. The intellectual virtues. The lower
and the higher life of man. Free-will and responsibility. The ultimate
aim of virtue, and The relation in Christianity of ethics to religion.
* * * * *
“Mr. Alston is to be thanked for a valuable piece of apologetic work.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 552. Ja. ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 380. Ap. ’07. 530w.
“Admirable monograph.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 180w.
“His treatment of the subject is incomplete in two points: he does not
sufficiently distinguish between ethics and religion, and he does not
describe the actual moral life of the time in the Christian and
non-Christian circles. The little volume is, however, fair and
suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w.
“His book is especially valuable in the clearness with which he
presents the difference in spirit, and in views between the Stoic and
Christian systems.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 160w.
* =Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.= Young trailers: a story of early
Kentucky. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29578.
A story of out-of-door life in Kentucky during the early days “when
the Indian was a factor to be reckoned with. Henry Ware, son of a
pioneer, left the settlement for the wild life of the forest. He
became as skilful as an Indian in wood-lore, and was able to defend
his own people by beating the Indian in his native forest.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The style of the story is rather heavy, but the matter of it will
appeal strongly to boys.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Ames, Herman Vandenburg=, ed. State documents on federal relations: the
states and the United States. *$1.75. The Department of history of the
University of Pennsylvania; for sale by Longmans.
7–2017.
This volume “includes 155 documents bearing on the relations of the
states to the federal government, 1789–1861, and ‘comprises typical
papers covering the official action of various states in different
sections of the country, relative to the chief political and
constitutional issues in our history.’”
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. S.
“Dr. Ames has done a splendid work in bringing before the student
these documents in such a convenient shape.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 300w.
=Ames, Joseph B.= Treasure of the canyon. †$1.50. Holt.
7–32317.
A spirited tale of adventure attending a search for treasure hidden
away in Arizona along the grand canyon of the Colorado. A new York
collector of antiques sends a party out to hunt for relics of the
cliff dwellers, and by accident one of the members comes into
possession of papers that locate a vast store of imperial treasures
carried off by the Spaniards when they captured the City of Mexico.
The balking of their plans by desperadoes but makes the landing of the
treasure in New York safety vaults more of a triumph.
Andreas and The fates of the apostles: two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems;
ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by G: Philip Krapp. *$2. Ginn.
6–3091.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good edition of these poems, therfore—and we know of no better
edition of any Anglo-Saxon poem than the present—fills a long
recognized want. As a matter of detail, it seems to us a mistake to
speak of the occasional parallels of the ‘Beowulf’ in the ‘Andreas’ as
imitations of the older poem.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 620w.
* =Andresen, N. P.= The republic. (Nat. lib. social science.) Kerr.
An analysis of the social changes that have come and the greater
social changes that are coming. A four part treatment: part one
defines the word justice, and exposes unjust conditions; part two
discusses the causes of value; part three outlines the nature and
functions of the just state; part four reveals the methods whereby
people may acquire possession of their rightful inheritance.
=Andrews, Mary R. S. (Mrs. William S. Andrews.)= The militants; stories
of some parsons, soldiers, and other fighters in the world. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–18098.
Nine stories “of a mystic sentimental inspiration” with charming
Kentucky settings and Kentucky heroines.
* * * * *
“A collection of short stories of unequal merit, but all more than
ordinarily well done.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“The volume before us is one of the best collections we have recently
seen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.
“Mrs. Andrews is an accomplished storyteller, writing at times with a
rhythm and dignity which place her quite above the average. The
material of her stories, however, is of most unequal merit, and a
slightly defective sense of structure often makes for a too obvious
ending.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 560w.
“It is all very lightweight of course, and distressingly false from
the point of view of moderns cursed with the quality of moral
earnestness. But it is quite pretty and entertaining, its saccharine
and mystic tendencies relieved by a certain mild and harmless humor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 343. My. 25, ’07. 660w.
“One [story] ... certainly holds a picture almost worthy of comparison
with that ideal of a priest, Monseigneur Bienvenu, whose candlesticks
and saintliness saved the soul of Hugo’s Jean Valjean. The other
tales, morally and otherwise rather less strenuous, are variously
stimulating and as admirably written, every one.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 110w.
=Andrews, Mary R. S.= Perfect tribute. **50c. Scribner.
6–32361.
An incident connected with Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech furnishes the
motif of this little fictional sketch. “‘The perfect tribute’ on the
Gettysburg speech is rendered directly to Lincoln, in a Washington
hospital, by a wounded soldier who had read the address in a morning
newspaper,—the President having been accidentally called in to draw up
a will for the dying man.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Leaving veracity out of consideration, it must be confessed that the
little story is written with a tenderness of touch and a delicacy of
diction which make it delightful reading.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ − =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 240w.
=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.
“The treatment is singularly felicitous.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
“A strong, dramatic, yet very simply told story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 60w.
=Angell, Bryan Mary (H. Ripley Cromarsh, pseud.).= Secret of the Moor
cottage. †$1.25. Small.
6–40587.
A story written by the sister of A. Conan Doyle. The plot holds a
mystery which involves a beautiful young woman who had wedded and
later killed a villainous Russian count. An unprofessional sleuth is
on the track of the tangle, and works out the puzzle only to satisfy a
very justifiable curiosity.
* * * * *
“It is certainly not as good as ‘The house on the marsh,’ but it
compares very favourably with many modern ‘successes.’”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 320. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“A good mystery story with a motive by no means commonplace. The
telling of even the darkest doings is in a subdued but not spiritless
key, and this serves to bring the book into the desirable category of
the comfortable-dreadful.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 190w.
“It seems a pity that its author should have chosen the one form of
plot that would make her readers immediately note her shortcomings in
one direction by instituting invidious comparisons with the work of
her famous relative, while she really tells a very good story in a
charmingly simple way, and has the desirable knack of peopling her
pages with interesting and comprehensible characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 881. D. 15, ’06. 440w.
=Angell, James Rowland.= Psychology: an introductory study of the
structure and function of human consciousness. *$1.50. Holt.
4–36948.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It would seem, therefore, that the unique value of this book, as well
for the teacher as for the layman, would lie mainly in this catholic
account that it gives of the attitude and achievement of the science
at the present time. On the whole, and largely in detail, one may say
that the book is excellent. It would, however, be much improved as an
instrument for teaching psychology if the substance of the topics was
more frequently summed in terse formulae.” H. C. Stevens.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 14. Ja. 15, ’07. 1010w.
=Angier, Belle Sumner.= Garden book of California; decorations by
Spencer Wright. *$2. Elder.
7–1485.
Believing that the garden of the world is California, the author shows
its limitless possibilities for genuine and heart-satisfying
home-building. The garden as a factor in home-making, garden methods,
the planting-time, the culture of all varieties of plants,
tree-planting and protection, insecticides and plant diseases,
backyard problems, and out-of-door living rooms, all come in for
generous attention.
* * * * *
“Tells many things that the new-comer to California, if interested in
gardening, will wish to know.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The author knows her subject well, is perfectly familiar with the
flowers, shrubs and trees that can be well grown under the conditions
of irrigation, and her instructions are pertinent, practical and
clearly told as the result of much experience and observation. It
should be mentioned that the twenty attractive full-page illustrations
of California gardening bear no particular relation to the text.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=Angus, Samuel.= Sources of the first ten books of Augustine’s De
civitate Dei. $1. Univ. library, Princeton, N. J.
6–23296.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It would seem that certain statements in the study of the sources are
entirely too dogmatic. The dissertation is a work that will prove of
great value to students of Augustine, and there is thus the more
reason for regretting the large number of typographical errors.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 180. Ja. ’07. 510w.
* =Annunzio, Gabriele d’.= Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr. by
Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an introd. by Miss
Porter. *$1.50. Little.
An authorized edition of D’Annunzio’s drama which presents with
intense human touches a picture of patriarchal peasant life.
=Appleton, Rev. Floyd.= Church philanthropy in New York; introd. by Rt.
Rev. D. H. Greer. *75c. Whittaker.
The author “has sketched briefly the history of the many Episcopal
philanthropic institutions, and on the basis of extensive
compilation of statistics he offers suggestions as to promising
lines of future activity. The pamphlet is a convenient manual of
information concerning a large class of remedial institutions, which
have been supported with self-sacrifice and administered with
efficiency.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A valuable book of facts.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 40w.
Arabian nights entertainments: the thousand-and-one nights; tr. by
Edward William Lane. 4v. ea. *$1. Macmillan.
The Bohn edition of the Lane translation. Professor Stanley Lane-Poole
has edited the reprint, and has included about two-thirds of the whole
number of tales belonging to the thousand and one nights, as well as
Aladdin and Ali Baba which are not a part of the series in Arabic.
* * * * *
“Edited perfectly by Dr. Stanley Lane-Poole, with due care for the
convenience of the general reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 130w.
“It is a scholarly translation and as complete as one can be that is
intended for general circulation.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 159. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The translation of ‘Aladdin’ is sound and vigorous, and in every way
more readable style than Lane had at his command. But there is one
slip very strange in the past master in Arabic numismatics. Professor
Lane-Poole does not seem to have recognized that the ‘Africa’ in this
story means Tunis.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Aria, Mrs. David B.= Costume: fanciful, historical and theatrical; il.
by Percy Anderson. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–8553.
“This book is divided into twenty chapters, beginning with some
description of costumes and the rudimentary expression of fashion in
the classic times and coming down well into the days of the nineteenth
century. Each century, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth, is
discussed in a separate section. There are also chapters on the garb
of peasants in different countries, on Oriental dress, on fancy dress,
on the origin and development of the corset, on bridal dress and
ceremonial costumes, on dancing dress in all countries, and on
theatrical costumes.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Aria has fairly carried out the promise of her introductory
note.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“The text is often witty and always interesting. Mr. Anderson, the
illustrator, can scarcely be overpraised for the excellence of his
work.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 530w.
“It is a pity that there is no index to what is primarily a book of
reference.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 190w.
“Mrs. Aria is commonplace and somewhat inconsequent.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 30w.
“In short, the book is not a treatise on costume, nor is it of any
historical authority; but it may be found suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 220w.
“A vast amount of information on sartorial affairs most charmingly
expressed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 100w.
“A considerable amount of painstaking research has been employed in
making this book on dress, and Mrs. Aria presents the result in her
animated style, lightened by little touches of humor and adorned with
numerous flourishes of verbal ingenuity.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. S. 28, ’07. 650w.
=Armitage, F. P.= History of chemistry. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The story of some thousand years of almost fruitless labor, followed
by two centuries of richest accomplishment.” “It is neither so
comprehensive nor so interesting as Meyer’s ‘History of chemistry,’
but will serve its purpose in giving the student a background for his
knowledge, and a realization of the difficulties experienced by
generations of chemists in formulating the conceptions which now seem
so simple and natural.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book is well written and the details judiciously pruned.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 350w.
“Like most other histories of the science, this fails to connect with
the science of the present day. The book might have been written ten
or twenty years ago.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
“We are oppressed with the unscientific slapdash manner in which the
author has approached the whole subject of the history of chemistry.”
− =Nature.= 75: 170. D. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Armour, Jonathan Ogden.= Packers, the private car lines and the people.
$1.50. Altemus.
6–20351.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Though professedly an advocate’s presentations on these important
questions, it gives the reader the impression of being more
straightforward and reliable than much of the ‘unbiased and
public-spirited’ criticism does.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 118. F. ’07. 1050w.
“The book as a whole is not convincing.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp), grafin von.= Fraulein. Schmidt and Mr.
Anstruther. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–21365.
By the author of “Elizabeth and her German garden.” “A German girl
writes from Jena to the young Englishman who is at first her lover,
and subsequently, after he has broken off the engagement, her friend,
and who finally puts an end to the friendship also by insisting on the
impossible attempt at renewing their former relations.... Little
detached incidents, reminiscences, reflections on life and literature,
and so on, form the subject of the letters, which depend for their
charm wholly on the personality of the writer.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 561. Je. 8, ’07. 540w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07. ✠
“It has all the old grace and vivacity, and is free from the suspicion
of coldness and heartlessness that occasionally dashed our enjoyment
of her earlier books. Her letters are invariably piquant and
entertaining, and we may add that they contain much excellent advice
and criticism.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 300w.
“It is not very much of a story, but that doesn’t greatly matter,
because it is Rose-Marie who really interests us all the while, and
because her letters are the most delightful compound of bourgeois
realism, sentimental fancy, and delicate humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w.
“Fraulein Schmidt is a distinct acquisition.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.
“It is written with the author’s usual charm.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“As a work of fiction, the book deserves particular notice for
distinction of manner, acuteness of view, and, above all, for the
refreshing spirit that animates each letter from the first to the
last.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 530w.
“Why should we read—with various degrees of pleasure it is true—a
whole volume of her meditations which are without form, often shallow,
sometimes slipshod, and never inspired? But she writes so freshly and
sensibly and happily that to ask for a closer attention to these
matters would be like asking a thrush, for example, to whistle a Bach
fugue.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 750w.
“These letters while slight, make a thoroughly acceptable bit of
summer diversion.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“There are many exquisite passages and there is never anything that is
commonplace, never a platitude.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.
“Apart from the fun of the book, which may seem somewhat less than
usual in the work of this writer, there is really a heart story dealt
with in an unusual and unexpected way, while the comments of the quiet
but proud Anglo-German Rose-Marie on literature and life are in
themselves pungent and discerning.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.
“Rose-Marie is the only correspondent worth mentioning who has
appeared in fiction since [Glory Quayle], and she is of much finer
spiritual fibre, of as much charm and of a better brain-capacity.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 520w.
“The dénoûment will not conciliate sentimentalists, and we are by no
means sure that it is in strict accordance with experience, but it has
both logic and justice to commend it.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 703. My. 11, ’07. 1430w.
=Arnold, Charles London.= Cosmos, the soul and God: a monistic
interpretation of the facts and findings of science. **$1.20. McClurg.
7–12983.
The author’s all-inclusive philosophy is developed along the following
line: “Starting with the established facts of science, seeking the
causes of manifested phenomena, tracing the causal series to the very
limits of scientific investigation, inevitably finding at the limits
of the physical process an effect for which the physical cause can be
discovered, and driven to attribute such effect to some agency outside
the world of sense, I reach at length the inevitable conclusion that
there is a world of which this physical process came, upon which it
rests, by which it is energetically sustained; in a word, that the
present world is but the phenomenal representation of the forms of
cosmic energy.”
=Arnold, William Thomas.= Roman system of provincial administration to
the accession of Constantine the Great; new ed. rev. from the author’s
notes by E. S. Shuckburgh. *$2. Macmillan.
7–7171.
A revised edition of a work that is strong in its treatment of the
functions of the general and local governments in the provinces, the
strong and weak points of Roman rule, the development of imperial
policy and the influence of expansion upon domestic politics. An
index, a map, and a bibliography are included in the revised edition.
* * * * *
“It was a great loss to scholars that Arnold did not live to revise
his work in the way in which he probably would have wished to revise
it. More to be regretted still is the editor’s failure to study the
great system of Roman military roads, and to make such a résumé of the
work of the Limes commissions in Germany and Austria as Koremann has
lately drawn up.” Frank Frost Abbott.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 520w.
“It would be easy to suggest further improvement. With the substantial
merits of the first edition, students of Roman history are well
acquainted; and they will find the present volume even more
serviceable. In its field it has no rival in English.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 230w.
=“Artifex” and “Opifex,” pseud.= Causes of decay in a British industry.
*$2.50. Longmans.
7–28991.
A discussion of the English fire-arms industry by two manufacturers
who know their subject in all the aspects of its rise and decline.
“They see the manufacturer who has brought his craft to the highest
pitch of perfection struggling in vain to maintain his position, borne
down by the burdens and obstacles which have been placed upon him and
are not counterbalanced by any assistance such as his competitors
receive.” (Lond. Times.) “The authors claim that the two big causes
for the falling off in this trade are: (1) The policy of the English
government in not protecting in any way the industry; and (2) the
reluctance of the British manufacturer to enter into competition with
the so-called ‘modern business methods’ of foreign manufacturers.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This remarkably well-written book, though without doubt prejudiced
and partial in many of its statements, will repay the time and trouble
of reading.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. ’16, ’07. 1000w.
“It may be that in some matters they are not quite at the center of
the subject, and incline to make more of their difficulties than of
their own defects ... but their analysis of the condition of the trade
and the causes which have brought it about cannot be ignored by anyone
who has any respect for facts.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1100w.
=Nation.= 85: 129. Ag. 8, ’07. 1100w.
“It should be read and read again by the workmen of England.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 380w.
“The authors’ knowledge of the history of their own trade enables them
to set out facts that must be new to most of us, but we are not
convinced by the economic reasoning which they very modestly and
temperately seek to base thereon.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1009. Je. 29, ’07. 780w.
As the Hague ordains: journal of a Russian prisoner’s wife in Japan. il.
**$1.50. Holt.
7–16757.
The diary of the half English wife of a Russian officer. When word
comes that her husband has been wounded and taken prisoner by the
Japanese she goes to him from St. Petersburg, and from the viewpoint
of a nurse in a military hospital learns how, “human, Christian and
civilized” is the Japanese treatment of the Russian prisoners. The
contrast between the courage and cleanliness of the Japanese and the
filth and boorishness of the Russians breaks down the barriers of her
prejudices.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.
“Perhaps gratitude has somewhat overdrawn the picture, but even so,
one prefers this theory to the only possible alternative one, which
would suggest that this wholly delightful book is altogether a work of
the imagination.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 614. Ag. ’07. 990w.
“The ‘diary,’ which was demonstrably written after the facts which it
forsees with remarkable clearness, makes vivacious reading, and there
are bits in it of the traditional Japan of fine pottery and miniature
gardening which are distinctly charming.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 230w.
“Perhaps no book has as yet described the Russian prisoner’s life in
Japan so graphically and so entertainingly as this book. The thought
it sets forth is distinctly masculine, thinly guised in feminine
expression. Is it too hasty to suspect that it was really written by
some war correspondent, perhaps an American?” K. K. Kawakami.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 1560w.
“The picture is one full of human interest of a varied range.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
“It holds a tremendous human interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.
=Ashley, Percy W. L.= Local and central government: a comparative study
of England, France, Prussia, and the United States. *$3. Dutton.
7–466.
This book “is written from the professorial point of view—that is to
say, it is not a study at first hand of the working of institutions in
the countries named, but in the main a statement of facts compiled
from authorities. As such it forms a text-book for political students
and a hand-book of reference for teachers, administrators, publicists
and politicians.” The three divisions of the work are “the
organization of local government in each country ... the historical
development of local administration in England, France and Prussia ...
the juridical aspects of local government and the relations between
local institutions and the central authority in the same country.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. 20w.
“The literary effect of the work is successful; the elementary
exposition is not unduly encumbered, and the chapters dealing with
history and with legal relations are given a perfectly definite
purpose. There is, even for a work of this kind, too large a number of
technical inaccuracies.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 172. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“The author is accurate and impartial: his work seems to have been
slow, and some parts of the book are out of date. Few other faults
could be found in Mr. Ashley’s studies. The volume is of high merit,
and should be bought and kept for reference. The index is good.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 615. N. 17. 310w.
“It speaks highly for Mr. Ashley as a lecturer that he has produced so
readable a volume out of material which in less able hands would have
sufficed only for a dry compendium or a useful text-book.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 500w.
“It is no easy task to deal clearly, yet in sufficient detail, with
all these matters in the moderate compass of the present volume, and
it cannot be said that Mr. Ashley has been entirely successful. A
certain political bias is discernible here and in other ‘obiter
dicta.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 27. Ja. 25, ’07. 900w.
“Mr. Ashley provides us with an accurate account of the
administration, local and central, of England,—a subject which is
often little understood even by those who take official part in it. In
conclusion, we would specially recommend the chapter on ‘The control
of local finance,’ a matter of very vital importance today.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 423. Mr. 16, ’07. 480w.
=Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur C.= Shulamite. †$1.50.
Brentano’s.
The Boer country furnishes the scene of a story which forces to the
front of its little stage a hard-hearted, narrow-minded old Boer
nearing seventy years, Deborah, his child wife, and a young English
overseer. The latter’s courtesy and respect, unknown to the girl
heretofore, awaken her to sense the sordidness of her lot, and arouse
in her a love for the Englishman. To save the girl’s life, he kills
the husband, actuated only by the chivalrous motives. When Deborah
understands that he will wed the girl awaiting him in England, she
resolves to say the word that shall put him into the hands of the
authorities and result in his death.
* * * * *
“While it has its obvious shortcomings, it is not a book to be lightly
laid aside or quickly forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 390. Je. ’07. 520w.
“A story which with all its power, lacks grip, because it does not
bring conviction with it. It is nevertheless, a striking piece of
work, intensely dramatic, sure of a widening circle of interested
readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w.
=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin.= Ancestors. †$1.75. Harper.
7–30866.
A rising English politician suddenly finds himself put out of the race
in the House of commons by coming into a peerage with its accompanying
seat among the lords. A young American girl, a distant cousin, with
ambitions and temperament akin to his own urges him to start life all
over in her own California. “Once safe in California, the story
proceeds breathlessly. Notwithstanding all the descriptions, all the
lenses which have been turned on that exotic city, [San Francisco] she
still is able to give a picture of untarnished freshness. The story
reaches its climax in the dramatic scenes of the San Francisco
earthquake.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is long, but contains a good deal—sometimes vividly
said—concerning institutions and people that should interest not
merely novelreaders but also thoughtful persons in both countries.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 440w.
“The story is made fairly tedious by endless passages of analysis and
discussion, and its inordinate length is not justified by a
corresponding richness of invention and imagination. Of its style
there is not much to say. It exhibits rawness rather than refinement,
and is almost wholly devoid of charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 320w.
“The contrast between the English and their American cousins is
shrewdly drawn, sophisticated and as lacking in kindness as one may
expect from an author who places wit before humor, and who is
incapable of understanding the pathos of being human either in this
country or in England.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 260w.
“We can only touch upon the comparatively minor characters. Lady
Victoria Gwynne, half great lady, half libertine, is perhaps the only
failure. The whole execution is carried as far as anything that Mrs.
Atherton has yet attempted.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 1090w.
“That Mrs. Atherton’s manner at times is somewhat rough cannot be
denied. Thoughtful she is, and in a way penetrating, though quite
without subtlety and grasping things more violently than is always to
the taste of the over sensitive.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 480w.
“Clever dialogue, sharp analysis, and unexpected turns of plot place
it in Mrs. Atherton’s best vein.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Most of the characters ... have one phase in common. They are
self-conscious and analytical. They see themselves, as it were, in a
mirror, and it is with their eyes fixed on the reflection that they
move. It is, then, the thinker in her reader that Mrs. Atherton
arouses. Her descriptive powers are strong and individual. She gives
us pictures of London, of San Francisco, and of the death throes of
that city vivid as paintings, startling as a vitascope. She is not so
happy in conveying an effect of the cataclysm on the people. They
remain too self-conscious, they converse too much, they see themselves
experiencing the experience.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 1120w.
“If only her technique of construction equalled her frank and
clear-eyed understanding of human nature she might be unhesitatingly
placed very high among the exponents of the best realism.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 607. D. ’07. 1320w.
=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 110w.
“Admirable and distinctly entertaining story.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 369. D. ’07. 590w.
=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Rezánov; il. in
water-colors. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–42373.
A historical romance of the early days of California, which chiefly
concerns Rezánov, a Russian diplomat, and Concha Arguello, daughter of
the Commandante of the Presidio. “Amid the splendidly picturesque
environment of the same California landscape which Belasco recently
has turned to such excellent use in his play a ‘Rose of the Rancho,’
the story marches vigorously to its predestined close and the proud
Russian succumbs to fever and privation on his return from an
adventurous expedition.” (Cur. Lit.)
* * * * *
“Is not the most interesting of Mrs. Atherton’s books: it is, however,
in our opinion, the best written and the most carefully studied work
of hers which we have had the pleasure of seeing.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 502. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
“If Mrs. Atherton has not succeeded in making [the lovers] absolutely
alive to us, she has invested their love story with unusual charm and
interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 170w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 229. F. ’07. 660w.
“A story which is, in many respects, conventional and—for all its
heroics—rather lifeless.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 187. My. ’07. 140w.
“There are qualities in ‘Rezánov’ that we are accustomed to admire in
Mrs. Atherton’s work, the vivid characterisation, the colour and
beauty of the setting, the especial charm of the Californian
atmosphere, but it is very far from being a great book, or even a
first-rate book of its kind, clever as it undeniably is.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 712. D. 8, ’06. 680w.
“With these deductions, there is much to admire in her spirited
reconstitution of life on the Pacific coast a hundred years ago.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 770w.
* =Atkey, Bertram.= Folk of the wild. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“A book of the forests, the moors and the mountains, of the beasts of
the silent places, their lives, their doings and their deaths.”
=Audubon, John Woodhouse.= Audubon’s western journal: 1849–1850. *$3.
Clark, A. H.
6–6244.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We are somewhat surprised that a geographic expert like its editor,
Professor Frank H. Hodder, should have allowed the path of the party
in 1849 to be recorded upon a base map that could not possibly have
been accurate at a period earlier than 1853.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 200w.
=Auerbach, Berthold.= On the heights; translated from the German by
Simon A. Stern. $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of this ever interesting tale of German life in court
and cottage.
* * * * *
“No feature of Auerbach’s literary mastership is more admirable than
the delicacy and ingenuity with which he has woven the fortunes of the
royal house of Bavaria into the fabric of his great novel ‘Auf der
hohe.’ The untangling of this complicated web adds zest to both
history and fiction.” W. H. Carruth.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 376. D. ’07. 3470w.
=Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus.= Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus; tr. by George Long. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= The flock; il. by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.
Houghton.
6–35583.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is hardly a page without its incident, information, or
picturesque descriptions; to turn a leaf too hastily is to miss some
interesting fact or vivid picture.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 140w.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 202. F. 16. 60w.
“The narrative is picturesque and full of color, and the pictures and
sketches really illustrate the text.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.
“‘The flock’ is a book which the driven scientific man may read for
recreation and information at once. There is much keen observation,
much shrewd suggestion, and no end of delight in ‘The flock.’ And
trained in the scientific method or not, Mrs. Austin is honest and
truthful as one may be. That is, she tells only what to her eye and
ear and mind comes with the seeming of truth.” Vernon L. Kellogg.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 179. F. 1, ’07. 2030w.
“There is a smack of R. L. Stevenson about the book, though rather in
the subject than in the style, which leans towards the pretentious.
But as a literary work it is vivid.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 190w.
=Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron.= On municipal and national trading.
$1. Macmillan.
7–23725.
An argument against municipal trading. The author shows that municipal
trade increases local expenditure and local indebtedness, gives rise
to awkward labor problems, seriously interferes with private
enterprise and our foreign commerce, and that by reducing the demand
for labor it has not only injured the ratepayers generally, but
especially the working classes.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 149. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“His book, it hardly need be said, is an able presentation of his
subject. While less partisan and more dignified than Mr. Porter, Lord
Avebury is seldom thoroughly judicial in his treatment of his
subject.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
“All thru the book Lord Avebury shows an amazing fondness for
irresponsible writers and a curious shyness of official figures.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1412. Je. 13, ’07. 1180w.
“The materials appear to have been gathered hastily, and are thrown
together in slap-dash fashion.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 260w.
“One commendable feature of the book is its definiteness. The reader
who seeks a clear, brief statement of the arguments against municipal
trading cannot find the case more satisfactorily stated than in Lord
Avebury’s book.” Wm. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 436. Jl. ’07. 950w.
“A useful handbook for those who may have to debate the subject on
public platforms.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 213. F. 9, ’07. 1740w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people.
In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
=v. 3.= “Volume three is devoted to what has been happily termed a
neglected period of American history,—a period extending through the
latter part of the seventeenth to well toward the meridian of the
eighteenth century. Behind it lay the stirring, strenuous and
oftentimes intensely exciting period that marked the colonization of
the new world and the struggle for a firm foothold,—a struggle that
sometimes meant war with Indians, sometimes conflict with rival
nations, and ever the fierce battle to subjugate the soil and wring
from it more than was needed to supply food, raiment and shelter for
the isolated bands on the wilderness frontiers of the new
world.”—Arena.
* * * * *
“Mr. Avery has aimed at and achieved ‘readability,’ and at the same
time there is little doubt that this will be the standard record of
United States history.”
+ + + =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“We have detected but one actual inaccuracy—an understatement of
Oglethorpe’s age. The American writer’s handling of some portions
strikes us as hardly adequate.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 862. S. 7, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole the volume is superior to its predecessor. The sense of
proportion is better developed.” Wm. R. Shepherd.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 657. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The strong feature of this volume, as of its predecessor, is—aside
from the work of the publishers—the accuracy and detail of the
author’s narrative. Certain of its limitations are also among those of
the earlier volumes and seem, therefore, likely to characterize the
entire work. They are: First, the author’s lack of assured perspective
and his consequent inability to impart emphasis, selection and
organization to his work; secondly, his attempts to vary the monotony
inevitable in a narrative devoid of the above mentioned qualities by
constant recourse to the phraseology of others or to awkward
trivialities; and thirdly, his disposition to abdicate to others the
historian’s essential function of passing judgment, without at the
same time distinguishing at all between the purely personal opinions
of those whom he quotes and their documental verdicts.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 1250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We are fully gratified to find that it fully maintains the high
standard set in the preceding volumes. Dealing as it does with this
largely neglected period, is of special interest to students of
history.”
+ + + =Arena.= 38: 221. Ag. ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The colonial history of the Jerseys is usually regarded as prosaic in
the extreme; but Mr. Avery has discovered in it points of dramatic
interest, and has spared no pains to reveal them to us.” Anna Heloise
Abel.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 165. S. 16, ’07. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“At times there is revealed, often in opening and closing paragraphs,
a knack of rapid and effective description. But the body of the
chapter is liable to be disjointed and unimportant. The work lacks
conscious certainty of judgment and too often seems to be impartial
from caution rather than conviction.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Dr. Avery’s narrative grows more praiseworthy as it proceeds, while
his style is less stilted and freer from mannerisms and fine writing
than was the case with the first volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is pleasant to find, also, that Mr. Avery has profited by earlier
criticisms—developing, for example, far more clearly than before the
relationship between the early upbuilding of America and the stirring
events transpiring in Europe.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Its methods are more like those of the old, with a little less
insistence on style. In respect of its material make-up Avery’s work
is one of the most notable books ever printed in America, and no doubt
the most notable in American history.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Avery’s style illumines the annals of those primitive times,
sustaining the reader’s interest.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Axon, William E. A.= Cobden as a citizen: a chapter in Manchester
history. *$6. Wessels.
7–31407.
Including a facsimile of Cobden’s pamphlet “Incorporate your borough,”
with an introduction recording his career as a municipal reformer, and
a Cobden bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 538. My. 4. 330w.
“A little volume which all admirers and students of Cobden will desire
to possess.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 160w.
=Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.
=Ayer, Mary Allette=, ed. Heart melodies. **$1. Lothrop.
7–16925.
The compiler has culled from works of prose and poetry both well-known
and obscure these brief quotations chosen because they are helpful and
cheering.
B
=Bacheller, Irving A.= Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing. †50c. Harper.
7–29429.
Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume;
one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben
Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise,
humorous companion of earlier days.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w.
=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the
Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.
6–27342.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the
complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical
associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.
+ =Spec.= 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w.
=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.= Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.
7–29425.
“The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences
of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined
resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the
suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the
peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in
the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but
occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up
several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the
chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w.
“Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness
that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and
thinner as time goes on.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w.
“The plot is of soap-bubble texture ... and the whole is told with
abundant humor in a style of exceptional simplicity and good taste.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 120w.
“The book is full of fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“A mild plot is cleverly managed by the author.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)= In high places.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
7–31212.
The “high places” are the risky elevations from which scrupulous and
unscrupulous actors in high finance manipulate the money market. A
business woman of to-day occupies the center of the stage.
* * * * *
“‘In high places,’ in fact, inspires a hope that Mrs. Bacon may go on
rather than back, that she may succeed in ridding herself of the
shopworn, obvious side of her talent and by clearing her mind of a
residue of stock phrases and characters, leave it free to receive her
own unhackneyed and genuine impressions.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“In many respects the novel is disagreeable—in some unnecessarily
so—but the plea that it is true to life can be supported, without
doubt.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 150w.
=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)=, ed. Songs every child
should know. **90c. Doubleday.
6–35301.
More than a hundred songs with music are grouped here. They include
songs of sentiment, folk song, cradle songs, songs of war, national
hymns, nonsense songs, patriotic songs, Shakesperian songs and
miscellaneous songs. Introductory notes to each song add enlightenment
for the child.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 189. O. ’06.
“The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the
taste displayed is broad and catholic.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 295. N. ’06. 780w.
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 50w.
“Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into
groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 120w.
“One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 40w.
=Badger, George Henry.= Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.
7–29693.
Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the
hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used
for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface
of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the
murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies
back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.
=Bagley, William Chandler.= Classroom management: its principles and
technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–15629.
“Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems,
and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of
the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from
experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best
expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book
may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’
‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’
‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is
always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more
varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his
task.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 160w.
“While the book is written primarily for students of education in
schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will
appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 255. S. 19, ’07. 210w.
“The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble
chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately
printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public
expense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–37716.
Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in
psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister
fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by
poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she
loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of
San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Bagot observes keenly, but a little hastily; he is rather sharp
than wise in his judgments, and his people are drawn without the
subtle shades which would make them interesting in themselves.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“It is a powerful drama, and discloses Mr. Bagot at his best.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 286. Mr. 9. 210w.
“Like Mr. Crawford, also Mr. Bagot never lets you forget that he is
writing of an alien race, with habits and temperaments and language
quite foreign to that of the Anglo-Saxon; and yet, at the same time,
he interprets them so skilfully that the sum total of your impressions
is rather that of the brotherhood of the two races than of the gulf
between them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 590w.
“Mr. Bagot spends so much care on the few characters whom he
introduces, and offers so close an explanation of their motives, that
we are prepared both for greater vigour of action and greater subtlety
of speech. But he seldom drops his attitude of the grave observer
pondering wide issues. In any case, however, it is an interesting
book; you lay it down not infrequently, but you open it with respect.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 390w.
“The facts are bald enough, but they are interpreted with much skill.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 420w.
“There are few gleams of fascination in ‘Temptation’.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
“That which may be most cordially praised in this novel is the
author’s evidently exact and always interesting depiction of Italian
country life and social customs and manners.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 100w.
“Although the main theme of the story is gloomy, there are many
pleasant passages. The book is always interesting.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 380w.
“Though ‘Temptation’ cannot be pronounced a pleasant book, the author
must be acquitted of any desire to palter with the principles of right
and wrong.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 422. Mr. 16, ’07. 840w.
=Bailey, Edgar H. S.= Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or,
The chemistry of water, air, and food. *$1.40. Macmillan.
6–32422.
In which the author emphasizes the fact that a knowledge of the
relations of health to pure air, unpolluted water, and wholesome food
will greatly improve sanitary conditions of students as well as people
at large. Part 1 discusses air and fuel in their relation to heating
and ventilation, lighting by the various agents now in use, water
supply and purification, and disposal of household waste. Part 2 deals
with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages
and dietaries.
* * * * *
“Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he
has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of
Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w.
Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.
=Science=, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w.
“The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to
be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small
pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the
student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially
elementary.”
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w.
* =Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–34148.
In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s
genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies
between his work and that of his predecessors.
* * * * *
“Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence.
The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s
influence upon other novelists.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on
Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a
popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the
United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.
7–8529.
A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific
farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and
permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)
=v. 1.= Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their
soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms;
farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.
=v. 2.= Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the
first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its
response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and
electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and
introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields.
Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from
pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general
discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the
main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers
only.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be
extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the
rural districts.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ − =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Bailey, Temple. Judy.= †$1.50. Little.
7–30439.
Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this
story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air,
simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with
things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life
lesson.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Bailey, William Bacon.= Modern social conditions. $3. Century.
6–34864.
“The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in
Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an
elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters
give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal
conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am.
J. Soc.
* * * * *
“The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the
figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but
strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography.
The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with
information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely
for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and
practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On
the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating
mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w.
“It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less
familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet
the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such
treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are
included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and
difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full
comprehension of those sections.” J. C.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w.
“I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best
authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used
critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present
condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.
− − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w.
“As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort
to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation.
Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The
style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.
− + =Yale R.= 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w.
=Baillie, James Black.= Outline of the idealistic construction of
experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–11048.
The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential
principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and
with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of
philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more
successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those
abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w.
“Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly
extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and
epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is
hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment
of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it
is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w.
“If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the
scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well
chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work
of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is
sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted
independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to
court disaster.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w.
“The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is
dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think
out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails
exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so
preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very
important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of
science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not
less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w.
“In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an
idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration,
and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful
environment.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w.
=Baily, J. T. Herbert.= Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a
catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.
A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but
emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely,
her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.
* * * * *
“Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even
warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected
by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on
her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Baker, Cornelia.= Court jester; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and
Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.
6–28221.
The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become
the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.
* * * * *
“Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average
child’s attention throughout.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.
“A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on
this successful collaboration.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w.
“A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ...
are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
=Baker, Ernest A.= History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–29857.
An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is
classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student.
“Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical
fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general
arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel
and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in
the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written
in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.
“These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well
expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the
books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not
without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w.
“So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work,
it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the
index.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.
“Very carefully compiled catalogue.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w.
=Baker, Etta Anthony.= Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30441.
Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games,
their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is
wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the
sort that any school boy may profit by.
=Baker, George Pierce.= Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
7–22387.
A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a
playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great
dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from
the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America;
in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the
disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace
the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations that
throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many
other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the
period.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 158. O. ’07. S.
“The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as
supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward
Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w.
“The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic
development than many others written with less regard for external
conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the
way for Shakespeare.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w.
“There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is
tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely
valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the
playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w.
“We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and
his thorough sympathy with his author.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w.
“The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so
desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation,
however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of
the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and
inspiration.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w.
“His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with
the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with
those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w.
“This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of
uneducated opinion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable
addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w.
=Baker, James Hutchins.= American problems; essays and addresses.
**$1.20. Longmans.
7–7477.
In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and
education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and
on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of
illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is
vigorous and even inspiring.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w.
=Cath. World.= 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w.
“The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the
whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly
original manner.” Max West.
+ =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w.
=Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w.
“The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness
and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful
nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w.
“If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be
despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.
+ − =School R.= 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w.
=Baker, John Cordis=, ed. American country homes and their gardens;
introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.
6–38345.
“A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best
features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine
to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’
and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate
often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of
the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as
‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are
artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many
hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller
and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of
information about the status and development of American architecture
and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of
appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
=Baker, Louise R.= Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27611.
A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group
of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk.
It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.
* * * * *
“Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Mental development in the child and the race:
methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25.
Macmillan.
6–44351.
Third edition with improvements and enlargements.
* * * * *
“Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one
cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental
development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of
data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon
biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in
genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the
particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin
champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at
certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w.
=Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w.
“One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the
obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude
of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children
must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.
“As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work
is of distinctive and permanent value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Social and ethical interpretations in mental
development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a
product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its
evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he
finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies
that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do
not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an
invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to
the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to
apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation
of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w.
“It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely
studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and
cannot well be hastily scanned.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the development
and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.
6–44293.
The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of
knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological,
genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”
* * * * *
“We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we
close it with a feeling of disappointment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable
interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the
contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive
complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and
thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other
embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the
author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at
the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest
appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its
author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a
little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.
+ − =J. Philos.= 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious,
systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of
continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean
that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that
belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical
doctrine in the form of error.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one
finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the
reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other
volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint
and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive
special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a
notable one.” A. W. Moore.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to
turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner
ring.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great
and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A.
Tawney.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Baldwin, May.= Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50.
Dutton.
The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt
young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of
the particularly undisciplinary _pensionnat_ in which she is placed,
and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Points of difference in matters social and educational are well
brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless
revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
“It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly
upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained
through all its 400 pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose
‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the
ground.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
=Balzac, Honore de.= Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L.
Sanderson. *80c. Heath.
7–15141.
A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern
language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.
=Banks, Louis Albert.= Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.
7–23975.
This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’
mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial
art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–19048.
An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed
points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers
which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real
salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its
manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the
stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental
centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham,
Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07.
+ =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.
=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other
stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of
industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.
7–18108.
The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable
information based on the latest discoveries relating to various
industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the
maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and
England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary,
Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also
comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery
that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the
principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries
named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.
“The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste
of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which
Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.
“An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first
complete work on the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.
6–34684.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school
life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and
will certainly be liked by boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“The best he has done.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2.
Lippincott.
7–33207.
A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a
true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop,
thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its
very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold
binding.
* * * * *
“Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is
natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless
‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.
6–34813.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.
“This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The
story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking
in suggestive quality.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w.
* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Tom, Dick and Harriet. †$1.50. Century.
7–32158.
The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for
the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied
in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader
could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play,
and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between
Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the
winning of a much needed endowment fund.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.
“The book is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Barclay, Armiger.= King makers. †$1.50. Small.
The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons,
undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those
misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks
askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are
worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is
persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess
cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is
much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before
all this is safely brought about.
* * * * *
“As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall
not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a
well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is
worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Life of Alfred de
Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.
6–26201.
“Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in
both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that
which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in
the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is
essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters,
rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and
reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate
sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic
insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns
and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is
anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the
translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece
of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Princesses and court
ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.
6–45155.
The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated
from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played
parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal
Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of
Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s
sister; and “An Arab princess.”
* * * * *
“It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of
translation now prevalent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w.
“Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of
scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion
of cheapness or superficiality.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w.
“The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many
interesting pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
“It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of
biography as we have seen for some time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w.
“A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately
represented in the translation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
=Barker, Ernest.= Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50.
Putnam.
7–15512.
“Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just
perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the
spirit within the letter.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of
his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w.
“Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every
respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book is
much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political
thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as
an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory,
both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w.
“A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire
subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance
of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian
verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and
suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and
fantastic analogies.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w.
“Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition
of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The
universities to which we look for future statesmen may be
congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for
political studies.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w.
“As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of
its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its
historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w.
“Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic,
but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running
analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a
book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w.
“Illuminating volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w.
=Barker, J. Ellis.= Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and
economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–6776.
“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material
professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the
purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party
government, and especially against the particular form of government
which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes
undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the
necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and
federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and
army.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff
reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say
that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which
Mr. Barker denounces.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w.
“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome
and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large
proportion of chaff.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general
reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w.
“In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress
the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh
sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief
objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political
tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not
to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too
long.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w.
“Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities
are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six
pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the
study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot
Griffis.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w.
“Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an
antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the
author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w.
“With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to
be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments
are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false
premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this
book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the
intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he
dogmatizes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.
“From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are
very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in
reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance
of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”
− =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w.
“Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man
who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on,
and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w.
“Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it
is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic
of popular government and all its ways.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w.
“One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have
read for some time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w.
“We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr.
Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current
controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out
of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is
fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 1480w.
“The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit
the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his
subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations,
and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings
that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great
American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1010. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.
=Barksdale, Emily Woodson.= Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.
7–20866.
Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the
home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a
wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a
paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a
cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the
plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.
=Barnes, Howard Turner.= Ice formation, with special reference to
anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.
6–37871.
The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the
St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as
sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in
relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they
occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.
* * * * *
“The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest,
and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the more
consideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression
of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few
points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To
our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the
subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 1430w.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 267. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
=Barnett, T. Ratcliffe.= Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West.
Meth. bk.
The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart
rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ...
who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win
goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”
=Barr, Martin W.= King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
7–14249.
The pitiful tale of an insane patient’s life written by herself during
her perfectly lucid moments. A joyless childhood, a lonely girlhood,
and the speedy wrecking of the happiness that finally dawned for her,
produce a wail on every page. It forms an intense human document.
* * * * *
“A weird tale, apparently half in and half out of the region of
reality. It is quite as fantastic and as full of creepy horrors as
such a tale might be expected to be.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Rock in the Baltic. 50c. Authors
and newspapers assn.
6–16737.
“The ‘rock’ is used as a prison by those supposed monsters of iniquity
the Russian Grand Dukes, and there, in process of time, two
enthusiastic seekers for trouble, one a young Englishman and the other
a titled Russian, are incarcerated. Finally they are taken away on a
yacht, on which two American girls are conveniently placed.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“This is a commonplace book written in a commonplace way about
commonplace people.”
− =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is not often that the elusive grace and humor of modern girlhood
are so well reproduced as they are in these pages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 230w.
“Reads as if it had been written against time.”
− =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 70w.
=Barrett, Howard.= Management of children. *$2. Dutton.
7–29143.
“Treats of the physical care of infants and children, in both disease
and health, from the time of birth into and past the early teens. All
of the usual problems of food, drink, clothing, and sleep, the
ordinary diseases, contagious and other, to which children are liable;
accidents, malformations, and many possibilities of unusual disease
are discussed in a plain, common sense, untechnical way for the
enlightenment and guidance of those who have the immediate care of the
young.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 260w.
“We offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. Barrett, and we may add,
to those for whom he writes.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
=Barrie, J. M.= Little minister. $1.25. Crowell.
A thin paper edition with limp leather binding which contains a
reproduced photograph of Maude Adams.
=Barrington, Emilie Isabel (Mrs. Russell Barrington).= Life, letters and
work of Frederic Leighton. 2v. *$10.50. Macmillan.
7–13427.
“This work is said to have the approval of the family of the late
President of the Royal Academy, and may be considered authoritative,
if not official. A friendship existed between Frederick Leighton and
the author for more than thirty years, and so the pages which deal
with personal characteristics will be found peculiarly intimate....
The book includes Leighton’s diary, covering a period of fifty years,
and among the mass of interesting correspondence incorporated is to be
found a number of letters from George Eliot, Ruskin, Browning, Henry
Greville, and Charles Dickens. Besides many of Leighton’s finest works
reproduced especially for this publication are several fac-simile
drawings and paintings never before published.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Unsatisfactory as biography, these volumes are entirely valueless as
criticism. Instead of disentangling the real merits of Leighton’s work
from less admirable characteristics, Mrs. Barrington vaguely couples
him with Phidias and the old masters, and urges claims so absurd as to
tax severely the patience and perseverance of all educated readers.”
− − =Acad.= 72: 91. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.
“It is disfigured by one or two hasty figures of speech ... and the
printer’s reader has been unusually neglectful of his duties. It is a
pity to leave such blemishes on a book of sterling value,
indispensable to all students of modern English life and art.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 140. F. 2. 860w.
“Unfortunately Mrs. Barrington is not as skilful in arranging and
adapting her material as she has been industrious in collecting it.”
Edith Kellogg Dunton.
− + =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 1980w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 500w.
“Interesting as are many of Leighton’s letters, and multifarious as
are the details with which the book is filled, the reader would have
been able to gather a truer impression of Leighton, his development,
his artistic character, and his work as an administrator if the
biographer had been more rigorous in selecting and had been a better
critic.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 61. F. 22, ’07. 1500w.
“It cannot be called a worthy monument to its subject. Its author has
little critical acumen or severity of taste; it is rambling and
repetitious; padded with much matter of little interest as presented;
marred by mistranslations of foreign tongues, misunderstanding of
technical terms, faulty transcription of proper names, and careless
proofreading.”
− − + =Nation.= 84: 275. Mr. 21, ’07. 1510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“On the whole the book disappoints one in the lack of letters from the
interesting people Leighton knew. A more serious matter is the failure
of the biographer to offer a plausible pen-portrait of Leighton, or
even to allow him to describe himself.” Charles de Kay.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 2490w.
“Small points and insignificant matters are grossly inflated, but the
real issue is never faced. The flawless impeccable Leighton remains so
to the last, though we are not told why he was, or, what is rather
more important, why he was really not so.” Christian Brinton.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 340w.
=Barron, Elwyn Alfred.= Marcel Levignet. †$1.50. Duffield.
6–36038.
“A detective story laid in Paris and including all the elements needed
for profound sensation. The author is skilled in keeping apparently
tangled threads in his hands, and unties several hard knots with all
the ease of a practiced novel writer.” (Outlook.) “The hero is a sort
of modern Cyrano de Bergerac.... He is bon vivant, editor, amateur
detective, student of life as it is lived. His kinship with Cyrano is
sentimental.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A refreshing variant on the old detective story. To readers of a
certain vein, in fact, ‘Marcel Levignet’ will furnish a particularly
agreeable light evening’s pastime.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 500w.
“The tone of the story is essentially French—sentiment, situation, and
characters, and most especially the climax.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
“As fantastic as the generality of detective stories, ‘Marcel
Levignet’ differs from said generality in being readable by grown-up
persons.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Barry, Richard Hayes.= Events man; being an account of the adventures
of Stanley Washburn, American war correspondent. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–15132.
In which Mr. Barry records some of Mr. Washburn’s adventures on a
newspaper dispatch-boat between Corea and Port Arthur during the first
part of the war between Russia and Japan.
* * * * *
“The story is rich or tiresome in detail, according to taste, but is
an exciting picture of conditions in war time on the water around Port
Arthur.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
“The book has evidently been written in a great hurry, not even time
enough having been given to have the chapter headings all spelt
correctly.”
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.
“The author indulges himself in a diction so plentifully sprinkled
with slang that it often becomes unintelligible to the reader
accustomed to ordinary English. It is a story full of dogged
perseverance and unbounded pluck, and it was well worth telling.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 500w.
“On the whole the good ‘stuff’ ... far outweighs the bad. The story is
a bit of real life; vivid, strong and picturesque. It remains to be
recorded that the proof reading of the volume is unbelievably bad.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 1830w.
“Mr. Barry may always be counted upon for graphic power.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Bartholomew, John George=, ed. Atlas of the world’s commerce. *$8.
Scribner.
A new series of maps, with descriptive text and diagrams showing
products, imports, exports, commercial conditions, and economic
statistics of the countries of the world, compiled from the latest
official returns at the Edinburgh geographical institute.
* * * * *
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 42. F. 8, ’07. 170w.
“So excellent is the idea, and so good the execution by devices of
colorings and diagrams, that whoever wants information of this
description can hardly be directed to a better source for
satisfaction. This cordial recognition of the volume’s merits must be
accompanied with regrets that the figures are some years old, and that
all figures of this sort are incomplete and contradictory.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 310w.
=Barton, Clara.= Story of my childhood. 50c. Baker.
7–35389.
A simply told story of the childhood of Clara Barton, which is really
written for the school children of the country after repeated appeals
from them for bits of her early life.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07. S.
“Is as wonderful as its writer: it is extremely interesting, and yet
it hardly touches on those aptitudes and activities that all the world
associates with her remarkable personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 171. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Will be found interesting to all persons who have followed her
beneficent career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Barton, George.= Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.
7–19594.
A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life
a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.
=Barton, James Levi.= Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.
6–43768.
In which the author has brought together a “large number of
testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of
competence and character.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every
well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a
thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.
“Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the
opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to
the worth of Christian missions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Barton, Mrs. Marion T.= Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–11589.
The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of
character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who
starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to
perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course
absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.”
Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in
part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second
marriage.
* * * * *
“About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses
the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession
of a story worth telling.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w.
“The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader
is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and
certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship
between the girls hangs.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
=Bashford, James Whitford.= China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–524.
A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand
the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a
suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding
of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25
to May 6, 1907.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Outlines of practical sanitation, for students,
physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–33610.
Improved sanitation with regard to habitations; water, milk and food
supplies; the collection and disposal of waste; schools and cars.
There are chapters on vital statistics, municipal, rural and suburban
sanitation, and personal hygiene.
* * * * *
“Clear, convincing, and simple; but, covering as it does so wide a
range of subjects in 198 pages, is of course, only suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 5. Ja. ’07.
“Within the limits indicated by its sub-title, this is one of the best
and most practical books on sanitation that has ever come to our
attention. Perhaps it is surprising that in attempting to cover so
wide a range of subjects in a popular manner, more slips and
questionable statements were not made.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 260w.
“The book should be found useful as a means of imparting sound ideas
of the laws of healthy living to teachers and citizens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 125. Je. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Baskerville, Beatrice C.= Polish Jew: his social and economic value.
*$2.50. Macmillan.
7–15500.
Eight years’ residence and study in Poland lie back of Miss
Baskerville’s presentation of the Jew of that country. She throws
light upon the Polish Jew immigrant by revealing the conditions of his
native economic and social environment.
* * * * *
“The author is very frankly unfavorably impressed by the Jews, and,
although it is to be hoped she has exaggerated the dark side of the
situation, her volume is of great importance. The style is good and
the thought clear.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“Such a book as this deserves a hearty welcome, and for valuable
matter contributed on Poland—a country very little known—it may be
classed with that of Dr. George Brandes, which appeared a short time
ago.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 95. Jl. 27. 870w.
“Would have enhanced value if the author ... would have shown more
sympathy with the population she describes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.
“It is so obvious that she knows a great deal that we cannot help
regretting a certain lack of clearness in the impression which her
book produces. It would almost seem as though Miss Baskerville had
unconsciously written rather for a Polish than for an English public.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 880w.
“The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and
with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe
censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy
that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards
fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w.
“What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In
the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the
problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own
not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w.
“Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as
with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak
with authority.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w.
“An elaborate, dispassionate study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being
impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a
political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of
revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the
Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly
instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.
=Bastian, Henry C.= Evolution of life. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–33603.
“A detailed and somewhat belated statement of his side of the
controversy over the spontaneous generation of life, which followed
the publication, in 1872, of his book on ‘The Beginnings of
life.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Ingenious and striking some of the new experiments cited certainly
are; but it will be very difficult to find any biologist who will be
convinced that they _demonstrate_ the truth of the conclusion drawn
from them by Dr. Bastian.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 1140w.
“With practically all the eminent bacteriologists of the world flatly
denying such a postulate of spontaneous generation, we can only add,
in deference to Dr. Bastian’s evident sincerity, that his experiments
must be at fault in some way; there is some loop-hole unguarded.”
− =Nation.= 85: 192. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.
“It is impossible not to admire the author’s strong desire to get at
the truth, the courage of his convictions, and his incomparable good
humour.” J. A. T.
− + =Nature.= 76: 1. My. 2, ’07. 1070w.
=Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates.= Glimpses of Italian court life: happy
days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.
6–41530.
“Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a
worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her
experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her
impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her
story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form
well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve
description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w.
“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling,
informal, and thoroughly readable.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 340w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w.
“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of
the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it
becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Bates, Arlo.= Talks on teaching literature **$1.30. Houghton.
6–37886.
“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the
University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and
some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature,
the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship,
literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly
recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which
tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the
comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a
book upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found
extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 60w.
“The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are
always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by
every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating
common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not
an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads
him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness.
But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 389. Ja. ’07. 860w.
“The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor
Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are
his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and
his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless
recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of
the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w.
=Bates, Carroll Lund.= The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1.
Badger, R. G.
7–7479.
Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of
Christ.
* * * * *
“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w.
=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
7–32385.
Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861
to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an
important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where
cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.
* * * * *
“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the
strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply
and naturally written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very
important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a
few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln
himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w.
“Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with
the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his
books a great deal of information concerning important military
movements.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 140w.
=Bates, Katharine Lee.= From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary
journey in England. **$2. Crowell.
7–32870.
In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart
of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection
which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is
based upon wide reading and careful observation.
* * * * *
“A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and
that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 130w.
“As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England,
easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a
lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and
only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is
thoroughly got up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 180w.
“She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she
knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
=Battersby, Harry F. P.= Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–37929.
A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of
the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking
not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman
we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning
personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense
of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their
true affinities.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a
skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary
composition.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w.
“The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not
counteract its unpleasant features.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Battersby has done a daring and remarkable thing and his book
should place him high among contemporary novelists.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 440w.
=Baxter, William, jr.= Switchboards for power, light and railway
service, direct and alternating current, high and low tension. $1.50.
Derry-Collard co.
6–45714.
“In the first third of the book the way in which switchboards are
connected for single generator and multiple generator plants, and also
for the three-wire system, is shown.... Somewhat over a third of the
book following the matter just mentioned is devoted to switchboards in
actual practice.... The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to
switches, circuit breakers, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“With the exception of [three] omissions ... the book is an ideal one
from a didactic standpoint.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=Bayley, R. Child.= Complete photographer. $3.50. McClure.
7–35187.
A guide to photography which deals thoroly with the science of
photography from its earliest beginnings to its most recent
developments and adaptations.
* * * * *
“The completeness of his book, however, lies more in the fact that
scarcely a single point is left untouched, than that any particular
point is exhaustively treated; and in this respect the work,
admittedly, does not challenge comparison with cheaper specialised
brochures already on the market. Of many good pictures it would be
invidious to mention a few; but it may safely be said that their
praiseworthy selection and adequate printing will give the book a
great value.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 520w.
“The book is much in advance of most works in completeness and
attractiveness.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.
“As an historical review of photography it seems to merit its title,
the whole subject being treated with a great deal of method. For the
beginner ‘Complete photographer’ should serve as a textbook, and he
will do well to follow the author’s advice.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 350w.
“There is hardly a difficulty which besets the practice of
photography, on which valuable advice is not given in it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 850w.
“There are some opinions with which we do not agree. To those who know
enough about photography to appreciate it, and there must be a very
large number of persons so qualified, the volume will prove both
entertaining and instructive.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 75. N. 22, ’06. 590w.
“The book treats of the subject thoroughly and is of value to the
beginner as well as the expert.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The book is clearly written and the descriptions are easily followed,
and not too technical, each particular subject being dealt with in a
separate chapter in a most thorough and practical manner.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“It is as an art that Mr. Bayley prefers to deal with his fascinating
hobby, and his book should meet a widely felt want in this respect.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 270w.
=Beale, Harriet S. B.= Stories from the Old Testament for children. il.
$2. Duffield.
7–30462.
A sure help to mothers and Sunday school teachers who wish to present
Old Testament characters in an attractive light with nothing lacking
of the historical and religious significance. The book is
interestingly illustrated.
* * * * *
“The Old Testament is practically retold in a way to interest
children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 40w.
“For a book which might be kept in a household and referred to every
other Sunday, the volume seems well compiled, though we think the
author has unnecessarily preserved the phraseology of the Bible. We
would suggest that since her narrative is in the language of today,
the conversation should be also; it would then seem truer to the child
reader.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.
=Beale, Joseph Henry, jr., and Wyman, Bruce.= Law of railroad rate
regulation, with special reference to American legislation. *$6. Nagel.
6–36405.
“This is a legal treatise of twelve hundred pages. It contains the
full text of the Interstate commerce act and decisions of both of the
courts and of the commission under this act, as well as a discussion
of the general principles of public service law and the primary
obligations of these in public employments, particularly of carriers.
In brief, it covers comprehensively the whole law, both common and
statutory, with respect to railway rate regulation.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book appears to us a valuable addition to the editor’s library,
and with its companion book of ‘Selected cases’ on the same general
subject, to be well nigh indispensable to the lawyer who has to deal
with this subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
“The authors intrude some assertions not supported—and in some cases
not supportable—by citations of authorities. But Professors Beale and
Wyman have been wofully betrayed by him who compiled the index.
Lawyers will be dismayed to find the text rendered so inaccessible.
The impression left by the book is of hasty compilation and absence of
just proportion.” Roberts Walker.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 333. Je. ’07. 1080w.
=Beard, Charles Austin.= Introduction to the English historians. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
6–37646.
“In this book Mr. Beard tries to solve a problem very real to teachers
of large history classes—the twofold problem of introducing each
member of the class to a number of great authorities on special
periods and topics at the same time, and of securing a critical
examination of the materials in the class-room. His work differs from
the well-known source-books in that it consists of excerpts from the
secondary sources only: e. g., Maitland, Freeman, and Stubbs.
Thirty-six authors are represented and a larger number of works. The
difficulty of making a wise selection from abundant materials is
recognized and fairly met. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief,
explanatory statement concerning the citation, which is divided into
sections with topical headings. These form a brief, clear analysis....
A short bibliographical note concludes each chapter, and an index at
the end of the volume gives easy access to the material.” (Am. Hist.
R.)
* * * * *
“A collection of this kind is open to two serious objections: (1) the
subject matter is in a sense ‘pre-digested’ ... (2) the personality of
the author becomes blurred.” C. T. Wyckoff.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 416. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“An excellent reference book. Nothing else like it available at
present.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.
“The usefulness of the volume should be considerable. The extracts are
all well within the grasp of college students, and the larger number
can be profitably used in secondary schools. To teachers the book will
be of service as a guide in the selection of suitable matter for
collateral reading, while for the many schools which lack access to
good libraries the volume will be a real boon.” William MacDonald.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 101. Je. ’07. 680w.
“Both from the pedagogical and the research points of view the volume
deserves unqualified commendation. It is intelligently discriminating
in its selections, liberal and mature in its comment, and in its
arrangement it shows the results of thoro scholarship and fruitful
classroom experience. It should save both teachers and students of
English history a vast amount of labor and time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
“Even outside Mr. Beard’s own classroom it is an open question how far
such a collection will find a following. We are inclined to think his
selections somewhat severe for college freshmen.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 120w.
“The good effect of its use would probably overbalance any counter
tendencies.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 897. D. 22, ’06. 420w.
“Time alone can demonstrate the success of his experiment from the
pedagogical point of view, but there can be no doubt as to the value.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 360w.
=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Field and forest handy book: new ideas for out
of doors. $2. Scribner.
6–40572.
In furnishing to boys a year-around guide for equipping themselves for
out-of-door pursuits Mr. Beard has drawn only upon his own outing
experiences. “The book is not a ‘re-hash’ of old ‘stunts,’ but is full
of brand-new things, cleverly arranged according to the seasons to
which they are appropriate.” Some of the problems solved are: How to
cross a stream on a log, How to make a bridge for swift waters, How to
make a real hunter’s clothes and moccasins, and How to build a real
log house.
* * * * *
“The material is almost wholly new.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07. ✠
“It is simply indispensable to any wide-awake, _real_ boy.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“There is nothing, from airships to flying birds, from boating to
camping, from loghouse to snowhouse, that has escaped this born
sportsman of our time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“A treasure for all boys and not without its use for men.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“The boy or man who has heard the ‘call of the wild’ will do well to
entrust himself to Mr. Beard’s guidance.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 762. D. ’06. 220w.
=Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia Belle.= Things worth doing and how to do
them. $2. Scribner.
6–40580.
Clear directions accompanied by pen drawings are given for all manner
of clever things at home. The book is designed for girls, and one part
is devoted to things for parties, shows and entertainments, and the
other to things for home, gift days and fairs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly
practical and actually make the things they describe.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=Beardsley, Rufus C.= Design and construction of hydroelectric plants;
including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–18823.
“This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method
of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking
up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical
engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing
or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the
work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as
concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems
are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables
which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the
student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the
engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 780w.
=Beare, John Isaac.= Greek theories of elementary cognition, from
Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.
7–29076.
“This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to
the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis,
and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as
possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles,
Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and
Aristotle.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Mr. Beare’s scholarship is sound.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 121. Ag. 9, ’06. 660w.
“The statement is very clear, the discussion of disputed points
scholarly, the facts are well arranged, and the literature—to judge
from the foot-notes and the list of books consulted—seems to have been
thoroughly studied; although one misses a reference to one recent work
on the ‘De anima’—that of Rodier, whose commentary, if not his
translation, has been regarded by competent judges as indispensable.
On every account this volume is to be commended to those interested in
the development of theories of sense-perception.”
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w.
“The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to
Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the
history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 205. Mr. ’07. 1360w.
“A learned and elaborate disquisition which will be welcome not only
to students of ancient Greek psychology, but also to readers who
desire to know what the Greek philosophers accomplished in this
particular line of psychological investigation.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 130w.
=Bearne, Mrs. Catherine.= Heroines of French society in the court,
revolution, empire and restoration. *$3. Dutton.
7–25682.
“Contains sketches of the lives of four women: Madame Vigée Le Brun,
La Marquise de Montagu, Madame Tallien, and Madame de Genlis. Scraps
of contemporary history are interwoven; a number of photogravure
portraits are scattered here and there; and the whole makes a fairly
readable volume.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The book is one which deserves more attention than we can give it.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 210w.
=Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.
“As an historical study the work has little value; as a group of
biographical sketches it adds nothing to what has already been
published in a much more useful and entertaining fashion.”
− =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 180w.
“A chatty book, filled with anecdotes and incidents that illustrate
the manners, morals, and ideas of the upper classes of France previous
to and following the years of the revolution.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 165. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Mrs. Bearne writes fluently, and opens here and there a door through
which the lover of personal anecdote and gossip can get a glimpse of
characteristic French court society.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 310w.
“The volume is full of stirring pictures of the terror and moves with
spirit.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.
* =Bearne, Rev. David.= Guild-boys’ play at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
More glimpses of Ridingdale boys and this time they try their skill as
actors in Shakesperian rôles.
* =Bearne, Rev. David.= New boys at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.
Another Ridingdale book whose events take place at a Catholic school
for boys. Wholesome lessons are taught between the lines of fun and
frolic.
=Bearne, David.= Ridingdale flower show; il. by T. Baines. 85c.
Benziger.
6–46345.
A story of real live boys who “talk as boys and act as boys.”
=Bearne, David.= Witch of Ridingdale; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.
6–46344.
A spiritual story for boys whose hero, Lance Ridingdale, has become a
favorite among young readers.
=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English
classics; text ed. by A. R. Waller, 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Nation.= 84: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 111. F. 23, ’07. 1560w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Beazley, Charles Raymond.= Dawn of modern geography. 3v. ea. *$6.75.
Oxford.
=v. 3.= A history of exploration and geographical science from the
middle of the 13th to the early years of the 15th century (c. A. D.
1260–1420). In it the author tells of the great inland-trade pioneers
and of the daring challenge that they made for the “open door” in Hind
and Cathay.
* * * * *
“Mr. Beazley’s work is most timely. It is without doubt the best that
has yet appeared on the subject. It is not only a work belonging to
geographical literature, it has an important place in historical
literature. Such a work serves well to impress the importance of
historical geography, an importance which receives commendable
recognition in the European countries, but which we in America are
slow to appreciate.” E. L. Stevenson.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 869. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The most interesting and easiest to master of the series.” G. Le
Strange.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 573. Jl. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The form and arrangement of the book undoubtedly leaves something to
be desired. After surmounting a long list of abbreviations and
corrections, a very ill-knit preface, and an introduction which reads
like an after-thought, the reader flounders heavily amid footnotes,
supplementary notes, appendix notes, and bibliographical notes. The
references are often rather bewildering, and one misses a capable
summary at the close. One is easily reconciled to the lumbering of the
wheels by the novelty of the outlook and the strange vision of these
outlandish regions, so seldom penetrated by modern book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 98. Mr. 29, ’07. 2860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In the completion of his great work Mr. Beazley has done and more
than done for the middle ages what Bunbury did for ancient times in
his ‘Ancient geography.’”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 330. O. 10, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A credit both to him and to his university.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very
important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Beck, Otto W.= Art principles in portrait photography, composition,
treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the
plate. **$3. Baker.
7–19429.
The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated
into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which
“commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck
has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative
work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the
negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade
with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show
that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and
dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and
canvas.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.
“The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional
photographers.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Beck’s ‘principles’ are generally very good, but we cannot say as
much for his practice.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 380w.
“Mr. Beck’s book is the work of a man who knows pictures for their
full value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.
=Becke, Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
W 6–235.
“Reminiscences of a happy-go-lucky wandering along quiet French
byways.... The dog furnishes most entertaining diversion all along the
way, but so does Jimmy Potter, with his sophomoric proclivities; Mrs.
Basker, with her mania for ‘doing things cheaply’ at somebody else’s
expense ... and a dozen other quaint and interesting personalities
that stand out with remarkable distinctness, considering the highly
unconventional mode of their introduction.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Delightfully humorous sketches. Fortunately Mr. Becke’s love of fun
is tempered by discretion.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 90w.
“Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous
sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 250w.
“Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or
digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter
disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter,
but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the
whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his
taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the
South Seas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 560w.
=Becke, Louis.= Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of
Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as
old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the
crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as
they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.
=Beckwith, Clarence A.= Realities of Christian theology; an
interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.
6–37867.
An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern
intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly
vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the
Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many
earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the
Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be
comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book
for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w.
“The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal
agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present
explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day
is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will
hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this
fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our
admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine
historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of
doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great
spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w.
+ − =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the
discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon
them.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w.
=Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.= Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles.
(Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.
“This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his
published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the
standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable
that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who
will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful
that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his
incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best
described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’
Bailey.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Since Dr. Gosse’s edition is not to be had by all, we offer a hearty
welcome to the little reprint before us. May it sell far and wide, and
bring Beddoes many new admirers.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 360. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.
“Mr. Colles’s introduction, though rather carelessly written, gives a
good many interesting facts about his obscure life, and he has been at
considerable pains to produce a correct text.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 209. Jl. 5, ’07. 2160w.
=Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 120w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 334. S. 14, ’07. 680w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.
6–37592.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“But not only is this volume crowded with new and interesting facts:
it is also profusely illustrated, and most of these illustrations are
extremely good.” W. P. Pycraft.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 431. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.
“Written in so interesting a style as to be enjoyed by the general
reader as well as by the specialist.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“Each chapter is the work of the born lecturer, holding the attention
of his audience from beginning to end, suggesting here, illustrating
there, and always stimulating the appetite for further investigation.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 293. Mr. 9. 1700w.
“Of substantial merit and permanent value for every lover and student
of denizens of the air.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Mr. Beebe’s style is in itself pictorial: but in clothing his facts
with ‘living interest,’ as he says in his preface, he occasionally
passes the boundary line between warrantable deduction and pure fancy.
Considering the wide field covered, actual errors are infrequent.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 566. D. 27, ’06. 850w.
“The book will take and hold a distinct place in the literature of the
subject for it is quite original and stands alone. His book is of
worldwide interest.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 489. S. 12, ’07. 820w.
“Side by side with a perfection of scientific detail, Mr. Beebe fans
to a vital flame an exquisite appreciation of the ethical value of
bird life.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 730w.
“It thus covers ground that has been but little worked. Here and there
slips occur. The book abounds in information and represents a large
amount of original work.” F. A. L.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 142. Ja. 25, ’07. 920w.
“It is with real satisfaction that we recommend a book which is
thoroughly popular, very suitable for youthful naturalists, and at the
same time scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1035. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year; with
52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and
photographs from life. **$6. Holt.
6–41017.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is one of the best nature-books we have had from America.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.
“He has imagination and a keen sense of extracting the artistic from
matters of fact, but he never allows these accomplishments to distort
the truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 880w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“This is a beautiful book, and good to read.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 96. Ja. 19, ’07. 200w.
=Beeching, Rev. Henry Charles, and Nairne, Alexander.= Bible doctrine of
atonement. *$1. Dutton.
These six lectures, five of them by Dr. Beeching, were given in
Westminster abbey. Three of them trace the idea of atonement as it
appears in the Old Testament, and three treat the New Testament
aspects of the subject.
* * * * *
“All [lectures] are interesting and easily read. Prof. Nairne’s
lecture is a valuable piece of exposition, but is not such easy
reading as the rest of the volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 382. My. 30. 160w.
“The treatment is popular, but in touch with the results of modern
investigation.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the
subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after
all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr.
Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that
he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of
the doctrine of the atonement.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w.
“A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time
learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many
persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become
unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us
at the present moment.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w.
=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2.
Macmillan.
7–30451.
A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to
1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work
which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary
patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the
period as facts.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“We commend this book to persons who desire a fairer view of the
ultimate causes of American independence.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 310w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 720w.
“This is a book that Fourth of July orators will have to reckon with,
sooner or later.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Manual of theology. *$2.75. Armstrong.
“Professor Beet’s ‘Manual of Christian theology’ expounds the views on
the intermediate state which brought him into difficulty with the
English Methodists some years ago, but otherwise it follows well-worn
paths to conclusions which are now familiar and trite.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Dr. Agar Beet’s is, no doubt, a good specimen of its class, but its
main result is only to afford one more proof, if such were needed, of
the futility of this kind of literature.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 278. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.
“The value of Dr. Beet’s work—and it has considerable value—lies in
its minute knowledge and skilful use of the words of the Biblical
writers, and in the systematizing of the thoughts he finds in those
words.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 500w.
“The religious tone of the treatise prevents it from being a dry
compendium of proof-texts. But one who has accepted the historical
method of studying the Bible will be unable to use the book for
anything more than an expression of Dr. Beet’s own convictions.”
Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 77. Jl. ’07. 430w.
=Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 200w.
=Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 320w.
“We cannot follow his expositions, but we may say that they are
characterised by lucidity and moderation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Begbie, Harold.= Penalty. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–14251.
A story whose plot rests upon a woman’s determination to have a
certain bishop reinstate her in English society. By means of the theft
and later the loss of a certain book, she planned to show to the world
that this bishop now aspiring to the archbishopric of Canterbury
formerly belonged to a secret order that was proselyting for the Roman
Catholic church. “There results a comedy of errors which in the end
very narrowly escapes becoming a tragedy.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“A novel of unquestionable cleverness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 220w.
“The welcome feature ... is a distinct originality of theme. Taken
altogether, a very readable volume, full of veiled irony, and plainly
written with a certain underlying seriousness of purpose.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 336. My. 25, ’07. 190w.
“The dignity and serious tone of the book make it quite worth while.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
=Belcher, John.= Essentials in architecture: an analysis of the
principles and qualities to be looked for in buildings. *$2. Scribner.
“Everybody who wishes to be able to distinguish between a good
building and a bad, to recognize at a glance the best and worst points
of the houses he passes in the street, is under a debt of deep
gratitude to Mr. Belcher.” (Acad.) “Dividing the work into four main
parts, entitled respectively principles, qualities, factors, and
materials, Mr. Belcher discourses pleasantly on each, illustrating the
points he makes by reference to well-known buildings.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Uncompromising in his denunciation of vital defects, Mr. Belcher is
as broad-minded as he is sound in his judgments, and his book is
remarkably free from whims, fads, and that irrelevant mass of fuss and
metaphysics which Ruskin in later years detected in his ‘Seven
lamps.’”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 769. Ag. 10, ’07. 1030w.
“The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of
the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture
presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but
one of the practising architect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w.
“Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general
reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to
those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook
in the maze of practical details.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w.
“One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the
criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to
analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little
finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w.
“It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of
historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been
an oversupply of late.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w.
=Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.= Desert and the sown; a record of travel from
Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.
7–35188.
“The book describes the converse with all sorts of Syrians enjoyed by
Miss Bell on a journey through the country east of Jordan to the
Jebel-ed-Drûz, and thence, by Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and
Antioch, to the coast of Iskenderun.” (Ath.) “We get stories of
shepherds and men-at-arms as they ‘passed from lip to lip round the
camp fire, in the black tent of the Arab and the guest chamber of the
Druze, as well as the more cautious utterance of Turkish and Syrian
officials.’ She eschews politics, and points out that the wise
traveller in Syria will avoid being drawn into the meshes of the
Armenian question.... Much of her time was given to archaeological
matters, but they are not her chief consideration in this book.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“It is not too high praise to say that the book before us is the most
charming addition to the literature of travel that has been published
for many years—we had almost said, and we think we should be justified
in saying, for many decades.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 210. Mr. 2, ’07. 2460w.
“A most delightful account of travel in Syria in which the author
shows a wide knowledge of desert lore and desert peoples, of
archaeology and Asiatic politics, an unusual power of description,
which, together with a keen sense of humor and fine dramatic touch,
conveys the whole scene in a quite remarkable way.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“But after a searching criticism this book remains one of the best of
its kind that we have ever read. A valuable map is appended, but,
alas! there is no index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 159. F. 9, 1540w.
“The author has made a distinct contribution to the literature of
travel, and has put her name far up on the list of women who have
written good travel-books.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 391. Je. 16, ’07. 670w.
“One thing is wanting: Miss Bell has not sufficiently absorbed the
medieval associations of Syria.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 28. Ja. 25, ’07. 2510w.
“I cannot quote it all and unless all is quoted you have lost the
better part.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 1020w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 240w.
“A book of unusual atmosphere and charm.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 530w.
“A charmingly written, fully illustrated account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 270w.
“An enchanting example of travel literature. To her power of
describing scenery and people, and of recording the living talk of men
who, though they belong to the wilderness, have shrewd and capable
brains, Miss Bell adds a wide knowledge of archaeology and a sound
instinct for the politics of Asia.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 253. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
=Bell, John Keble (Keble Howard, pseud.).= The Smiths: a comedy without
a plot. †$1.50. McClure.
7–16483.
“It is a simple, agreeable story of the lives of two affectionate and
well-behaved people from the day when they come back from their
wedding journey and begin housekeeping in a snug suburban cottage, to
the time when they become grandparents.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Keble Howard has shown us again his keen insight into ordinary
human nature and with his sympathetic touch has brought to the surface
valuable jewels from unsuspected sources.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“The record of two honest young people who marry on a small income and
lead the uninspired life of the solid British middle class, may be
quite as tiresome in print as it appears in its suburban villa.”
− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Howard is not only in earnest, but he has also an old-fashioned,
tender reverence which is refreshing at a time when that high quality
has become somewhat rare. His people are fairly representative of the
best members of that great, sterling middle class which at all periods
has been the safeguard of English social life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 450w.
“We are warned that the Smiths are neither superior nor fashionable,
but it would have been more kind to warn us that they are absolutely
uninteresting. We object to the inference that superiority and fashion
are required in order to be interesting.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
“Many a person who is genuinely depressed by the mere sight of a
suburb from a train-window, and who would be utterly bored by half an
hour’s companionship with the Smiths in real life, will find himself
oddly interested in Mr. Howard’s little story, until he comes to the
love affairs of Phyllis, when the conversations become tedious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 200w.
“The story of ‘The Smiths of Surbiton’ is not told with any
distinction of literary style or any subtlety in the analysis of the
human heart. The want of literary artifice in the treatment makes it
therefore obvious that the approval with which the book has been
greeted is due solely to its subject.”
− + =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 460w.
=Bell, Lilian.= Why men remain bachelors, and other luxuries. **$1.25.
Lane.
6–38991.
A group of half humorous half philosophical essays which deal with
such subjects as The management of wives, The management of husbands,
The luxury of being stupid, How men propose, The broken engagement,
Modern mothers, etc.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in
a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and
spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Bell, Malcolm.= Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50.
Scribner.
W 6–139.
Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on
account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.
* * * * *
“His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love
for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the
‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page
immediately before the index. The only works named in this
insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w.
“Treats its subject very successfully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 179. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E.= Historical outskirts of London. **$2. McClure.
“Mrs. Bell conducts her readers on a tour of the places situated on
the fringe of London, recalling the historic associations in which
they abound and noting the changes they have undergone down to the
present time when these once isolated hamlets and townships have
become practically merged in the great metropolis.” (Int. Studio.)
Highgate, Hampstead, Woolwich, Epping Forest, Epsom, Fulham,
Hammersmith, Greenwich and other places are described with interesting
anecdotes of people whose history is associated with them.
* * * * *
“The general reader should be glad to have so much put before him in a
compact and readable form. The ‘proofs’ have occasionally been badly
read.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 240w.
“The book should not fail to stimulate interest in these time-honoured
spots.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers,
pseud.).= Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50.
Dutton.
6–35603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
“The charm of her writing entirely dispels from her pages, full of
carefully-acquired information as they are, that suggestion of the
guide-book which is not always inseparable from works of this kind.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The truth is that writers like Mrs. Bell do not possess a tithe of
the information necessary to draw a real picture of Brittany.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 720w.
=Bellamy, Charles Joseph.= Wonder children, their quests and curious
adventures. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–38395.
Here are quests that frequently terminate where the rainbow touches
the earth, and which permit the wanderer children to open the bags of
gold and live in peace forever after.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any
especial charm.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= Hills and the sea. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13406.
“Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with
another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of
places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England,
France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity
only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn
through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes
to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength
lies.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w.
“None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that
is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and
has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and
simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both
very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w.
“The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something
more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial
and sympathetic message—possibly many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their
failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner,
and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most
part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w.
“He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He
sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is
reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred
of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which
he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us
from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all
criticism is powerless.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w.
=Belloc, Hilaire.= Historic Thames. *$6. Dutton.
“Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and
deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the
topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as
incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the
Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead,
by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the
Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives
some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the
possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful
and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers
have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or
plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are
very badly drawn.” W. T. S.
− + =Acad.= 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and
is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing
to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist,
without special connexion in his mind with history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w.
“In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved
in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in
a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has
little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.
− + =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high
quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of
interest and vivacity.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
“While he has performed his task with thoroughness and
conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is
impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one
naturally expects with this subject.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Belloc’s book is a serious contribution to history. The
illustrations are very attractive, but they do not illustrate the
book, and they are arranged, or scattered about, with a more than
usually provoking irrelevance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 340w.
=Bement, Alburto.= Peabody atlas: shipping mines and coal railroads, in
the central commercial district of the United States, accompanied by
chemical, geological and engineering data. $5. Peabody coal co., 125
Monroe st., Chicago.
Maps 7–25.
In which are set forth conditions in the coal-carrying railways and
their relations to the coal mines. “The atlas contains some valuable
information and illustrations on smokeless furnaces and smoke
prevention, analysis of combustion gases and improvements in boiler
designs.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“To the investigator in this field, the statistics of the various
bituminous mines and contributing railways throughout the central
states, which is given in this atlas, should be of as great value as
they also are to the various dealers for whom the book will serve the
purpose of a trade directory.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Benham, W. Gurney.= Book of quotations: proverbs and household words.
$3. Lippincott.
A collection of quotations from British and American authors, ancient
and modern, with many thousands of proverbs, familiar phrases and
sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
* * * * *
“The collection shows an advance on those available, including
material from more recent authors, and from some now adorning or
amazing the world with their pens. A fairly thorough search has
convinced us of the general suitability and accuracy of the English
section. The section of miscellaneous quotations and other odds and
ends is good, but we are unable to praise the various lists of foreign
quotations.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 222. F. 23. 1230w.
“We know of no other book of the kind that contains so much matter,
and we can heartily recommend it as an addition to the reference
shelf.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ + =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 180w.
“Upon the whole, while it is not to be expected or desired that the
new book will supersede the old [Bartlett], it may very conveniently
supplement it, and is very well worth having, if one may say so
without applying to it the only real test, that of habitual use.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
“A slight examination will show that a good deal of original research
has been employed in the work. The arrangement, classification, and
indexings of the book are all commendable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 170w.
+ + =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Machine design. *$2. Holt.
6–45053.
“A text-book for the use of students, and while very useful for that
purpose is not complete enough for the requirements of the practical
designer.... The principal things in the book which are valuable are
the results of experiments performed on various springs, journals,
fly-wheels, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“It has the fault that is common to most books bearing its title; that
is, it covers only a small part of the subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 250w.
“The faults of the book are faults of omission rather than of
commission; to a large extent the matter given is original and cannot
fail to be of great value to designers of machinery. The analytical
treatment of some of the problems dealt with is both new and
ingenious. We have noticed a few slips, but they are mostly
unimportant.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 564. O. 3, ’07. 500w.
=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Modern American machine tools. *$5. Dutton.
7–33555.
A book written from the purchaser’s point of view which gives “a good
outline of the principal characteristics of modern machine tools, as
manufactured in the United States, the various points in which they
differ, the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, and some
data in regard to their capacity and performance.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book is a valuable one and well worth consulting. There is,
however, one important fact to be remembered which lessens the value
of the book to the buyer of machine tools and that is the
impossibility of getting the latest and best information from a book.
In this case, it would be safe to say that this book is now two years
behind the times.” W: W. Bird.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The ghost: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–24288.
“The Ghost” by the author of the fantastic “Hugo” “is an exciting
story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat
disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough
to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such
fatal jealousy.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always
first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are
never apparent in the writing or construction.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 274. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Hugo; a fantasia on modern themes. $1.50.
Buckles.
6–41708.
One feels that Mr. Bennett fairly slaps his canvas with a Kipling
brush of comet’s hair. The result is a fantastic, panoramic
“improvisation.” “Hugo is proprietor of an immense shop in London. He
falls in love with a milliner in one of his innumerable ‘departments.’
She weds another, is pursued by a third, officially dies, is bereft
timely of her spouse, and returns in due season to life and Hugo.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“He never makes an attempt to modify or explain: he piles
improbability upon improbability with calm assurance, and mortars it
all together with clever little facts and truths in a style which is
always restrained and neat, and by its very lack of ornaments
convincing.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 92. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.
“The plot has been deliberately and cunningly designed to sustain the
reader’s excitement from chapter to chapter, and, this being admitted
as the author’s aim, the book may fairly be pronounced a success.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 131. F. 3. 210w.
“It is all very absurd and pleasant; all the more so that the writer
appears to be regarding his own fable with merely good-humored
toleration.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 160w.
“An Italian novel with the plot laid in the sixteenth century is tame
in comparison, and though Mr. Bennett has used all kinds of
incongruously modern stage machinery along with his melodramatic
characters, he does it with a seriousness that seems to bridge the
difficulty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 11. Ja. 5, ’07. 440w.
“The book, in fine, is an amusing skit on the vastness of modern
commercial enterprises; but in it Mr. Arnold Bennett has by no means
touched the level of his delightful comedy, ‘A great man.’”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.
* =Benson, Arthur C.= Alfred Tennyson. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Benson thus formulates his object in the present volume: “(1) I
have given a simple narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch
of his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs; (2) I have tried
from his own words and writings to indicate what I believe to have
been his view of the poetical life and character; (3) I have attempted
to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the technical point
of view, here again as far as possible using his own recorded words.””
* * * * *
“A quiet sympathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and makes
it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“Few readers, indeed, one would say, can read the volume without
deriving from it both a clearer and a higher estimate of its subject
than they had before.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 650w.
* =Benson, Arthur C.= Altar fire. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–32854.
Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s
diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of
the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of
personal religious life.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely
articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book
a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w.
“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well
acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected
extension of scope.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put
into its hands.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w.
“As an artistic whole ‘The altar fire’ suffers from the use of too
ambitious a scene. The book is sure of a large and respectful public;
but the remnant of reactionaries, the classical people whose eyes have
been dazzled by gazing upon the sun, will still see patent blots in
Mr. Benson’s work—if indeed it is Mr. Benson and not the mask which
comes between.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. N. 16, ’07. 980w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Beside still waters. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–15922.
“Meditations and recollections of a man who, after a busy life,
settles down into a kind of epicurean seclusion from the world. ‘He
found a small, picturesque, irregularly-built house crushed in between
the road and the river, which, in fact, dipped its very feet in the
stream.’... Could a better lodge be found for a recluse who likes to
season his days of solitude with an occasional dinner in Hall with his
old college friends! And presently the college takes him back into its
fold, while the house by the waters is kept as a place of retreat and
quiet work.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.
“It is difficult to write so completely introspective a book as this.
We wonder at the end of it how we have interested ourselves with it
for so long, till we reflect on Mr. Benson’s easy flow of
undistracting thoughts, raised just a little above commonplace by a
certain sanity or breadth of view which no doubt is a gospel in
itself.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 539. My. 4. 330w.
“Those who have enjoyed the charm of ‘From a college window,’ with
sweet spirit, lofty thought, and exquisite tenderness expressed in
limpid delightful English, will find a similar treat in Mr. Benson’s
present work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 117. O. ’07. 470w.
“Notwithstanding a tendency to repetition and undue elaboration—a
conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness,—this book is the ripest,
thoughtfullest, best piece of work its author has yet produced.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Gives us a scholar’s philosophy of life.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Benson’s polished prose and his mastery of style and language
serve only to throw into bolder relief the thinness of the substance.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 84. Mr. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“Remind one of ‘The private papers of Henry Ryecroft,’ graceful and
wise and sober, a delightful refreshment in the bustle of modern
literature, but lacking in the last incalculable touch of style and
insight that make Gissing’s book so memorable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 330w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= From a college window. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–17648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’07. 1060w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Gate of death; a diary. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–43770.
The author says that the book is not a treatment of death “the
saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact
in the world.” It is merely “the record of the sincere and faltering
thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with
death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life,
with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to
interpret it as he best could.”
* * * * *
“Naturally a great deal in the book will not be agreed with by
Catholics; but, making allowances for this, we must say we have here a
book of more than ordinary interest and power.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 111. Ap. ’07. 260w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 196. F. ’07. 2460w.
“He has great power of attention and analysis, a great interest in
ideas, and considerable culture, and in addition he is master of an
easy and picturesque style; so that he has no difficulty in putting
upon paper what he feels and thinks and sees. What he seems to lack as
an artist is power of selection.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 346. O. 12, ’06. 1290w.
“A work not of didactic effect, but of singularly pure and elevated
sentiment; of melancholy in the old sweet sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 560w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 768. Mr. ’07. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, extracted from his letters and diaries, with
reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr of the
same college. $1.25. Holt.
The quiet story of the life of a “thoroughgoing determinist who was
still faithful to the voice of duty, still striving upwards,” who
trusted “in an invisible all-ruling Father who really was ordering the
world in the smallest details when He seemed to be ordering it least
and who wished the best for His children.” It is a character study
with a moral, for Arthur Hamilton “in spite of every trial and every
rebuff, preserved at heart a serenity that was not thoughtlessness, a
cheerfulness that was not hilarity, a humor that was not cynicism.”
* * * * *
“It is a curious piece of intellectual dissection and has many of the
graces of style that characterized the author’s recent volumes.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 29, ’07. 460w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Benson, Arthur C.= Upton letters. *$1.25. Putnam.
5–34654.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’06. 1060w.
“We honestly thank him for painting his portrait so well. It is good
work no less than a good likeness. The touch is firm and easy; the
treatment broad and yet very delicate. There are a few patches of
prettiness which should be painted out; but they do not much mar the
effect of the whole.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 144. F. 2, ’07. 1670w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–37196.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a purposeless book and an unpleasant one. Its interest suddenly
drops at the halfway point, like an underdone loaf of cake, and what
is meant to be its most solemn chapter is more apt to provoke a desire
to laugh.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 540w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 345. Mr. ’07. 660w.
“He deliberately constructs the first half of his plot in such a way
as to produce the maximum of irritation, not to say resentment.”
Herbert W. Horwill.
+ − =Forum.= 38: 542. Ap. ’07. 1260w.
“Escaped by a hair breadth writing a novel of the first rank.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 340w.
“The individuality and distinction of phrase are maintained, but the
obtrusive ‘smartness’ which marred the first novel [‘Dodo’] has been
carefully eliminated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 210w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= History of Richard Raynal: solitary. $1.25.
Herder.
“The story purports to be the translation of an ancient Latin MS.,
discovered by Father Benson in a library of Rome, and containing an
old English priest’s account of a young solitary, who lived somewhere
near London in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.”—Cath.
World.
* * * * *
“The rare qualities of Father Benson’s mind find here their perfect
expression.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 229. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.
“The quaint beauty of the archaic style adopted by Father Benson in
his recital is beyond praise.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 412. D. ’06. 340w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Mirror of Shalott, being a collection of
tales told at an unprofessional symposium. *$1.25. Benziger.
7–21227.
Fourteen stories which a group of Reverend Fathers told, one tale each
evening. They are largely gathered from their professional experiences
and concern incidents which cannot be explained without recourse to
the supernatural. The evil spirit which was exorcised, the man who
offered himself for his brother’s unbelief, the artist whose art
founded on corruption was lost when he regained his faith, these and
the others have the charm of the unusual.
* * * * *
“There is one that suggests a better capacity on Mr. Benson’s part as
a writer than anything else we have read from his pen.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 310w.
=Cath. World.= 86: 257. N. ’07. 210w.
“In truth, qualities that are admirable elsewhere rather prevent Mr.
Benson from telling his tales so as to excite the feelings which
people, whatever their faith, cherish for the supernatural. He is too
surefooted, too painstaking. His method is too robust to deal with
such intricate and at the same time poignant emotions; he sets
everything in order, tells you how the basket chair clicked, and what
happened next, and works out the situation methodically with the
desire clearly to get at the truth. But it is a great matter that
every story makes an impression of sincerity and intelligence.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 189. Je. 14, ’07. 500w.
“Father Benson, like the other brilliant sons of the late archbishop,
is a fluent and spirited writer.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 167. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.
“The author displays in the narration a skill as subtle and as
charming as his imagination has been subtle and weird in the conjuring
up of incidents. Each narrator is distinctly individualized by the
character of his experience and his manner of telling it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 460w.
“Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his
readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable
of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–14565.
“The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and
Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally
arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one
who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though
with a favourable eye.”
* * * * *
“If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of
exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of
this brilliant little book.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w.
“The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature
and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans,
though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than
did that strange Frenchman.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w.
“‘The papers of a pariah,’ while they will appeal to religious zealots
of the Roman Catholic faith, and, to a certain extent, to all who are
deeply interested in discussion of abstract creeds, loses in literary
value by virtue of these very tendencies. The discussion, moreover, is
one of sentiment rather than of reason, an argument of dreams rather
than of realities.” Florence Wilkinson.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 490w.
“The reader will note that in the early part of the book emphasis is
laid on the unchangeableness of the teaching in the Roman church,
while later this argument is dropped in favour of development.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 330w.
=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.
6–36010.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Though she modestly refuses to enter into competition with other
pens, which have described the scenes through which she has passed,
she evinces good capacity for observation and for describing whatever
came under her notice.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 837. Mr. ’07. 230w.
=Bergen, Joseph Y., jr., and Davis, Bradley, M.= Principles of botany.
$1.50. Ginn.
6–35475.
Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its
subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the
structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and
classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany. Part 2
is Dr. Davis’ portion of the work.
* * * * *
“While the book as a whole is too heavy for the average high-school
work, it will be almost indispensable as a reference work because of
its large amount of information, its abundant illustrations, and its
helpful suggestions as to the significance of structures and their
relationship to one another.”
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 64. Ja. ’07. 720w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 380. N. 1, ’06. 440w.
“The book can be confidently recommended to students and teachers, and
the latter will find the arrangement well worthy of consideration.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 124. Je. 6, ’07. 200w.
“The whole revision has been toward greater precision and succinctness
of statement, and has resulted in a more scholarly work.” I. N.
Mitchell.
+ + =School R.= 15: 305. Ap. ’07. 850w.
“To ‘touch the high points’ and yet to keep up the connection between
them is the difficult task of the writer of an elementary text-book.
In some portions of the book before us this has been accomplished,
while in others a good deal of matter has been admitted which might
well have been left out.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 144. Ja. 25, ’07. 780w.
=Bernhardi, Frederick von.= Cavalry in future wars. *$3. Dutton.
War 7–19.
“This book was written at the outbreak of the late war in South
Africa.... In the course of the first few chapters, Gen. Bernhardi
analyzes the functions of the cavalry as modified by the changes that
have occurred since the war, and later explains the difficulties which
in the future will confront all cavalry operations unless the cavalry
leader and his men have been ‘perfected down to the minutest
detail.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His views are entitled to more than ordinary consideration, even
though in all his conclusions we may not concur. Perhaps there is no
other German soldier so well equipped for handling this subject.”
Peter C. Hains.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 606. N. ’07. 440w.
“This book will be read by soldiers, but is needed by a wider public.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 573. N. 10. 1360w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 560w.
“Gen. von Bernhardi’s ... rank and experience entitle his views to
great respect, the more from the earnestness with which he pleads his
cause. Barring a few slightly obscure passages, and a faint trace here
and there of Teutonic roughness, Mr. Goldman’s translation is smooth
and flowing.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 875. D. 15, ’06. 290w.
“An exhaustive summary.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“It may fairly be called the last word on the subject.” Grey Scout.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 197. F. 16, ’07. 1310w.
=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal,
professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4.
Appleton.
7–34323.
The whimsical, rhapsodical, patriotic woman of temperament is revealed
in almost every line of these memories. The autobiography “exhibits
the true woman in clearer relief than it does the largely mythical
superwoman whom it labors to depict. Rich as it is in minor details
and vivacious descriptions it adds but little to the common knowledge
of the career of the best advertised actress in the world.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“In her very characteristic and brightly entertaining memoirs we have
on every page the Sarah Bernhardt of the stage, the eccentric and
versatile woman of genius, very much as she is already known to the
world.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 43: 279. N. 1, ’07. 2150w.
“Self-revelations such as these give, as we think, a real documentary
value to this first volume of Sarah Bernhardt’s memoirs, though no
doubt the general reader will prefer the narratives of travel and
adventure wherein everything appears to be turning around in a mad
farandole.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1600w.
“One of the most successful books ever written. To tell the plain
truth, the monstrous egotism of the book greatly weakens the
pleasurable impression created by its vivacity, its cleverness, and
its abundance of interesting material.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 403. O. 31, ’07. 1140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“An invaluable addition to the library, dramatic and otherwise.” Anna
Marble.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 733. N. 16, ’07. 2230w.
+ + =Outlook.= 77: 611. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 2: Ecclesiastical. *$7.50.
Macmillan.
This second volume of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The
survey of London” treats of the ecclesiastical life, institutions and
influence of the Norman and Plantagenet centuries. The first eight
chapters deal with the rise of London’s municipal government.
* * * * *
“When the nature of the material permits the story is unfolded with
agreeable literary effect. We notice here and there a lack of
references, usually associated with a passage of minor historical
importance. These pages form a good example to tesselated history.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 113. F. 2, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There are various heedless and more or less incorrect statements in
the general description of ecclesiastical London, apart from the
religious houses. The accounts of hermits and anchorites, as well as
of pilgrimage and sanctuary, are insufficient. But enough of adverse
criticism has been offered. We cannot help thinking that if Besant had
lived a little longer, this portion of his work would have been
revised by him or by friends who were competent to aid him.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 157. F. 9. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Sir Walter Besant’s ‘Mediaeval London’ has unfortunately, found no
more capable editor than his ‘London under the Stuarts’ and his
‘London in the time of the Tudors.’ The illustrations are for the most
part of real value.” G.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is largely a work of paste and scissors, and they have not been
applied with intelligence.” M.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 832. O. ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is impossible to regard this volume as a work which Sir Walter
Besant would have presented to the public in anything like its present
form.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We select a single passage for quotation, not only because it is
significant in itself, but because it gives, we think, a fair idea of
the broad and readable way in which this work treats what many might
expect to prove a dry-as-dust, antiquarian record—words which
precisely describe the exact contrary of the present volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 374. F. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is sure to take its place among popular works on the subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 115. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Bevier, Isabel.= The house; its plan, decoration and care. (Library of
home economics.) *$1.25. Am. school of home economics.
6–41738.
“In the early chapters on the development of the house, domestic
architecture is shown to be closely allied to the larger problems of
state and nation.... Chapters on house planning, construction,
decoration and furnishing, and the care of the house follow, and from
them may be obtained much useful information. Throughout the book
emphasis is laid upon appropriateness, beauty and simplicity of form
and color. The book is suggestive to the home builder; plans,
materials and cost and the various subdivisions of these are taken up
concisely. The home-operator will find here definite suggestions
concerning fabrics and furnishings, their cost and durability.”—Ann.
Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Valuable because of its consideration of basic principles, and of
conditions attainable by the average householder.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 160. O. ’07. S.
“For its size this little book contains a great deal of that which
tends to raise the standards of the householder and to make the home
the real center of national life which the author claims should be its
real purpose.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 632. My. ’07. 280w.
=Bevier, Isabel, and Usher, Susannah.= Home economics movement, pt. 1.
*75c. Whitcomb & B.
7–5679.
A three-part discussion including Home economics in agricultural
colleges and state universities, Cooking schools, and Home economics
in the public schools.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
Bible. Gospel of Barnabas; ed. and tr. by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, with
a facsimile. *$5.25. Oxford.
This manuscript was probably written in the middle of the sixteenth
century. It is a “rather careless sixteenth century copy, made by a
Venetian scribe, of an earlier and apparently Tuscan document.”
* * * * *
“The editors deserve the greatest praise for the thoroughness and
skill with which they have performed their task. They have been
extremely careful in editing the text, and they have supplied an
excellent translation, for it is accurate and reads as if it were an
original work. They have also written a good introduction, which
contains all the information that the reader requires.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. Ag. 31. 840w.
“It is to be said that the gospel is interesting reading not only
because of its doctrines, as, for example, the view that Paul
wrongfully teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus disclaimed
Messiahship, that Mohammed is Messiah, not only because of the
restraint manifested in the story of the virgin birth, but also
because of the positive beauty of some of its sayings and parables.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 261. S. 19, ’07. 940w.
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; tr. by W. A. Cooper. 3v ea.
**$3.50. Putnam.
=v. 2.= This volume covers the period from the Italian journey to the
War of liberation, 1788–1815, comprising the last two chapters of the
first volume and the first twelve of the second of the German edition.
* * * * *
“Mr. Cooper is an American, and he writes ‘American,’ or, at any rate,
a dialect of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, which is often forcible and
picturesque, but is quite as often not pure English.” Rowland Strong.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 93. N. 2, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though Bielschowsky displays remarkable skill in interweaving
critical analysis with personal details concerning the poet, yet one
who is unfamiliar with the actual works will probably find the
chapters devoted to them a trifle dull. After all, these defects are
really exaggerations of a good quality—the desire to enter into full
sympathy with and understanding of Goethe’s point of view.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In general it seems that here there is a marked improvement [in the
translation]; it is very faithful and at the same time the English is
usually free from the influence of the foreign idiom. Occasionally the
rendering does not allow for the difference in the connotation of the
same word in the two languages.”
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is to begin with, erudite; one feels confident that the author has
sifted the enormous mass of material accumulated about every step of
Goethe’s career. In the metaphysical parts it is excellent, almost
impeccable. We commend heartily the translation of this work and
recognize its undoubted value; but we must add frankly that it is in
no sense of the word in the tradition of great literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 514. Ag. 29, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Reviewed by J. Perry Warden.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 464. Jl. 27, ’07. 2210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work lacks the supreme test of the biographer as interpreter. In
this respect this ‘Life of Goethe’ remains incomplete, but in all else
it is a masterly production. Crowning merit of a notable achievement,
the biography, with all its scholarly thoroughness, is yet even better
adapted to the needs of the general public for which it has been
primarily written than to those of the special student.” A. Schade van
Westrum.
+ + − =No. Am.= 186: 442. N. ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Bierer, Everard.= Evolution of religions. **$2. Putnam.
6–42349.
“The particular animus of the author is against the doctrine of the
trinity, which assumes altogether too large a place in his survey of
the development of religious doctrines.”—Putnam’s.
* * * * *
“Is amateurish in character, unreliable in statement of fact,
incomplete in outlook, and disproportionate in consideration of the
phenomena under discussion.”
− =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“Shows an excellent spirit, and the greater part of its material is
taken from good sources. The title, however, is too large for the
contents, and the book suffers somewhat from the author’s insufficient
acquaintance with the general history of religions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 50w.
“Although its author, under his limitations as a layman in the
subjects of his criticism, takes himself rather too seriously, the
book is written with a sincere interest for a devoutly spiritual
religion, and for this is commendable.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
=Bigelow, Edward Fuller.= Spirit of nature study: a book of social
suggestion and sympathy for all who love or teach nature. **$1. Barnes.
7–14642.
“A book of social suggestion and sympathy for all those who love or
teach nature.” It is intended to strengthen faith in outdoor
education.
* * * * *
“In which the author has many effective and deserved flings at the
stupidity and inanity of much that passes for the study of nature in
schools and elsewhere.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. 5, ’07. 90w.
“[Suggestions that are] sensible enough, and their light personal
style would make them effective as informal talks at a teachers’
institute but they cannot be regarded as permanent contributions to
the over abundant literature of the subject.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
“The ear-marks of the pedagogue are rather too prominent for the most
enjoyable reading.”
− =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
=Bigelow, John.= Peace given as the world giveth. **75c. Baker.
The author writes out of the fulness of a long experience in state
craft and diplomacy. He views the Portsmouth peace conference in the
light of an “international calamity,” and makes a plea for the
“righteousness and wisdom” of war.
* * * * *
“A remarkable historical document.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 352. Je. 1, ’07. 450w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Cattle-baron’s daughter. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–34082.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is some good character drawing but the book cannot lay claim to
artistic merit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Dust of conflict; with il. in color by W. Herbert
Dunton. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–7189.
The stormy period just preceding the Spanish-American war furnishes
the setting for this story. The hero, “hurried out of England under a
cloud,” is wrecked on the coast of Cuba, and in that country becomes a
leader of some insurrectionists. “Peril, disaster, and rescue chase
each other in such quick and picturesque succession as to give the
impression of a grown-up boy’s book.... The military conflicts carry
more conviction than the moral one which sets the story in motion....
Yet the moral dilemma is well enough as a means of sending the hero to
Cuba and the Cuban part is admirably successful.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Not particularly well written but rather lively in interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.
“It is a rattling good story, told briskly and with zest. It lacks
subtlety, and is not notable for refinement of diction; but it also
lacks dull pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 160w.
“It would be hard to find a book which is so complete a satire on all
the faults of the so-called ‘novel of adventure.’ For the sort of book
this present volume typifies there is no legitimate use in literature.
Probably it will sell very well, however.” J. Marchand.
− =Bookm.= 25: 429. Je. ’07. 1020w.
“A story which is rich in dramatic interest, and which exhibits
remarkable powers of characterization and description.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Though of little artistic merit, is exhilarating reading.” Herbert W.
Horwill.
+ − =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 220w.
“The many-sided struggle in Cuba constitutes the strongest part of the
novel. In the main, the characters stand well apart from one another,
and firmly on their own feet as well.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.
“It is a rattling good story exceedingly well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The book is well written and brisk.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 275. Mr. 2, ’07. 170w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.
Cattle raising in the Northwest, its difficulties and the dangers from
man and nature that beset it, is the burden of this tale. The Canadian
mounted police figure in the story which combines love, adventure and
practical business. In the end the railroad penetrates that wild
country and it finds the rancher hero successful both in love and
labor and the frank little mistress of Bonaventure happy in her hero
and her prairies.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Winston of the prairie. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29150.
The hero of Mr. Bindloss’ story of the Canadian northwest is a young
man under unjust suspicion of murder who has traded names with a man
of low caliber and who when he wishes to return to his own name finds
it stained with crime. This “impersonation of another man leads to
exciting complications, and it is difficult to see how he is going to
extricate himself from the false position in which he is placed. But
his services to the little farming community, which he teaches to win
prosperity out of seeming disaster, are so substantial that when the
hour of disentanglement comes, he both clears his name and finds
condonation for his deception.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“In the wheat-raising region of western Canada, Mr. Bindloss has found
a field almost as virgin to the novelist as to the agriculturist, and
so subdued it to his purposes that his work will not easily be
matched.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“His doings are sufficiently thrilling to while away some dull hours,
but the book is not well enough written to commend itself to a reader
of particular taste.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
=Binns, W. Moore.= First century of English porcelain. *$12.50.
Lippincott.
6–33521.
After outlining clearly the leading principles of connoisseurship “Mr.
Binns relates with great minuteness the story of the evolution of
English porcelain, beginning with the foundation of the first factory
at Stratford-le-Bow, and passing thence to consider in chronological
order the various establishments which in course of time brought the
art to a perfection that aroused the admiration even of the most
exacting foreign critics, and also of those later manufactories in
which was inaugurated the inevitable decadence.” (Int. Studio.) The
work is made complete by a chronological schedule of English ceramics
and an index.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 488. Ap. 21. 330w.
“The book will be prized as a real art treasure by its fortunate
possessors, quite as much as for its store of information.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 500w.
“A work that will be of great value to collectors and connoisseurs, as
well as to all who are interested in what may be called the human side
of every successful national industry.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 350w.
“While essentially for the collector, the book is written in general,
popular phrasing, and the techniques of the art, and some of its
secrets are revealed in a pleasantly instructive manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
“The historical side of Mr. Binns’ book is sound as far as it goes;
the author has digested a certain number of text-books, and reproduces
facts with a commendable air of spontaneity. There are some serious
omissions in Mr. Binns’ history.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 101: 590. My. 12, ’06. 1480w.
=Spec.= 96: 467. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
=Birch, Mrs. Lionel.= Stanhope A. Forbes, A. R. A., and Elizabeth
Stanhope Forbes, A. R. W. S.; with 8 reproductions in color and 32 other
il. *$1.50. Cassell.
6–45369.
A monograph from the standpoint of personal friendship on two living
artists. It reflects the characteristics of two personalities and the
environment in which their work has been done.
* * * * *
“Contains a concise and interesting record, pleasantly tempered by
anecdote, of the lives and various works of the two painters of whom
it treats.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 440w.
“There is, indeed, not one dull page in the book, and the numerous
illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 290w.
“She deserves her readers’ thanks for having filled the record
carefully, while avoiding the reproach of overexcitement and an
exaggerated sense of the import of her task.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup 25. N. ’06. 710w.
=Birdseye, Clarence Frank.= Individual training in our colleges.
**$1.75. Macmillan.
7–18833.
A study of a college student’s problems from the standpoint of the
graduate. In his discussion the author deplores the loss of the direct
personal influence exerted by professors and instructors over the
students of fifty years ago. He deals with the fraternity question and
its related problems.
* * * * *
“His book shows more knowledge, clearer vision, deeper devotion, and
more rational hope regarding the American college, than any other book
we know of.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 285. N. 1, ’07. 940w.
“Upon his own ground the place in our educational machinery which the
Greek letter fraternities have already taken and the higher place
which, thru the influence of their alumni, they may be made to take,
on this ground, Mr. Birdseye speaks with the authority of the
constructive reformer and for this reason, if for no other, his book
deserves and should receive the careful study of every man who has at
heart the welfare of the American college.” F. P. Keppel.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 325. N. ’07. 4300w.
“The book is too long-drawn out, and in parts is repetitious; but it
contains much important material in the form of documents and reports,
as well as of the author’s own observations.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 190w.
“To make his study effective, the author undertakes to enter the
student’s college home life. He searches diligently for facts and
deals frankly and candidly with the facts as he finds them.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 170w.
=Birukoff, Paul.= Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. v. 1. **$1.50.
Scribner.
6–22384.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If we are to take ... [the translation] seriously as an attempt to
give English readers as intelligible a narrative as that enjoyed by
readers of the original, we have to point out that the work has been
carelessly done, and that the English reader often finds himself
mystified where the Russian finds himself enlightened. When in his old
age Tolstoy tells us what he thinks we ought to know of his
reminiscences, no one has any right to interpose between him and the
English reader. Least of all, has anyone a right to do this
anonymously and secretly.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 51. Ja. 12, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Bishop, Emily M.= Seventy years young, or The unhabitual way. *$1.20.
Huebsch.
7–20745.
A sensible outlook on life whose purpose is “‘to put it into the
heads’ of its readers that they can add (1) life to their years and
(2) years to their life.” The keynote is the admonition to “keep out
of ruts.”
* * * * *
“A very suggestive, thought-provoking volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 40w.
=Bisland, Elizabeth.= Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn. 2v. **$6.
Houghton.
6–44374.
“Less than one-fifth of this work contains the record of Hearn’s life.
The rest is pure Hearn—even more intimate than the books he has
written, dealing with the themes which always moved his imagination.
His strange origin, his troubled boyhood and years of apprenticeship,
his pursuit of the weird, the exotic among tropical peoples, and
finally his departure for Japan in 1890 resulting in permanent
expatriation, are recorded in more or less brief compass.” Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The facts of his later life Miss Bisland tells with exactly the
brevity and precision with which such facts should be told. Indeed, it
is a pleasure to feel that too much praise cannot be given for the
ability and reverence with which she has done her work.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 88. Ja. 26, ’07. 1810w.
“It is certain that no letters reveal more vividly or subtly the inner
feeling—the essence, one might say—of the writer, than do these.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Paul S. Reinsch.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 607. N. ’07. 1230w.
“Perhaps the worthiest thing to say of these two volumes of some nine
hundred pages is that there is not a page too much. Indeed, one page
more would have been welcome—containing a bibliography and a glossary
of Japanese words.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 126. F. 2. 2170w.
“It is certain, at any rate, that this vivid, affectionate, one might
almost say motherly, record of Hearn’s fugitive and feverish life
affords a view of him in more illuminating consonance with the quality
of his work than any that has been offered by his friends of his own
sex.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 261. F. ’07. 7490w.
Reviewed by Harrison Rhodes.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 73. Mr. ’07. 1990w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 49. Ja. ’07. 1890w.
“It would be impossible to give in a few words any adequate impression
of the rare quality of the letters that make up the larger part of
this book. It is impossible to read them and not feel acquainted with
the writer—with the real man behind the mask.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 448. D. 16, ’06. 2370w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 560. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 130w.
“No reader of Hearn’s books can do without this work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“In these days when our shelves are crowded with trivial biographies,
it is rare to come across a book so full of human interest, so
suggestive, so valuable as a contribution to history as the ‘Life and
letters of Lafcadio Hearn.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1440w.
“Of the biographical chapters, it is possible to speak with praise,
while admitting considerable reservations. Unquestionably these
letters of Hearn’s are among the most interesting that have appeared
for a number of years—probably the most valuable since the publication
of FitzGerald’s.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 1350w.
“The most entertaining, self-revealing, even fascinating literary
correspondence published since the death of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
James Huneker.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 803. D. 1, ’06. 2380w.
Reviewed by Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 417. F. 15, ’07. 1860w.
“His letters are good to read because they are hearty, spontaneous,
lacking in all those reticences and poses with which we are familiar
in the correspondence of literary persons of minor note.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Putnam.= 1: 636. F. ’07. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 110w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 174. F. 9, ’07. 2050w.
+ + =Spec.= 98: 501. Mr. 30, ’07. 1530w.
=Bittinger, Lucy Forney.= German religious life in colonial times. **$1.
Lippincott.
7–12674.
An interesting account of the general course of ecclesiastical life
among the Germans in America during the Colonial era. The subject is
treated under the headings, The Separatists, The church people, The
Moravians, The Methodists, The German churches during the Revolution,
and it is dealt with in a purely historical manner.
* * * * *
“Her work shows much care and pains, and full sympathy with its
subject.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 498. My. 30, ’07. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 525. Mr. 2, ’07. 200w.
=Bjorling, Philip R., and Gissing, Frederick T.= Peat: its use and
manufacture. **$2. Lippincott.
A practical account of the different methods of preparing peat for
commercial purposes and the uses to which peat can be applied. A
subject which is claiming more attention as the American coal supply
diminishes.
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if there is possible a more comprehensive view of the
field in a small volume than is given in this one. The material is of
course largely compiled, but with more detail than one would think
possible.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 425. O. 17, ’07. 460w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 562. O. 3, ’07. 1020w.
=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Listening to God: Edinburgh sermons. **$1.25.
Revell.
6–42404.
Brief sermons by the professor of practical theology in Union
seminary.
* * * * *
“The sermons are not brilliant, but they are manifestly the expression
of the personality and experience of the preacher. And that after all
is the only preaching that counts.” Theodore G. Soares.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 711. O. ’07. 140w.
“The sermons are full of ideas, without being in the least
sensational, and cannot fail to stimulate thought.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 110w.
=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 40w.
“Some of them put fresh points to their texts, and all of them are
characterized by simplicity, earnestness, and moral vigor.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Economics; new ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–12998.
A new edition which extends bibliographies and brings its tables down
to date.
* * * * *
“In preparing his book on economics, the author has obviated both of
these general criticisms by stating his problems in a clear and
interesting manner, and by placing on the market a text book which is
both elementary enough and cheap enough to be accessible to average
beginners.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 180w.
“Beyond being simply and well written, the book is without any very
marked distinguishing characteristic. Its presentation of the doctrine
of socialism in chapter 8 is excellent.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 70w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 376. Je. ’07. 50w.
“The whole is a moderate and common-sense exposition of the subject,
not always set out in the happiest terms.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 646. N. 2, ’07. 110w.
=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander=, eds., and trs.
Philippine islands, 1493–1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
3–6936.
Descriptive note for series in December, 1905.
“There is no other comprehensive treatment of this subject to compare
with it. It is a most praiseworthy piece of editorial work.” James A.
LeRoy.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 912. Jl. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 39–46.)
+ + =Ind.= 63: 878. O. 10, ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 39–50.)
=Blaisdell, E. Warde.= Animal serials. **$1. Crowell.
6–34712.
In which animals are drawn to express the “foibles, fancies,
weaknesses, and conceits that are noticeable in human beings.”
* * * * *
“A unique and mirth-provoking collection of droll drawing.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 50w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Blake, Mary Elizabeth.= In the harbour of hope. **$1.25. Little.
7–37236.
A volume of verse by one to whom Dr. Holmes once said, “You are one of
the birds that must sing.” Her poems touch upon religion, nature,
humanity and ideals, and voice the sturdy yet peaceful notes of the
simple life.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Blake, William.= Letters: together with a life by Frederick Tatham; ed.
from the original manuscripts by Archibald G. B. Russell. *$2. Scribner.
7–15910.
From all the material furnished in this “life and letters” one gathers
a story of Blake’s life “quite apart from his poetry, his painting and
his mysticism, and full of human interest.”
* * * * *
“A collection of letters as complete as it can be made at present.” A.
Clutton-Brock.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.
“No more simple and straightforward letters were ever written, nor any
in which an intimate ecstasy has found such immediate expression. The
other part of Mr. Russell’s book, the life of Frederick Tatham, is of
no literary value, but is invaluable as a document.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 611. N. 17. 910w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Russell’s introduction is written from large knowledge, and is a
really valuable essay on Blake as an artist.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 350w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.
“These letters give us a better idea of the man than any biography.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 500w.
“Mr. Russell has made amends for some want of editorial judgment by
restoring the true reading in one line of poetry, misprinted in
Gilchrist, and consequently in every edition of the poems.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 680w.
=Blanchard, Amy E.= Four Corners in California. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–30993.
In which the four Corners go on a trip to California where new scenes
and experiences call forth all their young enthusiasm. There are bits
of instruction which the young reader may cull from the story.
=Blanchard, Amy E.= Three little cousins. (Little maid ser.) †$1.
Jacobs.
7–28974.
One from England, one from the east and one from the west, three
little cousins meet for the first time at their aunt’s cottage by the
sea. This story tells of the good times they had during a summer
together.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Railway children; with
drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–34371.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Told with something of the humor and originality of the
‘Would-be-goods’ but overdrawn, inclined, to sensationalism, and not
nearly so good.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.
“It must be confessed, however, that the incidents in ‘The railway
children’ are quite as conventionally melodramatic as in many of the
American stories.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 270w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Story of the amulet; with
48 il. by H. R. Millar. $1.50. Dutton.
7–32330.
“Here we have what we may call ‘Alice in Wonderland in excelsis.’ A
family of children, whose father has gone as a war correspondent,
while their mother is on a health voyage, discover a wonderful
creature called a Psammead. By his help, together with the amulet
which figures in the title, they are transported to various scenes in
the past, after the fashion of the king who lived a life while he was
dipping his head in a pail of water. They go to pre-dynastic Egypt,
when palaeolithic man was in the Nile valley; they see Babylon, whose
queen has an opportunity of expressing her views about social
conditions in London; they see the vanished Atlantis, and Julius
Caesar when he was in Britain, and then, by a backward leap, a
Pharaoh, one of the special devotees of the Amen-Ra.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her
small admirers.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 70w.
“Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously
acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.
“Characteristic of E. Nesbit are skillful delineation of childish
individuality and facility in charging the most impossible situation
with a current of sweet reasonableness, and these features distinguish
‘The story of the amulet.’”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 70w.
“Very delightful book which is interesting for old as well as young.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
“A fascinating narrative, and one which has beneath the surface a
gentle satire and also a kindly human sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general result is a very clever extravaganza, which an
intelligent young person will hardly be able to read without
acquiring, unconsciously, or even against his or her will, a certain
amount of knowledge.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Bland, Hubert.= Letters to a daughter. *$1.25. Kennerley.
“A staid book of imaginary letters” in which the writer “instructs a
young woman in that mysterious art, in which all that is subtle, all
that is beautiful, all that is morbid, all that is delicate, all the
all of all, can be expressed—the art of being a woman.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 406. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“He drags Epicuranism over the ultimate precipice of cynicism, and it
is only because he does it with humor and an eyeglass that we forgive
him. Our admiration in any case must follow him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 350w.
“One thing Alexa’s father did not have, and that was keen sense of
humor, a thing hardly to be forgiven in a letter writer.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 400w.
“They are eminently readable. How far the instruction they contain is
suited to the age of their supposed recipient—a girl of nineteen—is
another matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 529. O. 13, ’06. 1940w.
=Blunt, Reginald.= Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea.
*$3.50. Macmillan.
7–25145.
Being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street
newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry notable persons
who in former times dwelt there, to which are added likenesses of the
principal of them and their several houses; the whole collected and
presented by Reginald Blunt.
* * * * *
“Our author’s style does not always please us, and is sometimes
complicated.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 300w.
“He tells his story very agreeably.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, 06. 220w.
=Boardman, Rosina Cox.= Lilies and orchids. *$2.50. Cooke.
7–24620.
“A guide to those interested in this particular branch of floral and
botanical study, and is of use also to all lovers of wild flowers. The
flower families are illustrated by specimens chosen mainly in the
United States east of the Rockies, but with a few also from Canada and
California.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A timely and attractive publication.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.
“A really unusual book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.
“The color-studies are notable for their exquisite tints and faithful
reproduction of the originals.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 90w.
=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the
original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–21749.
=v. 1.= “This new collection covers the period extending from the last
days of the old monarchy, through the revolution and the first empire,
to the restoration of the Bourbons by the allied sovereigns of
Europe.... The pages are filled with lively reminiscences and amusing
anecdotes in which figure all the famous folk of this wonderful time,
men and women distinguished in society, politics, and literature, from
Mme. Récamier and Lady Hamilton to Guizot and Lamartine, from
Lafayette to Mme. de Staël.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=v. 2.= “The reminiscences of the Comtesse are continued during the
Hundred days, Napoleon’s return from Elba, the events of Waterloo, and
the restoration down to the year 1819. During this period the Comtesse
returned to England with her father, who was French ambassador.
Anecdotes of the English court and aristocratic society abound, and
much criticism of English manners and customs, pointed by comparisons
with French social and political life, makes highly entertaining
reading.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“These memoirs are exactly what memoirs should be—to be of value and
interest. No attempt is made to write history; there is nothing
pretentious about them, nothing dull.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 532. Je. 1, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A volume which, while here and there open to doubts as to accuracy,
is everywhere attractive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 64. Jl. 20. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The translator, modestly anonymous, has succeeded in giving to his
version the agreeable effect of an original work.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 84. Ag. 16, ’07. 1630w. (Review v. 1.)
“This second volume is inferior in interest to the first, owing to the
lesser importance of its subject-matter.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1376. D. 5, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This volume is one of exceptional readableness.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 271. Ag. 24, ’07. 2480w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The Comtesse de Boigne is a good talker, and we cannot have too much
of her. She is not as piercingly clever as Madame du Deffand, or as
steely in her philosophical content as Madame Geoffrin, or as
sensitive as Madame de Beaumont, or as sensible as Madame d’Epinay.
But she is what the frontispiece tells us—a shrewd, sagacious, witty,
unexaggerative Frenchwoman, with enough heart to serve our turn and
enough experience to make her wise—not enough, perhaps, to make her
lovable. She may have been more trenchant than profound, but to
quarrel with her is impossible.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 188. Je. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work contains much distinguished trifling, and is interesting for
desultory reading or as a mine for quotation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The appendix is stored with some interesting correspondence, which
the judicious editor has carefully sifted from the text in order to
make the latter coherent. Everywhere his literary skill and historical
knowledge are in evidence but never intrusive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 509. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Decidedly, these memoirs are among the best and most valuable
published this autumn. No lover of biography and personalia can afford
to forego the pleasure of their perusal. No historian of the period
can ignore them. Incidentally, both will be under deep obligation to
M. Charles Nicoullaud, the editor, whose literary adjustments have
undoubtedly added to the coherence of the book and whose running
commentary and appendices make its authority complete and secure.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Delightful reading of their kind.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 370. D. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“What makes these memoirs so interesting is that Madame de Boigne
describes, with pitiless fidelity, the intimate life of three
successive régimes, that of Louis XVI., that of Buonaparte, and that
of Louis XVIII.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“She was a shrewd observer, wrote cleverly, and her little cynicisms,
mingled with aristocratic complacency, are extremely amusing.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of
Madame de Boigne’s best stories.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Bolce, Harold.= New internationalism. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–6637.
The financial and commercial amalgamation of the nations is the
central theme of Mr. Bolce’s discussion. The following comparison
between this book and Miss Jane Addams’ “Newer ideals of peace” is
enlightening: “Mr. Bolce is material; Miss Addams spiritual. He puts
his trust in the development of international trade; she detects the
development of cosmopolitan friendship. One sees, in the financiers
and merchants, the architects of the new internationalism; the other
finds among the feeblest immigrants the harbingers of the new ideals.
But the books are complementary, not contradictory.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The book is scrappy and somewhat superficial, but clever, interesting
and emphasizes a note that needs emphasis at the present time, that of
reciprocity and the economic interdependence of modern nations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07.
+ =Ind.= 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 680w.
“Though written primarily for English readers, it has interest for
American students of the subject, but it does not pretend to be a book
for experts. If it can lay claim to no striking merits, the volume is
also free from striking defects.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 553. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.
“There is nothing visionary or academic about Mr. Bolce’s economics.
His sympathies are all with the men who do things, and he thinks them
competent to teach the closet theorists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 50w.
=Bölsche, Wilhelm.= Haeckel; his life and work; tr., with an introd., by
Joseph McCabe. *$4. Jacobs.
6–24940.
A “plain study” of Haeckel’s personality and the growth of his ideas
which is intended in its approximately true appreciation to replace “a
hundred Haeckels grotesque in their unlikeness to each other” which
“circulate in our midst today.”
* * * * *
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 96. Ja. ’07. 1780w.
“The distinguished German biographer brings to his task not merely
literary style and imaginative qualities, but a technical and intimate
knowledge of science in its latest development.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
“This is an unusually successful work in a difficult field. While we
must give credit to the author for teaching us a great deal of zoology
in a pleasant manner, the most difficult part of his task, he has
hardly done justice to an exceptionally interesting individuality.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 392. Ap. 25, ’07. 790w.
“Prof. W. Bölsche’s study of Ernst Haeckel is, like the frontispiece
of the book, a picture in warm colours. The author is nothing if not
enthusiastic, and indeed no one can think over the achievements of
Haeckel’s life without sharing the author’s admiration for his hero.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 26. My. 10, ’06. 680w.
“In the nature of things—and the German professional point of view and
literary manner—the total is rather hard reading. Yet there is much of
real interest.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.
“Is a model biography for the unprofessional, but cultured reader.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 110w.
“Very lucid and interesting account of this veteran biologist’s life
and work.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c.
Johns Hopkins.
7–22912.
A detailed account of this important diplomatic incident, which is
based upon the Monroe papers and gives the inner history of the
mission, definitely establishing the circumstances and the motives of
the actors.
=Bonner, Geraldine.= Rich men’s children; il. by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
6–37925.
A western story in which a multimillionaire’s son marries an
adventuress, takes to the mountains to win back his peace of mind,
falls in love with a bonanza king’s daughter and hopes for
developments that will permit an honorable marriage. The way appears
when the former husband of the unfit wife appears, and is a welcome
factor in straightening the tangle.
* * * * *
“Is one of the strongest romances of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’06. 280w.
“All things considered, it is rather the best piece of fiction that
has yet come from Geraldine Bonner’s pen, the clearest character
drawing, the strongest situations, the most thoroughly human appeal
from first to last.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 78. S. ’07. 710w.
“Miss Bonner’s book is primarily about the children of two of these
bonanza families, but its best and most interesting, parts are those
that treat of the parents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 460w.
=Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington.= Twilight fairy tales. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–38892.
Mrs. Booth’s tales follow the fortunes of a little boy “who found the
magic land of ‘Maybe’ the more readily for faithfulness in the land of
‘Is,’ and so lived cheek by jowl with fairies when he had behaved
himself properly.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The stories are new and ‘different.’”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 22, ’06. 20w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.
“Mrs. Booth writes fluently and gracefully. The pictures are somewhat
strained in effect and badly drawn.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Booth, William H.= Water softening and treatment, condensing plant,
feed pumps, and heaters for steam users and manufacturers; with figs.,
diags. and tables. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
7–4532.
The work is divided into five sections as follows: 1, Treatment of
water by softening, together with the separation of oil and
filtration; 2, Air pumps, condensers, and circulating pumps; 3, Feed
heating and stage heating; 4, Water cooling; and 5, Feed pumps and
injectors.
* * * * *
“From those portions of the book more closely related to its title the
American engineer will learn but little. The methods of analysis given
are inadequate and the forms of softening apparatus described are
evidently less efficient than those in common use in this country.”
George C. Whipple.
− =Engin. N.= 56: 187. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.
“Altogether, the book contains complete information with respect to
the purification and supply of water to steam boilers, which will be
valuable to users of steam; whilst the first portion on water
softening, will be very useful in indicating the methods by which hard
water may be rendered available for various manufactures requiring
pure water.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 464. S. 6, ’06. 570w.
=Booth, William Stone.= Practical guide for authors in their relations
with publishers and printers. *50c. Houghton.
7–14814.
“A clear and terse exposition of ‘those questions and difficulties
which may arise during negotiations for the sale of a manuscript to a
publisher, or in the relations which exist between a publisher and an
author after a work has been accepted.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Booth writes with authority, having full and very helpful
knowledge of his subject.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.
“He writes of the practical side of things with sanity and clearness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 50w.
“The best book of its kind we have seen, both for its simplicity and
its comprehensiveness. It is in reality an excellent ‘style-card’ for
printers and proof-readers, as well as a book of directions for
writers.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 359. Ap. 18, ’07. 40w.
“Should prove of great service in making the creators and publishers
of books more often walk the primrose path.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 160w.
“Aside from the scholarly work everywhere evident in the book, there
is an interest not usually associated with books of a similar kind—in
fact Mr. Booth’s book makes entertaining instruction of a very dry
subject.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 556. S. ’07. 270w.
=Borden, Spencer.= Arab horse; with preface by Prof. Henry Osborne; il.
**$1.20. Doubleday.
6–36199.
“An interesting history of the animal, both on his native heath and in
the countries to which he has been exported. Considerable space is
given to the Arabs in America; and their pedigrees and history are
interesting to the lovers of the breed.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 110w.
=Borden, Stephen Whiley.= How to check electricity bills: containing
methods of charging for electricity with directions for reading and
testing electric meters. *50c. McGraw pub.
7–31191.
“The first part of this little volume is given over to a non-technical
definition of a watt, by considering how many watts the common forms
of apparatus use. Chapters are included on general principles of
meters, troubles and systems of charges and discounts.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet).= Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–11569.
“This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is
clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the
history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas.
In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various
forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs.
Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is
quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The
second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function,
its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not
the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the
family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.
+ − =Acad.= 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w.
“Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view.
Written in a luminous, easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.
“The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results
of the most careful investigators into the early history of the
institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg
Meade.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a
warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its
close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable
contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w.
Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.
=J. Philos.= 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w.
“Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere
on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very
profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the
conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being
platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral,
only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks
notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are
delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the
eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if
not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to
which the latter is apt to be blind.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w.
“It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of
rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real
and spiritual entity of the family.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w.
“It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of
family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we
are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its
materialised form that she traces for us.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w.
“Mrs. Bosanquet’s book is remarkably restrained and uncontroversial in
tone.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 825. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.
=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Plant response as a means of physiological
investigation. *$7. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A biologically equipped reader with no special knowledge of plant
physiology will experience dazzled admiration for the logical,
progressive way in which the author builds up, not in words, but
actually experiment on experiment, a complete functioning plant from
three simple conceptions. A student of plant physiology, who has some
acquaintance with the main classical ideas of his subject, will feel
at first extreme bewilderment as he peruses this book. It proceeds so
smoothly and logically, and yet it does not start from any place in
the existing ‘corpus’ of knowledge, and never attaches itself with any
firm adherence. This effect of detachment is heightened by the
complete absence of precise references to the work of other
investigators.” F. F. Blackman.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 313. Ja. 31, ’07. 2170w.
=Bottome, Phyllis.= Imperfect gift [a novel]. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The author has taken for her central characters two sisters, one of
whom is obviously and remarkably beautiful; the other is beautiful in
her heart and mind, whilst far from impeccable, and lovably human. The
lives of these two girls are traced from their early childhood, with a
widowed mother in Italy, to their establishment in life in London; and
their characters are developed before our eyes with subtlety and
skill.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The whole book is very unequal and unfinished; the people do not live
or gain the reader’s sympathy, and difficulties are avoided at the
expense of truth.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 393. Ap. 20, ’07. 480w.
“There are 340 pages in it, and not one of them is a page wasted or
spoilt. It is a fine sober piece of literary workmanship, as well as
an entertaining novel.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 220w.
“The story is smoothly and competently told, and while its basis lies
in the realm of mediocre, respectable fiction, the observation of
detail, if a shade shopworn, is always sufficiently correct and
agreeably expressed to make the whole fairly readable—if no better
novel be at hand.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07, 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.
“The reader will find the story completely satisfactory until the
moment comes when he is told what is the particular talent to which
the heroine is going to devote herself.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.
=Boulting, William.= Tasso and his times. *$2.75. Putnam.
A biography full of side-lights on the history of Italy during the
latter part of the sixteenth century. Tasso’s personal history is a
succession of failures and troubles; it is a record of one too weak to
buffet his way among despots and courtiers identified with Italy’s
decline and corruption.
* * * * *
“We may have appeared to have criticised Mr. Boulting severely, but we
have done so because his book seems to deserve careful consideration,
and we desire to recommend it to many readers whom its more
conspicuous merits will instruct and entertain.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 965. O. 5, ’07. 2080w.
“From every point of view, historical, biographical, literary, and
critical, ‘Tasso and his times’ will be found most satisfactory.”
Walter Littlefield.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 598. O. 5, ’07. 1320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is rather because this volume gives us a clear picture of Italy in
the latter part of the sixteenth century than because it is a
biography of Tasso that it will be welcome to a large circle of
readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 220w.
“This book, heralded so loudly, is a popular and superficial account,
not so much of Tasso as a poet as of Tasso at court, without a single
note or an allusion in the text to any authority save a reference in
the last chapter to Professor Solerti. Mr. Boulting mistakes the whole
dream and purpose of the Italian renaissance.”
− − =Sat. R.= 104: 397. S. 28, ’07. 1320w.
“Mr. Boulting does a biographer’s duty without partiality, and makes
an effective picture of the man. On Tasso’s poetry Mr. Boulting gives
us some excellent criticism; this is, we think, the best part of his
book. Of the ‘times’ he has much to say. He has gathered materials
with unsparing industry, sometimes, it may be going too far afield,
and bringing back what it might have been better to leave behind.
Still, he has written a very readable book.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 230w.
=Boulton, William B.= Thomas Gainsborough, his life, work, friends, and
sitters. *$2.75. McClurg.
This is as complete and comprehensive as a study of every bit of
available material can make it. The interesting stages of
Gainsborough’s development are followed, facts concerning his friends
and the subjects of his portraits are recorded, and a good summary of
the achievements of the artist and the characteristics of the man
fills the last two chapters. The evolution of his genius is also
traced in the forty reproductions of his paintings.
* * * * *
“In spite of unavoidable gaps and deficiencies, even the early
chapters of the book are not dull. He has utilized the accepted
sources of biographical material, marshalling his facts in simple
orderly fashion, and dealing with them in a dignified and yet
thoroughly genial and appreciative way.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 43: 247. O. 16, ’07. 1140w.
“Mr. Boulton has a very uneven style, and the proofreader is guilty of
several slips, but these little blemishes do not prevent a reader from
enjoying the absence of dryness, one of the common failings of ‘art
books’ in all ages. He feels that he has come perceptibly nearer to an
understanding of the impetuous yet shrewd, Thomas Gainsborough.”
Charles de Kay.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 585. S. 28, ’07. 1430w.
=Bourchier, Dr. Helen.= Darry’s awakening. †$1.50. Warne.
A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training
among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the
daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man
unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father
returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown
upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life
whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.
* * * * *
“This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up
their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s
truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 380w.
=Bourke, S. Ten Eyck.= Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.
7–24036.
Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the
swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the
woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the
peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how
the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a
hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.= Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D.
Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.
6–21195.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be
constructive, is written in good spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Master of Stair. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15924.
“A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing
in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more
specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell
and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally
exterminated.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against
[several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters
(those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far
worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w.
“While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett,
she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing
the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women,
long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living
breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Her second novel is so much more creditable a work that its merits
are in no need of puffery.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 170w.
“While we admire her spirit, it is difficult to feel that all this
‘slightly grandiloquent magnificence’ is satisfactory; it is a rich
cloak, but it does not take the place of bones and flesh.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 380w.
“The author has decided descriptive ability. Has also dramatic power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“Exhibiting a total ignorance of technique, of the rudiments of her
art, she contrives to emerge safely and successfully from all kinds of
difficult situations.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 400w.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Viper of Milan. $1.50. McClure.
6–41272.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not so much the clever blending of history and fiction which
makes Miss Bowen’s book remarkable; it is the rare atmosphere of
reality which permeates it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 390w.
“The story makes up in action for the shortcomings of its style.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 140w.
“There is not a philosophical sentence in the book, not a single
appeal to religion, it is simply a gorgeous fairy tale of human life
with a diabolical hero, worked out thru every imaginable irony of
circumstance, and considered within these limitations, it is almost
beyond criticism in style, construction and fascination.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 640w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Her prairie knight, and Rowdy of the
“Cross L.” il. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–23641.
A reissue of two good western stories. In the former a New York
society girl is influenced by the sky, the air and the plains, to be
true to herself and marry for love rather than for a title. The second
tells of the devotion of a little school teacher of the plains to her
cowboy brother, whose trickery and dishonesty are run to cover by the
man she loves.
* * * * *
“He has a sense of humor, especially in the situations he contrives
and he has written an entertaining story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 515. Ag. 24, ’07. 130w.
=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Range dwellers. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6407.
The breezy, dare-devil, son of a San Francisco millionaire tells in
his own amusing way of how he was rusticated on his father’s Montana
cattle ranch, in the hope that it would make a man of him, how he fell
in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who had enjoyed
thirty years of feud and enmity with his father, and how he carried
her off in a motor-car. Altogether he demonstrates that he is a wholly
“good sort” capable of winning the good comradeship of his fellow
cowboys altho handicapped by being “the son and heir.”
* =Boxall, George E.= Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.
7–32830.
“In this work the author has traced out briefly the tendencies of
thought in civilized countries at the present time with a view to
estimating the probable trend of events in the near future. He notes
the decay of ideals in this and in other civilised lands, and
prophesies a new development of the religious idea. Man, he says,
always has had and always must have a religion as a guide to conduct,
and the lesson we learn from the past is that a new religion grows
gradually out of an older one as man’s knowledge increases. According
to him Christianity has about reached its ultimate capacity for
division, and, as ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand,’ a new
development in religion, based on a scientific view of the world, is
absolutely necessary.”
* * * * *
“A person who dares to jeer at a faith of whose history he has not a
textbook knowledge, who sets his conclusions in matters of
ethnological research against those of the acknowledged leaders of the
science, without so much as a schoolboy’s equipment, calls rather for
contempt than criticism, laughter than logic. When he enters the
domain of sociology and religion he becomes merely ridiculous, and his
essays in the reconstruction of human origins are too silly to be
entirely dull.”
− − =Acad.= 73: 789. Ag. 17, ’07. 2350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil D.= Langford of the Three Bars.
†$1.50. McClurg.
7–15542.
This tale of South Dakota follows the trials of a young ranchman, Paul
Langford, who undertakes to put an end to cattle-rustling in his
section. The county attorney takes up the fight for Langford against
the thieves, and the terrifying happenings that result provide a wild
west thrill for every page. Langford’s energy, determination and sense
of justice win the day finally, tho not without tragedies.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
“Their collaborative work is remarkably smooth and even and shows
little trace of its double authorship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.
=Brace, Benjamin.= Seventh person. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34686.
Jerry Chambers is a young collegian who as a member of a fraternity is
obliged at the end of his course to perform whatever task might be
outlined in the envelope that he draws from a mysterious black bag.
“Obeying its imperative mandate, against which parental wishes count
for naught, he departs for South America, where in a marvelously short
time he wins great renown, a love affair with a beautiful señorita,
developing meanwhile. The scenes of his subsequent adventures are in
Mexico and the South and West of the country.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The conclusion is carefully manipulated.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Brace has the gift of imagination in a most frantic form.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 11: 831. D. 1, ’06. 390w.
=Bradby, Godfrey Fox.= Great days of Versailles; studies from court life
in the later years of Louis XIV. il. $1.75. Scribner.
7–6786.
Based chiefly upon the memoirs of Saint-Simon, the letters of Mme. de
Maintenon and of Madame the Princess Palatine, Mr. Bradby’s picture
serves as “an introduction to the period for those who wish to pursue
a more extensive study of eighteenth century memoirs, and will also be
sufficiently complete and vivid to be of interest and value to those
who have not the time and opportunity for more detailed reading.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Bradby presents a sombre picture of this distinguished formal
period, without any brilliance but with too much care to be at all
disappointing, though at times we wish for the lightness and gaiety of
style which were the feature of his charming story ‘Dick’ and his
flippant farce ‘The Marquis’s eye.’”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 35. Ja. 12, ’07. 770w.
“Mr. Bradby’s book gives a fair account of phases of life and thought
which are now as extinct, and seem almost as remote, as the ways and
usages of the Pharaohs, and in the study of them one can find much
interest and some profit.” James Breck Perkins.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 883. Jl. ’07. 760w.
“On the whole, however, Mr. Bradby’s book is a scholarly and agreeable
piece of light historical reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 250w.
“Mr. Bradby has overcome the vast difficulties of the subject, and
written a book that makes for learning as well as for amusement—a fine
thing to be able to say, when we consider how very amusing it is! He
has—or he has acquired—the priceless gift of proportion.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 5. Ja. 4, ’07. 850w.
“The value of his work would have been enhanced, perhaps, especially
for those who wish to carry their studies further, if he had more
frequently footnoted his authorities.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 67. F. 2, ’07. 580w.
“The last few years have seen a great outpouring of books about
history, but it is not often easy to find among them one that is
written in decent English and is evidently a well-arranged epitome of
wide reading as this is.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.
=Bradley, Ernest.= Seven steps to the cross, being seven meditations
suitable for Lent, and more particularly for Good Friday. **60c.
Whittaker.
7–4780.
It is the object of these meditations to “carry a deep spiritual
message on the sufferings of our Lord to those who may hear or read
them.” The seven steps are; The last supper and the new commandment,
Gethsemane, Caiaphas, Herod, Pilate, Out by the Jaffa gate, and
Golgotha.
=Bradley, Shelland.= American girl in India. $1.75. Macmillan.
The experiences of a lively American girl who goes to India
principally to attend the “great Durbar” at Delhi. “She reckons and
guesses with equal aplomb, and has certain idioms of her own
invention, such as ‘I don’t catch right on to the people straight
away,’ and ‘Say, though, I’m shying off the main point,’ not to speak
of a touch here and there of untimely cockney.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is of course fiction and fiction—the kind which aspires to be a
fine art (and so seldom, alas! attains its aspirations) and that which
aspires among other small things mainly to amuse (so often failing
too). To the latter class belongs ‘An American girl in India;’ but far
from being a failure, this novel contains so much knowledge of
character, and such a light and sure touch in the sketching of passing
personalities, that we regret the trivialities which condemn it to a
place in the second category.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 410w.
“When one has mastered the jargon one finds her an amusing person in a
mild way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“The book is written with a good deal of vivacity, much of it of a
cheap sort, and with facility in the use of the English language.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Blue ocean’s daughter. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–29001.
“It is about an Amazonian sort of young woman who was born on board
her father’s ship, grew up on it in his company, was as good a sailor
as the skipper, and if need was could fight with swords and pistols as
well as if she had been a man. The time of the story is laid in the
latter part of the revolutionary war and the ship is pursued by an
English frigate. Out of the pursuit and the fight there grow all
manner of exciting incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Has a plethora of strange and exciting incident and is written in his
most rattling style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–9278.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Strong alike in incident and character-drawing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 110w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry.= Richard the brazen.
†$1.50. Moffat.
6–28452.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We have a suspicion that the tale, like the Adelphi melodrama, was
written for the gallery, and an American gallery into the bargain.”
− =Acad.= 73: 778. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Bettina. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–3184.
Of the following ingredients the story is composed: “a genial brother,
a doctor with the orthodox Abernathy manners, a providentially effaced
friend, whose non-appearance causes the case of mistaken identity upon
which the story hinges, and a child of revealing prattle. A railway
wreck, the wise scheme of a self-abnegating nurse, a thunderstorm, an
overdose of medicine—all serve to bring about a happy ending foreseen
from the first.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Not recommended for small library with limited means.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.
“As we read the bright little sketch of American social life, we
forget to cavil at its elaborate setting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 160w.
“Slight but cleverly handled story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w.
“‘Tis foolish,’ as our friend, Mr. Hennessy, says, but it is told in a
pleasant, sprightly fashion, and it will furnish beguilement for many
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 67. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.
“The story [is] too slight to make into a book.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 40w.
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= On reading: an essay. **75c. Duffield.
6–32694.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by William T. Brewster.
=Forum.= 38: 384. Ja. ’07. 1160w.
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.
**$2.50. Duffield.
6–34030.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Unhappily, however, the translation is not first rate, particularly
in the Englishing of original turns and phrases, nor is the volume
lacking in typographical errors.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 500w.
“It is interesting partly though its naïve and refreshing
candour—partly through its revelation of the narrow parochialism of
Scandinavian life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 431. D. 28, ’06. 980w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 1040w. (Published by
arrangement with Lond. Times.)
“There is not a dull paragraph, not a single dry-as-dust element in
this highly instructive autobiography, for which I earnestly wish many
readers in this country.” Paul Harboe.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 917. N. 2, ’06. 1300w.
“The reader of the ‘Reminiscences’ finds Brandes not dry, certainly
not unproductive, but assuredly ‘a creature with thoughts ground
keen.’”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 700w.
=Brastow, Lewis O.= Modern pulpit: a study of homiletic sources and
characteristics. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35521.
An interpretation of the teaching of our day. The influences that are
at work upon the ministry, the problems that are before it, and the
demands that are urged upon it are all viewed in the light of the
present day unification of the denominations.
* * * * *
“Dr. Brastow, always calm, rational, deep-sighted and analytical, is
especially so in this volume.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 240w.
“A book about preaching of decided merit.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 50w.
“The notable feature of this volume, however, is not its descriptions
of personalities, but its examination of the more general agencies
that have wrought upon modern preaching, together with its
discrimination of the distinctive qualities in homiletical practice in
the various Protestant nationalities and communions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 480w.
“Men of all churches will recognize his work as one of remarkable
attractiveness and ability.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 600w.
“Among new works on preaching and the modern pulpit, perhaps the most
noteworthy volume of the past few months is ‘The modern pulpit.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 110w.
=Breasted, James Henry.= Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents
from the earliest times to the Persian conquest; collected, edited and
translated with commentary, v. 1–4 ea. *$4; v. 5. Index number. *$2.
Univ. of Chicago press.
6–5480.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a work of such extent and difficulty there is inevitably much to
criticize: and one cannot in reading it avoid the reflection that six
months of steady revision of the whole of it are required in order to
bring the work up to the high standard at which the author aims and
which is to be looked for from one endowed with his comprehensive
insight. The English throughout is crude, there are many mistakes in
renderings and descriptions, and many hasty judgments.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 116. F. 2, ’07. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The translation exhibits the same careful attention to matters of
detail that is everywhere apparent. In wideness of scope, thoroughness
of treatment extending to the minutest details, systematic arrangement
and conscientious scholarship Professor Breasted’s ‘Ancient records’
takes high rank, and it cannot be doubted that it will have a most
important influence upon Egyptological studies in the domains both of
history and philology.” Christopher Johnston.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 858. Jl. ’07. 1720w.
“One half of the corrigenda which Dr. Breasted announces in his fifth
volume are caused by the uncouth and barbarous system of
transliteration which forms the trade-mark of Berlin Egyptology, and
which Dr. Breasted admits must be ignored by the general reader, it
will be seen that he has suffered in no slight degree by his devotion
to his innovating teachers. This is, however, the only fault we have
to find.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 599. My. 18. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
Reviewed by Christopher Johnston.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 29: 233. Mr. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“A great saver of time and energy to the student.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A great work ready at hand with one of the best indexes ever
constructed, making every fact available by its comprehensive system
for quick, and easy reference.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 5.)
“These volumes form a monument of the author-translator, which will
give his name a permanent place in the literature of the subject.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is a monumental work, of which any country might be proud, and the
University of Chicago is to be congratulated upon finding the scholar
to achieve it and providing the means to give it to the world.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 104: 270. Ag. 31, ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Breasted, James Henry.= History of Egypt from the earliest times to the
Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.
5–34978.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Throughout Dr. Breasted writes clearly and lucidly. He tells his
story in a straightforward and spirited manner and, while no detail of
importance is omitted, he is never prolix. This happy combination of
judicious conciseness with ample fulness of treatment is a
distinguishing feature of the book.” Christopher Johnston.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 29: 234. Mr. ’07. 560w.
“The best and most readable English history of Egypt.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 260w.
=Brebner, Percy.= Knight of the silver star. *$1. Fenno.
7–34776.
An English traveler slides inadvertently down a mountain side on the
borderland of Russia and finds himself in a strange kingdom where
mediæval customs prevail. Here, welcomed as a heaven sent knight, he
wields a sword in behalf of the beautiful princess, passes safely thru
many wondrous adventures, and at last in a miraculous fashion escapes
from his enemies. He returns to our modern London carrying with him
the princess who, as his wife, remains the one proof of the time when
he tilted for her in the lists wearing the armour of the knights of
the silver star.
=Brebner, Percy James (Christian Lys, pseud.).= Princess Maritza; il. by
Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.
6–32119.
“It is the old story of the little kingdom and the succession and the
‘peace of Europe’ on the verge of collapse. As in all such stories,
there are tricky ministers, intriguing women, swash-buckler soldiers
and the lovers—a princess and a soldier of fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The incidents are numerous though unconvincing. The personages do not
live, we are indifferent to their fates.”
− =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 230w.
“Usually, in such stories, there are lay figures, but Mr. Brebner has
injected hot blood into them, and the result is a story, the stirring
action and situations of which may cause Anthony Hope to tremble for
his ‘Zenda’ laurels.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Breed, Charles Blaney, and Hosmer, George Leonard.= Principles and
practice of surveying. $3. Wiley.
6–39471.
“Not a treatise, but a text-book, and an elementary rather than a
comprehensive text-book. They [the authors] deal with the simpler
branches of the surveyor’s work in a clear and simple explanatory
style. The subject is covered in four main divisions, headed,
respectively: Instruments (use, adjustment and care); Surveying
methods: Computations: Plotting: followed by a rather good collection
of tables.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Good manual of the simpler branches of surveying. Especially careful
in pointing out possible sources of error.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 160. O. ’07. S.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 528. N. 15, ’06. 400w.
“The usual tables complete the volume, which is probably as
satisfactory a text-book under present methods of technical school
instruction in surveying as can be written.” H. N. Ogden.
+ =Science=, n. s. 26: 17. Jl. 5, ’07. 600w.
“The book as a whole is worthy of a place on any beginner’s desk, and
merits success.” Arthur D. Butterfield.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 222. My. ’07. 1490w.
=Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry.= With God in prayer. **50c. Jacobs.
7–11202.
Bishop Brent’s purpose in writing this little book is to suggest
prayerful thoughts and to promote the prayerful spirit.
=Bridge, Norman.= House health, and other papers. **$1.25. Duffield.
7–29539.
The titles of the papers included in this volume are suggestive: House
health, Human talk, The blind side of the average parent, Some
commencement ideals, A domestic clearing house, The true gospel of
sleep, Some unconceded rights of parents and children, and The trained
nurse and the larger life.
* * * * *
“Contains much good advice, and some that is perhaps not so good
because the counsel of an extremist.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 250w.
“He says so much that is sensible and practical that almost any parent
might find himself chastened and enlightened by a perusal of the
volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
=Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.)= Eternal religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His outlook is broad, his sympathies are wide.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.
=Brierley, Jonathan.= Religion and experience. *$1.40. Whittaker.
7–37539.
“The brevity of his essays, rarely exceeding eight pages, commends
them to a world that prefers short sermons, and to preachers who
would learn to say in fifteen or twenty minutes much that will both
hold the attention and stick in the mind afterwards. The standpoint
is that of a devoutly Christian thinker fully responsive to the
intellectual demands of the modern world. The introduction
compresses into a short statement, clear and simple, the modern
argument for experience as the test of reality, whether in science,
philosophy, or religion.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the book consists in the facts that the writer
combines a truly liberal with a deeply religious spirit: that he is
steeped in the thoughts of the world’s highest thinkers, ancient and
modern, and that he is able to place their ideas before his readers in
such telling fashion that they may be ‘understanded of the people.’”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
“The various subjects are well exploited, and the conclusions, while
marked by an optimism that is too easy-going to bear a searching
criticism, are unquestionably honest, kindly, and wholesome.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 125. Ag. 8, ’07. 500w.
“The gifted British essayist ... evidently, as the present volume like
its predecessors shows, reaps a rich-soiled field.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Briggs, Charles Augustus.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Psalms. 2v. ea. **$3. Scribner.
=v. 2.= This volume contains the commentary on the Psalms from the
fifty-first to the one hundred and fiftieth. “The special student and
the ordinarily intelligent reader are both provided for: the former in
full measure. The latter will find some strikingly new translations
superseding the old.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is one of the most notable books of the year in the field of
Scripture study.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 406. Je. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work is encyclopaedic in character. The introduction, covering
110 pages, is the fullest treatment we have seen on all the questions
that concern a critical study of the Psalter.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The possibility of accidental or deliberate changes of reading must
constantly be remembered in dealing with such a book as the Psalter.
It is in this respect that Dr. Briggs is perhaps deficient, and this
deficiency, for me, throws much doubt on his metrical arrangements of
the psalms. I consider his work of great educational use, and that
even for very advanced students it will save much trouble to have the
book near at hand.” T. K. Cheyne.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 453. Ja. ’07. 3040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Briggs is hardly critical enough, nor has he sufficient
experience in the use of all the newest and best methods.” T. K.
Cheyne.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 944. Jl. ’07. 1530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Briggs’s ‘Commentary on the Psalms’ is dominated by the author’s
interest in their metrical structure. There is no harm in arranging a
Psalm in strophes and lines, if one so desire, but when enthusiasm for
metre dictates important textual emendations, as is frequently the
case with Dr. Briggs, the matter is more serious.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid
more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his
correction of the text.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot
but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on
many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both
the text and the development of the Psalter.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No
existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for
exhaustive thoroughness.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von.= Papal
commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.
In which the author and his friend Friedrich von Hugel exchange
letters on the decision of the Pontifical commission concerning the
Pentateuch. Professor Briggs expresses his “surprise and grief that
the Commission should have put such a burden on the church, and
restates the critical conclusions as to the composite authorship of
the Pentateuch, as against the Commission’s conclusion that Moses
wrote it, with the use of pre-existing documents and some later
scribal additions. Von Hugel replies, defining the liberty of Catholic
scholarship in the church, agreeing with Professor Briggs as to the
folly of the Commission’s action, even altho approved by the Pope, and
both agree that the decision should not forbid critical research and
freedom.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 84: 707. F. ’07. 1260w.
=Ind.= 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 410. D. 7, ’06. 770w.
=Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
=Brinton, Selwyn.= Correggio. Forty-eight plates with biography.
(Newnes’ art lib.) *$1.25. Warne.
W 7–47.
A biographical sketch, a list of the most celebrated works with
descriptive, critical and historical matter, and forty-eight
half-tones of paintings.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.
Reviewed by Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 881. D. 22, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.
=Brode, Heinrich.= Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central
Africa. *$3. Longmans.
Tippo Tib is an Arab trader well known to all who took an interest in
East Africa or the Congo fifteen or twenty years ago. This sketch is a
transcription made from Tippo Tib’s own story of his life. “He was a
species of African Cortez, brave as a lion, utterly unscrupulous, avid
of wealth, shrewd and masterful. Like the Spanish adventurers, he
accomplished prodigies with a handful of men.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“It is a fascinating chronicle.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.
“A valuable addition to the scanty records of East African history.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 98: 904. Je. 8, ’07. 490w.
=Bronson, Walter C.=, comp. English poems. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
7–29839.
The last volume in a projected series of four, devoted to English
poems. The first volume will include Old English poems in translation,
Middle English poems, specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama and old
ballads; the second will cover the Elizabethan and Caroline periods;
and the third will include poems of the restoration and the eighteenth
century. The present volume is devoted to poetry of the nineteenth
century. The series is designed for use in survey courses covering the
entire field of English literature.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.
“Should be warmly welcomed as [an] adjunct to the work of teaching
English literature in both colleges and secondary schools.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 100w.
“The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond
dispute.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 200w.
=Brooke, Emma Frances.= Sir Elyot of the woods. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15923.
Sir Elyot Ingall of Ingalton, young, handsome, and on the eve of a
literary career, finds his estates hopelessly encumbered and is
obliged to let his manor house and strive by personal effort to keep a
mortgage off his Dower woods, the woods he loves, the trees of which
offer the only source of revenue for him. He struggles against the
woodman’s axe and finds inspiration for his writings in his forest.
When thru a legal tangle it is all but lost to him he recovers it, and
in recovering learns that the girl he loved and trusted had played the
trees false and planned to sacrifice them for the gold she craved. In
his agony his heart returns to his first love thru whom he and his
estate come once more to their own.
* * * * *
“If the whole book did but carry out the promise to be seen in the
opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w.
“As the faults of the novel are popular, they will not interfere with
its circulation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 693. Je. 8. 230w.
“It lacks but little of achieving distinction of style; it just misses
success in portraying one of those rare women characters that really
count.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 391. Je. ’07. 460w.
“On its merely human side, this is a singularly impressive and
well-managed story; to the lover of trees, who can share in Elyot’s
passion, it is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 800w.
“The book escapes being what it might have been, a notable piece of
work; as written it is nothing but a fairly readable ‘minor novel.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 180w.
“With a subtler art than that of the descriptive writer, Miss Brooke
contrives to pervade her story with the beauty and sanctity of the
woods, showing them to us through the eyes of her characters, and
keeping them always before us.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.
=Brooke, George H.= Story of a football season. **$1. Lippincott.
7–29718.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the athletic field, this story of a
foot-ball season, written with all the life-likeness and authority
which inside knowledge can afford, makes its appeal to every champion
of a college eleven. All the stages of team development are
interestingly set down and gridiron encounters, including the great
end-of-the-season victory are realistically described.
=Brooke, Stopford A.= Life superlative. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.
W 6–183.
A collection of Mr. Brooke’s sermons and addresses which are
characterized by their moral outlook, their grasp of things unseen and
eternal, their practical appeal to the highest and best in human
nature, and a high note of optimism. They are grouped under the
following headings: Religion and conduct, Lessons by the way, Social
problems, The outlook—here and hereafter, The foundations of life and
The city of the soul.
* * * * *
“This is a book good to have on the table for leisure moments and
their opportunities of refreshment for the higher self.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
=Brookfield, Frances (Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield).= Cambridge
“Apostles.” *$5. Scribner.
7–13938.
“A record of the talk and a study of the character of a large group of
gifted people who enlivened their intercourse with one another with
unfailing gaiety of mood and unflagging humor. High spirits and
abounding wit are generally found in the company of men of genius; and
the madness theory of Nordau is set at naught by the sanity and love
of fun of the apostles’ who gave the University of Cambridge
distinction between 1830–1840.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book, indeed, is full of blunders—some due probably to slack
reading of proofs, some to want of familiarity with the details of the
life of the time.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1320w.
“An index, whose five pages, however, do not contain all the entries
one might have occasion to look for—not even all the names of persons
mentioned in the work. If the book has still another fault, it may by
the more serious be thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of
pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain—or, if not, they may be
skipped.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 12: 134. Mr. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“To one behind the scenes this is not a good book.”
− =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 890w.
“A few typographical errors disfigure a volume unusually excellent in
its format, a joy to both eye and hand. It is of the nature of an
accolade to be admitted to this elect circle. Mrs. Brookfield’s
readers cannot but have a sense of distinction conferred upon them.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 930w.
“It is loosely put together and not always carefully written, but it
is starred with great names and full of delightful glimpses of that
rare kind and quality of society which charms, refreshes, and
liberates.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + − =No. Am.= 181: 528. Mr. 1, ’07. 1470w.
“A more interesting and witty book has not come from the press for a
long time.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 164. Ja. 26, ’07. 1900w.
Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 613. Ag. ’07. 1270w.
“We may complain that her proofs have not been read, and that her
pages bristle with inexcusable misprints. We may object that many of
her statements are inaccurate. But, when all deductions are made, we
cannot deny the merit of Mrs. Brookfield’s book, and we have read it
from beginning to end with a pleasure which its faults have done no
more than temper.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 988. D. 15, ’06. 1270w.
* =Brooks, Mary Wallace.= A prodigal. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
7–22410.
This story tells how the goodness of a sweet maid reformed the
prodigal son of a brokenhearted minister. It contains reproof for the
unthinking people of the world who lift their voices in popular
condemnation of every son among them who feeds on husks, people who
not only do not offer a more Christian diet but who scoff at those who
have the courage to offer it.
=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is no more than a sketch, verging here and there on caricature. It is
light, unpretending, avowedly skimming over the surface of things. It
is amusing to an unusual degree.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 510w.
=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“None of the tales touch upon the darker aspects of life, all are
optimistic in tone, and delicately humorous in treatment.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
“The title of the book is well chosen, carrying with it a leisurely
pace, happy endings, unforced homely dialect, Yankee talk as it really
is.” Alice Durant Smith.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 598. F. ’07. 920w.
“The people in the book are mainly earth creatures, dimly aware of,
but in no wise intimate with their own mental processes, and they are
handled with insight and unfailing charm.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 220w.
“All lovers of New England studies are cordially advised to read this
collection.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.
=Brown, Arthur J.= Foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world
movement. **$1.50. Revell.
7–23292.
A text-book for the student contemplating going into the field.
“Beginning with a statement of the missionary motive and aim, he
describes simply and clearly the essential qualifications for the
work, then passes on to a detailed account of the missionary’s
relations to the society which sends him out, his duties to it, and
its obligations to him. The principal arguments against foreign
missions are briefly stated and answered, and the book closes with a
striking portrayal of the modern missionary, not as a saint on a
pedestal with a halo about his head, but as ‘preëminently a man of
affairs.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We only regret, and it is our single criticism, that he has not given
some information as to the way in which young English, German, and
Swiss candidates are prepared for missionary work in Asia and Africa.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A thoroughly sane book is a thing of beauty and a joy. Such is Dr.
Brown’s book on missions. This book is especially adapted for two
classes of persons—those who believe in foreign missions and those who
don’t.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Main points: a study in Christian belief.
*$1.25. Pilgrim press.
7–19461.
“The present work puts before thoughtful laymen the main points of
evangelical doctrine as now held by what twenty years ago began to be
known as ‘progressive orthodoxy.’ It is for these who desire a
statement of fundamental Christian truths more accordant with modern
thought and experience than what they find in the historic
creeds.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28. ’07. 150w.
“It is a luminous help to the clear thinking that grasps essential
reality. It is also sane in stopping at the line where it is more
reasonable to wait for more light before exploring further. This
quality, however, is not so manifest in its discussion of the divinity
of Christ.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 352. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25.
Scribner.
6–32406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 110w.
“The main interest in the volume lies in the method by which the
Biblical story of Exodus is made to suggest moral factors in the labor
problems of our own time and land.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 12. Ja. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Brown, Francis.= Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. *$8.
Houghton.
Professor Brown has brought an enormous undertaking to its completion,
aided by Professors Driver and Briggs. It is “the most important
contribution to Hebrew lexicography since the ‘Thesaurus.’ When it is
added that the gains of three-quarters of a century in Semitic
philology, in textual criticism, geographical exploration, and
archaeological research, as well as in Biblical exegesis, have been
brought to bear on the lexical problems of the Old Testament, it will
be understood that the lexicon has no need to commend itself by even
the greatest names of former generations.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is, indeed, a veritable thesaurus, and will not fall far short of
meeting the most exacting requirements. It is safe to predict that it
will be a long time before it is superseded; and in the meantime it
will remain what it is now, an indispensable helper.” Charles C.
Torrey.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 510. Jl. ’07. 2990w.
“We regret that the price of this essential dictionary will conduce to
the further neglect of the Hebrew language in our theological
seminaries.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 310w.
“Let the place of honor among the religious books of the year be given
to a monument of patient toil and exact and searching scholarship.
Professor Francis Brown’s ‘Hebrew and English lexicon of the old
Testament.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 130w.
“Scholars of the English tongue have now in their hands an instrument
not only unsurpassed, but unrivalled in any other language.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Brown, Sir Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice as a
branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding
principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and
furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal
systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material
supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.
=Brown, Helen Dawes.= Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32838.
Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three
nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he
open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to
these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his
home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their
freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how
this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Brown, Hiram Chellis.= Historical bases of religions, primitive,
Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33632.
A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense,
introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian
civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The
chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a
résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and
attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious
progress.
* * * * *
“Is a well-written but misleading book. It is the product of wide
reading rather than of close study or original investigation.” Kemper
Fullerton.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 16: 666. O. ’07. 250w.
“We have no opportunity to verify at this time the author’s statement
of historic facts concerning the teachings of the monuments, but
assuming them to be correct we feel that the conclusions drawn
therefrom are not entirely warranted. In our opinion the author lacks
power of historic perspective.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 107. Ja. ’07. 870w.
“Throughout the volume the wrong is so mingled with the right, and
there is such a distortion (doubtless unintentional) of the history,
that the general reader may often get an impression not in accordance
with the facts. A proper estimate of Hebraism and Judaism calls for
wider knowledge and a calmer and more Judicial attitude than are to be
found in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 540w.
=Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
=Brown, John Mason.= Lecture on the law of contracts. $1. John M. Brown,
Washington, D. C.
7–23481.
“The subject-matter of the book was prepared by Mr. Brown for delivery
before the Association of American Government Accountants, the aim and
desire of the author being to correct some of the misconceptions of
law and some of the errors of practice which have so largely
characterized the government contract and those who have had to deal
therewith.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The presentation of the matter—especially those features and branches
with which contractors are so frequently harassed and annoyed—is
exceptionally clear. The language is entirely untechnical and the book
is so arranged as to give the layman a thorough grasp of the main
principles of the law.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 230w.
=Brown, John Pinkney.= Practical arboriculture: how forests influence
climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity:
a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers;
how, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber,
cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs
by the author. $2.50. J. P. Brown, Connersville, Ind.
6–23171.
A thorogoing handbook sufficiently well outlined in the sub-title.
* * * * *
“The work can in no proper sense be called a text-book, since it is
utterly lacking in systematic arrangement, but it will doubtless prove
of no little educational value. It is a pity that the book has no
index, what is called such being merely a table of contents.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 525. N. 15, ’06. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 80w.
=Brown, Katharine Holland.= Dawn. †50c. Crowell.
7–21225.
An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert
a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought
thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.
=Brown, Kenneth.= Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
6–19771.
“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’
and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African
despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s
rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be
Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country,
it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader
who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities,
not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of
such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but
lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.
“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the
Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which
he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.
=Brown, William Adams.= Christian theology in outline. **$2.50.
Scribner.
6–44353.
A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves
attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating
several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the
Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties,
while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether
justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern
doctrine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 884. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
“Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to
avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the
place of thought.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 280w.
“This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which
Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire
work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true
conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which
he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 565. Je. 13, ’07. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.
=Browne, Edward G.= Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di.
(Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–2590.
The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,”
the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered
is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the
thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.
* * * * *
“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia
of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit
of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of
letters.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w.
“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it
is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false
rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and
bounteous exposition.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w.
“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not
so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything
but light reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in
years.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w.
“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and
scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults
which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits.
The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all
matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere
reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment
of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly
scholarly spelling of the names.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w.
“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader]
comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will
find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s
book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w.
“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his
book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental
story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the
further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short
biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his
critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his
appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even
from an Eastern.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w.
=Browne, George Waldo.= Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in
Venezuela. 75c. McKay.
A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is
an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in
the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his
fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.
=Browne, J. H. Balfour.= Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5.
Longmans.
The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review
between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the
“Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave
trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally
valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The
“Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo,
Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and
Macready.
* * * * *
“A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is
too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and
submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 590w.
“The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular
value in this twentieth century.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all
show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 330w.
“Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to
occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard
on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under
the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of
literature.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 528. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
− + =Spec.= 98: 1014. Je. 20, ’07. 210w.
=Browne, Sir Thomas.= Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian
morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.= Complete poetical works; with a prefatory
note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp
leather “Thin paper poets.”
=Browning, Oscar.= Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.
7–32141.
“Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the
years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to
light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s
researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be
expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of
Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M.
Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this
country.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without
the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint.
The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on
the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w.
“Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a
sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work
can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon
will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w.
“Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of
high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer
to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early
in 1813.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.
“One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of
proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these
singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w.
“Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a
pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision
would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we
say, over-facile composition.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w.
“Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the
extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w.
“It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for
some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book
shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other
matters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w.
“Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much
mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.
“Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in
any library of Napoleonic literature.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w.
=Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough.= Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.
6–46250.
The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the
negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart
of the black belt of Alabama.”
=Bruce, George A.= Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer
infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–18330.
Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men
just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of
the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements
especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’
battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and
Spottsylvania.
* * * * *
“One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full
of valuable sidelights.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w.
“This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it
offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy
tale, without an index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w.
=Bruce, Jerome.= Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.
6–43783.
The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the
lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and
white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in
antebellum days.
=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.
7–29102.
More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional
struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents
Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions,
and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were
conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of
the past.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07. S.
“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of
constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the
readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the
United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the
northern army of invasion.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w.
“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents
in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world
history.” W: E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w.
=Brunetiere, Ferdinand.= Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.
6–43793.
The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature
what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters.
The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s
life, as with the elemental points that define, explain and
characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy
that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.
* * * * *
“In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w.
“Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable.
Not equally well translated throughout.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.
“He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without
discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific
judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too
arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière
confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w.
“Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w.
“Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following
the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s
‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with
all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w.
=Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it
frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and
comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater
distance of time.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w.
“It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially
illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and
in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s
narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.”
James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole
chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the
author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of
his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel
that it would have carried farther had its author never become
involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =No. Am.= 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w.
“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of
literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so
decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and
partial.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w.
* =Bryant, W. W.= History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.
“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and
primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely
historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho
Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational
astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational
astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments
of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then
successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and
instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial
evolution.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from
inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w.
“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so
short as to be unsatisfactory.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Bryce, James.= Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50.
Oxford.
A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British
embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there
runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law
of Rome and the history and law of England.”
* * * * *
“The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w.
“The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of
the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the
sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches
them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the
house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of
extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book
by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as
himself.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w.
=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.
Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth
with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified
with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the
relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not
one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of
commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has
not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is
tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable
materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation,
heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it
in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about
its decay.”
* * * * *
“Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr.
Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous
expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w.
“He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption.
On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
=Buckell, G. T. Teasdale.= Complete English wing shot. *$3.50. McClure.
A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons
old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds
of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives
valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game
birds.
* * * * *
“There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its
title would lead one to expect.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w.
“The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs,
seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long
and practiced experience, and will, no doubt, win the attention they
deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to
justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural
style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its
limits.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any
sport about which much has already been written, is the direct
personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing
about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of
bringing up pheasants and partridges.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w.
=Buckham, James.= Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–23873.
The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages
learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them.
Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders
among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true
nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of
forming an acquaintance with nature.
* * * * *
“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these
meditations.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Budge, E. A. T. Wallis.= Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments.
2v. *$10. Lippincott.
7–24130.
A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan
from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of
independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of
the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological
expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their
natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose
ancestors built them and worshipped in them.
* * * * *
“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and
opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the
Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and,
whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination
or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The
arrangement of the book also might have been better.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w.
“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a
quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is
essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known
about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism
and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of
prosperity.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel
with information concerning archaeological research and history, these
books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the
student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w.
“One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w.
=Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Reinforced concrete.
2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.
6–41296.
This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely
accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their
application.
* * * * *
“The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The
index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank
among the standard books and should continue to be of service to
designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w.
=Bullen, Frank T.= Frank Brown, sea apprentice. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–25665.
“It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady
progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the
lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of
force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The
privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no
glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little
literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young
hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more
than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.
“The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have
the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures,
lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners,
and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”
− =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea
yarns, will find the book entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.
“As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and
construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on
board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might
easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be
relished by young readers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w.
“A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w.
=Bullen, Frank T.= Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–129.
Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal
observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and
the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the
British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into
the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the
British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be
maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage
and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the
author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously.
Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great
profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he
gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity
and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and
enjoy his early works.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.
“A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once
scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic
without being at all a romance.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w.
“Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable
companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–31981.
A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course
of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon
all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to
provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and
theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”
* * * * *
“The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should
respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate
library facilities.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance.
*$2.25. Ginn.
6–6286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value
alike to teachers and students of public finance.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w.
=Bulpett, C. W. L.= Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a
winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50.
Longmans.
7–19053.
“The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the
Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between
that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to
have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the
journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful
information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of
launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and
Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then,
bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and
interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a
great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the
most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with
Abyssinia.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and
straightforward way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w.
“They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably
upon their progress and adventures.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w.
=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5.
Pott.
Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian
church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern
Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded
by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and
Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona,
Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in
all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored
reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described
therein.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to
collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to
explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to
understand.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w.
“Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or
artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and
instructive book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w.
“He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous
ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in
ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full
of spirit and vigour.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w.
=Burbank, Luther.= Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.
7–15628.
Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms,
modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending
still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between
the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant
needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he
discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It
is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.
* * * * *
“Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to
recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment,
differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application
of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
“The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned
Sunday school libraries.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every
page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would
be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it
to our readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w.
“The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it
should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and
fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w.
“Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well
deserved separate publication.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.
=Burgess, Gelett.= Heart line. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32840.
If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over
certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant
makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it
is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to
enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as
much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings
of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the
girl he loves.
* * * * *
“Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of
the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums,
‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Burgess, Gelett.= White cat. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10048.
A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual
personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and
hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist
who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from
her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is
thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor
car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of
destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower
personality.
* * * * *
“An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.
“The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr.
Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.
“His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly
entertaining, nevertheless.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w.
=Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton.= Cotton; its
cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton
world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
6–26066.
The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in
section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows
and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price
of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed
selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools
required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the
cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w.
“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American
cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of
England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the
British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’
derision.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the
staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w.
“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book
contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of
the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful
by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less
full and satisfactory.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w.
“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a
popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with
interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w.
=Burkitt, Francis Crawford.= Gospel history and its transmission.
*$2.25. Scribner.
7–31392.
“Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of
the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon,
delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires
to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet
it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done
much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w.
“Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his
conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high
praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w.
=Bib. World.= 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of
information concerning the life of Christ.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.
“He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower
minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but
in this book he is on the whole conservative.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w.
=Burland, J. B. Harris.= Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–42432.
“What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it
said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little
metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting
cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young
Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to
his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the
possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full
chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and
material power.
=Burne, Sir Owen Tudor.= Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–28493.
Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at
the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The
reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to
the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during
a long period of years.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one
who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better
for reading.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 185. F. 23, ’07. 1760w.
“From first to last there is not a disparaging remark or unkind word
about anyone. The author in looking back on his eventful life has
managed to remember only the pleasant incidents, and the consequence
of this general good feeling is that his ‘Memories’ will be read with
unqualified pleasure by those who do not share his political views, as
well as by those who do. The book is certain to secure a wide public.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 247. Mr. 2. 1690w.
“In some respects it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the writer
has missed a great opportunity of producing a really valuable book,
the great authority of which could not have been denied.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 1, ’07. 620w.
“A welcome addition to the numerous works of the same nature which
form so important a part of our modern literature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 510w.
“We wish that he had been content to avoid a fashion too common in
published diaries, and had not scattered so many ancient jokes and so
much indifferent poetry about his pages. The whole tone and spirit of
the book, in its optimism and kindliness, is instinct with charm, and
there can be no lack of interest in the details of a life so full and
distinguished.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Cozy lion. †60c. Century.
7–29094.
A continuation of the magic of Queen Silverbell which in this instance
reforms a lion and makes him a fit companion for the village
youngsters.
* * * * *
“By far the most delightfully spirited story for young folks.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
“A nice little children’s story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 120w.
“A jolly invention.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= The shuttle. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29574.
There is much that is food for thought in this tale of the socially
elect of the England and America of today. Reuben Vanderpoel of New
York has added greatly to the millions his father wrested from the new
world, and his two daughters carry that wealth to the old world to
re-build two fine old English estates. The elder daughter, Rosie, is
the victim of a dissipated fortune-hunter who abuses her and neglects
his property. It is left for her sister, Bettina, the best product of
American birth and European schools, to come to her rescue twelve
years later with a clear head and a large bank account. While at work
upon this task she finds that all poor noblemen are not mercenary and
that one is both a man and noble.
* * * * *
“The present author has quite frankly adopted the method of the
chromo-lithograph, with its violent contrasts and over-colored
brightness. But, in spite of the method used, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has
succeeded in at least endowing her work with some semblance to life.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 145. N. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The last chapters fall off deplorably, being both sentimental and
sensational.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“Here and there we notice discrepancies chronological and otherwise.
The story, though rather long drawn out, maintains its interest well.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 140w.
“Fundamentally ‘The shuttle’ is ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ over again.
And be it understood that this is said in a spirit, not of
disparagement, but of candid admiration. For as ‘Little Lord
Fauntleroy’ was good, this book is good, and added to the ‘Fauntleroy’
idea there is a great deal more.” Beverly Stark.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 272. N. ’07. 1150w.
“The story is a long one, and might be shortened to its advantage.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The force of Mrs. Burnett’s book lies in its detail. There is
detailed pathos, detailed joy and grief, detailed melodrama even; but
it is all frankly discussed and accounted for, and the writer’s
knowledge of various kinds of life serves her in good stead.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 325. O. 25, ’07. 550w.
“It is a story which would have a mild interest for most people and
about which nobody could conceivably have much to say. Exception might
be taken to the villain as a shade more diabolical then even the code
of melodrama permits. He is an extravagant caricature of the
sufficiently absurd wicked baronet of legend.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 430w.
“Mrs. Burnett’s plot is stark nonsense, her American father a wierd
exaggeration, her villain a Jack-in-the-box goggling on a coil of
wire—but what of that? She is so kind, so honest, so free and splendid
with her fairy gold, she loves her heroine, she admires her hero with
such thoroughgoing ardor, that we want with all our hearts to make
believe with her.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 625. O. 19, ’07. 1330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Mrs. Burnett is a born story-teller, and her best is very good
indeed; it is a pity that her judgment as to what is true art in
fiction is sometimes seriously at fault.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
“The book indeed is over-loaded with the sociology of two countries,
and we hear far too much about the power of the everlasting dollar.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Opened shutters. †$1.50. Houghton.
Mrs. Burnham has chosen her favorite summer haunts, the islands of
Casco Bay, for the setting of this story. Silvia Lacey, orphaned and
bitter against her relatives, finally accepts the hospitality of her
mother’s cousin “Thinkright” Johnson, so called because of his faith
in a happy solution of all life’s problems if only one’s thoughts are
right and harmonious. Under the influence of Thinkright’s fine example
of brotherhood love, Silvia scripturally finds herself, thru losing
her rebellious vanity and self-love. An old disused tide-mill with its
closed shutters is symbolic of Silvia’s discordant outlook on life,
but with her transformation even the shutters open and let the
sunlight in.
* * * * *
“It can no more be called a novel than a plate of bread and butter can
be called a meal—even though the bread and butter be good of its
kind.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 245. D. ’06.
“The heroine of the novel, Sylvia, is one of Mrs. Burnham’s best-drawn
figures. There are some amusing situations in the book, and the humor
is plentiful and genuine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Is surpassed by none which she has produced in her twenty-five years
of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 691. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“It Is written in her own pleasant style, with a strain of symbolism
which reminds one of Mrs. Whitney.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton.
This story intense as it is from the human interest standpoint has a
more vital significance in the warfare between a clergyman who permits
the cloth to shield dishonesty and a frank youth who knows no religion
other than that of high thinking and right living. Bennet Sherrington
conniving with the intimidated Reverend Wynchell tampers with death
records to throw a fortune into the hands of Wynchell’s granddaughter,
Diana Jessop. Anthony Brayne, Sherrington’s secretary, unable to
endure his employer’s trickery leaves him and becomes the champion of
justice through whom the girl’s dignity and honor are spared, the
grandfather’s weakness revealed and Sherrington’s villainy punished.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Burrage, Champlin.= True story of Robert Browne, father of
Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or
misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious
views. *85c. Oxford.
7–6783.
Some lately discovered manuscripts throw new light upon the history
and views of the founder of Congregationalism which the author offers
as corrective and supplementary to the work of older biographers,
especially Dr. Henry M. Dexter.
* * * * *
“The whole monograph is painstaking and workmanlike.” Williston
Walker.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 419. Ja. ’07. 360w.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 346. Ap. ’07. 110w.
“Has the merit of modesty in tone and of brevity and clearness in
method.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 210w.
=Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the
cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–34848.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is clearly written, and should be of much interest to those
who have taken part in the preservation of our most famous
battlefield.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 140w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.
=Burrill, Katharine.= Loose heads. *$1.25. Dutton.
In these chatty essays “every-day matters, and some others, are
treated with good sense, cheerful philosophy, and literary skill.”
(Dial.) “Rusty needles, Chloe in the kitchen, Joys forever, People who
have nothing to do, are among the titles.”
* * * * *
“Fresh and bright and eminently readable are most of the little
essays.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“The style is agreeable, but it might be wished that there were fewer
split infinitives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 103. F. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Burroughs, Dwight.= Jack, the giant killer, jr.; being the thrilling
adventures, authentically told, of a worthy son of the celebrated Jack,
the giant killer. il. †$1. Jacobs.
7–31422.
The mantle of the traditional Jack falls to a worthy successor whose
adventures are no whit less thrilling, only more wholesome. The
adventure entitled “The automobile race” suggests the modern note in
Jack, junior’s experiences.
=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
6–10676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.
=Burroughs, John.= Camping and tramping with Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–31186.
A two-part sketch, the first of which being an account of the camping
trip in the Yellowstone which the President and Mr. Burroughs made
together in the spring of 1903, the second being an account of a visit
to Oyster Bay in which the author gives his impressions of the
President as a nature-lover and observer. He shows how Mr. Roosevelt
can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, with
the same quality of coolness and determination with which he confronts
predaceous corporations and money powers of the country; he claims for
the President the power of observation “to see minutely and to see
whole;” above all, shows how his interest in wild life is at once
scientific and thoroughly human—making of him the rarest kind of
sportsman.
* * * * *
“The book is as sincere as it is frankly the work of an admirer, but
it is such a tribute as any man might be proud of.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 340w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 712. N. 9, ’07. 1170w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 110w.
=Burrows, Ronald M.= Discoveries in Crete, and their bearing on the
history of ancient civilisation. *$2. Dutton.
7–37534.
Professor Burrows’ book becomes an “Ariadne’s thread in a bewildering
labyrinth.” He “has rendered signal service not only to the public at
large, but also to the cause of archæological research by his little
book. He has read, as it would seem, everything which has been
published concerning the Cretan discoveries, and has had access to a
great deal of information at first hand which has not yet found its
way into print at all. And from this enormous mass of material, which
has been the bewilderment even of many of the elect, he has drawn out
the main threads of argument and has woven them into a work which has
more than the mere colour of cohesion and continuity.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“It is ungracious to cavil at Homeric criticism in a book whose main
object is so well and so modestly achieved. We can say without
hesitation that this little work is almost a necessary introduction to
the unwieldy mass of material with which the author has had to deal.
And if the illustrations are few and far between, they are admirably
chosen.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 674. Jl. 13, ’07. 2140w.
“Prof. Burrows, like Ariadne, offers to the adventurous a clue through
the labyrinth. But, to avail ourselves of it we need the labyrinth
itself—the archæological library.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 1380w.
“Will be welcomed to a limited circle for its painstaking summary of
the present situation, its impartial balancing of probabilities, and
its valuable bibliography.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“It is presumed that his main function is to set forth the results
achieved by the workers; but no man with such a theme can bridle his
tongue, and we may be glad that Burrows has not done so.” Rufus B.
Richardson.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 755. S. 26, ’07. 1170w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 130w.
“It must be also said that those readers who are not able to procure
access to the dozen or more volumes referred to will find this book of
very little use, while those who open it in hope of gaining a
preliminary idea of the subject at small cost of time and money will
almost certainly be disappointed.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 1650w.
“Two criticisms may fairly be made upon the book. The English
expression is often careless, and the tone in which the author refers
to views with which he disagrees is unpleasant; what might pass in a
familiar lecture is out of place here.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 2000w.
“He is like editors who write for one another instead of the public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 518. Ag. 24, ’07, 1300w.
“The book contains much valuable and carefully thought out
ethnological speculation, and, by dint of what he modestly terms
‘balancing probabilities and opening up lines of inquiry,’ Mr. Burrows
gives in practicable volume that adequate guidance which is so
necessary to a study of the complicated racial problems with which the
history of Aegean civilization is bound up.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
=Burton, Theodore E.= John Sherman. (American statesmen, 2nd ser.)
**$1.25. Houghton.
6–43551.
A close acquaintance with Sherman, also a full understanding of the
public measures with which Sherman was identified lie back of Mr.
Burton’s sketch.
* * * * *
“As a history of national politics in the last quarter-century, the
volume is highly creditable. Criticism is directed against the
editorial plan of the publishers rather than to individual
shortcomings of Mr. Burton.” Davis R. Dewey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 905. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“A brief, scholarly, readable and wholly admirable work. Ranks as one
of the best accounts of reconstruction finance.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.
“The book is rather hard reading for the ordinary person who has no
great liking for figures and financial history. But it gives a good
account of a real statesman, and a history of several important phases
of our national development during the last half century.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“It is creditable biography, written by one in full sympathy with the
political ideas of Mr. Sherman, but free, on the whole, from undue
bias.” Eugene B. Patton.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 311. My. ’07. 680w.
“Candor is perhaps the most noteworthy quality displayed by Mr.
Burton—a candor which personal friendship was powerless to eliminate.
And yet the book is sympathetic and its attitude that of one who
sincerely admired Sherman.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Burton’s plain and unimpassioned style does little to make
Sherman interesting, and his book will not, we fancy, be much read
except for reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 660w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 102. O. ’07. 560w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 150w.
=Buskett, Evans Walker.= Fire assaying. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
7–7504.
A practical treatise on the fire assaying of gold, silver and lead,
including description of the appliances used.
* * * * *
“This little book has nothing against it except its brevity. It is
clearly and concisely written and well illustrated.” Bradley
Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.
=Busquet, Raymond.= Manual of hydraulics; tr. by A. H. Peake. *$2.10.
Longmans.
7–28954.
Rather ancient theories and discussions are included upon such
subjects as Fundamental laws, Flow of liquids in delivery pipes, Flow
of liquids in open canals, Hydraulic engines, and Construction of a
waterfall.
* * * * *
“In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for
both students and engineers.”
− =Engin. N.= 56: 639. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
“The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given
the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer
does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical
a way as the one under notice.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 29. N. 8, ’06. 390w.
=Bussell, Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress;
the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–12985.
“The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more
fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest
which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The
writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the
goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital
force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian
faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive
power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such
are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s
opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been
published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways
more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and
more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other
‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though
independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and
ill-arranged.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 434. Ap. 13. 1740w.
“Is the ripe fruit of prolonged reflection and often learned
investigation.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 220w.
“Throughout the book—the original and supplementary lectures—Mr.
Bussell speaks as a scholar, albeit a true churchman, and in discourse
of great charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 1410w.
“The whole is a finely wrought piece of literature rather than of
dialectics. One important point deserves criticism: the priority
ascribed, to rights rather than to duties must be contested as a clear
inversion of the ethical relation between the two.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“With much that is included in this volume we are already familiar;
but there is originality of treatment which marks it as a valuable
contribution on this side of thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 429. Ap. 6, ’07. 1590w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Confessions of a daddy; illustrated by Fanny Y.
Cory. 75c. Century.
7–18096.
The “daddy,” “a rank amateur in the baby business” confesses the
heart-breaking blow of the first glance at the wrinkled, red little
thing that the nurse brings for his proud expressions of joy. He
further records the agony of the first “spank” administered after the
“98 per cent of sweetness” grown to twenty-two months, cries all day
for “laim,” and the grief that follows when the discovery is made that
the baby only wanted to say “Now I lay me.” It is the common
experience of all parents told simply and to the point with Mr.
Butler’s inimitable humor that makes the book worth reading.
* * * * *
“There is a certain suspicion of obvious humour here and there; and
some notes, which seem taken from child-life, may please. But the book
is a disappointment.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 403. O. 5. 100w.
“If, as a whole, the volume is not as overwhelmingly funny as his
‘Pigs is pigs,’ it is still a delightful bit of humor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Butler, John Wesley.= Mexico coming into light. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
7–14569.
A brief sketch of the physical conditions, inhabitants, pre-colonial
dynasties, sixteenth century tragedy, reform movements, etc., leading
to the Macedonian cry and the planting of the mission.
=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= True and false democracy. **$1. Macmillan.
7–20888.
Dr. Butler’s aim has been to hasten the day when “every member of a
self-governing community has a clear understanding of what democracy
really means and implies, as well as a character strong enough to fix
his own relations to his fellows in accordance with moral principle.”
The three papers discuss respectively True and false democracy,
Education of public opinion, and Democracy and education.
* * * * *
“Three sane and simple addresses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
=Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.
“The papers are admirably phrased and merit thoughtful reading.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07, 150w.
“The addresses are worthy of their audiences, being considered and
cultured deliverances upon the general topic of the value of knowledge
in politics and the duty of educated men to assume their share in
cultivating a public sentiment which shall distinguish the mob from
the people.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 470w.
“The conversance with affairs which we have just noted as an
indispensable part of the equipment of the modern university president
gives particular point to these thoughtful and suggestive addresses.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.
“This is a book full of sound sense from beginning to end.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 430w.
=Butler, Pierce.= Judah P. Benjamin. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.
7–21376.
A sketch of the life of Judah B. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer and
statesman who, “after conspicuous success at the bar in this country,
after continuous service in the leadership of the Confederacy, again
achieved the most honorable triumphs at the bar of England.” The
biographer’s main difficulty in approaching his work has been
insufficiency of material upon this great advocate’s private life. A
few letters with such details as members of Mr. Benjamin’s family
could furnish, constitute the information for the personal side of the
sketch. For his public and professional activities ample records make
possible accuracy even to the smallest details.
* * * * *
“The only great contribution of the volume is in its orderly
assembling of materials which are familiar, in detail, to the average
historian.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Butler has succeeded pretty well in collecting his material, and
nothing of value known to be extant seems to have escaped him. No
attempt is made to portray Mr. Benjamin as a faultless character. But
the true greatness of the man is appreciated and will be felt by all
who read these pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“His is not a book of any marked literary merit (suffering especially
from an undue tendency to quotation), but it is careful, conscientious
and convincing. With few exceptions, too, it is free from rancor and
partisanship.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07, 420w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 290w.
=Butler, William.= Golfer’s guide; with an introd. by Dr. Macnamara.
*$1. Lippincott.
A thorogoing hand-book of golf for beginners. Uniform with “The
complete bridge player,” and “The complete fisherman.”
=Butler, William Francis.= Lombard communes. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–9819.
“In no very picturesque phrase, but at the same time in easily
understood language, Mr. Butler recounts the history of the
city-states of Lombardy, the rule of the early bishops, the rights of
the communes, the history of Milan, Lombardy’s natural capital, the
first and second Lombard leagues, and the final struggles of the
communes.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is not a work of research, based upon the original
resources; but it is scholarly and well written. There is, indeed, no
other book in English which covers the ground so satisfactorily.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 240w.
“While heartily commending his industry, accuracy, and general level
of attainment, we may fairly warn the reader that his treatment is
such as is ordinarily characterized by the term ‘popular.’ We have
rarely seen a better book written by an Englishman about Italy.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 370w.
“The work would be improved by topical side notes giving dates. The
author’s style is clearly intelligible and soberly dignified; it will
win respectful attention, although it may not compel enthusiasm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 520w.
“A book to be read in connection with Symond’s ‘Age of the despots’
has long been a desideratum—a clear and comprehensive account of North
Italy from the Roman times down at least to the middle of the
fourteenth century. Such a book is now at hand in Mr. Butler’s
‘Lombard communes.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.
=Butterworth, Hezekiah.= Story of the hymns and tunes, by Theron Brown
and Hezekiah Butterworth. *$1.50. Am. tract.
7–6630.
In this volume have been combined Mr. Butterworth’s “The story of the
hymns” and “The story of the tunes.” There have also been added modern
hymns and tunes that “have won recognition since the books were first
published.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. Butterworth himself passed over his manuscript to Mr. Brown, who
has executed his difficult task not only with sympathy for his
subject, but with no little original research. This work is more
valuable than most popular books on hymns and also more readable.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23, ’07. 180w.
“Many helpful historic and biographic facts are given; nor do the
authors disdain anecdote.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of early England. (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22918.
Tales retold for children which reflect the English and Celtic social
life and manners up to the fifteenth century. Such old favorites are
included as the story of Beowulf, of Cynewulf and Cyneherd, of Alfred
and Guthrum, and of Caedmon; stories of “Old English charms,” of
Richard Lion-Heart, of Olger the Dane and many another. The author has
preserved the glamour of knighthood and chivalry sure to delight the
young reader.
* =Bynner, Witter.= Ode to Harvard. **$1. Small.
7–22080.
This ode limns the impression of a graduate revisiting his Alma mater
in after years. “The poem rises by thoughtful and natural stages from
the discursive and anecdotal early passages to the heightened
concentration of the close, where, with a fine idealism, he evolves
the precise nature of the debt which every man owes to his Alma
mater.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is a lengthy composition of jocose patter, lacking in both dignity
and restraint. The miscellaneous poems ... make a somewhat better
impression, although their artistic quality remains inconsiderable.”
Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 230w.
“A poem that succeeds in spite of his deficiencies, by virtue of the
genuineness of its emotional content, and, too, by a certain air of
elegance which comes fresh upon us at every turn and creates a very
distinct impression of the personality of the poet.” William Aspenwall
Bradley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 500w.
“Clever and sprightly reminiscence is this, yet not altogether born of
a gay insouciance, for the inscrutable light peers out of the jester’s
eyes. His lyrics show the same duality, the light note pierced through
with the poignant.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 367. D. ’07. 130w.
=Byrne, Austin Thomas.= Treatise on highway construction; designed as a
textbook and work of reference for all who may be engaged in the
location, construction, or maintenance of roads, streets, and pavements.
5th ed. $5. Wiley.
7–20713.
The author has set himself to the task of collating the varied mass of
scattered information on highway construction and working it over into
an accessible work of reference. It is the fifth edition revised and
enlarged.
* * * * *
“The book is full of anachronisms and antiquated statements, and the
reader may be unable to separate the ancient from the modern. Parts,
at least, of the book give one the impression that they have been
written hastily and with too little regard for the precision of
statement one naturally expects in engineering books; and the
qualifications necessary to make statements of fact accurate and
reliable are often wanting. It seems a great pity that a book designed
to be a vade-mecum, and otherwise so admirable, should be marred by
such faults. Nevertheless it is a book that should be in the library
of every municipal engineer.” S. Whinery.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 177. Ag. 15, ’07. 2390w.
C
=Cabell, James Branch.= Gallantry. $2. Harper.
7–32561.
“An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.”
There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is
also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry
ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The
illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.
* * * * *
“His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in
prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr.
Andrew Lang.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 120w.
“We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a
masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more
merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example,
‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 450w.
“A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman.= Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
6–33635.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.
“Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter,
mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 110w.
“I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the
book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that
are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real
life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 103. Je. ’07. 870w.
“This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions
helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and
fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual
‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 507. Jl. ’07. 1720w.
“The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a
chief merit of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 186. Ag. 29, ’07. 160w.
“This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art
of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.
+ + =School. R.= 15: 231. Mr. ’07. 1080w.
=Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George.= Women’s work
and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
7–11022.
“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in
the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from
the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a
tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The
book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative
agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade
union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before
themselves have been successfully accomplished.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.
“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P.
Breckinridge.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w.
“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and
social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably
enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer
view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of
book they were setting themselves to produce.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished
any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the
employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed
studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account
of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity
from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain
from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.”
Edith Abbott.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w.
=Nation.= 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w.
“The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive
and instructive material.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 450. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.
“The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most
valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 175. Mr. ’07. 530w.
=Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
* =Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.
7–36959.
A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters
working in this country and traces the various influences that have
played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with
his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national
life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who
best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper,
and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of
reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 359. D. ’07. 600w.
“He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of
the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few
mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of
valuable information.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 90w.
* =Cain, Georges.= Nooks and corners of old Paris; tr. by Frederick
Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37532.
Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left
bank of the Seine, and The right bank of the river, M. Cain has set
forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone
days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner
in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all
interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary
tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and
the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an
excellent gift-book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 600w.
“There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the
landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four
delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the
germs of the great city of to-day.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
* =Caird, Edward.= Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of
Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.
“Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals
more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life;
three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national
patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and
‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of
Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A
sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general
view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in
human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the
perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and
truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’
and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the
Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 609. N. 16. 1520w.
“These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a
great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on
the problems of human destiny.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 2260w.
“Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought
plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a
finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the
intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This
volume should find place in all college libraries.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Caird, Mrs. Mona.= Romantic cities of Provence: il. by Joseph Pennell
and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
6–45159.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 1290w.
“The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent
wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more
melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies
of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off.
There is not one dull page in the book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 240w.
“She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she
should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost
depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse
when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine
tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them
apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating
places.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 29, ’06. 740w.
“It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to
her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts
so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely
studied.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 240w.
“She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and
adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the
Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so
picturesquely.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 220w.
=Cairns, D. S.= Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.
7–15937.
Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has
come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as
people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for
greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power
to moralize the selfishness of the individual by transforming private
interest into the ideal of a common good.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Cairns’s warning is needed; but his
book is by no means free from an a-priori-coloring.” Gerald Birney
Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 706. O. ’07. 540w.
“These essays exhibit a thoroly modern spirit and both logical and
literary ability of a high order.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 456. Ag. 22, ’07. 400w.
“As a piece of Christian apologetic, the effort of Mr. Cairns is on a
higher plane than that of much recent work.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 720w.
“Rarely, if ever, has the subject of the book been better treated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w.
=Caldecott, W. Shaw.= Solomon’s temple: its history and its structure.
*$2.50. Union press.
A fresh treatment, the outgrowth of diligent research, which makes the
Biblical narrative its own interpreter, and which dwells at length
upon the architectural details of the Hebrew temple.
* * * * *
“Although we cannot accept all Mr. Caldecott’s conclusions we welcome
his volume as a solid and thoughtful contribution to the subject; he
has boldly departed from the hard, beaten track and struck out an
original line, and his reward will doubtless be an increased interest
in the investigation of the problem he has so vigorously attacked.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 796. Ag. 17, ’07. 850w.
“Though sometimes vivid and even dramatic, it is written in a confused
and repetitive style, and occasionally we find contradictions ... and
some uncertainty in treating of contemporary Egyptian history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 460w.
“On his proper subject, the construction of the temple and the
adjoining palaces, our author has much that is interesting to tell
us.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 250w.
=Calhoun, Mary E.= Dorothy’s rabbit stories. †$1. Crowell.
7–24584.
A group of children’s stories which a little southern girl tells to
her kitten Kim. “Neighbor rabbit” figures as a thoroly enjoyable hero,
and seems to bear kinship to Uncle Remus’s “br’er rabbit.”
* * * * *
“For the child of this decade who has not read ‘Uncle Remus,’
‘Dorothy’s rabbit stories’ will prove fascinating.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 60w.
=Calkins, Franklin Wells.= Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the
wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50.
Revell.
7–16943.
“With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a
thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians.
Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail
which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a
creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely
how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual
allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of
tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and
simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding
self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains
matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge
and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in
the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that
adds to its charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Calkins, Mary Whiton.= Persistent problems of philosophy: an
introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
7–11605.
“The professor of philosophy in Wellesley college has made a most
useful résumé and exposition of the tendencies and doctrines of modern
philosophy since Descartes. The bibliographies are especially good.
Readers who desire to become familiar with the presentation of the
movement called Pragmatism will find here succinct definitions and
helpful references to recent literature on the subject.” (Educ. R.)
“It differs from most introductions of the kind in that it is
historical, and from most histories of philosophy in that it is
critical.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Educ. R.= 33: 534. My. ’07. 80w.
“The historical and critical portions of the volume are written with a
facile pen. Few recent treatises on philosophy have combined so
constant reference to the sources with so readable an expository
style. The writer exhibits, moreover, a comprehensive acquaintance
with the history of modern thinking, at the same time that she
exercises independent historical judgment.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 440. Ag. 1, ’07. 1540w.
“Professor Calkins not only criticises, but constructs, and sets forth
her own doctrine with such ability that she should have a
distinguished place among contemporary Hegelians.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 910w.
“Insight, poise, and a fine blending of clarity with brevity make this
an eminently serviceable book for [serious students]. Such a work, in
addition to her well-wrought ‘Introduction to psychology,’ gives
Professor Calkins a distinction among American women as meritorious as
it is unique.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 420w.
=Call, Annie Payson.= Everyday living. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–37967.
That the knowledge of God’s law of liberty is power to the person who
will gain it, nay, use it, is the theme running thru Mrs. Call’s dozen
and more essays. There is the note of impersonal freedom which
everybody can catch if he but work. She sets forth working principles,
approved by experiment, which clear away the mists of material
existence.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07. S.
“The statements are so bare as to read like platitudes in many
instances, and the manner is unnecessarily didactic.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 200w.
=Call, Annie Payson.= Heart of good health. **30c. Crowell.
7–21545.
A monologue urging the training for the human body that corresponds to
the progress of the soul in its regeneration. The little volume
belongs to the “What is worth while series.”
=Calthrop, Dion Clayton.= Dance of love. †$1.50. Holt.
7–31413.
A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting
from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin,
the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an
opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The
dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.
* * * * *
“Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will
certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and
vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers
of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a
short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form
with considerable dramatic effect.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: sup. 114. N. 9, ’07. 900w.
“Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 950w.
“This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right
mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Calthrop, Dion Clayton.= English costume; painted and described by Dion
Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.
6–32380.
A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject
into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and
Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to
everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be
invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many
tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes
are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.”
(Acad.)
* * * * *
“We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us,
are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all
his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others
provokingly trivial.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a
treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old
manuscripts and missals.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 370w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task,
particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The
book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other
authorities.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 340w. (Review of v. 4.)
“After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can
handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he
certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction.
He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in
the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 620w.
“Unfortunately, however, it is impossible entirely to endorse this
very high estimate of a book which, though brightly and humorously
written, does not contain much that is new.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 29: 364. O. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The full-page illustrations in colour are by no means satisfactory,
the artist’s sartorial lore being far superior to his technical skill
and knowledge of the anatomy of the human form. The best drawings in
the book are the small reproductions after the Dightons.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ − =Liv. Age.= 252: 571. Mr. 2, ’07. 660w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.) (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“If he had gone a little further and a little deeper, if he had kept
clear of a certain annoying jauntiness of style, his book, valuable
already, might have been of still greater worth.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18. ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“As a book of reference it loses half its value from the absence of an
index; as a serious history of clothes it suffers from the author’s
attempt to be sprightly; as a book of entertainment, it is too
learned. Taken as a whole, as a work at once moderately entertaining
to read and moderately useful for study, it may serve a purpose.”
+ − =Nation.= 84. 454. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of
delight to the casual reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though
he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of
division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided
ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly
chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of
the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way.
If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an
amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 335. S. 15, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.= Petrarch: his life, work and times.
(Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.
A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald
and prophet of the renaissance.
* * * * *
“The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of
years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of
all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters,
to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme
obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is
hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but
with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for,
these slight blemishes may be removed.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 573. N. 9. 1740w.
“An interesting sketch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.
The history which forms the background of this volume covers the
Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors.
“The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable
state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and
variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it
is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his
first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the
pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by
the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which
include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of
architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int.
Studio.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Calvert has a profound knowledge of the Alhambra as it is now and
as it was at every stage of its chequered life-story, and he has the
gift of imparting that knowledge in an impressive and satisfying
manner.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Escorial: a historical and descriptive
account of the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum. (Spanish
ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
In picture and text this proves the first exhaustive English treatment
of the Escorial—the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum in
one.
* * * * *
“The views of the garden of the Casita de Abajo and of the interior of
the Escorial itself are satisfactory and characteristic; the
photographs of pictures and tapestries are much less effective; while
the reproductions of Alfonso’s ‘Cantigas de Sancta Maria’ and other
literary rarities are on so reduced a scale as to be virtually
useless. Mr. Calvert’s text is compiled from Rotondo’s work, but he
has introduced a considerable number of errors which imply, we fear,
insufficient knowledge of Spanish history and literature.”
− − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 260w.
“The text ... is the merest hack work ... though readable enough. One
may gather from the whole some notion at least of what the Escorial is
like and what it signifies in history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 480. Ag. 3, ’07. 390w.
=Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 1008. Je. 29, ’07. 150w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Seville: an historical and descriptive
account of The pearl of Andalusia. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
One of Mr. Calvert’s series on Spain. Seville, “great because of her
past, and actual because of her vivid present,” (Outlook) is treated
historically with emphasis placed upon the preservation by the
Christians of the memorials of Moslem occupation. There is an account
of the artists of Seville, including, prominently, Murillo. The
illustrations include a view of the city from various points of view,
its buildings, and fully sixty reproductions of famous works of art.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 80w.
“This book should appeal alike to the tourist, artist, archaeologist,
and historical student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 270w.
“This is a volume of the ‘Spanish series,’ and, as might be expected,
not surpassed—perhaps, one might say equalled—in interest by any
other.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w.
=Calvert, Albert F., and Hartley, Catherine G.= Prado: a guide and
handbook to the Royal picture gallery at Madrid. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25.
Lane.
One of the first volumes in a series dealing with Spain in its various
aspects, its history its cities and monuments. This one is devoted to
Madrid’s famous “congress of masterpieces”—the Prado. “The text does
no more than tell in a general way something about the painters
represented, name the more famous masterpieces, indicate the division
into schools, and show how these schools, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch,
are represented.” (N. Y. Times.) There are two hundred and twenty-one
illustrations.
* * * * *
“Equally pleasing as the style is the general construction of the
book. I must break a lance, several lances, with authors and producers
with regard to the _excellence_ of the illustrations in this
particular issue.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 622. Je. 29, ’07. 2240w.
“It contains much sound and sympathetic criticism of the principal
pictures in the gallery of the Prado, set forth in a pleasant, sober
style.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 590w.
“The chief value of this volume lies in the pictures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 320w.
=Calvert, Thomas Henry.= Regulation of commerce under the federal
constitution. (Studies in constitutional law, v. 3.) $3. Thompson.
7–12250.
This book is based mainly upon an examination of decisions of the
Supreme court of the United States, arranged in such order that
together they make a critical commentary upon a constitutional power.
* * * * *
“The arrangement is logical, the cases well chosen, and the
significant points in decisions clearly formulated. The book lacks
attractiveness for the general reader in the fact that it contains
little else than cases—almost no comment, explanation, or summary.
Neither does it possess sufficient originality to enable it to usurp
the places occupied by its predecessors.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 43. Je. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The law student, the practicing lawyer, the legislator, the man of
affairs, will all find here an orderly presentation of the subject,
with ample references to original decisions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 267. Ap. 27, ’07. 960w.
“A work of this character should be a digest having the merits which
go to make an index valuable. It should be complete, brief, logically
arranged and clearly stated. These merits the author cannot claim.” E.
Parmalee Prentice.
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 336. Je. ’07. 510w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G.
W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
2–26356.
=v. 10.= The restoration.
This volume deals with the principles and problems that occupied
statesmen during “the period of reaction and ebullition which followed
the close of the Napoleonic wars.” (Outlook)
* * * * *
“Many of these essays are excellent and some of them deal with the
subject indicated by the title: others are not up to the standard, and
some have no apparent connection with the theme.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 654. D. 29, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The chief section of the book is constituted by Professor Ward’s able
treatment of the war as a whole, in its narrower sense; thorough as is
the writer’s grasp of the field, he has little gift of narration,
leaves no vivid impressions of either men or events, and casts no new
light on problems.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 627. Ap. ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 4.)
“On the whole we may conclude that the volume is, in some respects, a
distinct contribution to the literature of the subject in English, and
in spite of the defects natural to such a work, is likely to prove
very useful for many purposes.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 143. O. ’07. 1440w. (Review of v. 10.)
“There is altogether too little of the economic and social side of
history in this work.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 653. My. ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This volume has not always triumphed over the tendency to make a
history of these periods of recovery a résumé of names and dates.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 173. Ag. 17. 1880w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It cannot but be acknowledged that no single author in this volume
has succeeded in conveying ideas as Lord Acton, himself has conveyed
them in his lectures.” E. D. Adams.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 223. Ap. 1, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 4.)
“If there appears less unity in this volume, because there is no great
central figure or theme, it nevertheless possesses sound utility.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 288. N. 1, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 10.)
“This is incontestably one of the most important, best-written, and
most homogeneous of the volumes of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ that
have appeared so far.” W. E. Rhodes.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 807. O. ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A notable feature of the volume—it will remain an exceptional feature
of this particular volume, the editors inform us—are its
bibliographies, especially that of the extant original manuscripts and
contemporary narrative and controversial literature of the Thirty
years’ war, based on the collections in Lord Acton’s library, without
which, indeed, it could not have been compiled.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Every library should have it, and the busy scholar who wants facts,
not eloquent fiction, will secure it for reference, but no one will
read it over his evening pipe. In this regard it cannot be esteemed an
equal to the French cooperative work, the ‘Histoire generale,’ which
is always lucid and sometimes interesting.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The chapters are often of great merit, and there are fewer dull
parts, omissions, repetitions, and inconsistencies than in some of the
previous volumes.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 226. Jl. 19, ’07. 2610w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Everywhere one finds care, accuracy and a businesslike spirit, which
presents the facts in a clear and coherent way.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 166. Ag. 22, ’07. 2590w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =Nation.= 85: 327. O. 10, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Altogether, it will be seen that I regard the plan of the ‘Cambridge
modern history’ as unsatisfactory. It is a compromise between the
needs of the general reader and the special student.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 4.)
“If the present volume happens to be more than usually dull, it is
because it deals with a period of the world’s history in which the
world was for the most part marking time and preparing the way for
startling developments.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The development during the first half of the period has been
conscientiously if not entertainingly, described in the ponderous
volume.” G. Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Sat. R.= 103: 49. Ja. 12, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 10.)
Cambridge natural history, v. 1. *$4.25. Macmillan.
Ten large volumes will be included in this work which will cover the
natural history of the animal kingdom.
=v. 1.= “The present volume includes four of the lowest groups. The
protozoa are treated by Prof. M. M. Hartog of Queen’s college,
Cork.... The sponges are described by Miss Igerna Sollars, lecturer at
Newnham college.... The extensive and important group of jelly-fishes,
sea-anemones, and hydroids is dealt with by Prof. S. J. Hickson of the
Victoria university of Manchester.... The last group, including
star-fishes, sea-urchins, and their allies, is described by Prof. E.
W. McBride of McGill university, Montreal.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“As a guide to the scientific study of those animals with which it
deals, the whole book can be safely recommended.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In attempting to bring together within short compass many scattered
facts the authors of this and of some of the other volumes have failed
both in giving a readable account of the subjects and in
distinguishing between what is important and what is trivial.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Taken in conjunction with the earlier published volumes, the work
seems to fulfil the purpose of providing an intelligible and adequate
survey of the entire animal kingdom without giving undue prominence to
particular groups.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 31. N. 8, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The zealous student of animal morphology, or the professional
zoologist anxious to bring his knowledge up to date, will find here a
compendium upon which he can rely.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 3. My. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The different divisions are unevenly balanced as to both matter and
substance, and in two of the divisions at least, the impression is
gained that the author had mainly a book knowledge of the group he was
monographing.” G. N. C.
+ − =Science=, n. s. 26: 44. Jl. 12, ’07. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work in all cases is extremely well done.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Campbell, Harry Huse.= Manufacture and properties of iron and steel.
4th ed. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–13501.
A thoroly revised edition brought down to date by the inclusion of
valuable new matter. It is of importance to engineers and students of
metallurgy, and also to “those interested in the economics of one of
the world’s leading industries.”
* * * * *
Review by Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 500w.
“The treatment throughout is that of a thorough master of
metallurgical science, embodying not only sound theoretical
exposition, but including as well specific citations of the best
modern practice. The work ... will be found of exceeding value, not
only to engineers and students of metallurgy, but to those interested
in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 550w.
=Campbell, Reginald John.= New theology. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–11604.
A restatement of the essential truth of the Christian religion in
terms of the modern mind. The author gives an outline of his own
personal views, and some of the chapter headings are as follows: God
and the universe, Man in relation to God, The nature of evil, Jesus
the divine man, The eternal Christ, The incarnation of the Son of God,
The atonement, The authority of Scripture, and The church and the
kingdom of God.
* * * * *
“Mr. Campbell displays a vigorous hostility to traditional theological
opinions which will hardly serve to help matters. In many instances,
he cannot escape the charge of having caricatured those doctrines in
order to cast odium upon them.” Gerald Birney Smith.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 705, O. ’07. 490w.
“The weak side of Mr. Campbell’s thinking is his imperfect grasp of
finite personality. He is apt to lose his way in reveries of the
infinite. Mr. Campbell will probably come to see that his new theology
is only a halfway house which cannot be his permanent home.” David
Balsillie.
+ − =Fortnightly R.= 88: 48. Jl. ’07. 7900w.
“One cannot but honour Mr. Campbell for the courage and candour with
which he has addressed himself to what he believes to be one of the
crying needs of the church of to-day. Still I cannot but think that
the root of the evil, which he, as prophet and preacher combats, lies
deeper than he realises.” G. Tyrrell.
+ =Hibbert J.= 5: 917. Jl. ’07. 2270w.
=Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 550w.
“He is an earnest preacher, but possesses a heterogeneous mind and is
a bit daft on the doctrine of immanence and on ‘psychic
investigations.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
=Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 300w.
“His volume is interesting, it is intellectually suggestive, but it is
not self-evidently consistent. In short, it confirms the judgment
which we have heretofore expressed, that he is a preacher, not a
theologian.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 460w.
“A work of unusual clearness.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.
“A really beautiful and fervently Christian book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.
=Campbell, Reginald John.= New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33946.
A group of sermons preached from the City Temple pulpit, London, which
teach that cooperation must replace competition, brotherhood must
replace individualism; that the kingdom of love must be realized on
earth.
=Campbell, W. Wilfred.= Canada; described by Wilfred Campbell; painted
by T. Mower Martin. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–130.
Here are reproduced in picture and text wonders of Canadian scenery
“from Cape Breton to Vancouver island. The same brush has caught the
peculiar charm of the old Acadian country around the Basin of Minas,
with its quaint suggestions of a transplanted Holland: the rugged
beauty of the Gut of Canso; the ancient capital on the St. Lawrence,
with its crowding memories of other days and other ways; the wild
scenery of the Muskoka lakes; the rich coloring of the autumn
prairies; the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies, and the almost
tropical luxuriance of British Columbian valleys.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Campbell lacks the faculty of condensation, and the subjects have
proved too large for him: while Mr. Mower Martin’s part of the book is
almost always happy and suggestive. He indeed, reveals throughout an
amazing lack of perception or discrimination.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 554. Je. 8, ’07. 640w.
“The pictures both in the coloured plates and in letterpress, are to
be commended to those who want a Canadian view of Canada. The
doctrines of the author upon the future of Canada are a little
difficult to understand.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 570w.
“The value of this book to the ordinary reader is that it brings
together various kinds of information which without it would have to
be gathered from many sources. Mr. Campbell’s original work is mostly
in the descriptions, many of which are very good.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 118. S. 1, ’07. 670w.
“He has much to say, but somehow has not succeeded in saying it
effectively. The watercolour drawings of Mr. Martin show in a
noticeable degree the defects of his literary collaborator.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 280w.
“In selecting Dr. Wilfred Campbell, the well-known Canadian poet, to
write the descriptive matter for this book, the publishers made on the
whole a commendable choice.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, 510w.
“The ‘description’ let it be said at once, is rather dull reading, in
a style which suggests not so much the guide book as the promoter’s
prospectus, with a dash of that sort of sentiment which is the stock
in trade of the patriotic campaign orator. These pictures are, on the
whole, rather good than bad though, like most pictures of the sort,
they make the colors too bright.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.
“Author and painter have combined happily and successfully in
presenting Canadian life and scenery agreeably and with abundant and
dependable information.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.
“On the whole his commentary makes pleasant if not often impressive
reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 150w.
“In Mr. Martin Canada has an artist who is well fitted to do her
justice. He has the true sense for both colour and space, and while he
is not afraid of rich and startling contrasts, he always contrives to
give his pictures something of the clearness and delicacy of the
Canadian atmosphere.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 197. Ag. 10, ’07. 690w.
=Campbell, Wilfred J.= Ian of the Orcades. †$1.50. Revell.
A tale of the North Sea coast of Scotland in the days of King Robert
Third. “It is full of dark deeds and violence, and the lusts of the
flesh, and we suppose that the author desires to put the picture
forward as a genuine study of the past.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Campbell’s effort cannot compare with the best of the sort. It is
more conventional, more titanic, and somewhat sentimental.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.
“The book is to be valued, not merely as a thrilling tale of bygone
times, but as a curious work of art by which an author has produced
the impression of a chant with words that are common and are musical
simply by imparting into them the meaning of old fancies.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
“It is a good story, full of adventures and excitements, although
somewhat wordy in the telling.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“There seems to be something like a mist over the whole story.”
− =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Candee, Helen Churchill.= Decorative styles and periods in the home;
with 177 il. **$2. Stokes.
6–43919.
Furniture makers no less than the collector and general reader will
find instruction in this well-printed and fully illustrated study of
furniture from antiquity thru the Renaissance to the present time.
* * * * *
“A readable and careful study.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. S.
“Mrs. Candee is somewhat flamboyant and rhapsodic in her style, and
her taste is more generous than chaste. Mrs. Candee does not seem to
understand the importance and influence of the English
eighteenth-century schools of design.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 240w.
“In spite of such fine writing, this book is a valuable one and full
of information.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The text is oddly composed, with unusual turns of language, but it is
intelligible, and the distinction between styles has evidently been
clear to the writer. There is a little too free a treatment of the
periods.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 150w.
=Canfield, Chauncey L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$1.25. Shepard,
Morgan.
6–43550.
Questionable as to its authenticity, this volume is a record of life
in a mining-camp on one of the forks of the Yuba river from May 18,
1850, to June 17, 1852.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 731. Ap. ’07. 70w.
“Presents certain phases of a life forever passed, simply,
picturesquely, and vividly, and hence, whether diary or reminiscence,
has interest and historical value.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode.
†$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
There is great strength in this story, and it is so planned that a
beautiful self centered American girl traveling through Norway in
company with a sister, an admirer and an aged aunt, is contrasted
strongly with Gunhild, a Norwegian peasant. This girl, born in
America, a child of the people, shows among her northern snows a depth
of soul that belittles the conventional thought of the society girl;
and the man stirred by something deeper and more profound than his
life has yet known, turns from the girl he might have married to
Gunhild and finds that she too is not for him.
* * * * *
“‘Gunhild’ is her first novel, and a promising one.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 260w.
=Canfield, William Walker.= The spotter: a romance of the oil region.
$1.50. Fenno.
7–27157.
A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy
Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the
victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete
reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators,
spotters and moonshiners.
* * * * *
“Melodramatic fiction.”
− =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w.
* =Canning, Albert S. G.= Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4.
Jacobs.
The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II.,
Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of
exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of
quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.
* * * * *
“Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any
other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry
to small beer.”
− =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w.
“We have seldom occasion to examine a more unnecessary book. It
contains no learning and, except in the quotations, no wit; the style
is that of a schoolboy; the general intelligence is barely mediocre.
The few explanatory notes are borrowed from an out-of-date commentary,
and are often inaccurate.”
− − =Nation.= 85: 427. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“On points of history his adequate comments are fitly introduced. The
unsatisfactoriness of the book results from faults of omissions,
leaving a volume of no little usefulness on its positive side.” George
S. Hellman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 780w.
“These essays ... are conscientious, but they are nothing more. The
themes upon which Coleridge and Lamb have lavished their genius ...
cry aloud for a more inspired and a more original treatment than that
which Mr. Canning has given them. Nor are the passages selected for
quotation always those which particularly deserve attention and
comment.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 480w.
=Capek, Thomas.= Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and Panslavism. priv. ptd. T.
Capek, 225 E. 71st St., N. Y.
6–6749.
Including statistical information concerning the American Slovaks;
something of their ambitions and efforts. “Much of the book is taken
up with matters of discontent over the Magyar domination and others of
peculiar concern to the home country.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“While we have no desire to question the aim and purpose of the
writer, we believe that a greater service would have been performed if
he had aimed to interpret to the American people more of the virtues
and qualities which make the Slovak immigrant a desirable addition to
our population.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 207. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The book is interesting as containing much information about a
country and people little known, and especially as throwing light upon
the complexities of that wonderful polyglot empire of Francis Joseph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 50w.
=Card, Fred Wallace.= Farm management. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–12691.
A thoro-going treatment of the subject from the standpoint of business
methods. The discussion includes business accounts, suggestions for
watching markets, time for marketing various products, and adaptation
to local conditions.
* * * * *
“Practical, suggestive, probably the best of the ‘Farm library’ series
yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.
“A practical book, an intensely practical book, it is, nevertheless,
to a man with the farm bee buzzing in his bonnet, as fascinating as a
Persian tale. The book is unique in agricultural literature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Angel of forgiveness. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31281.
A young girl’s story of her own life from the ago of eight to
eighteen. They are full years, for in them she learns much thru
sickness and suffering, she finds the mother she had always thought
dead in the person of her dearest cousin and brings her back to the
home she had left in her young wife-hood and to the husband who loves
her. Then, when the angel of forgiveness has brought joy to her home
she leaves it, a bride of eighteen, to mother the children of a
husband much her senior and with him to find true happiness.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The way out of the dilemma has been happily contrived by Miss Carey,
and the whole book is pleasant to read.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 672. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
=Carling, George.= Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
6–34796.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The atmosphere of greed and treachery is unpleasant from first to
last but for all that the account of these latter-day land-pirates is
absorbing.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.
=Carling, John R.= By Neva’s waters; being an episode in the secret
history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. †$1.50. Little.
7–21539.
An episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all
the Russias. There are love and court intrigue in plenty, which center
chiefly about a young English lord whose love affair with the czarina
is in the end forgiven because he did not know she was a wife, and
she, owing to a strange lapse of memory, had forgotten her estate. It
is a book which holds the interest until the last strand of the plot
is untangled.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Carlson, John S.= Swedish grammar and reader. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
7–23330.
A practical text-book for the school-room and home, which lays no
claim to a purely scientific exposition of the principles of language.
* * * * *
“This is a book that has been much needed, and does for the student of
Swedish what Professor Julius Olson’s similar work does for the
student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the ‘reader’ section
of the volume are judiciously made and of much interest.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 60w.
“A new and thoroughly practical text-book for the elementary study of
Swedish.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 40w.
=Carpenter, Edward Childs.= Code of Victor Jallot: a romance of old New
Orleans. il. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–31421.
A story of the early nineteenth century whose scenes are laid in
Louisiana. A French refugee, a Beau Brummel type of hero with plenty
of sturdier qualities of manhood, fights for the love of “mademoiselle
of the magnolias” and wins.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Carpenter, Frank G.= Foods; or, How the world is fed. *60c. Am. bk.
7–20683.
The first book of a series upon the great industries of the world. It
aims to provide a knowledge of the production and preparation of
foods, and to show how civilization and commerce grew from man’s need
of foods and the exchange of foods between the different nations of
the earth.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07. ✠
“The boy who has read it will be much better prepared for economic
studies later on than the boy who has never become interested in any
of these things.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 220w.
=Carpenter, Margaret Boyd.= Child in art. $2. Ginn.
A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty
reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume
sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the
development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.
* * * * *
“The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an
unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
“Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the
book.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Carpenter, Rolla Clinton.= Experimental engineering and manual for
testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th
rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.
6–16782.
“The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many
revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid
of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to
present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Despite these rather damaging criticisms, it must be said in
conclusion that the book has many features which make it a valuable
addition to engineering literature. It is to be hoped that, in the
next edition, the author will re-edit the book throughout, correct the
errors, omit such descriptive matter and verbiage as is unnecessary,
add to subjects which are incomplete, and thus produce a model, not
only as regards superficial pretensions, but also as regards real
worth.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 519. N. 15, ’06. 2930w.
=Carr, Sarah Pratt.= Iron way; a tale of the builders of the West.
†$1.50. McClurg.
7–12274.
“A romance of the gold-fever days in California which shifts scene to
follow the course of construction of the Central Pacific railway. The
traditions, heroic deeds and thrilling adventures associated with the
building of this highway across the continent are recorded from the
author’s memory. The book has a buoyant pioneer atmosphere.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 140w.
“One feels that one is reading authentic history, but such is the art
of the writer that the deftly inwoven romance—a captivating love
story—remains the predominant interest. It would appear that the book
is Mrs. Carr’s debut in literature, yet it is written with an ease, a
freshness and a power which many a practised hand would be glad to
have acquired.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 240. Ap. 13, ’07. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
=Carr, W. M.= Open hearth steel castings. $1.50. Penton pub.
7–33981.
“This little book is a reprint of a series of articles which were
published in the ‘Iron trade review’ and ‘The foundry,’ in 1905 and
1906. It comprises chapters on: Raw materials for acid and basic
practice and moldings; open hearth furnace construction; fuels and
accessories; manipulation of acid and of basic heats; chemical and
physical tests; relation between chemical composition and physical
properties; blowholes and checks in steel castings; heat treatment and
annealing; repairing with thermit, and cost of equipment.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Each subject is treated briefly and the information given is
well-chosen, useful and accurate, reflecting the author’s own
experience in practice, and utilizing advantageously the small amount
of printed space occupied. It is written in a clear manner and the
greater part of it will be comprehensible even to men who have no
technical education.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 350w.
=Carrington, Hereward.= Physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent
and genuine. **$2. Turner, H. B.
7–17909.
A brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a
criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the
methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The book is
mainly devoted to exposing the frauds of professional mediums.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 130w.
“This book is interesting, it is amusing, it is even, in its
revelation of the frauds practised by nearly every professional
medium, revolting. The paramount impression this writer conveys is
that of being a fair and openminded gentleman of excellent balance and
keen intelligence.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 550w.
“It is, indeed, a storehouse of raw material from which one may learn
to generalize safely about the psychology of deception.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.
=Carroll, Benajah Harvey.= Political history of Europe from 1815 to
1848, based on continental authorities. $2. Baylor univ. press, Waco,
Texas.
6–13425.
A volume which “is intended to give American students, an accurate if
somewhat succinct account of the course of Post-Napoleonic European
political history,” and “does not pretend to be more than a
compilation from the best and most accessible and usually untranslated
continental authorities.”
* * * * *
“The author was apparently in too great haste to attend much to the
medium of his thoughts. Present and past tenses and conditions are
mixed up indiscriminately, and extraordinary language is indulged in.
Most of it is fairly good, and the characterizations of public men are
at times excellent. But the arrangement is poor and detail is usually
put in where uncalled for; the disjointed sections give little
impression of continuity and do not make clear the general
development; nothing stands out in bold relief.” Victor Coffin.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 947. Jl ’06. 530w.
“The work may have its place as a survey of the history of the period
for an elementary class, but should not have been introduced to the
general public in its present form.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 464. N. ’06. 170w.
“It does not pretend to be based on sources, and apparently the only
authority mentioned is Lord’s ‘Beacon lights of history.’ The book,
however, displays considerable historical reading, and contains a few
useful suggestions and apt quotations. In some respects it is a
literary curiosity; it is written in an English more vigorous than
elegant, and was evidently prepared in great haste.... All things
considered, the book seems to have no justification for its
existence.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 191. Mr. ’07. 170w.
=Carson, William Henry.= Evelyn Van Courtland. $1.50. Fenno.
7–29570.
Jealousy incites Howard Van Courtland to murder his business partner.
Malcolm, a young clerk in their employ, is accused and the story is
mainly concerned with the trial in which Van Courtland’s daughter,
learning of her father’s guilt, is bent upon clearing Malcolm. She
draws information from the prosecuting attorney and passes it on to
the defendant’s counsel, all of which finally proves of no avail until
in a dramatic court-room scene the father confesses his guilt and dies
suddenly. In the end misunderstandings are adjusted and love wins a
hard fought battle.
* * * * *
“Here is another novel hinging on the unwritten law. It is not as
unsavory as some of its kind, and, as its lack of distinction
precludes the probability of a wide circulation, it is not likely to
do any harm.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
=Cartrie, Count de.= See =La Villeniere, T.-A. T. de la C.=
=Carus, Paul.= Our children; hints from practical experience for parents
and teachers. *$1. Open ct.
7–2052.
Written by “one of the most distinguished exponents of the new
philosophical conception known as monism.” It supplements Froebelism
with the results of recent scientific investigation and advanced
psychological methods. “In the chapter which treats upon the subject
of punishment, we get the key-note to the author’s ethical principles.
Like Tolstoy, and like a greater Teacher, he advocates non-resistance
of evil with evil. Retaliation is condemned, a lie must be overcome by
truth, wrong by right and violence by patience.... Punishment, Dr.
Carus declares, ought to be the ‘consequence of a wrong act which is
brought home to the knowledge and sentiments of the child.’”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Like Huxley he knows the secret of clothing abstruse subjects in an
attractive garb and his works have a popular appeal. It will prove of
especial interest and value to those engaged in kindergarten work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 24: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 300w.
“Written in thought-provoking style. The book contains many hints from
practical experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 40w.
=Carver, Thomas Nixon=, comp. Sociology and social progress. *$2.75.
Ginn.
6–5680.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
+ =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.
“A timely and valuable book. The selections from large works, which is
no easy task, are judiciously made. He has supplied an introduction to
it of his own, in which he sets forth as clearly as has ever been done
the true scope and method of sociology. His treatment is thoroughly
sane.” Lester F. Ward.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 27. Ja. 4, ’07. 1110w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Works of James McNeill Whistler; a study.
**$4. Moffat.
7–3697.
Not so much a work of ultimate authority and exhaustive knowledge, as
an intelligent and reasoned view of Whistler’s work for the benefit of
the reader of somewhat limited opportunities.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
=Current Literature.= 42: 289. Mr. ’07. 810w.
“As a piece of critical writing, it is eminently sound and true to
right principles. The aptness of Miss Cary’s phraseology is deserving
of more than casual comment. Exception must, however, be taken to one
expression.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 218. Ap. 1, ’07. 1540w.
“A book which comprehensively covers the field of Whistler’s
accomplishments and embodies a perspicuous account of his methods.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1404. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 360w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.
“In a word, it is a survey of Whistler’s artistic accomplishments,
presented in an elaborate, beautiful, pictorial setting by an author
whose experience has given her rare insight into the mysteries and
functions of artistic expression.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 15, ’06. 190w.
“Miss Cary’s book is admirably adjusted in its aim. It seems ...
equally admirable in its manner and the selection of its matter.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 640w.
“She is admirable alike in the selection of material and in the
non-technical treatment of his inspiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.
“It is indeed a patient, accurate literalness which chiefly
distinguishes this book. We get the facts, it is true, but in the end
feel somewhat deprived of that spirit which animates and transcends
mere fact—a spirit which Whistler himself possesses in so abounding a
degree and which he would seem to demand of others.” Christian
Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 370w.
=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand
millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
“Not so much a history of the steel industry itself as of the
successive efforts to capitalize that industry and of the personal
careers of the men whose fortunes have been made in steel-making,
although they themselves were in most instances as ignorant of the
industrial processes by which their wealth was gained as the average
man in the street.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Casson’s story has the merit of being remarkably inclusive, on
the historic and physical sides, as well as in its personal aspects.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 820. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 381. S. ’07. 140w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Edgerton.= My merry Rockhurst.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
7–34310.
“Some episodes in the life of Viscount Rockhurst, a friend of King
Charles II. and at one time constable of his majesty’s tower of
London.” These episodes, although they do not form a consecutive
story, all deal with the same reckless, daring cynic, loyal friend and
devoted father. They tell of his fortunes, his misfortunes, his varied
adventures, his struggles with the world and with himself, and all
have as a background the strangely romantic court at which he played
such a conspicuous part.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The tales are so ingeniously and thoroughly welded together that the
book as a whole forms a complete and satisfactory romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
* Cathedrals of England and Wales: their history, architecture and
associations. 2v. $10. Churchman co.
An opportunity is here afforded of becoming acquainted with the
character, the history, the traditions and associations connected with
the cathedrals of southern Britain.
* * * * *
“A sumptuous gift-book and the enterprise of the publishers is to be
commended. They have introduced to the American public a volume which
is a treasury of art, literature, and history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.
“The present volumes give an entertaining and, for the general reader,
an adequate account and portrayal.” Cameron Mann.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 629. O. 19, ’07. 860w.
Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the
constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church;
ed. by Chas. G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Conde B. Pallen, Thomas J.
Shahan, John J. Wynne, assisted by numerous collaborators. 15v. ea. $6.
Appleton, Robert.
7–11606.
An encyclopedia which as it is produced by American Catholic scholars
who have brought to their task the freshness of view and freedom of
inspiration that stamps Catholicism in America may be said to
represent the “ripest and most developed product of Catholic thought.”
(Lit. D.)
=v. 1.= In this first volume are to be found the contributions of over
1,000 men and women of recognized scholarship, representing 27
nationalities.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided;
some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such
violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe
our eyes when we read them.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command
attention.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable
contribution to science and a remarkable example of American
enterprise.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Though this important work has chief value and significance for
Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent
man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to
the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing
prejudices.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for
themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the
most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to
the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in
spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses
inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced
fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard
the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense
throughout the world.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
* =Cattelle, Wallis Richard.= The pearl: its story, its charm and its
value. il. **$2. Lippincott.
7–30808.
The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic
seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient
and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious
things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great.
Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions,
the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the
ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which
a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty
sea-gem to discriminate.”
=Cautley, C. Holmes.= Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.
With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the
reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained
millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but
as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is
strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the
hallmark of sincerity.”
* * * * *
“It is something to the credit of the author that he has done what he
evidently set out to do, and those who can master the dialect may like
those parts of the book which fail to attract us.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 130w.
“The author has looked with clear and kindly eyes upon life, and is
concerned only to portray it as it is. The result is a novel of very
real value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 500w.
“Mr. Cautley’s novel is too long, but there is good stuff in it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 150w.
=Cellini, Benvenuto.= Life of Benvenuto Cellini; tr. and ed. by John
Addington Symonds, with an introd. to this ed. by Royal Cortissoz. 2v.
**$6. Brentano’s.
6–40203.
This edition is complete enough for the student and artistic enough in
book workmanship for the collector. Besides Mr. Symonds’ introductory
material, Royal Cortissoz presents a “sympathetic though critical”
interpretation of the “discrepancy between Cellini’s personal
forcefulness and artistic achievement.”
* * * * *
“It may be said at once that no more distinguished piece of
book-making has come from an American press for a long while past. The
typography while usually excellent, is not impeccable.”
+ + − =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 330w.
“A more satisfying edition of this classic autobiography does not
exist in English.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.
“This reprint is likely to remain for years the preferable library
edition of these fascinating memoirs.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 150w.
“Altogether the edition presents this classic in a form of such good
taste and solid excellence of workmanship that it will be welcomed by
all lovers of literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Chadwick, Hector Munro.= Origin of the English nation. (Cambridge
archæological and ethnological ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
7–29044.
By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history,
tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author
“deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose
coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon
England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the
first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place,
being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w.
“It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but
many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in
textbook and handbook.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w.
“There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available
evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done
this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some
extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a
very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another
general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather
too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of
drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w.
“The value of the book lies in the healthy spirit of scepticism which
pervades it, and which is the outgrowth of an unusually wide knowledge
of Teutonic philology, literature and archaeology.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 180w.
“A very learned and careful work.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Chadwick, Rev. John White.= Cap’n Chadwick, Marblehead skipper and
shoemaker. *60c. Am. Unitar.
6–35723.
A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender
hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and
followed a skipper’s life in summer.
* * * * *
“In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from
start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere
its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a
sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth
telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.
=Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.= Child religion in
song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home.
$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–26993.
Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the
authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for
children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a
general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups
follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive
thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Fighting chance. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–29527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without
flaws and imperfections.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 121. F. 2, ’07. 370w.
“Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 180w.
“How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and
manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those
who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the
judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it
is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ =Forum.= 38: 544. Ap. ’07. 760w.
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with
exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–20360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into
such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for
getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 350w.
“Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume
consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 140w.
“The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through
with great spirit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–17386.
“The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each
one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of
some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the
power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of
some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.
“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very
good of their extravagant kind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.
“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in
the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent
adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in
rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his
pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in
which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or
scintillate.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Chambers, Robert W.= Younger set. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26022.
“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds
much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the
social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier;
his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of
faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a
really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and
dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more
serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the
divorce problem.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the
genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a
clever writer and a close student of character.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w.
“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental
melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w.
“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous
types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal
to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence,
such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a
sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w.
“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New
York society.”
− =Ind.= 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w.
“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of
place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters
portrayed.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce
does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and
interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and
artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 620w.
“The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more
men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all
drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a
pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
=Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 670w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling
with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr.
Chambers’s best work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 260w.
“It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average
novel of American society.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 549. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Champlain, Samuel de.= Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain
(1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together
with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with
introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
6–32458.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the
notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable
suggestions.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 290w.
“A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable
collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.
“The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of
the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and
seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct
foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 205. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 80w.
“The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading
public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute
observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more
generally known.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 960w.
=Champney, Elizabeth W.= Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.
7–431.
“From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has
collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has
retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of
the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of
the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their
walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of
famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations
which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.
* * * * *
“Carefully selected and delightfully told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07.
“Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary
guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of
the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and
undramatic.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 200w.
“She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she
feels herself.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 130w.
“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well,
but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done
this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but
names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their
very palaces.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.
“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even
though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs.
Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has
improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has
handled.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w.
“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from
the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner
most attractive to foreign readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w.
“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a
readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w.
=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.= History of the squares of London:
topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.
A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of
their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In
interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue
which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo;
Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and
Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of
Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.
* * * * *
“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill
and industry, appears at a fitting time.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w.
“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very
little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull
enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten
history, and curious reminiscence.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w.
“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that
can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but
it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400
large pages and weighs 3 lb.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often
valuable historical information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has
piled together about all the principal squares in London.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w.
=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English
literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the
important literary forms in English by a division according to types
rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise
description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a
typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and
Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in
drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of
Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama,
opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their
rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.
* * * * *
“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with
human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with
a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and
in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg
Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w.
“His work is unique in its scope.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 130w.
“Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to
skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning
with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting
account of the English literature of roguery, punctuated with
pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 744. N. 23, ’07. 1400w.
=Channing, Elizabeth Parsons.= Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a
thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–25238.
A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of
Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer
realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in
things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true,
love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith
in God.”
* * * * *
“Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially
womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of
sharing in the world’s movements.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
=Chapin, Anna Alice.= Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60.
Dodd.
6–43758.
“Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most
ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the
marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the
heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07.
“Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and
well written.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 542. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth
lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a
nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 51. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.
“An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet
one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the
attention of students.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 110w.
=Chapman, Frank Michler.= Warblers of North America, by Frank M.
Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page
colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.
7–14643.
“The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,”
including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The
special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies
being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical
references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves
nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
“To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only
the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of
constant use.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
“Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a
pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent
and authoritative value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North
America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in
North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 305. S. 6, ’07. 480w.
=Chapman, J. Wilbur.= S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace.
**$1.25. Revell.
6–29045.
The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild
youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the
transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.
* * * * *
“Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the
eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 190w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
=Charles, R. H.=, ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23
Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota
oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.
The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in
Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was
in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample
apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes
a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 320. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems
done with tolerable finality.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 300w.
=Chart, D. A.= Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns
ser.) $2. Macmillan.
7–25495.
This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author
does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth
of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its
buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country,
of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical
background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink
sketches and give value to the work.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’
book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it
goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to
say, promise of better work.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 942. S. 28, ’07. 820w.
“There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but
there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 34. Jl. 13. 1320w.
“A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 230w.
=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–25660.
A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales”
written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study
of Chaucer in the original text.
* * * * *
“When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material
which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr.
McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a
sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 100w.
“The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is
that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ...
with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them
quite within the limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should
mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive,
and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Cheney, John Vance=, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the
United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v.
*$3. Reilly & B.
6–34849; 6–35584.
Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the
inaugural addresses of our presidents.
* * * * *
“The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork
unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited
to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 100w.
=Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 682. O. 20, ’06. 1130w.
=Cheney, Warren.= His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31211.
A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama
impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting.
The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her
loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in
his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel
with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a
realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these
two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their
own happiness is the story of the book.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Chesson, Nora.= Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H.
Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.
“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no
means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.)
“Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early
part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or
another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men
and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes
him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust
of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day
have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its
vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but
its learning is never an obsession.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w.
“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story
will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious
handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to
point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy
stuff passing current as historical fiction.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it
leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth
century.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.
6–34069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive,
appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not
free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always
entertaining.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct,
than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + − =No. Am.= 183: 1047. N. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“It has the real Dickens’ merit of leaving the reader exhilarated and
on better terms with all the world.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 509. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s ‘Dickens’ is the best thing he has done in
criticism.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 634. F. ’07. 620w.
=Childe, Charles P.= Control of a scourge; or, How cancer is curable.
(New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29144.
“The purpose of the book is to teach that the dread disease of cancer
is curable by operation if taken in time. According to the diagnosis
of Dr. Childe, cancer is, in its earliest stages, entirely a local
disease, at least in many cases the result of local irritation.”
* * * * *
“The most optimistic book on cancer that has perhaps ever come from a
physician of experience without any ulterior motive.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Childe deserves the thanks of the public for his very lucid
explanation of the practical importance of the latest conclusions of
surgery.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 680w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 350w.
“Whether the subject could not have been dealt with in a quarter of
the space with equally satisfactory results as regards the general
public is a question, many of the details introduced being quite
unnecessary for the average man or woman to know.” R. T. H.
− + =Nature.= 76: 171. Je. 20, ’07. 220w.
“These two hundred pages are the more interesting in that they are
devoid of quackery and are composed in the most simple language, for
the encouragement and enlightenment of the general public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 460w.
“His book is clearly written and neither technical nor sensational.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“His book is extremely valuable.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.
=Chisholm, Louey.= Enchanted land. Pictures by Katharine Cameron. †$3.
Putnam.
Sixteen fairy tales retold and pictured in color.
* * * * *
“Many of the colour pictures are insipid and leave a great deal to be
desired.”
− =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 30w.
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 140w.
“Many of the stories will not be familiar, so that the ‘retelling’ is
welcome.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 70w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Special praise is due Miss Katharine Cameron for the coloured
illustrations which reach a high standard of excellence.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 280. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
“Miss Katharine Cameron delights in colour and indulges recklessly in
paint, her drawing is feeble, but she occasionally gets some very
pretty and Conderesque effects of colour and decoration.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Among the books of old fairy-tales retold, we wish particularly to
call attention to Miss Chisholm’s ‘Enchanted land.’”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
=Chisholm, Louey=, comp. Golden staircase: poems for children. il.
**$2.50. Putnam.
An anthology of child verse whose aim is wholly educative. The best
writers, English and American, who have written poems for children are
included.
* * * * *
“Should have a word of especially appreciative praise, because it
assumes on the part of the child a natural taste for that which is
beautiful, and a natural love for the imaginative.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“Admirable anthology.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 627. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
=Chittenden, Russell Henry.= Nutrition of man: a course of lectures
delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$3. Stokes.
7–21556.
Professional men, volunteers from the hospital corps of the United
States army, recruits from the ranks of university athletic students
form what has been termed “Professor Chittenden’s starvation squad.”
These lectures give the result of his experiments in putting willing
subjects on half rations and less.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07.
“This book is one of first-rate importance, not only to the
physiologist and physician as a guide to scientific truth, but also to
the individual, and even to the state.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 45. Jl. 13. 1220w.
“It seems safe to say that this thoroughly revolutionary work will
attract more general popular attention than any other scientific book
has attracted in many years.” Michael Williams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 329. My. 25, ’07. 2370w.
“It is interesting also to the economist, because for the first time
it bridges in part the gap between human energy and social wealth.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 568. S. ’07. 200w.
=Cholmondeley, Mary.= Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34683.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Concocts a melodrama rivaling Ouida at her most inventive, but
proceeds to recount it in a manner not unworthy the chronicler of
‘Cranford,’ or ‘The perpetual curate.’” Mary Moss.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 360w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 760w.
“We can only characterize the new book as a disappointment.” Wm. M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 120w.
Christ that is to be, by the author of Pro Christo et ecclesia. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–30464.
“A series of successive efforts to think what the gospel of Jesus
really is.” Some of the suggestive channels in which effort is
directed are the following: Our need of reformation, The actions of
Jesus, The doctrine of prayer, Salvation of joy, The use of sin, The
use of pain, Fatalism and asceticism, The devil and his angels, The
scorn of superstition; Mind and disease, Fasting and temptation, and
The sword and the muck-rake.
* * * * *
“This book is full of interest and ideas; it is well, if not too
copiously written; and with many of its main arguments we are in
agreement.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 646. N. 23. 1320w.
“What has been said affords but a very partial glimpse of a laborious
and fascinating discussion of many things—prayers, the ascetic life,
inspiration, demonology, war and the like. Its effect is not only to
stimulate thought but to excite obedience and to spread sincerity.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1000w.
“Fulfils in a great measure the promise of the earlier work; or
perhaps it would be more accurate to say that some chapters more than
fulfil that promise, while in the others the shadow of modern
superstition darkens the lucidity of the thought.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 500w.
=Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald H. Christie).= Embroidery and tapestry
weaving: a practical text-book of design and workmanship; with drawings
by the author and other. il. $2. Macmillan.
7–35144.
A practical rather than historical handbook. “Of stitches alone, some
forty kinds are here explained and illustrated by clearly drawn
diagrams; methods of work, also amply illustrated, occupy several
chapters; while others are devoted to tools, appliances, materials,
garniture, etc.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“Practical, clearly written, and well illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Christie, William Wallace.= Boiler-waters, scale, corrosion, foaming.
*$3. Van Nostrand.
6–45054.
This work has for its object to furnish steam-users with information
regarding water, its use, and troubles arising from the use of water,
and remedies that may be used or applied; the gain being more
efficient generation of steam. Numerous illustrations accompany the
text.
* * * * *
“Emphasis is given to the injurious properties of hard waters, and the
illustrations of corrosion, boiler scale, etc., are particularly well
set forth. This is by far the most interesting and valuable portion of
the book. The discussion of the chemistry of boiler-waters is
elementary and superficial. The attempt to furnish simple tests for
the use of engineers is far from satisfactory. Some of the best
methods of analysis are not given, while other descriptions are
incomplete. Furthermore, confusion is introduced by the use of many
different methods of stating results. The theory of water softening is
passed over in a few words, but the descriptions of water softening
plants as related to steam making are clear and concise.” G. C.
Whipple.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w.
“The book is well written and printed; and the material is of great
value, but it would be of greater value if the author, instead of
quoting the opinions of engineers and chemists on disputed points, had
made a more determined attempt to solve the difficult questions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.
Christmas anthology: carols and poems old and new. **50c. Crowell.
7–20856.
A holiday book which brings together carols and poems which sing of
the true spirit of Christmas, of love, of charity, of peace and good
will to all men.
=Churchill, Winston.= Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–19776.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 123. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“Reading ‘Coniston’ is very like spending a week in a remote New
England village, stopping one’s newspaper and keeping away from the
post-office.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 415. S. 7, ’06. 840w.
=Cipriani, Lisi de.= Cry of defeat. $1.25. Badger.
6–38992.
Under the sub-divisions, The cry of defeat, Words of love and sorrow,
Songs of others, A curious world, and Crumbs, appear a collection of
short poems varying in subject and merit.
* * * * *
“The only obvious technical defects do not prevent the successful
appeal to our sympathies of a sore and wounded spirit, even where the
tone is not only sorrowful but exceedingly morbid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
=Cipriani, Lisi.= A Tuscan childhood. **$1.25. Century.
7–31991.
With the buoyancy and naïveté of childhood the fourth of seven
children in an Italian patrician family sets down the incidents of
work and play that fixed the bond of allegiance among them. There is
race temperament in abundance, and yet it is the universal nature of
childhood that makes the strongest appeal.
* * * * *
“All in all, a not half bad hour may be spent over the volume, which
can also well be placed on the shelf for consultation during minor
domestic crises.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is pleasant reading for an indifferent mood.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 698. N. 2, ’07. 210w.
“Every detail in the book is so perfectly set in its place and so well
told that one feels a new and pleasant sensation in its perusal.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
=Cirkel, August.= Looking forward. $1.25. Forward pub. co.
6–42899.
“This is a conspicuous contribution to what may be called the
literature of impractical reform. Not for one but for many vital
problems in the contemporary life of the United States does Mr. Cirkel
proffer a solution. In turn he takes up and with remarkable ease
disposes of the issues raised by the growing power of corporations, by
the railway companies, by the insurance revelations, by the relations
between capital and labor, by the spread of the socialistic movement,
and by the necessity of securing an ‘elastic currency.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is quite true that there is a good deal in his pages to stimulate
thought. But this is far overbalanced by the visionary character of
the author’s principal proposals and by the extremism of many of his
views.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Claassen, H.= Beet-sugar manufacture; authorized tr. from the 2d German
ed., by W. T. Hall, and G. W. Rolfe. *$3. Wiley.
6–38550.
“The scope and plan of the book embraces the entire process of
beet-sugar manufacture from the time of the receiving of the beets to
the finished product.”—Science.
* * * * *
“A book which ranks with the very best in the sugar literature of the
day. It is a pleasure to state that [the translators’] work, too, is
everything that could be desired. A few typographical errors and slips
have crept in, but these will unquestionably be noted and corrected in
a future edition, which, no doubt, will soon be warranted.” F. G.
Wiechmann.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 104. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.
=Claremont, Leopold.= Gem-cutter’s craft. *$5. Macmillan.
7–18824.
“Describes the appearance of the different varieties of gem-stones,
gives an outline of the industry and craft of gem-cutting, tells how
to identify the real and precious article and note the difference
between it and the imitation, and provides an account of how the gems
are mined and made ready for the market either in their first rough
state, after having been freed from the minerals surrounding them, or
when cut and shaped.” (N. Y. Times.) Fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“The history of the gem from its rough state to its cut and polished
final appearance is given with remarkable clearness in this work by a
cutter of jewels, who writes in the first place for cutters.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 360w.
“The work before us constitutes almost a new departure in the
literature of precious stones.” J. W. J.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 321. Ja. 31, ’07. 1270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
=Clark, Andrew=, ed. Shirburn ballads, 1585–1616; ed. from the Ms.
*$3.40. Oxford.
They are all from a manuscript in the library of the Earl of
Macclesfield, at Shirburn castle. “This collection helps to bridge
over the gap between the earlier ballads and those of the
post-Restoration period. The variety offered is considerable; there
are ballads of religion and of politics, festive ballads and ballads
of earthquakes and monsters.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The notes of Mr. Shirburn are so learned and interesting that we must
admire them in spite of the poetry which they illustrate.” Andrew
Lang.
+ =Acad.= 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1140w.
“The editor deserves much praise for the pains he has taken to make
this book serviceable to the student of Elizabethan social conditions.
Many pieces both grave and gay, although throwing no light on
institutions or social conditions, yet have an interest to the
historian as indicating the temper of the times.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 923. Jl. ’07. 300w.
“The editor ... has done his work with great care. If we were to find
fault with anything, it would be that he does not always stick to his
antiquarian last.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 727. Je. 15. 370w.
=Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1590w.
“Perhaps the greatest importance of the collection is that it bridges
over the gap in ballad-literature between the early ballads as
represented by Prof. F. J. Child’s monumental work and those of the
post-restoration period.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 470w.
=Clark, Henry Martyn.= Robert Clark of the Panjab. **$1.75. Revell.
“This volume commemorates the life and work of a pioneer missionary
amidst a fierce and fanatical people, in northwestern India.... The
courage and gentleness, the energy and patience, the self-devotion and
tactfulness of the ideal missionary were all illustrated in him, and
he did not lack ‘the saving grace’ of a sense of humor. The narrative
is blended with sketches of the land and the people, their ways, and
the lights and shadows thence resulting. Especially noticeable are the
indications of an active interest of both officers and privates of the
British army in Christian missions, outrunning a timid policy of the
civil government.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 217. Jl. 12, ’07. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 723. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
=Clark, Henry W.= Philosophy of Christian experience. *$1.25. Revell.
W 6–328.
Mr. Clark “approaches the problem of religion and the object of
religious belief from the ethical standpoint. He proposes to treat
religion, not as a science of God and his relation to man, but as an
art, the ‘art of character-production.’ His book is itself evidence
that the Christian religion is primarily a mode of life and conduct,
rather than a system of science or philosophy.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“Mr. Clark writes eloquently and persuasively. His argument would be
stronger and more complete if he had pointed out in his chapter on
‘Christian self-culture’ how identification with Christ involves for
man the realization of a definite ideal of service and self-sacrifice.
But, on the whole, the book possesses rare merit, having a freshness
of inspiration and a cogency of thought quite unusual among works of
its class.” Henry W. Wright.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 358. Ap. ’07. 550w.
“Not often does one find an account of Christian experience which is
ethically and philosophically so sound and luminous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 200w.
=Clark, Imogen.= Santa Claus’ sweetheart. †$1.25. Dutton.
6–29778.
“Tells how a little maid hailed a passing sleigh, believing it to
contain Santa Claus, heard many wonderful things from the
merry-hearted Irishman who was driving it, and was left by him at a
lumberman’s hut in the forest, where she found her long-lost
father.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A tender little tale of Christmas time, with big type for
encouragement.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Something very charming in the way of a tale has been woven.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1309. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The incidents are the homely ones of every day life, but they are
told with such a merry tenderness as to bring out all their humor and
all their pathos, and make them glow with that spirit of the Christmas
time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
=Clark, Mrs. Mary Mead.= Corner in India. **$1. Am. Bapt.
7–20732.
“It is a simple story of life-long devotion to the missionary cause,
ending with a hopeful, if somewhat meagre, outlook.” (Nation.)
Thirty-three years of residence in her corner of the world have
brought Mrs. Clark “into contact with many interesting stories of the
home-life of the savages in Burma, of their life at work and at play,
their worship and strange legends, their relationships with
neighboring villages, and, above all, their slow acceptance of the
Christian faith offered to them by the zealous missionaries.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Her book is consequently of interest both to the casual reader who
likes to know about strange people in remote nooks of the world, and
to those readers who are vitally concerned about the spread of the
Christian religion.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Mrs. Clark’s account gains much by its lack of pretence to literary
style.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 250w.
* =Clark, Mrs. S. R. Graham.= Gail Weston. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
7–31978.
A story for young readers which follows the struggle of a mother and
her seven children with poverty. The faultfinding mother, a patient,
brave-hearted elder daughter and a loyal son who left his
grandfather’s comfortable home to shoulder his share of family burdens
are the principal actors in the little drama of toil and final
success.
=Clark, Victor S.= Labour movement in Australasia; a study in social
democracy. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43934.
Aims to describe the “history of the political labour party of
Australasia, to analyse its policy and the results of that policy so
far as applied, and at the same time to make clear the difference as
well as the similarities characterising those countries and America,
which must affect the application to our own problem of their
experience.”
* * * * *
“Not quite so interesting as Reeve’s ‘State experiments in Australia
and New Zealand’ or Lloyd’s ‘Newest England’ perhaps, but more
judicial than either, and more carefully prepared than the latter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“The book is moderate in tone and is the work of an observer anxious
to give correct impressions, hence students of labor and social
questions will find it a very useful volume, enabling them to
understand the causes and nature of the social evolution of
Australasia.” George B. Mangold.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 230. Ja. ’07. 610w.
“We highly commend the impartial statements of fact to be found in it,
combined as they are with a form and style of exposition rarely to be
met with among writers upon such topics.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 540w.
“Dr. Clark has given students of this problem a most admirable
statement of the situation in Australasia,—free from bias, well
arranged and comprehensive enough to include the essential facts.” W.
B. Guthrie.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 468. D. 15, ’07. 480w.
“It is refreshing to find an author who is willing to let the facts
speak for themselves without playing tricks on credulous partisans and
furnishing food for prejudice; and in this interesting volume the
author seems to be honestly trying to place the reader in position to
form his own judgment in the presence of the actual situation without
too much prompting as to the conclusions he ought to derive from the
survey.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Written in scientific spirit, with unprejudiced presentation of both
light and shade, composed in orderly manner with the use of clear
unstrained English.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 600w.
“Dr. Clark’s discussion of the working of social democracy in
Australasia impresses one as being eminently fair.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 242. Ap. ’07. 830w.
“Mr. Clark ... is at his best in the chapter dealing with the economic
and social effects of industrial regulation, particularly compulsory
arbitration. Has covered a large field, and has done his work well; to
our knowledge no other writer—in America at least—has brought back
from that economic wonderland so reliable a report of the alleged
marvels wrought in the name of ‘progress.’ His publisher should have
seen to it that the book was provided with a better index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1670w.
“While much that he says is entirely just and true the general value
of his book seems to me to be much vitiated by important defects and
omissions. There are also in the volume a number of misstatements of
fact, due, doubtless, to misinformation or to insufficient
observation. All in all, Dr. Clark’s account of the labor movement in
Australasia is of more interest and value to the student of theories
than to the practical man of affairs.” Florence Finch Kelly.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. 9, ’07. 1730w.
“The chief value of the present book, moreover, lies not so much in
its description as in its interpretation of the facts.” Leonard W.
Hatch.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 353. Je. ’07. 850w.
=Clarke, Henry Butler.= Modern Spain, 1815–1898; with a memoir by the
Rev. W. H. Hutton. (Cambridge historical series.) *$2. Putnam.
7–6416.
The posthumous work of a man “of acknowledged competence in matters,
especially literary, pertaining to Spain, whose book is almost the
only, and certainly the best, account in English of the unfortunate
history of that country during the nineteenth century.... Its attitude
is historical and, a special point for readers on this side of the
Atlantic, its presentation of the Cuban question is temperate and
convincing.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 760w.
“A few important points are somewhat slurred, as, for instance, the
matter of the Hohenzollern candidacy; the index is poor, and there are
more slips and misprints than is usual in this series, but on the
whole the book may be warmly recommended.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 140w.
“The weakest part of the book appears to be the last pages, in which
the author deals with the loss of the colonies in the war with the
United States.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 81. Ja. 19, ’07. 1200w.
“The present volume is a work of undoubted authority, and exhibits a
complete mastery of the subject in all its details. It is a book
written as it were from within, from a personal knowledge of the
country and the people.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 91. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.
=Clarke, Maud W.= Nature’s own garden. Il. **$6. Dutton.
“The author tells pleasantly, but with somewhat prolix sentiment, the
story of her researches in English fields and woods for the flowers
she has painted.” (Ind.) The volume is handsomely illustrated with
numerous engravings and fifty colored plates of plants in their native
haunts.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately for her book making, she has studied Richard Jefferies
too much. We are grateful to her and to Messrs. Dent for providing us
with another pretty gift book for our gentle, less critical friends.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 1350w.
“Intelligence and thought and knowledge have worked hand in hand; and
we appreciate these so much that we lament the more the lack of
restraint with which the book is written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 18. Jl. 6. 390w.
“Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in Jefferies’s enchanting
pages, persuaded to look at things that are near and common, and to
find it there; and herein lies the value of this book.” Sara Andrew
Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 42: 1364. Je. 16, ’07. 1900w.
“It is interesting to a lover of American flowers to see how English
flowers look, for there are very few of the flowers here figured which
grow here, altho many of them are familiar enough in literature.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The manner of the book is personal in tone, colloquial, not always
quite exact in the use of language, but fairly entertaining in the
mass.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 572. Je. 20, ’07. 560w.
“Essentially a book of the gift class, it is a worthy recruit to the
ranks of the nature books, both in concept and execution.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
“Written by a nature-lover of unusual skill in description as well as
in observing.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.
“The evident pleasure in the subject and in the task of production is
more than usually infectious, and the sermons in aestheticism tend to
disappear as the book progresses.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
“The text is written in an involved and high-flown style, which may
occasionally puzzle the understanding of many readers.”
− =Spec.= 99: 329. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Clausen, George.= Aims and ideals in art. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–15912.
Eight lectures which treat of such subjects as quality in color,
direct brush work, drawing, imagination and the ideal.
* * * * *
“We have much that is obvious and elementary, and see Mr. Clausen
frequently retiring behind the sheltering authority of Reynolds or
Millet or Leonardo.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 650w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Clausen is in fact an avowed disciple of Reynolds’s teaching. He
finds in the famous ‘Discourses’ matter of pregnant interest and help
for the student of to-day; and it is no small compliment to his own
lectures that they recall, in their sanity and stimulating power, no
less than in their clear and temperate style, their great example.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
“He has hardly mastered Reynolds’ critical position. His method is
simply to juxtapose the old and new in happy oblivion of their mutual
exclusions. He has the artist’s lucky knack of seeing only what he
wants to see, and the practical man’s gift of holding contradictory
opinions. If Mr. Clausen brings us but a little way towards the
solution of the problems which he raises, he has at least produced a
modest and charming little book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.
“The views expressed here are sound and the thought is clear. There
seems to be little wanting that is possessed by the literary critic,
while there is much that only the painter can know.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 257. F. 16, ’07. 1370w.
=Clausen, George.= Six lectures on painting, delivered to the students
of the Royal academy of arts in London. (London lib.) *$1.50. Dutton.
The six lectures include the following: Some early painters; On
lighting and arrangement; On colour; Titian, Velasquez, and Rembrandt;
On landscape and open-air painting; On realism and impressionism.
* * * * *
“Should be put into the hands of every young student.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“We applaud Prof. Clausen for appealing straight to the
unself-conscious common sense of his audience, and for not wasting
time in pedantry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
=Clay, Albert Tobias.= Light on the Old Testament from Babel. $2. S. S.
times co.
7–4784.
“A résumé of the material in the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions which
bears upon the interpretation and understanding of the Hebrew
Scriptures. There is much material included on Babylonian life and
civilization not to be found in other works of this kind.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“This is a valuable addition from a conservative standpoint to the
abundant literature on this subject.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 319. Ap. ’07. 50w.
“The work is so treated that it scarcely at all duplicates the works
previously published.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 200w.
“The text displays a vicious tendency to minimize the changes of
opinion in the field of Hebrew history and religion made necessary by
recent discoveries, and to gloss over the similarities and magnify the
differences between Babylonian conceptions and those of the Biblical
narrative.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.= Wilderness. †$1.50. Lane.
“This is a story of a great wrong, a bitter hatred, and retribution
complete and merciless enough to satisfy the most remorseless seeker
after justice.... The scene is laid in Australia, a country which Mr.
Clegg has evidently studied to some purpose; the characters are
primitive men with primitive passions.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Mr. Clegg writes well.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 130w.
“Its fault is that it is too rich in themes, with the result that no
one of them is adequately worked out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 270w.
“A thoroughly interesting and unconventional piece of work, vigorous
with the spirit of a land still in its youth, so far as the over
refinements of civilization go; and depicting persons and scenes far
enough out of the ordinary to prove uncommonly attractive to the jaded
reader of stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.
=Cleghorn, Sarah N.= Turnpike lady: a tale of Beartown, Vermont,
1768–1796. †$1.25. Holt.
7–30831.
A story literally steeped in the atmosphere of “little nothingnesses”
that make up the life of a family in a Vermont hamlet at the beginning
of the revolution. It’s “an old-time American idyl with the spirit of
locality strong upon it.”
* * * * *
“One recognizes an uncommonly successful writing-down of many of its
present-day idiosyncrasies. For the rest, the story is quite
inoffensive, told in a rambling, artless, unpracticed fashion, that
almost makes one question whether it were not intended as a juvenile.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“A pretty story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 681. O. 26, ’07. 110w.
“One feels that the author has real sympathy with her subject and
characters, and that, despite her abrupt and disjointed manner of
telling the tale, it is really worth having.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Christian science.
$1.75. Harper.
7–6631.
Mark Twain’s viewpoint is an objective one, humorously critical and
one which characterizes the Christian science faith in the light of a
reversal of the very things which to its followers are possible. He
counts Christian science among the religions of the insane, and
considers Mrs. Eddy in the light of a self-deified mental despot,
which picture is drawn from the author’s interpretation of her acts
and words.
* * * * *
“He does his work coolly and impartially. ‘Christian science’ in the
United States and elsewhere will find the present work offensive, and
regard some portions of the humor which pervades it as little short of
blasphemy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 2140w.
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 244. N. ’07. 760w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 321. Mr. ’07. 2620w.
“Adds nothing to the fame of the author.”
− =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
“It certainly is extremely funny—in spots.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 255. F. 16, ’07. 1250w.
“Mark Twain does not attempt a serious examination of the doctrines of
Christian science; probably he thinks it would be useless.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1450w.
“The book is without beginning, middle, or end; it is extremely
repetitious. It cannot be regarded as either a serious or a humorous
contribution to the discussion.”
− =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“From beginning to end Mr. Twain misunderstands where he does not
misstate the beliefs of Christian scientists.” Charles Klein.
− − =No. Am.= 184: 637. Mr. 15, ’07. 2190w.
“His book is much more than a garland of humor. In reality it is much
more. It is a sober, compassionate and very earnest study of a
remarkable system, the achievement of a very gifted woman.” Charles
Johnston.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 641. Mr. 15, ’07. 1580w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.
“Altogether, this book is unfortunate. Uproarious passages in it which
have all Mark Twain’s old drollery and delightful extravagance tell us
that his great comic powers are unimpaired. They wait to be reapplied
successfully.”
− =Spec.= 98: 536. Ap. 6, ’07. 1570w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Horse’s tale. †$1.
Harper.
7–34780.
Our much loved humorist has done another kindly service to his dumb
brothers in this story of the cavalry horse, Soldier Boy, and the
sunny little girl who loved him and all the world. There is much
amusing satire in the story, but beneath it there throbs a great
hearted kin-feeling for the animals who serve us, and there is a plea
for true recognition of this service in the tragic death of little
Cathy who lays down her life for the horse who has once saved it.
* * * * *
“We feel the throb of the kindest heart in the world beating for the
helpless, whether brute or human, in this book, as in its long line of
predecessors.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 170w.
“The tale will interest both children and grown-ups.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.
“A short story in a rare vein of the author. Tenderness and swift,
unexpected pathos make it notable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Combining some of the best flavor of Mark Twain’s peculiar humor with
sentiment borrowed partly from standard nursery literature and partly
from the tracts of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= King Leopold’s
soliloquy: a defense of his Congo rule. 25c. P. R. Warren co., Boston.
5–32801.
With the intention of aiding Congo reform, Mark Twain arraigns
humorously, but none the less scathingly, the shortcomings of King
Leopold in his dominion over the Congo State.
* * * * *
“The great humorist never wielded his pen more pointedly in behalf of
honesty and humanity.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 198. Ja. ’06. 60w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 664. Je. 1. 50w.
“While we are wholly in sympathy with Mark Twain’s purpose, we cannot
approve of his method. The man so soliloquising would not say the
things which the king is made to say, would not quote long passages
which are, in fact, evidence against himself of the most damnatory
kind. It is not a case, we think, in which fiction can be legitimately
used, and as a matter of fact, it is not used with any great subtlety
or art.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 270w.
=Clements, Frederic Edward.= Plant physiology and ecology. *$2. Holt.
7–25525.
A book intended for use with classes in second-year botany in college
and university. In fifteen chapters the author treats of stimulus and
response, the water of the habitat, adjustment to water, to light, to
temperature, and to gravity, adaptation to water and to light, the
origin of new forms, methods of studying vegetation; the plant
formation, aggregation and migration, competition and ecesis, invasion
and succession, alteration and zanation. The illustrations, consisting
of photographs and line cuts, are many and good.
* * * * *
“Dr. Clements set himself a very difficult task, perhaps an impossible
one, if we do not mistake the trend of recent study. That must be
allowed for. Our main criticism, however, is not upon the choice of
material for a brief treatise; it is against the attitude of mind that
can tolerate vague explanations and invalid reasoning, and against a
treatment of fundamental topics which is ineffective and not in accord
with present knowledge.” C. R. B.
− =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 307. O. ’07. 970w.
“The author writes in a peculiarly lucid and interesting way.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 150w.
“Constitutes a notable addition to the literature of botany in
America.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 440. O. 4, ’07. 620w.
=Clerici, Graziano Paolo.= Queen of indiscretions: tragedy of Caroline
of Brunswick, queen of England; tr. by Frederic Chapman. *$7. Lane.
7–19766.
The unpleasant story of Queen Caroline, the much disliked wife of
George IV. is given in detail in this volume. “To speak of her in the
words of the romantic and attractive title of this book as ‘a queen of
indiscretions’ is to put her case very leniently indeed. Knowing that
scandalmongers were constantly busy with her name, she deliberately
did whatever a mind remarkably fertile in expedients could devise to
make herself talked about the more. Finally she left England and spent
six years trailing her little court ... all over Europe and even into
Asia. Much of this time she spent in Italy. And it is to the records
of her stay in that country that Signor Clerici has especially devoted
himself in the preparation of this book.... The illustrations are
numerous and interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Caroline’s life was an astounding romance, and though it is a little
clouded in the sumptuous volume before us by sentiment and pathos
which are not needed, the account is ably given. The numerous
illustrations, which are admirably reproduced from contemporary
portraits and prints, would alone make the book of interest and
value.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 55. Ja. 19, ’07. 850w.
“It cannot be said that any addition of importance has been made to
history. The book will doubtless have its public, and is laudably free
from errors, unless we count as such the statement that Brougham was
ever the ‘leader’ of the Whig party.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 728. D. 8. 1950w.
“The index, by the way, is evidently not the work of an expert. There
is a lack, too, throughout the narrative, of definite acknowledgment
of sources.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 300w.
“It has two great merits—really new material and a seriously
historical mind. He himself has brought to his task immense pains,
lucidity, and an impartiality of mind which does not prevent a
definite view from emerging.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 10. Ja. 11, ’07. 870w.
“The book has for its chief attractions a series of illustrations, of
which several are of interest, and some new, if not very important
evidence as to Caroline’s doings in Italy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 3, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Chapman has produced a very readable version of the original, but
he ought not to have allowed ‘Huskisson’ to have been spelt
‘Hutchinson.’ Nor can we speak in warm terms of his introduction,
which is largely made up of copious extracts from the Malmesbury
diaries and Lady Charlotte Bury, together with much gossip that had
better have been omitted. Some of the illustrations are exceedingly
curious, and the book altogether is worthy of a better subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 340w.
=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Fishing and shooting sketches; il. by H:
S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.
6–35962.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The sentences are sometimes long and involved and do not make what is
called ‘easy reading.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 40. F. ’07.
“Short and unpretentious chapters, written as they are in a humane and
enlightened spirit, with an occasional touch of humor in its specific
sense, and a delightful prevalence of good humor throughout.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
=Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.
“This is perhaps the nearest approach the public will ever make toward
seeing an autobiography by Mr. Cleveland.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 80w.
“His little book is full of sound, homely philosophy and quaint
humor.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 64. F. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Clouston, Thomas Smith.= Hygiene of mind. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29074.
“A convenient and sensible handbook, setting forth the doctrines of
sound health of mind.... The nature of brain action, its dependence
upon the muscular, nutritive, and supporting systems, the changes of
state in the several ages of man, the momentous doctrines of heredity,
the special liabilities of the periods of life, the questions of diet
and exercise, the reflex influences of good cheer and
healthy-mindedness—all these are plainly handled.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The book is a readable and practical contribution to its topic. It
reflects a clinical interest in the workings of the mind, but lacks
the insight into the underlying psychological relations that might
well sharpen the contours and add interest to the details of the
_ensemble_.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 180w.
“His treatment of the management of instincts is particularly good,
and is supremely sane.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 180w.
“The greater portion of the volume escapes from the difficulties
incidental to conflict between physics and metaphysics, and is devoted
to giving good advice concerning the physical, moral, and intellectual
training of the young. In this part of his task Dr. Clouston, although
seldom original, is always sensible and instructive.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 910w.
“A book that parents and others will find helpful in its
suggestiveness rather than in definite directions or explicit advice.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 105. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“It is sensibly written and backed by a wide experience of the matters
in hand. A good deal of the author’s advice is stated somewhat too
generally to be easily convertible into terms of practice, but the
burden of his theme is clear enough.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 778. D. 22, ’06. 340w.
“His materials are ample, betray wide experience, and on the whole are
thoughtfully and wisely utilised.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
=Cody, Sherwin.= Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c.
McClurg.
6–24040.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.
=Colby, June Rose.= Literature and life in school. *$1.25. Houghton.
6–41522.
Concerned with the needs of elementary schools this book “aims to show
that literature should be made a vital part of school life—not merely
in the formal instruction, but in many incidental ways and in a
spontaneous rather than a conventional fashion.... An appendix gives
in condensed form suggestions for class and outside reading.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 233. Ap. 1, ’07. 50w.
“The book is well worth reading, not merely by teachers, but by all
who have an interest in the development of the child mind and in the
advance of good taste and right standards in literary study.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
“The style confuses one as to the usefulness of the book. It is a
literary style, whereas it ought to be a scientific style. This gives
it a vague and indirect air, where one has a right to expect
directness and authority.” Porter Lander MacClintock.
− =School R.= 15: 400. My. ’07. 460w.
* =Cole, Timothy.= Old Spanish masters engraved by Timothy Cole, with
historical notes by Charles H. Caffin and comments by the engraver.
**$6. Century.
7–32152.
This work continues the series of reproductions of paintings by old
masters including Old Italian masters, Old Dutch and Flemish masters,
and Old English masters. The enduring value of Mr. Cole’s engravings
has been faithfully imparted to these reproductions while the text
furnishes an interesting story of Spanish art. “Starting at the moment
when Italian art was entering upon the superb achievements of the high
renaissance, it survived the latter’s decay, reached its own
independent climax in the seventeenth century, and received a
supplementary chapter at the end of the eighteenth. As a connected
narrative it may be said to have begun with the birth of a United
States in 1492.”
* * * * *
“The thirty-one examples of his work contained add fresh lustre to his
fame. Though not all of equal excellence, they are as beautiful
artistically as anything he has previously done, and some of them are
quite unsurpassed. Mr. Cole’s skill with the graver shows no sign of
diminution. His line is still as marvellously varied, as virile and
sympathetically expressive, as ever.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 370. D. 1, ’07. 1050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Cole’s illustrations of [Velasquez, Ribera, and Zurburan] ... are
too suave, but he has certainly done the world of art a service in his
other reproductions.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 614. N. 23, ’07. 340w.
=Coleridge, Mary E.= Lady on the drawingroom floor. $1.50. Longmans.
7–35195.
“A dreamy prose idyl; the scene, that most unromantic spot, a London
lodginghouse; the persons, a middle-aged spinster and an elderly
bachelor. Yet with these unpromising materials the author succeeds in
awakening sympathetic attention. The pleasant mystification running
through these pages will not bear too close analysis; nor do we feel
inclined to put it to such a test. Lucilla is the name of the heroine.
She is as agreeable as her name, and lives in an atmosphere of
flowers, music, and firelight, with pets as ill-assorted as a
tortoise, a cat, and a parrot.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Interesting, not for its plot, but for the character sketches and
conversation and the originality of the two main characters. Unusually
well written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.
“The dreamy and half-mystical charm characteristic of the author is
stamped on every detail of the story, imparting to it an individuality
and persuasiveness of its own.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 120w.
“Hers is the method, rare, indeed, among English writers of fiction,
which constructs without letting the reader see the processes of
construction. There is such comedy or tragedy or fantasy on every page
that the reader soon feels that to skip even a single sentence is to
run the risk of missing something essential to the general effect, and
at once to defraud himself and to do injustice to the writer and there
is something of the fineness of thought which is rarely absent from
good work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 590w.
“This is a frankly sentimental book, without being at all mawkish.
There are no laughs to be gained from it, but many comfortable smiles.
The author’s style has grace and distinction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 130w.
“It is very well done but was it worth doing?”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
“A volume in which the delicate simplicity of the style is happily
attuned to the gracious distinction of the author’s thought.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 684. N. 3, ’06. 1070w.
=Colestock, Henry Thomas.= Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.
7–10047.
David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school,
receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one
condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife.
He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of
stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on
the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as
unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict
furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 368. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“The author designates his book a novel, but he would be better
justified in calling it a novel once or twice removed.”
− =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The author, having arranged his pieces and set his problems, having
made sundry moves as if he were going to play the game according to
the rules, finally falls back on an act of God for his solution, which
leaves the whole business where it began.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“While there are many homely scenes sufficiently true to life in this
tale ... it lacks grace, and fails to awaken complete sympathy for the
somewhat ordinary young preacher.”
− − + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Collings, Jesse.= Land reform, occupying ownership, peasant
proprietary, and rural education. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–2568.
This volume by “the well-known supporter of Mr. Chamberlain and
president of the Rural laborers’ league ... opens with a discussion of
the principles of the purchase of land bills, introduced into the
house of commons by the author two years ago. Next follow seven
excellent chapters containing a fairly full history of the origin and
growth of the present English land system, and particularly of the
gradual disappearance of peasant proprietorship. Lastly, a third
division of nine chapters sets forth the arguments for and against the
various proposals which have been made for the revival of British
agriculture and the encouragement of small holdings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Jesse Collings will carry a larger public with him in his attempt
to supply material for a history of the land question, from the point
of view of the occupying owner, than he will in his definite
proposals.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 660w.
“Valuable and instructive work.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 1420w.
“A book of which certain parts are extremely interesting, though they
appear in somewhat confused array.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 240w.
“Those who are interested in the problem of English land tenure,
whether they agree with Mr. Collings in his main contention or not,
will find his book instructive; those who are interested in rural
education will find it suggestive, and all who are interested in
social and economic problems should find it worth reading.” Henry C.
Taylor.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 351. Je. ’07. 860w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1050w.
“Ought to have been wholly authoritative, and yet throughout must be
read with caution.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 682. N. 3, ’06. 730w.
=Collins, Thomas Byard.= New agriculture. $2. Munn.
6–40570.
“A popular outline of the changes which are revolutionizing the
methods of farming and the habits of farm life. The writer maintains
that farm life was never so attractive as it is today, although he
admits that present methods of production and distribution outside the
farm leave much to be desired.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The book is a treatise rather than an experience and savors
considerably of poetry as well as of business, and he makes some
mistakes. It will be of use, however, to anyone who wishes to easily
inform himself of recent progress in agriculture or cheer that
ever-increasing hope that lies in urban hearts and makes men think of
a farm home.” J. Russell Smith.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 360w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Collyer, Robert.= Father Taylor. *80c. Am. Unitar.
6–42972.
Father Taylor lived and preached the principles of universal
brotherhood. “An untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed
with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his rebuke of
everything low or mean, a father to his homeless sailor ‘boys,’ frank,
generous, outspoken, fearless, owning no man his master in thought or
action, lovable always, with an emotional nature generous in all its
impulses, set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted his
life, who made use of his Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston.”
* * * * *
“In his ‘Father Taylor’ Robert Collyer is at his best.” Robert E.
Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 300w.
=Colquhoun, Archibald Ross, and Colquhoun, Ethel Maud.= Whirlpool of
Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs; with maps, diag. and il.
**$3.50. Dodd.
7–10613.
“Not merely a travel book, nor yet one purely geographical or
political, but a combination of the two.” (R. of Rs.) “In this
‘Whirlpool of Europe’ may be studied the eddying currents of five or
six different races, religions, and national ambitions. Every phase of
European civilization, every question, racial political, or social,
that has agitated Europe in the last two centuries may be here
studied.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The book is the more important because of the scarcity of material on
Austria available at the present time.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07. S.
“The value of the book—and it is great—does not consist in reply to
the questions which the reader will put, but in the fact that a vast
mass of material helping him to construct answers for himself is to be
found in the pages of Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 350w.
“The book is highly interesting to all who wish information about the
problems of the dual monarchy. The shortcomings of the book are in the
conclusions and the observations of the near past and the present-day
life. The intimate knowledge which cannot be taken from books, but
which can be obtained only by an extended sojourn in the country, is
often lacking, and in its place there are categoric statements not
always reliable.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 40. Jl. 4, ’07. 720w.
“As regards political personages and living issues, such as
Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, etc. the volume is instructive and
interesting. Very interesting also is the authoritative account of the
emperor’s personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Colquhoun’s book appears to us to suffer to some extent from the
attempt to cover too much ground; and we believe that it would have
been more useful if he had devoted rather more space to the history of
the last forty years and rather less to that of the Middle Ages.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1430w.
“It is pleasant to lay hands on a serious study of an interesting
problem by writers who can bring to the task the essential historical
perspective and a capacity for making the event of the day relate to
what came before it.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 940w.
“As they have immeasurably accomplished their object, they are fairly
entitled to a vote of thanks, even if they have failed to make their
narrative quite as interesting as the picturesqueness of the material
might persuade one to hope it might be.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 970w.
“A distinct contribution of value to political literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 120w.
“The chief weakness in the book lies in the want of arrangement, and
an unfortunate tendency to go off at a tangent at any moment. Contains
the makings of an excellent book on Austria-Hungary, but a great deal
of revision and further study is necessary.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 832. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.
* =Colton, Arthur Willis.= Harps hung up in Babylon. **$1.25. Holt.
7–30424.
A lyrical offering whose verse rings on, sings on as do the loosened
strings of his “harp of Babylon.” “Brief, happily-fashioned records of
a mood, such as ‘Let me no more a mendicant’ or ‘To-morrow,’ show his
characteristic touch, but the ‘Canticle of the road’ is perhaps more
delightful, with its marching measure and breath of ozone. Mr.
Colton’s work does not interpret a wide range of experience nor
formulate a philosophy, though the Eastern morality poems are
thoughtful and true in ethics, but it has a touch of its own and a
charm of personality.” (Putnam’s.)
* * * * *
“He did well, however, to associate his collection with the name and
the charm of its opening lyric, for here is as lovely a bit of melody
as one will find in recent poetry.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 366. D. ’07. 240w.
=Colvin, Sir Auckland.= Making of modern Egypt. 3d ed. *$4. Dutton.
6–24922.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A well-written digest of official reports, skillfully edited by a
‘Financial adviser’ who had a fair share in the ‘making.’”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 810w.
=Commander, Lydia Kingsmill.= American idea. $1.50. Barnes.
7–7168.
“In which the following question is considered: “Does the
determination of the American people to establish a small family point
to race suicide or race development?” The author discusses the
question from first hand observation, search and interview and
concludes that unless there is a social adjustment of industrial and
social conditions, race suicide is inevitable.”
* * * * *
“A volume in which one of the gravest questions of the hour is treated
in a most entertaining yet deeply thoughtful and wisely suggestive
manner.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 212. Ag. ’07. 800w.
=Ind.= 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“The discussion bears none of the dogmatic traits which usually
characterize subjects of this nature; it is conducted in a fair and
dispassionate manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 390w.
“Is valuable chiefly for the large amount of first-hand testimony it
contains touching the causes of our falling birthrate.” Edward
Alsworth Ross.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 544. S. ’07. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 90w.
=Commons, John Rogers.= Proportional representation. 2d ed.; with
chapters on the initiative, the referendum, and primary elections.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
7–21300.
The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are
several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since
1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the
initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular
government in very reality government by the people, through enabling
the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto
legislation.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 180w.
“Certain statistical information might advantageously have been
brought closer to date. We observe, also, a few tabular errors that
should have been corrected.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.
=Commons, John Rogers.= Races and immigrants in America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–17894.
“Prof. Commons believes that the dominant factor in American life,
underlying all our political, legal, economic, ecclesiastical, and
moral problems, is the conflict and assimilation of races. He has
shown how the heterogenous elements that go to make up the American
people have influenced our institutions, pointing out the
characteristics of the various races and nationalities, their part in
self-government, their effect on wealth and its distribution, the
forces of Americanization, and the barriers against inundation.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“A popular study with scientific basis.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07. S.
“The work is scientific as to method and popular in style, and forms a
very useful handbook about the American population.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Well fortified throughout by statistics, and evidencing a wide range
of observation, the great merit of the volume is its sensibleness.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 100w.
“Prof. Commons has managed to set forth an immense amount of condensed
information about these many-colored threads that have gone into the
weaving of our Joseph’s coat and has found room also to discuss, with
a remarkable breadth of view and an unusual amount of common sense,
the causes of immigration, the instruments of assimilation, and the
effect of the new conditions upon the immigrants.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 240w.
“Professor Commons has used the last census to good advantage, and
gives much interesting information as to the constituent elements of
this heterogeneous population, and also regarding the continuous
displacing of one group by another with a lower standard of life.” G.
Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 742. S. ’07. 410w.
“We do not recall another book of its size that presents so much
important and essential information on this vital topic.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w.
=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50.
Ginn.
5–34201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Charities.= 17: 470. D. 15, ’06. 370w.
=Compayre, (Jules) Gabriel.= Pioneers in education; tr. by M. E.
Findlay, J. E. Mansion, R. P. Jago and Mary D. Frost. 6v. ea. **90c.
Crowell.
7–32037–32041.
A series of six studies on the rise and growth of popular education as
shown in the efforts of the following pioneer educators: J. J.
Rousseau and education by nature; Herbert Spencer and scientific
education; Pestalozzi and elementary education; Herbart and education
by instruction; Montaigne and education of the judgment, and Horace
Mann and the public-school system of the United States.
* * * * *
“M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the
educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought,
and both his critical and expository writing about them are most
excellent.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 737. N. 16, ’07. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.
=Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.).=
Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
6–36878.
An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol
hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her
puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised
woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies
and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good
or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”
* * * * *
“A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 589. F. ’07. 550w.
“The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather
thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a
distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American
fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing,
interesting, refined, but purely academic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 350w.
“It is, in fact, a very good mechanism for telling a love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Comstock, Harriet T.= Meg and the others. †75c. Crowell.
6–25997.
“Seldom have we read a sweeter or more natural and wholesome tale for
little folks of from six to ten years of age than this charming
story.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 160w.
=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4.
Harper.
5–36153.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a work that marks an epoch and it is a work to influence that
epoch—would that it might have that careful reading and study that it
deserves, for the result would be a better America, because a more
intelligent one!” E. S. Crandon.
+ + =New England M.= 35: 591. Ja. ’07. 2350w.
=Connolly, James Bennet.= Crested seas. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–30867.
A new volume of sea stories is added to Mr. Connolly’s other three.
“Many of the old characters of his previous books appear in new rôles
and scenes; Martin Carr, the good-natured veteran; Tommie Clancy, the
reckless sail carrier; Dan Coleman, the soft-hearted skipper, and such
familiar hands as Peter Kane, Sam Leary and Eddie Foy. To a farmer who
has never seen the ocean these stories would be full of interest, but
to one who knows a seine-heaver from a bite-passer, who realizes what
it is to carry full sail when the water stands to the helmsman’s
waist, and has himself heard the rattle of reef points on a tauted
sail and the groaning of riggings under a press of canvas, these tales
of the sea weave a spell that is difficult to throw off for some
time.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“The romance of a sailor’s life is not a new theme, but Connolly has
lived and talked with these rough men of the banks, and has discovered
the softer, sweeter side of their lives.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
“That the author possesses a real, if not too versatile, narrative
gift is undeniable.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Connolly appears to understand the psychological make-up of
sea-faring men, and he is hypercritical who would ask too many
questions of a tale teller who always spins a good yarn and frequently
one that has in it the elements of permanent value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 470w.
“Has the spirited style that befits the sea tale of danger, romance
and adventure.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Connor, Ralph, pseud.= The Doctor; a tale of the Rockies. †$1.50.
Revell.
6–41274.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A rather conventional tale, but will be very popular with readers of
earlier stories by the same author. Like them, it has a strong
religious bias.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠
“A worthy successor of the ‘Sky-pilot.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 360w.
“But out of the total impression left on me by this story two facts
emerge which seem to have significance of the right sort. One of these
is the religious tone that pervades the book. The other significant
fact is what I am compelled to call the immorality of portions of the
book.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 597. F. ’07. 890w.
“Is written in his usual stringent style and abounds in thrilling
situations.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 100w.
“A narrative that throbs with human interest.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“Yet there is an artistic weakness, and it lies in the reiterated
appeal to the reader’s finest sentiment.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 150w.
“The plot is a little involved and intricate, and therefore not easy
to follow, and the character drawing is not very strongly marked.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 170w.
=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Mirror of the sea.
†$1.50. Harper.
6–37221.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a manner Mr. Conrad’s book marks an epoch, since it is written in
praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes
shall be sailed no more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 777. D. 22, ’06. 760w.
=Conrad, Joseph.= Secret agent. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29428.
A skilfully written story which looks into the lives of anarchists and
the machinery of their organization. It tells of a secret agent in the
employ of the Russian embassy in London, and of his relations with his
employers, with anarchists, with an inspector of police, and with the
sluggish members of his own family.
* * * * *
“It is a masterly study, the raw material of which would have been
turned into crude melodrama by some writers. Mr. Conrad has made it
the vehicle for some of the most telling characterization he has
accomplished.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 361. S. 28. 630w.
“We approach Mr. Conrad’s ‘The secret agent’ with anticipations that
are not fulfilled.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 200w.
“We do not consider ‘The secret agent’ Mr. Conrad’s masterpiece; it
lacks the free movement of ‘Youth’ and the terrible minuteness of
‘Lord Jim,’ while it offers no scope for the employment of the tender
and warm fancy that made ‘Karain’ so memorable; but it is, we think,
an advance upon ‘Nostromo,’ its immediate predecessor.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 440w.
“The characters stand forth clearly enough, but you cannot get
interested in them till you have gone through the first half of the
volume. This is too heavy a draft on the faith of the reader.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 250w.
“There is, nevertheless, a vast gulf fixed between Mr. Conrad and the
melodramatist, between the human tragedy of ‘The secret agent’ and the
detective story of commerce.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 562. S. 21, ’07. 1230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The book will not compare favorably in narrative and descriptive
ability with some of Mr. Conrad’s early work, but it has, in its
strange way, notable tragic intensity.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
“In an Idle Reader’s opinion he is the best man at present telling
stories.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 370. D. ’07. 90w.
“There are certain obvious blemishes in this book.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 400. S. 21, ’07. 1690w.
* =Conway, Katherine Eleanor.= In the footprints of the Good Shepherd,
New York, 1857–1907; from the Convent annals and from personal study of
the work. $1.25. Convent of the Good Shepherd. N. Y.
7–21320.
A memorial of the fiftieth anniversary jubilee of the Convent of the
Good Shepherd of New York city. “Besides telling the story of the
convent’s growth, Miss Conway gives an interesting account of the rule
of life practiced by the Sisters, and their methods of treating their
charges, with many touching illustrations of the divine efficacy of
the Good Shepherd’s power.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 115. O. ’07. 390w.
=Conway, Moncure Daniel.= My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East.
**$3. Houghton.
6–38349.
“This volume which forms a supplement to Mr. Conway’s autobiography,
published last year, contains an account of his travels in India and
recounts conversations with leading Buddhists, Brahmins, Parsees, and
Mohammedans. The religious side of the author is thus brought into
unusual prominence, with the result of considerably enhancing the
interest of the volume.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.
“His peculiar views upon Christianity may repel or offend some
readers, but the kindly spirit in which he writes of all men and
almost all creeds is attractive, and he deals in loving reverence with
the secrets of the underlying religious life of India.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 820w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 202. F. ’07. 2030w.
“The work shows him in the ripeness of his powers, and in the
enjoyment of his fearless independence as a free-thinker, but never
playing the part of a scoffer. His perceptions have lost nothing of
their keenness, his hand has not forgot its cunning and literary
craftsmanship.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 8. Ja. 1, ’07. 2100w.
“Mr. Conway ... is a seer with a vivid poetic imagination, with an
irreverent reverence of his own, and goes through the religions of the
Far East with little concern for anything but what appeals to his own
sense of truth and beauty.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 380w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Conway’s acquaintance with Hindu literature is so very vague that
the reader must be warned of the valuelessness of such literary
criticism as his fertile mind offers, for in this respect ignorance is
no bar to his daring. The one note that jars in these recollections of
a venerable teacher is that teacher’s too evident pride in his own
mental superiority.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 730w.
“This résumé of his religious beliefs and unbeliefs will appear as
shocking to some of his readers as it will appear illuminating to
others. The seasoned reader and thinker will like it for its evident
sincerity and its suggestiveness, but will not be sufficiently
affected by it one way or another to lose any sleep on account of it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 1340w.
“What value his book has lies in his ability to tell a story,
certainly not in his estimate of conditions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 761. Mr. 30, ’07. 1200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 100w.
“Any one interested in questions of morality and religion may
profitably read this volume, if he does not mind having his toes
trodden, even trampled on.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 298. F. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Conway, Sir William Martin.= No Man’s land. *$3. Putnam.
W 6–184.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A model of painstaking research.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 580w.
=Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and Stock, St. George.= Selections
from the Septuagint according to the text of Swete. *$1.65. Ginn.
5–36804.
“Brief introductions and copious notes fit these easy historical
selections from the Septuagint for use by college students. The book
should be useful in extending the knowledge of the Old Testament in
Greek.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“It is not only scholarly and clever, but also bright and attractive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 239. S. 1. 230w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 400. My. ’06. 30w.
“The book is welcome as filling a gap in our list of text-books, but
it is in some respects ... disappointing, and it may well be doubted
whether, as the publishers claim, it is a valuable contribution to a
better understanding of the language of the New Testament.” Clarence
H. Young.
− + =Educ. R.= 33: 534. My. ’07. 300w.
=Cook, Albert E.= Bright side and the other side: what India can teach
us; with introd. by J. G. Haller and W. F. Oldham. *75c. West Meth. bk.
7–13927.
In which the fruits of Mohammedanism are discussed. The study is based
upon a knowledge of the religion’s influence on the life and manners
of its devotees.
=Cook, Albert S.= Higher study of English. *$1. Houghton.
6–38399.
“The aims of the higher study of English rather than the methods is
the purport of Prof. Cook’s recent treatise, and it addresses itself
rather to the advanced and eager student than to the established
teacher.” (Forum.) The book consists of four addresses, The province
of English philology, The teaching of English, The relations of words
to literature, and The aims of graduate study of English. “Yet the
obvious note in all four is a general elevation of standards, both
ethical and aesthetic, throughout the entire curriculum of English—a
broadening and deepening of our national culture through an intensive
appreciation of the best that has been handed down to us in
literature.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Does not solve any problems or reveal any startlingly new point of
view, but it is thoughtful and readable and therefore to be
commended.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 292. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 460w.
“As a presentation of an ideal the book could scarcely be surpassed.”
William T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 391. Ja. ’07. 730w.
“His work appeals to the general reader as well as the teacher.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 110w.
“The book is not only richly suggestive to teachers of English, but to
us of the present generation it is especially interesting for its
historical placing of our subject.” Franklin T. Baker.
+ =School R.= 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 380w.
=Cook, E. Wake.= Betterment, individual, social and industrial. **$1.20.
Stokes.
6–40953.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
=Charities.= 17: 499. D. 15, ’06. 220w.
=Cook, Theodore A.= Eclipse and O’Kelly. *$7. Dutton.
Agr 7–2179.
Eclipse is a horse that has won repeated race-course honors, and
O’Kelly is his owner. Everything is set down “that could possibly be
found out concerning Eclipse, his ancestors, his birth and education,
his achievements, his appearance and measurements, the fate of his
skin and his hoofs and his skeleton, his descendants and what they in
turn have accomplished.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The book is a monument of thoroughness—also of energy.” G. S. Street.
+ =Acad.= 72: 601. Je. 22, ’07. 1040w.
“We must not hunt for small inaccuracies in a big book. Let us rather
acknowledge frankly that the compiler has put together a standard work
of reference concerning the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 1070w.
“A volume, with a good deal of information that is quite new and some
stimulating suggestions. Even the smaller sporting library can hardly
dispense with it.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 1090w.
“Mr. Cook has discharged his task entertainingly well, and there is
plenty of enjoyment waiting in his pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.
“The task of attempting the visualisation of the manners and the men
of the latter half of the eighteenth century has occupied Mr. Cook
with enthusiasm, and the result is some admirable work. He has pursued
figures and statistics with immense energy and thoroughness. His
figures will doubtless prove of great value to the biologist and
breeder; but the best part of the book has to do with the heroic horse
and the men who saw him race.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 130. Jl. 27, ’07. 1590w.
=Cooper, Francis, pseud.= Financing an enterprise: a manual of
information and suggestion for promoters, investors and business men
generally. 2v. $4. Ronald press, New York.
7–485.
“The work treats of financing an enterprise that is either merely a
development, proposition, or that is a growing concern, or that
demands liquidation. The importance of proper preparation and
presentation of such an enterprise is pointed out and attention called
to the fact that without proper presentation, it is often extremely
difficult to finance an enterprise, while with proper presentation,
enterprises utterly devoid of merit have frequently been financed. The
conditions and methods of financing are lucidly stated and illustrated
with succinct examples.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“This is a book on a subject concerning which few, if any, books have
been written and very little published anywhere. Engineers who have to
do with patented inventions and their commercial exploitation will
also find much instructive and helpful matter in this treatise.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 534. N. 14, ’07. 680w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 60w.
“The writer of this work displays an intimate knowledge of his
subject, evidently, at least considerably, acquired through
experience. His attitude is well balanced, and his discussions take
both sides of the question. He appears to pay equal attention to
advantages and disadvantages, and not to be carried to unjustifiable
extremes in any of his discussion.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 223. My. ’07. 900w.
=Cooper, Lane=, ed. Theories of style with especial reference to prose
composition: essays, excerpts and translations. *$1.10. Macmillan.
7–27343.
Written from a conviction that the link between substance and form,
between knowledge and expression ought never to be broken, this volume
includes a body of literary models, for the most part by masters of
expression, illustrating and reiterating the salient principles of
most good handbooks on English prose composition. The work is
suggestive and of wide scope.
* * * * *
“An interesting contribution to the apparatus for the teaching of
rhetoric.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 50w.
=Corbin, John.= Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–14254.
“Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a
rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard
at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who
is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which
has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this
‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and
acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests
sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the
usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current
novels of this genre.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
“It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American
life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by
smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that
‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of
adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to
be encouraged.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 180w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 180w.
“Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a
rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic
turns novelist at second hand.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 234. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Cornford, Francis Macdonald.= Thucydides Mythistoricus. *$3. Longmans.
This volume contains not only “a study of the Greek historian who was
a contemporary of Pericles ... but also a theory of history, a study
of the historian’s art from the modern and sophisticated point of
view.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Able and brilliant.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 311. Mr. 30, ’07. 1280w.
“A book that is easy, even fascinating reading. It did not need his
words of acknowledgment to let us into the secret of Dr. Verrall’s
influence upon his ideas and methods. There is the same evidence of
careful work and profound meditation; there is an approach to Dr.
Verrall’s characteristic brilliancy of presentation; but there is left
in the end the same impression of special pleading.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 152. Jl. ’07. 490w.
“A very delightful book.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 497. Ap. 27. 1900w.
“The challenge implied in Mr. Cornford’s title is maintained in his
book in a fashion which will be stimulating and suggestive even to
those who cannot accept its conclusions.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 202. O. 1, ’07. 2160w.
“Mr. Cornford’s brilliant and suggestive study provides material
help ... towards revising the traditional estimate of Thucydides. Mr.
Cornford does not always carry conviction. In particular, a cautious
student will hesitate to trust himself to the insecure Icarus-flights
of a higher-criticism which treats the sequels to the careers of
Pausanias and Themistocles as ‘rationalized Saga-history influenced by
drama.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 195. Je. 21, ’07. 1640w.
“An inspiriting and commendable book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 250w.
“The strong side of Mr. Cornford’s book is as an analysis of
Thucydides’ mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 579. N. 9, ’07. 950w.
“With this objection to his title, criticism of Mr. Cornford ends and
admiration begins. We can only indicate Mr. Cornford’s view, and
recommend all students to examine his arguments for themselves. They
will find everywhere much that is instructive, and, however his
apparent paradoxes may at first startle, the substantial truth of his
position will in the end, we think, appear not less remarkable than
its novelty.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 862. Je. 1, ’07. 1430w.
=Cornill, Carl H.= Introduction to the canonical books of the Old
Testament; tr. by G. H. Box. (Theological translation lib.) *$3. Putnam.
A translation of Professor Cornill’s fifth revised edition. The volume
renders to the reader “knowledge which will enable him to understand
the problems of the Old Testament and value the solutions which
scholars have offered.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is in our language no single volume on the subject which
contains so much material, and especially which gives such full lists
of relevant writings, as does this book by Prof. Cornill. There is
always danger, however, that the limitations of a short work on a long
subject may make an author dogmatic, and in this respect Prof. Cornill
is not above suspicion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 580w.
“The clearness and conciseness of the original are preserved in the
translation, but it is to be regretted that the translator has made
references to previous passages by sections only, which are not noted
at the top of the page and are therefore difficult to find in the
text.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 270w.
“While primarily designed as a handbook for critical students, it is
serviceable in the main points and general lines for intelligent
readers, though unacquainted with Hebrew, in its presentation of Old
Testament critical science at this date, both as to its closed
questions and remaining problems.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 180w.
=Cornish, Charles John.= Animal artisans and other studies of birds and
beasts; with a prefatory memoir by his widow; 2 pors. from photographs
and 12 drawings by Patten Wilson. $2.50. Longmans.
7–28981.
“These papers, now for the first time gathered in book form ...
present many interesting phases of animal life, particularly from what
might be called the industrial side, the underlying current being the
existence among other animals than man of distinct arts and crafts by
which they either gain a mere living or provide themselves with
shelter.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The single defect of the book is the absence of an index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 450w.
“One receives the impression that the natural history here recorded is
the outcome of an avocation. It lacks the tension, and the critical
point of view, of the trained scientist.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 390w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 500w.
“Several of these articles display a lamentable want of knowledge of
scientific zoology on the part of the author. After all, the volume is
perhaps sufficiently accurate to suit the requirements of the readers
to whom it is likely to appeal.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 437. Mr. 7, ’07. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“If the papers in the volume before us are distinguished in any way
from others that went before, we should say that the observation of
the author is more ingenious than ever.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 292. F. 23, ’07. 1600w.
=Corthell, Elmer L.= Allowable pressure on deep foundations. *$1.25.
Wiley.
7–28847.
This work is an amplified form of a paper to the Institution of civil
engineers brought about by Dr. Corthell’s investigation of the subject
relating to the construction of a port at the city of Rozario on the
Panama river.
* * * * *
“The admirable form of the compilation, and the thoroughness with
which the abstracts of published articles have been made, make the
book one of great value.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 80. Jl. 18, ’07. 310w.
=Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.).= Life’s shop window. $1.50.
Kennerley.
7–4158.
With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the
passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a
young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the
delineation of character.
* * * * *
“The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its
personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their
humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 80. F. 9, ’07. 490w.
“‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and
much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Cotes, Everard.= Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–29141.
“After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the
Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of
missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other
Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the
Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and
Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in
newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea,
Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though
we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the
recommendations based upon them.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 252. Mr. 2. 920w.
“The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and
persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no
attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H.
T. P.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 422. Je. ’07. 1300w.
“On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 757. S. 26, ’07. 550w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 114. Ap. 12, ’07. 410w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. 15, ’07. 350w.
“Full of interesting information.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 230w.
“He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with
regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up
an interesting field for speculation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 654. My. 25, ’07. 1440w.
=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–35302.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles,
literary criticisms and reviews.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 370w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.)= Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–30166.
“The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post
on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison
has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the
commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with
shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.”
(Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the
‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his
self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides
performing many another telling service.
* * * * *
“A well written amusing tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is
once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 579. N. 9. 420w.
“His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all
the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and
courage.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we
wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so
many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might
almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author,
at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 410w.
“The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some
readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
“The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending
lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched
with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a
keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that
underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 488. O. 5, ’07. 750w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35145.
“‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually
associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which
Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to
their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning
with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in
themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from
the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence
Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A delightful collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07.
“The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 180w.
“Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the
least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory
essay.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain
daintiness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 150w.
“A very delightful book this.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 80w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–8212.
Some sixteen chapters of this adventure story lead up thru school-boy
escapades, crime, and mystery to the secret of Mortallone island in
the bay of Honduras. The chart containing the plan of the island and
affording the key to the spot of buried treasure after causing a deal
of trouble falls into the hands of a little party who set sail from
Falmouth in quest of the island and its hoard. Mr. Quiller-Couch has
drawn with clever touches the spirit of unanimity which, with
noticeable lack of greed, characterizes the treasure seekers.
* * * * *
“Written with unusual spirit and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 405. Ap. 6. 340w.
“The author’s happy faculty for sketching eccentric types of character
is exhibited at his best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company
that he provides for us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 260w.
“After you have laid down the book, no character, no dramatic
situation remains in the memory—nothing but a general impression of
misapplied and wasted cleverness.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
“A curious and wholly impossible piece of fiction. Has many points of
interest, but is very uneven on the whole.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 240w.
“Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom
does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret
that ‘Poison island’ does.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w.
“In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his
reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural
that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at
the credulity of romance-lovers.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times
almost tedious.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power
of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed
themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his
_mise-en-scene_.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w.
=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–31381.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 540w.
“It lacks the breath of the romantic life, and inspires a feeling that
the writer himself has lived chiefly in books and rarely a life of his
own.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 230w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of
all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan
Salimbene: (1221–1288) together with notes and il. from other medieval
sources. *$4.20. Scribner.
6–32412.
For this second edition fresh matter from Salimbene’s chronicle has
been added and the notes and appendices have been extended. “For those
who wish to see the seamy side of the middle ages, this is the best
book in English.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Coulton is a far-seeing man and a good writer. What is more
remarkable he contrives to unite a judicial mind with strong
convictions, which lend warmth and interest to his style.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 1380w.
“He has read widely in the sources of his period, and is able at every
turn to illustrate Salimbene’s statements.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 244. S. 20, ’06. 1380w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 70w.
“Contains more of the famous chronicle of Fra Salimbene, a Franciscan
friar of the thirteenth century, than has hitherto appeared in print
in English, and for that reason it is a valuable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 602. S. 20, ’06. 250w.
“He has a great knowledge of his period, considerable attainments, and
a very workmanlike gift of exposition. But unfortunately he is before
all things else a controversialist.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 645. N. 24, ’06. 1350w.
“We would recommend the book, as full of curious information, to every
one who cares to illustrate his Dante studies by a real contemporary
picture of the thirteenth century on its darker side, with all the
peculiarities of its social and religious life.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 725. N. 10, ’06. 1320w.
=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Heresy of Job; with the inventions of William
Blake. *$2. Lane.
The volume contains “first, introductory matter explaining the
editor’s conception of the poem’s purpose and meaning; second, the
poem itself divided into three parts, Prologue, Debate, and Epilogue;
third, some pages of notes elucidating certain obscurities in the
text; fourth, an appendix containing the speech of Elihu the Buzite;
fifth, a list of commentaries consulted; and, finally, the
‘Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William
Blake,’ and first published in 1825, by Blake himself. Job’s ‘heresy’
consisted not in a denial of God or a rejection of religion, but
rather in a refusal to subscribe to the smug orthodoxy of his three
friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Coutts has succeeded in properly emphasizing one important side
of the argument of Job, but his error consists in mistaking a part for
the whole.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 250w.
“An attractive and useful volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Scholarly introduction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Romance of King Arthur. *$1.50. Lane.
“The romance of King Arthur is here told in four parts—the poem of
‘Uther Pendragon,’ the plays of ‘Merlin’ and ‘Lancelot du Lake,’ and
the poem of ‘The death of Lancelot.’ In his preface the author states
that his ‘sole important variation from the accepted legend’ is to
represent Mordred as the legitimate son of Morgan le Fay, and thus
supply the enchantress with a purely human, and therefore, we may add,
somewhat superfluous, motive for her malevolence towards Arthur.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The whole work is undistinguished and dull. It is all padded out.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 603. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.
“There are some fairly effective ‘curtains,’ but the blank verse is
generally monotonous and rich in commonplaces.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 360w.
“In this volume Mr. Coutts has surprised us. A poet he was known to
be; a lyric poet of some intensity and much art; a philosophic poet
whose work was unified by a coherent, if undogmatic, faith, and
expressed in language as simple as it was profound. The discovery that
he is also a dramatic poet comes unexpected.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 870w.
“The medium of the whole—idylls and playlets—is blank verse, whereof
the quality at times is excellent. The inspiration, in spite of the
form, is perhaps rather Kipling than Tennyson, and the playlets are
better than the idylls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 640w.
“Mr. Coutts’s poems, while they are smooth and flowing and show now
and then passages of much beauty or of poetic fervor, are weak and
pale when tested beside the Tennysonian idylls.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity,
and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a
considerable measure of poetry.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Cowan, Samuel.= Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne,
her physician. *$3. Lippincott.
Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to
prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against
Elizabeth.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something
the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is
often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the
domestic life of Mary’s court.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
“He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an
historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.
“A contribution of importance to the literature of its subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Cowley, Abraham.= Essays, plays and sundry verses, v. 2. *$1.50.
Putnam.
7–23868.
“The first volume of Cowley’s Works in the Cambridge English classics
contained all the poems published in the folio which appeared the year
after his death. The second volume, now issued, contains the earlier
writings from the edition of 1637, together with the plays and essays.
The editor, A. R. Waller, is preparing a Supplement of notes,
biographical, bibliographical, and critical.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A very workmanlike edition.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It cannot be said that this edition, with its reproduction of the old
spelling and its inclusion of so much that is dull, is the best for
the reader who merely desires his comfort, but for the scholar it is
altogether admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by William A. Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 222. Ap. 6, ’07. 1990w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Admirable and scholarly edition.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 95. Ja. 20, ’06. 2300w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cox, Kenyon.= Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters
and new. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–31410.
In an introductory essay on “The education of an artist,” Mr. Cox
compares the education afforded by the apprenticeship custom of the
renaissance with that obtainable in the modern art schools and
studios. Following this chapter are six, as follows: The Pollaiuoli,
Painters of the mode, Holbein, The Rembrandt tercentenary, Rodin and
Lord Leighton.
* * * * *
“The appreciations, written in a charming easy style, show the
author’s technical knowledge, his catholicity of taste and judgment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07.
“It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal
especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being
valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w.
“Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his
insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords
discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is
judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the
book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his
readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent
lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of
importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest
toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece
of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w.
“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge,
he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w.
=Crabbe, George.= Poems. 3v. v. 3. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23869.
“This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of
Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the
hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829),
which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time
arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter
hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four
are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted
family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral
of the Squire.’”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and
exhaustive thoroughness.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w.
“The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal
justification for much which is present. The editing of the present
volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w.
“Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of
his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of
confessing his affections.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w.
“For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely,
Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material
will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not
own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early
editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe
in the most comfortable form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Amulet.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37962.
The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved
over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It
is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women
who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new
world.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the
narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its
cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set
in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
“That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of
historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and
points of view.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing
reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of
the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those
orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of
fiction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w.
“Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial
and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but
this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial
consideration.”
− =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.
“Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long
ago established her enviable reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w.
“The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move
stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily
weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives
evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation
and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their
surroundings.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Windfall: a
novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15119.
The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion
rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains,
and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are
but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however,
becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and
incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.
* * * * *
“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some
characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious
works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by
undisciplined verbosity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w.
“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to
excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has
worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w.
“She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion
charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however,
only in the fact that it contains a threehanded heroine. Fortunately
she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth
reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest
description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”
− =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally
marred by serious lapses.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not
always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.
7–23083.
A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and
social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the
church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship.
The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is
illustrated with charts and portraits.
* * * * *
“The book is a repository of sociological facts.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w.
=Craig, Neville B.= Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head
waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in
co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of
Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.
7–29709.
“The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest
of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale
of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and
privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American
engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic
endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome
contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise.
Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the
book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in
none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for
his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w.
“He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his
descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in
reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the
nature faker.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w.
“While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat
sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it
will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and
adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to
engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on
organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work,
until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It
should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations
in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on
works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells
Buel.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w.
=Craig, W. H.= Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry,
personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.
7–25141.
A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of
Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of
England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well
deserves careful perusal.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w.
“It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a
reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S.
M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w.
“His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is
temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be
a not too flattering picture of the man.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w.
“It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities
which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the
perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a
philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries,
except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w.
“In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of
work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves
nothing to be desired.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w.
“The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally
too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but
there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w.
“Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen,
based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read
his story of Lord Chesterfield.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w.
=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36053.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below
that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her
unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable
production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its
finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic
adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w.
“The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came
before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy
that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the
instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia
Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.
7–21371.
“Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in
various publications, which are here brought together.... They are
mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic
standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high
church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in
Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in
art generally.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what
underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every
individual or committee or congregation interested in the building of
a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w.
“Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious
enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w.
=Crandall, Charles Lee.= Text-book on geodesy and least squares,
prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.
6–42921.
“Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell
university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the
subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The
first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the
description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The
next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the
figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three
chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares....
The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and
information given in the appendix.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and
current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative
importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being
thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty
at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for
the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly
stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and
references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated,
it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in
English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and
suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w.
“For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the
author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of
detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too
little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the
latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is
conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is
sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the
degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be
treated.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
=Crane, Robert Treat.= State in constitutional and international law.
(Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.)
pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–31399.
A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in
constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state
in international law.
=Crane, Walter.= An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37525.
Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s
book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti,
Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A
feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s
socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a
pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in
names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the
domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of
reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a
delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w.
“We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail,
interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned,
but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail
would be of interest it is often lacking.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w.
“The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows
that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that
of the writer is not excepted.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w.
“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might
have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain
theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared
with it for self-consciousness.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w.
“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man
associated for the first time. The result is attractive even
picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be
more satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w.
“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are
encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He
makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently
successful career in over-great detail.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in
these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could
write so well.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w.
=Crane, William Edward.= American stationary engineering. $2.
Derry-Collard.
6–35993.
“The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found
in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes
the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in
fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should
prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish
to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how
to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded
with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer.= Practical
illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17392.
“The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their
object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on
many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make
no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but
rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best
to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown
giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants
with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information
has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real
contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination.
It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of
every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the
only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have
presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor
and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.”
L. B. Marks.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Arethusa. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33911.
A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is
built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne
and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents
were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to
save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the
principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the
plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of
torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they
hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w.
“More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a
sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better
for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little
asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w.
“He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be,
extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his
usual vivacity.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the
imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more
flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals
into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w.
“It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than
the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and
strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical
implications.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w.
* =Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of hope: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Macmillan.
A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense
struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way
and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the
college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and
wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a
position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final
success a possibility.
* * * * *
=Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
=Crawford, J. H.= From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild
animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.
The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and
the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion.
Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks,
foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.
* * * * *
“Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite
of a somewhat affected style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w.
“Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May
Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range
and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w.
“His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some
excellent accounts of wild life.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w.
=Crawford, William Henry.= Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of
righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18143.
This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what
Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of
righteousness.”
* * * * *
“President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his
style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the
subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr.
Crawford.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w.
=Crawfurd, Oswald J. F.= Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25506.
Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer,
“presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by
Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective
so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Good detective stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
“Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards
of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive
which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and
unexpected.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w.
“He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w.
“The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him
in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in
their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w.
“We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood
of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the
reading public.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
=Crawshaw, William Henry.= Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.
7–16385.
“A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English
literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is
taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity
449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance,
1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of
Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare
and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope
and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and
Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.
* * * * *
“In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s
critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound
guide.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w.
“The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It
is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for
the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we
can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which
Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and
criticism.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good
judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w.
“For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an
illuminating book.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w.
“Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this
splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments,
breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point
or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His
treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and
morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the
opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to
disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a
forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences
we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary
for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an
excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =School R.= 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w.
=Creighton, William Henry. P.= Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5.
Wiley.
7–8522.
A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing
engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples
and problems.
* * * * *
“The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather
too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of
similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But
otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the
publishers.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w.
“An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the
steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering
student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to
train the student to think.” John J. Flather.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34687.
Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh
upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of
Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother,
the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with
the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted
with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left
dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of
the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became
the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term
may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of
religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish
inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ...
Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and
skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w.
“Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by
sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite
readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has
chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his
story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full
of intrigue and wild adventures.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w.
=Croly, Herbert David.= Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.
7–28610.
In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture
in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation
from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical
country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive
ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the
living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the
house in relation to out-of-doors.
* * * * *
“Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a
suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his
purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”
+ =Dial.= 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w.
“The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of
architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a
house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these
pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w.
=Cromarsh, H. Ripley.= See =Angell, Bryan Mary=.
=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14594.
In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the
author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear
modern vision.”
=Cross, Alfred W. S.= Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their
planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–12686.
A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the
architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the
sanitarian.
* * * * *
“The volume before us is a commendable one.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.
“Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the
qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume
should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every
architect who is likely to design bath houses.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w.
* =Cross, Richard James=, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.
A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time.
Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore,
Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many
others are represented.
* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.
Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at
our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable
vision that has cheered the ages on.
=Crouse, Mary Elizabeth.= Algiers. **$2. Pott.
6–38897.
“A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story
of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down
into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the
romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees
Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their
cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native
women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its
interpretations.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w.
“The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and
the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w.
=Crowell, Norman H.= Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22732.
Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical
chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching,
base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose
hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.
=Crozier, John B.= Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the
science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution.
$4.50. Longmans.
6–46262.
A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the
symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction
of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth,
as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with,
and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of
wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of
“Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys
the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under
review the English and foreign schools.
* * * * *
“So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest
volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated,
science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic
problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at
excessive length.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w.
“Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though
perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great
industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be
studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w.
“Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer;
reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations
which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less
superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short
mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would
take a high place in modern economical literature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w.
“In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it
is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as
errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’
it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr.
Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’
like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is
an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have
undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w.
“Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty
in appreciating.”
− =Spec.= 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w.
=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Christian Rome. (Grant
Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.
7–30815.
A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant
Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present
volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s
attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the
compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of
art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“In plan than which there are none better.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07.
“Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“An admirably practical guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Umbrian cities of Italy.
2v. il. $3. Page.
7–30814.
A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of
travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region,
and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the
states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each
locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow
descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their
contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary
guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the
authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of
history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the
objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and
suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly
decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which
give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers
will enjoy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.
7–28946.
A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman
meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been
to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and
Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily
well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds....
The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on
the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their
admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of
documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes
the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so
free from printer’s errors as is the text.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w.
“One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued
in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative
treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w.
“A book of permanent value to students.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“Has permanent value.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries,
the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.
7–33970.
Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book
features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary
facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book
is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the
student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three
galleries of Florence.
* * * * *
“Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy
volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w.
=N. Y. Times=. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in
another edition.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Cundall, H. M.= Birket Foster, R. W. S. il. *$6. Macmillan.
7–28516.
An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost
representatives of the English school of water color painting. His
landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his
architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its
work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is
best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w.
“Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully
with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact
and skill.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w.
“It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the
reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w.
“In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w.
“Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in
which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work
plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative
of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us
uncontent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
=Cunningham, William.= Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade
imperialism. *60c. Putnam.
6–33507.
“The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy
are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St.
Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses
English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted
to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially
to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord
Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take
his opponents at their best.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w.
“There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The
argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w.
“Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned
for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance
and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the
cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer
is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”
− =Spec.= 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w.
=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.)
*$6.75. Macmillan.
6–41011.
The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has
included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.
* * * * *
“Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets
it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume
one of the most charming of an excellent series.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
“On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us
hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various
sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to
take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w.
“A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”
− =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Beautiful and instructive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w.
“A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is
the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real
knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on
these ... is extremely valuable.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w.
“We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and
knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of
these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least
useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w.
“A valuable volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= Time and clocks: a description of ancient and
modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–11023.
“Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally,
proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of
the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours),
and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various
forms.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might
have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one
actually in hand.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w.
“We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of
dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various
discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst
to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.”
W. E. R.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w.
“A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly
mathematical.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w.
“He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical
contrivances which he describes.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Curtis, Carleton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants. *$2.50.
Holt.
7–34596.
A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for
the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the
discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject
that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he
will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”
=Curtis, Natalie=, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American
Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the
songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.
7–31183.
A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in
the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of
their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that
sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s
birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of
primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians
themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The
songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians
themselves.
* * * * *
“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the
vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous
in its symbolism, of a child race.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w.
“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes
collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w.
“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even
the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much
credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact
and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully,
and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician,
to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the
Indian character and the Indian traditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
“A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing
peoples.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w.
=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of
the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2.
Putnam.
6–27984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and
laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of
tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual
survivors.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w.
“In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its
justification.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Cust, Lionel.= Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.)
$1.75. Macmillan.
W 7–162.
“An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life
and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose
erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The
illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we
could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as
those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way
a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and
authority.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly
represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a
place in the library of every connoisseur.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the
book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
* =Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which
contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home
routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the
question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young
people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the
small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances,
obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable
entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in
order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be
Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is
almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled
the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have
conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In
short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story
as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of
its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
D
=Dale, Robert W.= History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.
A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is
written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians
and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the
development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres
of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells
the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel
oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most
eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is
absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own
memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it
would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of
arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been
performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In
discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w.
“Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for
exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which
approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the
materials which his father left.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w.
“For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life
in England this history is eminently instructive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w.
“In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our
thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired
for the students of church history a valuable work which might have
lost much by the too early death of its author.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w.
=D’Alton, Rev. John A.= History of Ireland from the earliest times to
the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.
Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day,
and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research
or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection
of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts,
and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read
twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic,
and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not
prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with
various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the
work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not
acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with
the one he favors.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is
wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his
impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His
view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English
history.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dalton, William.= Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–30000.
The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great
British expert.
* * * * *
“We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this
help to pave the way for his arrival.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w.
“A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of
thoroughness.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
=Daly, Thomas Augustine.= Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub.
co.
6–38398.
“Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy
one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those
dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our
large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there
is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in
the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are
always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is
the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a
genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and
noble.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w.
“Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it
Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w.
“The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
=Dampier, William.= Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–26474.
“A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and
a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w.
“The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively
low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more
stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w.
“In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing
generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been
fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United
service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find.
From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the
name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w.
“A carefully annotated edition.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w.
=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the
17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
=v. 3 and 4.= These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The
life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first
draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts
on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,”
by James Kirkwood.
=v. 5.= This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by
Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the
hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of
Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of
other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two
chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book
cases, shelves, tables and seats.
=v. 6.= The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from
France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,”
preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by
Gabriel Naudé.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of
the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater
interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile
as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
+ =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library
pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a
general human interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ =Nation.= 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and
6.)
=Dane, John Colin.= Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E.
Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–15596.
The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love,
adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference
between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black
Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time
since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit,
and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance,
that in the great motor-car race in France.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=Daniels, Frank T.= A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical
drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.
7–8517.
“The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments
and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters
take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters
take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting
topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of
representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on
earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is
a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with
topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In
reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be
critical over trifles.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w.
=Danneel, Heinrich.= Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical
electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the
Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–7516.
=v 1.= Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as
their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current,
and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of
electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory,
electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis
and the electron theory.
* * * * *
“The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will
obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study
of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the
subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he
leaves none of the salient facts out.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information
within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.”
Arthur B. Lamb.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Dante Alighieri.= Divine comedy and The new life; ed. with introd. and
notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its
introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse
to the study of Dante.
=Dargan, Olive Tilford.= Lords and lovers and other dramas. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of
Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it
has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of
dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine
theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose.
It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived
with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as
is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to
the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy
consummation.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible
mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might
not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w.
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w.
“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though
she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w.
“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would
feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the
reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w.
“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays,
and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of
such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also
indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the
quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than
from facility and sensibility.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w.
“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs.
Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests
her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w.
=Davenport, Charles Benedict.= Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie
inst.
6–27702.
Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to
inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson
in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and
races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those
already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather
as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments
under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)
* * * * *
“This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature
dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of
carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w.
“The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and
despite the large number of details that the subject demands the
matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w.
=Davenport, Frances Gardiner.= Economic development of a Norfolk manor,
1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.
6–37953.
The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the
manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of
the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords
her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the
agricultural history of a great part of England.
* * * * *
“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she
gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a
single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a
contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is
thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w.
“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable
piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the
map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w.
“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all
praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This
accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which
every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is
not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the
inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to
be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w.
“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly
original research.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an
unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value
of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w.
“Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w.
“Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some
respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman
still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a
work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles
M. Andrews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w.
“The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar
kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it
remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The
material has been collected and examined with painstaking
thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.”
C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w.
=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color
by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
W 6–228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming
illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Davidson, Gladys.= Stories from the operas. 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.
Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and
‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by
her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the
north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have
practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s
‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The
others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain
so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of
short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w.
“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the
author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard
operas instead of merely a selected number.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
=Davidson, John.= Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.
The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry
abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his
themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to
denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of
all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds,
conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the
book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of
holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material
servitudes.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that
austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks
straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay,
which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many
things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet
containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have
extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of
an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w.
“This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he
deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are
still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily
taught or tamed.”
+ − =Ath.= 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w.
“In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute
to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he
has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
“His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With
all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can
do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.
“In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch
of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness.
He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be
sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not
be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a
forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.
“Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his
fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of
landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully
‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and
fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the
singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w.
=Davidson, Thomas.= Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M.
Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.
6–45070.
Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to
mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical
skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is
the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed
of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their
history, scope, and consequences.”
* * * * *
“The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of
view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous
critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at
least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr.
Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single
passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work,
taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition
of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w.
“The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its
philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr.
Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about
Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.
+ − =J. Philos.= 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w.
“It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too
thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents
symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which,
though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to
have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from
beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his
‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a
book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w.
=Davidson, William L.= Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.
“The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an
appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with
‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how
stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of
Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and
speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of
philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of
the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus
in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title
‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It
contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system
and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which
the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter
entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of
eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic
moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the
precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably
in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of
dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the
history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can
afford to neglect.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w.
“The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of
clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w.
“A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great
problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and
interesting volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w.
=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.
6–40211.
“This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a
mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs
from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last
page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to
attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will
be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and
as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating
audience.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s
sense of probability.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.
=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.
7–27614.
Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double
life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like
£150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include
bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed
handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully
significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of
Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely
to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if
not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold;
it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.
“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread
of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is
brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production
of the real criminal.”
− =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
=Davis, Grace T.= Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim
press.
7–3702.
“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the
history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As
pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of
institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and
their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended
especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively
illustrated.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
=Davis, Hayne=, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the
Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.
An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent
members of this international house of representatives and of
progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace
which this union of lawmakers has espoused.
* * * * *
“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful
source of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w.
=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the
Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
6–1101.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
=Davis, Latham.= Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s
labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609.
*$3. Stechert.
The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal
document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will
the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new
heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’
acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis
personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”
* * * * *
“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite
unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will
comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in
it.”
− − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w.
=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M.= Price of silence; with il. by Griswold
Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–11208.
New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue
deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening
years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and
complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of
the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young
relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and
pleasing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w.
“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great
fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from
view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of
Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w.
“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be
generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing
picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such
acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is
anything but a travesty of the truth.”
− =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.
“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as
much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic
instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along
with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w.
“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which
it deals and as a story.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w.
=Davis, Michael M.= Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1.
Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.
6–46265.
An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing
Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that
Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has
consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too,
is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work
of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him
great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.)
* * * * *
“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be
congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W.
Small.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and
value.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=Davis, Norah.= World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn.
†$1.50. Houghton.
7–13951.
“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the
resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters,
cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them
far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a
live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set
of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last
generation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w.
“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with
situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must
be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed
the plot very cleverly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w.
“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent
Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are
waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the
ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–42911.
Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his
own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it
to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron
Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo
Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.
* * * * *
“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S.
“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w.
“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also
accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably
interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not
a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal
soldier of fortune.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote,
episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet
through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical
events in which these men played important, but, for the most part,
thankless rôles.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are
written will certainly attract young readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a
real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many
Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a
fresh interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of
scouts.’”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–22818.
These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A
large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which
involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she
drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the
scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men
and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding
interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men,
graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not
need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You
will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the
literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”
+ =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w.
“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the
undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very
distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick
Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are
carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Davis, William Stearns.= Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of
Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15591.
This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by
the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious
and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true
to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the
invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the
hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps
the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.
* * * * *
“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of
love.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his
proper names.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w.
“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more
than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details
to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever
frequented a circulating library.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be,
for more than they are worth.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.
=Dawson, Alec J.= The message. †$1.50. Estes.
A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point.
“His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes
that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and
sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that
postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs.
The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an
almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy.
Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in
the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers,
and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of
interest, which is maintained from the first.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w.
“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a
welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems
almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as
to be at times dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w.
“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in
the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w.
=Dawson, Coningsby William.= Worker, and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
6–41523.
The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy
with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a
forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his
thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not
too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly
noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By
multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to
defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of
considerable promise.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world,
something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only
intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and
compelling mood.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.
“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars,
but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous,
immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to
what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal
relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is
multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w.
“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is
written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice
of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It
would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he
is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of
verse.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w.
=Dawson, Nelson.= Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s
lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–37522.
“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly
illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker
in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with
the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history
of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious
metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman
period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of
such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of
the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt
appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical
history, the artist and the craftsman.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w.
“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical
and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only
to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the
artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to
face and overcome.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w.
=Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national
efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–23711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by
means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been
promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles
Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w.
=Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day).= Princess of Manoa. **$1.50.
Elder.
6–45043.
Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type,
and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its
oddity.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w.
“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and
Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most
interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Rainy day railroad war. †$1. Barnes.
6–27347.
A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the
building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young
hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest
resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 20. Ja. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w.
=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts
are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of
the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth,
organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting
chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James
Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
6–5711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a
collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor
Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an
introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the
student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Woman’s war. †$1.50. Harper.
7–20869.
The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival
doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so
maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her
energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the
whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the
blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it
from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step
by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem
the castle and check-mate the black king.
* * * * *
“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor
ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to
commend the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w.
“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to
treat it with a childish superficiality.”
− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w.
“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as
nails.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w.
“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of
execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level
of merit.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: the studies.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6800.
The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here
set forth in the form of a text book for college and university
classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content
of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational
value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine
the best possible combination of the studies into the various
curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to
show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper
functions.
* * * * *
“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so
competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by
students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the
principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable
as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that
it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is
to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the
present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w.
“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it
must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The
name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the
volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.”
Nathaniel Butler.
+ + =School. R.= 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w.
=De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady.= A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50.
Dutton.
7–8229.
“Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband
at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the
varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way
in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is
one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced
by the fact that they had been married less than three months....
Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.
“The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives
new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w.
=Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w.
“Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside
Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life
of her lord.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes
and aims of some very true-to-life girls.
=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie.
†$1.50. Harper.
6–24158.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary
Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness
is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that
such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.”
Louise Collier Willcox.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w.
=Deland, Margaret W. C.= Encore. †$1.50. Harper.
7–32562.
A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When
Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good
Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment
and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss
was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty
years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard;
but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical
aid.
* * * * *
“This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most
charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the
holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham).= Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50.
Dutton.
7–28454.
“Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an
ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is
glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious
husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never
penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace
gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn
elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval,
the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly
clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression
of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy
this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters
say, not what they do.”
− =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little
creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life,
whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w.
“It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w.
“To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true
sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The
story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast
both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50.
Dutton.
6–41709.
The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes
to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after
her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of
her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of
how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the
social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull
loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant
cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.
* * * * *
“The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too
easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠
“The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has
sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w.
“The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of
present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w.
“A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of
life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.
“‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her
work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies
popularity as well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w.
=Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.
“A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected
pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant
matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to
deal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which
is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
“Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this
story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her
manner.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w.
“The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is
sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the
season.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Delehaye, H.= Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography;
from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20.
Longmans.
A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the
ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical
criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the
relation of paganism to Christianity.
* * * * *
“For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and
rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M.
Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly
acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w.
“Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound,
conservative, scientific method.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w.
=Deming, Philander.= Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–17047.
In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of
autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly
reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to
the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on
to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few
tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with
another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of
his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without
being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected
stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w.
“After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and
penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain
lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which
give biography its chief charm.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.
“Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface
bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum
newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all
the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle
Victorian period in American fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w.
=De Montmorency, J. E. G.= Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.
7–11046.
“The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed,
and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed,
and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and
accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine
illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full
recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis.
He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and
the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it
is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the
reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of
suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential
questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate
enough.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his
book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not
always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to
spend it all upon us.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w.
=Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to
organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w.
“It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and
reconstructive movement.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent
investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’
which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w.
“Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book
are pregnant and excellent.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w.
“Interesting and learned book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w.
=De Morgan, John.= In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.
7–24148.
An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from
Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for
relaxation.
* * * * *
“It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never
heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=De Morgan, William.= Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.
7–20515.
Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London
fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to
her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden
parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and
places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale
lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple
life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of
the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to
be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader
rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.
* * * * *
“We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with
an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and
an exquisite skill in characterisation.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w.
“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and
shows exquisite skill in characterization.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠
“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the
quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp
and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too
sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his
creatures.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w.
“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by
some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed
on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w.
“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his
heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these
irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without
them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at
its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w.
“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has
lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w.
“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems
incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd
thing is that we have not been bored.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w.
“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then
degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity
becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De
Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a
sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader
his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it
for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his
talk about them.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w.
“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has
somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain
perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary
quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a
degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence.
These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but
in matter.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be
said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and
how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but
not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor,
fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard
Dunbar.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain
things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but
cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w.
“Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w.
“The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the
matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of
which he was great.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w.
“This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted
without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography.
†$1.50. Holt.
6–25695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w.
“Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in
the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and
pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile
characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared
in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation
will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate,
mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w.
=Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Bell foundry.
45c. Benziger.
7–21531.
Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in
Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and
stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody
incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of
villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a
result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is
restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her
and becomes the bride of Gerold.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w.
=Dennett, R. E.= At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the
kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–13004.
Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the
Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About
three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of
kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and
death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder
of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been
observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix
by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of
the Yoruba people.
* * * * *
“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on
behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him
both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is
purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for
his own sake.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w.
“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution
to science might have been doubled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w.
“Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix,
which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ...
and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr.
Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w.
“The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu
phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to
ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought
out with revised and reasonable orthography.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
“All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour
which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and
customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his
task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w.
=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3.
**$2.50. Revell.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this
material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C.
R. Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many
kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A.
K. Parker.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book
for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of
missions.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)
“All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth
of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative
worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of
this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for
years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent
character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less
enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.
+ − =Yale R.= 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A.= Billy Bounce:
pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.
6–34681.
The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him
bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits
the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to
youthful readers as entirely harmless.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“A whimsical and comical tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
“The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of
Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring
is less crude than in his previous books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w.
=Densmore, Emmet.= Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.
7–32183.
Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin,
Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book
teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and
spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource,
power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not
fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and
heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into
all phases of human life.
=Derby, George=, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an
analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also
the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography.
$10. White.
6–38537.
“This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in
indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to
make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men
prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and
novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of
public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable
sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of
American families and their descendants.”
* * * * *
“There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume
will be found useful for reference.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w.
=Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up
a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures
were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w.
=Derr, Louis.= Photography for students of physics and chemistry.
*$1.40. Macmillan.
7–471.
“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera
man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the
scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is
divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its
accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action,
development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying,
intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing
processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the
result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the
subject.” C. J.
+ − =Nature.= 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w.
“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the
exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of
readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on
experimental investigation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w.
=De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge.= Venice. il. **$3.50;
ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.
7–31989.
A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much
pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr.
Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and
is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of
reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric
effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view
with a certain amount of freshness.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.
“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set
in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied
and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr.
Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially
to the attractiveness of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.
“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of
sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his
father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid
suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks
solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it
difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to
see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles
of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making
discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her
husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given
place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it
must end, miserably.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble.
There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not
always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show
courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w.
“It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.
“In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic
fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes
wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a
very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the
real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly
ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon
as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling
that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ...
comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible
mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and
that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an
added wrong.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his
psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness.
His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries
conviction.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w.
“The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed.
Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an
adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain
confident that he will yet write a fine story.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w.
“He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of
character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the
impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w.
“Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and
illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel.
This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even
be said that they are pleasant shades.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Deussen, Paul.= Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according
to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.
6–35998.
The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the
Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful
Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental
idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching
regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and
emancipation.
* * * * *
“The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen
at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient
guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of
Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to
those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this
compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w.
“It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics
obtainable in brief compass.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w.
=Devine, E. J.= Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.
7–2759.
A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian
millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be
considered than the possession of wealth.”
* * * * *
“It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a
thin suit of fiction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w.
=Dewar, Douglas.= Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day
birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.
Agr 6–1634.
With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar
writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent
illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on
“unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite
unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the
descriptions are in essentials correct.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w.
“The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr.
Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility
of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth
of the book lies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
=Dewhurst, Frederic Eli.= Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago
press.
7–23074.
A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people,
especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious
insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet,
but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could
not escape.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals
strongly.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w.
=De Windt, Harry.= Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey
throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.
7–29080.
This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the
Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and the Caucasus. “He found the
remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the
traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans,
he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London
and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the
country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read
recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have
had enough of them already.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w.
“The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author
visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is
competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these
everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w.
“A pleasant chatty account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w.
“A vivacious account of travel and observation.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w.
“Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing
books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w.
“A most entertaining volume.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w.
=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed.= Railway organization and working: a series
of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of
Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41297.
A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by
prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and
operating of the American railway.
* * * * *
“An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.
“The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes
a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the
management of railway traffic.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway
employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it
worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader
outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w.
“The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the
manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to
observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone
interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will
profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w.
“It will be found of great practical service to students. The
treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.
=Dickins, Frederick Victor.= Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts,
Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–29200–29201.
The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists
are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of
their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship.
Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the
Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of
Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the
earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume
ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese
language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short
grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.”
R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w.
“These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader,
comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable
progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature.
They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the
indispensable companion of the serious student.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w.
“Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for
the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w.
=Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w.
=Dickinson, F. A.= Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir
C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.
“In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the
various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color,
habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most
uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game
anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain
Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the
rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any
attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East
Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice,
and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it
may evoke.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w.
“Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of
the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the
German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little
intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w.
“As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have
laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes
because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big
game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority
on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend
itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing,
and interesting style.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w.
“Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his
crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the
clearness and precision of a military command.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
“Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The
style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is
slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room
gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when
he tries.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= From king to king. **$1. McClure.
7–12876.
For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has
been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the
Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The
pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to
the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form,
certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The
tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and
institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate
vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals
and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success
of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds
himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the
dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively
setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet
there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a
whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower
circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second
place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary
exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme
type that we have lately seen.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w.
Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w.
“There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction
doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w.
=Dietzgen, Joseph.= Positive outcome of philosophy, tr. by Ernest
Untermann. $1. Kerr.
6–38881.
The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain
work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,”
are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American
students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist
philosophy.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w.
=Dillon, Edward.= Glass. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–15911.
“The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early
glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of
glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other
chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled
glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of
the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are
devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia,
India and China together supply material for another chapter; while
the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is
ably written.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w.
“The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full
enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to
hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who
is beginning to take an interest in glass.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
“It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its
place as the best and most authoritative general account of the
subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w.
“We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not
pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may
be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things
which are being done in our time.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w.
“The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely
interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough
mastery of the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen.= Atonement in literature and life.
**$1.50. Houghton.
6–45133.
“This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ...
the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that
literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes
to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation
which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of
literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the
Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s
tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The
scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is
singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w.
“This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people
who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great
masterpieces of literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
=Outlook.= 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H.= Parish clerk; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–27625.
A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar
manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is
studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of
character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and
experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves
would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing
them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the
nation.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent;
the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in
with little regard to probability. It is little more than a
scrap-book.”
− =Acad.= 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w.
“In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its
duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have
exercised just a little more care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w.
“The book is a useful addition to the history of English
ecclesiastical institutions.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be
exhaustive.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w.
“May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse
of capital anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w.
“It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any
means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle
traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w.
“Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the
subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious
things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the
holder of it.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
=Ditmars, Raymond Lee.= Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.
7–10051.
“A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the
turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit
the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular
book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
“It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet
scientific.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature,
but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which
‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w.
“Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large
and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron
Mann.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50.
Macmillan.
6–34081.
A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to
be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures
among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading
for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.
* * * * *
“The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot
than the author’s previous works.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠
+ =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w.
“A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the
hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
“This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for
children or about children.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
=Dix, Edwin Asa.= Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12634.
The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic
treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of
this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the
exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods
work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events
which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate
futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New
England fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple
tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting
descriptions of New England life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than
literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before
the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in
quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s
reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern
business methods.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its
humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w.
=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York.
4v. **$5. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in
their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters
with which it deals.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dix, William Frederick.= Face in the girandole: a romance of old
furniture. **$2. Moffat.
6–39023.
Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming
book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys,
something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has
incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and
this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who
collect furniture.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle
hour upon.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
=Dix, William Frederick.= Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26021.
“A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and
imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The
recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured
geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all
superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and
tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all
concerned.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things
soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w.
=Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Traitor. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–24587.
The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The
leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with
“the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous
men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal
ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage,
ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku
Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with
coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief.
It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the
murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s
hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by
making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential
enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as
full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of
melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.
− =Bookm.= 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w.
“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it
is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted
himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”
− =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w.
“There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the
story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire
the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w.
“From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr.
Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w.
“This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost
hysterically high-keyed in expression.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Dodd, Helen C.= Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an
introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
6–45718.
A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of
one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry
work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the
house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art
may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.
* * * * *
“An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w.
=Dodge, Walter P.= Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.
Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the
destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas
Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to
Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several
pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his
reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond.
Times.)
* * * * *
“His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an
abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He
settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”
− =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research
or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author
appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his
sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.
− =Dial.= 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He
sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit
something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution
is superfluous.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c.
Crowell.
6–34260.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is as far as any thinker of any age has ever reached, the final
word for the present.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“Dr. Dole has handled a hard subject in a thoughtful, sympathetic
fashion.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 260w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
6–26499.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
“A most readable book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“It is specially to be commended to young men and women who have not
yet learned the value, the possibilities, and the triumphs of a true
democracy.” I. C. Barrows.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 461. D. 15, ’06. 2790w.
“Of course the treatment of so many subjects in one small volume must
necessarily be superficial and unsatisfactory.” Max West.
− =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“It is a reasonable and thoughtful presentation of some of the most
pressing problems in our contemporary political life.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 70w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 124. F. ’07. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell=, comp. and tr. Russian fairy book. †$2. Crowell.
7–24600.
Seven stories on which a child’s imagination may feed, full of
adventure, humor, mystery and magic. They are Vasilisa the beauty, The
Bright-Hawk’s feather, Ivan and the gray wolf, The little sister and
little brother, The white duckling, Marya Morevna, and The frog-queen.
* * * * *
“The stories are in the nature of folk-lore, and are all good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 40w.
“Opens a new and fascinating vista to lovers of stories that are full
of original beauty and the naïve appeal of ancient folk-lore.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
“The illustrations allure on account of their novelty. However, in the
tales there is little or no freshness of subject-matter or style.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 40w.
=Donaldson, James.= Woman, her position and influence in ancient Greece
and Rome, and among the early Christians. *$1.60. Longmans.
W 7–73.
“The book gives one a clear picture of the various ideals in regard to
woman which prevailed through the Greek, Roman and early Christian
times, and of how the women measured up to them.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Dr. Donaldson’s readable little book is perhaps quite as useful as a
work of more solid erudition would be.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 121. O. ’07. 620w.
“For the most part, a lucid and excellently written summary of the
salient facts which may be gathered from the scattered and often
conflicting testimonies available to us. He has a wide knowledge of
the German writers who have done the ‘spade-work’ of the subject, but
he has also an advantage they generally lack—a clear and attractive
style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 248. Mr. 2. 4360w.
“We conclude by recording the impression of sanity and clarity
produced alike by the first and second reading of this modest work.
Occasionally we might quarrel about a nuance of interpretation or of
presentation. The essential parts are readable and instructive; the
whole is valuable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 86. Ag. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“His statements were based on sound scholarship, and were made with
unusual caution, so that he could publish them in book form with the
addition here and there of footnotes embodying certain modern
discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 1510w.
“It has the buoyancy and freshness of a spring day, a frank love of
beauty, an invincible conviction that the generous and fine is the
real and important side of human nature.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 201. Ap. 6, ’07. 1550w.
“For the most part, his work is rather a series of suggestive essays
on comparatively well-known facts than a fresh contribution to
knowledge. As such, however, it has great value, and the author
exhibits exactly the learning, insight, and judgment which we need for
the full investigation of a difficult but fascinating subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 500. Mr. 30, ’07. 1750w.
=Dos Passos, John R.= American lawyer as he was—as he is—as he can be.
*$1.75. Banks.
7–2440.
“In this work Mr. Dos Passos discusses in broad outline what he
conceives to be the real mission of the lawyer in society, his
relation to the government of which he is a citizen, and his clearly
defined duties in that relation.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (Neltje Blanchan, pseud.).= Birds that every
child should know: the East; 63 pages of photographs from life. (Every
child should know series.) **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–7517.
While primarily for children this book interests other bird-lovers as
well. “Nearly a hundred species are described and talked about in an
informal, interesting way, technicalities being avoided as much as
possible, perhaps too much for convenience of identification.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“A very good book for children, or to use with children, for
supplementary work. Does not supplant Chapman’s ‘Birdlife’ as an
identification book, and one might hesitate to choose it in preference
to Olive Thorne Miller’s two books for teaching purposes, but is
superior for reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“A book charmingly written and copiously illustrated.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 20w.
“Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that
a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it
would be apt to resent.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w.
“One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded
into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is
well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very
high.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.
“One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of
the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the
calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w.
“A pleasant, chatty little book.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w.
* =Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
Here one finds described the bravery of the guardians of modern life,
their allegiance to the great machine called the Fire department, the
training, the discipline of the men and horses, and for the gentler
part, the devotion of the men to their pets.
=Dowson, Joseph Emerson.= Producer gas. *$3. Longmans.
7–25693.
A discussion of the theory of producer gas, the practical results
obtained, best means of securing them, and the use and application of
producer gas.
* * * * *
“It is evident all through the book that the authors are thoroughly
conversant with the actual working of apparatus for both the
production and use of producer gas, and their book meets the needs of
persons handling such plants better than any of the other books on the
subject with which the reviewer is acquainted.” Alfred E. Forstall.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34805.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 700w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 120w.
=Doyle, J. A.= Colonies under the House of Hanover. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fifth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America.” It
deals collectively with the whole body of colonies from the accession
of the House of Hanover to the beginning of those disputes which ended
in separation from the mother country.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Doyle’s work compares favourably with the new French volume of
Prof. Schefer in which are discussed many of the same ‘Colonial
problems.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 730w.
“A work as unique as it is valuable, for a one-volume history of the
colonies under the House of Hanover has, we believe, no mate.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
“It is evident that Mr. Doyle’s last volumes are no better than those
that preceded them, and will do nothing to re-establish the reputation
of his earlier work.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“His final volume is far more fragmentary and inadequate than any of
its predecessors.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
“Mr. Doyle seems quite content to accept, without further
investigation on his own part, what he finds ready to his hand in the
books of American writers on colonial history, and has neglected much
first-hand authority (or its equivalent) of which he should most
certainly have known.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 813. Je. 29, ’07. 2430w.
“Far more important than Mr. Doyle’s misapprehensions as to the social
condition of Virginia is his bland acceptance of the ‘Yankee
convention’ regarding education in the colony.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 18. Jl. 6, ’07. 2370w.
“The book swarms with misprints and errors in citation. Mr. Doyle’s
style is pleasing in the main and often spirited and graphic—far more
so than that of the usual chronicler of colonial annals.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 50. Jl. 13, ’07. 2620w.
=Doyle, J. A.= Middle colonies. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fourth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America” deals
with the history of the Middle colonies down to the accession of the
House of Hanover, coincident with the disappearance of Penn from the
field of colonial politics.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
“There is no fairer view of American colonial development than that
contained in the five bulky volumes of Mr. Doyle.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
“It is safe to say that no one can hereafter write about or study the
colonial period of American history without reckoning with, and
constantly referring to, Mr. Doyle’s work.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
“In organizing and distributing his data Mr. Doyle followed very
conventional models, and in the work before us has neglected some of
the most essential portions of our history.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
“But although specialists will find fault with him for inaccuracies,
the great value of the work is unquestionable. It is regrettable that
the indexes have not been better made.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“In the volume upon the middle colonies the treatment is to a degree
systematic and in some parts quite detailed. Much the same method is
followed as was apparent in the earlier instalments of the work. But
the writer’s chief fault lies in his failure to grasp, or at least to
set forth, the significance of our colonial history as a whole.”
Herbert L. Osgood.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget
that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail,
its outlines are large.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w.
Draught of the blue, together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the
original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–6406.
A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo
manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he
tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way
the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is
pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate
garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales
that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in
themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but
because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the
spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w.
“The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and
graceful.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w.
“They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as
entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author
modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that
charms with its pure music.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w.
“It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes
the English of a scholar and an artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w.
=Dreiser, Theodore.= Sister Carrie. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is
the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral
ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a
pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his
presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of
his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped
to sink him.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and
quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse
criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its
rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w.
“It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might
be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a
trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story,
one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to
read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900
somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move.
He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.”
Harrison Rhodes.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 298. My. ’07. 1260w.
“There are two reasons why ‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be recommended
in spite of its boldness of theme. First of all for the sake of its
truthfulness, the frankness of its portrayal of a widespread type.
Secondly it is a pitiless, unsparing portrayal of a man’s ruin.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 117. Jl. ’07. 550w.
“We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who
clings to ‘old-fashioned ideas.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
“‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be reckoned with, just as the social
conditions—or defects—on which it rests must be reckoned with.” Joseph
Hornor Coates.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 288. O. ’07. 1500w.
=Dresslar, Fletcher B.= Superstition and education. pa. $2.50. Univ. of
Cal.
7–29553.
An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in
two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the
student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The
results are classified and presented statistically.
=Dial.= 43: 172. S. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Dressler, Friedrich August.= Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.
7–29134.
A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do
with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the
domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home
life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only
Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck,
Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he
has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he
has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of
observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 139. F. 9, ’07. 320w.
“The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family
life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 60w.
“Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the
whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles
Edward Barrett-Lennard.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 480w.
“The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest
German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and
vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s
harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose
glory he sunned himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 670w.
=Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 259. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
=Drew, Gilman A.= Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25.
Saunders.
7–21555.
A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical
staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The
invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed
directions are given for the study of each division. Following this,
come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and
great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual
answers all requirements.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 258. S. 19, ’07. 240w.
“A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious
faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 250. Ag. 23, ’07. 410w.
=Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles.= Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised
translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–15938.
“The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary
educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to
understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a
new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified,
accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of
the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and
brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most
needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in
the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 668. O. ’07. 180w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The reader with an ordinary education may read the book
intelligently.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w.
“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one
ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master
mind.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w.
=Druce, George C.= Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius
collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with
a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence,
notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.
“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by
Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as
vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of
Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries
which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this
character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are
extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the
department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof.
Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards
his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce
gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”
* * * * *
“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be
interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry
introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have
the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science,
and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine
themselves to single and restricted fields.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w.
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic
preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B.
D. J.
+ =Nature.= 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w.
=Drummond, Henry.= Natural law in the spiritual world. 35c. Crowell.
A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Dry, Wakeling.= Giacomo Puccini. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
7–14600.
The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the
case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s
operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits
of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles
of his musical autographs.
* * * * *
“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give
point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of
Puccini.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w.
“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but
critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have
not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is
evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in
the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the
first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal
reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his
book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.
=DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman.= Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
6–30472.
Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely
quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as
to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work
“consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely
reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with
copious quotations.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much
importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult
to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying
Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service
incidentally.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 560w.
“We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s
scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears
abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 265. N. ’06. 1530w.
=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s
imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement,
careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to
mere summarizing of the views of others.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 110w.
“All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized
and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most
elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region
of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the
average Latinist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 260w.
=DuBois, Patterson.= Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and
social reform. **75c. Dodd.
7–16993.
“Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral
life—_the_, rather than, as the Greek and Roman philosophy esteemed
it, _a_ cardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are
mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr.
Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of
practice is to _think justice_—to do this as an acquired _habit of
mind_.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and
childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what
justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to
keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this
small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to
teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social
and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly
commended.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 30w.
=Du Bose, Horace M.= Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the
history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles;
with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–22109.
A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to
bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a
correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.
=DuBose, William P.= Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–11043.
“Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that
the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than
natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion,
and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise
the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of
Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly
God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as
we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator
of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful
reader.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 390w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.
* =Duckworth, Lawrence.= Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.
An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The
latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and
decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to
all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.
=Duer, Elizabeth.= Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–35453.
“The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the
mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not
unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the
Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What
befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the
toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
“The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put
together, and not without a pretty wit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 530w.
“The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly
managed.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
=Duff, Edward G.= Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster
and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–7493.
“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is
covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and
Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia;
foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the
early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon.
The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with
interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old
books, and old bindings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed)
for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal
censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other
condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the
grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an
otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably
unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive
and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this
important addition to their library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 225. F. 23. 610w.
“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history
and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 461. N. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his
contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone
it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of
protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of
history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to
form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 470w.
=Duff, Mildred.= Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29717.
Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old.
Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of
animals to furniture.
=Duke, Basil W.= Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.
6–18975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 310w.
=Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
=Duley, G. Wilson.= Dream of hell. $1. Badger.
6–46743.
“The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object
the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self
justification.”
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte
Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau,
Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de
Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are
uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an
introduction and frontispiece.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= My memoirs; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by
Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.
The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume
deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at
Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of
bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these
pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist
and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of
these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical
figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in
various campaigns.
=v. 2.= The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the
drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold
of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature
and the drama.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the
last sentence of the book reads oddly.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the
present English form.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George
S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be
characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any
delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to
our biographical literature.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling
account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history
may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to
be effaced.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 637. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.
6–37888.
“‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are
here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of
negro life.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 732. Mr. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
* =Dunbar, William.= Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and
glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.
A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much
light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish
poet.
* * * * *
“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an
admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary.
Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w.
“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary
reader or student.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w.
“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German
savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much
erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy
volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken
bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add
that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same
authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary,
and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances
which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and
notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w.
“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr.
Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Cruise of the “Shining Light.” †$1.50. Harper.
7–15117.
The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a
furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in
order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a
gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick
Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would
have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor
of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and
to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’
money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the
years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.”
“A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”
* * * * *
“The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really
illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a
quaint and delightful humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book
that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is
entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions
as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes
irritating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 170w.
“An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s
career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style
which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance
beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older
literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid,
so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that
among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr.
Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us
that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 610w.
“A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern
fiction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that
indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative
literary tradition.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 25, ’07. 360w.
“If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor
roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 930w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends
in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 328. Je. 7, ’07. 1440w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation
of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.
7–31986.
A work which directs the attention of educated lay-folk to science in
its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author
develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy
and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows,
among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen
and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a
series of operations to which they are applied.
* * * * *
“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one
that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it
contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get
elsewhere in such convenient form.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w.
“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical
processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere
else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing
processes so clearly and accurately explained.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w.
“To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or
whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism
of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”
− =Nature.= 77: 49. N. 21, ’07. 2250w.
“A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this
direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of
affairs alike.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 470w.
=Dunham, Edith.= Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book
for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.
7–17393.
Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not
only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find
it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which
will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.
* * * * *
“The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail
to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had
escaped their attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 90w.
* =Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy
of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an
unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what
is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and
economic interests of the United States; and also what is best,
considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The
study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books
and articles consulted.
=Dunn, Robert.= Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from
photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–21274.
Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount
McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic
solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and
adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the
unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned
to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its
author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished
tale.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity
and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the
book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote
northwest.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious
determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others
guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst
sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and
there a bit of effective description.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 590w.
=Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).= Dissertations by Mr. Dooley.
†$1.50. Harper.
6–38400.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.
“As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of
polished and admirably concealed artistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.
“Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the
wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 340w.
“The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite
on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it
is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology,
and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 93. Ja. 19, ’07. 990w.
=Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of.= Outlook in
Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.
“Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for
the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by
the committee known by his name.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 110w.
“Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due
time.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 230w.
“The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of
affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle,
and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and
justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1410w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 742. Ag. 3, ’07. 1680w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter
in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at
least regard them through some distorting medium of national
prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it
will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm
consideration to the Irish problem.”
− − + =Spec.= 98: 290. F. 23, ’07. 2020w.
=During, Stella M.= Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M.
Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–20512.
Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous
action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive,
unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less
irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir
Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the
sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding
that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, begins a long
series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself,
require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child
takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a
twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent
to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls
in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned
and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool,
drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.
* * * * *
“The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance
into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of
ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 220w.
* =Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year
in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a
twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and
a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only
picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling
stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and
authoritative observations on the social, economic and political
conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.
7–6771.
“Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the
history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and
extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of
music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention
of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 139. My. ’07. ✠
=Dye, Eva Emery.= McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50.
McClurg.
6–33578.
A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American
settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in
a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such
international consequence.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of
historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical
publication.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 479. Ja. ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 230w.
“There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is
based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the
volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely
knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance
and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere,
color and life.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 90w.
E
=Earle, Mrs. C. W.= Letters to young and old. *$2.50. Dutton.
Letters such as Mrs. Earle has been accustomed to write to her friends
and family are here collected into a volume which covers a wide field
of interest. The seven sections include letters from Germany, letters
upon gardening, health, diet, children, art, and life in general.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 39. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w.
“Altogether, it is a delightful, gossiping olla podrida.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 260w.
“Here is a novel and clever idea in bookmaking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 197. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.
“Those who liked her three books of potpourri will find it
interesting, but no one to whom the three former volumes did not
appeal should even try to read this one.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 780w.
=East, Alfred.= Art of landscape painting in oil color. *$3. Lippincott.
“Mr. East has not attempted in this book to write of landscape
painting in its elementary stages. His aim has been rather to give the
already qualified student an insight into certain truths which have
been revealed to him in his own practice of the art. To correct a
false attitude towards nature, and to help the reader to understand
the importance of technique, has been the aim of this book. It is
illustrated by eight landscapes and a page of studies of effects in
colour, and many halftone pictures, chiefly from the painter’s works;
also an admirable selection from those pencil sketches in which he
excels.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The letterpress is somewhat elementary. The book is redeemed,
however, by a genuine love for the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 390w.
“We cannot think of any painter who could be a better guide than Mr.
East. He is not contemptuous of the beginner, and he has a literary
faculty which enables him to explain his meaning very clearly.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 520w.
“This work should be of great use to many a student, amateur and
artist. Mr. East writes with distinctness, and has the power of making
his reader understand clearly the various processes, mental and
technical, which he uses for the construction of a landscape.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 290w.
* =Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
The chivalry of the Indian warrior and the womanliness of the Indian
woman are subjects which Mr. Eastman sets forth with authority and
sentiment. In an idealized sense his tales become more “than mere
narrations of savage exploits and records of the legends and
traditions, beliefs and practices, of a primitive people.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“We feel personally grateful for the refreshment afforded by more than
one exquisitely idyllic tale among the dozen, or so in his volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
* =Eckstorm, Mrs. Fannie (Hardy).= David Libbey, Penobscot woodsman and
river-driver. *60c. Am. Unitar.
7–23501.
Another figure for the galaxy of “true American types.” David Libbey
is a Maine woodsman who “met all the demands of son, husband, father,
brother, friend, citizen and soldier, and yet had time for
self-education, for æsthetic culture, and for the exercise of a talent
by no means meagre.”
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Tales of a small town by one who lived there.
†$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30989.
The small town element is here in the fact that every one knows the
business of everyone else be it the lawyer who connives to secure the
drunkard’s farm through his wife before she has actually determined on
a divorce suit, or the adventurous young minx with the peroxide hair
who flirts with her uncle and her staid next door neighbor to the
distress of their wives. The stories are interesting although not
wholly pleasing for the admirable traits of the villagers are
subordinated to their unlovely ones.
=Edwardes, Marian=, comp. Summary of the literatures of modern Europe
(England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain); from the origins to 1400.
*$2.50. Dutton.
7–20970.
“The work is essentially an annotated and classified bibliography,
with references to the most authoritative scholarly discussions of the
writings included. It presents an immense mass of historical and
critical information in a form that is both compact and convenient for
use.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“In spite of these ... defects ... the compilation is distinctly
serviceable. With careful revision it might be made indispensable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 870w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Enough has been said, we believe, to show how defective this work is,
notwithstanding its occasionally useful citations of recent
literature.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. O. 21, ’07. 460w.
“A very careful and painstaking work, and should be found useful by
students.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Edwards, A. Herbage.= Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.
7–29123.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A complete view of Japan, the book does not give; the unpleasant
features are left for others to portray. But that omission makes it
the more agreeable to read.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
“A series of slight sketches, more ambitious than successful.”
− =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
=Edwards, Matilda Betham-.= Literary rambles in France. il. *$2.50
McClurg.
7–36931.
Miss Betham-Edwards, who gave us a few years ago “Home-life in
France,” now gives equally intimate glimpses of the personality of
some of the French men and women of letters. Some of the suggestive
chapter headings are: Flaubert’s literary workshop, On the track of
Balzac—Limoges. The genesis of Eugènie Grandet, In the footsteps of
George Sand, Brantôme and The story of the Marseillaise.
* * * * *
“She gives with perfect success the atmosphere of the places and
people that she writes about. That is, we imagine, all that she set
out to do, and in any case all that was needed.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.
“Is in our opinion one of the best of her long series of monographs on
French life and scenery. Her tendency to facile literary allusion
takes her readers far from the scene she is describing. This is
destructive of the French atmosphere which ought to characterize her
books of travel.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 780w.
“It is a pleasure to discover that [it] belongs, not to the appalling
multitude of ‘popular guides,’ but to the small and delightful company
of artistic and illuminating travellers’ sketches. They have, in the
first place, the note of spontaneity.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 370w.
“There never was a more staunch champion of Protestantism than Miss
Betham-Edwards; and we take leave to think that a writer who hardly
acknowledges any other religion in France cannot be said to know
France thoroughly.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 266. Ag. 24, ’07. 1200w.
=Edwards, Owen.= Short history of Wales. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A brief history of only a little over a hundred pages for those who
have never read any Welsh history.
* * * * *
“The pages on Wales at the present time are unquestionably the most
interesting. The style is simple, lucid, and picturesque. Those for
whom the book is primarily intended—readers ignorant of Welsh and
Latin—will be led to knowledge of pleasant paths.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“His attitude is still that of the North Walian. Despite such trifling
blemishes the book is excellent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 500w.
=Edwards, William Seymour.= Through Scandinavia to Moscow. **$1.50.
Clarke.
6–37647.
Entertaining observations made by Mr. Edwards as he and his bride
traveled in five weeks thru Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, to St.
Petersburg and back to London by way of Berlin, Hamburg, and
Amsterdam. The account is given in the form of letters written by the
author to his father and is illustrated with snap shots taken en
route.
* * * * *
“The personal touches and impressions—interesting incidents well
told—make an unusually attractive account of a traveler’s experiences.
Here and there an occasional careless statement threatens to shatter
the reader’s faith in the accuracy of the book as a whole. On the
whole the book is worth reading. Its story is pleasantly told, with
many interesting items well worth remembering.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 230w.
“Commonplace in many respects.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 390w.
“A simple, straightforward account.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 810w.
=Eeden, Frederik van.= Quest. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
7–15321.
The symbolism which abounds in this book reminds one of Ibsen. A
little boy seeks diligently from fairy guides a solution to the riddle
of the universe and its manifold manifestations. As he grows older his
desire for understanding is no less keen but for the fairy thoughts of
imagination are substituted the troll-ideas of grotesque human
realities. Finally among the sordid commonplaces he falls in with a
companion who is a “modern reincarnation of the Christ.” There is a
very human love tale, the romance of the imaginative Johannes and
Marjon, a little circus girl.
* * * * *
“A remarkable work of sustained fancy, the book presents no new
‘Weltanschauung,’ it brings no new message. Dr. van Eeden has dreamt a
dream, he has not seen a vision. The translation is on the whole,
admirable.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 296. My. ’07. 1540w.
“‘The quest’ as a romance is, by reason of its loose construction and
its generally feeble character drawing, a negligible quantity. As a
work of philosophy it is suggestive, but tautological and obscure. As
a social study on the other hand, it possesses exceptional value; is,
in fact, one of the most comprehensive arraignments of the hypocrisy
and corruption of the age that has yet been written.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 99. Jl. 11, ’07. 480w.
“There is much jog-trot indeterminate narrative as well as much
didacticism, in the third part.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.
“The things that hold and charm are the glimpses of the quaint mind of
‘de kleine Johannes’—little John—the scenes from Dutch life, the
pictures of the mountebanks’ way, the hints of things good and bad
that stirred our little John; the flights of fancy, now gracious and
now horribly gruesome; the homely simplicity of the narrative of the
hero’s love affairs. Almost equally pleasing is much of the homelier
satire. But there is other satire that falls dully on the mind like
the rhapsodies of Markus the prophet.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.
“Weary wastes of long-drawn-out commonplace separate the brilliant and
beautiful passages. Pages of puerile, pottering pedantic dialogue that
might have stepped out of a Rollo book discourage the interest. The
result is a work diffuse and discursive—not to say sprawling—and
obscure.” Alvan F. Sanborn.
− =No. Am.= 185: 79. My. 3, 07. 1510w.
“The writer’s intentions are obviously excellent and his philosophy
sound. To Dutch readers his performance is doubtless excellent as
well, but to us it is so involved, prolix and tiresome as to be
absolutely impossible. The barriers between our minds and his book are
quite impassable.”
− + =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 240w.
“Delicately fanciful, and deeply spiritual besides, ‘The quest’ merits
wide attention.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 30w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Jack Shelby; a story of the Indiana
back-woods. †$1.50. Lothrop.
6–20455.
An exciting tale of the adventurous pioneer days of 1836.
* * * * *
“Not well written, but gives an interesting, and probably accurate
picture of pioneer life.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.
“Is of a good kind and well done.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Love is the sum of it all: a plantation
romance. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–32710.
A plantation romance whose scene is laid in Virginia following the
reconstruction period. “Warren Rhett, the hero, is a young Virginian,
enlightened, enfranchised, energized by education in the north and a
cosmopolitan experience as a bridge builder, not solely as the lover
of the good and beautiful heroine.” (N. Y. Times.) The heroine is the
daughter of a sculptor; the love-making is uninterrupted in Warren’s
step-mother’s home where he is recuperating and incidentally rescuing
the plantation from decay and bankruptcy.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book is wholesome as well as pretty. If there is
not a deal of excitement in it, there is plenty of suggestive
observation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“As a social critic, Mr. Eggleston has nothing new or important to
say. He does not even say what he has to say well. As a novel it is
impossible to praise it.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Elbe, Louis.= Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern
science. **$1.20. McClurg.
6–9285.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Hilma; il. by Harrison Fisher and
Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9545.
“This book belongs in that class of which Anthony Hope’s ‘Prisoner of
Zenda’ is the prototype. A brave and resourceful American is thrown
into the dynastic plots of a petty imaginary nation in eastern Europe,
and plots and counterplots develop in rapid and thrilling succession.
One does not need to guess that the American foils the political
villains who try to keep Princess Hilma from her throne, nor that he
loves the beautiful young queen, and that both sacrifice love to
duty.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The author has studied the ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ carefully, and has
tried to produce another one; even the ‘Dolly dialogue’ form of
conversation is attempted. The result written in American language is
terrible.”
− =Acad.= 73: 996. O. 5, ’07. 120w.
“Perhaps above the average of its kind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07.
“Nobody needs quarrel with the story merely because it is an
imitation. The important thing is that it is a good one.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 150w.
“The story is told in nervous and sometimes ungrammatical English, and
its nomenclature rivals that of ‘Graustark’ for weirdness.” Wm. M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“A particular trouble is that the dialogue ... is tremendously labored
and disconcertingly pointless. The author, with all the industry and
good will in the world, lacks both the necessary invention and the
highly desirable knowledge of the hearts of men and women.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The tale is built up in a workmanlike way, and has a reasonable
number of thrills and sudden turns.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton E.= Letters from the Far East. *$2.40.
Longmans.
7–30811.
“This volume consists of letters originally published in the
Westminster gazette during a recent visit to China and Japan,
undertaken with the special object of studying the languages and
creeds of those countries and the development which Buddhism has
undergone.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The volume is one of singular interest, but displays a fanciful and
slightly paradoxical intellect. The author’s reflections upon
Mohammedanism and his panegyric on Hinduism will startle readers, but
provoke reflection to a higher degree than do most works of travel.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 408. Ap. 6. 1010w.
“Among the chapters on China those descriptive of Canton, Peking, and
Chinese literature will be found particularly entertaining. The value
of the book would have much increased by an index. There are sixteen
illustrations, very good reproductions of photographs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 540w.
“A studious and thoughtful examination of many sides of Far Eastern
thought and life, written by a thoroughly competent observer. The book
has not yet been written about Far Eastern matters that does not
challenge criticism or controversy on points; but it is rare to find
one so little provocative in that respect and so greatly instructive
as this collection of letters.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 561. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.
“Among the numerous works that have been devoted of recent years to
the problems of the Far East, his unpretentious little book takes a
very high place.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 1400w.
=Eliot, Charles W.= Four American leaders. *80c. Am. Unitar.
6–42960.
Commemorative addresses on Franklin, Washington, Channing and Emerson,
which present the four Americans from the point of view of their
intellectual contributions in shaping the political, moral, and
intellectual trend of the Republic.
* * * * *
“Inspiring addresses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07.
“While the book contains suggestions apt to stir up antagonism in
certain minds, and while we are made to feel that the author’s
sympathies are at times misplaced and that he lacks something of the
spirit of the true prophet, we must confess to the beauty of his
style, his true sense of proportion and his fine analytical powers
within certain limitations.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“We have rarely read a book which could inspire a more profound
respect for what is lastingly noble in humanity than this.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. O. 1, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
“These papers are written—all of them—in the lucid, direct and
vigorous style which we have come to associate with their author, and
will be sure of the careful and respectful attention to which
everything that comes from his strong, well-disciplined, well-stored
and independent mind is entitled.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 111. Ap. ’07. 1010w.
=Eliot, Charles W.= Great riches. **75c. Crowell.
6–34713.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“President Eliot may be a great executive officer, but we cannot count
him among great and true thinkers.”
− =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 180w.
=Cath. World.= 85: 401. Je. ’07. 420w.
“It treats a topic of unmistakable importance and large public
interest in a spirit of sane and hopeful Americanism.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 99. Ja. ’07. 430w.
“The economic analysis seems to be faulty. The writer assumes that the
riches of to-day are of a new kind, which carry with them no visible
responsibility.”
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 637. D. ’06. 320w.
=Eliot, George.= Romola; historically il. and ed., with introd. and
notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–42367.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The illustrations, 160 in all, are well reproduced. Furthermore, they
are for the most part adequately described, and in every case are, for
their own sakes, worth possessing; but many of them are wholly
irrelevant, or are made so by being recklessly misplaced.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 390w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 660w.
=Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
“The letter-press is excellent, and the whole work has a scholarly
character.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 100w.
=Elkington, Ernest Way.= Savage South seas; painted by N. H. Hardy,
described by E. Way Elkington. *$6. Macmillan.
A volume whose text and illustrations are devoted to the native
peoples of British New Guinea, the Solomon islands and the New
Hebrides. The text “describes the appearance, customs, habits,
characteristics and prospects of the savage natives, with some account
of their past history, shows how little real impression the
missionaries have made upon them, tells what the islands offer to the
white man who is willing to work, and succeeds fairly well in giving
an idea of the subtle charm which the South Sea islands can exercise
over the Anglo-Saxon.” (N. Y. Times.) The illustrations “representing
every phase of native life, industries, amusements, and religious
ceremonies, as well as the pile houses and the scenery, enable one
very vividly to realize it.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is the most beautiful of the ‘colour books’ that we have seen, and
excels the majority of them by far in the excellence of its letter
press.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 861. S. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a good book of a bad kind—the usual kind; there are hundreds of
the sort, but few, we may add, so well executed, for the author has
avoided many faults into which he might have fallen—the enthusiasms,
the prolixities, and the vulgarities which are common to the kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 202. Ag. 24. 720w.
“The authoritative tone and the evidently intimate knowledge of native
customs are proof positive of something beyond a cursory observation
of life among the islanders.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 390w.
“In this book the illustrations so far exceed the text in importance
and quality that little need to be said concerning the latter, which
contains many inaccuracies and misprints, is written in poor English,
and generally falls far below the level of other volumes contained in
this series.” C. G. S.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 541. S. 26, ’07. 470w.
“It is written entertainingly, with plenty of anecdote interspersed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The artist has given us many accurate drawings of the genuine native
in his appropriate setting. Nor does he sacrifice accuracy of detail
for mere pictorial effect; thus the student may feel confident in
trusting his details of ornament, dress, house-structure and the like,
indeed in some instances new facts are incidentally given to the
student in the plates. The letterpress is a chatty compilation of no
value to the serious student, as it is full of mistakes of various
kinds and there is no evidence that Mr. Elkington has visited the
places of which he writes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
* =Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural
features, products, commerce, and present condition; with an introd. by
Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
A history of Chile with full description of existing conditions. “Mr.
Scott Elliot deals principally with the romantic history of his
favourite republic. The adventures of President O’Higgins and of
Cochrane have formed the theme of many well-told tales. O’Higgins was
the natural son of Ambrose Higgins, Marquis de Osorno, Viceroy of
Peru.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The illustrations are selected with but slight regard for the text,
and in several cases are put where they mar the author’s work. Those
who wish to know the natural features and economic conditions of the
country will be able to learn more than they can carry away in their
minds, for Mr. Elliot is a naturalist as well as an observer of
industrial and political phenomena. Of the historical portion of the
work we must be content with saying that the author does not seem to
us to do justice to the work of the church in Chile.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 639. N. 23, ’07. 720w.
=Elliott, Delia Buford.= Adele Hamilton. $1.25. Neale.
7–14586.
A story of a little more than a hundred pages which tells of the
bravery of a southern woman who at her husband’s death finds herself
penniless, and takes her five children to California hoping that in a
new country away from surroundings that would remind her of her former
abundance she may fight her financial battle and win.
=Elliott, Emilia.= Joan of Juniper inn. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27610.
A cheerful, wholesome story peopled with true-to-life boys and girls
who have real experiences and who are bubbling over with innocent fun.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 90w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.
5–28020.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“This series of adventures ... will convince his admirers that his
vitality is undiminished.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt of the white elephant. †$1. Winston.
6–26188.
A sequel to “River and jungle,” in which the hero of the latter sets
out with a native guide to capture a white elephant. Before the quest
is successfully terminated thrilling adventure is furnished by an
exciting tiger hunt, an encounter with a wild buffalo, and
interference from thieving natives. From the first page to the last it
is full of exciting situations.
* * * * *
“Is one of Ellis’ very best tales, being written in a spirited manner
and replete with exciting adventures so dear to the vivid and hungry
imagination of the child.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 270w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Lost in the forbidden land. †$1. Winston.
6–26192.
One of three volumes in the “Foreign adventure series.” It is a
thrilling account of the dangers that two Americans encountered while
attempting to trace the Pilcomayo river in South America to the
Paraguay. Even Yankee ingenuity fails at times when set to baffle so
formidable an enemy as the Tobas Indians.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 38: 320. Ag. ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Queen of the clouds. †$1. Winston.
7–23712.
The last in the three-volume “Paddle your own canoe” series. There is
in this story plenty to whet the appetite of an adventure-loving
lad—mystery, a brave sailor boy as hero, a shipwreck, the discovery of
pirates’ gold, treachery, a search extending to India, wild beasts of
the jungle, the Sepoy rebellion, the escape and return.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= River and jungle. †$1. Winston.
6–26479.
Indo-China is the scene of Dudley Mason’s experiences which befall him
on his way thru the jungle to his father, a missionary in the interior
of Siam. Tigers, crocodiles, snakes, wild Indians and elephants make
the way one of perils and hair-breadth escapes.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Seward D. Lisle, pseud.).= Seth Jones of New
Hampshire. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6405.
A reprint of a dime-novel published nearly 50 years ago, which
supports the claim made by the author in his introduction that dime
novel literature not only was not immoral but was good reading for the
young. Seth Jones is a border hero and his story is one of scalpings
and bloodshed, of rescued maidens and daring escapades.
* * * * *
“It is such a story as the most fastidious of telegraph boys would not
hesitate to put his _imprimatur_ upon.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20. ’07. 340w.
“We cheerfully testify that it is innocuous, simple, free from moral
taint, as little sensational as is humanly possible for a book with
Indians, a kidnapped maiden, and a hunter with a coonskin cap to be.
Is a very mild case of Fenimore Cooper and water.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23. ’07. 240w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester, and Chipman, William Pendleton.= Cruise of the
Firefly, †75c. Winston.
6–21383.
An adventurous tale in which a boat race between the clubs of two
rival institutions secures for the winners a two months’ camping trip
north from the Maine coast. The exciting experiences of the race in
which plots are foiled, and the later cruise fairly bristling with
thrilling experiences, furnish rare entertainment for a wide-awake
boy.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Ellis, Edwin J.= Real Blake. **$3.50. McClure.
“Mr. Ellis gives us an immense amount of information, heaped in
bewildering fashion, and ticketed with labels and comments which can
hardly fail to increase that bewilderment.” (Ath.) “Readers will
naturally want to know what new material Mr. Ellis presents them with,
not already in Gilchrist. He prints in full for the first time ‘The
island in the moon,’ Blake’s squib upon the literary folk he met at
the Mathews’s house.... All Blake’s comments on Lavater are given,
instead of the selection printed by Gilchrist. But of course the main
difference between the two lives is Mr. Ellis’s insistence on the
mystical side of Blake.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“There is a great deal that is interesting and valuable in Mr. Ellis’s
book: but it is not well composed, the writing is slovenly, and it has
other serious faults which will assuredly prevent it from superseding
Gilchrist, in spite of a much completer understanding of Blake’s mind
and ideas.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1360w.
“It is written to do honour to Blake and to explain him, but it
requires both correction and explanation before it can do either.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 598. My. 18. 2130w.
“If Mr. Symons writes from the point of view of ultra-romanticism, Mr.
Ellis speaks from the region of spirit-rapping and table-turning. He
has produced a book that is almost a model of what a biography ought
not to be.”
− − =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 750w.
“Mr. Ellis worships Blake, and he seems to have attracted to himself
several of his idol’s less amiable qualities, his arrogance, his
carelessness in writing and his intolerance; these characteristics are
obvious, not only in the preface, but more or less throughout the
book.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 8. F. 23, ’07. 320w.
=Ellis, George.= Modern practical carpentry for the use of workmen,
builders, architects, and engineers. *$5. Industrial.
“A practical discussion of the methods and practices connected with
the heavier kinds of carpentry work. It treats of the subject as seen
in England, where wood work is used to a much greater extent than in
this country. However, the discussions on shoring, scaffolding, tunnel
and bridge centering and coffer dams are of universal
interest.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.
=Ellis, George William, and Morris, John Emery.= King Philip’s war;
based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts with
biographical and topographical notes. **$2. Grafton press.
6–43914.
To this account of King Philip’s war “Mr. Ellis has contributed the
narrative with the references, and Mr. Morris has supplied the
biographical foot-notes, the local descriptions, and the
illustrations.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“A history of King Philip’s war, which should be both readable and
trustworthy, has long been desired by students of early New England.
The volume under review meets these requirements, being based upon
careful research and written in clear narrative style. The volume is
singularly free from errors or misquotations from authorities.”
Clarence S. Brigham.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 400w.
“A scholarly history of the last struggle of an expiring race, rather
than a successful study of an important episode in the conquest of the
continent.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 655. My. ’07. 250w.
“The genealogical interest of Mr. Morris has resulted in a collection
of biographical details that must make the book valuable to all
tracers of New England ancestry. Indeed, one criticism of the book as
a book lies in its multiplicity of names and explanatory notes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 390w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Frederick York Powell: a life and selection from his
letters and occasional writings. 2v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–18309.
Two interesting volumes upon a man of large personality and profound
knowledge, who for years, as tutor and professor, exercised great
influence over the young men of Oxford and London. The first volume is
devoted to memoirs and letters, and the second to writings.
* * * * *
“Mr. Elton has failed partly because failure was inevitable, partly
because of a certain lack of sympathy with his subject; but he has one
quality which is also his main defect—a fine impartiality.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1280w.
“The many-sidedness of the man has been well brought out; the
attractive nature of his personality is excellently displayed; the
facts of his career are correctly noted; his fugitive work has been
tastefully brought together; and all the friends of York Powell—and he
had a genius for friendship—will be grateful to Mr. Elton for placing
this memorial of their departed friend in their hands.” H. Morse
Stephens.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 648. Ap. ’07. 2100w.
“An appreciation which is rich on every page with a just and
sympathetic understanding of the man’s nature.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 821. D. 29. 2400w.
“The book brings out with fine judgment and skill Powell’s love for
literature, folklore and art, but is less successful in showing that
history was his special province.”
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 204. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Elton’s book would have been much improved by the compression
necessary to bring it into a narrower compass.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 424. D. 21, ’06. 2440w.
“The present memoir is clever and interesting, but somewhat too
diffuse. A valuable, vivid record of a life which deserves to be held
in memory and honor.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 311. Ap. 4, ’07. 2440w.
“The book is a master tonic.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 775. D. 22, ’06. 1340w.
“The life of York Powell was bound to be written, and it could
scarcely have fallen into better hands.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 55. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
=Emanuel, Walter.= Dogs of war. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–15118.
One thoroughbred and a number of mongrels constitute a group pledged
to “attack at sight all thoroughbreds who give themselves airs or
offer insult to plebeian canines.” “Ears,” the aristocratic spaniel
tells the story, which is accompanied by Mr. Cecil Aldin’s humorous
drawings.
* * * * *
“The episodes enshrined in these pages bear and repay intimate study.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 731. D. 8. 70w.
“His greatest failing as a raconteur is his lack of humor.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The collaboration is quite perfect, and it is always impossible to
consider the story apart from the pictures. Possibly the drawings are
a bit cleverer than the text, although there is much amusing matter in
the dog biography.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät by the author of “The martyrdom
of an empress.” *$1.50 Harper.
7–33591.
About the slim figure of a young widowed duchess of an old estate in
Brittany, the author has woven a strong and dramatic plot using as a
background the sturdy peasant life of the Argoät. The estate, in the
event of the remarriage of the duchess, reverts to her husband’s
degenerate cousin, and he to gain it, conspires to trap her into
matrimony. His villainy succeeds, but she finds true love and
happiness and he receives the coveted revenues only to find them poor
comfort and devoid of joy.
* * * * *
“A tale steeped in the color and fragrance of woodland Brittany,
characterized by a mysterious plot and rare charm of atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Emerson, Edward Waldo.= Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell,
captain Sixth United States cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts
cavalry, brigadier-general, United States volunteers. **$2. Houghton.
7–15315.
“This volume consists of a brief but adequate biography of the young
soldier; of judicious selections from his correspondence, and of very
full, discriminating notes upon both the life and the letters.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“While Mr. Emerson’s intense admiration for his hero is very plain he
writes always with restraint, good taste, and the best judgment.” J.
K. Hosmer.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 161. O. ’07. 580w.
“Doubly excellent in its admiration and its restraint.” Henry Dwight
Sedgwick.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 278. Ag. ’07. 2470w.
“Abundant notes supplement both the lifestudy and the letters; to
these notes are confided many of the most intimate revelations of the
young soldier’s personality. The student of American history and
literature may well be grateful for this record, so directly and fully
told, of a life which is as inspiring in memory as it was in
companionship.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 10. Jl. 1, ’07. 1800w.
=Ind.= 63: 883. O. 10, ’07. 420w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Emerson has created a distinct
impression of General Lowell’s superb endowment of character,
justifying that attitude of reverend adoration he inspired in his own
immediate circle.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 70w.
“The letters are especially valuable for their portrayal of a
beautiful and dignified character, and they also give many suggestive
sketches of prominent statesmen and soldiers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 400w.
“An admirably typical American life, worthily told in the narrative,
not less worthily when the letters of its subject are left to tell the
story.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 450w.
Engineering index annual for 1906; comp. by J. B. Johnson. *$2. Eng.
Mag.
An inclusive guide to engineering literature which does away with the
alphabetical arrangement of its former volumes. “In the present annual
volume all items have been grouped according to eight grand divisions:
Civil engineering; Electrical engineering; Industrial economy; Marine
and naval engineering; Mechanical engineering; Mining and metallurgy;
Railway engineering; and Street and electric railways. Each of these
is subdivided into a number of heads.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 556. My. 16, ’07. 710w.
English music. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–38907.
These seventeen lectures were delivered by well-known artists and
musical writers at the time of the tercentenary of the existence of
the “Worshipful company of musicians” during June, 1904. They
illustrate the historical significance of the ancient instruments and
books then on exhibition. “The lectures are brief and attractive
essays; several are more than a résumé of what the historians have
written, and offer some interesting points more or less novel.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“We close the book with but one regret; that it possessed so kindly
and lenient an editor as Mr. Crowest seems to have been. A little more
severity might have turned out a work better fitted to bear the
hardships of an unsympathetic world.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 281. S. 22, ’06. 1760w.
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.
“An exceptionally valuable contribution to musical literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 500w.
“They are necessarily rather disjointed as musical history, but are
likely to fulfill a good purpose in clearing up ideas, generally
vague, which many people hold concerning ancient instruments and some
of the ancient music and its composers.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 700w.
=Erskine, John.= Actæon, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46756.
A book of verses, songs and sonnets which show a lyric gift and true
poetic feeling.
* * * * *
“A series of poetical exercises, wholly derivative in merit, and of
slight significance.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 110w.
“His work is more notable for form than for substance; the most vital
note in it is its fine sense of the apostolic tradition in poetry, its
sentiment of poetic scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Erskine has written much that is good since ‘Actaeon,’ but he
seems for the most part to have fallen upon a more personal and minor
strain.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 500w.
=Escott, Thomas H. S.= Society in the country house, *$4. Jacobs.
“In sixteen lengthy chapters Mr. Escott conducts his readers to as
many groups of country houses, tracing the rise of each great family,
characterizing its most interesting representatives and most famous
visitors, drawing upon a store of racy anecdote and curious legend,
and fully substantiating his claim that the country house has
associations with the spiritual, literary, and social movements of the
nation, which are even stronger than those more picturesque and
popularly recognized bonds which unite it with the chase, the turf,
and the stage.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“We prefer to take the book as a cheerful jumble of interesting
side-lights on people and events, the value of which consists in its
mirroring the passing phases of thought in the fashion and speech of
the time. It is left to the reader to supply his own perspective, and
to select the grain from the inevitable chaff of anecdote and
genealogy.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 720w.
“We hope that Mr. Escott’s future volumes of pleasant reminiscences
may have the advantage of a ‘checker’ who will do the drudgery and the
index, and leave the writer free to please us without calling down the
cantankerous critic.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 960w.
“Mr. Escott pursues his subject with a leisurely thoroughness that is
characteristically British, but his style is crisp and nervous enough
to hold the reader’s interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 410w.
“It is so cumbersome as to make us long once again for the old days of
two and three volumes. A book of gossip that cannot be held in the
hands as one leans back in a chair is a publisher’s mistake. Wherever
the book is opened some eminent name meets the eye, with an anecdote
attached to it; and what more can be said?”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 15. Ja. 11, ’07. 280w.
=Espy, Ella Gray.= What will the answer be? $1.50. Neale.
7–20705.
The question concerns the future of Jo, the child of the orphanage who
has felt the influence of Miss Jane, who gave her life to charity and
who has also lived in an adopted home and seen something of love and
its possibilities. The reader is left to draw his own conclusions as
to Jo’s decision for public service or matrimony.
=Evans, Edward Payson.= Criminal prosecution and capital punishment of
animals. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–28640.
A study of the curious methods of mediaeval and modern penology
relating to the prosecution and punishment of animals.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 330w.
“The author has succeeded in making an extremely readable and in a
sense a learned volume, one which is a welcome addition to the
curiosities of literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
=Evans, Edwin.= Tchaikovsky. (Master musicians.) $1.25. Dutton.
7–10577.
The part of this work is devoted to the composer as a man is based
upon the biography of the Tchaikovsky published with his letters by
his brother Modest. The greater portion of the study is devoted to a
critical survey of the musician and his works including an estimate of
the relative values of his operas. “A valuable feature of Mr. Evans’s
book is a chronological table of Tchaikovsky’s compositions.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 240w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 250w.
“Of the man and his work the book presents a useful summary treatment,
though it rarely rises to a very high order of criticism.” Richard
Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 600w.
=Evelyn, John.= Diary of John Evelyn; ed. with notes by Austin Dobson.
3v. *$8. Macmillan.
The bicentenary of John Evelyn’s death has served to produce some good
reprints of his diary. This one edited by Mr. Dobson contains an
informing biographical introduction and helpful notes. “Its long
chronicle extends over an unbroken period of more than sixty years,
dating from the stormy days which preceded the Commonwealth to the
early time of Queen Anne. During all this age—‘an age,’ as his epitaph
puts it, ‘of extraordinary events and revolutions’—Evelyn was quietly,
briefly, methodically noting what seemed to him worthy of remembrance.
His desire for knowledge was insatiable, his sympathies wide, and his
tastes catholic.”
* * * * *
“Such a book as his ‘Diary,’ then, cannot be too often reprinted, nor
do we know a better edition than this, skilfully edited by Mr. Austin
Dobson.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 567. D. 8, ’06. 1730w.
“The reader of the ‘Diary’ is supplied with an ample commentary as he
goes along, which will be of infinite service in elucidation of
biographical and historical points. Indeed, we cannot imagine the work
better done.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 765. D. 15. 980w.
“But what gives Mr. Dobson’s edition its importance is less its text
than its ‘editorial equipment.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 500w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 389. N. 23, ’06. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 852. D. 8, ’06. 1780w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“Among various editions of Evelyn none surpasses in convenience,
editorial thoroughness, and beauty of form this edition, in three
volumes, presented with a combination of simplicity and elegance that
mark only the best book-making.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 430w.
“A fine edition ... for which we cannot thank Mr. Dobson too much.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 526. Ap. 27, ’07. 1790w.
“The introduction which he has prefixed to this edition of the Diary,
is an admirable summary of Evelyn’s life, and supplies as careful an
appreciation of the diarist’s character and work as could be desired.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 60 Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.
=Ewald, Carl.= Spider and other tales; tr. from the Danish by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos. †$1. Scribner.
7–15116.
“Pleasant, readable little stories about animals and plants, in which
insects and flowers and birds, and even clouds and dewdrops are made
to talk as if they were human beings.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This little book of fables deserves to be added to the permanent
library of childhood.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“He has a simple, naive style, which makes his work very suitable for
supplementary reading on nature subjects for young children, while
older people can read his stories with pleasure because of the purity
and perfection of his literary method.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
=Ewell, Alice Maude.= Long time ago; in Virginia and Maryland with a
glimpse of old England. il. $1.50. Neale.
7–26957.
Nine good stories of revolutionary and colonial times told by a lady
and dame of long ago.
F
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Mythology of Greece and Rome, presented with
special reference to its influence on literature. *$1.50. Appleton.
7–6167.
The purpose of this book is “to illustrate the wide-reaching influence
of Greek myths first on the Latin poets, and, mainly through the Latin
poets, on later writers.” There are numerous illustrations taken from
ancient works of art.
* * * * *
“The author is progressive, yet conservative and judicious, and has
produced a useful book.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 170w.
=Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 80w.
“A scholarly and complete presentation for school and college use.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.
“The distinct merit of the book is not that which is emphasized on the
title-page; it is, rather, the fact that the ancient stories are told
by a professional student of mythology who is familiar with the
results of recent investigation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 230w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and
villages. *$1.25. Century.
6–23708.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A handy and valuable compendium. The volume is, however, subject to
serious criticism because of the mode or style of presentation.” F. I.
Herriott.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 650w.
“He has compacted into comparatively few pages a wealth of information
on his subject. Teachers and students of civil government in all parts
of the country should find considerable use for the volume.” James A.
Woodburn.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 153. Mr. ’07. 610w.
=Fallow, Lance.= Silverleaf and oak. $1.25. Macmillan.
The poems inspired by South Africa, the poems of the imperialistic
voyager, are perhaps the best in this volume, which includes among
others; The Southern cross; Spirit of hidden places, Day and night
up-country, A Cape homestead, and a poem on the churchyard at Durban.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
“He is apt to fall into banal cadences, and he is much under the
influence of Mr. Kipling. The last verse of the poem on the churchyard
at Durban seems to us to be the highest point reached by Mr. Fallow’s
muse, and is no mean elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the
United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
7–29552.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* =Fanshawe, Anne, lady.= Memoirs of Ann Lady Fanshawe, wife of the
Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600–’72; reprinted from the
original manuscript in the possession of Mr. Evelyn J. Fanshawe of
Parsloes. il. *$5. Lane.
Of special interest as a family history rather than of value as a side
light on social or political history of the time. “The most noteworthy
part of the present edition is the elaborate notes, occupying far the
larger part of the volume and giving full information about every
thing and every person in any way alluded to by Lady Fanshawe.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The editing of memoirs is a difficult task at best, but we have no
hesitation in saying that these ‘Memoirs’ have been edited as they
deserve. and they deserve well.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 943. S. 28, ’07. 1680w.
“These small blemishes count for nothing in comparison with the
sterling merits of the book, which we feel confident will long
maintain its place as the standard edition of the ‘Memoirs.’”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 1230w.
“The book remains curious, delightful as far as Lady Fanshawe is
concerned, elaborate and admirable so far as we can absorb her
editor.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1260w.
“The book must remain a standard work of reference for students of the
period.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 610w.
“We are bound to say that most of Lady Fanshawe’s matter is dry stuff.
But to all connected with the family this book, admirably printed, and
illustrated ought to appeal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“The ‘Memoirs’ can make no claim to be a work of great literary merit,
but though Lady Fanshawe was not a stylist, there is a directness
about her writing that saves it from being wearisome.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Farnol, Jeffery.= My lady Caprice. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31282.
“A love idyl of the summertime. A healthy and active young boy plays a
very important part in bringing together a couple of lovers in spite
of a very worldly peeress.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The Imp is decidedly the most ingenious and interesting person in the
book.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Should anyone read the book they will find it like rock candy—a
thread to which sugar adheres.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 320w.
“Gay romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Farnsworth, Charles Hubert=, comp. Songs for schools; with
accompaniments written by Harvey Worthington Loomis and B. D. Allen.
*60c. Macmillan.
“Mr. Farnsworth has performed a much-needed service to public school
music by collecting in one volume, well printed and bound and sold at
a moderate price, the best of the traditional songs suitable for
children’s voices. One finds here the more important national tunes,
beautiful melodies of Stephen C. Foster ... fine old English,
Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs, a few college songs, and a good
selection of hymn tunes.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“One of the best books of school music ever issued, and occupies a
place of its own.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 161. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Loomis’s accompaniments show imagination and much technical
skill, though in some instances one might question whether he has not
elaborated his treatment more than is in keeping with the ruggedly
simple nature of the melodies. On the whole, this book is a long step
in advance in the literature of school music.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
=Farrer, James Anson.= Literary forgeries; with an introd. by Andrew
Lang. $2.25. Longmans.
7–26421.
With the avowed purpose of giving some idea of the large space which
literary forgery occupies in the history and development of the race
the author discusses forgeries of ancient books like the “Letters of
Phalaris” and the “Consolatio” of Cicero, the works of C. J. Bertram,
Psalmanazar, the Eikon Basiliké, Chatterton’s Rowley poems, Launder’s
attempts to discredit the originality of Milton, the Shakespeareana of
Ireland, and other forgeries.
* * * * *
“Mr. Farrer has written an excellent book on a most interesting
subject. It is Mr. Farrer’s worst fault that he has included some
ingenious persons in his book, who are grievously out of place.
Forgery is far too strong a word, for instance, to apply to
Chatterton.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 234. Mr. 9, ’07. 1540w.
“Mr. J. A. Farrer has given us a curious and entertaining book,
distinguished generally for the lucidity of its reasoning. It clearly
is not intended to be a contribution to learning, since it lacks an
index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 289. Mr. 9. 630w.
“If we are to judge the book by this grandiose purpose, it cannot be
called a complete success. The reader who will decline to gauge the
book by its author’s professed purpose will find it a very enjoyable
ramble through an attractive by-way of literature.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 256. My. ’07. 470w.
“A quaint, lively, discursive book, a sort of Newgate calendar in the
sphere of letters. Mr. Lang’s artistic introduction is full of
himself, and therefore delightful.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1850w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 389. Je. 15, ’07. 1380w.
“Mr. Farrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public in his best style,
has written a very readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.
=Faversham, Mrs. Julie (Opp).= Squaw man; a novel adapted from the play
by Edward Milton Royle. †$1.50. Harper.
6–45695.
The characters in this story, adapted from the play, are a degenerate
head of the house of Kerhill, the mother whose whole aim in life is to
preserve intact the honor and dignity of her house, Jim Wynnegate,
cousin to the Earl of Kerhill, and Diana, the latter’s wife. The
scenes shift from London to the plains of western America, whither Jim
goes to serve out a term of self-imposed exile, having assumed his
cousin’s guilt of theft to save the Kerhill honor. The dramatic
element predominates in love scenes, wild-west quarrels, and in the
tragedy of devotion.
* * * * *
“A pretty story, rapid in action, with some bright dialogue, but
crudely written.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.
“The story is here told with spirit, and the narrative is full of
variety and interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 120w.
“People who have been unable to see the play may find the book not
devoid of the appeal which kept the drama on Broadway for almost an
entire season.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.
Favorite fairy tales; the childhood choice of representative men and
women, illustrated by Peter Newell. **$3. Harper.
7–34176.
An especially attractive volume of such old favorites as Cinderella,
Beauty and the beast, The sleeping beauty, Jack and the bean stalk,
Jack the giant killer, etc. Marginal decorations, sixteen full-page
illustrations and a white fiber binding lettered in gold make the book
a beautiful holiday gift.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 1340w.
“The sixteen included are certainly among the best. Mr. Newell’s
illustrations are, of course, delightful.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Fea, Allan.= Some beauties of the seventeenth century; with 82 il.
**$4. Brentano’s.
Seventeen chapters, each of which is devoted to the personal history
of some famous beauty or group of beauties most of whom belong to
Whitehall in the days of the Restoration. “The facts about the various
women—and the author has evidently been at some pains to obtain real
facts to the best of his ability—are set forth in a simple narrative
vein, making no injudicious pleas in defense of their actions and no
superfluous attacks on the evident immorality of many characters.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 210w.
“Though not to be classed among strictly literary works, has the
interest of a clever compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall,
pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.
6–37204.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 489. Ja. ’07. 760w.
“The characters of the romance belong to screens or fans; it is the
Japan of the popular imagination, and the scenes are effective in a
sense, but there is nothing fine or interpretative about the writer’s
touch.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 50w.
=Fernald, Chester B.= John Kendry’s idea. $1.50. Outing.
7–24157.
John Kendry’s idea embodied in such sentiments as “one’s aim should be
to live as a conscious part of the whole continuous performance,” and
“the one thing true of all life in motion, and the prime instinct of a
live man is to go somewhere and do something” is best fostered in the
wild free mountain-side surroundings which form much of this story’s
setting. At times his idea is submerged in the deadly atmosphere of
Chinatown. The pendulum swings between these two environments. On the
heights he knows the companionship of a finely-wrought woman, at the
foot of the mountain he confronts conventionality, inanities, nay
more, plot and villainy.
* * * * *
“It is a story of many startling surprises; in fact, there is an
ambush upon nearly every page; that anything like it ever happened, or
could happen, we greatly doubt, but that does not prevent its being a
highly readable melodrama with a style that comes near to exhibiting
distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“This is a lively novel of adventure without any of the sacrifices
usually considered necessary in stories of this type. Also his
characters, if a trifle heavily emphasized at times, still talk and
behave as real human beings might conceivably comport themselves under
such startling circumstances.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 510w.
“His new book has some new interesting glimpses of Chinatown in San
Francisco but it is too involved in plot and too improbable in
incident to be altogether satisfying.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 50w.
=Ferrero, Guglielmo.= Greatness and decline of Rome; tr. by Alfred E.
Zimmern. 2v. *$5.25. Putnam.
7–25134.
Two volumes which contain “a history of the age of Caesar, from the
death of Sulla to the Ides of March.” “To the author of these volumes
history is drama, with its characters, its passions, its plot and its
setting—above all with its exquisite irony, the analytical
foreknowledge of a Greek tragedy-chorus of which he is the leader.
Roman history is no longer a weary catalogue of wars and laws, of
risings and assassinations, sprinkled with names which by their very
schoolday familiarity have become meaningless. Still less is it the
blind hero-worship of a single personality to whom is ascribed a
purpose and ambition beyond all human likelihood.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Signor Ferrero is a looker-on at this game of cross-purposes, who can
use the eyes of his mind. He overlooks all the hands at once, and his
book is the result of his observation, not of the platitudes of
result, but of the human elements of process. In reading this book of
his, we must feel that it is not the game that matters, but the
players. If he completes his scheme as worthily as he has begun it, he
will have written a more living, a more actual, history of Rome than
any we have encountered up to now, and we can only hope for him and
for ourselves that the task of translation may remain in Mr. Zimmern’s
hands.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 479. My. 18, ’07. 1350w.
“A fresh and vigorous treatment of a great subject, with a new
handling of the evidence, which is not indeed increased, but estimated
afresh. The whole book, though on a trite subject, is very stimulating
even in its vagaries.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 720. Je. 15. 1240w.
“Signor Ferrero is no safe guide in matters where sober historical
criticism is needed. It must be added that in its English dress his
work has many blemishes for which we must hold the translator
responsible.” H. Stuart Jones.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 763. O. ’07. 1220w.
“The chief defect of the book is the inclination to disparage the
deeds of Cæsar.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 830w.
“The reader ... cannot help being struck by the force with which
Signor Ferrero puts his argument, and the admirable way in which he
supports it from authorities. Other merits in the work can only be
named, the insight into the social life and psychology of the Roman
people, the full justice done to Lucullus and Cicero, and the
excellent appendices. Mr. Zimmern has done his work most admirably,
and has succeeded in reproducing, in a great measure, the vivacity of
the original.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 1940w.
“His work is generously planned; it rests upon a familiarity with the
ancient sources of information. It has literary quality and at times
brilliancy.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 305. O. 3, ’07. 6000w.
“Dr. Ferrero argues his points with learning, ability, and entire
familiarity with his facts. His thoughtful work is an important
contribution to the literature of Roman history, and not less so
because it is by an old Italian and based extensively upon the results
of Italian scholarship.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 415. Je. 29, ’07. 940w.
“However familiar with Roman history one may be, he will find an
attractive freshness throughout these volumes.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.
“One of the most noteworthy works of classical analytical history of
recent years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 110w.
“The work of Signor Ferrero, to-day the foremost of Italian
historians, is in a large measure justified. For he has something to
say, though it is often hard to dig it out. He belongs to the newer
school of historians, who trace not the conscious purpose of the hero,
but the inevitable march of circumstances and tendencies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 718. Je. 8, ’07. 1590w.
=Fiala, Anthony.= Fighting the polar ice. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–44309.
In recording a two years’ fight with polar opposition north of the
81st parallel there are bound to be sensationally dramatic adventures.
“It is a record of disaster and defeat. The expedition which was sent
out by William H. Ziegler in 1903 to reach the pole from a land base
in Franz Josef Land, lost its ship, made three attempts to cross the
polar pack by sledge, none of which lasted more than two or three
days, and returned home. The main achievements of the expedition were
a reconnoissance by Mr. Porter in Zichy Land, and a series of
meteorological observations conducted by Sergeant Long.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Although it does not contribute materially to the fund of Arctic
knowledge, nor offer much in the way of adventure, it will be found
popular with readers of exploration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.
“Defects notwithstanding, the volume is a valuable record of a
singularly luckless expedition.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 1050w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 60w.
“The passages in the narrative which are likely to inspire popular
interest are the leader’s description of a fall into a crevasse and
Mr. Porter’s lively account of a tough sledge-journey.” Albert White
Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 480. Ja. ’07. 1190w.
“Is doubtless the most interesting story of polar exploration yet
written in this country.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 185. Mr. 16, ’07. 1500w.
=Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 420w.
“This is the most elaborate and richly illustrated record of polar
explorations since Nansen’s books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Fiala’s volume is admirably illustrated and his maps are clear
and fairly accurate; but he is too much oppressed with his troubles
and with a strong sense of his responsibilities to be an entertaining
writer.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Mr. Fiala’s book, while not contributing materially to the fund of
Arctic knowledge, and while not supplying much in the way of
adventure, may yet be found enjoyable by those who find in Arctic
literature perennial charm. The proof revision is not perfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 44. Ja. 10, ’07. 780w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The volume is well-written. The glow of imagination is diffused
through the narrative and the facts worth telling are well told. Few
descriptions of arctic work, conditions, and experience have been more
permeated with readable quality. Some of these experiences are of the
first order of interest.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 1890w.
“Although unsuccessful in his quest of the Pole, the brilliant young
leader of this expedition is to be congratulated on his distinct
addition to the general fund of knowledge concerning the Arctic
regions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“We cannot approve of some of the word pictures. They are obviously
not scientific.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Ficke, Arthur Davison.= Happy princess and other poems. †$1. Small.
7–14629.
The title poem which is a poetical romance occupies the first part of
this volume, it is followed by seven poems upon Fancy in the later
days, The return to Avon, To sleep and other subjects. Fifteen poems
grouped under the head of Pilgrim verses, and evidently inspired by
Oriental wanderings complete the contents.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ficke has to learn what to leave out, and to recognize that even
in poetic style the happy phrase is that which flies like an arrow to
the goal, not that which plays about the mark like a garden-hose,
however charming the rainbow tints that sparkle in its spray.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“The title poem, written from a mind saturated with Tennyson,
Browning, and Keats, contains many good lines and some fine images and
premises better things to some in spite of such rhymes as ‘dawn’ and
‘on,’ and ‘love’ and ‘of.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 190w.
“There is an engaging wistfulness about it and often a rare sense of
beauty. The verse does not in all cases show fulfillment, but promise
always.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
=Fidler, Henry.= Notes on construction in mild steel; arr. for the use
of junior draughtsmen in the architectural and engineering professions;
with il. from working drawings, diagrams, and tables. (Longmans’ civil
engineering ser.) *$5. Longmans.
7–26472.
A book for the junior draughtsman which is intended to aid him in
“bridging the gap between the stress sheet and a working drawing that
shall successfully pass the ordeal of criticism in the shops during
construction and in the field during the erection of the structure.
His plan definitely excludes any computations arising out of the
application of mechanics to design, although hints are occasionally
given as to theoretic considerations.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“While many useful hints are given to the designer regarding various
details as influenced by practical conditions, some are very general
and indefinite in character. The range of illustrative examples seems
to be too narrow to accomplish the author’s purpose. A comparative
discussion of different details used for similar structures would
materially enhance its value to the young designer or draftsman. In
this respect the latter part of the chapter on columns is decidedly
the most valuable.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 730w.
=Field, Walter Taylor.= Fingerposts to children’s reading. **$1.
McClurg.
7–11993.
These essays aim to interest parents, teachers, librarians,
Sunday-school workers and all who are concerned with the education of
children. The problem met is that of introducing a child to eminent
writers through their simpler works.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07. S.
“One criticism of a general nature: the child in the author’s mind’s
eye would seem to be rather precocious or priggish or both.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.
“Is admirably planned to awaken parents to the crying need of the best
books in the home, and to give practical guidance in their selection.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 140. My. 25, ’07. 150w.
“An unusually useful book for parents who have children just beginning
their education.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–32359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.
“She knows her story well, and she knows her people, and draws the
vulgar, convention-ridden, lower middle class with their dull and
sordid lives, made up so exclusively of raiment and food, with a
certain truthful if incisive cruelty.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 200w.
=Finn, Frank.= Ornithological and other oddities. **$5. Lane.
“A collection of thirty-eight short articles, which have appeared in
various English publications. All but six deal with birds, and some of
the subjects are of unusual interest.” (Nation.) “The author’s aim has
been to bring together all the out-of-the-way facts about the
creatures he writes about, and his choice of instances has been a very
happy one. The chapter on the ‘Toilet of birds’ may serve as a sample.
Herein he discusses the uses of the birds’ oil-gland, or as he calls
it, ‘pomatum-pot,’ and the still more curious ‘powder-puff’ and
‘comb.’” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“There is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations
are remarkably good.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 508. My. 25, ’07. 410w.
“Few of the separate sketches, touching as they do merely the fringe
of the subject under discussion, run any risk of exhausting either it
or the reader. Being drawn mainly from the aviculturist’s point of
view rather than from that of the field naturalist, they should appeal
specially to frequenters of zoological gardens and museums.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 900w.
“The width of his knowledge gives some of his essays unusual
distinction.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 380w.
“The most valuable portion is that dealing with the birds of India, a
country where Mr. Finn has spent many years.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
“Despite its title, which we cannot regard as other than cheap, Mr.
Finn’s book is not to be passed over by anyone interested in
observation and fond of birds. Distinguished by a note of
individuality in the observations that are recorded and the
speculations they give rise to.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 20. Jl. 6, ’07. 580w.
“It is to be wished that Mr. Finn would embody in fuller and more
connected form the observations and experience which this book
communicates in a series of more or less closely related
reminiscences.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 457. O. 5, ’07. 1560w.
=Finnemore, John.= Jack Haydon’s quest. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A blood curdling tale “about a mining engineer, an expert on rubies,
who, with a magnificent ruby in his pocket, was on his way home from
India when he suddenly dropped out of sight in Brindisi. Thereupon his
son and two adventurous friends, believing him to have been kidnapped
and carried back ... to a remote part of India by a wicked native ...
started out to rescue him. And if there is any sort of danger, by
wind, or waves, or wild beasts, or wicked men, through which they did
not wade up to their chins, it is merely because there was not room in
the book’s 300 pages for another incident.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Experiences in Burma, which Mr. Finnemore recounts with skill.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Barring a marked tendency to verbosity, it is a well-told tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 210w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
=Finot, Jean.= Race prejudice, tr. by Florence Wade-Evans. $3. Dutton.
7–13005.
“M. Finot argues for national peace and fraternity and endeavors to
find argument and reason for universal brotherhood in the underlying
principles and traits of our common humanity.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“For larger libraries only.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 163. O. ’07.
“The general thesis of the writer is sound. Some of the individual
illustrations and bits of evidence are probably overdrawn or not
understood. His discussion of the situation of the negro in the United
States is scarcely fair.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 155. Jl. ’07. 320w.
“On the whole M. Finot’s work reads smoothly in its English version.
His employment of the destructive method to wreck the conclusions of
anthropologists must be pronounced more entertaining than convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 770. D. 15. 220w.
“The net impression of the volume is that of an able but somewhat too
zealous special pleading for a cause that certainly makes a
philanthropic appeal.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 310w.
“The book is from first to last uncritical; there is no careful
weighing or discrimination of authorities.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 910w.
“M. Finot’s volume, while it does not escape the exaggeration natural
to an enthusiastic advocate, contains much matter that is of interest
to students of international relations and racial history.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 592. Je. 27, ’07. 910w.
“We observe a few instances of the entire misapprehension of things in
this country. The only ground for adverse criticism [of the
translation] is in the fact that in some cases French words are
retained for which there are fairly adequate equivalents in English.
The work is one which urgently demands an index, the absence of which
is much to be regretted.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 750w.
“Upon some questions of fact, with which the writer of this paragraph
is familiar, the author has certainly failed to tell the whole truth
with impartiality. While recognizing these drawbacks, we commend this
book to the thoughtful consideration of all students of the race
problem. It is far from furnishing a solution of that problem, but it
throws no inconsiderable amount of light upon it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 452. O. 26, ’07. 840w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 140w.
=Fischer, George Alexander.= This labyrinthine life: a tale of the
Arizona desert. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11590.
The aim of this book which portrays the struggles of a tuberculosis
colony in Arizona is to present camp-life as it is, so that the
invalid can judge as to whether he is in a position to undertake it;
to show to the humanitarian and the sociologist that really great
results in saving life and in relieving suffering can be achieved by a
very moderate outlay; to indicate that it is the duty of the United
States government to take the subject in hand following private
initiative.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
“Although any effort to arouse interest in the care of consumption is
entitled to respect, when a treatise of this kind masquerades as
fiction, it is as fiction that it must be judged. From this point of
view ‘This labyrinthine life’ lacks the vitality of the dime novel
without greatly surpassing it in probability or workmanship.”
− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Fischer has managed to make out of his material a readable tale
that is half novel, half a series of sketches, and wholly a
disquisition upon consumption and its treatment in the desert region.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.
=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur. (Babylonian
expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher,
Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Fisher, George Park.= The reformation. Rev. ed. *$2.50. Scribner.
6–11660.
“The book has been reset in clearer type; the notes and the excellent
bibliography show keen interest in the publications of the past ten
years; tho it must be confessed that the literature of the previous
twenty find a scantier recognition. The text shows many minor changes,
but as the title-page states, it is simply a revision.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“[The opinion of the reader of it] will necessarily be favorable, for
it has long held a high place, in spite of a certain timidity in
dealing with controverted points, an apologetic tone, which might
suggest, though erroneously, that the convictions of the author are
wavering and weak.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20. ’07. 100w.
=Fisher, Gertrude Adams.= Woman alone in the heart of Japan. $2.50.
Page.
6–39433.
The author with only her camera for company ventured into the remotest
corners of Japan and tells in an entertaining fashion of her
experiences in the smaller villages and towns where western
civilization has not yet penetrated.
* * * * *
“We can only conclude that the authoress was employed by a yellow
editor to paint the boldest of yellow races in her lividest colours.
Her pages are lively, graphic, good-tempered—but never beautiful.”
− =Acad.= 73: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 180. Ag. 17. 340w.
“Her book is more frank and outspoken than the books of most men
regarding this much visited land, and impressions may be obtained from
it that are hardly to be gained from any other recent work.” Wallace
Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 50w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Nature of capital and income. *$3. Macmillan.
6–32431.
“In five divisions Prof. Fisher treats of the fundamental concepts of
capital and income, capital and income separately, then together, and,
finally, there are summaries of the different divisions in the last
two chapters. Like other books on the subject, such topics as wealth,
property, utility, earnings, etc., are dealt with.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It must be said that while Professor Fisher presents his arguments in
defense of his conceptions of capital and income with force as well as
with confidence, it is doubtful whether they will carry conviction to
any mind not already prejudiced in their favor.” Henry R. Seager.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 175. Jl. ’07. 2350w.
“Of little interest to the average citizen. We believe this work of
Professor Fisher’s will tend only to add to the general confusion in
political science.” Robert E. Bisbee.
− − =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.
“In point of thorough workmanship and nice finish, the volume stands
in refreshing contrast to much—we had almost said most—of the economic
writing in these days of unlimited license to produce undigested and
undigestible literature. So workmanlike is his performance that it is
with regret that we are unable to rate the work more highly as a
contribution to economic theory. Highest praise should be given to the
author’s discussion of capital and income accounts and of capital and
income summation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 280w.
“The ‘dreary science’ has seldom received a breezier contribution, or
one of more original treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 1370w.
“Has not only a scientific interest for the theoretical student of
economics, but also a human and vital interest for the accountant and
the business man.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
* =Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with special
reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.
A thorogoing hand-book which provides in a form available for students
of economics and general readers a systematic treatment of the
politics of international commerce. The author discusses the
development of modern commercial politics, including free trade,
protection, customs in all their phases, commercial treaties, public
trade promoting institutions and navigation politics.
=Fisk, May Isabel.= Talking woman. Il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–20962.
Quite as tho he had in reality met this procession of chatterers and
been “talked to death” does the reader lay down Mrs. Fisk’s book of
monologues. It isn’t the woman with the forgivable little foible, but
the voluble one who parades her own selfish interests to the exclusion
of all others. The invalid, At the theatre, The new baby, A woman
inquiring about trains, An afternoon call, The boardinghouse keeper
and Her first trip abroad are suggestive of humorous as well as
true-to-life possibilities for hits.
* * * * *
“Amusing but trivial.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 20w.
=Fitch, Michael Hendrick.= Physical basis of mind and morals. $1. Kerr.
6–38885.
“A primer of socialism ... which makes an effective appeal to
untrained thinkers, and for that reason deserves consideration by
every one interested in exerting counter influence.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“On the whole, it must be said that, though the book abounds with
sensible remarks and just criticisms of present social conditions, it
is an example of that pseudo-science which has brought disrepute upon
the social sciences among men of scientific training; and that the
less of such books with scientific pretensions we have published, the
better it will be for the social sciences.” A. W. S.
− + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 565. Ja. ’07. 200w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Fitch, William Clyde.= Her own way: a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.
7–17031.
The clever four act comedy which Maxine Elliott made famous is now
brought out in book form, dedicated to the actress who created
Georgiana Carley and endeared her wilful personality to all who
watched her romping with her brother’s children, or successfully
directing her own love affairs despite the intervention of fate and
family.
=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= The truth; a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.
7–21331.
Becky Warder, in whom has been born and bred the habit of petty
falsehood, learns in the course of these four acts to speak the truth.
She fibs to her husband, whom she adores, about hats, about her
gambler father’s needs, and finally about her meetings with Jack
Lindon, the man from whom her best friend has separated. The net of
white lies closes about her, her much enduring husband ceases to
believe in her, and in her trouble she comes to realize the truth is
essential to happiness.
* * * * *
“A good play to ‘read ’round’ in a literary club.”
+ =Ind.= 63. 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w.
* =Fitzpatrick, Sir James Percy.= Jock of the Bushveld. **$1.60.
Longmans.
The story of a brindled bull-terrier’s life and death, in which the
development of dog-intelligence goes hand in hand with realistic
dogfights and terrifying brutality. Many passages show the distinction
between a real love of nature and a mere sportman’s interest in game.
“Among the more exciting episodes are the killing of the ‘old
crocodile’, the adventure with the leopard and the baboons, and that
of the koodoo cow, in which Jock received the kick that nearly killed
him, and left him stone-deaf for the rest of his days.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The narrative has all the freshness and charm of a transcript of real
life. Though it is strong meat for the little ones, boys of a larger
growth and adults will find it difficult to lay the book aside till
the last page has been reached.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 460w.
“To children it can be whole-heartedly recommended. By that select
audience of older people who have been long waiting for a South
African classic it will be welcomed with surprise and delight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1080w.
“Here is one of the really worth while books, one of the books which
have the truth of life and nature in them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Fleming, Walter Lynwood.= Documentary history of reconstruction,
political, military, social, educational, and industrial, 1865 to the
present time. 2v. $10. Clark, A. H.
6–39739.
=v. 1.= The first of two volumes whose purpose is to make some of the
sources relating to the political, military, social, religious,
educational, and industrial history of the reconstruction period more
easily accessible to the student and the general reader. “The six
chapters of this first volume deal with the South after the war,
theories of reconstruction, reconstruction by the president, race and
labor problems, the Freedman’s bureau and bank, and Congressional
reconstruction. It covers the years 1865–1868. Every chapter has a
brief historical introduction, a topical bibliography and a collection
of extracts grouped in analytical array.” (Ind.)
=v. 2.= The second volume of this documentary history “gives ample
material to illuminate actual conditions under the Reconstruction
governments, with special reference to race relations, political
morality, and economic, educational, and religious matters during the
carpet-bag régime, and the final undoing of Reconstruction.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The work has the limitations which are inseparable from all
source-books of limited size, but it also has what many source books
have not, namely, interest.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The material throughout is interesting and valuable.” J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 166. O. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Little can be said in the way of criticism upon the text of the
book.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The verdict is that Dr. Fleming has produced a very fair and candid
work which will be of great help to all who wish to get a first hand
idea of the great and enduring problems arising out of the civil war
and subsequent conditions.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 156. Jl. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, the work is very creditable to both publisher and
editor. However, one can regret that there were not a few more
editor’s notes. In several cases, these were really necessary to throw
light on the documents used.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 10. Ja. 1, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To any one who wishes to make a thorough study of reconstruction,
these volumes will be invaluable.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Professor Fleming’s collection will be invaluable to him when he
comes to write his own great history of reconstruction. It can never
be of fundamental value to another scholar.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 96. Ja. 10, ’07. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a massing together of illustrative material for future historical
work it is of extreme value.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Like so many others, he succeeds better as a delver for historical
material than as a writer of history. Not unlikely, his true vocation
is to such work as went to the making of these volumes.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The most serious defect, as it seems to me, appears in the author’s
readiness to accept current popular account of certain important facts
without that thorough investigation of them, which he might have
given.” Guy Stevens Callendar.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 205. Ag. ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Fletcher, Charles R. L.= Introductory history of England, v. 2, From
Henry VII. to the restoration. *$2. Dutton.
A history for boys. “With remarkable skill Mr. Fletcher contrives to
illustrate with the minimum of dry material those clear and balanced
generalizations which form the main value of history as a school
study. Problems and situations are summed up with the necessary
concentration which the older text-books lacked, yet for the most part
with scholarly precision.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“In spite of these unconventional views, on the whole Mr. Fletcher’s
book is a valuable addition to our school literature, it is the
outcome of the new historical school and puts the different personages
before us in a way not to be found in any other school history.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 940w.
“The only blot on his book is the colloquialism, not to say the
‘slang,’ which mars many passages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 490w.
“To Mr. Goldwin Smith alone, in his history of England, can we compare
Mr. Fletcher for his gift of luminous succinctness. He has also the
invaluable power of keeping the thread—the artist’s eye for what is
salient. He gives us the bones that we ask for, but he does not forget
to clothe them with life.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 256. Ag. 23, ’07. 1990w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s work has but two defects. He hates therefore to waste
words, but he must sedulously avoid the temptation to make use of
allusive compression. In the next place, there exists a possibility
that our author may fail, as most of us do, to see exactly where his
own strength lies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 210. S. 5, ’07. 1680w.
“The book is full of independent yet well-reasoned and generally
reasonable opinion, and is illuminated by many excellent phrases.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 902. Je. 8, ’07. 1850w.
=Fletcher, Stevenson W.= Soils, how to handle and improve them. (Farm
lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–6647.
The author says, “This book is an attempt to set forth the important
facts about the soil in a plain and untechnical manner. It is not a
contribution to agricultural science, but an interpretation of it.” A
popular treatment dealing with the nature and management of soils,
soil water, soil builders, benefits of tillage, objects and methods of
plowing, harrowing and cultivating, rolling, planking, hoeing,
drainage, irrigation, fertilizers, etc.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“It is to be regretted, however, that the author has in many cases
sacrificed accuracy to happiness of statement; that in the avoidance
of technical terms and the use of everyday ones, he has not always
succeeded in choosing such as were truly synonymous. Had his
manuscripts been overhauled at certain points by a chemist, and at
others by a biologist, it would have been the better.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
“A simple, direct, and comprehensive statement, serviceable for class
use, but offered mainly for the better instruction of the vast
American multitude of men, engaged in different branches of farming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“It is not altogether with equanimity that we view the recent habit of
publishers to push American text-books of agriculture in this country.
This preliminary grumble over, we can honestly recommend Professor
Fletcher’s book as containing a well-reasoned practical account of the
nature and benefit of such operations as ploughing, subsoiling, and
cultivating.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 500w.
“A book which, by reason of its excellent illustrations as well as its
facts is a useful addition to current agricultural literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 294. Ag. 31, ’07. 1860w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Source book of Greek history. *$1. Heath.
7–15133.
The author has aimed “to make a collection of sources that would
reflect the life and thought of the Greek people, and, to some degree
the evolution of that life and thought.” The extracts from Greek
literature and the full page photographs of objects of Greek art
chosen will be of use to the teacher as a means of introducing the
pupil to Greek literature and art, and will also prove valuable as
illustrative material when supplemented by narrative history.
* * * * *
“Altogether, it is a work of a helpful and needed sort, particularly
well edited.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 232. S. 12, ’07. 450w.
=Flint, Robert.= Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a keen, scholarly, comprehensive work, and presents arguments
which no socialist can afford to pass by unchallenged. It contains
however, one rather serious fault as a present-day document: more than
half of it was written fifteen years ago, when the conservative
socialists were less important in their class than they now are.”
Eunice Follansbee.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Patriot; tr. from the Italian with an introd. by
M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–444.
“The patriot” is a “vivid portrayal of social life in Italy in 1848,
the year of the tidal wave of revolution. This was the period when
Italian patriotism burned fiercest, the period when the idea of a
united Italy was born in the national consciousness. It is the epoch
of his country’s martyrdom which the novelist describes in these
throbbing pages—the ten years of ‘deadly, cold, and awful silence
stretching from the disastrous field of Novara to the glorious days of
Magenta, Solferino, and San Martino (1849–59).’”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The translation is excellent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21. ’07. 120w.
“It is the epoch of storm and stress when the iron hand of Austria
prest most heavily upon Italian aspirations. It is no figure of speech
to say that Fogazzaro’s characters are real. They are reality itself,
palpitating with life, and are perfect types of that Italian
patriotism which in our time founded a great nation.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The translation is admirably vigorous and idiomatic, a true
conveyance, one surmises, of a forthright and undecorated original.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“The movement of the story is uneven, but the foreigner will hardly
perceive that this unevenness is due to reality, but will deem it an
artistic blemish.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 670w.
“As to the English edition of the ‘Antico,’ though the vigorous
translation may tally with the dictionary, it does not always preserve
the novelist’s originality of expression and atmosphere.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 460w.
“The story [is] rather diffuse and ill-balanced, however affecting.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The saint (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd.
by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–30924.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though,
to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it
lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.
+ + − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 310w.
“‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous
that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 121. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M.
Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18183.
The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by
the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife
is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true
to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his
spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to
give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings
are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and
religious life of today.
* * * * *
“It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a
hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible,
at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating
character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important
personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many
minor characters of the book.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 890w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“Allowing for the inevitable loss that must result thru even a good
translation from the delicate, impassioned Italian into the sterner,
less flexible English, Fogazzaro’s novel is still a masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 300w.
“The title is rather misleading, since the author has apparently
intended to represent not so much the moral life of an individual as
the working forces distinctive of a period.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 351. Je. 1, ’07. 970w.
“As far as general interest as opposed to Italian interest in
concerned, ‘The sinner’ far surpasses its predecessor, ‘The
patriot’—‘Piccolo Mondo Antico.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“A work of art both high and clean. It is the first half of a
two-volume novel, a work of power, which needs to be read entire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 360w.
“The work is veritably great.” Vernon Atwood.
+ + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 490w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Woman; translated from the Italian by F. Thorold
Dickson. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–32327.
The action of this novel, filled with a strange mixture of spiritual
discernment, theories of reincarnation, and the idea of the vendetta,
takes place at a castle hermitage owned by the count Caesar d’Ormengo.
There falls to the count the care of a beautiful niece Mariana, morbid
in fancies and self-analysis. She learns from a secret compartment in
her escritoire that she is the reincarnation of an ancestor who went
mad in those very walls because of inhuman treatment, and who commands
that the one whose eyes shall fall upon the memorandum of her agony
find the way for revenge. Involved in the scheme of vendetta are the
count, Corrodo Silla, a young secretary whose life is linked to
Mariana’s as the reincarnated lover, a German secretary and his
daughter. The story waxes horrible as Mariana executes her mission of
vengeance: she causes the death of the count, kills Silla and drowns
herself. But through all is inexorable fate, to which, not conscious
of her own power to baffle it, she yields.
* * * * *
“In bare outline the story would appear merely a morbid tragedy. It is
the treatment of Fogoazzaro that redeems and gives to it distinction.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 338. Ap. 6, ’07. 1400w.
“An experiment in mystic melodrama which is only saved at times from
sinking to the level of pure sensationalism by the author’s fine
delineation of certain personages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 370w.
“The translation is in excellent, idiomatic English.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 90w.
“The translation by Mr. F. Thorold Dickson is unusually good; but ‘The
woman’ will hardly have the popularity of ‘The saint,’ even at this
second attempt.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.
=Follows, George Herbert.= Universal dictionary of mechanical drawing.
*$1. Eng. news.
6–42948.
“Mr. Follows bases his dictionary on the fundamental proposition that
‘Mechanical drawing is a language,’ with analogies to the English
language, ‘for the positive conveying of exact information,’ and he
defines its alphabet or lines, its words or views, and its books, or
complete drawings. Numerous good examples are given of the uses and
customs of the language (to continue the analogy) which are shown in
22 full page reproductions of standard drawings.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole the book is a distinct step towards standardizing
the usages and practice of mechanical drawing.” George O. Oriok.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
Foolish almanak for anuther year. 75c. Luce, J: W.
6–43522.
This almanac is “the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in
magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov our languig by Theodor
Rosyfelt.”
* * * * *
“Shows no falling off from the excellent standard of foolishness set
by its predecessor last year.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 40w.
=Foord, J.= Decorative plant and flower studies for the use of artists,
designers, students, and others, containing 40 col. plates; with
prefatory note by Lewis F. Day. *$12. Scribner.
Miss Foord’s “second series of full plates and analytical details,
showing the pictorial elements in forty plants. The whole plant, the
striking features of the branches, the details of inflorescence, the
structure of the bud and flowers, and so on, are presented
faithfully.” (Nation.) “Each subject is illustrated by a full-page
coloured plate and numerous drawings of details in black and white,
the former reproduced by a French stencil process as was the case with
the first series.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 350w.
“Though intended primarily for artists and designers, the beauty of
the plates makes the volume one to be enjoyed for its aesthetic
quality alone.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 229. Ap. 1, ’07. 320w.
“We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of
drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe
reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of
it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is
another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the
plants he sees.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 490w.
=Forbush, William Byron.= Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25.
Funk.
To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes,
an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and
questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the
teacher’s use.
=Forbush, William Byron.= Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an
introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–28480.
“It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as
an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written,
made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from
the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and
cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and
furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.
“It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read
a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George
F. Genung.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 477. Je. ’07. 650w.
“But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the
forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of
Omar’s quatrain.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 200w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 68. Mr. 1. ’07. 210w.
“Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic
insight as well as in its technical ability.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 290w.
“Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in
themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems
odd and irreverent.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Ford, James L.= Wooing of Folly. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–34804.
“Folly is the daughter of a miner, who, having ‘struck it rich,’ comes
to New York with the money and the ambition to ‘move’ among the Four
Hundred. It is not a pleasant story, altho the heroine escapes into
the arms of the right man. The purpose of the book is to expose the
methods by which social sharks of New York live at the expense of
their victims.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“He writes well and venomously.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The book is neatly named, and the slight plot is well handled, but
the whole would have gained in general interest as well as humor had
it been based on a more sympathetic observation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Ford, Jeremiah D. M., and Ford, Mary A.=, eds. Romances of chivalry in
Italian verse: selections with introduction and notes. *$2. Holt.
6–23070.
“From these specimens one can trace (1) the development of the
romantic epic as a literary genre; (2) the growth of the Orlando
story; (3) the characteristic qualities of Pulci, Boiardo, Berni,
Ariosto and Tasso. There are also fragments of the early ‘Orlando’ and
of the ‘Libro volgar.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The selections have been made with excellent judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 220w.
“Have well realized their aim to furnish appropriate reading material
relating to this period.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 140w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Truegate of Mogador, and other Cedarton folks. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–35042.
Twelve amusing tales including besides the title-story; Of such as
spin not, The king gander of sea-dog shoal, Captain’s folly, Across a
picket fence, “Shiner” Liddel’s revel, The impressing of Looney Fipps,
Seed to the sower, Julius, The romance of Windy Bill, The ride for his
life, and Through the Needle’s eye. There are eight illustrations.
* * * * *
“Vary greatly as to subject and value, but all are written with humor
and occasional pathos.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Ford produces his artistic effects and wins the reader’s interest
more by his portrayal of character, which is all done in sharp,
vigorous outlines, and by his swift, vivid touch in setting forth
backgrounds and surroundings than by the stories he has to tell.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. 3d ed. *$6. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Like the rest of the book, the new part has scarcely a page free from
important errors (not to mention vital omissions). The bad arrangement
and lack of revision involves much duplication, which the index but
poorly remedies. The orthography is sometimes freakish, and Spanish
terms are sometimes mistranslated. The statistical tables are very
inaccurate in places; the chronological table also, as well is
incomplete.” James A. LeRoy.
− − − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 388. Ja. ’07. 1660w.
“The volume is both lucid and impartial. It is, indeed, written in a
spirit too purely academic to be altogether interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 560w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Stumbling block. †$1.50. Harper.
7–24156.
David Rivers is wrested from his young love-making by old Robert
Henley, a self-constituted guardian, and is sent away to develop a
promising literary talent. The success and failure of an impersonally
detached ambition become the keynote of the story. Rosemary Crewe whom
David left behind is the embodiment of the strong love motif of the
tale while Violet Winter, the fascinating New York woman whom he
marries, is the stumbling block. Violet contemplates full reparation
to David in allowing a threatening disease to go unoperated upon. How
complete may have been her sacrifice is left entirely to the reader’s
imagination.
* * * * *
“The style is distinguished, and the undercurrent of passion
delicately handled. The hero, perhaps, is hardly worthy of the
devotion he inspires; but the work should be successful as a study
character.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 280w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Forman’s practise in writing novels is shown in his easy
management of technical construction. His ideas have become mature;
and his way of expressing them remains quite the most curious that is
seen in any fictionist addressing the American reader. Rosemary is a
dream heroine, faultless in all points. If only Mr. Forman applied the
taste that chose her to his manner of writing, he would have written
naturally, not corruptly, in a London patois, which is neither the
King’s English nor that of William Dean Howells.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 520w.
“This novel belongs to that class turned out in quantity every year,
to which no possible objection should be made, if—merely this—if any
one can discover the smallest reason for reading them.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“The story has some idyllic and romantic passages which are pleasant
enough reading in their way—though it is all very artificial—but
two-thirds of the book is distressingly dreary and futile.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
“Original, but not really jolly.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 90w.
=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An exceedingly able treatment of an all-important theme.” H. A. A.
Kennedy.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 157. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to
modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section
of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough
discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to
biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value
to the scholarly world.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 154. F. ’07. 1080w.
=Forrest, J. Dorsey.= Development of western civilization: a study in
ethical, economic, and political evolution. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–20984.
A history in which the course of social evolution is traced. The
analysis of the conditioning facts of European social history is made
on the basis of their ethical, economic and political values. The work
is the outgrowth of a demand for a fit setting of present-day
development and conditions, and has entailed a vast amount of careful
selection of materials.
* * * * *
“The author’s method and treatment offer little ground for objection.
What there is of it must be a matter of difference of emphasis rather
than attack upon fundamentals. The thing of real moment is that he has
given a new and important elucidation of the continuity of history.”
John H. Coney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 117. O. ’07. 990w.
“If he had not stated its purpose in the preface no one would have
ever discovered it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 290w.
“He fails to develop clearly the origins of modern states, the
specific contributions of the renaissance and the reformation and the
continuing activity of the religious and ethical impulse after the
breakdown in the authority of the church. This last, indeed, is the
most serious blemish in his scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 473. Je. 29, ’07. 510w.
“It is unfortunate that the author’s style falls below the dignity of
his conception, the careful marshalling of his authorities and the
breadth of his learning.”
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 548. S. ’07. 250w.
“The book is of value, not because it makes any substantial
contributions to our knowledge of the past, but because it does
reiterate the reasonable demand that our knowledge of the past should
be put in such form that it can be used to explain the processes of
social development, and to illuminate the problems of the present.” C.
D.
+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 323. N. ’07. 660w.
=Forster, H. O. Arnold.= Army in 1906: a policy and a vindication. *$4.
Dutton.
War 7–45.
A two-part survey dealing first with the problems and measures brought
before Parliament by the author from October 1903, to December, 1906,
as representation of the War department in the House of Commons;
second with the impressions which the writer has been led to form of
some of the more important of the British military problems.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 683. D. 1. 3350w.
“Will no doubt be serviceable to American students of military economy
who are desirous of knowing just how the British army stood before Mr.
Haldane brought out his latest scheme of reform.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 180w.
“It is much to be regretted that a clever man who has enjoyed such
exceptional opportunities for studying the administration of the army
as a Minister of the Crown should not have been able to clear his mind
of the dust and heat of contemporary politics and past controversies,
and should not have treated his whole subject in the same spirit as
that in which he has approached the question of the artillery.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 1870w.
“Those civilians and military men who are endeavoring to study the
various schemes should not fail to add Mr. Arnold-Forster’s book to
their libraries—special pleading though it be for a régime and policy
of the past.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 110w.
“Whatever the views we may hold on the desirability of Mr.
Arnold-Forster’s venture, there can be no question that an exceedingly
interesting volume is the outcome. The book is unfortunately marred by
the expression of some of the unduly arrogant sentiments to which Mr.
Arnold-Forster is prone.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 740. D. 15, ’06. 1970w.
“Whether we agree with his view or no, his attack on the
linked-battalion system is extremely well argued, while his impartial
examination of arguments for and against an experiment with a Second
line field artillery is of first rate importance.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 254. F. 16, ’07. 2260w.
=Foss, Sam Walter.= Songs of the average man. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–28179.
Plain poems for plain people. They strike the popular note, need no
interpretation, and are written for the people who do the world’s
work. Librarians who assembled at Narragansett Pier will remember “The
song of the library staff” included in the group.
=Foster, Agness Greene.= You, and some others. **60c. Elder.
7–29536.
A little booklet of verse which sings of truth triumphant, of love the
way and God the light.
=Foster, Frank Hugh.= Genetic history of the New England theology. *$2.
Univ. of Chicago press.
7–8502.
A genetic history and not a mere record of opinion, in which are
traced the rise, course and culmination of New England theology as a
distinct school of thought. The concluding chapter discloses the
secret of its collapse which began in 1880.
* * * * *
“He has achieved a notable success. His analysis of the contributions
of the several leaders of the movement is keen, his judgments are
fair, and his grasp of the stream of thought as a whole and in its
relation to the life of the nation is clearly evident.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Prof. Foster has appreciated his subject, and bestowed upon it the
labor and pains which its importance deserves. His criticism of the
work and writings of the successive theologians is clear and
penetrating.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 670w.
“We miss, perhaps, the eager insight into certain meritorious aspects
of the abandoned theology which characterized, for instance, Phillips
Brooks’s book on Jonathan Edwards, but we are impressed by the
conscientiousness of the trained historian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
“Some unguarded expressions ... raise doubt whether he has yet fully
freed himself from the pull of the system whose collapse he records.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 120. My. 18, ’07. 440w.
=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ.
of Chicago press.
6–5947.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Every serious thinker ... may not accept all the solutions offered
here, but at least he can form no judgment which is worthy of the
respect of intelligent men unless he has weighed these in relation to
his other beliefs.” C. A. Beckwith.
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 315. Ap. ’07. 1010w.
“In the volume under consideration one finds a combination of a
genuinely philosophical and scientific temper with a warmth of
religious feeling that makes the problems discussed living issues, and
that gives a reasonable ground for the hope that in his constructive
treatment the author will find a satisfactory solution of the problem
which he has set himself.” Amy E. Tanner.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 253. Ja. ’07. 1670w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
6–39718.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a whole, it must be said that the book is a very successful
presentation of the field the author sets out to discuss.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 610w.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 186. Mr. ’07. 170w.
“This is a pleasing, sensible, and useful book. If one were to pick
flaws at all, it would be in regard to some of the references to
European practices and personalities.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.
“A commendable feature of the work under review is that it clearly
states not only general diplomatic questions but indicates some that
are liable to become acute or perilous and that its author suggests
solutions that seem eminently reasonable.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 318. My. 18, ’07. 3210w.
“Historically valuable, as well as interesting to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 280w.
“There is little to criticise in the book either as regards the point
of view or the content.” J. W. Garner.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 137. Mr. ’07. 790w.
“It cannot fail to be of much interest to every American who takes an
active interest in the affairs of the world.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 110w.
=Foster, William.= English factories in India, 1618–1621: a calendar of
documents in the India office, British museum and Public record office;
published under the patronage of His Majesty’s secretary of state for
India in council. *$4.15. Oxford.
A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters
received by the East India company from its servants in the East.”
“International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and
the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to
advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration
and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find
further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later
voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian
fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here
are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British
expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers,
East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr.
Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 879. Jl. ’07. 750w.
=Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 420w.
=Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward.= Electron theory: a popular
introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a
preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11034.
A book which attempts in an elementary manner the consistent
application of the all-embracing electron theory to the whole range of
electro-magnetic phenomena. “A plea for the recognition of electricity
as a fundamental natural quantity, and the addition of its unit, the
electron, to the three fundamental units of length, mass, and time, of
which all dimensional formulas are composed.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“On the whole the book may be heartily commended as a well-executed
attempt to grapple with a new and difficult subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 585. N. 10. 1590w.
“Fournier d’Albe writes perfect English, agreeably and lucidly: and
his book could be mastered by an intelligent boy. It would be easier
to read, however, if the author would not interrupt his train of
thought with paragraphs and even pages whose substance, however
essential to the whole theory, forms no part of the matter he is
endeavoring to communicate in the particular context.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 680w.
“A glance at the table of contents of this book is sufficient to show
that it fills an acute want at the present time. In making this
attempt, the author is to be congratulated both on the choice of his
subject and the skill and originality he has displayed in
accomplishing it. It is a relief to find that the treatment, though
popular, is to the point, and little or nothing is said of these vague
and vast speculations as to the ultimate constitution of matter which
have unfortunately become identified with the words ‘the electronic
theory.’” F. S.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 292. Ja. 24, ’07. 660w.
“A lucid popular account of the main outlines of the electron theory
as it exists at the present day.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling
offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50.
Little.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In view of the excellent purpose of the book, and of the general
success with which that purpose is carried out, it may be unimportant
to point out the slight defects of arrangement which we find in it.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=Fowler, William H.= Steam boilers and supplementary appliances: a
practical treatise on their construction, equipment and working. $5.
Scientific pub.
“The book does not differ materially from others of its class, but it
is largely devoted to English types of boilers which are but little
known in this country.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book may be considered a useful work of reference
for those interested in the subject, but it will not take the place of
any of the standard American works.”—William Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 910w.
=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. *75c. Meth. bk.
6–13696.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Too scanty to be of much value to a student, but accurate so far as
it goes, and interesting to the ordinary reader of travel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S.
=Fox, John, jr.= Knight of the Cumberland, il. by F. C. Yohn. †$1.
Scribner.
6–37963.
Mr. Fox has created “the very model of a story” (Nation) out of
ingredients a little old and a little new. His knight is a “quaint,
picturesque conception, a moonshiner’s son who seems to have been born
out of his class or out of his century.” (N. Y. Times.) His heroine is
known as “The Blight” because “nor man nor woman nor sixteen-hand-high
mule could resist her.” (Nation.) There is an unusual commingling of
tournament, duel, and very American stump-speaking. “And it is this
very incongruity which renders the tale fascinating.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Attractive and original tale.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 170w.
“Light, delightful little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 246. D. ’06. ✠
“The whole story makes glad the sense of symmetry, compact as it is of
fun, manners, and motives, as they flourish in the land that we almost
think of as created by Mr. Fox.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 180w.
“The story is a delight both in conception and literary execution.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 480w.
“It bears the mark of Mr. Fox’s charming talent, the fresh feeling,
the naïve directness, the sympathy with everything that it touches.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“Is but a pretty sketch that takes an hour in reading and leaves the
fiction-hunger quite unappeased.” Vernon Atwood.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The work is of the slightest possible texture.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Little
flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars; tr. by W.
Heywood; with an introd. by A. G. F. Howell. 35c. Crowell.
This translation of a succession of incidents in the great work of St.
Francis and his friars is uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Heywood’s rendering is far and away the best and most complete of
those before the public, and he omits nothing that can make it useful
or easy of reference.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.
“Mr. Heywood’s translation strikes us as admirably done upon the
whole, and it takes strength from the fact that he is, so far as we
are aware, the first translator to keep before him and to use the
Latin original of the ‘Fioretti.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Writings
of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and
notes by Father Paschal Robinson. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very useful and trustworthy version. Occasionally wanting in
perspective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 180w.
“Father Paschal’s work is a finished piece of historical criticism. He
has gone to the sources, and brought to bear on their elucidation an
intimate knowledge of all the later literature of the subject.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 257. My. ’06. 480w.
“The English translation is almost as good as a critical edition. Both
translators have a thorough knowledge of the recent literature of the
subject, and where they touch on controversial points they both show
modesty, good temper, and sound judgment.” A. G. L.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 195. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“Excellent translation of the writings of S. Francis, with its
scholarly preface and valuable critical apparatus.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
“That St. Francis was a man of genius no one who thinks about this
history of Christianity can possibly doubt; but the common estimate of
his genius will not be enhanced by reading Father Paschal Robinson’s
edition of his writings.”
− =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w.
=Francke, Kuno.= German ideals of today, and other essays on German
Culture. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–15142.
This volume is made up of a series of essays and sketches on German
culture and the higher life of the German people, which have appeared
from time to time from Professor Francke’s pen, in a number of
American magazines and one or two German periodicals. He admits that
‘the temper of the papers is frankly propagandist.’ They aim ‘to
arouse sympathy with German views of public life, education,
literature and art, and they try to set forth some German achievements
in various fields of higher activity.’—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The style is easy, the spirit broad, the treatment interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07.
“In the thought which they contain, rather than in the style of Prof.
Kuno Francke, lies the chief value of these essays and lectures.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 632. S. 12, ’07. 1180w.
Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 741. S. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Frank, Henry.= Kingdom of love. *$1. Fenno.
7–24829.
Part 1 of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle,
the mother principle, the social principle, and deific principle and
as the healing grace. Part 2 embraces some thirty and more essays on
“Contemplations of life’s ideals.” “The human being is as
comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in
prophecy and promise” is the note sounded thruout.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Frank, Ulrich, pseud. (Frau Ulla [Hirschfeld] Wolff).= Simon
Eickelkatz: The patriarch; two stories of Jewish life; tr. from the
German. $1.50. Jewish pub.
7–12639.
The first of these stories is a pathetic tale of an aged Jew who had
spent his life with a wife who despised him, and had seen his only son
forsake his faith. The fact that this son had become a great
philosopher and teacher did not dull his disappointment and he tells
the story of his life as he has seen it sadly from time to time to the
doctor who attends him during his last days and who gains much from
him both in thought and inspiration. The second story. The patriarch,
is a Jewish romance but it is also a picture of Jewish family life
with its strong religious feeling and prejudices.
* * * * *
“The tales are well translated into clear, idiomatic English. Although
lacking in incident, being rather chronicles of thought than stories
of action, they will repay in more ways than one a careful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 210w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed.,
with a life and introd. by Albert H: Smyth, 10v. ea. **$3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is the leading contribution of the year to American biography. Mr.
Smyth’s work as editor was dignified and suitable, while the new
papers which he unearthed were of considerable number and importance.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–10)
=Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The editing is exact and the text is clearly an improvement on
previous editions, though the novelties are few in number.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 8.)
“Mr. Smyth has given only the outlines of a biography, making his
chapters convenient pegs on which to hang material discovered since
his earlier volumes were published. Some of this material is very
interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Franklin year book; maxims and morals from the
great philosopher; comp, by Wallace Rice. **$1. McClurg.
7–33926.
A bit of Franklin wisdom for every day in the year.
=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the
United States from the Revolutionary war to 1861. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–20847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We regret that it does not cover completely a subject which it covers
so well partially. There is no other book, however, which covers the
subject at all.” Gaillard Hunt.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 402. Ja. ’07. 720w.
“Altogether the book is a very unsatisfactory treatment of the
subject.” David Y. Thomas.
− =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 556. Ja. ’07. 790w.
“The book has been written especially for the jurist and the
legislator, but its clear style will also make it of interest to the
‘general’ reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 331. My. 19, ’06. 70w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Among Bavarian inns. $2. Page.
6–41527.
An account of little journeys to Bavarian highlands and to various
quaint inns and hostelries in and out of the ancient towns, together
with reminiscences of student and artist life in Munich. The volume is
illustrated by a series of photographs of much merit well produced.
* * * * *
“The descriptive and historical matter will interest both past and
prospective travellers.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Enemy at Trafalgar. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28489.
“In the ‘Enemy at Trafalgar’, Edward Fraser has collected picturesque
details of the great battle obtained from French and Spanish sources.
The treatment is anecdotic, and is reinforced by a number of
illustrations and portraits. One or two of the plans reproduced are of
some interest for the controversy as to Nelson’s tactics, though the
question is not dealt with in the text.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“An important contribution to the literature of the Trafalgar
campaign.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 196. O. ’06. 40w.
“The translations are for the most part satisfactory. We should
without reserve thank Mr. Fraser for his interesting and important
contribution to Trafalgar literature, were it not that he and his
publishers are guilty of the sin of issuing this book—full as it is of
matter bearing on recent controversy and living problems—with a most
insufficient index, one scarcely deserving the name.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 121. Ag. 4. 2480w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 280w.
“An excellent study of the battle and its circumstances from the point
of view of Nelson’s gallant adversaries. It is written throughout with
all the vigour of the author of ‘Famous fighters of the fleet.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 630w.
=Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 60w.
“A book which no student of the naval history of Great Britain can
afford to ignore. The portraits are not creditable, the sacrifice to
economy having been too great. There is an adequate index.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 150. Mr. 9, ’07. 660w.
“A novel idea, and its manner of execution throws light on the last
great naval combat between France and England.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Fraser’s account of the battle compiled from French and Spanish
records will be very useful to check the numerous versions, good, bad,
and indifferent, now in existence which have had to rely more or less
on British sources for their information. The plates add considerably
to the attraction of this fascinating and useful book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 176. Ag. 11, ’06. 1060w.
=Fraser, John Foster.= Red Russia. **$1.75. Lane.
7–29041.
Mr. Fraser has given an impressionistic picture of various phases of
modern Russia. “It is the terrible story of the revolutionary terror
from below in its struggle with the reactionary terror from above.
There are some very striking illustrations.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“A convincing, vigorous description of Russia as it is today.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07. S.
“May be commended despite a slight tendency towards sensationalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 539. My. 4. 200w.
“It is a journalistic piece of work, and that not of the highest
kind.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 130w.
“The scene is incontrovertibly, convincingly described in these
hurried, disorderly memoranda. Mr. Fraser has ... travelled all over
the country, and he tells what he saw, without much evident feeling,
without much sympathy with anybody, but with great vigor of narration.
The value of the book is not in its conclusions. Its value is in the
self-certified accuracy of its picture of life and conditions in the
Czar’s realm to-day.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 401. Je. 22, ’07. 2110w.
Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 40w.
“Is more than a mere chronicle of bloodshed, and chapters like that
descriptive of the great fair at Nijni-Novgorod are as valuable an aid
to a clear understanding of the complexities of the Russian problem as
those which deal with riot and massacre.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 280w.
=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord:
a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.
6–32360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.
“Mrs. Fraser has not succeeded so well with her novel of the life and
times of Mary Washington as she did with her Japanese stories.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“Is told with spirit and vivacity by a woman who has something to
communicate and knows how.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 290w.
=Fraser, Robert.= Three men and a maid. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–16753.
“A country squire and his most villainous cousin, a vicar and his
nephew, an innkeeper’s two handsome daughters, a scoundrelly lawyer or
two, and a most excellently drawn detective furnish the personnel of
the narrative, the special recommendation of which is that it is not
put in the first person, and has not a visible trace of the tiresomely
wise deductions and logical puzzle-reading that are the ordinary
accompaniments of the detective story.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Another of those ‘first books’ that turn up at pleasant intervals on
the reviewer’s table and fairly amaze him with their all-around
excellence of plot construction, and style, and their utter lack of
any sign that would indicate a novice as their author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 680w.
“An ingenious and absorbing and tantalizing mystery story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Lone furrow. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–6653.
The thread of gold running through Mr. Fraser’s self-styled “homespun
web” is a broken-hearted wife whose husband, a young Scotch clergyman,
deserted her. “With its leisureliness, its element of mystery (in the
vulgar sense), and its prevailing atmosphere of religious inquiry, it
recalls some of the later stories of George Macdonald.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“To put it kindly, not one of his happy efforts.” Frederick Taber
Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 420w.
“It is hardly more than a vigorous statement of an interesting
situation followed by a prolonged and rambling commentary upon that
situation.”
− =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 92. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 90w.
=Frazar, M. D.= Practical European guide: preparation, costs, routes and
sightseeing. **$1. Turner, H. B.
7–16759.
Mr. Frazar has brought eighteen years of experience to his task of
offering condensed information to the European traveler. He offers
enlightenment on the following points; How to travel, Steamship lines
and the voyage, The arrival in Europe, Some attractive routes,
European railway fares, What to see, Guidebooks, Hotel-rates, Final
suggestions.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.
=Frazer, James George.= Adonis, Attis, Osiris: studies in the history of
Oriental religion. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–15462.
“Mr. Frazer’s thesis is that the oriental religions here studied are
based upon harvest rites which were intended to insure the fertility
of the soil by methods of imitative magic.... Such a book as this
ought to be of very great value to the student of the history of
philosophy, for it was the blending of these eastern faiths with
neo-platonism which formed the soil out of which Christianity
arose.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
“Dr. Frazer is read no less for his learning than for his style, and
his latest book will not be found wanting in any of the qualities
which lent charm to his former work.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1280w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“These fascinating studies ... require ... no further recommendation
from the reviewer. But there are also perpetual phases like ‘may
probably be,’ ‘seem to indicate’; etc., which produce in the reader a
feeling of vagueness and uncertainty.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 540. N. 3. 1500w.
“The exposition displays the erudition, both literary and
archaeological, that we are familiar with in Dr. Frazer’s writings;
also, in spite of certain irrelevant chapters a more orderly method
and relevance than he usually observes. His exposition of the great
religious idea of the death and resurrection of the God is clear and
sound and rests on solid evidence. Of much less value are the
sociological hypotheses that he associates with the religious facts.
Here the weakness of his work and method is most manifest. In spite of
certain defects and hasty assumptions this book well deserves success
and a grateful recognition.” Lewis R. Farnell.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 687. Ap. ’07. 1590w.
“As compared with the first series of studies destined to be
incorporated in the new edition of the ‘Golden bough,’ the ‘Lectures
on the early history of the kingship,’ published last winter, the
argument in the present volume is conducted with more reserve, and the
conclusions are advanced with more caution. Mr. Frazer writes with
rare literary skill.” Wendell T. Bush.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 1150w.
“We would suggest that, when the matter of this book comes to be
incorporated in ‘The golden bough’, Dr. Frazer should make somewhat
clearer what he conceives to be the relations of ‘the god of Ibreez’,
Sandan, and the Baal of Tarsus respectively.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’07. 1200w.
“Whether we agree with his conclusions or not, the work is an
important contribution to the study of ancient oriental religions and
will have to be reckoned with in all future researches into the
subject. The French lucidity of treatment, the full and excellent
index, and the attractive style, make it singularly easy to read and
understand. And the mass of material collected and co-ordinated in it
will be a mine for other investigators to quarry. In some passages,
more especially in the descriptions of scenery, the language rises to
an oratorical height rarely met with in scientific books.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 53. Jl. 13, ’07. 1900w.
=Free, Richard.= On the wall. †$1.50. Lane.
Stories of London’s East End told by a young vicar. “The reader who
makes acquaintance with the life-tragedy of Granley, artisan, atheist,
poet, bravely enduring domestic martyrdom and saving his wife’s good
name, will not go away disappointed.” (Sat. R.) “Occasional hits at
superficial and arm’s-length charity will be appreciated by people who
have been annoyed by such efforts.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Americans will find ‘On the wall’ most amusing. The stories offer
entertainment of a very whole-hearted admirable sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“There is no affectation about these short stories, and there is much
strength and also insight into the humanity common to us all.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“These sketches ... are oddly unequal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 242. Ag. 24, ’07. 120w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= By the light of the soul. †$1.50. Harper.
7–5069.
In some strange byways of life is the fragile heroine of Mrs.
Freeman’s story led. Motherless at an early age, she is soon to become
a temperamental prey to a cold, dispassionate self-loving step-mother.
A most illogical occurrence in the form of an untimely marriage upsets
whatever of repose her young years were fostering. The only leavening
influences in her bare life are the pathetic devotion of a loyal, tho
weak, father and the child love of the little half-sister, Evelyn.
* * * * *
“A study in self-sacrifice, containing unusually strong and delicate
delineation of New England character, and next-to-impossible
situations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“Viewed from an artistic as well as human point of view, Maria’s story
is sadder than it should be, and leaves the reader with a sense of
dissatisfaction which detracts not a little from his pleasure.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 160. F. 9. 360w.
“It seems to me to exemplify all that the temperamental novel should
not be.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 280w.
“In some years of novel-reading I cannot recall a more complete
disappointment than this book has given me.” Edward Clark Marsh.
− =Bookm.= 25: 81. Mr. ’07. 1110w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 460. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“The story has no real ending. As to the people involved in this
drama, it is plain that Mrs. Freeman herself has not reached a clear
conception of either their personal appearance or their character. The
representation of Maria’s character is of a piece with the other
vaguenesses and self-contradictions.” Herbert W. Horwill.
− + =Forum.= 38: 538. Ap. ’07. 1410w.
“The theme required a bigger philosophy of life than Mrs. Freeman
could bring to bear upon the subject, and the end is lamentably
unconvincing and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 260w.
“She has perhaps sounded deeper levels of the human heart than
hitherto.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 250w.
“We recommend the novel very cordially as a piece of delicate and
understanding work and also as an interesting story; but the reader
must expect a monochrome and rather a hard one.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 300w.
“If the present work lacks the unity and beauty of a ‘New England
nun,’ at least in it she is seeking an enlarged horizon and rather
receiving fresh impressions than remaining satisfied to repeat those
already used.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.
“The story is told with its author’s accustomed skill. Mrs. Freeman
brings some of her characters vividly before the reader with the skill
in detail for which she is noted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 300w.
“There is an effect of carefully wrought, delicate embroidery about
the new novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 200w.
“The amount of spirituality under which the characters in English
novels will fairly reel is borne lightheartedly by Mrs. Freeman’s
latest heroine.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 310w.
=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins) (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman).= Doc
Gordon. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–25689.
“The interest ... lies in the fresh illustration of the old question,
should a moral and spiritual monster, abnormal in subtlety and
wickedness be allowed to exist to the menace of the common good?
Again, is it a crime, or at least justifiable to cut short the
intolerable agony of a dying human creature, if the conscience upholds
the deed? These problems play an important part in the story of Dr.
Gordon, a man naturally charitable and broadminded, but warped by an
evil influence out of his original happy attitude towards life.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Although she has the magic touch that adorns every subject she writes
about, it must be admitted she has no peculiar gift for melodramatic
fiction. ‘Doctor Gordon’ is a capital story, with scenes and
characters out of the common run.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
“A stocking is not a stocking when it has been raveled, but merely a
skein of crumpled thread; just so, this book holds attention while one
reads it, but having finished, it seems a rather poor affair as
compared with some of Mrs. Freeman’s other stories.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 158. Ja. 17, ’07. 500w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 119. Ap. 12, ’07. 320w.
“Miss Wilkins’ delicate talent is incongruous with the wildness of her
plot. Altogether, we look back regretfully to the middle-aged lovers
and the engaging pet cats of the author’s earlier stories.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 130w.
=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor.= Fair Lavinia and others. †$1.25. Harper.
7–34778.
Under the titles: The fair Lavinia, Amarina’s roses, Eglantina, The
pink shawls, The willow ware, The secret, The gold, and The underling,
Mrs. Freeman presents the village life she knows so well how to
picture and shows us the very hearts of the village folks who take
part in those homely little comedies and tragedies.
* * * * *
“Delicate and amusing sketches of village life with charm of sentiment
and grace of narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
“The stories are like old-fashioned shell cameos; the flush of life
and beauty shows through the carefully fashioned faces.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=French, Allen.= Book of vegetables and garden herbs: a practical
handbook and planting table for the vegetable gardener. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
7–16935.
A book intended for seedsmen and their customers, that both may get
full benefit from the seeds, the latter in good crops, the former in
continued custom. Mr. French gives a summary of the uses, culture and
virtues of each plant included; sowing-directions regarding distance
of rows from each other, of seeds in the row, depth of planting, etc.;
thinning, fertilizing, transplanting and picking.
* * * * *
“Does not replace Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable growing’ but is an
excellent companion to it, and more attractive in form.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07.
+ =Nation.= 84: 18. Jl. 4, ’07. 500w.
“The directions are simple, with no chance to go wrong.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
“An excellent guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 208. Je 1, ’07. 80w.
“A new garden handbook of great value to the amateur.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=French, Allen.= Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.
6–32675.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
6–34808.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
“It can confidently be recommended to admirers of Mr. Jerome K.
Jerome.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 830. D. 29. 60w.
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 127. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Susan Clegg and a man in the house, il. †$1.50.
Little.
7–31418.
Susan Clegg tries her hand at boarding an editor. Of him she says:
“Seems Elijah is so smart that he’ll be offered a place on one of the
biggest city papers in a little while, but in the mean time he’s just
lost the place that he did have on one of the smallest ones.” As ever,
Susan in no weak fashion expresses her opinions to Mrs. Lathrop. She
gives her impressions of the young editor, his flute playing, of the
women who ran the club women’s biennial and of the democratic and
republican parties.
* * * * *
“In the present volume Susan Clegg is undeniably tiresome. She talks
so unremittingly, and always in the same strain.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“To be recommended heartily to people who may have found refreshment
in ‘Three men in a boat,’ ‘Chimmie Fadden,’ or the sea worthies of W.
W. Jacobs.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is a rare pleasure to find a book so wholesome, so amusingly
philosophical and so full of the real quality of things that last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
* =French, Arthur Willard, and Ives, Howard Chapin.= Stereotomy. 2d ed.
$2.50. Wiley.
A second edition, with few changes, of a work appearing in 1903.
* * * * *
“The book remains a well-written compilation of method and example in
stone-cutting and is serviceable alike for self-study and for use in
the class-room. The work of revision in preparing this edition has not
been very extensive. Some minor lapses were overlooked.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 200w.
“The subject-matter covers a wide range and includes everything that
the student is likely to have need for in his future work.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 460. N. ’07. 490w.
=French, Lester G.= Steam turbines, practice and theory. $3. Technical
press, Brattleboro, Vt.
7–9802.
“A book for the student and practicing engineer which contains a
discussion of steam turbines and principles, and early steam turbine
patents. “A number of chapters give detailed descriptions of all the
important turbines now in use in this country and in Europe.” Then
follow chapters upon Steam and its properties, Notes on efficiency and
design. The commercial aspect of the turbine, Care and management,
Condensing apparatus for high vacuum.... The last chapter of the book
treats of the Marine turbine.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“There is nothing very original in it; but quite a little useful
information ... has been given place in the book. The weakest part of
the book is ... the theoretical part. The book is, on the whole, a
very satisfactory one.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“This is an unusually satisfactory book in which theory and
well-chosen practice are judiciously balanced, and unnecessary
amplification avoided.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 300w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of
“Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50.
Estes.
6–32857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book will never be popular in America, it is safe to say, for
several reasons. It is, like a German sentence, long-winded, involved,
and cumbrous. ‘Holyland’ contains several passages which make it unfit
for the youthful, and even many older readers will find them
offensive. And because we are in a very different stage of theological
thought from Germany, the religious purpose of the novel will fail to
arouse either the enthusiasm or the antagonism that it has in
Germany.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 740w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Three comrades; tr. from the German by L.
Winstanley. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20513.
“An every-day sort of story of ordinary life in Germany. At the
opening of the book the three comrades are three 10–year-old boys in
the days of the Franco-German war. Later they are carried on into
manhood, they separate, and each goes his own way. After a time each
is so hampered by his faults of character that he is on the brink of
failure. Then, at the crisis of their misfortune, they are reunited
and together they are able to avert the threatened disaster.” (N. Y.
Times.) “Its value consists in the beauty of one or two of its
episodes, in some admirable pictures of land and sea by the Holstein
coast, and perhaps above all in the personality of the author.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“As a story it is confused and incoherent, and its presentation of
character though wonderfully vivid at times, can never be called a
complete success. With all its shortcomings, it was worthy of being
presented to an English public, and we must add a word of cordial
praise concerning the manner in which this has been done. The
anonymous translation is of unusual excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 170w.
“The story is powerful and sympathetic, and its characters interesting
and human.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“There is much charm in the simplicity of the story, both in plot and
style and the vividness with which the author portrays scenes and
characters makes it very life-like.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 180w.
* =Friedrichs, Hulda.= Romance of the Salvation army; with introd. by
General Booth. il. *$1.25. Cassell.
“These sketches exhibit the Army at work in Great Britain, and ‘on the
march’ through the world. Its rescue work, training of officers,
‘self-denial week’, and farm colony are described with affecting
illustrative experiences. The future of the Army seems secure, though
its great General must pass away. Religious enthusiasm for a divine
end, coupled with a sagacious, practical use of means, is the lesson
of its career to the churches.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 87: 580. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Miss Friedrichs writes well and with restraint, and illustrates her
narrative, as the history of the Salvation army is best illustrated,
by anecdotes of its individual triumphs. In short, it is a history
that almost any reader may peruse with pleasure, for the human
interest of the movement, to say nothing of that attaching to so many
of its workers, is undeniable.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Friedman, Isaac Kahn.= The radical. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30992.
“The ‘radical’ is a Chicagoan who, beginning life as a butcher’s
driver, later becomes a political leader and tries to reform the
senate.” (N. Y. Times.) “He is a man of the people, homely, a dreamer,
yet powerful, in some of his traits seems to be modeled upon Lincoln.
His aim is democratic, and so far as this book goes he seems to fail
of attaining it.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He is well-equipped with the facts of political life, and with the
social sympathies needed for their effective interpretation. The
present book, in the detail of its workmanship, is not as finished a
production as the author’s previous writings would lead us to expect.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Were it not that an unmistakable earnestness of conviction pervades
this novel, one’s inclination would be to let it pass unmentioned, for
a more ineffective attempt at bending language to the uses of art
rarely falls under the reviewer’s eye.”
− =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The subject is intricate and may account for the somewhat
over-involved style of writing, which leaves anything but a clear
impression in the reader’s mind.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Fry, Henry Davidson.= Maternity. $1.50. Neale.
7–34609.
A book for the lay reader, the medical student and the trained nurse
which attacks ignorance and superstition and leaves healthful
enlightenment in their place.
=Fuller, Caroline M.= Brunhilde’s paying guest. †$1.50. Century.
7–26461.
The modern Brunhilde of the story is the daughter and only surviving
member of an impoverished southern household. Two charming cousins
share her duties of hostess when she admits a few “paying guests” to
her home. Among them is a young northerner who wars with the spirited
valkyr, falls in love with her, and continues to quarrel. It is a
pathetic picture of southern aristocracy doing battle with poverty, it
is a romance of young strength, of maids and their lovers, set in a
delightful southern garden.
* * * * *
“While her conversations are occasionally ‘bright,’ they invariably
sound rather like the badinage overheard in trolley cars.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“A bright, entertaining story for an idle hour, and one that leaves no
unpleasant impression.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 90w.
=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.= Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy.
*$2.50. Burrows.
6–32122.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Fuller has failed to give us a clear account of the unusually
intricate transactions with which his book must deal, and this failure
is chiefly owing to his sins of omission.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 404. Ja. ’07. 1240w.
“The chief defect of the book lies in its paucity of references. The
author has brought out a good deal of new and interesting matter for
which he has given no authority whatever.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 320w.
“In his earnest desire to deal fairly with all, he occasionally falls
into the opposite error of doing something less than justice to his
own country.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 920. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.
“The book shows evidence of pretty thorough research; but it ought not
to be necessary at this late day, to remind the investigator that the
historian—and this volume will appeal to the historian rather than to
the general reader—demands foot-note references to sources and
authorities. Such references are too sparingly given. In some cases
they are lacking where they are particularly desirable.” David Y.
Thomas.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 140. Mr. ’07. 470w.
=Fullerton, George Stuart.= An introduction to philosophy. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
6–37866.
The following embodies the purpose of the book: “To point out what the
world philosophy is made to cover in the higher branches of learning;
to explain the nature of reflective or philosophical thinking and to
show how it differs from common thought and from science; to give a
general view of the main problems with which philosophers have dealt;
to give an account of some of the more important types of
philosophical doctrine which have arisen out of the consideration of
such problems; to indicate the relation of philosophy to ‘science and
to the other sciences;’ and to show that the study of philosophy, is
of value to us all, and to give some practical admonitions on spirit
and method.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Fullerton has an expository style which is admirably simple and
clear, and his preliminary definition of philosophy is as free as
possible from the objection that he has assumed a controversial
philosophical standpoint.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 407. Ap. 6. 230w.
“We know of no other book in English that can compare with this one as
a manual to help the beginner over the difficulties which beset him in
his first adventure into the unfamiliar world of metaphysical
abstractions.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 827. Mr. ’07. 670w.
“The book might be called ‘a condensed encyclopedia of the moral and
mental sciences.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 140w.
“Like his larger ‘System’ it is likely not only to inform, instruct
and practice the student in philosophical reflection, but also to
interest and entertain him. Moreover, it contains many practical
suggestions to both the teacher and the student well calculated to
clear the ground and the air, giving to the undertaking of the young
philosopher a wide sweep of open territory and a wholesome
atmosphere.” G. A. Tawney.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 356. Je. 20, ’07. 1400w.
“It has many of the defects which were noticeable in the larger
treatise. The logical divisions are imperfect, and the several parts
of the work are not well articulated. Professor Fullerton writes,
however, very intelligibly, and uses few technical terms. The volume
would be more useful, if there were fuller references in it to the
philosophical theories of the later French and German authors.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 109. Ja. 31. ’07. 350w.
“The first half of the book is the best prolegomena to metaphysics
that we know for students who come entirely fresh to the subject.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 370w.
=Funk, Rev. Isaac Kaufman.= Psychic riddle. **$1. Funk.
7–8500.
“A remarkably clear and conservative study of the subject of psychic
phenomena, with citations of a number of noteworthy experiences.”—R.
of Rs.
* * * * *
“Dr. Funk lightens the book by many jokes and by some humor which is
of Scotch character. For one thing, his sincerity shines out, and he
refuses to allow an apology by a zealous defender which would
compromise his intellectual honesty.” George W. Gilmore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 555. Jl. ’07. 280w.
“The general reader will find the entire volume as fascinating and
compelling as romance, and to any person interested in psychical
research it will be far more interesting than a well written novel.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 668. Je. ’07. 1330w.
“Anybody familiar with the volumes of Myers, or even with the little
book of Lapponi, will find that Dr. Funk has paid little attention to
systematic arrangement of his data and analysis of the various factors
of the problems with which he deals.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 340w.
“His purpose has been well executed.”
+ =Dial.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 112. F. 23, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9843.
A book of reprinted stories whose theme in each instance is a
marvelous exploit of Prof. Van Dusen. “You may now read—or re-read—how
Prof. Van Dusen accomplished an experimental jail delivery for himself
under circumstances the most ingeniously prearranged for that
purpose ... how Prof. Van Dusen ascertained the identity of a man who
had mislaid all consciousness of his personality, name, and nativity;
how he solved the riddle of a bank burglary, and by sniffing the
perfume on a handkerchief traced the crime to a particularly pretty
and attractive young woman.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“They are quite ingenious in their way, and those who like this sort
of thing will find them fair examples of their kind. They are not
altogether devoid of literary merit.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 147. N. 16, ’07. 80w.
“If, after the reading is over, one still ranks them below the
adventures of Sherlock Holmes, it is because the latter have greater
realism and accord more closely with the conditions of actual life.”
Rafford Pyke.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 433. Je. ’07. 500w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“The author’s ingenuity is great, but the element of probability is
not always maintained.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 30w.
=Fyfe, W. T.= Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott; with an introd. by R. S.
Rait. *$3. Dutton.
7–19482.
The well known incidents of Scott’s life here afford “some guiding
lines for grouping of varied details.” These details relate much that
is entertaining concerning “the simple, happy social life of
Edinburgh’s best society, with its curious mixture of formal manners
and informal customs.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The personal element is made much of, and many pleasing character
sketches, with some good anecdotes, are given. Of all books, this one
should have had an index.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 170w.
“We find nothing, or nothing of interest in Mr. Fyfe’s book, with
which we have not always been familiar. Mr. Fyfe has not written the
history of Scott nor has he contributed original matter from documents
to his superfluous restatement of Lockhart’s biography of Sir Walter.”
− − =Lond. Times.= 6: 6. Ja. 4, ’07. 1000w.
“A useful supplement to Lockhart and the ‘Letters’ and ‘Journals’.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Fyfe has a gift of presenting vividly what he writes by virtue of
being simple and direct. To read his book is like going back a hundred
years and spending a day in old-time Edinburgh.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
“No fuller or better picture of that brilliant half-century of life in
Edinburgh which approximately lasted from the death of Samuel Johnson
in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 has ever been given to the
public than that presented in this volume. Singularly, if not even
paradoxically too, the value of the picture is due quite as much to
the faults as to the excellences of the artist.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 483. O. 5, ’07. 1550w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment; with
special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
A volume for the general reader rather than for the student of
anthropology, in which no attempt at “profundity of exhaustiveness”
has been made. It is a first-hand study and contains chapters on:
Plants, animals and man; Concerning the aborigines of the western
continent in general; Pueblo lands and homes; Food and clothing;
Government and social life; Education; Industries, arts and sciences;
Religion; Games and festivals.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Fyvie, John.= Comedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.
7–18122.
“A light, gossipy account of some of the leading actresses of the
eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries. It is well
illustrated by photogravure process. Among Mr. Fyvie’s queens are
Lavinia Fenton and Elizabeth Farren. That the habit of peers marrying
actresses is not modern is shown by these lively chapters.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Mr. Fyvie is a little too reticent to be a good scandalmonger, and a
little too technical to be a good historian of the stage; and his
sketches, though written from an independent point of view and clearly
the result of much original study of his subjects, offer little that
is new on the details of their private lives, and nothing on the
subject of their professional careers.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 1460w.
“There is wit, and genial humor and philosophy, with occasional
cynicism, in these jottings.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is disappointing to read through this volume and to feel that the
only result has been to learn a deal of scandal.”
− =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 220w.
“It is only fair to say that his book, as a rule, shows a praiseworthy
desire for accuracy, a careful sifting of a great mass of contemporary
evidence, and a quick eye for significant facts. Of course, he has
nothing, or very little, that is new to tell, but he creates a certain
impression of freshness by drawing liberally from sources of
information not in common use.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 112. Ja. 31, ’07. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w.
“It is readable, but Mr. Fyvie is not to be commended for bringing to
light in the twentieth century the old scandalous theatrical
chronicles of the eighteenth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“We might perhaps have been spared a little of the scandal, and one
would prefer as a matter of proportion and taste, that there should
have been less about these actresses’ private lives and more about
their public careers and their manner of acting. The book will not
rank with the recent memoirs of David Garrick by Mrs. Parsons.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.
G
=G., A. E.= Whistler: notes and footnotes and other memoranda. $2.50.
Collector and art critic.
“In the Whistler part of the book the author discusses the painter as
a man of letters, as a realist, as a master of the lithograph, as a
draughtsman, and the Whistler memorial exhibition held in Boston in
1904.... Following the Whistler Notes and footnotes’ come discussions
of grotesques by Leonardo, Puvis de Chavannes as a caricaturist,
Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley, a bookplate by Otho Cushing, the
colored etchings of Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the art of Everett
Shinn, the English caricaturists, a ‘note’ on Childe Hassam, and some
notable criticism.” (N. Y. Times.) Nine tinted plates share the honors
with the text.
* * * * *
“Mr. Gallatin’s notes are thoughtful and suggestive, and have the
merit of brevity.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 340w.
Reviewed by Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 60w.
=Gainsborough, Thomas.= Drawings. *$2.50. Scribner.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Drawings of the great masters”
series, this volume contains 44 drawings by Gainsborough printed in
various tints, with a number mounted on dark colored backgrounds.
These are prefaced with a brief introduction by Lord Ronald Sutherland
Gower.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Gairns, J. F.= Locomotive compounding and superheating: a practical
text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students and
draughtsmen. *$3. Lippincott.
7–32868.
A help to the understanding of both compounding and superheating, and
an aid in preparing the way to a choice or design of those types of
locomotives best suited for the region and traffic to be handled.
* * * * *
“It is to be regretted that the author seems not to have fully
appreciated the rapidly-growing economic and operating importance of
superheating for locomotives, and hence did not go thoroughly into the
theory and practice on the subject. Mr. Gairns gives us probably the
best book on compound locomotives which has appeared since
Barnes-Woods in 1892. As a whole, the book is worthy of a place upon
the railway engineer’s and locomotive designer’s shelves.” H. Wade
Hibbard.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 291. S. 12, ’07. 2400w.
=Gale, Zona.= Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30832.
Every year of Pelleas and Etarre’s fifty together has heaped new
graces upon them thru the ministry of love. They are two who never
have known that youth had gone because love staid. They are never
happier than when making the conditions of young love-making brighter.
For, hand in hand they wander in fancy thru lanes and gardens of long
ago of which the lanes and gardens of to-day are but a continuation. A
most delightful story which attributes to love the alchemy power of
effacing time and change.
* * * * *
“The story is told with quaint humor and much delicacy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“She sees the little things in life that make what is called
atmosphere, and she is able to paint her mind’s pictures clearly for
the restricted vision of the rest of us.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 570w.
“To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither
grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism. Miss Gale’s charming
love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a
draught from the fountain of youth.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Gallon, Tom.= Cruise of the make-believes. †$1.50. Little.
7–32034.
A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges
in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother,
but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A
young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her
tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially,
the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate
enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a
real land of make-believe.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Gallon, Tom.= Tinman. †$1.50. Small.
A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton,
the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his
crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only
to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s
daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love
motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime,
suffering and domineering will.
* * * * *
“The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would
have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further
development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing
higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 165. O. ’07. 220w.
“Notwithstanding an important manner, ‘Tinman’ has only been strung
out to store size by the ingenious device of repeating the heroine’s
adventures in the person of her daughter, merely giving a happier
outcome to the fortunes of Barbara number two.”
− =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 310w.
“Is about as dolefully sensational as anything that has hitherto come
from his feverish pen.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“The plot of the story is complicated and well managed, and
notwithstanding the dark and lurid coloring, the tale holds the
reader’s interest from the start.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 190w.
“A gleam or two of brightness would have vastly improved the story.
But that the reader is held by the situations and that those
situations are ingeniously thought out cannot be denied.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Galloway, Thomas Walton.= First course in zoology: a text-book for
secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
6–35707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In point of careful balance and commonsense use of questions, few
recent text-books bear comparison with this volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“For the average school course the book includes too much, and too
difficult work; while for the college course it seems to fall as far
short. For the normal school, and this is probably the grade of work
more directly aimed at by the author, the book would seem to be well
suited. Of actual errors in statement of facts or principles there
seem to be relatively few.” C. W. H.
+ − =Science=, n. s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 1120w.
“It is evident that a good deal of thought and effort have gone into
its making, and it has consequently a degree of character and
individuality which is rare among the members of its genus.” S. J. H.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 26: 715. N. 22, ’07. 600w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Country house. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–15919.
“Two graphic pictures of the racecourse are all that [the author]
gives of definite action; the remainder of the book is concerned with
the entry into the self-deluding community of Worsted Skeynes of a
natural, lawless passion which, attacking one of its members,
exercises a paralyzing effect upon the whole.... The portraiture in
the author’s gallery will reward the attention of all who love the
mirror of truth.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A
slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish
in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 251. Mr. 9, ’07. 560w.
“Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a
situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful
degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony
underlying the affairs of men.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 348. Mr. 23. 340w.
“It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and
complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of
things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 497. Jl. ’07. 760w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and
the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of
individual characters.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 680. Ag. ’07. 270w.
“Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their
means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance,
of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of
reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The pervading tone of indulgent irony justifies the classification of
this volume with the fiction which in a true sense is a criticism of
life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 114. Jl. ’07. 740w.
“Is a better novel, better constructed and better written, than either
‘The island Pharisees’ or ‘The man of property,’ its plot especially,
while still apparently slight, being in reality of much firmer and
closer texture.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 96. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Galsworthy has not produced a real hero. He has given us his
Troilus. Let us hope that in his next novel he will give us his
Hamlet.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 77. Mr. 8, ’07. 1150w.
“The development of the story is workmanlike and plausible, and the
whole is unfolded in a brisk, competent narrative, with savor and
discretion, through the medium of a perfectly satisfactory style.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 390w.
Reviewed by Lewis Melville.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its
surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well
worth more than one reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 430w.
“When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of
another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked
together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to
produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 777. Ag. 2, ’07. 1430w.
“Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic
story. We could wish it were happier.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.
“He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in
its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its
beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia
Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 110w.
“Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular
instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an
enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of
the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the
story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he
permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too
much inclined to restrict its scope.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.
“He has devoted a great deal of skill and energy to the presentation
of three or four characters who are especially designed to win, not
only the sympathy, but even the affection of the reader. It is true
that perhaps the most admirable and delightful of all is a spaniel....
John, an adorable personage; indeed, many readers would rather share a
dog-biscuit with him than eat six courses in the company of the
squire’s guests.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 503. Mr. 30, ’07. 800w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Man of property. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42370.
“A rather unusually thoughtful novel of English social life, which
deals in a large, intelligent way with the development of character,
the sordidness of wealth without graciousness, and the narrowness of
upper middle class London society a generation or so ago.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is remarkable: it has strength without the least taint of
sensation; and is written with a finish that is both rare and
delightful. Two points only are there to which we take exception: that
Mr. Galsworthy at times lingers unnecessarily over the Forsytes; and
that he has, in one passage at least, mistaken brutality for
strength.”
+ + − =Acad.= 70: 309. Mr. 31, ’06. 440w.
“There is a story of a kind, connecting the long series of carefully
finished pictures. But the pictures, the characterization, are the
main thing. They are minute, vivid, and steadily interesting. The
whole is a sound and equable piece of work, deserving high praise.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 340w.
“A novel of this character is new; it shows thought and determination
and an unflagging alertness with its companion, ease, that make Mr.
Galsworthy’s career a matter of some importance to English fiction.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 430w.
“His style is admirable, his humor incisive, and his description of
the less pleasant characters in his books splendid; but he lacks
tenderness. He sees all weeds in the garden, and in his vision the
rose is scarcely visible for the thorns.” Lewis Melville.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“Altogether a novel well worth the reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s grip on the point of view of Forsyte and his way of
action, is something quite terrible. To read a chapter about Soames
Forsyte, the typical ‘man of property,’ is to feel oneself literally
gasping for oxygen at the end of it. It is not an especially pleasant
experience, but it occasions a profound respect for the writer who
brings it about.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 520w.
“A novel at once so able that it cannot be overlooked, and so ugly in
places that it cannot be recommended without a serious caution.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 587. Ap. 14, ’06. 1270w.
=Galton, Arthur.= Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50.
Longmans.
W 7–107.
“Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip
the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism.
He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the
growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on
the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the
Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis,
character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more
brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second
republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five
pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law
of separation.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr.
Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He
has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 337. Ap. 6, ’07. 1780w.
“The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 840w.
“Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an
exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an
interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any
one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of
history.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 396. Je. ’07. 1350w.
“The subject is treated of with splendid knowledge, with a fine sense
of coherence and proportion, and with a style that is altogether
captivating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 740w.
“He has an exceptional amount of historical learning ... as well as a
pithy and lucid style. His toleration is noticeable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 716. My. 4, ’07. 1650w.
=Gambier, J. W.= Links in my life on land and sea. **$3.50. Dutton.
A career which began its adventures in the Baltic fleet during the
Crimean war, subsequently continued in Norfolk Island, Rio de Janeiro,
Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand, the Andaman Islands, New Caledonia, China
and Japan. After his retirement Captain Gambier acted as correspondent
for the London “Times” during the Russo-Turkish war.
* * * * *
“To read his book is to imagine oneself in the privacy of Captain
Gambier’s smokingroom, listening to very pleasant after-dinner
gossip.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 560w.
“A lively volume written in a sprightly style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 320w.
“Commander J. W. Gambier is an unconventional writer; and the rules of
grammar are included among the conventions which he overrides. That
matters little, however, for he is a breezy writer, with plenty of
stories to tell. The book is one to be read by all who enjoy
rollicking relations of adventure.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 470w.
“He writes in a free off-hand manner, and is frequently unrefined,
even to coarseness. If the book has literary merit, we have failed to
discover it; or any mark of distinction. The author’s comments are, as
a rule, commonplace.”
− =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 360w.
=Gamble, William.= Straight talks on business. **$1. Jacobs.
7–27365.
Talks for the young man contemplating a business career, for one who
is unafraid to think, to work, to sacrifice, who looks upon business
not as a pastime, nor as an unpleasant necessity, but as a human duty.
The advice has grown out of the experiences of a man who has followed
a strenuous business life. He claims no new business philosophy, but
puts principles which time has tested into new form better suited to
present day needs.
* * * * *
“Though unquestionably ‘straight,’ the advice is rather platitudinous
than subtle, and is too informal and discursive to have any
considerable technological value.”
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 80w.
Games book for boys and girls; a volume of old and new pastimes. $2.50.
Dutton.
7–35045.
A volume “full of directions for playing scores of indoor games and
pastimes for the playground. There are also directions for the
collection and preservation of plants, ferns, and seaside objects, for
the care of home pets, for indoor gardening, for the making of toys,
the tying of knots of many sorts, and for the doing of many other
interesting things.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
=Gant, L. W.= Elements of electric traction for motormen and others.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A practical handbook intended to serve as an introduction to the more
advanced works on electric traction and to supplement various existing
handbooks for motormen and others.
* * * * *
“The style is readable and as clear as could be expected in view of
the limited space, the large range of topics, and the presumably
meager preparation of the reader. The book lacks attractive
illustrations.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 460w.
=Gardiner, John Hays.= Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–33638.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the most interesting and theologically suggestive section of
Professor Gardiner’s work is that devoted to the wisdom literature of
the New Testament epistles.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 667. O. ’07. 590w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“An admirable manual for the use of students.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 80w.
“Professor Gardiner brings to his task an acquaintance with the
accepted results of historical criticism and instead of rhapsodizing
upon a few selected passages of rhythmical scripture, he investigates
the complex sources of that literary charm which it is easier to
praise than understand.” John R. Slater.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 30: 234. S. ’07. 650w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 81. Ja. ’07. 1760w.
“From the beginning to the end of the author’s discussion of his great
subject, the treatment of it is not only intelligent and reverent; it
is singularly vital and inspiring.” M. H. Turk.
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 316. Mr. ’07. 810w.
“Prof. Gardiner is occasionally led to press his conclusions further
than his facts will warrant.” William T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 386. Ja. ’07. 1480w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 789. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.
=Gardner, Edmund G.= King of court poets; a study of the work, life and
times of Lodovico Ariosto. *$4. Dutton.
7–6794.
In which Mr. Gardner has combined a sequel to his “Dukes and poets in
Ferrara” with a somewhat full study of the life and works of Lodovico
Ariosto.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1030w.
“Mr. Gardner takes a good deal of pains with his authorities, and puts
his information together as well as can be expected of any one except
a highly trained historian in dealing with that complicated time. The
main fault of the book is a certain tendency to verbosity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 69. Ja. 19. 1510w.
“The chapters dealing with the poetry of Ariosto are pleasing, but on
the whole rather inconclusive. The style of the book is without
distinction, and it occasionally lapses into elegance.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 150w.
“The work of Mr. Gardner is not only a biography of Ariosto, and the
finest biography of the author of the ‘Orlando furioso’ that has yet
appeared in English, but it contains a complete and luminous picture
of the political and literary condition of Ferrara from 1500 to 1530.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 430w.
“The work is admirably done, most useful for reference; but it is
laboured, and there are barren spaces in which the dry bones of
history do not live.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 350. O. 19, ’06. 2270w.
“Different portions of the book, as they deal with political or
literary history, read as if they belonged to different studies, and
were bound together by mistake.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 593. Je. 27. ’07. 1010w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 701. O. 27. ’06. 1830w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
“Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the
reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and
unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general
information.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1078. D. 29, ’06. 420w.
“It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar,
albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr.
Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 880w.
=Gardner, Percy.= Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.
“The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular
lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of
culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of
Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the
petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined
accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative
in the world.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is
earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of
its author.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 31. O. 19, ’07. 780w.
“His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of
the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 60w.
“The scope and purpose of the book, cast originally for popular
lectures, do not allow space for anything more than drawing the broad
obvious outlines. When, however, this is done by anyone as deep-versed
in antiquity as Dr. Gardner, there is something in the summary
presentation by which even professed students may have their vision
cleared.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 800w.
“Dr. Gardner has surveyed the growth and progress of the Christian
faith from a very interesting point of view.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 700w.
“The reader will see therefore, that the author’s view of Christian
doctrine is not quite that of the ordinary orthodox Churchman. The
strongest part of the book is ... where he is displaying his splendid
knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities and their bearing on church
life and belief.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 380w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Long trail. †$1.25. Harper.
7–15590.
A narrative of the hardships of Jack Henderson, a Minnesota boy, in
company with two master-trailers, who together brave the dangers of
the old Telegraph trail to the Yukon gold fields. “Cold and heat,
hunger and thirst, the love of gold, and the rivalry of fierce men go
to make up the vivid and varied life.”
* * * * *
“Interesting to men and boys especially.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
“This is an excellent book for a boy’s holiday reading, thoroughly
wholesome and stimulating, and in no part dull.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 100w.
“Has the healthful, breezy traits that mark Mr. Garland’s other
western tales.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“It is perfectly safe, however, to say that if ‘The long trail’ does
prove to contain the quality which tickles youthful palates, it may be
given to the young without a shade of misgiving as to their finding it
entirely wholesome provender.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 160w.
“The striking quality of this new book ... is the startling and
realistic effect of its utter simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 350w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Money magic: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
7–32322.
By the magic of money, Bertha, a true type of the girl of the new
West, is lifted from the hot office of her mother’s wayside hotel to
the giddy heights of mistress of a millionaire’s establishment. This
change of fortune however, brings with it a helpless old cripple of a
husband, an ex-gambler whom she had pluckily married out of loyalty
when she thought him dying. Her story is one of development and
character expansion under these strange conditions until she is at
last free to call her own that happiness which she has so long and
nobly denied herself.
* * * * *
“By some the story may be thought a trifle too long; but it is good
stirring narrative thruout, and the development of character through
incident and emotional crises is highly interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 200w.
“Is far and away the best and most significant novel that Mr. Garland
has written in many years. It has perspective, it is firm of plot,
rich in colour, full of movement, unflaggingly interesting, its
characters are deftly and understandingly individualised—it has the
semblance of life.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 417. D. ’07. 690w.
“There is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and fairly
effective characterizations, although the latter must be described as
crude rather than subtle. Mr. Garland, has done much better work than
this, and will, we trust, do it again.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 240w.
“His people, however, will disappoint the expectations raised in their
favor, and will, somehow, show coarse streaks in their composition of
which the author is hopelessly unconscious.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 230w.
“An interesting study of the mixed life in a western city.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Garland, James Smith.= New England town law: a digest of statutes and
decisions concerning towns and town officers. *$6.50. Boston bk.
6–31416.
“This valuable volume consists of two very distinct parts. The first
eighty-three pages are taken up with in an interesting review of the
origin, development and present status of the New England town. The
second part of the book presents the first systematic compilation of
the laws of the New England states in relation to towns and town
government.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Intended mainly to serve a practical purpose.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 723. Ap. ’07. 40w.
“The volume is an excellent beginning in a sort of work in which as
yet but little has been accomplished in the United States.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 213. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The introduction ... is of interest to many persons other than the
officers and lawyers who will use the body of the work.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 140w.
“A complete, although succinctly written and compactly arranged,
compendium of the law of the different states of New England relating
to towns and town government.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.
=Garratt, Herbert A.= Principles of mechanism: being a short treatise on
the kinematics and dynamics of machines. $1.10. Longmans.
“A book for students who are under the guidance of an instructor,
rather than a complete treatise for general use. It is divided into
two general parts, Kinematics of machines and Dynamics of machines. In
the former the principles of the forms of mechanisms are considered,
no attention being given to the efficiencies of such mechanisms, to
the masses moved or to the forces exerted. In the latter part, the
dynamics of certain simple mechanical motions are considered.”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“For the class-room work, as a text to be supplemented by extensive
lectures, the book has a use, but it is not complete enough for the
general student. Too much has been left out for the purpose of
affording ‘a clear perception of the anatomy of the skeleton.’” Amasa
Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Garrick, David.= Some unpublished correspondence of David Garrick; ed.
by G: Pierce Baker. *$7.50. Houghton.
7–26122.
Some forty letters and manuscripts are included with an interesting
reproduction of portions of the marriage agreement between Garrick and
Mlle. Violette. “If of somewhat less moment than the author deems it
as a contribution to Garrick lore, it will nevertheless be sought
eagerly by theatrical connoisseurs for the excellence of its
typography and the beauty of its illustrations, which show the great
actor at different periods of his life and in various characters, and
afford material for an interesting study in physiognomy. Several of
the portraits will be new to most readers.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“In lack of an index, page-headings to show who is being addressed by
the writer would have been very welcome; sometimes it is impossible to
determine this without some search, or to ascertain at once the
probable date of a letter.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 201. O. 1, ’07. 1610w.
“With Mr. Baker the work of editing evidently has been a labor of
love, as is proved by his ample explanatory notes, but it is unlikely
that the ordinary reader will find in the letters the significance
which the editor seems to attach to them.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 540w.
“This volume of hitherto unpublished letters contains a sufficiently
interesting collection to make it worth owning, although not a few of
the epistles, as one invariably finds in the books of
‘correspondence,’ suggest no particular reason for publication beyond
their signature and quaint style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 790w.
=Garrod, H. W.= Religion of all good men, and other studies in Christian
ethics. **$1.20. McClure.
6–42406.
In the main a paradoxical contention that Jesus never claimed to be
the Messiah.
* * * * *
− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 697. Je. 9. 820w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 208. F. ’07. 1930w.
“I think that the worth of the book very far outweighs such faults as
it may possess—these latter being, indeed, such necessary
accompaniments of perfect straightforwardness that we could not wish
them absent. It will do any man good to read such virile words,—and if
they harm him, he is not worthy to withstand the gods.” T. D. A.
Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 79. F. 1, ’07. 1280w.
Reviewed by St. George Stock.
− =Hibbert J.= 4: 945. Jl. ’06. 1300w.
“The spectacle of a sincere man disavowing Christianity because it is
not good enough is sufficiently novel to pique one’s interest, and
whoso is drawn by curiosity to Mr. Garrod’s pages will find his
attention kept alert.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.
“The title of the book is distinctly attractive, and the book itself
is decidedly interesting. There is learning in it, and undoubted
ability behind it. Written from a frankly naturalistic standpoint, it
is singularly free from bitterness and narrowness.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 108. O. ’07. 1770w.
“This thesis Mrs. Garrod defends with much skill and it can scarcely
be denied that important truth at least lies close beside his
propositions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 380w.
“These ‘studies in Christian ethics’ one chapter of which gives this
volume its attractive but quickly disappointing title, are not such as
to call for serious consideration.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
“A volume of five attractively written essays on religious subjects.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“He has written a smart book, in which the flippant theology is not
meant perhaps to be taken very seriously. But was it worth while
printing these essays merely to make elderly dons’ flesh creep? What
he takes for audacity and courage may be regarded by his readers as
only impudence.”
− + =Sat. R.= 101: 759. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.
=Garst, Rev. Henry.= Otterbein university. *75c. Un. breth.
The story of the founding of a Christian college, the evolution of the
thoughts, opinions, convictions that are back of its material growth
and progress.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Guide to preachers. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“Laymen who would qualify themselves to preach acceptably and
effectively—and there is need of many such—will find this an eminently
helpful book. It covers the whole subject—the Biblical, doctrinal,
homiletical, rhetorical conditions of preaching and reasoning suitable
to the needs of the modern world. Such subsidiary matters as language,
literary style, elocution, and delivery receive proportionate
treatment.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Its counsels are in harmony with sound scholarship and conform to
good taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is no other book that so well meets the present want.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Works of Mrs. Gaskell.
8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 519. N. 24, ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“The edition, with its informing introductions, will take its place in
all well-constituted libraries.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 110w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 221. Mr. 7. 130w. (Review of v. 4–8.)
“Excellent new dress.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 331. Ap. 11. ’07. 3370w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“Dr. Ward ... has performed his task with exquisite taste, grace, and
zeal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Gates, Eleanor.= Good-night; il. by Arthur Rackham. †50c. Crowell.
7–20865.
The quaint story of a very human parrot that scattered the padre’s
fuchsias but fought desperately with the cat to save a little canary’s
life.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Plow-woman. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34690.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is decidedly a book to read.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 210w.
“Is a capital story, in spite of an indulgence in contrast amounting
almost to an abuse.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 360w.
“There is distinction, refreshment and reality about her descriptions
of the Dakota prairie, an original charm also about Dallas, the
plow-woman, so long as she follows the lean mule in the brown furrow,
but that is the best that can be said.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1570. D. 27, ’06. 300w.
=Gates, Herbert Wright.= Life of Jesus: a manual for teachers. 75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36267.
A manual designed to accompany the outline course on the life of Jesus
which has been prepared for intermediate grades of the Bible school.
* * * * *
“The ‘Manual’ and ‘Note book’ taken together promise to be a valuable
aid in teaching the life of Christ to children.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 352. N. ’07. 110w.
“Deserves commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 516. D. 5, ’07. 130w.
=Gayley, Charles Mills.= Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.
7–30422.
An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and
morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example,
illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s
scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in
histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel
for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were
infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit
of scientific ends.”
* * * * *
“His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be
enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 282. N. 1, ’07. 970w.
“As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but
its interest is for the specialist alone.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1311. N. 28, ’07. 710w.
“A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as
the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it
possesses a value for the specialist.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 523. D. 5, ’07. 800w.
“He has made a good book which every one interested in the theatre
will be glad to own, and the borrowing fiend loathe to return.” Anna
Marble.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Genung, John Franklin.= Hebrew literature of wisdom in the light of
to-day: a synthesis. **$2. Houghton.
6–39461.
An interpretation of the inner and spiritual menacing of Proverbs, Job
and Ecclesiastes which can be applied to the life of to-day.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.
“The style sometimes offends a severe taste, and we had rather not
believe that monstrosities like ‘factual’ belong to the literary idiom
of to-day—or to-morrow.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.
“Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 330w.
=Genung, John Franklin.= The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.
7–26418.
A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry
into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.”
The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but
what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”
* * * * *
“Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric
eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 180w.
=George, 2d duke of Cambridge.= George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of
his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal
Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–28494.
“Born a few years after Waterloo, in 1819, the Duke of Cambridge lived
in four reigns, and was actually present at two coronations. At the
time of his birth he was the first direct descendant of George III.,
and but for the birth of the Princess Victoria, a few months later
than his own he might have reigned as George V., and there is good
reason to suppose that he would have proved an excellent sovereign.
This memoir not only tells the story of a long life of usefulness and
honor, but it also reveals with much clearness an interesting and
lovable personality, and gives us, incidentally, many suggestive
portraits of military and political leaders.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Dr. Edgar Sheppard might have done well to condense the ‘memoirs of
his private life’ into one volume instead of filling two.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 591. D. 1, ’06. 1840w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1610w.
“The editor has done his work with taste and discretion. The portraits
are interesting, and there is a satisfactory index.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.
“The book has some interest and even value, but these scarcely
correspond to its size and what we may even describe as its
pretensions.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 530w.
=George, Henry, jr.= Romance of John Bainbridge. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37965.
Part of the incidents in Mr. George’s story are taken from the life of
his late father. “Being the son of his father and also himself, it was
doubtless inevitable that Mr. George should attempt to make out of his
novel a lesson in economics. His theme is the iniquity of giving
public service franchises to private individuals or corporations, and
the resultant political corruption.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Dealing as this novel does with the questions which are pressing for
immediate solution, makes it one of the really important romances for
all reformers and patriots to read.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 100. Ja. ’07. 3990w.
“This is a wholesome novel of the life of to-day. It is we believe,
the author’s first long work of fiction, altho there is nothing in the
style to indicate this fact.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Nation.= 83: 391. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
“He might have cut and slashed and blue penciled a fourth of his copy
with advantage to the rest. Wrapped up in the plot of Mr. George’s
novel there is a good story, an exceedingly good story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29, ’06. 380w.
“While there are parts of the story that too thinly for artistic
effect disguise the especial message that Mr. George feels himself
commissioned to utter, the tale is well told and worth telling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and
edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
6–35725.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07. S.
=Gibbs, Josiah W.= Scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs. 2v. v. 1. *$5;
v. 2. *$4. Longmans.
Agr 7–1540.
Professor Gibbs’s scattered papers on scientific subjects have been
collected and published in two imposing volumes. The first includes
his papers on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances and on
thermodynamics; the second contains twenty-one papers, chief among
which are those occupied with the author’s calculus called “vector
analysis.”
* * * * *
“For profound thought and power of generalization and abstract
formulation no American scientist has equaled Willard Gibbs.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The work of Gibbs may be said to round off the constructive stage of
one of the most far-reaching scientific advances of the nineteenth
century—the unravelling of the formal scheme of relations which guides
the transformation of dead matter, as it is now set forth in the
doctrine of thermodynamics.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1960w.
“In every way (except by an index) recommends itself to the liking of
friends of American science.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 92. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“The papers have been edited with great care by Henry Andrews Bumstead
and Ralph Gibbs van Name, and the former, in the biographical notice
prefixed, discusses with knowledge the scientific work done by Willard
Gibbs and gives a clear-cut picture of the man himself.” C. G. K.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 361. F. 14, ’07. 1340w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Men and women of the French revolution. *$7.
Lippincott.
7–8230.
Not a history but a psychological study of some of the actors in the
great drama, so arranged that the thread of the narrative is not
confused or lost.
* * * * *
“A readable, but rather sketchy account of a number of the leading
personages of that period.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 330w.
“In thus deviating from the beaten path of history and giving rather
free play to his own fancy in this ‘psychological study,’ the author
has produced a work more attractive in some respects than the formal
chronicles of the period.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in producing a book that is more readable
(especially to those who dote on adjectives) than our old friend
Dryasdust’s, but there is a certain persistent striving for dramatic
effect and high phrases that gives the narrative a false note very
often.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 540w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“Although the value of Mr. Gibbs’s work is seriously impaired by an
extremely florid and somewhat popular style, it is to some extent
redeemed by his dramatic power, while in spite of some inaccuracies it
is manifestly clear that he has obtained his information from no
second hand sources.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 780w.
“The book, though somewhat grandiose in style, is just the sort to
spur on an indolent reader to make the acquaintance of other, and
possibly more accurate, works on the French revolution. But the
inaccuracies are manifold and distressing, and not the less so that,
in some cases, they seem to be the result of pure carelessness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 870w.
“Its style is popular, vivid and realistic. Mr. Gibbs has a command of
strong epithets, and knows how to describe what his imagination
presents to him.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
* =Gibson, Charles R.= Romance of modern photography. **$1.50.
Lippincott.
No attempt is made in this volume “to offer suggestions to the
picture-taker, but again step by step the growth of the art is
discussed through the changes, from daguerrotypes to the latest
improved methods; and from the toy known as the zoetrope—with which
children used to amuse themselves—to the latest moving picture.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.
“We have found some of the most interesting pages in Mr. Gibson’s book
to be those describing the processes of reproduction for
illustrations. A great deal of space and pains have been devoted to
colour-photography and its difficulties, and some of this description
has not attracted us much. Once or twice, in the earlier pages, Mr.
Gibson might have been a little clearer if he had been a little more
categorical.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 750w.
=Gibson, Thomas.= Pitfalls of speculation. *$1. Moody pub.
6–33639.
“The author of this little treatise undertakes to demonstrate that
business methods are applicable to speculation, and that, when so
applied, speculation itself becomes a ‘safe business.’... Chapters are
devoted to Ignorance and over-speculation, Manipulation, Accidents,
Business methods in speculation, Market technicalities, Tips,
Mechanical speculation, Short selling, What 500 speculative accounts
showed, Grain speculation, and Suggestions as to intelligent methods.
The book treats mainly of speculative deals on margins, which are
regarded as entirely legitimate forms of speculative trading.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Gibson’s reasons against speculating are unanswerable, but we
part company with him in the idea that he can teach successful
speculation to any considerable number of scholars.” Edward A.
Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 754. N. 17, ’06. 1640w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* =Gibson, W. R. Boyce.= Rudolph Eucken’s philosophy of life. 2d ed.
*$1.40. Macmillan.
This second edition includes an appendix dealing with Professor
Eucken’s doctrine of “activism” whose difference from pragmatism is
explained in the following: “The pragmatism which has lately made so
much headway, especially among English-speaking peoples, is more
inclined to shape the world and life in accordance with human
conditions and human needs, than to invest spiritual activity with an
independence in relation to these, and apply its standards to the
testing and sifting of the whole content of our human life.”
* * * * *
“In point of form the book suffers manifestly from the circumstances
of its origin. In spirit and tone, however, it is attractive, and the
reader can hardly fail to be favourably impressed by the competence of
the author for his task, both in the matter of zeal and of knowledge.”
Alexander Mair.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 124. O. ’07. 790w. (Review of 1st ed.)
“An excellent statement of Eucken’s practical philosophy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 326. O. 10, ’07. 200w. (Review of 2d ed.)
“But whether or not we assent to the author’s conclusions concerning
the future influence of Eucken’s philosophy, this statement of it
should find many readers, as a very compact and useful résumé of the
interesting and stimulating point of view.” Edmund H. Hollands.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 548. S. ’07. 950w. (Review of 1st ed.)
=Giddings, Franklin Henry=, ed. Readings in descriptive and historical
sociology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–39002.
“Mainly illustrative of sociological theory as given in his preceding
works, and also in part an expansion of that theory. Its framework is
an elaborate outline of theory given in definitions and propositions.
Its filling is composed of select readings illustrative of this,
gathered from all times and from peoples in every stage of social
development, as found in literature and laws, official records,
legends, and newspapers.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The reviewer wishes to add that while these remarks are mainly
critical in character, they express rather the deep interest which he
has in the fundamental issues which Professor Giddings’ book raises
than any desire to ignore the many positive merits which the book has,
and which will certainly secure it a wide reading among those who are
interested in the sources of sociological theory and in the author’s
own theory of their value and interpretation for a science of
society.” H. Heath Bawden.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 845. My. ’07. 3900w.
“It is much more than its title indicates, for it contains, besides a
careful selection of readings, an outline of sociological theory
which, in many particulars, is new and interesting.” Charles A.
Ellwood.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 232. Ja. ’07. 630w.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
+ =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.
“The selections cover a wide field and show extensive and patient
research. The greater part of these would probably be unavailable for
the general student were he obliged to go to the sources himself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
“The puzzle seems to be: Fit these extracts, if you can, into the
author’s general scheme of sociological classification and
terminology. The value of it all we shall leave to those who have the
courage to try it.”
− =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.
=Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 260w.
“The book will be of great value to the isolated student and teacher.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 220w.
=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
6–21911.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The fact that the book lacks continuity diminishes its value, but the
treatment of some subjects ... shows a grasp of the real situation and
a breadth of vision born only of real contact with a great system of
schools. The benefits of co-operation applied to parent, teacher, and
pupil are clearly shown.” J. Stanley Brown.
+ − =El. School T.= 7: 368. F. ’07. 220w.
“This book, it seems to me, is one of the significant educational
contributions of the year. What makes it significant is in large part
the rare combination of philosophic insight with a wealth of practical
experience.” Irving E. Miller.
+ + =School R.= 15: 228. Mr. ’07. 780w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Short history of Christianity in the apostolic
age. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41055.
“This is a proper sequel to ‘Constructive studies on the life of
Christ’ by Professors Burton and Mathews.... That work was based on
the gospels; this is concerned with the remainder of the New
Testament. Its successive portions first narrate events and comment
upon them, then propose questions and suggestions for study, with
supplementary topics and references to literature.... The volume is
finely illustrated.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The material is conveniently divided, and interestingly and ably
treated.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.
=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 50w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks.
†$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
A fashionable house party at a New Yorker’s country home in the
Adirondacks is made the scene of this tale of love, mystery and
adventure. A Pomeranian count arouses the greed of the humble natives
by exhibiting the wonderful “Lens of the Grau” in the presence of his
host’s butler. These envious enemies of the rich pleasure seekers at
the court put the house in a state of siege during which each guest
displays his or her real character and all ends in safety and
happiness.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Gilchrist, Alexander.= Life of William Blake; ed. with introd. by W.
Graham Robertson, il. *$3.50. Lane.
W 6–375.
A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation
of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original
edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings,
etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing
particularly the fame of Blake the painter.
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 240w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07. 1100w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 282. Ja. ’07. 690w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 210w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 1370w.
“This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general
reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the
special student.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 230w.
=Gilchrist, Edward.= Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside
press, Cambridge, Mass.
6–45067.
A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly
from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein
the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination
and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from
the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.
* * * * *
“The lyrics of a reflective mind, but their flow is far from musical—a
defect due in part to the frequent collocation of ill-matched
vocables, and in part to the fact that the movement is too much
clogged with ideas.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Gilchrist has plainly done a good deal of rather virile thinking,
and as he has made his ingeniously plotted verse the vehicle rather
for his notion than for his moods, his work has much of the peculiar
pithiness that marked the work of the concettists in their less
fantastic vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. **$1. Century.
7–32109.
This volume adds sixty new pieces to the poetry of the author,
including memorial verses on Carl Schurz, George Macdonald, Josephine
Shaw Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; poems to music
and musicians; and a requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens, entitled
“Under the stars.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Gillespie, G. Curtis.= Rumford fireplaces, and how they are made. $2.
Comstock, W: T.
7–11989.
“A reprint of Count Rumford’s essay on Fireplaces is here accompanied
by a discussion of the same subject by Mr. Gillespie. In the course of
his discussion ... Mr. Gillespie introduced a number or drawings and
sketches of his own, illustrating fireplaces designed by him, of the
so-called Rumford type ... also mantels of his own design, and
reproductions of views of a large number of fireplaces, andirons, and
the like, both mediaeval and modern.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 60w.
=Gilman, Bradley.= Open secret of Nazareth. **$1. Crowell.
6–26086.
“Ten letters written by Bartimaeus, whose eyes were opened, to Thomas,
a seeker after truth.” A traveler in the Holy Land writes his
impressions and conviction to a friend at home. “‘The open secret’
which Jesus strove to impart—the truth which, however evident, eludes
so many—is that of the Consecrated will—the active endeavor on all the
small or serious occasions presenting themselves at the cross-roads of
daily life to identify one’s self with the divine will of pure
goodness to all our fellows.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is suffused with devotional feeling and animated with poetic
imagination, but clear in moral insight.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 180w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Music of to-morrow, and other studies. *$1.25. Lane.
7–10576.
Mr. Gilman “attempts to prophesy what will be the general character of
the music of the next half-century. He admits the temerity of the
attempt, but argues boldly and convincingly. His broad general dictum
is that the permanent elements of the music of the future will have to
do with ‘that region of experience which lies over the borderland of
our spiritual consciousness.’ It will forsake the ‘incessant
exploitation of the dynamic element in life’ and urge us to listen for
‘the vibrations of the spirit beneath.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The general impression left by this book is that on the whole the
title has been well chosen. Mr. Lawrence Gilman gives expression to
some interesting ideas about music held by himself in common with
enthusiastic modern thinkers.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“The best written and conceived essay in Mr. Gilman’s interesting
little volume is that devoted to Claude Debussy, the poet and dreamer.
I do not care much for his Liszt essay. It does not dig enough into
the subject. Mr. Gilman’s book is interesting, at times gracefully
written, and strives to understand the music of to-day. This latter
quality is in itself a critical feat, for in critic-land we usually
face the setting sun.” James Huneker.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 32. Mr. ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 490w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Strauss’ “Salome;” a guide to the opera; with
musical il. *$1. Lane.
7–18584.
A guide containing a description of the drama, a full analysis of
Strauss’s score, also musical illustration and examples.
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 294. Mr. ’07. 2410w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 40w.
“It will be a useful guide for those who desire to reach below the
surface of Strauss’s remarkable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
* =Giry, Arthur, and Reville, Andre.= Emancipation of the mediaeval
towns; tr. and ed. by Frank Greene Bates and Paul Emerson Titsworth.
(Historical miscellany.) pa. 50c. Holt.
7–20319.
A translation of chapter 8 of the second volume of Lavisse and
Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale.’ It covers in four chapters the rise of
towns in France: The origins, The communal revolution, The communes
and Towns of burgessy and new towns.
* * * * *
“In this terse, closely compact monograph no space has been devoted to
fine writing. We have here a concise and clearly intelligible account
of those communities in the middle ages which were the precursors of
our modern commonwealths.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 230w.
“In its field it is unsurpassed; and the general student will learn
more by studying the vivid picture which it presents than he could
hope to learn by attacking at the start the whole question of
municipal organization, in all its uncertainties and complexities. The
translators have done their work well; especially do they deserve
commendation for accepting frankly the terms for which there is really
no English equivalent.”
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 140w.
=Given, John La Porte.= Making a newspaper. **$1.50. Holt.
7–16382.
“A detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial, and
manufacturing organization of the daily newspaper in a large city.”
The author’s deductions are made from his own large newspaper
experience. He shows how editors gain their information and how all
classes of civilization contribute consciously or unconsciously, to
the daily record of happenings. In addition to chapters covering the
general workings of the newspaper, he discusses such subjects as
preparing for journalism, getting a situation, prizes in journalism,
with the printers, and the money-making department.
* * * * *
“Interesting, apparently trustworthy, journalistic in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Clearly and forcibly written for the most part, but somewhat
painfully devoid of idealism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 261. S. 7. 1880w.
“Interesting and seemingly trustworthy account of all branches of his
profession.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 18. Jl. 1. ’07. 310w.
“The book will occupy a place on the literary journalist’s shelf
beside Mr. E. L. Shuman’s ‘Practical journalism,’ and, while it will
not wholly supersede the Chicagoan’s brisk lively compendium, it
possesses the peculiar merit of giving the most comprehensive and
thorogoing account of New York newspaper making that has so far found
its way into print.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15. ’07. 380w.
“Within its lines it is excellent.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. Given’s style is clear and trenchant, his phrases well chosen,
and the entire book is good reading for any one.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w.
“He understands his subject, or as much of it as he has cared to write
about, as well as any one man could be expected to understand it, and
his writing is lucid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
=Glazier, Richard.= Manual of historic ornament. *$2. Scribner.
A second edition revised and enlarged. It is surprising how many
examples of the ornament of past ages in many countries “have been
collected together in this book, with its clear pen drawings. These
include not only architecture, but glass, silver, ivory, carpets,
furniture, china, and sculpture. There is a running commentary which
clearly indicates the main outlines of the subject.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Useful handbook.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 250w.
“For a book devoted avowedly to ‘ornament’ there is an unexpected
amount of care and thoughtful analysis given to architecture in the
larger sense of construction, disposition, and ordonnance. There is no
index of consequence. On this account one doubts the practical utility
of the book. The general tendency of the book is to be praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 390w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Gloag, M. R.= Book of English gardens; il. by Katharine Montagu Wyatt.
$2. Macmillan.
7–2583.
An introductory sketch of gardening “from Eden onwards” precedes a
description of thirteen famous English “out-of-door drawingrooms.”
Among them are Abbotsbury, Beckett, Sutton Place, Brownsea Island and
Wrest Park. “The author has interwoven with her various descriptions
and appreciations historical and genealogical facts agreeable to a
gossiping palate.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The writing is easy and unpretentious; and the illustrations are
effective.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 210w.
“The book is full of laboriously collected information connected with
the family history of the owners of the famous houses and gardens in
England. They are the homes and gardens of the titled rich. The book
has the interest of an old curio.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 210w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It is more than possible that the text of this attractive volume was
written to fit the pictures, and hence it is not surprising that there
is a misfit here and there. But despite the imperfect coördination,
the treatment is admirable in its way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84:208. F. 28, ’07. 300w.
“Such a volume needs no recommendation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 407. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
=Glyn, Elinor.= Three weeks. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–21536.
A brief story which is an exaltation of sensuous fascination into an
affair of the soul and which casts the moral law to the four winds of
heaven. A titled young Englishman is sent away from home to be cured
of his love for a rural English girl with red hands. In Paris he meets
and falls in love with the queen of a Russian dependency, “infinitely
sinuous and attractive” who is residing at his hotel incognito. They
yield entirely to the sway of their love which the author’s art aims
to transform into the poetry of sentiment. They suffer the agony of it
in separation followed by tragedy.
* * * * *
“She is too desperately anxious to shock her middle-class readers and
impress them with upholstery of her high-born heroine. The result is
that you laugh a little and yawn a little and are not shocked at all,
but only rather bored by a vulgar and extremely silly story.”
− =Acad.= 72: 635. Je. 29, ’07. 320w.
“It is not in the least amusing, and the sentiments it evokes in
others are both cynical and disagreeable.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 755. Je. 22. 200w.
“‘Misrepresentation and misunderstanding’ are bound to be her portion,
because she has slapped down a host of immaturities on the most
perilous of subjects, making the venture bravely with a limited
capital of expression and insight.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 310w.
“The whole leaves a bewildering doubt—has Elinor Glyn become perfectly
indifferent to her reputation or, by any mischance, is she beginning
to take herself seriously?”
− =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 170w.
“Ethics may require that a tale be lewd; but it’s a crime for it to be
stupid.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 580. S. 28, ’07. 640w.
“She sets out to write a story of mere animal passion, but she
succumbed to the atmosphere of the moral idea, which is still
characteristic of literature in these islands, and she ended in a
melodrama.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 570w.
=Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.= Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; ed.
by Rollo Ogden. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
7–12877.
An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally
and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left
Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New
York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political
and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side
lights upon the men and politics of his day.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so
defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The
division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made
to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the
chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H.
Levermore.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 168. O. ’07. 950w.
“It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting
and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 612. N. ’07. 1080w.
“The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the
privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice
to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence
of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 752. Je. 22. 1750w.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 421. S. ’07. 2160w.
“It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which
enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate
characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give.
His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a
book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random,
but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of
him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W.
Kemp.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w.
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With
an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the
work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr.
Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which
that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w.
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and
private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are
hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and
interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ =Forum.= 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w.
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive
study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of
copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w.
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material,
Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with
good judgment.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid
portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century.
They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the
historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w.
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than
it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of
political and social change are fostered and directed until they have
done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w.
“Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a
minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable
documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 110. O. ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 240w.
“We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles
of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country,
to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their
significance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 82. Jl. 20, ’07. 1670w.
“As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not
follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 797. My. 18, ’07. 1430w.
=Goe, David E.=, ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps
[with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays].
$1. Forbes.
These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and
manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such
subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our
judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays,
and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.
=Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.= Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with
introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.
7–11976.
The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich
Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the
editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
* * * * *
“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship
and an important step in the development of sound methods in the
academic study of German literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w.
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in
reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically
rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical
dissertation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v.
3. *$4. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and
readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and
criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.)
=Gonner, E. C. K.= Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis
of the connection which exists between interest and the process of
saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”
* * * * *
“The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense
remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to
a drop in that standard.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 184. Ag. 18. 840w.
“Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor
arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A.
Fetter.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 160. Mr. ’07. 690w.
“We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much
overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which
each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise
in dialectics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 306. S. 1, 06. 180w.
=Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F.=, eds. Technological and scientific
dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.
GS 7–673.
“The various arts and sciences ... are treated in this dictionary.
Much space is devoted to chemistry, a fair amount to mechanical and
electrical engineering, and relatively little to civil engineering.
Music and heraldry are among the main topics.... Among the other
leading subjects included are architecture, assaying, astronomy,
economic botany and zoology, building trades, geology, glass and
leather manufacture, hygiene, metallurgy, mineralogy, motor cars, oil
and paint manufacture, photography, textiles and watch making”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“A thoroughly British point of view. The physical make-up of the book
is generally satisfactory, its poorest feature being a portion of the
illustrations, some of the line diagrams and woodcuts being badly
blurred.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 220w.
=Goodell, Charles L.= Old Darnman; il. by Charles Grunwald. (Hour-glass
ser.) **40c. Funk.
6–46349.
The “Darnman” is a pathetic figure whose mental disorder resulted from
the death of his affianced bride upon their wedding day. Clad in his
wedding garments, for two generations he went the rounds of the
farmers’ homes, accepted one-meal hospitality, and invariably asked
for needle and yarn to mend his threadbare clothes. This little story
has grown out of the traditional bits gathered from different sources.
* * * * *
“A charming but very sad little story, which is of value, however, as
recording in permanent form the history of one who was a familiar
figure to many New Englanders of an earlier generation.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with pathos and delicacy.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It is one of those little stories which, for the few minutes
necessary to read it, take one out of the humdrum of everyday
existence, and so is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 80w.
=Goodell, Charles Lee.= Pastoral and personal evangelism. **$1. Revell.
7–25069.
Really a dissertation upon the sort of evangelism that in two years
raised the membership of the Calvary Methodist church in New York from
fourteen hundred to twenty-four hundred, “a record of fact and
conviction wrought out in the thick of the fight.” Dr. Goodell says
that “evangelism is the aggressive propaganda of the Christian life.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Inspirational, practical, methodical, this is a helpful book for the
development of latent Christian power.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 150w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–31388.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
“The banality of the closing chapter is an unfortunate sequel to an
otherwise excellent love story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 110w.
“All that was required to make it a strong story, instead of a story
of a strong man, was the service of an editor capable of eliminating
superfluous verbiage, dovetailing incidents and interlacing the
threads in such a manner that the narrative might have run along, if
not altogether smoothly, at least without a surfeit of interruption.”
George Harvey.
− + =No. Am.= 184: 188. Ja. 18, ’07. 1100w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.
7–31168.
Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly
of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final
verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s
experience.
=Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke.= Saint George, champion of Christendom and
patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.
7–29061.
The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the
martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in
church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of
St. George, and on St. George in art.
* * * * *
“As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not
appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle,
and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or
indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more
serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of
the author.” D. S. Muzzey.
− − + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 173. O. ’07 450w.
“Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions
and its general lack of thoroughness.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 1860w.
“Those who wish to read a sober and discreet attempt to unravel the
actual history of the three heroes that bore the name of George—the
Arian archbishop, the tribune, and the martyr—will prefer to consult
Miss F. Arnold-Forster’s ‘Studies in church dedications;’ or,
‘England’s patron saints,’ ii. 464–74.” G.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 824. O. ’07. 590w.
“When one considers how much good literature can be bought nowadays
for five dollars it would be impossible to praise this book with any
heartiness even if it reached a higher level of style and scholarship
than it does.”
− =Nation.= 85: 348. O. 17, ’07. 350w.
=Gordon, George Angier.= Through man to God. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35977.
Dr. Gordon’s doctrine preached in these sermons is that the heart and
soul of Christianity should be interpreted, not thru nature, but thru
nature’s highest concept, man, to the Creator of man.
* * * * *
“One of the discourses ‘Belief and fear,’ though true and strong in
its main thought, is greatly marred by an extraordinary misuse of the
text, ‘The devils also believe and tremble.’” Theodore G. Soares.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 712. O. ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 238. D. ’06.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 290w.
=Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 150w.
“In seriousness of purpose, in professional self-respect, in dignity
of undertaking, Dr. Gordon has not violated the canons of the worthy
order to which he belongs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 790w.
“For all these reasons—for their philosophic grasp, their modern view,
their poetic vision, their vigorous faith, and their sane and tender
feeling—we commend this volume of sermons both to the thoughtful
reader and to the homiletical student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Gordon, Samuel.= Ferry of fate: a tale of Russian Jewry. †$1.50.
Duffield.
7–12695.
Two young Jews, after struggling for two years against poverty and
opposition in the Odessa University, come under the ban of expulsion.
One is reinstated because he finds favor with the prefect, who lures
him into an assistant secretaryship, demanding that origin and
religion be forgotten. The other goes back to his little town and with
his people takes up the cudgel against the government. The story
follows the mental agony of the traitor Jew and the retribution which
human justice fixes for his portion.
* * * * *
“If there is a failure in the book, it is in the portrait of Nyman the
ferryman, who alone among Mr. Gordon’s personages suggests the
melodramatic Russian Nihilist of the detective novel. ‘The ferry of
fate’ deserves to be read carefully. The author has aimed high, and
most of his readers will agree that he has hit the mark.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 180w.
“Shows the hand of the promising apprentice.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 110w.
=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to
his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–25171.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To a refined appreciation of beautiful literature the author unites
considerable knowledge of modern sociology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 715. O. ’07. 150w.
“The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth
study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the
‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great
social change in Tennyson’s time?”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
=Gorky, Maxim.= Mother; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–16750.
After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in
winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state
into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways,
coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves
in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or
morbidness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w.
“Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks
of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web
of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the
fates.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w.
“His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression,
from which nothing is omitted.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.
“Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep
and so gentle.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w.
“A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but
deserves serious attention.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w.
“This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“This is a great and serious book; it has exquisite description and
idealization of nature, and yet it has the flaw which Maxim Gorki has
himself pointed out in all his works; it does not give us joy.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
+ + − =No. Am.= 85: 661. Jl. 19, ’07. 1300w.
“Gorky has lost none of his grim power.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book is not pleasant reading but it is as much better than his
previous work as growth is better than decay.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 180w.
“Since, however, Russia, and, for that matter, Slav letters generally,
are so little known,—even if frequently talked about,—in the United
States, we would particularly commend this excellent translation of
Gorky’s latest book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 360w.
=Goron, Marie Francois.= Truth about the case: the experiences of M. F.
Goron, ex-chief of the Paris detective police; ed. by Albert Keyzer; il.
by A. G. Dove. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–17362.
Thirteen detective stories based upon the personal experiences of the
ex-chief of the Paris detective police. Among them are stories of
crimes of murder, of blackmail, and robbery. Many interesting
characters ranging from the indiscreet society woman to the habitual
criminal are introduced as in tale after tale, mystifying and
complicated plots are untangled by the master mind of the old
detective.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 335. My. 25, ’07. 260w.
“If in these stories the clue is not so obscure nor the crime so
intricate as in the best detective romances, there is mystery enough
to make the account of its solution thoroughly entertaining, and what
they may lose in melodramatic excitement they gain in apparent
reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
=Gorst, Sir John E.= Children of the nation. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–25650.
A book whose object is to bring home to the people of Great Britain a
sense of the danger of neglecting the physical condition of the
nation’s children. Some of the chapters deal with infant mortality,
children under school age, underfed children, overworked children,
children’s ailments, physical training, hereditary disease, and the
home.
* * * * *
“The book under review is serviceable because of its analysis of the
conditions involved in child health rather than for the remedies
proposed for physical defects.” W: H. Allen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 609. N. ’07. 460w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1640w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written with a glow of enthusiasm and conviction which
makes it very delightful reading and even those who would not agree
with many of his conclusions and recommendations, could hardly fail to
peruse it with interest and appreciation.” Millicent Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 128. O. ’07. 670w.
“Sir John Gorst’s book is a great deal better than most of its class.
It is less sentimental and is written with some restraint, though with
point and vigour, and it lays out the subject in a fairly
comprehensive and orderly way; but it belongs to the class and
exhibits, in some degree, the usual defects. Nothing is adequately
discussed; the facts given are scrappy, selected, and not always
accurate; over-statement is common; too much weight is attached to
mere opinions; some important questions are omitted, and in regard to
others the writer’s knowledge is seriously defective.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 12: 58. F. 22, ’07. 1230w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 770w.
“A wholesome common sense characterizes the author’s counsels and
suggestions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 300w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 1620w.
=Spec.= 97: 987. D. 15, ’06. 520w.
* =Gorst, Nina Kennedy.= Light. $1.50. Dodge. B. W.
Misery and temptation are depicted in this story, the central figure
of which is a servant girl who has a child out of wedlock. She is
buffeted about from place to place in the underworld, and, finally,
after repeated struggle, the light comes thru the lispings of her
child.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Gorst is not successful in her treatment of such menfolk as
appear in her pages, but her landladies, laundry-girls, and cottagers
deserve praise as individual and truly excellent portraits.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 430. My. 5, ’06. 490w.
“Mrs. Gorst’s new story is not an advance on ‘This our sister!’ The
sense of form and proportion is even less conspicuous, and a certain
crude and rather brutal outlook, suggestive of force, is absent.
Instead we find more diffuseness, and a fainter show of purpose and
individual vision.”
− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 542. My. 5. 190w.
“We could have well spared some incidents; and the most sordid, which
is also the most superfluous, is nearest to melodrama of the lower
order.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 520w.
=Spec.= 96: 758. My. 12, ’06. 150w.
=Goss, William F. M.= locomotive performance. $5. Wiley.
6–46367.
“This valuable work by Dr. Goss covers the very important field of
locomotive steam engineering from a standpoint that prior to the
development of the engineering laboratory at Purdue university was
never possible. Dr. Goss has combined in this volume the most
important results obtained from the Purdue tests, records of which
have from time to time been separately published, together with other
material never before published, thereby making a ‘permanent and
accessible record of the work of the laboratory.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and
technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It
presents information on important points obtained with great care and
accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the
establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering
laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w.
* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of
this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of
parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere
heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s
‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate
attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite
possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed
declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on
never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his
pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one
occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters,
which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or
companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments
he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps,
much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an
accomplished man of letters.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w.
“Offers to the curious an absorbing study of temperament.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 520w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Modern English literature: a short history.
**$2.50. Stokes.
W 6–144.
In revising and enlarging this volume for the fifth edition, eight
photogravures and sixty-four half tone portraits have been included.
“Goethe said ... that the portrait of a man of letters was his best
monument. If that be true, or even partly true, we cannot but hope
that this illustrated edition ... may be found to possess some of the
qualities of a literary Valhalla.” (Author in preface.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.
=Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
=Ind.= 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
“Has real value both for the student and general reader. The literary
style, criticism, and method of treatment are satisfying.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 83: 813. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Gould, Francis Carruthers.= Political caricatures. $2. Longmans.
A fourth annual collection of the political caricatures of Sir Francis
Gould “which are fully up to the former series of F. C. G.”
* * * * *
“He has a knack of doing disagreeable things, when he thinks fit to do
them, in a manner which excludes resentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 800. D. 22. 280w.
“We may not catch all the fun of Gould’s pictures on this side of the
Atlantic, but they would certainly serve admirably as an introduction
to the study of contemporary British politics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 310w.
“Keen, vigorous, good-humored, with the rarest possible exceptions, he
is all that a political caricaturist should be.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics: essays concerning the
influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. 4v. ea. *$1. Blakiston.
=v. 1.= The origin of the ill-health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin,
Huxley and Browning.
=v. 2.= The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle,
Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.
=v. 3.= Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic
and physiologic, upon the health of patients.
=v. 4.= Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac,
Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.
* * * * *
“The temper of the man commends itself.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very
general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these
subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much
delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are
very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be
acceptable.”
− =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the
writer were it but presented with more discretion and less
acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Dr. Gould is a good writer, a man of large learning, and his
sincerity is not to be questioned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Pyrenees. **$1.50. Dutton.
7–35350.
A timely book in which Mr. Gould not only reviews the history of the
past but with “personal knowledge takes us through ports and cirques
to the bare plateaus, the broken forest land and the Alpine pastures,
patrolled by the shepherds with their powerful dogs, the haunts of the
bear, the wolf and the izard.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Like its predecessors, the new work contains a great deal of
information, and is easily—almost too easily—written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 400w.
“Essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as well as
practically helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.
“The illustrations, all in black and white, are very numerous, and are
noteworthy for the softness and mellowness of the tones.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6. ’07. 140w.
“If one must find a fault at all hazards, it will certainly be with
the map, which is a mere sketch, noting not the tenth of the places
touched upon, and therefore wholly inadequate for reference.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“It will not be Mr. Baring-Gould’s fault if an exquisite mountain
region is not better known and appreciated.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.
=Gouley, John W. S.= Dining and its amenities, by a lover of good cheer.
*$2.50. Rebman co.
7–10595.
“Here are tales of how men have eaten in all ages. The savages
reveling in long pig, Lucullus and his Roman friends dallying over
nightingales’ tongues. Here are the moving histories of the beginnings
and glorious consummations of the wines and liquors which to-day make
glad our hearts and light our steps. Here are anecdotes, here are the
maxims of that prince of the table, Brillat-Savarin, in their original
French, with the translations appended. We are given the evolution of
the table utensils as well as the food because of which they exist,
and the glass and porcelain come in for a share of encomiums as well
as the soup or the entrée.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Can therefore scarcely fail of attracting us to open its covers, and
once open we find a lot to keep us turning the pages. The book is
somewhat overloaded with words of Latin derivation.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 800w.
=Graham, Harry.= Familiar faces. il. $1. Duffield.
7–25157.
Some of the familiar faces which Captain Graham describes in rime are
those of the baritone, the dentist, the man who knows, the waiter, the
policeman, the music hall comedian, the faddist, and the gilded youth.
Mr. Hall has assisted in the impressionism by introducing a series of
very suggestive pen and ink sketches.
=Graham, Henry Grey.= Social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century.
$2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition, which gives in a cheaper and more compact form than
ever before, Mr. Graham’s exhaustive treatise upon the evolution which
took place in the religion, education, agriculture, science, and art
of eighteenth century Scotland.
* * * * *
“Mr. Graham knows the minutiae of Scottish social life, and with
anecdotes full of the peculiar national humor and notes that should
not be skipped, shows us the people of thrift, faith, struggle and
romance more fully than we have ever yet seen them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his
pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating
allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing
aspects of his theme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of
Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–25499.
“This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing
with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen
Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations
between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to
whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never
been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students
of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real
light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature
rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new
material.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully,
as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be
historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen
that they fairly occupy the field.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 381. Mr. 20. 840w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 310w.
“We do not feel that the book grows out of her knowledge, but rather
that her knowledge has grown out of the book, and we turn for reality
to the pages of her chief authority, Ann of Austria’s friend, Mme. de
Motteville.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 1210w.
“Her volume should be attractive to those who, while interested in the
bypaths of history, wish their study made easy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is not unworthy of the attention of those readers who lack knowledge
or inclination to consult the French originals. It may be commended
also to the persons who object to the freedom of those originals, for
Mrs. Grant’s narrative avoids the more spicy and scandalous details in
so far as the theme she treats permits such avoidance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 1110w.
“Altogether, the book is readable, although it is not important, and
might well have been published in less pretentious guise.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 200w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“This volume is not without merit, and Mrs. Colquhoun Grant knows a
good deal about her subject and tells her story in a not unpleasing
style.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
+ − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
=Grant, Robert F. S., tr.= Before Port Arthur in a destroyer: the
personal diary of a Japanese officer; tr. from the Spanish ed. *$3.
Dutton.
A version made from a Spanish translation of a Japanese original. “The
narrative takes in a period of something less than a year: January
26th, 1904–January 4th, 1905. The most animated part of it is the
story of the boarding of a Russian ship early in March.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The book does not read like a naval officer’s diary of operations in
which he took the part described, so that we cannot extend to naval
students our recommendation of the value, readable as is the spirited
narrative of war.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 220w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts, per v. *$11. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 808. D. 22. 1570w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 611. My. 18. 1900w. (Review of v. 8.)
“A serious demerit is that Mr. Graves makes no distinction between
pictures and drawings.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 86. Mr. 15, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 5–8.)
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.”
**$1.50. Harper.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A tragic story with a wealth of poetic and picturesque vision.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 110w.
“A remarkable feature of this weird and powerful story, which, unlike
most of the novels of the present day, leaves an indelible impression
upon the mind, is a degree of restraint, rare in a woman, observed by
the author.” Ex-Attache.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 413. F. 15, ’07. 1750w.
“The anonymous author’s ideas of Breton, or any life, entirely
preclude meritorious novelistic composition.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. 3d ed.
$1.50. Little.
6–37224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
“It is strictly a ‘handbook,’ a somewhat encyclopedic account based
upon original sources, not meant for continuous reading. It is,
nevertheless, a fascinating narrative.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Green, Alice Sophia Amelia (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Town
life in the fifteenth century. 2v. in 1. **$4. Macmillan.
A reissue which merely brings the two volumes together under one
cover. “The republication in a single volume will draw attention anew
to this very interesting study of English borough life in a century
which the author thinks to be, in many ways, ‘extraordinarily like our
own.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Green is certainly to be congratulated on the new edition in its
present compact and convenient form.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 250w.
“A thorough study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 180w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Mayor’s wife. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
7–17385.
A mystery lies back of the very strange behavior of a public man’s
wife. In it are involved a young secretary, two witch-like old women,
who constantly peer into the operations of the mayor’s household from
the vantage point of their near-by window, and a loyal servant. The
author weaves a ghost spell over the tale, in which former marriages,
theft, and other villainy make hearts miserable.
* * * * *
“It is a mystery story of more than ordinary ingenuity in its
inventive resources. It lacks in human interest. There is none of the
compelling imaginative genius displayed that makes the characters of a
romance appeal to the reader as real flesh and blood men and women.”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“It has a great deal more plot than most books by its author, and
possesses some psychological interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Green, Helen.= At the actors’ boarding house, and other stories. pa.
50c. Helen Green, 826 8th Av., N. Y.
6–45045.
“The book takes its name from a boarding house kept by one Maggie de
Shine, a professional herself in her younger days, and patronized by
such ‘top-liners’ of vaudeville as the Property Man, the Buck Dancer,
the Ingenue, the Three Mangles, Bertine Feathers and her six Pantella
Girls, the Texarkana Comedy Four, Mildred Molar, the Queen of
Burlesque, and a score of others whose dinner-table talks, punctuated
by an occasional ‘scrap,’ are described in speech racy enough to make
George Ade’s slang conventional English in comparison.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Green has not yet completely mastered the art of story telling.
It is as a writer of newspaper sketches that she excells ... real
pictures of real life, written from the inside, and although often
running cheek by jowl with crime and vice, never repulsive.” James L.
Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 431. Je. ’07. 1220w.
=Greenstone, Julius H.= Messiah idea in Jewish history. $1.25. Jewish
pub.
7–4165.
A refutation of the assertion that Judaism has no dogmas. From the
stories of Jewish lore, the author proves “that dogma played as
important a part in the development of Jewish institutions as did the
law, that Judaism ‘regulates not only our actions but also our
thoughts.’”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“For Christian as well as Jewish readers this is an instructive book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Madame de Staël and her lovers. *$3.50. Pott.
The marriage which was a “mere bargain, and ensuing liaisons numerous
and frank” occupy the writer who essays to portray this strong
personality “brought up in the salons of the eighteenth century, in
the midst of all that was most brilliant in the Paris of that day, and
carried on a wave of European fame through the revolution, the empire,
and the restoration.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The worst things about Mr. Gribble’s book are the title and the
preface. A clear and vivacious piece of biography which excels in
interest many recent novels.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 376. Mr. 30. 1260w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 237. N. ’07. 420w.
“This is a very interesting and, indeed, a brilliant book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. My. 4, ’07. 870w.
“Mr. Gribble’s study of Benjamin Constant is curious, and a good deal
of it will be new to English readers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 94. Jl. 20, ’07. 1620w.
=Grierson, Elizabeth W.= Children’s book of Edinburgh; il. by Allan
Stewart. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35148.
Following an introduction the author treats entertainingly Modern
interests of Edinburgh, The sights of Edinburgh, Tales of long ago,
and Mary, queen of Scots.
* * * * *
“Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of
the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children,
but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and
teachers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 81. Mr. ’07.
“Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is
rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
“Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery
in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the
progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
“It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day
enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and
impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is
traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the
author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or
Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret
of the nation’s superiority.”
* * * * *
“A distinct contribution to the literature on Japan.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.
“The author is conceded to be the best informed American on the
subject concerning which he writes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a scholarly book, presenting a thorough discussion of Japanese
ethnology,—not, however, in a technical manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 80w.
=Griffiths, Arthur.= Rome express. $1.25. Page.
7–9550.
A sleeping-car tragedy occurring between Laroche and Paris furnishes
the mystery which is unravelled in the course of this story. The
French detective service is out in full force, and frequently goes off
on the wrong trail. Among the implicated are an Italian countess, her
maid and an Italian banker, the latter of whom is proven guilty and
barely escapes the guillotine.
* * * * *
“This is an excellent detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 183. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
* =Griggs, Edward Howard.= Use of the margin. (Art of life series.)
*50c. Huebsch.
The aim of this series of books is “to illuminate the
never-to-be-finished art of living,” with no attempt at solving the
problems or giving dogmatic theories of conduct. The present monograph
shows what possibilities for development there are in the margin—the
time falling to the lot of each individual to spend as he may
please—and points out ways of using it to increase the capital, the
character, intelligence and appreciation of one’s life.
=Griswold, Stephen M.= Sixty years with Plymouth church. **$1. Revell.
7–21719.
“The author’s connection with Plymouth church began four years after
Mr. Beecher came as its first pastor. The present volume is not a
history of the church, such as was lately published of the Broadway
tabernacle in New York, but is rather a series of notes and
impressions attached to a thread of facts. Naturally to the author the
great predominating figure is the first pastor, altho full credit and
honor are given to the two very able men who succeeded him, Dr. Abbott
and Dr. Hillis. A fair account is given of the origin of the church,
and, naturally, a very slight account of the trial of Mr. Beecher,
with a view of involving the name of no one.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book has an excellent spirit, and gives a correct impression of
the immense influence the church had in favor of freedom all over the
country.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 170w.
=Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 4, ’07. 100w.
=Groben, countess Gunther.= Ralph Heathcote: letters of a young
diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon; giving an account
of the dispute between the Emperor and the Elector of Hesse. *$5. Lane.
“These letters are of exceptional interest. They are intimate letters
written by an only son to his mother at the time when Napoleon was
putting Europe in confusion. Ralph Heathcote was a young man of
intelligence, and owing to the fact that he was an Englishman who had
been born and bred in Germany, his point of view is fresh and
enlightening.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“His letters written during the strenuous time of his life must
interest all who care in any way for that most enthralling of
subjects—the conduct of life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 671. Jl. 13, ’07. 1090w.
“The chief, indeed the only, value of these letters is the insight
they give into the society, in Cassel, and incidentally, in London,
Edinburgh, and Lisbon.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 620w.
“As a testimonial of filial affection, and as a record of the
every-day life of a somewhat gifted young man in several lands and in
various capacities, one hundred years ago, the correspondence has
interest; but its literary value is as slight as its historical
importance.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 300w.
“A reader of the volume should find himself drawn on almost
irresistibly until he completes it. It is an interesting and
instructive addition to the year’s literature.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 1760w.
“Heathcote’s letters describing his services in the Peninsula are
readable though of no particular value to the student of military
history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 150. Ag. 3, ’07. 150w.
=Grose, Howard Benjamin.= Incoming millions. *50c. Revell.
6–38888.
This new volume dealing with the immigrant population “is one of the
home study mission course, and is dedicated to ‘the Christian women of
America, whose mission it is to help save our country by evangelizing
the alien women and teaching them the ideals of the American home.’ It
contains valuable information culled from various sources, intending
to shew the intent of the immigration to America.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Plenty of good information about the immigrant in this volume.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“The tone of the volume is moderate and reasonable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 912. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and
thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The new volume 3, which begins with Maas and ends with Pyne,
includes for the first time, the names of MacDowell, Mahler,
Mancinelli, Mascagni, Milloeker, Napravnik, Paderewski, Paine, Parker,
Pierne, and Puccini among the composers; while to the list of singers
and conductors have been added the names of Mallinger, Malten, Maurel,
Mottl, Nevada, Nikisch, Nordica.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 419. Ap. 6. 1290w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Fully sustains the reputation of its two predecessors for accuracy of
historical statement, comprehensiveness of scope, and conservatism of
criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 256. Ap. 17, ’07. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It proves, like the previous two volumes, that the revision is an
earnest one, seeking out the omissions and deficiencies of the
original, and placing the new tasks in hands almost always the most
capable to be found.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 133. Ap. 26, ’07. 2550w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Altogether, the space has been expanded by over one-fifth, and the
editor and his associates have almost invariably done their work well,
thus making ‘Grove,’ more than ever, a necessity to every amateur and
student.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The revision has been thorough, perhaps not all points so thorough as
might have been wished; but it has ... completeness in covering the
vast field of musical history and literature, fullness of information,
and interest of presentation.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A most excellent standard and really unique work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 760. My. 11, ’07. 1120w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes.= Dimbie and I—and Amelia. †$1.50.
Baker.
7–9552.
Dimbie, the devoted and manly young husband, I, his wife, the
chronicler of this one year of married life, Amelia the racy maid of
all work, and other delightful characters are revealed in the course
of this tender little story with its pathetic undercurrent of brave
cheeriness and undying affection.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“A brave, bright story is ‘Dimbie and I,’ and one that is well worth
the reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 470w.
=Gruyer, Paul.= Napoleon, king of Elba; tr. from the French. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
7–19481.
“In the present work the search-light of history is turned full upon
the little island and its great occupant. The smallest details of the
Emperor’s life in his little kingdom are narrated and much new light
is thrown upon his character. Interesting portraits are also given of
the sharers of his exile: Madame Mère, Pauline his sister, the devoted
Bertrand, Drouot and the old watch-dog Cambronne.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“A pleasing volume, which will introduce British readers to an island
with which few persons are acquainted, and to one of the less known
episodes of the Emperor’s career. The rendering is at times faulty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 160w.
“Paul Gruyer is not the only writer who has chosen this theme. But
nowhere before the appearance of the book under review had a complete
picture of the surroundings and the central figure been presented with
the necessary completeness. Now nothing remains to be known. As to the
translator’s task, it has been fairly done, as far as turning the
French into readable English. But in other respects the performance is
one of which it is impossible to write with too great severity. The
translator is totally ignorant of everything French, except to a
certain extent the French language, and of the history of the period.”
Adolphe Cohn.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 592. F. ’07. 1210w.
“There is nothing maudlin about the volume (its author surely was
among the millions who recently voted Pasteur the greatest Frenchman)
and it deserves to be bought and read by every Napoleonic student.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.
“The narrative is of a vivid and striking character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“The author sets out a good part, though not by any means all, that is
shown in adequate fashion.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 90w.
“Brings together the wealth of information contained in scattered and
forgotten sources, and presents it in an eminently readable form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.
“Presents a comparatively unknown chapter of Napoleonic epic, and
throws some important light on the character and ability of the most
colossal individual of modern history.” George Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 759. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The work of Paul Gruyer will live when the ‘Last voyages’ is
forgotten.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 950w.
=Guenther, Conrad.= Darwinism and the problems of life: a study of
familiar animal life. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–17681.
“A study of the theory of evolution, defending the doctrine of
‘natural selection,’ to the exclusion of all other explanations of
individual and collective development in men and animals.... The bulk
of the book treats in detail of the manner of development of the many
species of living creatures, from the original protoplasm or
unicellular being to the complex and mysterious physiology of man.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, that portion of Dr. Guenther’s book which deals
strictly with biology can best be characterized as sadly behind the
times.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 208. O. 1, ’07. 850w.
“Not only in the lucidity of its presentation and discussion, but in
its arrangement of the materials also, it is adapted above all others
as a book that may be taken up by those who possess very little idea
of science, and whose ignorance leads them to hold very erroneous
ideas of the present state and value of evolutionary doctrine. The
point that merits much criticism, in the opinion of the reviewer, is
the author’s attitude toward the work of De Vries and others, on
mutation or saltation as the method of evolution.” Henry Edward
Crampton.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 297. My. 23, ’07. 2260w.
“It is in making a fetich of natural selection, and by its action
alone explaining the whole problem of evolution, that the volume falls
far short of being a well-balanced thesis.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 450w.
“This is a disappointing book. Many of the author’s conclusions on the
main subject are sound enough. It is more to be regretted that his
statements of fact are so often open to adverse criticism, and that he
has been, on the whole, so badly served by his translator.” F. A. D.
− + =Nature.= 74: 268. Jl. 19, ’06. 590w.
“It is not written in too technical a manner. The presentation of the
ideas is simple.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 269. Ap. 27, ’07. 850w.
=Gulick, Luther Halsey.= Efficient life. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–11182.
The avowed object of this little volume is to offer suggestions of a
hygienic nature which will enable the reader to perform more
efficiently the duties of life. It discusses among other things:
States of mind and states of body, Exercise, Food, Waste, Fatigue,
Sleep, The bath—for body and soul, Pain—the danger signal, and Growth
in rest.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. S.
“The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician
recorded in the ‘Efficient life’ recommends the book to business men
and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add
burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work
easier and work itself more efficient.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 158. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“It is a notably sensible, frankly practical, and popularly attractive
statement of some well-established principles of healthy mindedness.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.
“Dr. Gulick has no hobbies and sees clearly that the things to be
commended are those which the hearer may reasonably be expected to do
and not over-refinements of bodily care and personal conduct
impossible of general attainment.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 330w.
“Dr. Gulick applies himself to telling us how to counteract the
deteriorating effects of (town) life, and he has executed his task
well.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Reading and following Dr. Gulick’s suggestions in this book ought to
help many people to raise the standard of their individual efficiency,
for the advice given concerning the conduct and regulation of life is
both sound and essential.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 260w.
=Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= The serf. *$1.
Fenno.
The author has chosen the rough and wicked England of the twelfth
century as the setting for his story of Hyla, the serf, whom he has
made typical of serfdom, and within whose misshapen body burned the
first spark of freedom which was to enkindle the world. The coarse
times are well depicted from the lewd life of the barons in their
castles to the hopeless routine of the serfs in their shacks. The
personality of Hyla who rises from the herd about him and becomes a
man and a murderer to avenge his daughters and his wrongs, is strongly
brought out and the reader follows breathless until he has paid the
awful price exacted from such as he.
* * * * *
“If the reader can bear the smell of the sewerage of the twelfth
century, and the feel of the big eels slipping thru his toes as he
reads, he will find in this book the most gorgeous descriptions of
water scenes that have appeared in years. The whole meaning of the
marches and fens of the twelfth century, their menace and their
beauty, as distinct from the civilized waterways of modern times in
England is well portrayed.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.
“He frequently leaves the straight path of this narrative in order to
preach a modern doctrine of brotherhood. Apart from its didactic
quality the story has a good deal of force; Hyla the serf and his
fortunes are worth following for their own sake.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 380w.
“It is an exciting and interesting tale and it presents a fairly
truthful picture of English life in the early middle ages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Gummere, Francis B.= Popular ballad. (Types of English literature ser.,
v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
7–18086.
“Prof. Gummere starts out with a severely critical consideration of
just what must be meant by ‘popular’ as applied to ballads and rules
out all but about 300 specimens of the genre. While he treats the
ballad as a closed account, an outcome of conditions which no longer
exist, he admits that there is nothing to prevent the daily production
of ballads which in time may become as popular as any in this
collection. But he restricts the present study to these remnants of
oral tradition, divides them into half a dozen classes, studies their
sources, and gives a critical estimate of their worth.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The last chapter on the worth of the ballad as poetry, is written
‘con amore,’ but with all that admirable scholarly restraint that
marks all of Professor Gummere’s work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Notwithstanding the differences of opinion which we entertain
regarding these matters of controversy, we gladly acknowledge the
interest of Prof. Gummere’s work, and believe that it will be accepted
as beginning auspiciously a series which promises great usefulness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8. ’07. 1350w.
“Prof. Gummere writes in an interesting style. He has a cleverness of
statement and an ability to use aptly and vividly a very great fund of
erudition that will make his book entertaining as well as instructive
for the general reader, while the special student will find it a mine
of information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Higher ministries of recent English poetry.
**$1.25. Revell.
7–23730.
“The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in
the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay
treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and
Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of
Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable
results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.
* * * * *
“Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and
give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three
masters of the last century.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about
whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain
amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject.
And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Perhaps the best specimen of Dr. Gunsaulus’s work is his analysis of
Tennyson’s greatest poem. ‘The idylls of the king.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.= Paths to power; Central church sermons.
*$1.25. Revell.
5–33035.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The strength of the book is its weakness. It is too wordy,
imaginative, and passionate. Thought is not sufficiently clear and
comprehensive to serve as a basis for enduring emotional power. The
book is inspirational rather than informing, and its power might have
been vastly increased by gripping the intellect more vigorously even
at some sacrifice of rhetoric.” E. A. Hamley.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 471. Je. ’07. 190w.
“In the present volume the Chicago pastor impresses one with a sense
of asymmetry. He seems to give disproportionate attention to the
‘fall’ of Adam with its alleged consequences, and the fall of Chicago,
with its palpable consequences, from the moral ideals of all good
citizens.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
=Gunter, Archibald.= Mr. Barnes, American: a sequel to Mr. Barnes of New
York. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9841.
“Highly dramatic scenes and characters are provided in this volume....
The very ample _dramatis personae_ include Corsican bandits,
supra-beautiful maidens, members of the aristocracy, ill-favored
ruffians both imported and domestic, and ghosts. Very exciting events
transpire and ... slaughter is plethoric.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, 07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Gunter, Archibald C.= Prince Karl. †$1.25. ’07. Dillingham.
7–33913.
An unsatisfactory novelization of a satisfactory play whose principal
characters are “a despotic mother-in-law, an Anglomaniac dude, and a
Bostonian girl fresh from Vassar. The hero, Prince Karl, is a sort of
Jekyll and Hyde character, only in the novelization the character is
accompanied by considerable buffoonery.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The plot is commonplace, and the dialogue has little wit. An unusual
but characterless feature is the use of the historical present in the
telling of the story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly
unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that
effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an
acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood.
There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Guthrie, William B.= Socialism before the French revolution; a history.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22934.
The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the
history of social reform from the time of More to the French
revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social
theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings
and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or
twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of
social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life
and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth
century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and
revolutionary radicals.
* * * * *
“His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are
frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while
the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w.
“If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps
because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his
assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be
taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w.
“He makes no effort to write an exhaustive history of early socialism,
and the title of his book is therefore not accurately descriptive of
its contents. All that he attempts to do, and we are grateful to him
for doing this, is to recall to our minds those writings of the past
which best illustrate the evolution of socialistic thinking.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 340w.
“There are here no hasty generalizations, unwarranted inferences, and
strainings of interpretation.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 369. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
=Guyer, Michael Frederic.= Animal micrology; practical exercises in
microscopical methods. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–4839.
“The topics discussed in this book are as follows: necessary
apparatus; preparation of reagents; general statement of methods;
killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining, and mounting; minute
dissections; tooth, bone, and other hard objects; injection of blood
and lymph vessels; in toto preparations; blood; bacteria;
embryological methods with chick, etc.; and reconstruction from
sections.”—School R.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 30w.
“The crucial test of the value of the work must necessarily consist in
the actual experiment of using it in class. We venture to think,
however, that the volume will react to this test in a most successful
manner.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 440w.
“As a textbook it could hardly be improved. The advanced student
cannot help but wish that it might have been available when he began
his work.”
+ =School R.= 15: 306. Ap. ’07. 420w.
“Concise, eminently practical and well classified treatment. It will
be found useful to a larger number of people than any other book of
its kind at present in existence in English.” Irving Hardesty.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 339. Mr. 1, ’07. 1450w.
=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God and its historical
development. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“In both its apologetic and its historical task this work is
conservative and follows in the beaten paths of the traditional
methods. On the historical side Professor Gwatkin is more at home,
though one cannot escape here the feeling of special pleading which
does injustice to many facts and persons of history. Looseness of
expression and of thought characterizes his apologetic work.” W. C.
Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 546. Jl. ’07. 1150w.
“Is uncommonly readable and convincing, not only by reason of its
abundant learning but by reason of its unfailing fairness and its
habitual restraint. The argument is never overstated, and the
difficulties are never undervalued.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“The ordinary reader will often be somewhat bewildered by the mass of
historical material brought into brief compass. Moreover, throughout
the work, the author stops to answer so fully the supposed objections
of those who differ from him that one is frequently more impressed by
the wealth of possible opinion than by the author’s own position. His
work will be full of suggestion to historical students; but because of
its objective point of view, it is primarily a book of description,
rather than one of interpretation.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 381. N. ’07. 510w.
“The freshness and charm with which the lecturer has dealt with his
subject should procure for them an abundant welcome in a much wider
circle. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the book is the earnest
and sustained effort which Professor Gwatkin makes to combine the best
modern thought upon religion and the philosophy of religion with the
substance of the old historical faith.” Robert A. Duff.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 675. Ap. ’07. 2670w.
=Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.= Fair hills of Ireland; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2.
Macmillan.
7–35041.
Mr. Gwynn states that his book is written in praise of Ireland. And it
is such praise as one can give who has a full understanding of “its
soil and its people, its mountains and plains, seas and rivers, cities
and solitudes, its ways of life and thought, its history and its
aspirations, its failures and possibilities, its joy and grief.” Of
these he writes: “It is, in fact, obviously intended to play a part in
promoting the ‘Irish revival.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He sings his song of love and war so charmingly, and with such
sympathy and intuitive understanding, that it seems ungenerous to
complain that his book is not what its title implies. Let us confess
that we speedily forgot our sense of disappointment in the glamour of
his pages.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 630. D. 22, ’06. 850w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is intended to be suggestive and picturesque, and succeeds thoroughly
in this aim. We commend it strongly to those who visit Ireland with
leisure and in earnest, and are not satisfied with following beaten
tracks and hearing stale jokes.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 685. D. 1. 1110w.
“It is a book that will appeal to Irishmen in particular and to
travellers and lovers of antiquity in general.”
+ =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 260w.
=Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 310w.
“How he has managed to pack, in a volume of a little over 400 pages,
so many delightfully told legends and historic incidents, which give
to every landscape a sort of moral personality, is Mr. Gwynn’s
secret.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.
“There is, however, one drawback to the legends told by Mr. Gwynn. The
orthography of the names of the heroes, and even of the heroines, is
repulsive, and will always be an obstacle to the wide, acceptance of
these historical, semi-historical, and mythical romances.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 570w.
“The method of presentation is logical and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 630w.
“Its author wanders too rapidly and disconnectedly from theme to
theme, indulges overfreely in allusion, and demands too great a
previous knowledge of Irish history, legendary as well as authentic.
Nevertheless, the book will be found well worth the pains necessary to
read it, and should meet an especial welcome from prospective
travelers in Ireland.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“We do not always accept Mr. Gwynn’s opinions, and we sometimes find
ourselves wondering why he has said this or seems not to know that.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 1240w.
“We can imagine no more instructive and attractive guide to the holy
places of Irish history. His style, while singularly free from
mannerisms, is always full of light and colour and vivacity. He has
humour too, and a high sense of dramatic contrast.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 1410w.
H
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Baccalaureate addresses and other talks on
kindred themes. **$1. Scribner.
7–11555.
Sixteen brief addresses in which President Hadley of Yale dwells “on
the grand fundamentals of character and citizenship, of individual and
social virtue, and, in the large wholesome sense, of piety and
religion.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The simple, straightforward style of these addresses is engaging.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 330w.
“The tone of the book is wholesome and optimistic, but one must
confess that it deals largely in platitudes.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 410. My. 2, ’07. 70w.
“They disclose in a manner at once incidental and intimate, the spirit
in which Dr. Hadley meets thousands of young men. It is because of
their disclosure of this spirit and because of the extreme elevation
and devotion of the spirit disclosed that the volume will receive a
considerable and a cordial welcome.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6. ’07. 1280w.
“Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an
entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its
forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these
addresses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w.
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Standards of public morality; the Kennedy
lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the
Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.
7–21398.
Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of
trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our
political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these
chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the
historian, the economist and the good citizen.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’
the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible
perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have
been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the
subjects discussed.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“The book will bear reading and rereading both by officers and by
private citizens.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 100w.
“The book is worth reading not once, but twice. This is a rich bill of
fare spread exactly in the ripeness of appetite for the meal. May good
digestion wait on appetite, and the community will be the better for
it.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.
=Yale R.= 16: 225. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of
English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
7–6793.
=v. 1.= Old English to Jacobean. This volume indicates the chief
landmarks in prose and poetry (not dramatic) from Beowulf to the
writers of the Jacobean age, with good introductions.
=v. 2.= Growth of the drama. Under Tragedy, Comedy, and History, are
given selections which range from the miracle plays to Ford’s Perkin
Warbeck. General introductions and brief bibliographies are provided.
* * * * *
“The introductions, despite the care and knowledge with which they are
written, are inevitably insufficient and a little dictatorial: the
selections, though chosen with fine judgment, are brief and not wholly
representative.”
− =Acad.= 71: 174. Ag. 25, ’06. 2040w. (Reviews of v. 1.)
“The introductions to the various parts of the book are most valuable
and scholarly, and contain a really noble and stimulating appreciation
of Marlowe and of Webster.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. S. (Review of v. 1.)
“Perhaps this section of drama was a difficult one to fill; but we the
more regret the arrangement which made it necessary for the editors to
fill it. Yet such criticisms do not prevent this being a good and, on
the whole, representative manual.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 35. Jl. 13. 1410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the distinction of
its Oxford imprint.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is characterized by the nicest scholarship.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The dominant feeling with which one puts down this book is one of
pleasure and gratitude. There is everything to learn in it and
everything to enjoy, and all the learning is only another kind of
enjoying. Nothing could be better than the editorial introductions to
the different sections. They are models of what such things should be;
as true as if they were written by dulness itself; as striking as if
they were made up of wilfulness.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 301. S. 7, ’06. 5330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The introduction to each extract gives just the information that will
be needed by the ordinary reader, and the general introduction errs,
if at all, only in its brevity.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 1370w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: tr.
from 2d ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
6–14562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial
treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh
arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary
questions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w.
“That part of his work which deals with science shows him an
investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has
the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of
human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to
his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in
Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 130. S. ’07. 1890w.
* =Haeselbarth, Adam C.= Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico.
$1.25. Kenny pub.
A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto
Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has
resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”
=Haggard, Andrew C. P.= Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page
portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.
7–18151.
“Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the
reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life
and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward,
the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with
many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail....
He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of
the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of
unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with
Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with
the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through
him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of
Europe.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the
eighteenth century in France.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w.
“If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might
call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed,
significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their
slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary
of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the
results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w.
“The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w.
“With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book
makes a sufficiently striking impression.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w.
* =Haggard, Henry Rider.= Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII.
†$1.50. Longmans.
7–32845.
Set in the times of the Tudors, this tale is one of daring adventure
by land and sea. “It involves the slaughter of a retainer of the
Spanish ambassador in the opening scene, and the escape of an
Anglo-Jewish merchant from the Spanish inquisition in the last. The
fortunes of the Jew’s daughter—who has been abducted, by a nobleman in
the train of De Ayala, the ambassador, and is pursued across the sea
by her lover, brave Peter Brome, and his comrades—form the main thread
of the story. Incidentally we meet with many well-fancied types of
militant and ecclesiastical humanity, with effective portraits of
monarchs and great men.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is a reminiscence of Kingsley in much of the story, but Mr.
Haggard has no master in this brightly conceived and deftly executed
drama of action.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 170w.
“In incompetent hands, a plot for a dime novel and nothing more; but
Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager ... and sends us
away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show
that was eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 408. D. ’07. 360w.
“It is all as vigorous, circumstantial, and imaginative as Mr. Haggard
can make it; but the effect is often marred by the effort to combine
simplicity of diction with a flavour of Tudor English.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 450w.
“But notwithstanding all its many excellencies, Mr. Haggard’s work
does not belong on the high levels of fictional art. There is none of
that rich and satisfying quality which invests the pages of novelists
who deal with the inner forces of character and temperament.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 1140w.
“The merchant who is the principal figure in his drama does not
convince us. When we come to the story itself all is excellent.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 534. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50.
Longmans.
6–27709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We feel that Mr. Haggard’s formula is less satisfying than formerly,
and yet a cool analysis tells us that this story has as many good
points as the others.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= Luck of the Dudley Grahams: as related in
extracts from Elizabeth Graham’s diary. †$1.50. Holt.
7–32036.
The story of a family of boys and girls who tried to share their
mother’s burdens. On the day of selling a dump-cart patent the father
had died suddenly without revealing the hiding place of the contract.
The family struggles continue until one day the contract is found and
the Graham luck turns.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
A work which to some extent is supplementary to the author’s previous
discussion of “Restrictive railway legislation.” “The treatment of the
subject is, however, more particularly directed to an amelioration of
the existing relations between railway corporations and the public
whom they serve.”
* * * * *
“Some of the statements in the book are more striking than true. This
volume deals with a large number of topics in connection with railway
management and the facilities afforded. While these are not handled in
detail, they are presented in an attractive way that ought to
stimulate the interest of the general reading public in the question
of the efficiency of the American railway service under its present
organization.” Ernest R. Dewsnup.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 555. N. ’07. 1470w.
“One of the most timely of the fall books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 110w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Christmasse tyde. **$2. Elder.
A collection of seasonable quotations beautifully set to the best
things in book accompaniment.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Ye gardeyne boke. **$3. Elder.
6–43790.
“The text has been gathered and arranged ... from hundreds of sources,
poetical and prosaic.... The various quotations are arranged under
about forty heads, and Cardinal Newman offers the first answer to the
question, ‘What is a garden?’... Then come such topics as ‘Mediaeval
gardens,’ ‘Monastic gardens,’ ‘Old-fashioned gardens,’ and gardens
identified with various nationalities—Dutch, German, Italian,
Spanish—and so on, and even ‘The poet’s garden,’ and ‘Gardens of the
sea’ are not neglected.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Garden-lovers need look no further for an appropriate gift.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 190w.
“Tastefully decorated and beautifully printed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 48. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. *$4.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Miss Haldane’s book seems to me well-proportioned and well-written.
The most recent sources of information have been utilized, and the
material arranged in clear and orderly fashion. The accounts of the
philosophical standpoint and contents of the important works are
clear, coherent, and well-suited to the general plan and purpose of
the volume, which is intended quite as much for the general reader as
for the special student of philosophy. The book is to be welcomed as a
real and valuable addition to the literature of philosophy.” J. E. C.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 16: 94. Ja. ’07. 220w.
* =Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
An illustrated story of the South American republics, their
characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special reference to
their commercial relations with the United States. Special attention
has been given to the East Andean republics because within their
boundaries must take place the great industrial advances of the
century.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels. il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–35582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Hale is rather too fond of applying the epithet ‘dear’ to every
person of whom he speaks. We wish also that he had not adopted the
slang term ‘Dago’ when speaking of an Italian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 230w.
“His reminiscences are poured out of a full heart, freely, familiarly,
picturesquely.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 417. Mr. ’07. 860w.
“Half mischievous, half militant, he goes wherever his mood takes him,
finding only what is good in men, and gently prodding this good to
make it better.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.
“The purpose and execution of the work are infused throughout with
high ideals and generous patriotism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, Will T.= True stories of Jamestown and its environs. $1. Pub.
house M. E. ch., So.
7–19587.
“A little volume whose spirit perpetuates the “human” interest in the
past life of this deserted village.”
=Hall, Bolton.= Three acres and liberty; assisted by Robert F. Powell;
with an introd. by George T. Powell. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–10568.
A handbook of tested theory regarding land and its possibilities. And
Mr. Hall is not satisfied with the mediocre results of a three-acre
plot but shows what can be accomplished at the high tide of productive
capacity. He shows where the right three-acres may be found, what kind
of land must be had, what it will cost, and what must be done with it.
The author “has not attempted so much to deal with the technique of
agriculture or to give instruction in its requirements, as to awaken
active and earnest thought upon the social betterment of our rapidly
increasing population.”
* * * * *
“This is, we think, one of the most important volumes of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 211. Ag. ’07. 1260w.
“The author is not always sufficiently specific in regard to regions
adapted to special products, probably assuming that those who are
interested in the subject will investigate further.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 430w.
“The book should be highly interesting to amateur farmers and to
social workers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
=Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. Mr. ’07. 140w.
=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.= Christ and the human race; or, The
attitude of Jesus Christ toward foreign races and religions; being the
William Belden Noble lectures for 1906. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–42357.
“In these lectures ... Dr. Hall ... is concerned with the proper
attitude of a Christian man toward the non-Christian religions....
To-day, he affirms, ‘the East denounces Western Christendom, yet in
spirit approaches nearer and nearer to the worship of Christ.’ ... In
conclusion, Dr. Hall gives the standpoints now to be taken by the
Christian educator, physician, and minister in the East.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. K. Parker.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 363. Ap. ’07. 810w.
“He approaches the East with a courtesy equal to that for which the
East is eminent. He is a student as well as a teacher, and expects to
receive as well as give.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 380w.
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 70w.
=Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–25392.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“His irenic tone, and tactful, almost adroit, presentation of the
points of difference between Christianity and Hinduism, are certainly
admirable.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 397. My. ’07. 790w.
=Hall, Edward Henry.= Paul, the apostle, as viewed by a layman. **$1.50.
Little.
6–19782.
A sympathetic estimate done in the historical spirit of “a great,
though very human actor in an important crisis in the world’s
spiritual life. Critical scholarship since Baur has been laid under
tribute, and me opinions of such students as Pfleiderer, Hausrath,
Wernle, and Weizsacher have been diligently compared and carefully
estimated.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Gives his view of the apostle’s religious character and theological
doctrines, in an interesting and instructive way.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 530. Jl. ’07. 170w.
“A rapid and suggestive survey.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 79. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would
appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul
rendered to early Christianity.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
=Hall, Eliza Calvert.= Aunt Jane of Kentucky; il. by Beulah Strong.
†$1.50. Little.
7–12978.
As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t
fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions
them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with
pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago:
how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of
Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind,
and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the
church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding.
Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by
time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her
quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠
“The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat
startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of
the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and
discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized,
is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception,
the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s
sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has
added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 180w.
“The flavor of the book lies in the point of view of the old woman, in
the wise things she says, and the homely way she says them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 860w.
“In this little volume Eliza Calvert Hall has achieved the
unusual—except in the matter of the title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“Her stories of Aunt Jane’s experiences are full of real human
feeling, and awaken thoroughly wholesome emotion.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 150w.
“A little more humour as pungent and appealing as that in the opening
sketch, ‘Sally Ann’s experiences,’ and ‘Mrs. Wiggs,’ would have had a
rustic rival.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 749. S. ’07. 110w.
=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
6–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Hall, Gertrude.= Wagnerian romances. **$1.50. Lane.
A volume of essays in which the author takes the poems too often
submerged in the Wagner music and reveals the intrinsic value of the
myth, poetry and romance in them. Beginning with “Parsifal” and ending
with “The flying Dutchman,” she includes ten of the Wagnerian
romances.
* * * * *
“There can be no doubt that her conscientious transcript will be
welcomed by many opera-goers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“While the author’s method in this book is excellent, and she is able
to preserve the intense spirit and mystic atmosphere of the great
romances, her English occasionally suffers from too literal a
rendering of the German. With that unimportant reservation, one can
thoroughly enjoy her conscientious and sympathetic work.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hall, Granville Stanley.= Youth: its education, regimen and hygiene.
**$1.50. Appleton.
7–30473.
An abridgment of “Adolescence” which offers in briefer form and at
less cost the far-reaching pedagogical principles and conclusions of
the original volume. There have been added a chapter on moral and
religious training and a glossary of seven pages, the latter being
useful as well to the larger work.
* * * * *
“The book has been more carefully proofed and the bibliographic
references made more complete than in ‘Adolescence.’ Good judgment has
characterized the selection and condensation, and normal schools and
teacher’s classes, outside of the preferred geographic zone, are
certain to find it a useful book, if they can get hold of it.” Will S.
Monroe.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 218. Ap. 11. ’07. 130w.
“There will be great advantage in the existence of this handbook to
‘Adolescence,’ tho it might be regretted that the terminology and
philosophical allusions have not been adapted to the understanding of
the layman.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
“The anxious parent or teacher, seeking for the light upon his
problems of how best to deal with either child or youth, no matter
what his troubles are, will be able to find help of some sort in these
pages, crammed full as they are, with the wisdom of the scientist, the
observer, the lover of his kind.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 960w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Hall, H. R.= Days before history. 50c. Crowell.
7–21361.
A book for children which in story form tells of uncouth men who lived
in caves and on floating islands in the days before history.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 100w.
“We congratulate the author on a singularly attractive little book,
the very thing for imaginative boys.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 537. My. 4. 60w.
“The writer has a good subject, although his handling of it is not of
the best.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.
=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States.
**$1.50. Holt.
6–6769.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“I cannot find that Mr. Hall has inaccurately or carelessly stated or
omitted any of the essential facts, though he has not failed to
indicate the conclusions he draws from them. Only a few minor errors
can be noted, and they proceed from the mistakes of others upon
nonessential points, or from the imperfections of government
statistics, whose weaknesses Mr. Hall points out. Altogether the book
stands out as the most important contribution that has been made to
the study of this most important American problem.” John R. Commons.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 504. D. 15, ’08. 400w.
“The treatise is detailed and exhaustive in summing up the experience
of the United States in solving its hydra-headed immigration problem.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 130w.
“A book quite indispensable to serious students of the problem of
immigration.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 231. N. ’07. 400w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
=Hallock, William, and Wade, Herbert T.= Outlines of the evolution of
weights and measures, and the metric system. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–36443.
“The book contains a clear and well-written account (largely taken
from M. Bigourdan’s ‘Le système metrique’) of the foundations of the
metric system by the French, who were its real inventors, and of its
gradual spread since 1872 over nearly the whole of Europe and America
with the single exception of these islands.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The archaeological part, touching, among other things, on the
Babylonian cubit and the Egyptian measures, we cannot commend, for
there is no evidence that the authors have any first hand knowledge of
the subject, and neither Professor Hommel nor the Rev. W.
Shaw-Caldecott, whom they quote, is so great an authority upon it as
the authors evidently imagine.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 775. D. 15. 210w.
“The work is an argument for the metric system, but it is not
partisan. It is excellently handled and should have general attention;
it should certainly be read by every senator and representative at
Washington.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28, ’07. 360w.
“This is an admirable piece of work, in which the result of much
tedious research is presented in a bright and lucid narrative.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 290. Ja. 24, ’07. 1740w.
“A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w.
“A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at
least—of the whole subject.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic
work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 652. N. 23, ’06. 390w.
=Halsham, John.= Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50.
Dutton.
Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume.
“The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in
translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a
log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on
the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing
machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through
woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words
describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little
bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The
style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w.
“There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this
modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w.
“It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more
gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather
amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w.
“Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so
grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w.
“It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic
mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a
reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of
pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its
pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w.
“We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we
have wasted time. Could critic say more?”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 515. O. 26, ’07. 1500w.
“‘Idlehurst’ quickly became a classic; ‘Lonewood Corner,’ its sequel,
or second volume, will stand beside it, we fancy, on most shelves
where the earlier book has established its footing. If not on all, it
is because of a slight suggestion of what is not exactly bitterness,
but is rather like it—an added hint of aloofness—that may not be
agreeable to the palate of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 164. Ag. 3, ’07. 1890w.
=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
6–41815.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“The work required two years to be spent in its preparation and the
result is most satisfactory, as the book contains much information
under historical, geographical, ethnographical, commercial and
political groupings.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 610. N. ’07. 220w.
“It should take a high place as a book of reference. It should be
prized not only as that, but for its clear presentation of an
inadequately understood subject.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 108. F. 23, ’07. 3590w.
=Hamilton, Anthony Count.= Memoirs of Count de Gramont; ed. by Allan
Fea. *$5. Scribner.
A handsomely illustrated edition of the memoirs of Count de Gramont,
“a soldier of fortune, and a boldly unscrupulous gamester and wit in
the reign of Louis XIII, and Louis XIV.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Fea also supplies copious footnotes—almost too copious. The
half-tones are not always distinct, partly because many of the
originals are dimmed with age.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 330w.
“The volume would be desirable if only for the sake of these
illustrations, but these represent only a small part of the editor’s
work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
* =Hamilton, Cosmo.= Adam’s clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A diatribe against the thoughtless, heartless, irreverent “woman of
the world.”
* * * * *
“In spite of clever delineation of character, plenty of humour, and
considerable skill in skating over thin ice, we cannot say that this
novel has left a pleasant impression on us.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during
the Russo-Japanese war. 2v. ea. *$4.50. Longmans.
6–1100.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen
of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest
charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional
reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman
finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing
interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be
of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work
of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is even better than its forerunner.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the
atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his
admirable book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme
humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the
stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military
work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along
with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent
military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George
R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w.
“This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information,
and is altogether more valuable.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hamilton, Joseph.= Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.
6–36932.
The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a
supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and
governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts
given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It
is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their
foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the
natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only
more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are
nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed
from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious
speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his
subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his
beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w.
“Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious
notice.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
=Hamilton, M.= First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5067.
“This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an
uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely
away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him
than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just
punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little
child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness
amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the
inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent
reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind;
it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous
sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the
story is adjusted.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w.
“The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying
conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is
an unpleasant tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.
“The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out
with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the
story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure
in reading.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Hamilton, Samuel.= Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15713.
“The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of
the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five
formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the
more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books,
oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
“A sensible and practical book.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and
outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w.
“The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is
minute.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w.
=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
6–30932.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
=Hamp, Sidford F.= Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain
ranch in the early days of Colorado. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26966.
Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the
early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with
facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young
men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in
advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.
=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.
6–30460.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
=Hampson, W.= Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–163.
“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’
science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary
man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight,
of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and
melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he
has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of
energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to
have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson.
Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book,
which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as
unexpected as it is pleasant.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w.
“His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those
which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his
arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea
of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”
− =Nature.= 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w.
“His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the
navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w.
Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.
“The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social
circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with
each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe
side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has
perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and
simple.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable
facility both in dialogue and description.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w.
“The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved,
and the details in excellent taste.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F.
Benson.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w.
=Haney, William H.= Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P.
O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.
6–26563.
A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the
mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region
toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.
* * * * *
“The style is not always clear and one at times is not quite sure just
how much of a given statement is one of fact and how much is what a
young and optimistic teacher hopes to see realized. On the whole,
however, the author has shown up the modern, progressive side of the
mountain people in a very creditable manner.” Samuel MacClintock.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’07. 920w.
“The work is rather crudely arranged and written.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 637. My. ’07. 130w.
“Most interesting sketch.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 100w.
=Hankin, St. John.= Three plays with happy endings. French, S:
The three plays are “The prodigal’s return,” “The charity that began
at home” and “The Cassilis engagement.” “They have no plots, present
no conflicts of character, and are practically destitute of dramatic
action.... Familiar as most of the personages are in the world of the
footlights—the rich and vulgar parvenu, the complacent parson, the
self-excusing wastrel, the East Indian military bore, the quack, the
music hall siren, her mother, and their rich young dupe—they are
sketched with such happy dexterity and vivacity that they assume a
certain semblance of freshness and reality.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Since realism has come to mean something violent, something even
indecent, let us call Mr. Hankin a naturalist who is doing for the
English stage what Constable did for European landscape. He contrives
beauty and interest, decoration even, by keeping the tones and values
of drama in their true relation to life. He is a fairy godmother who
has saved the rather vulgar coach from being run over by the motor-car
of realism.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 941. S. 28, ’07. 1280w.
“He has a fine, fastidious, deft talent, as any one who reads the
three plays in his present volume (and skips the preface) will agree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 1070w.
“As a dramatist Mr. Hankin has a good deal to learn, but there ought
to be a future for a man who can see the humorous side of things so
clearly.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 288. S. 26, ’07. 400w.
=Hannis, Margaret.= Emancipation of Miss Susana. **40c. Funk.
7–24766.
The story of Susana Adams who relieves the monotony of her spinster
life by going to New York and entering upon a fictitious matrimonial
venture which finally leads to a real one.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France; tr. by John C. Tarver. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.
=v. 3.= France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the
latter days of the National assembly with its work on the
constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate,
and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left
majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.
* * * * *
“The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find
that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our
review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English
facts and names.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.)
“M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the
first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy
task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat
violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still
if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while
he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also
leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When he philosophises, as he does in chapter v. at length, he is far
from convincing, and the tale of later years has not unfortunately
revealed to us those qualities of ‘abnegation, conciliation, and
persevering optimism’ for which he hopes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It will not be surprising if the general public find the present
volume rather less readable than its forerunners.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 484. O. 5, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hapgood, Hutchins.= Spirit of labor. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–8549.
The author of “The autobiography of a thief” offers in this volume a
first hand study of the life of a Chicago labor leader and trade
unionist. After a long search Mr. Hapgood found a German who, both as
a type and a person, combined the desired temperament, character and
experience for his impressionistic study. Born in Germany, Anton came
to America as a child, shifted much of the time for himself, lived
thru the various stages of tramp life, rural, sordid conditions,
worked off and on at odd jobs, finally married and settled down in
Chicago as a wood-worker. His quick intelligence discovered the
injustice of organised society on every hand and led him to the basic
principles of radicalism with which the book deals.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“It is extremely well done, and particularly admirable is the
adroitness with which Mr. Hapgood has extracted from the ‘inexpressive
ego’ of semi-illiterate labour such salient facts as are here
assembled. The trouble with ‘The spirit of labour’ regarded
thoughtfully is, that it has in it very little of the spirit and less
of labour.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w.
“A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban
activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w.
“Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring,
its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its
obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the
movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial
praise.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w.
“For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees
it, the book is invaluable.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w.
“Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely
denominated socialism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
“It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and
still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and
their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 680w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 530w.
“A highly informative volume, containing, no doubt, large quantities
of substantial, solid truth.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 200w.
=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic
apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; comp., tr., and arranged from the old
church-Slavonic service books of the Russian church and collated with
the service books of the Greek church. $4. Houghton.
7–526.
“This volume contains the order of services as prescribed for vespers,
compline, matins, the communion, the great feasts, ordination,
marriage, unction, ‘the office at the parting of the soul from the
body,’ the burial of the dead, requiem offices, services for the
founding and consecration of churches, thanksgivings and various
special prayers. For the Scripture lessons, as translated into
English, the King James’s version is used, and for the ‘Psalms and
verses’ the prayer-book version of the Psalter.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Reverence can call forth such labors of devotion as this
compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 310w.
“This laudable volume should be of value, not only to American
ecclesiastics and their congregations, but also to students of
liturgies and to sojourners in the various lands where the Eastern
church exists, and to all who would become better acquainted with its
undeniable majesty, impressiveness, and exquisite symbolism of
ritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 720w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Ann Boyd. †$1.50. Harper.
6–32356.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Marked by genuine power and real emotion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 210w.
“Easily the strongest piece of work that Mr. Harben has thus far
produced.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.
“For the first time the author has met the demands of literary art in
the construction of his book.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 590w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Mam’ Linda. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29431.
A story with a Georgia setting which involves the negro question,
politics and romance. The champion of Mam’ Linda, a faithful negro
mammy, and her “no count” boy who, however, is unjustly accused of
murder, is a young southern attorney. He takes up the cudgels of
defense, and in so doing overcomes time-honored prejudice, fights
lawlessness, and outwits lynching bands. The story is permeated with
southern atmosphere.
* * * * *
“At last the South has produced an author who writes with strength and
beauty and absolute veracity about living issues. Here is Harben with
his message told with such simplicity that few will recognize its
great value.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1058. O. 31, ’07. 890w.
“Mr. Harben’s novel is the most significant book that has appeared
relating to the negro since Bishop Haygood wrote ‘Our brother in
black.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.
“The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with
about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But
this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a
vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as
yet of the proprieties.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w.
“A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot
involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some
faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w.
“The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet
as possible.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“Illustrates afresh his direct and effective style and his ability to
tell a love story full of purity and sweetness in a natural and
delightful way.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Harboe, Paul, pseud. (Paul Christensen).= Child’s story of Hans
Christian Andersen. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–29563.
The life of deprivation and penury which falls to the lot of the man
renowned for fairy tales was at variance with the results of his fine
imagination. The sketch follows the cobbler’s son thru the sore trials
of his early life to his day of fame, which proved a sad realization
inasmuch as it was bereft of the fulfilment of his one romance.
* * * * *
“An interesting, trustworthy account, simple and straightforward in
telling. Will, perhaps, be enjoyed best by the children of an age most
interested in the fairy tales if read aloud to them, for the style is
adapted, rather to older children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07.
“There is not much attempt at coherent construction in the little
book. Anecdotes are given sometimes without much point or much
connection. And the style reminds us frequently that the author is
writing in a language other than the one to which he was born.” Grace
Isabel Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 418. D. ’07. 570w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 130w.
“There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that
harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w.
=Harcourt, Mrs. Charles.= Good form for women: a guide to conduct and
dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.
7–12681.
Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less
directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the
author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining
ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have
not had the benefit of proper home training.
=Harcourt, L. W. Vernon.= His grace the steward, and the trial of peers:
a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5.
Longmans.
A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High
Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second
treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be
judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s
delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as
historic English institutions.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main
theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of
men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points
of constitutional history.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w.
“We have here, in short, a notable contribution to our institutional
history not merely for the results attained, but also for its rigid
investigation, reminding us how often close inquiry may modify
accepted views. One rises however from its perusal with the feeling
that, however impartially the appendices may set the evidences before
us, the author has throughout a case to prove, is a counsel speaking
to his brief. And that case is prejudiced rather than assisted by the
use of forensic methods.” J. H. Round.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 778. O. ’07. 2420w.
“This lengthy and erudite work ... is scarcely intended for general
reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“We suspect that Mr. Harcourt is not really very interested in the
stewardship; he uses it only as convenient padding to his pet theory
that procedure in the trial of peers is founded on a forged document;
and herein he has expended a great deal of useless energy.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 337. S. 14, ’07. 640w.
“He is steeped in the political and personal history of his period, he
possesses a sense of humor, and that gift of imagination without which
the past is a sealed book alike to those who write and those who read.
We are paying a high, but not an excessive, compliment when we say
that no better piece of work of its class has been accomplished since
Bishop Stubbs penned the last of his prefaces in the ‘Rolls series.’”
+ + + =Spec.= 99: 198. Ag. 10, ’07. 2300w.
“If the reader grants the right of the author to choose what subject
he pleases he can feel only admiration for the manner in which the
study is executed.”
+ =Yale. R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 100w.
=Harcourt, Leveson Francis.= Sanitary engineering with respect to water
supply and sewage disposal. *$4.50. Longmans.
7–35189.
A valuable general text-book. “In addition to a very complete
discussion of the subject of water supplies in all its aspects,
including sources, collection and storage, purification, distribution
and statistics of water consumption, and a rather brief summary of the
methods of sewage disposal, the writer takes up very fully the whole
subject of sewerage, and more briefly that of garbage disposal.”
(Technical Lit.)
* * * * *
“Important book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07.
“We think we do the author no injustice in saying that throughout his
book he writes like a person experienced in general civil engineering
construction rather than like a sanitary engineer, at least as we in
America now understand that term. Nevertheless he has epitomized a
considerable part of water-works and sewage practice, including
purification in each field, and seems to have produced a book
remarkably free from errors and vagaries.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 551. My. 16, ’07. 670w.
“An addition of undoubted value to an engineer’s library. Its pleasing
style, moreover, makes it a very readable work, while the abundant
references to historical and current engineering work, its general
breadth of view and full citations of original sources of information,
commend it, in particular, to the student and to the engineer in
general practice or specializing in other branches. The book lacks
proper balance as a book on sanitary engineering.” Earle B. Phelps.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 176. Ap. ’07. 1870w.
=Hare, Christopher.= High and puissant Marguerite of Austria, princess
dowager of Spain, duchess dowager of Savoy, regent of the Netherlands.
*$2.50. Scribner.
7–25681.
A full biography which incidentally makes use of the interesting
events of Marguerite’s life and leadership for reflecting the royal
customs of her century.
* * * * *
“That writer has given evidence in previous works of various excellent
qualities, such as sincerity and literary charm; but she lacks grip,
and shows the defect much more in this than in her last book. Although
the author is usually accurate in her facts, a few slips will be found
in her text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 90. Jl. 27. 940w.
“Character-study is not Mr. Hare’s strong point. He is more skilled in
the art of setting forth his story and weaving his fairly copious
material. It is a book worth reading, concerning persons not too well
known. And the story is clear and well outlined.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 132. Ap. 26, ’07. 2260w.
“Mr. Hare has written a book which at the lowest appreciation is
creditable. Our worst censure is directed against a style of
composition.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 870w.
“Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy
with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very
interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the
historical background.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w.
“The subject and the period of this book could not be more
interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.)
*$1.50. Putnam.
“In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a
stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information.
But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward
the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian
tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since
attained.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w.
“The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the
hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before
has the argument received such skilful treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w.
=Ind.= 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w.
“Whatever be one’s opinion of the proposition on which Harnack lays
chiefest stress, the value of the book as a contribution to the
history of the fixing of the evangelic tradition cannot be
questioned.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 340w.
=Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
+ + =Spec.= 99: 252. Ag. 24, ’07. 1950w.
=Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Essays on the social gospel;
tr. by G. M. Craik. *$1.25. Putnam.
Containing “The evangelical history of the church,” and “The moral and
social significance of modern education,” by Dr. Harnack, and “The
moral teachings of Jesus,” by Dr. Herrmann. “Dr. Harnack insists that
the chief task of the church is still the preaching of the message of
redemption and of eternal life, and insists, too, that the church has
a social mission.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The essay by Herrmann will be the most welcome part of the book.”
Gerald Birney Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 708. O. ’07. 340w.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 695. Je. 8. 470w.
“The essay is not light reading, but the reader who takes the pains to
work his way into its spirit will be rewarded.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 350w.
“These essays by distinguished German theologians throw instructive
side-lights upon the social problem of the modern church.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 98: 566. Ap. 13, ’07. 1480w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.
7–35146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.
“Assuredly Mr. Harris is not witty, but his animal spirits are
inexhaustible.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 418. Mr. ’07. 500w.
=Harris, Miriam Coles.= Tents of wickedness. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31979.
“Types of the New York smart set are vividly portrayed in this story.
The chief female figure, is a young, motherless American girl, who has
been brought up in a French convent. She is a Roman Catholic, and is
shocked at many of the things she sees, and has only one congenial
friend among her father’s many acquaintances. This friend is the hero,
from whom she is separated through misunderstandings.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The book treats in an able way a theme of the utmost practical
importance to-day, and we bespeak for it an encouraging and hearty
welcome.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 403. D. ’07. 430w.
“If this book were not marred by one or two unnecessary bits of
artificial coarseness, one would be tempted to say that after skimming
through a dozen linotype historical romances here at last is a novel
to sit down and read.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“This is a novel of more than ordinary length, but it is by no means
wearisome, and will better repay attention than most of the stories
offered in such profusion to a long-suffering public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 230w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Creed of a layman: apologia pro fide mea. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
7–16987.
The author calls his book “my simple story of conversion and
conviction,” an account of a “regular and calm development of
thought.” He expresses a hope that the story of how spiritual rest
might be achieved may “prove useful to some ‘perturbed spirit’ in our
troubled times.” The exposition of his creed includes chapters upon:
Day of all the dead, Septem contra fidem, A Socratic dialogue,
Pantheism and cosmic emotion, Aims and ideals, A positivist prayer,
The presentation of infants, Marriage, Burial, Day of humanity, and a
Valedictory, Twenty one years at Newton Hall.
* * * * *
“Mr. Harrison begins with a somewhat narrow egotism, and his first
pages are irritating, meagre, and disappointing; but the latter half
of the book becomes universal in its interest, and cogent in its
claims, so that these essays well repay the reflective reading which
they acquire.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 751. Je. 22. 1460w.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
“May not attract new proselytes to the gospel of humanity as expounded
by Auguste Comte; but, in spite of its rather uncompromising polemic,
it compels respect by its manifest sincerity and genuine fervour of
conviction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 157. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.
=Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 1320w.
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. And if Mr. Harrison had
had a deeper sense of proportion he would not have taken himself quite
so seriously, and he would have been saved from some of the solemn
absurdities of the positivist religion.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 460w.
“We do not ... know of any book which will give to the curious and
interested reader so good an interpretation of the religion of
humanity as this volume of Mr. Frederic Harrison’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 523. Jl. 6, ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 80w.
“This indifference to facts is characteristic of the whole book; it
marks both Mr. Harrison’s criticism of Christianity and defence of his
own creed. When we turn from Mr. Harrison’s criticism to this
construction, we are still in the same abstract region. Facts are
still held of no account.”
− =Spec.= 98: 945. Je. 15, ’07. 1100w.
“It may be safely predicted that this book will take a permanent and
conspicuous place among the too few similar works of distinguished men
and women.” Arthur Ransom.
+ + =Westminster R.= 168: 49. Jl. ’07. 3440w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Memories and thoughts: men—books—cities—art. **$2.
Macmillan.
6–35547.
“This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the
past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of
the better class. By the author the book is described as ‘a chapter
from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes
se.’ The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are
miscellaneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and
tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of
their deaths.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 422. Ja. ’07. 260w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.
“At one time Mr. Harrison goes to the bottom of his subject, at
another he merely touches its surface. Still these ‘Memories and
thoughts,’ if approached with an open mind, will be found to reflect
seriousness of purpose and insight into life. They frequently provoke
dissent, they never forfeit respect.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 476. O. 20. 940w.
“It is the fine tone, the genial atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness,
of Mr. Harrison’s writings that attract the reader and win him over to
the cause of good literature.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 140w.
“But the papers are not all of equal value and interest. He presents
them ‘as permanent impressions left on his mind by a somewhat wide
experience.’ Some of these permanent impressions will appear to many
readers to be not much more than rather violent and persistent
prejudices.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 1080w.
“The personal note is dominant throughout Mr. Harrison’s book, which
leaves us with a sense of friendly and close acquaintance with a
writer in whom seriousness of purpose, firm convictions, broad
culture, and generous sympathies combine with the thinker’s love of
truth, the artist’s love of beauty, and a keen zest for the joys of
living.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 1076. D. 29, ’06. 930w.
“If they are not marked by the quality which we call ‘artistic’ or
‘literary’ they at least express a freshness and alertness by no means
common in men of letters who have passed their prime of years.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 632. F. ’07. 780w.
“About the bulk of [these papers] the most we can say is that unless
one has an exaggerated opinion of the significance of Mr. Harrison’s
personality, their interest expired with their occasion.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 2. F. 23, ’07. 750w.
“The American paper is particularly well worth studying. So much,
doubtless, may be said of the whole of the volume, one or two minor
articles possibly excepted.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 1710w.
* =Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–36260.
A companion to “The creed of a layman.” “It is designed to form a
summary of the philosophical grounds on which the preceding work was
based; and it carries on the autobiographical account of the stages by
which the author reached those conclusions.”
* * * * *
“He has been well advised to gather these trophies of his skill for a
newer generation, which ought to find them of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 850w.
=Harrison, Mary S. K. (Lucas Malet, pseud.).= Far horizon. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–983.
“Mrs. Harrison’s first work in five years. It deals with the acts and
opinions of a foreign-born man, who, after many years of hard work,
becomes suddenly possessed of a moderate fortune and leisure. The time
covered is from 1899 to 1901. Matters of modern finance, manners, and
morals, theatrical and religious, are touched upon.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“The merits of the book are more obvious than its defects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 729. D. 8. 690w.
“There is little humour in the book, no lovemaking, and the hero is a
man of between fifty and sixty, and yet from what might be called
unpromising material the author has given us a story of never-flagging
interest, rich in thought and feeling.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 595. F. ’07. 1560w.
“The book is a vivid, masterful, human document, fulfilling the
strictest demands of great art. We need but add that any one who does
not read it, and read it thoughtfully, will suffer a distinct loss.
‘The far horizon’ is worthy to take its place among the great English
novels.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 538. Jl. ’07. 1770w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 343. Mr. ’07. 1360w.
“May be reckoned among the more considerable fictional productions of
the season.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.
“A story so well told; so finely finished, with such real people of
the British middle-class sort moving thru its pages, that the critical
faculty is disarmed from the first, and one yields to the charm of
unique art.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 420w.
“Of Charles Kingsley’s purely literary talents and graces of style his
daughter, the author, evinces hardly a trace.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A clever and an interesting book. But it would be more than that if
the main story were only as good as its setting.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.
“It does not strike one as a book which had to be written, or will
have to be read. But it possesses the treasure of a really original
and affecting central motive.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 460w.
“It is readable in no ordinary way. One does not hurry through its
pages intent only on the story, but it both invites and repays
leisurely attention. One reads, also, with no very distinct sense of
the author’s style, which is unobtrusive and free from vagaries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.
“‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue:
creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of
perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w.
“A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of
reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most
objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually
live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w.
“It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s
experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many
dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
− =No. Am.= 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w.
“One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely
devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking,
its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its
chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w.
“It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one
born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 183. My. ’07. 740w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 450w.
“Is the dreariest and dismallest novel we have ever read. Its tragedy
does not make us weep; its comedy does not make us laugh: it bores us
acutely.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 744. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
“‘The far horizon,’ while fully as clever as ‘Sir Richard Calmady,’ is
free from the ugly blemishes which disfigured that brilliant but
conspicuously uncomfortable novel. The theme and its treatment are
higher and finer, there is less reliance on violence or
sensationalism, and the narrative has ‘shining moments’ which
transcend the capacities of ordinary talent. On the other hand it
cannot honestly be contended that this is a pleasing or a satisfying
book.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 8, ’06. 1020w.
=Harrison, Newton.= Practical alternating currents and power
transmission. $2.50. Hedenberg.
6–39743.
“Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are
devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric
lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the
various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and
seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth
to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration
of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and
operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated
with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss
alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and
originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance,
the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 250w.
=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags. il.
**$3. Little.
6–42447.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed
for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of
inquiry.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history
with his history of the national flag.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Appeal to arms.
7–4798.
A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is
intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military
and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’
motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried
to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”
=v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Outcome of the civil war.
7–7446.
Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a
continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of
this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it
forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and
the assassination of Lincoln.
=v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald.= Reconstruction, political and
economic.
This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to
“National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that
reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not
deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly
in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson,
the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from
the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad
building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”
=v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie.= National development (1877–1885).
7–33222.
Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the
break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the
adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs
of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of
the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the
party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal
troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the
national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian
canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the
effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen
to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.
=v. 24. Dewey, Davis R.= National problems.
7–33614.
Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland
administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the
national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil
service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the
reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial
organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.
* * * * *
“The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of
a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to
the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in
its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the
plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S.
Reeves.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 17.)
“Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though
the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete
information than do other portions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 675. Ap. ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 18.)
“The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness,
and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive
account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 677. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)
“Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where
opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the
best general description and study of the social and moral aspects of
the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C.
Ballagh.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 902. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 16.)
“The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as
far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet
written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that
war.” E. Benj. Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 907. Jl. ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 20 and
21.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)
“The best survey of its field.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S. (Review of v. 17.)
“Best brief survey of the subject.”
+ + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. (Review of v. 18.)
“Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)
“It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer
is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business
of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.”
Walter L. Fleming.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 174. Jl. ’07. 560w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to
have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some
objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall
Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too
much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 182. Jl. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 20.)
“This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy
reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.”
Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 166. O. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 22.)
“It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too
large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly
devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 15. Jl. 1, ’07. 4100w. (Review of v. 14–21.)
“It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and
that there are no very horrible examples.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1411. Je. 13, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 16–21.)
“He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic
imagination.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 20.)
“A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed
impartial examination.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 17.)
“The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular
commendation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 156. F. 14, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 18.)
“The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book,
however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval
situation on the eve of hostilities.”
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 202. F. 28, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as
a whole, conventional.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 502. My. 30, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only
intelligible but interesting to the layman.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 20.)
“He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the
authorities, the best in his period which exists.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 21.)
“The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and
critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with
which we are acquainted.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 22.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 18.)
“As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems
to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery,
and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent
comfort and aid to John Brown.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 19.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 20.)
“His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly
inadequate.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.)
“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative
instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little
disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the
pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south,
from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.)
“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes,
marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain
distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes,
however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality
which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different
points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.)
=Harting, James Edmund.= Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.
“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to
himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook
in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be
overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the
things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of
enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very
agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein
afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with
antiquarian research.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
“These ‘Recreations’ may be cordially recommended to the lover of
nature as a companion on his summer holidays.” F.
+ =Nature.= 74: 82. My. 24, ’06. 610w.
“There is a certain dryness about Mr. Harting’s style of writing, and
for this reason he is at his best when he has learning to impart.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 583. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w.
Harvard studies in classical philology; ed. by a committee of the
instructors in classics. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
Among these informing studies are the following: An unrecognized actor
in Greek comedy, The battle of Salamis, The origin of Plato’s cave,
Notes on Vitruvius, The dramatic art of Aeschylus, The use of the
high-soled shoe or buskin, and Five new manuscripts of Donatus on
Terence.
* * * * *
“A good specimen of the general character of those preceding it,
perhaps more than usually interesting, because it deals more with
questions of history and literature, and less with speculations.” R.
Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 432. My. 4, ’07. 1440w.
“An especially interesting series of papers in literature as well as
in technical scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 840w.
* =Harvey society, New York.= Harvey lectures delivered under the
auspices of the Harvey society of New York. *$2. Lippincott.
7–2726.
Thirteen lectures given before the Harvey society, an association of
physicians organized for the purpose of making the work of
investigation better known to the practitioner. “The range of subjects
is wide, from the implantation of the ovum to old age.... Even the
general reader, not altogether unversed in science, will find it worth
while to examine the lectures on trypanosomes, fatigue, tuberculosis,
the cause of the heart-beat, and possibly one or two more.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The volume constitutes a most valuable collection of first-hand
information given by some of the most prominent investigators in this
country and Europe.” Victor C. Vaughan.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 630. N. 8, ’07. 3860w.
* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Rome. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–135.
Numerous illustrations and an alphabetical list of artists represented
in Rome increase the reference value of the book. It “aims to furnish
the visitor to that city with a guide by which he can find, and which
will help him to understand and appreciate, the important pictures in
the galleries, churches, and palaces. The author’s method is to
indicate the causes which led to the production of the painting and to
tell something of the personality of the artist. Then she describes
the work itself and its meaning, with occasional extracts from famous
critics.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.
=Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 528. Ag. 31, ’07. 120w.
“As a guide this book might be of great use in Rome. But the unwary
must be warned against some of the writer’s fanciful ideas.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.
* =Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an
authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed.
**$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
An intimate account of the life, scientific achievements and methods
of the foremost plant-breeder in the world. The appearance of this
second edition is justified by the facts that Mr. Burbank vouches for
the statements both scientific and practical made in the volume, that
the interest in the man and his work has steadily increased since the
first edition appeared, and that a “closer study of the work during
the period since the book was first issued demonstrates that this is
one of the greatest constructive enterprises ever established among
men.”
=Haskell, Helen Eggleston.= Billy’s princess. $1.25. Page.
7–29688.
Billy was a boy of ten who ran away from the boarding house after his
mother had been carried off to the sanitarium, and his princess was
the little French girl whom he found on the streets and befriended to
the extent of buying her new clothes with his savings and entertaining
her lavishly in his drygoods box home. Then after he had prospered at
his trade of news boy he found kind aunts who took him to England to
be educated, and who promised the princess that they would some day
bring him back to her.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Cassell’s carpentry and joinery:
comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice,
including about 1800 engravings and 12 plates. $3. McKay.
A practical, exhaustive treatment of the subject with full description
of tools and processes commonly found in daily use in the workshop.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Metal working: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; 2206 il. and working drawings. $2.50.
McKay.
Very nearly eight hundred pages are devoted to the practical phases of
metal-working, the theory being discussed only where it is an
essential preliminary to principle underlying a method, a process or
the action of a tool. The scope of the book embraces the whole art of
working metals with hand tools and with such simple machine tools as
the small engineering shop usually contains.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Woodworking: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; with 2545 il. and working drawings.
$2.50. McKay.
An exhaustive presentation of woodworking. “The book is intended for
all those who would handle tools and who, by the use of them, wish to
furnish the home and to profit their pockets. The treatment adopted
throughout is simple and practical, and there has been a consistent
endeavor to combine accurate information, with clear and definite
instruction.”
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the gospels. $6.
Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 1.= “This volume extends from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Knowledge,’ and the work
when completed will ‘include everything that the gospels contain,
whether directly related to Christ or not.’”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Apart from varieties of opinion, which are inevitable where many
contributors are concerned, the dictionary is a scholarly work, which
ought to foster learning among the preachers for whom it is written.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 370w.
“To sum up our judgment on this work, we would say that, from the
standpoint of a rather strict conservative scholarship, it is a highly
creditable accomplishment; and that it will be of great service to
students and preachers whose opinions are free from a tendency to
radicalism.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 117. Ap. ’07. 1080w.
“Is learned and decidedly conservative, and is adapted for both the
exegetic and homiletic use of the preacher.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 340w.
“It will, no doubt, be objected against the ‘Dictionary of Christ and
the gospels’ that it contains some otiose matter, such as the somewhat
inferior discussion of ‘Art,’ which takes us little if at all further
than Westcott’s familiar essay. But equally it will be admitted that
the preacher’s purpose is better served than it has ever been before.
The articles have a tendency to make him think, and, in so far, they
earn the gratitude of his congregation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 107. Ap. 5, ’07. 1290w.
“The work contains, in the first place, an intolerable amount of
extraneous and irrelevant matter. A far more serious defect is the
choice of writers of a decidedly reactionary point of view for
articles on important subjects.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 780w.
“Undoubtedly the work contains a great deal that is of value. But it
is not to be compared in value with the ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ And
the minister who already possesses that dictionary, and who has not
very much money to spend on books, will not find this later work
indispensable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 597. O. 5, ’07. 1180w.
“The principal criticism indeed that we have to make on this volume is
that both editor and contributors have tried too much to be complete;
there are too many articles and they are too long.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 1050w.
“Criticism, history, geography, and other matters have not been
neglected, but as a whole the book is of a distinctly practical
character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 220w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book contains some details that were hardly intended for the
student so far away as America, and on the other hand, many general
points of vital interest are passed over all too briefly. This is
especially true of the physical history and dynamical problems of the
region. Nevertheless, the volume is a valuable and welcome summary of
the geology of this distant land.” J. E. C.
+ + − =J. Geol.= 15: 81. Ja. ’07. 800w.
Reviewed by W. M. D.
+ =Science=, n.s. 24: 684. N. 30, ’06. 600w.
=Hattersley, C. W.= Uganda by pen and camera; with preface by T. F.
Victor Buxton. $1. Union press.
In which is reflected the progress made by this African province
during the years since Stanley’s visit. The author shows how the
journey is made from London, describes the natives, their government,
religion, schools, the work of missionaries and the results of
Christianity.
=Haultmont, Marie.= By the royal road. *$1.60. Herder.
“The church of Rome is here presented as ‘the living church.’ ... The
heroine is a high church member of the English establishment by
education, but passes through scepticism to the Catholic fold, while
two or three of the most attractive characters remain Protestants. The
lively narrative is mainly concerned with provincial society and
family life as affected by mixed attachments and marriages between
French and English Catholics and Protestants.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Considerable taste and skill are displayed in structure and
characterization and the style occasionally recalls Charlotte Yonge’s
work.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 150w.
“A good English novel of the old Miss Austen family sitting-room type,
written by a woman who understands women, and does not strive to carry
her analysis of the masculine soul much below the surface.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 839. Mr. ’07. 250w.
=Havell, Herbert Lorde.= Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
6–33586.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
=Haw, George=, ed. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50.
Macmillan.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 578. N. ’06. 370w.
=Hawk, Philip B.= Practical physiological chemistry. il. *$4. Blakiston.
“Written for students of medicine and general science, who have
already secured a good groundwork in the more fundamental branches of
chemistry, and presents a very good outline of those facts of
physiological chemistry which may be clearly demonstrated in a
laboratory course. While the title might be taken to indicate that the
work is a laboratory manual only, this is by no means the case, as
many of the discussions are full enough to constitute a general
treatise on the subject.”—Science.
* * * * *
“Although there is nothing strikingly original in his presentation of
the subject, the book he has produced is free from error, is clearly
written, is practical, and sufficiently full for most purposes.” W. D.
H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 268. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Most of [the tests] are clearly described, and are full enough for
working conditions, but in a few cases the value to the student would
be greatly increased by the addition of fuller explanations.” J. H.
Long.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
=Hawker, Mary Elizabeth (Lanoe Falconer, pseud.).= Old Hampshire
vignettes. $1. Macmillan.
“Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or
more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the
slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly
recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the
thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly
written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 410. Ap. 6. 60w.
“Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 230w.
“The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or
quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that
she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch
is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases
she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the
people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 700w.
“Miss Hawker has taste, feeling, exquisite nicety. Beyond all doubt
she writes of village character better than anyone has written since
George Eliot. No one comes near her in her combination of crystal
clearness, fine point, discrimination and simplicity. Where she is
wanting, of course, is in dramatic power.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 420w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Little water-folks: stories of lake and river. †75c.
Crowell.
7–24035.
Dedicated to the boy who sees, these stories sketch intimately the
habits of water-dwellers, among them muskrats, otters, frogs,
water-weasels, and turtles.
* * * * *
“It is like living in the open to read the stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 50w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver. $1.25.
Jacobs.
6–36434.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Tenants of the trees. il. $1.50. Page.
7–20722.
How the author cultivated his acquaintance with his friends of fur and
feather makes a most instructive and entertaining chronicle for the
youthful lover of tree-folks.
* * * * *
“The coloured illustrations ... are mainly pretty bad. The text, too,
contains some curious blunders.” George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 380w.
=Hawkesworth, John.= Graphical handbook for reinforced concrete design.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.
7–469.
“This book contains 15 plates of diagrams for use in determining the
size and the amount of reinforcement for floors, beards and columns of
reinforced concrete construction.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Graphical representations have advantages over tabular statements,
and these diagrams are to be commended for their simplicity, clearness
and convenient form. Such criticisms as are given here show a limit to
their usefulness, but it must be remembered that these limitations are
partly inherent in the building regulations followed.” Arthur N.
Talbot.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 1200w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Helena’s path. †$1.25. McClure.
7–29569.
An entertaining little comedy over a right of way which involves the
dignified but firm refusal of a young woman land holder to allow a
young nobleman to continue to pursue his way, adopted by generations
before him, across her recently acquired estate to a strip of beach,
lying beyond, for his daily swim. The quarrel leads straight to a
romance.
* * * * *
“It is several years since Mr. Hope has produced anything so
thoroughly artistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 410w.
“The first chapter of this story is so good that the reader is almost
outraged at the inane character of the rest of it.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 480w.
“Neither the characters nor their actions are of this earth, earthy;
but the tale is not on that account the less vivacious and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 200w.
“There is much comedy in this little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The trouble is that Mr. Hope’s extraordinary versatility has made him
in the past nearly all things to all men, and ‘Helena’s path’ comes
dangerously near being nothing to anybody.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
“Is light-hearted farce, unexpected in incident, witty in dialogue,
and wholly entertaining, except the extracts from the hero’s diary,
which may be skipped to advantage.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Sophy of Kravonia.
†$1.50. Harper.
6–36178.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 230. F. ’07. 1140w.
“Mr. Hope’s hand has lost little of its cunning since the days when he
invented Zenda, and his ‘Sophy of Kravonia’ is a capital story, albeit
the type is now somewhat worn.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Sport royal. †$1.50. Harper.
7–34772.
These chapters record the adventures of an Englishman who, while
idling at Heidelberg, becomes unexpectedly drawn into a court quarrel
issuing from domestic misunderstandings. He is champion-in-general and
possesses the quiet wit and unfailing courage of all of Anthony Hope’s
heroes.
* * * * *
“Is a very light and airy trifle, hardly important enough to deserve
the special honor of decoration and ornamental binding here given to
it. It has, in a minor way, some of the dash of ‘The prisoner of
Zenda.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
=Haworth, Paul Leland.= Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of
1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
6–22324.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The monograph is thoroughly scientific in method and sound in its
criticism of fact, but is equally unscientific in spirit and temper.
The style occasionally descends perilously near flippancy and
vulgarity at the expense of southern democrats.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 410. Ja. ’07. 950w.
“Worthy of notice, although not of first-rate pretensions.” John
Spencer Bassett.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 160w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= In colonial days. $2.50. Page.
6–29091.
“Four of Hawthorne’s delightful stories of the Old Province house in
Boston have been grouped under the general title ‘In colonial days,’
copiously illustrated by Mr. Frank C. Merrill.... Anybody would enjoy
the tales in their new setting, which ought, however to prove
particularly acceptable to younger readers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Merrill’s pictures, redolent of old times and customs, and yet
full of life and spirit, are evidently the fruits of congenial and
sympathetic effort.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
“In costumes and other appurtenances he is historically correct, while
his figures are animated and lifelike.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 170w.
=Hawtrey, Valentina.= Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
7–8220.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To those who have admired the author’s previous work it is sufficient
to say that [‘Romance of old wars’] reaches her usual high standard in
interest and execution.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 16. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.
“Miss Hawtrey has a real gift for instilling an atmosphere of
freshness and vitality into the historical background of her stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 280w.
“In spite of the sorrows and poverty and the pathetic ending, the
author has caught that glamour which is the sunset radiance of the
past ever shining behind us.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 40w.
“The vividness with which it makes alive and thrilling the life of
noble and peasant five centuries and more ago is the book’s special
claim to consideration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“The writer ... sees the past pictorially, romantically, showing the
superficial pageant and leaving unexpressed that absolute humanity
which makes it as real and living as the present.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Hay, John.= Addresses. **$2. Century.
6–30898.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“What he said is valuable first of all because of the content, but it
is equally interesting and instructive to one who is in search of
standards of graceful English.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Few are the books that possess the charm, apart from their contents,
of the recently published ‘Addresses of John Hay.’”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old prints. *$2. Stokes.
7–6391.
“This book is meant for novices and collectors of moderate
ambition.... The ‘chats’ give good advice to those who have pounds as
well as shillings to lavish on their hobby.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Written for English readers but interesting and will excite
enthusiasm for the subject. Profusely illustrated with half-tones,
good as to subject but poor as to execution.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“As regards quality, indeed, Mr. Hayden sets the standard all too low.
The information given concerning them [early German or Italian
masters] is the least satisfactory part of the book. The bibliography
and glossary of technical terms are generally good.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 440w.
“An admirable book, full of information, sound advice and pleasant
reading. The sentiment of the sincere collector pervades the volume
and the gold value is not, as is usual in collectors’ guide, made the
first and last point of consideration.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Haydon, A. L.=, comp. Book of the V. C.: a record of the deeds of
heroism for which the Victoria cross has been bestowed, from its
institution in 1857 to the present time. $1.50. Dutton.
7–20536.
“Certainly a good idea for a boy’s book is this narrating the stories
of exploits by which the Victoria cross has been won by soldier
heroes. Some thirty of these narratives are included in this
volume.... Altogether 522 men have been decorated by this cross, and
some two hundred of these are alive at the present time.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Haydon relates the stories of the many deeds of heroism with
spirit and in a way to interest all boy readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Haynes, George Henry.= Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
6–18603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work may be recommended as a scholarly, impartial, and rational
discussion of a great national problem.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 400. Ja. ’07. 910w.
“Arguments for and against popular election of senators ... are fairly
and clearly stated, though the author does not hesitate to reveal his
sympathies for the affirmative. For his work in bringing before the
public the results thus far accomplished Dr. Haynes is deserving of
hearty thanks.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 553. Ja. ’07. 1380w.
“On the whole. Professor Haynes’ work deserves a hearty welcome, for
he has succeeded in the difficult task of writing a book which the
layman can understand and which is at the same time worthy the
attention of the specialist.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 360w.
“Timely, thorough and invaluable as a reference work. Those who wish
to prepare themselves to fight the battles of democracy with
intelligence should possess this book.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 500w.
“Professor Haynes has ... very thoroly presented the whole matter from
the historical standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“A full and fair discussion of an important question.” James Breck
Perkins.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.
=Hays, Joseph Weller.= Combustion and smokeless furnaces. *$1.50. Hill
pub. co.
6–45712.
The matter contained in this volume may not be new to the engineer.
“But it may be of service to the layman, and, especially, to members
of city councils and others who are wrestling with the smoke
problem.... The theoretical part of the book, treating of the
chemistry of combustion, contains practically the same matter as is
found in other treatises on the subject.... The latter half of the
book is devoted to the discussion of smokeless furnaces.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“A concise and clearly written treatise.” Wm. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 303. Mr. 14, ’07. 1920w.
=Hazen, Allen.= Clean water and how to get it. $1.50. Wiley.
7–30139.
A book primarily for mayors and aldermen, and of interest to
water-works superintendents and members of water-boards into which the
author has put “some of the principles—common sense, technical and
financial—to be followed in obtaining and paying for a plentiful
supply of clear water.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book abounds with facts and suggestions that will be new and
valuable to even the veterans of the water-works fraternity.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 660w.
“In a new edition, which is sure to be called for soon, the path to
the solid knowledge the book contains might be made easier by a more
logical arrangement of its contents and by the addition of two
elementary chapters, one outlining, at the beginning of the book, the
general characteristics of a good water supply and one, in the middle
of the book, on the general plan and principles of water filtration.”
C.-E. A. Winslow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 662. N. 15, ’07. 1100w.
=Headley, Frederick Webb.= Life and evolution. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–34602.
“A series of ‘the fairy-tales of science,’ in which we are shown the
slow steps by which life crept into higher forms from moneron to man,
the text being largely supplemented by excellent illustrations from
drawings and photographs. The value of the book lies in the strong
impulse it is sure to raise in many readers to verify the statements
for themselves, and thereby enlarge the circle of students of
science.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The author has ranged his facts admirably and the book, being written
in very simple and almost non-scientific language, should be very
widely read.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
“It may be said at once that Mr. Headley has done very well indeed
what he set out to do in this book. In the reviewer’s opinion, there
exists no other book which in the field covered can compare in general
excellence with this.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 550w.
“It is a book for browsing in and should interest scientific students
as well as lay readers.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 40w.
“Although the author has written carefully, and has made but few slips
of statement, this volume is, in a number of ways, unsatisfactory, and
not least so in regard to the mechanical make-up.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The author has succeeded in producing a very readable and thoughtful
book, which deserves a large clientele of readers.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 434. Mr. 7, ’07. 1140w.
“While a serious and erudite discussion of many points of a difficult
philosophy, is well calculated to be a wonder book for the information
and delight of a novice in natural history, or even of a child.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.
=Headley, John William.= Confederate operations in Canada and New York.
$2. Neale.
6–16287.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 60w.
=Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis=, eds. Lippincott’s new
gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + + =Atlan.= 99: 426. Mr. ’07. 650w.
=Heine, Heinrich.= Works. 12v. $25. Dutton.
The first eight volumes of this edition give Heine’s prose writings
translated by Charles G. Leland. After Leland’s death the work was
completed by Thomas Brooksbank who translated the ninth volume, “The
book of songs” and Margaret Armour who translated the last three
volumes of poetry.
* * * * *
“We have noted a number of passages in which the German seems to have
been misapprehended, and many others in which it has not been rendered
with sufficient fidelity; but otherwise the translation is for the
most part distinctly meritorious, for Miss Armour is a skilful and
fluent versifier, and often catches the spirit of her author very
successfully. Some slips in classical matters ought to have been
avoided.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 280w. (Review of v. 12.)
“The best of Heine evaporates in translation, no doubt, but readers
who possess no German may be congratulated upon having offered to them
so close an approach to the original as is found in the present
version.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“Yet granting all defects, this edition stands as the best
presentation in English of the bulk of Heine’s writings.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“With the prose the translators of the present edition have succeeded
fairly well. With the lyric poems they have failed, but have come
perhaps as near to succeeding as has ever been done.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Heller, Albert Henry.= Stresses in structures and the accompanying
deformations. 2d ed. *$4. A. G. Geren, 1602 N. High st., Columbus, O.
7–15561.
Only a portion of Professor Heller’s contemplated treatise was
completed before his death. This part includes probably half of what
the work was to comprise. “It covers the principles of statical
analysis, stresses in beams and in columns, and stresses in simple
trusses.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work is extremely well done. Simplification and conciseness are
secured by the most desirable method. A good knowledge of his subject
and a sound view of the underlying facts and conditions are exhibited
generally in the work. A full statement of how the phenomena of
flexure vary from those expressed in the commonly-used formulas, and
remarks on fatigue action and on the elastic properties of iron and
steel merit special commendation.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.
=Heming, Arthur.= Spirit Lake. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–21229.
In this novel the white man plays but a small part. It is a story of
the Indian of to-day, of the hunters of the Hudson bay country, and it
tells of their life, their adventures, their superstitions, and their
customs; closing like the conventional romance with the marriage of a
young brave and an Indian maiden according to the rites of their
tribe.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“The author would seem to have made instruction his aim rather than
artistic excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 180w.
“The book is not properly a novel, but it has an abundance of dramatic
force and there is a simple directness in its style that makes you
feel that you are getting pretty close to the truth about the red man
of the Canadian fur-lands.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“This is an excellent book for boys just emerging from the stage where
they ‘play Indian’ and not yet old enough to relish their Parkman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07, 110w.
“The book is readable in parts, as it would appear, because those
parts really are drawn from the personal observation of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
“The book is a pleasant change after the usual run of common novels,
and its readers will enjoy the glimpses which it affords of a romantic
and still primitive world.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 300w.
=Henderson, George R.= Cost of locomotive operation. $2.50. Railway
gazette.
6–34658.
“In discussing this subject the various expenses are classified under
three general headings—Supplies, Maintenance and Service—and each
heading is subdivided into its elementary items, each of which is
examined in regard to all phases of quality and quantity which affect
the cost of operation, and also as affected by grade, speed, curves,
loading, weather, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Valuable contribution to railway technical literature. A book that
should be in the hands of every railroad officer who has in any way to
do with the supervision or criticism of locomotive operation and its
cost.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 84. Ja. 17, ’07. 1570w.
=Henderson, John.= Jamaica; painted by A. S. Forrest; with 24 full-page
il. in col. *$2. Macmillan.
7–20521.
Rather a traveler’s impressions of the country and its people than a
“profound or long continued” study. “The author brings out vividly the
character and human side of the natives, the commercial needs and
difficulties of the Jamaican situation, and makes for the reader
scores of little pen-pictures of queer and out-of-the-way features of
the life in the island.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Told in a satisfactory style. Many of the illustrations are very
good, but some are reproduced in too crude colors even for tropical
scenes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 214. Ta. 24, ’07. 200w.
“The book, and especially the bright colored pictures, will satisfy
the average reader’s wish for a popular account of life as it was
lived in the community now suffering under such a calamity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 24, ’07. 350w.
“It is written in a notably sprightly style of description and is very
far removed either from dull historical writing or from guide-book
minuteness.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Henderson, Reuben Stewart.= Railroad curve tables. *$1. Eng. news.
6–41298.
A volume which contains a comprehensive table of functions on a
one-degree curve, with correction quantities giving exact values for
any degree of curve, together with various other tables and formulas,
including radii, natural sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, etc. To
which is added a method of finding any function of a curve of any
degree or radius without a field book.
* * * * *
“It will find a place with the railroad engineer on account of the
excellent table of functions for a one-degree curve.” Charles L.
Crandall.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
=Henderson, Thomas F., and Watt, Francis.= Scotland of to-day. il. **$2.
Pott.
“The authors take up the religion, the art, the literature, the games,
the institutions, the food and drink, the education, the wit and
humor, of the Scotland of to-day, and treat them all briefly but
entertainingly. There is description also of towns and scenery, but
preference is constantly given to the human element. But modern
Scotland is shown against the background of its history and its
achievements of former ages.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Small things these, perhaps, to comment upon, but an irritating air
of superiority in the writers which is forever cropping up suggests
retort.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 920. S. 21, ’07. 760w.
“There are many indications in this work both of craftsmanship and
thought; but bad punctuation and spoiling in many instances mar the
enjoyment of the reader.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 325. S. 21. 1590w.
“Whoever wishes to enjoy a picture of the Scotland of to-day, somewhat
sketchy in effect, but still strong and interesting in its outlines,
will find it in ‘Scotland of to-day.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 563. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
=Henderson, William James.= Art of the singer. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–33621.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is eminently practical; and with a minimum of technical
phraseology it explains to the student the principal physiological
problems in voice training and the best methods of solving them.”
Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 430w.
“There are few singers in the world who could not profit at some point
from a careful study of Mr. Henderson’s recent book.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 310w.
“This material is well arranged, and Mr. Henderson’s own views are
clearly expressed.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 310w.
=Henderson, William James.= Sea yarns for boys, spun by an old Salt.
†60c. Harper.
The old sailor who sat at the end of the pier and looked out over the
waves, amused himself and two small sea-eager boys by a series of most
remarkable tales. They are all of the couldn’t-possibly-have-happened
kind, about a shark that towed a blockade runner, a monkey that was
captain of a ship, a merman who dined with the old salt upon a coral
reef, a whale, a cannibal king and other strange and equally
entrancing things.
* * * * *
“The tales are genuine flights of an imagination that stops at
nothing. Moreover, they are adorned with many bits of laughable
reflection and wiseacre philosophy of the weatherbeaten brand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 500w.
=Hendrick, Burton Jesse.= Story of life insurance. **$1.20. McClure.
7–17891.
“Mr. Hendrick begins with the scandals growing out of the ‘surplus,’
traces the notorious career of Henry B. Hyde and the others who
contributed to the demoralization of American life insurance, gives a
sympathetic account of the reforms secured through the good offices of
Elizur Wright, presents a concise history of the ‘tontine,’ and
describes the race for business, the speculative management, and the
actual corruption disclosed a couple of years ago.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A clean concise, accurate history of life insurance.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.
“Such a work ought to perform a useful service in helping to thwart
future schemes for evil on the part of unprincipled insurance
managers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 80w.
“In writing a trustworthy popular account of the evils that have
attended the insurance business Mr. Hendrick has performed a distinct
public service; his volume should reach a wide circle of readers.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 486. My. 23, ’07. 230w.
“These articles not only give a good exposition of the somewhat
intricate subject of modern life insurance, but contain much
historical material not otherwise accessible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 130w.
=Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 390w.
=Hendrick, Frank.= Power to regulate corporations and commerce. **$4.
Putnam.
6–38328.
The following paragraph from Mr. Hendrick’s preface states the scope
of the volume: “This book is an attempt to define the limits within
which the governments of the several States and of the United States
may secure freedom of trade by control of the persons and things
engaged therein, and to indicate the respective powers of the three
departments of the Government in the exercise of such control. The
relation of the three departments of the Government of the United
States to one another and to those of the State governments in the
control of inter-State commerce and of corporations is set forth with
references to over two thousand cases involving questions of
constitutional law.”
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 710w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 60. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The author’s discussions are, it must be said, not always
intelligible.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 200w.
“More will be heard of Mr. Hendrick’s proposal of law, for such it
must be called rather than an exposition of existing law, despite the
trend of recent rulings.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1900w.
“The book will be of value to the lawyer engaged in railway or other
forms of corporate law; to the legislator who is asked to deal with
this general subject; to the journalist who is called upon to instruct
his readers respecting pending legislation; and to officials of great
corporations whose sins against the law are sometimes sins of
ignorance not of willfulness. But the lay reader will find it not only
heavy but intricate reading, and will legitimately desire some one to
interpret it to him.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 370w.
=Henry VIII., King of England.= Love letters of Henry VIII. to Anne
Boleyn. lea. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–430.
“Each letter is dated as exactly as the evidence warrants, and there
are a few textual notes. A perusal of the letters shows Henry in the
character of a fairly ardent though not passionate lover, with a
strong tendency to moralize and to lay emphasis upon the practical
rather than the sentimental aspects of his affection.” (Dial.) “The
format of the book expresses the period in a most satisfactory way,
with its woodcut headbands and initials, and titles and running head
in Old-English black letter, and folios in black lettered numerals at
the foot of each page.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“A very satisfactory trade edition.”
+ =Bookm.= 26: 103. S. ’07. 110w.
“A curious little book, fraught with interest both as a historical
study and a human document.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 350w.
=Henry, Alfred Judson.= Climatology of the United States. $10. Chief of
the weather bureau, Washington, D. C.
“After an interesting review of climatic records for the United
States, 85 pages are devoted to a general discussion of climatology,
taking up temperature, precipitation, sunshine, winds and seasonal
variations.... Numerous maps and charts are employed by way of
illustration.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Contains a vast amount of compact, well-arranged information needed
almost daily by engineers, so much, in fact, as to make certain
omissions very noticeable and regrettable.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Four million. †$1. McClure.
6–12856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a general way the stories suggest the thumbnail studies of Frapié,
Provins, and the other flashlight Frenchmen, but without their
pessimism and despair.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 126. Ja. ’07. 510w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Heart of the West. †$1.50.
McClure.
7–33208.
A group of humorous stories of frontier life.
* * * * *
“The whole collection might be taken as an example of how conventional
and tiresome the raciest slang may grow, when used in excess, as a
means of enlivening flimsy and carelessly conceived commonplaces.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“The funniest stories by this well-known writer have been collected in
the volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“If he has a fault it is that he sets forth too opulent a spread; like
a rich parvenu’s banquet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 747. N. 23, ’07. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Trimmed lamp, and other stories of
the four million. †$1. McClure.
7–16486.
“Free from the too common trick of embellishing actuality with
traditional cant, this author wins the intelligent reader through a
sympathetic cynicism denoting experience and honesty, the whole
expressing itself in most humorous form. Shopgirls and bartenders and
pseudo-Bohemians and ‘that sad company of mariners known as Jersey
commuters’—such types are hit off with immense cleverness.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“There is something irresistible about the stories, with all their
crimes upon them; they are so buoyant and careless, so genial in their
commentary, and so pleasantly colored by a sentiment which, if as
sophisticated as Broadway itself, is still perfectly spontaneous and
sincere.” Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“The reader who skips a single story in the collection runs the risk
of losing something that he would have liked quite as well as those he
read, if not rather better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 79. S. ’07. 530w.
“It is with the same humor that he still graces his stories; but there
has crept into his work some other qualities which give it a worth and
charm that it did not have before.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 370w.
“For stories of their kind, are fine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.
“‘O. Henry’ is actually that rare bird, of which we so often hear
false reports—a born story-teller.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 300w.
“It is not to much to say that O. Henry achieves the Carlylian miracle
of taking the roofs off—lifting the lid—and shows what lies beneath.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 839w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.
“‘The trimmed lamp’ must appeal to all discriminating devotees of
local character study, and each one of them will wish to stay
acquainted with ‘O. Henry.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 130w.
=Henschel, George.= Personal recollections of Johannes Brahms: some of
his letters to and pages from a journal kept by George Henschel. $1.50.
Badger, R. G.
7–10574.
Excerpts from a journal kept while traveling with Brahms in the
seventies form the nucleus of Mr. Henschel’s reminiscent study, to
which have been added some recollections and letters. Several
reproduced photographs of the great composer are included.
* * * * *
“It is an interesting contribution to the sidelights that have been
thrown upon the personality of the great master by a number of his
friends and contemporaries since his death.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 430w.
=Henshaw, Julia W.= Mountain wild flowers of America. *$2. Ginn.
6–25647.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The incompleteness of the book, however inevitable, is a more serious
drawback than its unscientific plan, and a drawback that must affect
all kinds of readers. However, she has, on the whole, made a good
selection, and her descriptions are as clear as they can be without
the use of botanical terms.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 560w.
=Hensley, Mrs. Sophie M.= Heart of a woman. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–3092.
“A book of verses of unobtrusive quality written by Mrs. Hensley, who
adds to her poetic gifts the largeheartedness of a woman interested in
philanthropic reforms.... The verses are carefully grouped under the
different heads, Love lyrics, A woman’s love-letters, Nature poems,
Narrative poems, Child poems and songs, Sonnets, and Rondeaus.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Though the verses are not tinged with any oppressive ethos, we feel
throughout a grace and simplicity of goodness. The meter and rhythm
are smooth, the meaning is not too deep-hidden, and the moods vary
from grave to gay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
“While there is nothing in the least objectionable in the Heart
disclosing itself in these verses, there is also nothing of special
value. The lines are of easy, rippling quality, and the sentiment is
perhaps as perfectly exemplified in the poem called Prayer as in any
of the collection. Real passion never babbles.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 90w.
* =Herbert, Agnes.= Two Dianas in Somaliland: the record of a shooting
trip. il. $4. Lane.
Two young huntresses face lions and leopards in the African wilds as
unflinchingly as any toughened game-bagger of the sterner sex. They go
for game and adventure, and find it. Their caravan consisted of
forty-nine camels, seven horses, about a half hundred camel drivers,
men of all work and guides. There is a thrill on almost every page to
keep the adventure-lover’s blood tingling.
* * * * *
“The book is exceptionally interesting and well turned out.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 870w.
“This record of adventures and achievements, although realistic and at
times heartless, is nevertheless a fascinating one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 310w.
“Miss Herbert, judging by her trophies, is readier with the gun than
the pen.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The tone of bravado and devil-may-careness is irksome at first, when
it is only a few simple conventions which the Dianas are defying. When
it comes to be lions and rhinos and every known discomfort, we are
captivated in spite of ourselves.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 630w.
=Herford, Oliver.= Little book of bores. **$1. Scribner.
6–36032.
“Mr. Herford has discovered twenty-four species of Bores, one for each
letter of the alphabet.... One may be assured of finding all his
enemies and most of his friends among the bores—and possibly he may
discover himself there.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“His rhymes and pictures ... are inimitable.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1. ’06. 90w.
=Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 50w.
=Herrick, Albert Bledsoe, and Boynton, Edward Carlisle.= American
electric railway practice. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17388.
The first two chapters of the work “cover the general engineering
preliminaries, such as estimates and field engineering. Location and
construction of track, power stations and overhead circuits are next
described and illustrated from the best current practice. The
remainder of the volume deals with the many details of operation
beginning with the essential features of time-tables, schedules,
dispatching and signals.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“As a whole, the book is well printed, bound and indexed.... It will
be convenient for reference, especially to those engineers who are not
regular readers of the electric railway periodicals and to those who
do not have access to the bound volumes of the Street railway
journal.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 610w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 270w.
=Herrick, Rufus Frost.= Denatured or industrial alcohol. *$4. Wiley.
7–19427.
A treatise on the history, manufacture, composition, uses, and
possibilities of industrial alcohol in the various countries
permitting its use, and the laws and regulations governing the same,
including the United States. It appeals to the chemical manufacturer
on the one hand, and the engineer who would use it as fuel on the
other.
* * * * *
“Probably the best treatise available in English.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.
“A careful reading of the book by any one even partly well informed on
the subject matter must lead to the conclusion that the author was
very unfamiliar with his subject: that he depended almost entirely on
other than first hand information: that he was unable or unwilling to
criticise this information when obtained.” Charles Edward Lucke.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 76. Jl. 18, ’07. 1790w.
“A needed and timely book.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 380w.
=Herridge, William Thomas.= Orbit of life; studies in human experience.
**$1. Revell.
6–33546.
A volume of religious and social essays in which Dr. Herridge “sees
life whole, both in extent and content, and aims both to show it as he
sees it, and to redeem it from monotony and triviality by putting its
emphasis in the right place.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Herridge has something to say that is worth hearing both for the
matter and the manner of it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
“The book abounds in common-sense, and is full at the same time of
religious and ethical suggestion. Dr. Herridge speaks profoundly, and
cannot but set his readers thinking.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 204. F. 9, ’07. 1360w.
=Hershey, Amos Shartle.= International law and diplomacy of the
Russo-Japanese war. **$3. Macmillan.
7–3157.
“A fairly complete history, from the viewpoint of international law
and diplomacy, of the war between Japan and Russia. The material is
cast in a general narrative form, although each chapter is more or
less complete by itself. The rights and duties of belligerents and
neutrals are, of course, the main theme, although the questions of war
correspondents, wireless telegraphy, and submarine mines come in for
treatment. Copious notes and explanatory references, and last but not
least, an excellent index, make the contents of the volume very
accessible.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“He is judicial, he is temperate, he is sound, he is wonderfully fair
and liberal in his citations of authorities. In minor matters here and
there one might take issue, but on the other hand there is original
well-digested comment on almost every page upon a variety of hotly
disputed questions, which will make the book of permanent value.”
Theodore S. Woolsey.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 652. Ap. ’07. 1130w.
“Professor Hershey writes in an easy style and the subject is treated
in a way that attracts not only the student of international law but
also the general reader. The manner of presentation is semi-historical
giving the reader thus a view of the progress of the conflict as well
as the diplomatic incidents, and legal questions that arose during its
course.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 656. My. ’07. 750w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 195. F. 16. 2070w.
“The most scholarly, exhaustive, and illuminating study of the
Russo-Japanese conflict from the standpoint of international law and
diplomacy.” J. W. Garner.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 285. My. 1, ’07. 1350w.
“This is a scholarly and authoritative volume, altogether unlike the
popular books on this over-written war.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 370w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A valuable book.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 140w.
“A particularly useful volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Hershey’s work is a success. He has labored hard to ascertain
facts, the existence of which are of great concern to civilization.
His judgment thereon has been that of one possessing both a close
knowledge of international law and an instinctive sense of justice.”
Charles Cheney Hyde.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 98. My. ’07. 1150w.
=Herter, Christian Archibald.= Common bacterial infections of the
digestive tract and the intoxications arising from them. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
A medical work on typhoid fever written essentially for physicians but
which, however, contains much that will interest the sanitarian.
* * * * *
“Dr. Herter’s book is bound to have the effect of broadening our
conception of the subject of infectious diseases of the digestive
tract, and deserves a wide reading.” George C. Whipple.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 730w.
“Those to whom the terminology of the bacteriologist is not unfamiliar
will find here not only a well written but also an interesting and
suggestive study of a rich fauna and a discussion of questions of much
import, for they are fundamental in relation to a great human woe,
indigestion.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.
=Hervey, Arthur.= Alfred Bruneau. (Living masters of music ser.) *$1.
Lane.
7–29175.
An impartial study of the artist and his work which includes his
conservatory days, his work for the musical drama, and his relations
with Zola who was a faithful companion and whose stout ally Bruneau
became during the Zola trial.
* * * * *
“Those who are interested in French musical developments will be glad
to have it.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 357. O. 17, ’07. 1840w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
=Herzfeld, Elsa Goldina.= Family monographs. For sale by Brentano’s and
Charity organization soc., N. Y.
6–1551.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The generalizations in the first fifty pages are, to the extent that
they are generalizations, open to criticism. But taken as an
assemblage of related incidents, instead of statements of general
truths, they are interesting and valuable. Apparently no effort was
made to discriminate between characteristics and beliefs peculiar to
tenement-house families and those that are to be found in all economic
grades, between conditions which merely impress an observer
unaccustomed to life among the poor as exceptional to the neighborhood
and those which really are exceptional.”
+ − =Charities.= 17: 501. D. 15, ’06. 670w.
=Hewitt, Emma Churchman.= Ease in conversation; or, Hints to the
ungrammatical. 5th ed. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29161.
A practical little volume for the ungrammatical and for the timid
talker devoted to a study of the correct forms of English used in
conversation. The errors are of the “genteel” rather than the “vulgar”
sort and are discussed in a series of letters written to a group of
girls bent upon improving their conversation.
=Hewlett, Maurice H.= Stooping lady; front. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50.
Dodd.
7–30839.
“‘The stooping lady’ carries us back something less than a hundred
years, to the days just preceding the regency in England.... Here the
historical background is largely a matter of externals of dress and
manner; the spirit is modern enough to require no great backward leap
of the imagination.” (Forum.) The story has a London setting and deals
with a proud Irish girl who “stoops” to one beneath her in station,
but to one whose, “clean fine manhood has taught her to respect and
honor him.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“We know of no book of Mr. Hewlett’s that is more vivid, more graphic
or more engrossing. We delight in his style, his similes, his
brilliant flashes of humour, and occasionally in the glimpse we have
of the Satyric horns, with which we have become so intimate in, say,
‘The forest lovers,’ or ‘Pan and the young shepherd.’”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 800w.
“Carries you swiftly along with an absorbing love story, and charms
you with the exceeding grace and skill of its telling.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07. ✠
“This tale is characteristic of his genius. Judged as a mere novel of
politics the book is brilliant, outshining the attractive but thin
work of Disraeli, and much truer to human nature and history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 310w.
“Yet, fine as the story is in conception and in workmanship, it
somehow lacks the bigness, the finality, the enduring interest of ‘The
queen’s quair’ or ‘The fool errant.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 160. O. ’07. 1100w.
“If ‘The stooping lady’ be not positively a great book, it at least
has great qualities. Leaving aside a few careless moments, its style
is such as cannot be surpassed, if indeed it can be matched, by more
than one or two men of our day. It paints the manner of a period with
altogether unusual truth and delicacy. Greatest virtue of all, it
gives us knowledge of great men and women, displaying them under the
stress of emotions that raise them out of the common and make them
typical of humanity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 266. O. ’07. 2040w.
“All told, it is an admirable story, but as unfaithful in spirit to
the times it is supposed to portray as it is loyal to that of the
present.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1173. N. 14, ’07. 740w.
“Altogether Mr. Hewlett, we are inclined to think, has somewhat lost
his way in writing his latest book, though it must not be supposed
that it is not readable, and at times even charming.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 670w.
“The whole book might be taken as conclusive illustration of the
disputed truth that a high degree of skill need in no way hamper an
author’s individuality or warmth of expression, that a classic
restraint of manner by no means reduces the emotional quality to the
academic level of an eighteenth century essayist.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“We have Mr. Hewlett writing sheer Meredith, naked and unashamed—one
might almost say rewriting ‘Diana of the Crossways.’ And yet the book
is his own, one of the most brilliant pieces of work done in our time,
with a heroine I, personally, would not exchange for Diana.” Richard
De Gallienne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1470w.
“A story which belongs at the head of the autumnal list, but does not
quite reach the solid ground on which ‘Little novels of Italy’ rest.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
“It is because he has given so much that one’s disappointment, when he
falls beneath his promise, must plead his very generosity to excuse
its air of ingratitude in declining to be content with even the
dexterous accomplishment of ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1440w.
“One obvious criticism may be made in conclusion,—that the author has
fallen deeply beneath the sway of Meredithian formula, without,
however, lapsing into the obscurity of his great exemplar.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 690w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Barbary sheep: a novel. †$1.25. Harper.
7–24588.
A slight story steeped in the atmosphere, the mystery, the fascination
of the Algerian desert. An English nobleman falls in with the whims of
his wife who must be amused and takes her to the edge of the Algerian
desert. While he hunts Barbary sheep, she succumbs to the wiles of an
Arab army officer who practices his hypnotic arts upon her. It is a
daring bit of romantic color that Mr. Hichens flings upon his canvas.
* * * * *
“It is merely a small thing supremely well done.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 167. O. ’07. 1240w.
=Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 500w.
“As for the style and proportions of the narrative. they suggest ... a
distinct advance in the art of the novelist. The purple passages of
description are few and not over-long; and there is a general
abstention from ‘piling on the agony.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Hardly reaches the dignity of a novel either in length or substance.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 510w.
“On the whole, not a pleasant tale.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Call of the blood. †$1.50. Harper.
6–34641.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“When the emotional impulse is lacking, his ideas become singularly
dull and his manner quite without distinction. But at the first sting
of sensation, the style leaps into vitality; and if always deficient
in a certain finality of touch, it continually delights with its
resiliency and exuberance.” Harry James Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 129. Jl. ’07. 800w.
“In respect of scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional
force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1. ’07. 230w.
“On the whole we think that in ‘The call of the blood’ Mr. Hichens’s
aim as a romancer and his aim as a novelist were at odds.” Edith Baker
Brown.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 923. N. 2, ’06. 1630w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 220w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Life and times of Stephen Higginson.
**$2. Houghton.
7–30144.
Here is offered a clear insight into the character of Stephen
Higginson and also into post-revolutionary times at Boston. His
prominence in New England councils both before and after the
revolution, the importance of the “Laco” letters, his career as
shipmaster, merchant, patriot and politician are all emphasized in the
sketch.
* * * * *
“The attractive touch of the amateur, so noticeable in all of Colonel
Higginson’s writings, is peculiarly well adapted to these memorials of
his Federalist grandfather.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 540w.
“A book which though largely a compilation from correspondence and
official records, is alive with human interest from the first to the
last of its gracefully written pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“There is much material in the letters published in this volume which
has an important bearing on the manners and politics of that day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.
=Higinbotham, Harlow Niles.= Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
6–37948.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book before us is unlikely to prove of the slightest value to
anybody.”
− =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.
“The book is full of good business advice, and is especially to be
recommended to young business men.” George M. Fisk.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 645. D. ’06. 190w.
=Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
=Hildreth, Richard.= Japan as it was and is. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–40974.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.
“To this day Richard Hildreth’s book (published in 1855) gives the
best pictures of Japan as seen by the various early travelers.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 100w.
“Had our diplomatists and merchants and missionaries studied Hildreth
many costly errors would have been avoided.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
=Hildrup, Jessie S.= Missions of California and the old Southwest; with
35 il. from photographs. **$1. McClurg.
7–13929.
An interesting account of the old missions and settlements of the days
of Spanish rule. “This is the sort of a book that one loves to pick up
and linger over. The profuse and well-executed illustrations catch the
eye, the narrative is full of interest, and the historical chapters
are brief and accurate, and evidence considerable study.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“It is a bright, popular treatment of the theme, very thoroughly and
sympathetically done.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 684. Ag. ’07. 410w.
=Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar.= Soils, their formation, properties,
composition and relations to climate and plant growth in the humid, and
arid regions. *$4. Macmillan.
6–26528.
“Professor Hilgard’s book, in broad outline, deals with the origin and
formation, the physics and the chemistry, of soils, and with native
vegetation as an aid to the study of the agricultural value of
soils.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The section of the most value to engineers as a class is the one on
the ‘Physics of soils.’”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
“The book is a little heavy for classroom use. It contains a larger
number of printers’ errors than ought to exist. Yet, when all is said,
there is so much valuable matter packed into its six hundred pages ...
that it remains indispensable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 140w.
“This volume should be introduced to a much wider circle of students
than those of the agricultural colleges generally. It will be found
well suited to serve as the foundation of important seminars in
chemistry, in geology and especially in plant physiology and ecology.”
F. H. King.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 681. N. 30, ’06. 1620w.
=Hill, Constance.= House in St. Martin’s street. **$7. Lane.
“The subject of Miss Hill’s book is the Burney family in the last of
their London homes; that is, from the autumn of 1774 to the spring of
1783. The author has been fortunate enough to obtain new material in
the shape of unpublished letters from the Burney Mss.; and she has
also had the use of a copy of Madame D’Arblay’s ‘Diary and letters’
annotated by a granddaughter of its first editor. By interweaving with
the new matter passages from the ‘Early diary,’ the ‘Memoirs of Dr.
Burney’ and other printed sources dealing with the Burney and Thrale
circle, she has produced a most agreeable volume of handsome
appearance.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 647. N. 24. 1760w.
“If its pages sometimes repeat what should be a familiar tale, they
also illustrate and supplement it.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 480w.
“Granted the limitations of her method and of her present opportunity,
she deserves nothing but praise for her conscientious and capable
investigation of the resources at her command and for her judicious
selection and arrangement of her well-chosen material.” Edith Kellogg
Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 42: 177. Mr. 16, ’07. 1480w.
“Miss Constance Hill writes of the happy little household with all her
wonted grace, and the book abounds in quotations from diaries and
other documents, hitherto unpublished, and is further enriched with
charming illustrations.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 770w.
“Of the tribe of gentlewomen who are exploiting the eighteenth century
at their ease, Miss Hill is the least amateurish and most
entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 486. D. 6, ’06. 980w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Miss Constance Hill has made the happy discovery of a new lode in the
Burney mine.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 960w.
“She has little to tell us that we do not already know. Her stories
have been told a hundred times.”
− =Spec.= 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 1270w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.
=v. 2.= The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.
“Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave
room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now
proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the
warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as
conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least
primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and
co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial
sovereignty.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L.
Burr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 617. Ap. ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived
at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and
in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been
described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D.
Adams.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 426. Mr. ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a
particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth
doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author
keeps fairly close to international interests.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is perhaps, the most meritorious characteristic of Mr. Hill’s work
that he shows a good sense of proportion.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a history of Europe mainly from the point of view of international
relations, Mr. Hill’s work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has
only a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is ... a history of diplomacy without the dry and technical
features that usually characterize works indicated by this title.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)
“By any other name than diplomacy, it would have smelled as much of
the lamp.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book covers an interesting period of the world’s history; it is
an honest, able, and well-told story.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 2100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As before, Dr. Hill’s tone is admirably impartial and his treatment
scholarly. But the promise of that volume is hardly so well fulfilled
in the matter of narrative, which is somewhat lacking in the ease and
freshness exhibited in the account of the crude diplomacy of the
earlier centuries, and is, it seems to us, overburdened with detail.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Misstatements of detail here and there, bear witness of shortcoming.
It represents extraordinarily wide reading in both primary and derived
sources; its matter is set forth always conscientiously and often
effectively. It may be read with profit.” Earle W. Dow.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 711. D. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The second volume maintains the high scholarly standard set by the
first.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The reader receives the impression that Dr. Hill selected his
subject, set himself to work up the necessary background of history,
and found this so novel and engrossing that he felt it must be
presented, and as a result, lost sight of his central theme.” Guy
Stanton Ford.
− =Yale R.= 16: 105. My. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
7–33964.
In this volume are described the great legal contests which have
proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our
country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is
vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the
judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the
eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United
States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The
commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The
impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Hill is not only a well-read lawyer, but also a writer who knows
how to make his narrative clear, direct, and often in a high degree
dramatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 220w.
“So well does he succeed in humanizing dry records of legal procedure
that the readers become, as it were, listening spectators. Few writers
upon legal topics have acquired so masterly a skill in narration.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
6–34845.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important
service.” Floyd R. Mechem.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 560w.
“This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a
contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature
dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There is one criticism
that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress
and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and
attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation
it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”
+ − =Arena.= 37: 215. F. ’07. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing
how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of
this country.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 440w.
“No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands
and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of
Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise
which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of
Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important
fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great
profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1303. D. 21, ’06. 1440w.
=Hill, George Birkbeck.= Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by
his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–29013.
A subjective view is afforded in these letters of a man whose chief
literary service was rendered thru his edition of Boswell’s Johnson.
Unassuming candor and sincerity create an atmosphere in which can be
made a sympathetic study of the leader and scholar.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 78. F. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“His letters, here collected by his daughter, will interest all
readers who care to know something of the man, his life, and his work
from day to day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 860w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.
“This is one of the best examples that have been given to the public
of that now popular form of biography which allows its subject to
speak for himself by means of letters.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 265. Ag. 24, ’07. 2150w.
=Hill, George Francis.= Historical Greek coins. *$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45173.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We can speak with great satisfaction of the interest of the book,
which is written with caution and sanity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 173. F. 9. 320w.
=Ind.= 62: 503. F. 28, ’07. 320w.
“As an elementary treatise it presents the subject in a clear,
straightforward style, unhampered by details, yet with some attention
to the historical problems involved. In some cases the reader may be
unwilling to accept the author’s view.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 460w.
=Hill, George W.= Collected mathematical works. (Carnegie inst. of
Washington publications.) 4v. ea. $2.50. Carnegie inst.
Dr. Hill’s valuable contributions to practical astronomy are collected
here, covering seventeen hundred pages. Among his best known papers
are those which set forth his theory of the moon’s motion and the
theory of Jupiter and Saturn.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)
Reviewed by R. A. S.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 409. Mr. 1, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Nature.= 75: 123. D. 6, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole
volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A.
S.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
Reviewed by E. W. B.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 933. Je. 14, ’07. 1840w. (Review of v.
1–4.)
=Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger).= The avengers. $1.50.
Dodge, B. W.
To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out
his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become
an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the
latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too
hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes
forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued
lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant
for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality
menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is
straightened by the death of the real maniac.
* * * * *
“Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 1. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
=Hill, Marion.= Pettison twins. †$1.50. McClure.
6–35942.
A mother, who with the best of intentions strives to bring up her
children according to the rigid ideas put forth in child-study books,
meets with unexpected set backs due to the vigorous personalities of
Rex and Regina, confronting her with problems not dealt by the editor.
A series of amusing stories full of gentle sarcasm is the result.
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“We defy any one whose sense of humor is not submerged to resist a
laugh at Marion Hills fun over the Pettison twins and Fanny Y. Cory’s
pictures of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 790. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
=Hilliers, Ashton.= Fanshawe of the Fifth; being memoirs of a person of
quality. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4159.
“Those who relish Besant’s novels, with their quiet movement, gentle
sentiment, and abundance of detail, will be apt to like ‘Fanshawe of
the fifth.’ The hero, who tells the story of his own life, is the
younger son of a noble family. Not succeeding in the army, for which
he was intended, he works his way to success through many hardships
and perils. There is plenty of adventure.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“The episodes Mr. Hilliers handles with great skill, but he is
somewhat at fault in the process of co-ordination. The author’s study
of the period must have been profound, and he has absorbed the spirit
of the times with remarkable ability. His narrative is thus
convincing, except in the London part, which reads almost like a piece
of Dickensian caricature.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 210w.
“A book to be cordially commended to the consideration of the
discriminating few.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 498. Jl. ’07. 560w.
“It offers us the real thing, as distinguished from the artificial
fabrication of the novelist who ‘gets up’ his subject.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 61. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
“But to be enjoyed, it is a book that must be read at leisure, and
when you are in a congenial mood.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 119. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“Without affectation, it has a pleasant flavour of sedate Georgian
prose, and its polish and lucidity reflect the best qualities of that
period.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 45. F. 8, ’07. 450w.
“The plot is interesting and well sustained, and there are several
characters drawn with dramatic insight. It has much quiet charm and is
written in a style of marked distinction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.
“The eighteenth-century manner is well sustained without affectation
or strained elegance, the style being indeed throughout of conspicuous
and consistent treatment. The series of adventures and experiences ...
are admirably conceived and described and the characters, if not
brilliant pieces of portraiture, are effective and real.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 130w.
“The long scenario of Mr. Hilliers’ romance given on his title-page
prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and
these expectations are richly fulfilled in the contents of this
admirably written and engrossing romance.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 335. Mr. 2, ’07. 700w.
=Hillis, Newell Dwight.= Fortune of the republic. **$1.20. Revell.
6–41943.
Sturdy optimism is shown thruout these essays and addresses. In the
course of his travels thru every state and territory of the Union, Dr.
Hillis has found that “‘any darkness there is on the horizon is
morning twilight and not evening twilight.’ This evidence is summed up
in the growth of the religious spirit, the increasing popularization
of education and culture, and the passing of sectionalism. Dr. Hillis
believes that everything points to a still greater America.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Such thinking and such writing furnish the soil that will forever
produce corruption in business and in politics. Fortunately, it may be
said that the optimism, which the author says has been forced upon him
by much travel and by the pressure of events, is not the kind that the
leading pulpiteers of the country are meeting in their travels and are
being forced by the pressure of events to preach to their
congregations.” William H. Allen.
− − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 428. Mr. ’07. 600w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 180w.
“In a word, his book makes for religious and intellectual betterment
and for a whole-hearted, robust patriotism that must be up and doing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat=, ed. Babylonian expedition of the
University of Pennsylvania. Series A. Cuneiform texts. $6. Dept. of
Archaeology of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.
=v. 6. pt. 1.= Legal and business documents from the time of the first
dynasty of Babylon, chiefly from Shippar; by Hermann Ranke. An
interesting collection of tablets preceded by a scholarly
introduction.
=v. 20. pt. 1.= Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets
from the temple library of Nippur. This volume contains “an unusually
large number of tablets which may be called the school exercises of a
temple school.... There are over thirty including multiplication
tables, division tables and square roots.... The metrological
texts ... have value. More important is a single tablet containing a
dynastic list of some of the kings of Ur and Isin.”—(Ind.)
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 330. S. 21. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
“[The] work has been done in an exceptionally satisfactory manner.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 44. Ja. 3, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 6, pt. 1.)
“The work is done in a thoro and scholarly way with abundant credit to
other scholars as shown by the multitude of citations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
“The value of the entire material is impaired because of the lack of
frank and honest statements with regard to the place of discovery and
the environments of that material. So far as the actual publication of
texts is concerned, Professor Hilprecht’s work seems to be admirably
done.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 413. My. 2, ’07. 2600w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
=Hilty, Carl.= Steps of life, further essays on happiness; tr. by Melvin
Brandow. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6159.
Eight helpful essays which “lead toward the things that are unseen and
eternal.” They are entitled, Sin and sorrow, Comfort ye my people, On
the knowledge of men, What is culture? Noble souls, Transcendental
hope, The prolegomena of Christianity, The steps of life.
* * * * *
“In chapters on the knowledge of men, there is a fund of practical
psychology and shrewd observation of a Baconian Quality, but animated
with a tenderness and glow of human sympathy to which Bacon was a
stranger.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 549. Jl. ’07. 560w.
“Many striking passages in his book evoke cordial assent, and some,
equally striking, call forth the opposite. The translation is smooth,
but has a few unidiomatic or awkward expressions, and at least one
slip in grammar.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 300w.
=Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16. ’07. 250w.
“The essay upon Transcendental hope is lofty and most stimulating,
reflecting the noblest sentiments, and interpreting life here and
hereafter from the disciplined standpoint of a man acquainted with
sorrow, sin, and victory.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
=Hinckley, Frank Erastus.= American consular jurisdiction in the Orient.
*$3.50. Lowdermilk.
6–29752.
“An exposition of the system of consular extra-territorial
jurisdiction under which Americans have been permitted to reside and
trade in Oriental countries. In seven chapters—‘Historic forms of
extra-territoriality;’ ‘The United States Oriental treaties;’ ‘Acts of
Congress establishing the system of consular courts;’ ‘Legal rights
under the jurisdiction;’ ‘International tribunals of Egypt;’ ‘The
foreign municipality of Shanghai’, and ‘Grounds for relinquishing
jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The style in which the book is written is clear, the statement exact.
The exhaustive footnotes place the source material easily at the
service of one who wishes to consult the original authorities.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Education of an artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
7–19742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 650w.
=Hinkson, Henry A.= Golden morn. $1.50. Cassell.
The story of a young man fighting ill-health quite as much that a
hated uncle may not inherit his property as for the love of life.
* * * * *
“The story is brightly told and full of incident.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= For Maisie. †$1.25. McClurg.
The title sounds the keynote of this story in which an uncouth foster
father turns all of his courage and indomitable will to the task of
amassing wealth for Maisie. While under his determined hand ruthless
industry obliterates the landmarks that tradition and sentiment hold
dear, yet right is right and integrity rules him. Maisie, obedient,
ambitious, proud-spirited, learns in time that she is kin to the lords
and ladies of the adjoining estates.
* * * * *
“Not one solitary event bears the faintest likeness to anything in
real life. As a mere narrator, however, she is smooth, practised, and
totally unobjectionable.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 230w.
“There is enough action to keep up the reader’s interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= Story of Bawn. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–35216.
Bawn is a young Irish girl whose love affairs form the sum total of
her life affairs. For a time it looks as tho she might be forced into
an undesirable marriage to keep the family skeleton well closeted, but
the sacrifice is not exacted. A trusty red setter and faithful Irish
servants deserve some share of credit in bringing the tale to a happy
close.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“Not remarkable in any way, but diverting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“Is in Mrs. Hinkson’s familiar Irish vein, pleasant, easy, flowing
over the surface of life. We notice that the use of ‘shall’ and ‘will’
is still a difficulty, if not with the author, at least with her
characters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 160w.
“A good book for those readers who like their novels to be chronicles
of the heart rather than of soul problems, finance, machinery, or
economics.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 100w.
“It is told with taste and with some skill in the handling of incident
and with much evident affection for the quiet life, the beautiful
fields, and the contented people of secluded corners of Ireland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Miss Tynan will not increase her reputation by this book.”
− =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Monopolies, trusts and kartells. *$1. Dutton.
6–14026.
Mr. Hirst contends that competition is still the life of trade and
that the greater trusts restrict output and increase price. As to the
origin of the trust “Mr. Hirst seems to think that in England it is
the child of English law, and that in America it is the child of our
ultra tariff. While the German kartell may have this double
parentage.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 300w.
“Persons who believe that the ‘trust movement’ flourishes in a
free-trade country like England will learn much to their advantage by
perusing the volume in either its English or its American dress.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.
“While in the general discussion of the trust problem Mr. Hirst’s book
will be a helpful factor, it would have been still more helpful had it
included some later information, especially concerning the results of
governmental investigation of monopolies in this country.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter=, ed. Henley’s twentieth century book of
recipes, formulas and processes, containing nearly ten thousand selected
scientific, chemical, technical and household recipes, formulas and
processes for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the
home. $3 Henley.
7–8246.
A handbook for various processes and recipes needed by every one.
“Such information, for instance, as the formula for photographic
developer, the composition of the various paint-pigments, the
manufacture of glue or of solder, or the thousand and one detailed
bits of information which come up, as the title reads ‘in the
laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home’—such a book as
this is very useful.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It seems rather out of its province to endeavor to give in so short a
space as can be allowed to any one article any account of the larger
materials of engineering.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.
=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.= Modern steam engineering, in theory and
practice. $3. Henley.
6–43049.
A complete and practical work for steam-users, electricians, firemen,
and engineers.
* * * * *
“Useful information is contained in this volume, but this information
is accompanied by so many inaccurate statements that the book becomes
of doubtful value.” Storm Bull.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 300w.
=Hishida, Seiji G.= International position of Japan as a great power.
*$2.50. Macmillan.
6–23069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His book, which is based on wide study, is a most useful guide to
British and American readers through a region still imperfectly
explored, and its value is enhanced by his dispassionate treatment of
controversial questions.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1080w.
=Hitchcock, Frederick H.=, ed. Building of a book: a series of practical
articles by experts in the various departments of book making and
distributing with an introd. by Theodore L. De Vinne. **$2. Grafton
press.
6–46354.
Each of the thirty seven chapters constituting this volume is
contributed by a person of authority. The articles together furnish
all the steps thru which books must pass in their making and
distribution.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
“A very handy book to have on the open shelves in the public library.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 218. Ja. 24, ’07. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 110w.
“The book may satisfy the curiosity of a good many and prove directly
useful to a few.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.
“For the layman with a natural curiosity as to methods of handling
manuscript and making books this volume should be fascinating in its
very concise and incisive statements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 200w.
=Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 290w.
=Hoare, J. Douglas.= Arctic exploration. *$3. Dutton.
7–35190.
Thirty-three brief but interesting chapters which tell of the
sufferings and achievements of those heroic men who braved the dangers
of the far North. The work of Hudson, Phipps and Nelson is given, the
successive expeditions of Sir John Franklin and of the searching
parties, the voyages of Hall, Nares, Greeley, Nordenskiold, De Long,
Nansen, Peary, Andree, Wellman, and all the others are described with
well chosen detail. The book is illustrated with some 20 full page
plates.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“This work is not in any sense complete, nor is it based upon a
scientific study of the constantly increasing collection of Arctic
literature.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 400w.
“Thoroughly good reading.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 20w.
“On the whole the author has given a very satisfactory bird’s-eye view
of his subject.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.
“The accounts of the expeditions, however, are given in somewhat more
detail than those in Greely’s book, and the work certainly has a place
among those readers who have not the original narratives at hand.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Neither in its estimate of researches nor in the analyses of the
different journeys do the pages betray special fitness on the part of
the author. Indeed, a casual glance at the concluding chapters reveals
a carelessness which detracts from the usefulness of the book.”
− =Nation.= 84: 318. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The book is well adapted either for entertainment or for edification,
as far as it goes.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 40w.
“The story of all this adventurous travel, with its attendant
hardships and gallantry, is admirably narrated by Mr. Hoare, who
condenses into a single volume the essence of a whole library of polar
literature.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 480w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Cinders (diary of a drummer); by Wright Bauer.
*75c. Dillingham.
7–9507.
To win a bet a drummer records in diary form all the stories of a
printable kind which he hears in the course of one trip, and they are
exactly what might be expected.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Elementary principles of continuous-current
dynamo design. $3. Macmillan.
7–2318.
“The book consists of a series of statements explaining the way in
which a dynamo should be considered as a successful machine or the
reverse, and of a short account of several methods whereby the
designer may himself estimate the first cost. After preliminary
chapters on what may be called the practical theory of the continuous
current dynamo, Mr. Hobart deals at length with those considerations
which form the limits in the design, namely, heating, sparking, and
efficiency.... The book contains a large number of tables in which the
various calculations are set out.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The present book is a model of its class and it is especially adapted
to the use of students or others who desire a working knowledge of
design practice. The mechanical features of the book are excellent.”
Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 523. N. 15, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in the essential soundness of this
framework, more particularly of the fundamental ideas on which it is
itself based than on the framework itself.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 221. Ja. 3, ’07. 610w.
=Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney.= Morals in evolution: a study in
comparative ethics. 2v. *$5. Holt.
7–11047.
“An encyclopaedic work which is “the outcome of a hundred
specialisms.” The first volume deals with the standard of morality and
the second with its basis. This means that in the first volume the
author considers the lines of conduct that have been approved at
different times among different peoples; in the second, the reasons
that have been, or may be, assigned for this approval. In accordance
with the evolution hypothesis, no line is drawn between human and
animal, or even vegetable intelligence.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“He has gone over an immense literature; his quotations are apt and
accurate; his interpretations in the main sound. Careless statements
are not common. Naturally some slips are inevitable.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 180. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“He has dealt with the different phases and stages of human conduct in
a manner that never fails to be lucid and careful; and although he has
occasionally allowed his own particular prejudices to be in evidence,
he has not only described the different moral forces of which he
writes with vigour and learning, but has also criticised them, in the
light of their past and future, in a scientific spirit.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 650w.
“I do not think it is any particular novelty of opinion that
constitutes the importance of this book, but the strength of
conviction, the absolute frankness and directness, the fervour and
power of popular exposition which have brought liberal theology down
from the schools into the market-place.” H. Rashdall.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 921. Jl. ’07. 4140w.
“Every page of Mr. Hobhouse’s book furnishes food for reflection. It
is brimful of facts from beginning to end; but his facts are not the
‘disjecta membra’ of a mutilated corpse, but the coherent parts of a
living organism.” G. E. Underhill.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 928. Jl. ’07. 2410w.
“Measuring the work by its own standard, which is not that of
originality of theory, one must ascribe to it a unique value as a
collection of the facts upon which any interpretation of morality must
be based. But there is the interpretation and it does rest upon the
facts, and in this consists the essential value of the work.” Norman
Wilde.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 183. Mr. 28, ’07. 1930w.
“Mr. Hobhouse spends no time in tilting against what is commonly known
as ‘metaphysics;’ he has culture enough to know that history and
philosophy are not exclusive but complementary, and moreover, that in
the reading of history it is impossible to exclude the philosophical
ideas of the inquirer. In the historical survey Mr. Hobhouse is lucid
and judicious, without any distinctly novel suggestions or original
points of view.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 414. D. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“The criticism of customs and of systems of religion and of ethics is
generally sound; the part played by the higher religions in supporting
moral rules is recognized. The whole discussion is marked by good
sense and the careful collection of data will be very useful to the
student of ethics.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 940w.
“The wonder of these immense volumes to the lay reader who opens the
covers with trepidation is that they should be so intensely readable.
One cannot but enjoy the curious side lights thrown on our own beliefs
and superstitions. The various references to ghosts for example,
would, if collected, be in themselves most entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 93. F. 16, ’07. 1590w.
=Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Hobhouse has produced a very able work, one of the best of its
kind that has appeared in many years. It is a careful, interesting,
and instructive presentation of the subject, giving evidence of wide
reading and characterized by intelligent judgment. It not only gives
us facts, but attempts to see a meaning in them; it not only theorizes
about the course of ethical progress but bases its conclusions upon
human experiences. To be sure, in a discussion covering so broad and
rich a field, there will be many points here and there to which the
student may take exception.” Frank Thilly.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 527. S. ’07. 6000w.
“It would be applying a false measure to estimate [these volumes] by
the amount of information they contain. There is something better than
that, a philosophic grasp of principles. We feel that we are in the
hands of a genuine thinker, whose conclusions we may accept or reject,
but may not neglect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 400. Mr. 30, ’07. 1150w.
=Hobson, H. Overton.= Helouan; an Egyptian health resort and how to
reach it. $1. Longmans.
A well illustrated guide book to one of the most prominent health
resorts in Egypt. Information about routes, climate, baths, charges,
the golf-links, and other amusements, as well as the many places of
interest is alluringly given.
* * * * *
“It belongs to the class of books that are not books, so we need only
say that it contains all the information which the intending visitor
should require.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 805. D. 22. 230w.
“The information given is extremely practical and reliable, the author
having spent six winters at Helouan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 21. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
* =Hobson, John Atkinson.= Canada to-day. *$1. Wessels.
7–32187.
Mr. Hobson “handles such questions as the so-called Americanization of
Canada, British Columbian problems, the immigration policy of the
country, the French in Canada, the colonial preference, etc., with
fairness and more than a measure of intelligence. A large portion of
the book is devoted to a discussion of Canada’s fiscal policy, past,
present, and prospective.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“An excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 260w.
“His analysis of the Canadian tariffs and their influence upon the
growth of Canada’s trade with Great Britain and the United States,
respectively, is a valuable addition to the literature of the
subject.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 320w.
* =Hobson, Richmond Pearson.= Buck Jones at Annapolis. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29590.
Captain Hobson’s own experiences during the days spent at the naval
academy at Annapolis furnish material for a story of “solid
adventure.”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It certainly carries a serious impression of absolute truth, which
occasionally deadens into commonplace reality. Yet it is an attractive
story of life at the naval school, and abounds in thrilling events
happening to the hero, a really fine fellow, after he entered the
service.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Hocker, Gustav.= Joseph Haydn; a study of his life and time for youth;
tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young
people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–30875.
A sketch which reveals all the lovable qualities of a good man and the
scholarly attributes of the master. Haydn’s personality is full of
charm and furnishes an atmosphere which in itself is an invitation to
study the career of the man who created the artistic patterns of the
sonata, the quartette, and the symphony, who also enlarged the scope
of the orchestra and who became the father of instrumental music.
=Hodge, Frederick Webb=, ed. Handbook of American Indians north of
Mexico. 2 pts. pt. 1. $1.25. Supt. of doc.
7–35198.
Treats of all the tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo, and
those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those
in the United States. It has been the aim to give a brief description
of every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal
division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, as
well as the origin and derivation of every name treated, whenever such
is known, and to record under each every form of the name, and every
other appellation that could be learned.
* * * * *
“Though confessedly incomplete, the handbook represents a vast amount
of research by an army of observers, and students of ethnography will
look forward to the publication of the second part with keen
anticipation.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 149. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.
“It is fair to say that in the future, students of the American Indian
must have this manual always at hand. The Bureau and the editor are to
be congratulated upon this publication which is, in a certain sense,
among many contributions to scholarship, the greatest which the Bureau
has yet made.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 230w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= Holderness: an account of the beginnings of a New
Hampshire town. *$1.25. Houghton.
7–19786.
A little hundred-page volume in which Dr. Hodges tells the story of “a
typical little New England hill town, named from the Yorkshire
Holderness, and pleasantly situated on Squam lake, not far from
Plymouth, in Grafton county.” He makes interesting personalities of
the men who built up the town. “There is some modern matter relating
to walks and drives and mountain tops, but the main value of the book
is historic, and it is a worthy pendant for Mr. Sanborn’s ‘New
Hampshire.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= Year of grace. **$1. Whittaker.
6–46334.
A book of sermons whose burden is liberty, enfranchisement of
religious scholarship, the end of fear and the beginning of faith.
* * * * *
“The author has a sense for what is vital in piety, shows himself a
keen observer of the tendencies of modern life, exhibits tact in the
encouragement of spiritual living, and plies the lash on current
foibles pleasantly, wisely and to good effect.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“Their clearness and freshness of presentation, and closeness to the
needs of modern thought and life, are such as belong to the best type
of university sermons.”
+ =Outlook.= 6: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 50w.
=Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John.= Administration of an
institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St.
George’s parish, in the city of New York. **$3. Harper.
6–42355.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 70w.
“Everything connected with the work of the church ... is carefully
described and well illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Hodgson, Geraldine.= Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–41016.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A series of useful essays.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 448. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The interest and value of this educational work of the primitive
Christians is brought vividly before us; but while admitting its
value, we are inclined to differ from Miss Hodgson as to its
efficacy.” Millicent Mackenzie.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 259. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The materials which the author’s diligence has accumulated are, in
themselves, interesting, but scrappy and ill-digested. Everywhere the
absence of the large furniture of knowledge, which an investigation of
such a subject demands, makes itself felt.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
=Hodgson, Mrs. Willoughby.= How to identify old Chinese porcelain; with
40 il. 2d ed. *$2. McClurg.
7–2048.
A book for the amateur. It aims “to assist the tyro or the ordinary
collector who may be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon
Chinese porcelain.” It discusses the glazes and enamels, figures and
symbols, periods and date-marks.
* * * * *
“A careful study of her brief and accurately worded chapters should
enable the beginner to view collections, classify his own specimens,
and buy others, with a fair amount of intelligence; and this is more
than he could do after perusing many more ambitious but less
systematic treatises.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Hoffding, Harald.= Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
6–18580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Apart from the main argument of the book there are many criticisms
and suggestions of real insight and power.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 430w.
“And no one who is aware of the perplexities of the religious mood can
read his sympathetic interpretation of its meaning without being
grateful for this balanced and well-ordered statement of his
conclusions.” J. B. Baillie.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 371. Ap. ’07. 3870w.
“A work of rare philosophical perspicacity and broad religious
sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.
“We do not think that Professor Hoffding possesses the necessary
qualifications to write a philosophy of religion. He is a
psychologist. He is distinguished in philosophy. But it needs more
than this and other gifts than this to write on Christianity. And
neither the sympathy nor the theological learning requisite is found
in Dr. Hoffding’s book.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 687. Je. 1, ’07. 1890w.
=Hofmann, Ottokar.= Hydrometallurgy of silver, with special reference to
chloridizing roasting of silver ores and the extraction of silver by
hyposulphite and cyanide solutions. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–15483.
“The book is divided into two parts, of which the first deals with
chloridizing roasting of silver ores (154 pages), the second with the
extraction of the silver (174 pages). The author points out in the
preface that in the hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of
silver from complex sulphide ores, the final result depends entirely
on the quality of the roasting.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book is well written, in an easy and interesting
style, and even if the hypo-sulphite method has seen its day, this
volume will be read with interest.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 554. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
=Hogg, Ethel M.= Quintin Hogg: a biography; with a preface by the Duke
of Argyll. *$1.50. Dutton.
A popular edition of the biography of Quintin Hogg which sketches his
life and work in the London slums. See volume one of the BOOK REVIEW
DIGEST.
* * * * *
“The book is too long and contains much that is trivial and unworthy
of publication, but as a whole it is a stimulating account of a noble,
self-sacrificing life.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig Karl Victor, prince von.= Memoirs
of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst; tr. by G: W. Chrystal.
**$6. Macmillan.
6–44316.
On the stage which is created by these memoirs, Prince Bismarck is
well to the fore. “Prince Hohenlohe says very characteristically that
while Bismarck was in power he dominated all, but after his retirement
other and smaller personalities swelled like sponges. The light shed
on the negotiations preceding the Franco-Prussian war are of
historical value. The account of the plenipotentiaries who met to
discuss what afterward became the Treaty of Berlin is described with
acuteness of vision, and there are many other portions of the book
that cannot fail to command attention.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Students of politics will no doubt toil conscientiously through the
nine hundred odd pages, but we question whether any one will make this
exploration for pleasure.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 604. D. 15, ’06. 390w.
“The index is as imperfect as is unfortunately usual, but in several
cases shows that slips in the text are not to be attributed to the
translator—except, indeed, that proofs should have been more carefully
corrected.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 734. D. 8. 9970w.
“If the Hohenlohe memoirs do nothing more than arouse men in power to
the sacredness of their trust, they will serve an excellent purpose.”
+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 398. F. ’07. 380w.
“The chief source of regret is that Prince von Hohenlohe did not live
to supervise the preparation of the work; in that case those elements
that have provoked censure would doubtless have been omitted, and the
whole work rounded out into a biography in the ordinary sense of the
term.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 71. F. 1, ’07. 2400w.
“The experienced old diplomat would unquestionably have excised many
an indiscretion which the editor has allowed to remain—not diplomatic
indiscretions, be it understood, but amusing personalities.”
+ + − =Ind.= 61: 1492. D. 20, ’06. 630w.
“Written in a crisp, epigrammatical style, they present some
interesting flash-lights on the history of Europe during the most
important part of the nineteenth century. There is lack of continuity
in the book, however.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
“The instant success of scandal which these memoirs attained has
resulted in obscuring even their true personal interest. The English
translation, so far as we have been able to test it, appears to be
fairly satisfactory. It betrays signs of haste, and the printing,
especially of French is carelessly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 511. D. 13, ’06. 1470w.
“Though in the main hard to read, they repay the trouble. It cannot be
honestly said that Chlodwig Prince Hohenlohe shines in its pages
either as man or politician.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 60. F. 2, ’07. 3500w.
“It shares the faults of the German edition—long-windedness and futile
digression—and has a full sufficiency of faults of its own,
particularly in the spelling of German words.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
− =No. Am.= 184: 866. Ap. 19. ’07. 1990w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 616. Mr. 16, ’07. 4130w.
“The greater bulk is of interest only to the special student.” George
Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 764. Mr. ’07. 1440w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 120w.
“Is to be recommended without reserve to all students of European
history not by reason of any startling revelations it contains, for it
contains none, but because it throws much light on a complicated and
important series of events and is the record of an upright, courageous
and far-seeing statesman.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 709. D. 8, ’06. 2590w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 550w.
* =Hohler, Venetia. (Mrs. Edwin Hohler).= Peter: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Dutton.
7–31482.
“Little Sir Peter Moberley is as charming as little Lord Fauntleroy,
and Bill, his ugly pet, the huge and gentle bulldog, is one of the
most fascinating of dream-hounds.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The child-lover will delight in ‘Peter;’ we do not feel sure that the
child himself will be greatly attracted.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 60w.
“Is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
* =Holbach, Maude M.= Dalmatia: the land where the East meets the West.
*$1.50. Lane.
A first-hand series of sketches, descriptive and historical of the
principal places along the Dalmatian coast. “The architectural glutton
has an almost unending feast prepared for him.... The same may be said
of all the Mediterranean littoral; but the unique position of this
rich coast peopled by a brave race and the home of successive
civilisations but little changed by modern conquests must of necessity
spell the survival of much that is picturesque and local to the
artist.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is so easy to be accurate, careful—and tedious. Mrs. Holbach is
certainly the two former, and narrowly escapes being the last.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“One can hardly glance over these fifty or more plates without at once
being seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 80w.
“In one or two respects it offers hostages to criticism; the style is
a little unskilful ... the scholarship is sometimes imperfect. But
apart from these blemishes, which can be easily removed, the volume is
attractive and entertaining.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 300w.
“Mrs. Holbach’s account of ‘the land where East meets West’ is
picturesque, her description of its people and places of interest
being admirably supplemented by the numerous illustrations.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 486. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 210w.
=Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford.= Tibet, the mysterious. **$3. Stokes.
6–40557.
“The immediate interest in the Tibetan situation is sufficiently acute
to demand a handbook which will serve both as an introduction to and a
summary of the various expeditions and travels, and of the
geographical and political features of that well-nigh impregnable
land. Such a book is ‘Tibet the mysterious.’ Colonel Holdich, although
not an explorer or traveller in Tibet, has made an exhaustive
investigation of all the literature relating to that country, and has
summarized his studies in an accurate and systematic manner. For those
who wish to plunge ‘in medias res’ concerning Tibet, his book will be
most acceptable.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A volume in every way worthy of the series.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 130w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“While the casual reader may wish that the names of the places were
less difficult and the different routes less confusing, yet after the
first few chapters the book holds the interest.” Lurena Wilson Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 657. My. ’07. 670w.
“We fear that in the preparation of this volume he did not
sufficiently realize that his acquaintance with the details had become
a little rusty. We mention these circumstances as the only explanation
we can think of for so experienced a geographer lapsing into
inaccuracies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 970w.
“These minor errors, however, detract but little from the otherwise
scholarly work of the author, which will be held in high esteem as a
general reference-book for the history of exploration and travel in
Tibet.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 44. Ja. 16, ’07. 440w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.
“The book is marred by repetitions, and in a second edition the author
should avoid as poison the iteration, if not the subjects, of tea,
dogs, and ants.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, 07. 610w.
“The present account is disappointing in that its information is
neither very trustworthy nor up-to-date. It would be pleasant to be
able to congratulate the author on the illustrations, but nearly all
of these we have seen elsewhere before. They are not very closely
connected with the letterpress nor are the landscapes very
characteristic whilst some of them are not what they profess to be.”
L. A. W.
− + =Nature.= 76: 346. Ag. 8, ’07. 880w.
“It is a serious, well-written treatise, worked out from the point of
view of the scientist who would contribute something of practical and
general value and interest. As a reference book of all expeditions
into the ‘forbidden land’ it will be found most comprehensive and
convenient.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
* =Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu
Smith. **$5 Dutton.
“The text leads open the way for some specially good illustration; for
Mr. Holland has much to say about the superstitions, legends, and
stories of Japan concerning the national spirit of Japan and her
legendary genesis, concerning Japan’s religions, her Buddhist and
Shinto temples and ancient shrines, concerning the quaint, pathetic,
and beautiful Japanese festivals, concerning Japanese gardens, old and
new, and the life of the country folk.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“An authoritative book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“This is just the book and these just the illustrations to make one
who has not seen Japan long to see it, and to make the one who has
sojourned in Japan long to return.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’97. 130w.
* =Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Egypt. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–184.
An “expanded Baedeker” containing interesting chapters on Egyptian
life, monuments and scenery.
* * * * *
“A little more study on certain points would have improved the
treatment and given it a greater value.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Contains much of general interest, and is well written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
“It is a handy, convenient size, a small quarto, and altogether a most
attractive little book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 719. N. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Japan. *75c. Dutton.
7–29128.
“A little book about as big as a man’s hand, richly illustrated with
Underwood’s photographs, which is full of chat about things and folk
seen in Dai Nippon.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A pleasant hour may be spent with this author, who touches only the
surface of things, but that very pleasantly.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 210w.
“This is a small volume, but it contains admirably arranged and
well-written accounts of much that is essential and characteristic.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Holland, Clive.= Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive
Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
6–24919.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For a guide-book it is too heavy in bulk and too full of irrelevant
matter; for a serious history it is too ill-arranged and indefinite.”
− =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
=Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 50w.
=Holliday, Carl.= History of southern literature. $2.50. Neale.
6–41030.
The purpose of Mr. Holliday’s volume is “to make a study of the
various literary movements and their results, and to show that the
writings of this section are not merely disconnected efforts of
isolated thinkers, but, rather, the natural, logical, and continuous
productions of a people differing so materially in views and
sentiments from their neighbors on the north that even civil war was
necessary to prevent their becoming separate nations.” The subject is
treated under the following headings: The beginnings, The period of
national consciousness, The revolutionary period, The period of
expansion, The civil war period, and The new South.
* * * * *
“Not to mince words, it contains 400 pages of elegantly printed
platitudes, and little else except an occasional quotation.
Apparently, however, the author has been industrious in the collection
and careful in the verification of his data, and his work, with its
good index and bibliography, should make an excellent reference book
for mere facts.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 170w.
“As a critic he is quite without authority and almost equally lacking
in insight. He makes some astonishing misstatements.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 750w.
“Seems to be a carefully prepared work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 30w.
* =Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of
Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
A great deal of Oregon’s pioneer history is included in this sketch.
After the coalition of the Northwest company, which McLoughlin had
joined, and the Hudson bay company, he was engaged to manage the
company’s interests in Oregon. His work which finally led up to
American occupation makes an interesting personal account as well as
an informing historical document.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 150w.
=Holme, Charles=, ed. Old English country cottages. *$2.50. Lane.
6–45169.
“An attempt to preserve some record of these antique buildings that
form one of the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt with in
the text by counties.... Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney
R. Jones, depicting general views and architectural detail with charm
and marked artistic skill, are scattered through the text; and in
addition there are fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after
paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“While no attempt has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a
most interesting general outline has been achieved.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The two hundred drawings of old English cottages form a record at
once useful and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 119. Ja. 26, ’07. 440w.
=Holmes, Daniel Henry.= Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st.,
N. Y.
6–26458.
Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to
help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than
their mission implies.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
“It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the
temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to
Mr. Holmes’s work.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 20w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Late tenant. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
6–34806.
“A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has
gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a
furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You
smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get
tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing
papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there
are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and
the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught.
There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic
tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the
curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and
which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost
favor.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
“It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say,
Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless
something or somebody very important interrupts.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 635. O. 6, ’06. 420w.
“In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The
Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Holt, Byron W.=, comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody
corporation.
7–26334.
“An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium
of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the
gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In
summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the
following points are brought out: First, that for many years the
output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, a
depreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like
several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the
author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to
show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one
cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“It is not the part of wisdom to state that all of our problems can be
traced to such an artificial thing as the gold supply. On the whole,
however, the book is well written, and represents a valuable
compilation of knowledge in this field.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 290w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 80w.
=Holt, Henry.= On the civic relations. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–18299.
Mr. Holt’s “Talks on civics” has been “much amplified, modernized and
actualized” (Putnam’s) to produce the present revised edition. The
book has been written in the hope of “doing a little something to
develop in young people a character of mind which is proof against
political quackery—especially the quackery which proposes immediate
cures by legislation for the abiding ills resulting from human
weakness and ignorance.”
* * * * *
“Those who do not ‘desire to be deceived’ will find much ‘dry light’
in Mr. Holt’s pages on current and burning questions, concerning which
there is much more of heat than of light in most current discussion.”
Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam.= 3: 231. N. ’67. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.
“The author takes no pains to conceal his real opinion of the
abilities of a very large part of ‘so-called civilized’ mankind,
especially that part that labors with its hands for a living. This
contempt steams up from every page until it nearly suffocates the
appetite of the expectant reader. Yet there is an abundance of food in
Mr. Holt’s book for readers with a suitable digestion.” Edward E.
Hill.
− + =School. R.= 15: 695. N. ’07. 1440w.
=Homans, James Edward.= Self-propelled vehicles: a practical treatise on
the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of
automobiles; with upwards of 500 il. and diagrams. 5th ed., rev. and
enl. $2. Audel.
6–35990.
“The book is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, describing the
latest innovations of the present day practice, while all obsolete
material has been discarded.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The volume is a useful handbook for the owner of an automobile, and
it is also calculated for use as a manual for class instruction.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 161. Jl. ’07. 100w.
“It is a very satisfactory production for the man who wants to know
the ‘why and wherefore’ of the automobile, as designed to-day, and its
proper care and manipulation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 198. F. 14, ’07. 120w.
Homer. Iliad for boys and girls told from Homer in simple language, by
Rev. Alfred J. Church. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30639.
To reset classical literature in the language of the child has become
a worthy task of the present day. This juvenile renders the thrilling
incidents of the Trojan war life-like and true to the Iliad’s text.
The illustrations in color are suggestively good.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07. ✠
“Shows that he understands how to rehearse the classics for childish
minds.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 30w.
“The narrative is suited in every possible way to a child’s
understanding; it is childlike without a trace of childishness; and it
is a rare pleasure for old readers of Professor Church to see that his
zest is as keen as ever, his fact as unfailing, and his instinct for
seizing essentials as swift and true.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 712. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
Homer. Odyssey for boys and girls, told from Homer by the Rev. Alfred J.
Church. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–34824.
A simplified version of the Odyssey, attractive in its illustrations,
which is intended for young readers.
* * * * *
“The style is much more attractive than that of the author’s ‘Story of
the Odyssey.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Is a model of what such adaptations should be.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 90w.
“The story is intact, and the characters are there, but there is not
much of that bigness for which Homer was noted.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Mr. Church has no superior in the art of retelling classical stories
so as to interest girls and boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
“We have taken the precaution of having the book submitted to the true
arbiter of this form of literature,—a boy under five. He has listened
to it with breathless attention and sparkling eyes.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 730w.
=Hone, Nathaniel J.= Manor and manorial records. *$3. Dutton.
6–10492.
“Half Mr. Hone’s book is devoted to a reasonably short account of the
history of the manor, no undue space being given to the dispute
concerning its evolution. With this we have the story of the lord and
his tenants and officers and of their daily life and work as a
community, the illustrations being for the most part already
familiar.... The second half of the book shortly explains the
procedure of the manorial courts, and then gives a very well chosen
series of examples of court rolls, accounts and extents.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Mr. Hone’s treatise on the manor offers itself rather as a popular
introduction to its history and customs than as an original study of a
subject on which much good ink has been spent. The result is a book
which may be commended especially to those who are entering upon the
study of English topography.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 226. Mr. 10, ’06. 1750w.
“Forms a very suitable introduction for the beginner in the study of
manorial court rolls, of which many are in private hands. The
translations are not in all respects accurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 761. Je. 23. 500w.
“Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first
half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of
the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of
the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote
from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of
extracts from original records.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 480w.
“The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him
an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life
without too severe a mental effort.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 497. Ap. 21, ’06. 860w.
=Hood, Thomas.= Poetical works, ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.
“‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the
excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a
more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available,
searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly
attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from
manuscript.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up
insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already
suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes
are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 220w.
− =Spec.= 98: 90. Ja. 19, ’07. 1790w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Scribner.
6–35980.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the chief charm of the book is that he manages so faithfully
to convey a sense of the recrudescence of boyish energy and spirits in
staid middle-life, aroused under the stimulus of unusual and
invigorating surroundings.” G. W. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 410. Mr. 14, ’07. 1190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 110w.
“It is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.= End of the game; il. by A. E. Jameson. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
7–14587.
Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand
dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a
girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of
money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on
a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg
steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of
prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning
and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early
integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.
* * * * *
“The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures
and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current
fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general
purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the
earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it
progresses.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Horne, Herman Harrell.= Psychological principles of education. *$1.75.
Macmillan.
6–26518.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of
emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are
handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually
full comprehension of their supreme importance.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Horne’s theoretical assumptions, both in this discussion and thruout
the book seem to me to show evidence of a certain confusion of thought
of so fundamental a nature as to justify notice here. The author has
given to teachers many suggestions of practical value and very likely
an inspiration toward better teaching, but he has not based these
suggestions upon a consistent and accurate system, of psychology.” Guy
Montrose Whipple.
− + =Educ. R.= 34: 317. O. ’07. 1950w.
Reviewed by Charles Hughes Johnston.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 478. D. ’07. 5000w.
“One can but regret casting a disparaging word at so admirably written
a book as Horne’s ‘Psychological principles of education;’ but, in
spite of its containing much excellent material and many good
suggestions for practical teaching, it does not present any
particularly original point of view, nor does it mark any advance in
the general field of education psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 15: 227. Mr. ’07. 790w.
=Horner, Joseph G.= Modern milling machines: their design, construction
and operation: a handbook for practical men and engineering students.
$4. Henley.
“The author has endeavored to treat the subject, both in the text and
by the illustrations, in such a manner, as will make clear the
essentials of the art, and to provide a book which will be useful to
both the designer and the operator.” (Engin. N.) He “describes very
fully many different types of machines, and probably one of the best
chapters is that dealing with the design and manufacture of
cutters.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The skilled workman as well as the amateur will find much that is
valuable and worth while and little of the usual padding. Any one
collecting a library of shop books should include this volume.” Wm. W.
Bird.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 160w.
“Chapter 11 is too short, though very interesting; it deals with the
subject of feeds and speeds. We can recommend this volume to all
interested in machine-shop practice. The machines dealt with are of
the latest type, and much useful information will be found scattered
through its pages.” N. J. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 460w.
=Horner, Joseph G.= Practical metal turning: a handbook for engineers,
technical students and amateurs. il. $3.50. Henley.
7–19433.
“The work in all its varied forms is discussed, its many tools and
appliances are shown and described and the question of speeds and
feeds for various tools and metals is well treated. A good deal of
valuable information is given regarding the use of high-speed steel
for lathe work.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“While nothing new or especially novel is found, the book as a whole
is well arranged, the illustrations are good, and a copy is worth
owning for those interested in this line of work.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Horniman, Roy.= Lord Cammarleigh’s secret; a fairy story of to-day.
†$1.50. Little.
7–34173.
Anthony Brooke, unwilling to battle for bread, hits upon a bold plan.
During his aimless wandering through Grosvenor square he espies Lord
Cammarleigh, whom he knows by reputation, in conversation with a
woman. Brooke observes the restlessness of his eyes and concludes that
he is a man who has a secret, one who is afraid. With none of the
malice of blackmail but spurred on by a fortune-hunter’s necessity of
the things of life, Brooke looked the peer squarely in the eye and
said, “I know your secret.” A private secretaryship, the management of
the household affairs and, in truth of the obdurate Cammarleigh
himself follow for the imposter in a most surprising manner.
* * * * *
“The book abounds with unfeeling fun, culminating in a rhetorical
flourish of impudence. Fortunately for the nerves of the ordinary
reader, the victim of blackmail is a puppet; but the other important
characters are vigorously drawn.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 150w.
“Granted, however, a single initial impossibility, the story goes on
smoothly and naturally enough; and this, we take it, represents a more
artistic method of dealing with the impossible than that which demands
our acceptance of new miracles in every chapter.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Nation.= 85: 417. N. 28, ’07. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Horniman is to be congratulated on a capital idea fully but not
tediously exploited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 519. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
* =Horsley, Sir Victor A. H., and Sturge, Mary M.= Alcohol and the human
body: an introduction to the study of the subject; with a chapter by
Arthur Newsholme. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An indictment against the use of alcohol in which “its ill effects on
body and mind, on health and strength, on moral action and
intellectual activity, are set forth by argument, by facts, by
figures, by representations, gruesome in outline and hue, of the
morbid conditions which it induces in the chief organs of the human
frame.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“This book is sound literary performance and an earnest tract for the
times but we do not see that it can achieve much.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 600. Je. 22, ’07. 1080w.
=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 320w.
“Though on the main issue we do not feel competent to give
judgment—the conflict of evidence is too great—we are bound to record
the opinion that a book like that under notice is sure to do a great
deal of good, and can hardly do any harm even if it is mistaken in
fact.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.= Electrical wiring
and construction tables. *$1.50. Drake, F: J.
7–472.
A pocket hand-book for the wire man, contractor, engineer and
architect. “The book contains tables for direct-current calculations,
for alternating-current calculations, for the smallest size of wire
permissible, and for the most economical loss in different
installations. Tables and diagrams are given showing the proper size
of conduits to accommodate different combinations or numbers of wires;
also tables and data for estimating the quantity of material required
for different lines of work.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Contains much useful information.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 120w.
=Hoskins, Leander Miller.= Text-book on hydraulics, including an outline
of the theory of turbines. *$2.50. Holt.
6–38547.
A text for the use of instructors of experience and thorough training
in the subject, a work giving the fundamental principles in a clear
and concise form without elaboration.
* * * * *
“As a whole it may be said that the book presents the laws and
theories of hydraulics as they were recognized 20 to 25 years ago.
There is authority for most of its statements in the treatises of that
time, but it can hardly be said to cover the field as we regard it
today.” Gardner S. Williams.
− =Engin. N.= 57: 304. Mr. 14, ’07. 940w.
“The book is distinctly elementary, and as such is well written and
supplied with good examples.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“This book will be valuable in training engineering students
possessing a fair knowledge of mathematics to solve any problems in
hydraulics they are likely to meet with in practice, and it will also
furnish them with an insight into the principles on which the working
and efficiency of turbines are based.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 542. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 320w.
=Hough, Emerson.= Story of the outlaw: a study of the western desperado.
il. *$1.50. Outing.
7–5705.
Historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border
wars, vigilant movements and armed conflicts on the frontier. It is a
contemplative study of the American desperado as he is, and in spite
of the author’s intention to do away as far as possible with
melodramatic thrills, the character of the subject precludes their
complete elimination.
* * * * *
“Not particularly interesting, but contains material not easily
available elsewhere.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07.
“It is a concise, clearly-reasoned, well-balanced and admirably
written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature,
and interesting to the average reader.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.
“The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost
too raw for literature.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
“His book certainly shows no trace of a tendency to exaggeration, but
on the contrary is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation
of statement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.
“It is all interesting and suggestive, as material lifted bodily from
life always is, but a little of it goes a long way.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 748. S. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Hough’s philosophising is the weak part of his book.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 761. My. 11, ’07. 1950w.
=Hough, Emerson.= Way of a man. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–27615.
The scene of Mr. Hough’s story is once again laid in the west, chiefly
during the time of the westward movement previous to the civil war. It
concerns a young Virginian who, tho bound to an eastern girl, finds
that he loves his companion of many adventures on the great plains.
Their love-making, interrupted for a time by a villainous emissary
from the cotton interests in England, and by the war itself, finally
terminates happily. It has been the wish of the author to show the
effect of a broad strong environment on human beings.
* * * * *
“The style of the hero’s narrative in the opening pages, is too
archaic for the period treated, but becomes more appropriate as the
story goes forward.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 340w.
“Is chiefly of interest in the illustration it affords of several
tendencies in contemporary fiction, as deplorable as they are
conspicuous: the glorification of the violent, the primitive, and the
crude; a sophomorical searching after effects of style; and a habit of
cheap philosophizing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Hough writes a dignified and forthright sort of tale, which,
although it has a good plot and plenty of incident, yet moves along
quietly and without the clatter-and-bang effect which characterizes so
many novels of action. But this mood seems all the time a little
overstrained, as if he wrote at high pitch and found it rather
painful.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 590w.
“There is plenty of thrill and suspense—possibly a trifle too much.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Hough, Romeyn Beck.= Handbook of the trees of the northern states and
Canada, east of the Rocky mountains; photo-descriptive, buck. $8. Hough.
7–31197.
“A new guide-book to the trees of the northern states and Canada
devotes two pages to each species. One page bears a photographic
reproduction showing a group of leaves (both sides) and fruit. The
other page has a photograph of the trunk of the tree, showing the
distinguishing peculiarities of the bark, a small map showing by
shading the range of the tree’s growth, and a short, clear description
of its characteristics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We cannot think of an item which would contribute to greater
completeness. Everything that has been attempted seems to have been
well planned and well executed. The book may be commended as
indispensable for public and school libraries, for all students of
trees, and botanical laboratories.” C. R. B.
+ + + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 384. N. ’07. 460w.
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 30w.
“There is nothing but praise for the work as a whole. This handbook
should be widely useful in nature libraries, schools and colleges.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 460w.
“The book is admirably adapted for the average person who wants to be
able to tell the trees apart with the least possible study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
“These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook
its distinctive value as a work of reference.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 140w.
=Hough, Theodore, and Sedgwick, William Thompson.= Human mechanism; its
physiology, and hygiene, and the sanitation of its surroundings. *$2.
Ginn.
6–37595.
“This is a textbook of hygiene on new lines. Anatomy, both gross and
microscopic, is reduced to the lowest terms, and the emphasis of the
book, as stated in the preface, is placed on physiology, hygiene, and
sanitation—on function and conduct.”—School R.
* * * * *
“First half of the book ... avoids unnecessary details, but omits
nothing essential. It is so lucidly written that the wayfaring man
will have to be a terrible fool if he does not understand it. We can
award to [the second] part no higher praise than to say that it is as
excellent as the preliminary physiological portion. It teems with
sound practical common-sense; it points out convincingly, avoiding too
great technicality, the scientific reason for their [the authors’]
faith.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 318. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 50w.
“It seems to be altogether the best work upon the subject for use
either as a textbook or for private reading.” Joseph E. Raycroft.
+ + =School R.= 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 310w.
=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Hebrew life and thought; being
interpretative studies in the literature of Israel. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–22298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One is disappointed that he finds no attempt at the unity of purpose,
except to entertain the reader, indicated in the title of the book. We
are glad to find that each lecture has a definite purpose, and some of
them are admirably treated.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 150. Ja. ’07. 260w.
“The aim of the book is good. It breathes a profound faith. Its author
loves the Bible all the more because it is not only a book of
religious instruction, but appeals to her as literature in the way the
‘Iliad’ or ‘Odyssey’ does. The defects of the book are occasional
extravagances of statement, too great an effort to make out biblical
laws and family life superior to anything else in antiquity, and an
artificial interpretation of such books as Canticles and Ruth.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 72. Ja. ’07. 720w.
“Mrs. Houghton writes with enthusiasm and _con amore_, and if we were
able to name a defect it would be a certain light passing over the
limitations and defects of Old Testament morals and belief.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Russian grandmother’s wonder tales.
†$1.50. Scribner.
6–32363.
“Louise Seymour Houghton openly confesses to having been prompted by
‘Uncle Remus’ in her mode of treating ‘The Russian grandmother’s
wonder tales,’ a collection revealing the simple life of the
Slavonians; at the same time in a short preface the author indicates
analogies which reveal how close in contact legends of different lands
often are. The book is excellently printed and effectively illustrated
by W. T. Benda.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“An excellent collection from authentic sources.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 219. N. ’06.
“Since Slavonic-tales do not seem yet to be ‘vieux jeu,’ we recommend
this charming little work as a gift-book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The tales are exceedingly well written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 100w.
“A fascinating little volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w.
* =Houston, Edwin James.= Discovery of the North Pole. [*]$1. Winston.
7–23532.
The second of three volumes in the “North Pole series.” Andree and
Eric, two American boys, are the heroes who pass thru thrilling
adventures and exciting situations while they are learning many facts
of modern scientific discoveries.
* =Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey;
being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd.
and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25.
Duffield.
Fragments of the Arthurian legends which are presented for the sake of
the psychological problem involved rather than for their historic and
picturesque value as poetic material or for the sake of their glamour
and romance. From notes, jottings, and outlines set down in note books
or upon scraps of paper, Mrs. Hovey has completed the work of her
husband who left it unfinished.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’67. 30w.
“An inestimable service has been rendered to the memory of Richard
Hovey by the publication of ‘The holy graal and other fragments’ of
the uncompleted Arthurian dramas; not so much by virtue of the new
material which they contain for this is slight, as for the
illumination thrown upon the whole scheme of the projected cycle by
the introduction and notes of Mrs. Hovey.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 365. D. ’07. 430w.
=Howard, Burt Estes.= German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
6–34863.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“The work makes up in solidity for whatever it lacks in interest. As a
whole the book is a serious and concise summary of value in itself and
a basis for wider study.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“We have examined no better book for the American student of German
institutions.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 150w.
“Will probably rank among the standard briefer treatises of the
Germans. The only criticism worth mentioning relates to the title of
this book, which is misleading, since the work relates almost entirely
to a single aspect of the German Empire, its constitution.” J. W.
Garner.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 105. F. 16, ’07. 1290w.
“It is, indeed, a defect of the book that it does not present us with
a living picture of how the various organs of the constitution perform
their functions. Dr. Howard has obviously based his book upon
extensive research, and possesses the great merit of writing clearly
on legal subjects.” W. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 412. Ap. ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“The text, though specifically juristical, and not, except in place,
historical, never falls under the influence of Dr. Dryasdust; it is
laboriously accurate, and supported by excellent explanatory notes,
which our daily lecturers on foreign affairs should study.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 141. Ja. 26, ’07. 2430w.
=Howard, Earl Dean.= Cause and extent of the recent industrial progress
of Germany. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1.
Houghton.
7–13001.
The book “is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the
extent of Germany’s recent industrial progress; and the second, the
causes. Industrial progress in general is defined in an introductory
chapter, as the ‘increase in the amount of goods produced and
transported, and the improvement of methods by which this increased
production is accomplished.’ The course of this development since the
industrial revolution is briefly reviewed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.
“It is a concise, clearly reasoned, well balanced and admirably
written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature,
and interesting to the average reader.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.
=Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 150w.
“It is a careful and discriminating study, and undoubtedly offers the
best concise discussion of its subject that has yet appeared.” O. D.
Skelton.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 562. N. ’07. 300w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Howard has made any substantial
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“There is no questioning the intrinsic value of his work, which
assuredly makes for a clearer understanding of modern Germany and her
people.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 50w.
“The book is well worth perusal, and it does not detract from its
value if we add that it is for the most part, and properly so, a
careful and moderate exposition of the obvious.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 540w.
=Howard, George Bronson.= Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross.
$1.50. Saalfield.
7–5683.
Seven diplomatic detective adventures in which Yorke Norroy figures as
secret agent of the United States. He always has in his possession the
means to foil his opponent in the big international games being
played, and the analysis of his method of securing the trump card
reveals shrewd practical imagination at work and the adroit handling
of resulting situations.
* * * * *
“The seven stories are good reading at any time, and particularly when
the mind longs for diversion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
=Howard, John Raymond=, ed. Prose you ought to know. **$1.50. Revell.
The editor’s “aim in the present volume is to gather, from a wide
range of authorship and subject-matter, a series of brief excerpts,
each of which shall be typical of its author’s best style, and,
besides exciting a momentary interest, shall ‘at least hint at the
richness of an essay, a tale, a history, an oration.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Has been edited ... with an intelligence and originality that will
make it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordinary book of
extracts.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D: 16, ’06. 220w.
“The selections he makes are brief and numerous rather than few and
choice.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.
=Howard, Newman.= Christian trilogy. 3v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Religions may come and go; the forms of morality may change, and what
is right in one age and clime be wrong in another; but the essential
virtue remains the same—nothing else than faithfulness to what a man
holds to be right. That is the idea running through the three plays
which Mr. Newman Howard calls his ‘Christian trilogy.’... Kiartan was,
externally, true to his false friend; Savonarola to his false city;
Minervina and Crispus, Constantine’s discarded wife and son, to their
false husband, wife, and emperor. In each case there lies behind the
occasion, the sense of honor, the conviction of the necessity for
truth to an ideal of right.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is real
drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to point
out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his dramas,
tragedy is implied in the character of the chief personage, too much
of the action is controlled by the persistent malignity of another
individual. Free from most of the tricks of the playwright, Mr. Howard
still relies too much on his villain.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly, simply,
even severely, preserving always the distinction between what is
theatrical and what is dramatic.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The work of Newman Howard which has but lately made its way to us,
though published first some years ago in England, evinces a dramatic
talent of a high order, but a talent not yet wholly disciplined.”
Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=v. 1.= Kiartan the Icelander: a tragedy.
The motif of the first part of the trilogy is the introduction of
Christianity into Iceland.
* * * * *
“In ‘Kiartan the Icelander’ his very care for local colour and
characteristic expression makes his meaning sometimes not easy to
follow. Possibly in the theatre this difficulty would disappear,
though we cannot help feeling that he has been so intent on making his
people tenth century Icelanders that they lose something of their
probability as men and women.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
=v. 2.= Savonarola: a city’s tragedy.
A drama filled with the “forlorn anti-pagan hope of Savonarola.” Its
interest is centered in “the public career of the Frate, the dramatic
incident of the Trial by fire and the tragic spectacle of the
Execution.”
* * * * *
“Without any sacrifice of dramatic propriety he has so arranged that
you see not only people but their surroundings. As a result, the play
is full of the stir and colour of mediaeval Italy. Indeed, though he
has handled the central theme in a masterly manner, what will delight
most readers is the extraordinary sense of atmosphere created by the
minor characters.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
“In ‘Savonarola,’ Mr. Howard’s more recent drama, the lack of sharp
definition in the plot and dialogue is much more apparent than in
‘Kiartan,’ since all the rival factions and orders, civil and
religious, of that turbulent period are represented in the play and by
their machinations so involve the plot that it is difficult to keep
the various characters and their allegiance distinct.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w.
=v. 3.= Constantine the great: a tragedy.
7–18134.
The establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman
empire furnishes the key-note of the third part of the trilogy. “In
this play Mr. Howard gets his background, his atmosphere, mainly by a
single figure; that of the little degenerate Fabius. By an almost
savage piece of irony, Fabius is made the victim of the plot to murder
Constantine. The state of paganism at the period of the play is
admirably indicated by the priests of Demeter with their pitiful
machinery for working an apparition of the goddess Proserpine. Bombo
is one of the best clowns out of Shakespeare.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Howard reaches his highest level of workmanship in ‘Constantine
the great.’ The chief characters stand out with something of the
objective reality of sculpture but with all the life and movement of
human beings. The dialog is reduced to its bare essentials, and
because no word is allowed for its own sake, every word is not only
significant but decorative, so that the texture of the verse is as if
woven of some precious metal.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
“When we have put together all the poetical achievements of this
tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of dramatic speech
and structure and when we have dispassionately weighed against these
excellencies its defects, we cannot hesitate to place it among all but
the highest English dramatic poetry.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w.
“The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or technique.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
“We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that he is one
of the very few living poets who stand in the great tradition. It is a
book which every lover of good poetry must read and cherish.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
* =Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
The volume “takes us once more to the familiar battlefields, shows how
campaigns were fought and won and lost, and describes in detail the
efforts of the government, after peace had been restored, to relieve
the emancipated but helpless slaves whom the war had set at
liberty.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He takes the reader delightfully into his confidence, and writes with
an astonishing recollection of detail. An autobiography at once so
full of incident and so free from matters of small importance has
rarely been produced.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 244. O. 16, ’07. 1800w.
“Bulks large on the shelf, but so interesting that the reader will not
regret the magnitude.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 410w.
* =Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of locomotives. $2. McClure.
An informing book for young readers which traces with many
accompanying illustrations the evolution of the steam engine from its
beginning to its replacement by the electric locomotive.
* * * * *
“The book will tempt old as well as young.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 90w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= British city: the beginnings of democracy.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–21305.
A companion to Mr. Howe’s study of the American city. It is not only
an exposition full of historical and statistical detail but is a
critical discussion of the workings of the British city and of the
lessons contained “for the solution of parallel, but by no means
identical, American problems.” The author’s strictly economic point of
view accounts for all the motives of a commonwealth’s interests, he
has become “convinced that it is the economic environment that creates
and controls man’s activities as well as his attitude of mind.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.
“No social reformer can afford to be without this volume.” B. O.
Flower.
+ + + =Arena.= 38: 200. Ag. ’07. 3260w.
“The book contains a good deal of information, not all of it full or
pertinent, but it is not presented with especial attractiveness or
force.”
− + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 70w.
“In spite of these numerous mistakes and misconceptions, Mr. Howe has
formed some very sound and well-grounded opinions as to the working of
British institutions.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 420w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Howe never lets himself forget that he is writing for American
readers and the contrast which he draws between municipal conditions
in the two countries is really the book’s most valuable and
illuminating feature.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 81. Jl. 25, ’07. 1220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 547. S. 14, ’07. 530w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
5–33225.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
=Charities.= 17: 511. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
“For our part, we believe that in his main principles the author is
right, as also in many of his applications of those principles to
judge the success or failure of the British city. We also believe that
he carries some of his theories too far.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 533. N. 14, ’07. 1240w.
“Writes as a propagandist rather than as a student. The work is
interesting in style, stimulating in thought and treatment, hopeful in
tone, and is well worth a careful reading by the student of municipal
affairs.” Clinton Rogers Woodruff.
+ − =Yale R.= 15: 463. F. ’07. 710w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= Confessions of a monopolist. *$1. Public pub.
6–32427.
An autobiography “showing how easily a man of medium capacity and no
scruples can accumulate a fortune by exploiting public franchises and
‘playing Wall street.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Never before has a work
appeared in which the methods of the high financiers and political
bosses have been more clearly exposed. Here the reader is made to see
how certain feats that appear from before the footlights as little
short of miraculous are performed. Here he sees how by learning the
rules of the game a modern high financier is able to divert the wealth
of thousands into the till of the crafty monopolists; how, in short,
the thousands are made to labor for the few just as actually as in the
days of the feudal lords the serfs slaved for the barons. And here he
sees how politics are made the handmaid of the modern plutocracy in
its attempt to enslave labor while destroying the soul of democracy.”
(Arena.)
* * * * *
“It is far and away the finest political satire on present-day
American politics,—a book that every thinking patriotic citizen should
read.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 680. D. ’06. 950w.
“It is not pleasant reading—it is too true to life, though possibly
somewhat exaggerated or unnaturally concentrated either for artistic
effect or for the sake of argument.” Max West.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 310w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 120w.
“The little volume is both interesting and instructive, whether
regarded as a vade mecum for those desirous of practising the new high
finance, or as an addition to the horrors which our professional
purifiers have revealed in order to reform them.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 240w.
=Howe, Malverd Abijah.= Symmetrical masonry arches, including natural
stone, plain concrete and reinforced concrete arches; for the use of
technical schools, engineers and computers in designing arches according
to the elastic theory. $2.50. Wiley.
6–33609.
“In the first chapter, fundamental formulas for the elastic arch are
derived; in the second chapter, symmetrical arches without hinges and
of constant or variable section, are considered.... In chapter 3 the
author applies the theory in detail to a segmental circular arch of
constant section and also to a reinforced-concrete arch.... The last
chapter of the book is devoted to drawings of typical arches. An
appendix is given on the physical properties of stone and concrete and
data for about five hundred masonry arch bridges.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is a strong, sound handling of a difficult subject. The one
criticism that can be made of the theory developments in the book is
that they are a little too condensed.” Wm. Cain.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 980w.
=Howe, Samuel Gridley.= Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe; ed.
by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes and a preface by F. B.
Sanborn. 3v. ea. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.
=v. 1.= Following a brief story of his early years, Mrs. Richards has
sketched her father’s life from his letters and journals written in
Greece during his espousal of that country’s fight for independence.
“The book gives a convincing picture of the conditions of Greece at
the time of the war of independence, and introduces us to an American
working among these conditions who was a credit to his country for
firmness of character, coolness of judgment, disinterestedness, and
humanity.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Full of facts and judgments of high historical value. There was
hardly a keener eye on Greek affairs than Howe’s; hardly a man of any
age who saw so much and interpreted it so well. His incisive judgments
of men have, in the main, stood the test of time. Apart from the
historical value of this volume, it takes rank with the very best
Greek travels of that day.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 640. Ap. ’07. 1040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If they are to be regarded as historical materials, they require much
more annotation to make them generally comprehensible. Their omissions
are too serious to give them much weight as a contemporary record of
events.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 189. F. 16. 2090w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mrs. Richards’s prefatory and interspersed notes add no little to the
value and completeness of the book as a detailed account of her
father’s eventful young manhood.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The letters and journals are written in a spirited fashion, but are
lacking in notable incident, and deal with few personalities who are
of interest to any except special students of this period of European
history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is readable throughout.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 51. F. 15, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mrs. Richards would probably be well advised were she to use the
pruning knife more freely in succeeding volumes. There is no index,
and the printing and production of the book leave much to be desired.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 248. Mr. 14, ’07. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This is an interesting volume, but the reader need not consider
himself bound to go thru it from cover to cover.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Howell, George.= Labour legislation, labour movements, and labour
leaders. 2d ed. 2v. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a work which serves to throw light on the nature,
aims and methods of trade-unionism.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 60: 1287. My. 31, ’06. 50w.
“He chronicles a great deal not to be found in other histories, and
his book fills a gap for England which needs filling for ourselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.
“It is marred by fragmentariness, by repetitions, and by unpolished
style, but its merits are so conspicuous that it deserves the
thoughtful consideration of every student of economic and social
questions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 675. N. 17, ’06. 580w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 70w.
=Howell, James.= Familiar letters of James Howell; with an introd. by
Agnes Repplier. 2v. $6; Special ltd. ed. 4v. *$15. Houghton.
7–15871.
An attractive new edition of letters which “speak for themselves, and
surely no reader will pine for erudite guidance through the maze of
curious anecdote, lively narrative, and characteristically intimate
comment and reflection which Howell has constructed, writing always
crisply and lucidly, in accordance with his belief that a letter
should be ‘short-coated and closely couch’d’ and should ‘not preach
but epistolize.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The letters themselves ... possess all the charm and gossipy interest
of their time that the letters of Horace Walpole contained a century
later.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 360w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)
+ + =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 430w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
“In her pleasant way Miss Repplier brings out, by incident and
characterization, the qualities which have made his letters the
constant reading of lovers of literature since they first appeared.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 280w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
“It is a book that seems as fresh to-day as when it was written nearly
three centuries ago, and, though it may never be popular, it will
always be valued by the discriminating few.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 446. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)
“The wide careless world will pay little attention to these volumes,
but they will have their own sure welcome.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 233. N. ’97. 830w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
=Howells, William Dean.= Between the dark and the daylight. †$1.50.
Harper.
7–34775.
Of the seven tales told by old friends at the club four are
psychological romances, stories of that mental borderland suggested by
the book’s title. “A sleep and a forgetting” tells of a strange lapse
of memory in a young girl; “The eidolons of Brooks Alford” concerns
the visions of a broken down professor and the pretty widow who
disperses them; “A memory that worked over time” is a confusion of
memory and imagination; and “A case of metaphantasmia” enters into the
question of dream-transference. The three stories which conclude the
book, “Editha,” “Braybridge’s offer,” and “The chick of the Easter
egg” are plain day-light stories, a protest against war, a speculation
as to the average proposal, and an amusing Easter comedy.
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 275. N. ’07. 1000w.
“They are queer and creepy without being exactly supernatural.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 150w.
“The stories are graceful social pictures written with charm and
humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“We can only congratulate ourselves that he does not sit before his
fire enjoying it all to himself, as he might be tempted to do.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“All the stories are full of delightful reading. They would not be Mr.
Howells’s if they were not.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 717. N. 9, ’07. 210w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses
of the pleasant country between. **$3. Harper.
6–38895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is only a Stevenson or a Howells who could achieve fascination for
[this task]. But Mr. Howells is triumphantly successful. The American
humor, which has always been attuned, in Mr. Howells, to a delicate
strain, becomes tender whimsicality. We know no one who writes more
beautifully in modern English.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 435. Ap. 13. 1040w.
“How dare we use anything so rough and rude as the downright word
praise of anything so delicate?”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 100. Mr. 29, ’07. 1590w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 450. Mr. 23, ’07. 1560w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Through the eye of the needle. †$1.50. Harper.
7–15545.
Part 1 of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York
as seen by a traveler from Altruria. The tall, bleak apartment houses,
the social distinctions, and the greed for gain impress him so
strongly that he says at the very outset,—“If I spoke with Altrurian
breath of the way New Yorkers live, I should begin by saying that the
New Yorkers do not live at all.” Part 2 contains an account of
Altruria as seen by the American wife whom he takes home with him, and
who has a difficult time adjusting her American ideas to a country
which has neither money nor social gradations, and, where lord and
farmer work happily for their living, side by side.
* * * * *
“Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an
interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love
affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for
diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w.
“He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at
large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
=Bookm.= 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w.
“In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we
have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w.
“We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and
not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost
faultless little piece of irony.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w.
“The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of
an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This,
however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that
with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle
of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his
precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of
Altruria.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.
“Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our
opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we
must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and
from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by
the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive
sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w.
“Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as
a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let
them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
“Somehow, it leaves the reader not half so kindly disposed toward his
fellow-men, not half so eager to make this a better world, as he was
after reading ‘Lemuel Barker’ or ‘Silas Lapham.’” Vernon Atwood.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“It embodies much cogent criticism of every important phase of
American life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Howells is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes,
and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits
his distinguished talent in an unfamiliar light.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 836. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=Hoy, Mary Lavinia Thompson (Mrs. Frank L. Hoy).= Adrienne. $1.50.
Neale.
6–46252.
A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is
transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary
world of waiting and anxiety.
=Hoyt, William Henry.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–15929.
A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence
of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.
* * * * *
“The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability
to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a
history of a controversy.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 400w.
“The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation,
conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its
conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse
the absence of an index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 120w.
* =Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.).= Little journeys to the homes
of eminent orators. (Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.
7–36125.
An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group
includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick
Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.
* * * * *
“It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the
author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man,
who ‘wants to know.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Hubbard, Frank McKinney.= Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il.
**$1. Bobbs.
7–15475.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a
cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to
visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors
who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief
bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams”
themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.
=Hubbard, George H.= Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim
press.
7–16710.
“Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were
addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from
critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he
sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal
clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree
of literary skill.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 79. Jl. ’07. 20w.
“Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful
addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have
read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to
supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though
excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof.= Water-works management and
maintenance. $4. Wiley.
7–21739.
“Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the
securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and
installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly
the various features of management and maintenance, but also
necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part
3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of
franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07.
“The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than
half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of
water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well
known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from
papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great
many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the
line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable
addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 294. S. 12, ’07. 1720w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 517. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
=Huber, John Bessnes.= Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.
6–17682.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very
valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis
campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 493. D. 15, ’06. 980w.
=Huchon, Rene.= George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and
biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5.
Dutton.
W 7–149.
With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write
“a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the
interpretation of his works.”
* * * * *
“The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing.
When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual
poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted,
with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the
intimate side of the poet’s character.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 286. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the
late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 407. Ap. 6. 2090w.
“At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a
just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie
Russell Marble.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 39. Jl. 16, ’07. 1290w.
“To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet
to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his
verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it
has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to
the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance.
And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English
readers.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21. ’07. 1370w.
“Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion
than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical
theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout
may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 1170w.
“Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than
the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a
better book.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 491. Ag. 10, ’07. 1790w.
“Is distinctly original and unconventional.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 41. S. 7, ’07. 1720w.
“Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we
may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a
piece of social history the work is full of value. Our main praise,
however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon
has made his quotations.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 462. Ap. 13, ’07. 1020w.
* =Huck, A.= Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English
readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.
An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in
Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume
exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of
Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the
material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not
blind the student to the special characteristics of the several
evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the
case with the older manuals.”
* * * * *
“The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition
in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition,
1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and
enriching it.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide
use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 190w.
“This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in
existence for historical students.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 140w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in
Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.
7–13922.
The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of
education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the
present and perpetual authority of conscience.
=Hudson, Charles Bradford.= Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and
Peru. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–32156.
A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of
Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The
hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian
knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom
Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish
chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long
and strikes us as being very dull.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Crystal age. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One
Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to
find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of
exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on
Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is
unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’
brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting
of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to
elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred
training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader
free to suppose anything.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1060w.
“Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of
the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch
of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring
of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of
all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= England and the English: an interpretation. **$2.
McClure.
7–19051.
The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The
heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a
view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in
descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and
about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an
intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.
* * * * *
“The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to
England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and
their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little
disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative.
The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows
more trying to the reader as he advances.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an
American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and
the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but
without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of
to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should
be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is
inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w.
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the
spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does
give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life
on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged
with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire
he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w.
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of
similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point
and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its
aim.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph.
*75c. Dutton.
6–1911.
Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr.
Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand
between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the
new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age
begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the
Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As
defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what
Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out
of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is a model of what such a study should be.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well
written.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 240w.
“A worthy addition to that attractive series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 180w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les
Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea,
Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.
=Hugo, Victor.= Poems; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.
6–43525.
A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an
introduction, biographical summary and notes.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Victor Hugo’s intellectual
autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.
7–21356.
A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s
ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the
great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which
he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is
composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life
and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of
nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on
art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us,
was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 38: 263. S. ’07. 9000w.
“An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 238. Ag. 31. 600w.
“A graceful and scholarly translation.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 610w.
“A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only
critical but to some extent biographical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 170w.
“The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of
jerky phrases.”
− =Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of
the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic
force and white hot rush of his burning words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1050w.
“The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift
of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance
upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship
that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s
essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for
stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of
the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 783. Ag. 2, ’07. 1470w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w.
“We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified
for his task.”
− =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50.
Putnam.
6–35979.
The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways
of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from
photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct
contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the
flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s
history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to
vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the
Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian
fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous
multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal
with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of
pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of
flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the
intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact
of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So
far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing
new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects
of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 662. Ap. ’07. 790w.
“A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the
successive phases of social life on the river.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites
a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a
large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with
picturesque and pungent style.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness,
but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research
and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 220w.
“Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most
intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s
series.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
“There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest
and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said
that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 910w.
“On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value
and interest.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 2300w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic. *$1.50. McClurg.
6–41537.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 721. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history,
and is well printed, as its text merits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of
historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that
on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–32372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with
its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on
Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 765. D. 15. 1720w.
“Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the
late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 43: 85. Ag. 16, ’07. 900w.
“One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26. ’07. 1440w.
“In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people,
it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he
ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have
named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of
the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and
writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 620w.
=Huling, Caroline A.= Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1.
Fenno.
7–508.
In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal
of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to
conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready
sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great
city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks
freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught
with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.
* * * * *
“The advice is sensible, if trite.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1220w.
=Hull, Walter Henry=, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency;
being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by
prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–17036.
The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since
1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect
actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General
banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they
discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various
points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in
connection with studies in banking and currency.
* * * * *
“The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary
situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would
make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 494. O. ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 296. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
“It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt
with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard
textbook.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 480w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 150w.
“The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and
understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller
acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 642. N. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Through Portugal. **$2. McClure.
7–25498.
The author says that this volume is a self-prescribed penance for his
former injustice toward the most beautiful country and the most
unspoiled and courteous peasantry in Southern Europe. So he makes
amends for hitherto rating the Portuguese as a Spaniard without any
good qualities. His greatest interest centers in such places as
“Bussaco, Thomar and Leiria, of which he gives a vivid series of
impressions, picturesque, alert, and eminently good-humoured.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“His vivid description of the scenery and the people, and his
observations on art, history and archaeology make up a book of more
than usual interest and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“The easy, flowing style of the book takes one from one scene to
another without effort, and the vivid descriptions enable the reader
to ‘see without traveling.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 140w.
“The book is charmingly illustrated, and abounds in engaging, sincere
enthusiasm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 190w.
“Whatever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto, Bussaco, Coimbra,
Alcoboca, Cintra, Lisbon, or places of lesser note, is done with a
well-considered and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually
graceful style.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“It ought to be a revelation to those who know Portugal only from a
guide book, or who think of it only as an unimportant strip of
seashore to be neglected for royal Spain.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The fault we have to find with the clever sketches in colour is that
they are somewhat faint in tint and rather too much en vignette.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=Hunt, Thomas Forsyth.= How to choose a farm. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26525.
“The chief elements considered are: First, character and topography of
the soil; second, climatic conditions, including healthfulness and
water supply; third, location; fourth, improvements. A complete and
somewhat technical classification of the soils of the United States is
given, along with the crops best adapted to them.... The subject is
treated from an economic point of view, abundant statistical data
being given in support of statements.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book suffers through an attempt to cover too wide a field. The
style is ordinary. Though at times involved, it is generally lucid.
The subject is treated practically and dispassionately. The book is
valuable to persons considering the possibility of owning or living on
a farm.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’67. 310w.
“A remarkable volume for the amount of information that has been
compressed without loss of enthusiasm and dryness of style.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 270w.
=Hunt, Rev. William=, ed. Irish parliament, 1775; from an official and
contemporary manuscript. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–26445.
An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a
reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared
probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course
of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction
describing the regime of the time.
* * * * *
“The volume adds less than might be expected from a document
introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w.
“As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced
critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious
study.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w.
“Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told
its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the
Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the
character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”
+ =Nation.= 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w.
“The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of
the state of politics or of political morality in the period
immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the
acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it
supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in
familiar authorities.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 368. S. 21, ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 98: 544. Ap. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history
of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“We must confess that Mr. Fisher’s portrait of Henry VII. is not
satisfactory.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 159. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We leave his book convinced of its very great historical, and we
might add literary value.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 247. Mr. 9, ’07. 2270w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He writes, not as an advocate pleads, but as a judge sums up. And the
outcome is real history.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 722. Jl. 27, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In some respects, in a freshness and newness of viewpoint, the volume
has an advantage over its predecessors. For this, however, the author
must share the credit with the peculiar opportunity offered by the
field assigned him. This part of English history has been somewhat
neglected by English historians of the last generation.” Benjamin
Terry.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.)
“One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to
the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the
citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 165. F. 10. 920w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor
Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores
of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be
added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of
perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent,
and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic
problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from
the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which
has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as
that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those
of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and
attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much
that is proper matter for the historian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least
too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic
problems which loomed large at this period.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.)
“There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 471. O. 19. 2080w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If, however, we are hardly prepared to endorse all the opinions which
are scattered through Mr. Brodrick’s pages we gladly acknowledge the
clearness and accuracy of his narrative. We do not know where it is
possible to find a better summary of English history during the first
third of the nineteenth century.” Spencer Walpole.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 183. Ja. ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The book is written from a large and almost exhaustive study of all
available sources.” James Gairdner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 364. Ap. ’07. 1980w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Oman’s clear and forcible narrative presents a review of the
period which is in all its main aspects substantially sound.” C. L.
Kingsford.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 576. Jl. ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [fifth] volume ... contains what is probably the best account of
Henry VIII yet written.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1527. Je. 27, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)
“Able and exhaustive book. It will be an unfailing resource of the
student, while it proves the despair of the captious critic; for its
author can never be found nodding, and he puts forward no plausible
theories to serve as a target for the enemy’s bullets.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The best history that has yet been written of the reigns of the first
two Tudor princes. Whether he looks for instruction or for amusement,
the reader who takes up Mr. Fisher’s book will not be disappointed.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 21. Ja. 18, ’07. 2010w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Within the limits thus prescribed for him, Mr. Montague has produced
a model book, and if sometimes these limits seem irksome to the
reader, they must have been more so to the writer.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 194. Je. 21, ’07. 1360w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Although the high praise bestowed on this series in earlier notices
must be continued yet as the volumes accumulate certain deep seated
weaknesses begin to show more conspicuously.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 720w. (Review of v. 7.)
“His present work is authoritative, and based upon the results of the
most recent scholarship. It is a valuable contribution to the
literature of one of the most significant periods of English history.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 880w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A little of Macaulay’s art would make his reliable history more
entertaining.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Perhaps an over-zealousness for detail is manifest, here and there,
as, for example, in the discussion of foreign relations, but even
where detail is most abundant the sense of continuity and unity and
interest is preserved. And, on occasion, Mr. Fisher shows himself
capable of rising to heights of superb eloquence.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is regrettable to find economic conditions practically unnoticed.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Professor Tout has done his work well; his volume is essentially
military and narrative history, accurate enough and full enough, it
may be hoped, to satisfy students and general readers for many a
decade.” Charles A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 700. D. ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A clear, scholarly and adequate account which will find a serviceable
place in the literature of the period.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 188. Mr. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Unhappily the volume is marred in many places by vehement expressions
and loose characterizations which seem unworthy of so dignified a
work.” Charles A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 522. S. ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 11.)
“As a narrator ... he is admirable; his style is clear and, without
striving after epigram, epigrammatic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 559. My. 4, ’07. 1430w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We must say, however, that Professor Montague’s flag is hoisted at
once, and that there is scarcely an attempt to be fair to the side he
does not like. We are not imputing to Mr. Montague any deliberate
‘suppressio veri.’ But his history has a particular focus. It proceeds
on the assumption that one man may steal a horse while another may not
look over the hedge.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In style, judgment, and exhaustive knowledge of sources it leaves
little to be desired.”
+ + + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A broad, accurate, restrained and scholarly book. Admirable in its
reliance on this authority and objectivity of the records, it is,
however, a book which will appeal to the scholar rather than to the
general reader.” Chalfant Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 10: 324. N. ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Huntington, Arria Sargent.= Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan
Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. **$2. Houghton.
6–39740.
“In a career so varied as that of Dr. Huntington’s there is much of
general interest. Nourished in what might be termed evangelized
Unitarianism, and educated by orthodox Congregationalists, he became
pastor of a Unitarian church, and subsequently preacher to Harvard
University and Plummer professor of Christian morals. On change of
view he was made rector of an Episcopal church in Boston, and later,
for thirty-five years bishop of central New York.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The biographer has produced a pleasing picture of one of the most
conscientious and useful men of the American church.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“This book is for the few—for those who find a delight in simplicity
and clarity and stability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 860w.
* =Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
A journey in central Asia illustrating the geographic relation between
physical environment and man, and between changes of climate and
history. Mr. Huntington gathers up the various hypotheses relating to
geography, meteorology. archeology, folk-lore and history and combines
them into a consistent geographic theory of history. The book is the
outcome of personal adventure from which an analytical mind has
deduced material which is a worthy contribution to science.
=Huntington, Helen.= Days that pass. **$1.25. Lane.
7–9785.
Some fifty little verses, slight and pleasing.
* * * * *
“All thoughtfully fashioned and delicate in expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 110w.
“A volume of slight but graceful verse.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.
=Hurll, Estelle May.= Portraits and portrait painting, being a brief
survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day. il.
$2.50. Page.
7–30411.
In this survey the aim has been to show what has been contributed to
the art of each age and by each nationality as well as by the several
most notable portrait painters. The work sketches history, temperament
and types, throwing sidelights on subjects as well as painters. Some
famous portraits are included among the illustrations.
* * * * *
“The ability ... to hold the reader’s interest by a crisp style, and
by a skilful presentation of salient points and large issues, is
evident throughout the book, which is an unusually satisfactory
example of its class.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“She has the valuable gift of awakening promptly the desire to examine
at first hand the subject of her description.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 280w.
=Huston, Paul Griswold.= Around an old homestead; a book of memories.
*$1.50. Meth. bk.
6–39445.
“This ‘book of memories,’ though it celebrates a particular house,
will serve to stir home memories in the heart of anyone who has lived
in the country. It has much to say of the house itself, the open fire,
the orchards, the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities
of farm life.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A finely-made book, whose open print and abundant pictures will
especially delight old people.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a sympathetic book to handle as well as to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Hutchinson, Alfred L.= Limit of wealth. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–22404.
A narrative based upon a report made in 1944 by a committee appointed
by the Eurasian conference, which represented the allied powers of
Europe and Asia to investigate the system of government in the United
States, by which that nation had so quickly outclassed the old nations
of the world. The narrative presents the findings of this committee
and shows us a United States based upon Utopian laws, the most
significant being that which allows the accumulation of wealth by any
individual but which limits his ultimate sale of it.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 350w.
=Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 160w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Hutchinson’s book is at least written by one who understands
present conditions. From these conditions he draws logical
conclusions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
“On the whole, we think these publications are more useful in giving
the student of the present economic conditions a historical background
than in giving to the reformer any clear light on methods for their
improvement.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley.= Our country home. **$2. McClurg.
7–36734.
A delightful account of how two people—a man who had always wanted a
farm, and a woman who had never wanted a country house—were captivated
by a bit of Wisconsin woodland bordering upon a lake. They immediately
become the owners of seventy-two acres of this wilderness and in a few
year bring about a wonderful transformation, each step of which
combining the artistic with the practical, is recorded in this fully
illustrated volume.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, giving many
suggestions to readers who are interested in having country homes of
their own.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 300w.
=Hutchinson, Jonathan, jr.= Leprosy and fish eating: a statement of
facts and explanations. *$3.25. Keener.
The object of this work is stated in the preface to be “to carry
conviction to the reader that the fundamental cause of the malady
known as true leprosy is the eating of fish in a state of commencing
decomposition.”
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 580w.
“In criticising Mr. Hutchinson’s theory we do not in the least desire
to belittle his work, which is of the greatest interest, and his book
is a valuable contribution to the epidemiology of leprosy.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 412. Mr. 14, ’07. 740w.
“We can lay down Mr. Hutchinson’s book with a feeling of greater
respect for his perseverance than for his judicial capacity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
=Hutchinson, Rollin William, jr.= Long distance electric power
transmission; being a treatise on the hydro-electric generation of
energy; its transformation, transmission and distribution. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
7–10589.
“One-third of the book is devoted to the principles and practice of
hydraulics.... The electrical section of the book opens with a brief
study of the electric generator and its accessories.... Following this
is a long chapter on the transmission line.... Transformers, motors
and rotary converters have each a separate chapter.... The book closes
with a few illustrations from actual practice of transmission-plant
construction.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“As an epitome of the subject indicated in the title, the book is
excellent. It is well-balanced in several parts and leaves the reader
with an impression that the problem of power transmission is a large
one.” Henry W. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The treatment is concise, the language clear, and the mathematics
elementary. A work in which theory and reliable every-day experience
are well and judiciously combined.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 270. Je. ’07. 230w.
* =Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= The halo. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–36982.
An unusual situation is handled by the author here. To free herself
from drudgery and poverty as well as the retinue of ineligibles which
her mother has forced upon her, an impulsive girl engages herself to a
mere boy and later finds out that it is his father, the wizard of the
violin, whom she loves, notwithstanding the fact that there is a wife.
“The book is really a study of the artistic temperament.”
* * * * *
“There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and
actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception,
nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added
greatly to the whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w.
“Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety
of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation.
The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks,
somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever
needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or
tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w.
“The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid
style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which
taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should
prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in
London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–38553.
The hero, who is something of a cad, proposes to three girls in one
evening and is refused by each in turn. A fourth proposal, one which
promises an acceptance, he does not make. The explanation of all this
forms the story.
* * * * *
“The book is a slight rollicking comedy of English life, told with
much vivacity and considerable skill in the invention of incident.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
“Apart from its holiday make-up, the novelette has little to commend
it.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–52.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and
scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting
title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G.
Brownell.”
− =Dial.= 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w.
“A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the
scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study
of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.
7–11548.
A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of
the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian
despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most
material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by
Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his
meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated
with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)
* * * * *
“As a means of arriving at this result he has invented a contemporary
of his hero who shall tell the tale for him. The idea is ingenious and
gives rise to some pages of interesting reflection and comment by the
old humanist in the course of his narrative. Yet in this very scheme
lies also the initial weakness of the book.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 920w.
“Although the memoir is a fiction the author has held loyally to
historic fact and shows remarkable familiarity with the authorities as
is evidenced by notes and references.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. 110w.
“Alternately we are tantalized by our author’s refusal, as historian,
to go one step beyond his documents, and annoyed by his airy
readiness, as novelist, to brush aside a difficulty, without making
the slightest effort to clear it up.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 97. Ja. 26. 1420w.
“A product that is neither history nor romance something that
historians will not read because they must regard it as fiction, while
novel readers will avoid it because it advertises itself as history.
In his attempt to be too clever Mr. Hutton has overreached himself.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1151. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“This is an excellent book, worthy to be read by every lover of good
English, and unquestionably the finest piece of work Mr. Hutton has as
yet done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 828. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Might perhaps have been as well expressed with slightly less evident
straining after effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 210w.
“There is but one real blot in Mr. Hutton’s fine work of art, and that
should be instantly painted out or painted over; Sanseverino describes
as an eye-witness a supposed brutal murder by Sigismund of an
Ultramontane lady.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 270. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“It is an artistic piece of work, with a few flaws indeed, for only a
consummate artist could have kept it quite on the same level
throughout.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 214. F. 9, ’07. 1500w.
=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
7–2429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Such virtues as the merely careful and temperate writer, whose gifts
do not include art or style, may command, his book has.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w.
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w.
=Hyde, Henry M.= Upstart. †$1.50. Century.
6–34689.
“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a
heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up
bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly
Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally
‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we
suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of
the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized
the people.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches
of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not
without value as a document of that phase of American life that is
seen in the Middle West.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.
“The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a
first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some
strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is
the best thing in the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w.
“Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Hyde, Rev. James.= Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.
The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith,
the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What
think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into
life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His
glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in
getting back to its original foundation.
=Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents
and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world.
*$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45335.
“Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The
majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last
century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed,
who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any
schoolboy.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its
companions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w.
“On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume.
He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the
thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest
pitch, and the book is well put together.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w.
* =Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly
covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not
unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest
features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and
explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through
the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of
the Jordan.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader
with something of the spirit of the past.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w.
“Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.
6–33631.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost
unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w.
+ =Arena.= 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w.
“Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of
absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
5–17300.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w.
I
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by
William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.
6–39770.
An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by
Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the
volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as
follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings,
Pretenders; Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League
of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the
people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler,
Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead
awaken.
* * * * *
“It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are
likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 288. Mr. 23, ’07. 1390w. (Review of v. 2–4, 6 and
7.)
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1–11.)
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10, 760w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)
=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 8.)
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the
first editions.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1495. D. 20, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2, 6 and 7.)
=Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader
of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative
translation in English, and the series of introductions which William
Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the
dramas that we have in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 824. O. 3, ’07. 250w. (Review of v. 5, 9 and 10.)
“Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that
playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the
rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one
who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern
dramatic technicians.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–11.)
“Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of
Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy
of text.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might
almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is
too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws
valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these
introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as
well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey
of Ibsen in English.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Ja. 3, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)
“Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most
successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to
those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same
stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the
same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 417. My. 2, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 7 and 9.)
=Nation.= 85: 170. Ag. 22, ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 477. N. 21, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and
Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.
5–42524.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of
the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to
say ... that the translators have done their work in a most
praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 477. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50.
Doubleday.
6–36472.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 94. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of
references.”
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
“It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but
in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does
not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the
results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 676. Mr. 21, ’07. 790w.
* =Inchbold, A. Cunnick.= Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek,
Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.
7–29089.
Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of
sunshine and warmth in both.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of
which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The
letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account
of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of
trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the
commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up
for an authority.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 809. D. 22. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, *07. 20w.
“[Has] a compelling charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Indiana state teachers’ association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley.
50c. Bobbs.
6–16282.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton=, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some
notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.
6–46366.
A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and
refining of lead.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed
the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its
treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication.
The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats,
but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the
fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a
supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley
Stoughton.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Inge, William Ralph.= Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–8274.
In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of
Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a
religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He
candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the
defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern
scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not
chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of
faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological
communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most
chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as
convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 359. D. 27, ’06. 570w.
“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42426.
“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his
destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is
helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple
Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive
talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary
nature.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 295. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.
“The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as
amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
“We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the
season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness
to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us
the genuine thing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 140w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.
6–18321.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country:
we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good,
and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our
neighbors.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 201. F. 16. 90w.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 176. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an
English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 310w.
=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by
Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.
6–42943.
“The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that
it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views
on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are
arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and
woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
“In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and
humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner
impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works,
where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and
ostentatious irony.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott.= Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and
girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.
The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such
things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the
kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He
is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the
land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Innes, Charles Herbert.= Air compressors and blowing engines, specially
adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W 7–82.
“The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the
compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter
is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder
of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers,
and compressors.
* * * * *
“While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly
valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this
subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 634. D. 13, ’06. 570w.
=Nation.= 84: 117. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Innis, George S.= Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18306.
This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer
to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about
John Wycliffe and his work?”
* * * * *
“It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain,
busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history
relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced
it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing
essential seems omitted.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 576. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
=Ireland, William W.= Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.
6–2311.
“The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by
Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in
sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank
recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist
controversy.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good
purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to
commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which
he moved.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w.
“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is
the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect
comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and
tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained
to the end.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he
includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be
impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults
of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single
rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty
pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”
+ − =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.
“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a
noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better
had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and
extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w.
“Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a
vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to
students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in
elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 1740w.
“Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive
without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 87. F. ’07. 670w.
“If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless
substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective
value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many
scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on
the period.”
+ − =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.
“It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand
formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 304. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
* =Irving, Henry Brodribb.= Occasional papers, dramatic and historical.
**$1.50. Small.
Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the
eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the
actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The
fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of
Chief Justice Scroggs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best
yet written.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the
most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these
epithets in no common degree.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–41958.
“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only
remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much
good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of
recent news interest.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good
reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of
‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.
“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of
gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more
than the light amusement of a passing hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22412.
In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the
literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the
field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this
little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty
accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the
amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic;
Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a
self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West
Point, a reign of drill-terriers.
* * * * *
“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely
surrounded by dull prose.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 442. Jl. 13, ’07. 300w.
=Irwin, William Henry.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco.
*50c. Huebsch.
6–23693.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart,
and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the
spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual
visitor never failed to feel.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 60w.
Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.
7–29584.
A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson
Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it
has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there
are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands,
Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of
the story-teller while sojourning in them.
* * * * *
“This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with
avidity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 110w.
=Ives, George Burnham.= Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5.
Houghton.
7–10313.
“By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr.
Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of
approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and
four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined
information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was
written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is
of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 1260w.
“This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness
is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of
great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has
not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically
undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes
guilty.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 218. Ap. 6, ’07. 2150w.
J
* =Jacberns, Raymond.= Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of
French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone
generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to
young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as
a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind
guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being
rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is
indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present. **$4.
Macmillan.
6–33596.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to
make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the
scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its
bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the
subject.” George Melville Bolling.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w.
“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value
alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few
travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w.
“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof.
Jackson of what he actually saw.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w.
“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical
interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely
interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the
poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w.
“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the
side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w.
“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his
absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with
the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an
excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The
excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in
this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w.
=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–16754.
Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and
unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story
follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer
until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a
millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches.
It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a
strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.
* * * * *
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side.
*$6. Dutton.
7–13428.
“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and
small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches,
dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic
interest, telling something, too, about the people and their
characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the
histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as
well as the political and national history of the places visited. The
illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans,
etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful,
though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite
clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a
compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time
nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful
book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w.
“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect
index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w.
“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it
is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would
atone even for a lapse in grammar.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will
delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful
volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w.
“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a
guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a
practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming
impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very
different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and
here we feel him thoroughly at home.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many
things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he
were, indeed, a many-sided man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless,
we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the
color of the history described were as equally evident as its
outline.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise.
One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the
only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this
region.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.= Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25.
Harper.
7–30868.
Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little
baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued
Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen
him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is
taught thruout the story.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w.
“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple
incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the
little readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w.
=Jackson, Henry Latimer.= Fourth gospel and some recent German
criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.
“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity,
criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of
John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel
and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the
reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w.
“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine
problem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.
“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of
information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a
controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any
who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have
spoken the last word on this important subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the
theology of the fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Jackson, Holbrook.= Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.
W 7–187.
“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian,
playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr.
Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.”
(Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with
a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a
means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his
admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to
transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from
no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of
means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama,
the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy,
that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see
him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr.
Shaw’s personality.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w.
“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially,
highly entertaining.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable
of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the
level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has
performed the kind office very fairly well.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human
intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a
way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude
and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of
Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and
furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good
many of them.”
+ =Nation.= 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
=Jackson. Lucie E.= Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.
7–22917.
A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited
children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced,
eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and
servants when the mother dies.
* =Jacob, Robert Urie.= Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean
cruise. **$1.50. Winston.
7–9812.
In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the
happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean
districts.
* * * * *
“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the
restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are
planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much
through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–16484.
“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of
the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The
practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through
wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes
especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe
that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and
‘Sea urchins.’”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events,
where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real
thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to
be, and so we welcome their appearance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w.
“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs
is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w.
“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon
and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in
respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=James, George Wharton.= Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern
California). **$5. Little.
6–43916.
Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of
“strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to
the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of
exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.”
He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of
observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of
mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of
country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers
and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to
discriminating readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w.
“A remarkable and valuable work.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w.
“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and
this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the
book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the
wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert
contain as many surprises as any in the book.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w.
“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w.
“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the
unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate
appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field
and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a
plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w.
“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art
of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too
much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material
might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w.
=James, Henry.= American scene. **$3–Harper.
7–5704.
After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed
once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made
his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New
England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport,
Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of
them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between
these covers.
* * * * *
“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological
subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis
in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style
improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once
absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added
carelessness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w.
“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all
to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands
for.” James F. Muirhead.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w.
“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward
Clark Marsh.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its
pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression.
They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without
reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy
to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and
still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w.
“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on
the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American
scenes.’”
− =Ind.= 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w.
“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book
of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that
it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once
drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to
the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and
exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a
single book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.
“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the
defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring
thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side.
Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of
the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of
America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.”
Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w.
“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to
let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of
a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more
under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his
judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.
=Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w.
“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a
continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the
‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its
surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their
aspiration and their content.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w.
“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to
all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James
writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the
most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a
certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute
intellectual pleasure.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w.
=James, William.= Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking.
**$1.25. Longmans.
7–20643.
“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims
Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But
these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a
prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The
volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs
that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is
the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which
pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous
intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good;
and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not
refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the
book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w.
Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.
=Bookm.= 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w.
“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by
reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive
knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and
philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w.
“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was
not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but
it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w.
“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with
philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by
simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w.
“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the
lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w.
Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.
=No. Am.= 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w.
“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here
and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven
attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w.
“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout,
and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom
and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed.
And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what
it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w.
“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume
fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is
something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w.
=James, Winifred.= Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–23302.
“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to
England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent
young person who means to make the best of things, and for this
purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun
out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she
writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life
because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty
with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with
the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at
last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which
renders the least important of them a personality.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how
to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development
of the story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w.
“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively
turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says
quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic
way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been
worse love stories—many of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.
“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the
author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of
promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.
A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton,
found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she
continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them
good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history. per. v. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early
American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American
historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to
consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all
the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general
index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general
the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct
parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)
=v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G.=, eds. Northmen,
Columbus, and Cabot.
6–36882.
This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The
voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which
presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with
some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and
“The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.
=v. 2. Burrage, Henry S.=, ed. Early English and French voyages,
1534–1608.
6–44365.
The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers
the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane,
White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.
=v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H.=, eds. Spanish
explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.
7–10607.
“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most
important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the
southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s
narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition
of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de
Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the
requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the
issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these
narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form
under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship
respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
=v. 4. Grant, William Lawson=, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain,
1604–1618.
7–22899.
This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from
which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s
work as explorer and colonizer.
=v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner=, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.
7–33220.
“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the
volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by
George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard,
John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first
settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved
monarch.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But
it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt
want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both
historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his
interest.” P. Lee Phillips.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by G. P. W.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill
and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a
most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of
source publications.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Dial.= 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5)
“There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the
editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and
foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Nation.= 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the
large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nation.= 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes
giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of
explanation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points
and illuminating obscure passages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The selection and editing could not, in fact have been better done
for the purpose which the editors had in view.” H. Cabot Lodge.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1289. D. 21, ’06. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It seems a pity, however, that room was not found for the Ribaut,
Laudonnière, and Le Moyne narratives, having to do with the early and
ill-fated French settlements in Florida and South Carolina.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The reprint is well adapted to the use of both the special student
and the general reader of history. From the standpoint of the latter,
however, it is to be regretted that Mr. Grant has not seen fit to
write a more detailed biographical introduction.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“One could wish that President Tyler had expanded his introductory
comment on certain of the documents.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Janet, Pierre.= Major symptoms of hysteria: fifteen lectures given in
the medical school of Harvard university. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–23068.
A summary of the psychological research work of the French in the
subject of hysteria is given in this series of lectures. They treat of
Monoideic somnambulisms, Double personalities, Convulsive attacks,
Motor agitations, Paralysis, The troubles of vision, of speech, and
other phases of the disease.
* * * * *
“On the whole, one may say that this is the most readable and
interesting book on clinical psychology since the days of John
Abercrombie and his ‘Intellectual philosophy.’” Irving Wilson
Voorhees.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 1230w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages. v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Janssen has done a service for Catholic scholarship which it
would be hardly possible to overestimate.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 566. Ja. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.= Santa Fé’s partner. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29432.
Palomitas, bearing a striking resemblance to Wolfville, is the scene
of the pranks played by Santa Fé Charley, a professional gambler who
frequently assumes the garb and speech of a minister, and his partner,
the Sage-Brush Hen, who together entertain tenderfoot easterners with
mock hangings, stage holdups and shootings. “More folks in Palomitas
has names that had tumbled to ’em than the kind that had come regular.
And when they sounded regular they likely wasn’t.”
* * * * *
“Humorous yarns of life in a mining town forming a continuous
narrative, told in the first person in the racy vernacular of the
place.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“The book has charming freshness and a southwestern flavor that is
delightfully amusing, and suggestive of conditions that have been
rapidly passing away.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“It is all good magazine copy, though hardly more.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Janvier has latterly been playing not unskillfully with the
picturesque material invented and bequeathed to literature by the late
Bret Harte.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–16729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a result of incontinent use of rhetorical figures, the size of the
book has been made unduly large. For this fact alone the book becomes
tedious to the man whose time is limited. The lack of a critical and
scientific form of presentation, of specific historical references,
and of close articulation with the results of advanced researches in
experimental and analytical psychology, prevents the book from having
any wide sphere of usefulness in the psychological research world.”
John B. Watson.
− − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 558. Ja. ’07. 1380w.
“The rich material of the much better told observation is too often
hidden in the elaborate context. It is indeed difficult to say to
which kind of public the book would adapt itself.” Adolf Meyer.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 79. Ja. 31, ’07. 1840w.
“In spite of a few criticisms ... the book is a strong and interesting
one, displaying the extent and intent of Dr. Jastrow’s grasp on the
field which it covers.” Knight Dunlap.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 24: 848. D. 28, ’06. 2090w.
“A useful, well-reasoned and careful investigation. The book is,
unfortunately, much too long and diffuse.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 537. Ap. 6, ’07. 2400w.
=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by
Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.
6–14021.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The presentation of the subject is able and its spirit tolerant.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. 180w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.
“The merit of the whole volume is not in any new matter, so much as in
the calm, direct way that things are stated. It is one of the most
satisfying presentations of the fiery subject that one can find.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 834. Mr. ’07. 280w.
“Optimistic yet sane, of strong convictions yet conservative, M.
Jaurès has not laid himself open to the familiar accusation that
socialists beg the question, for he has gone to its very roots. The
beauty of his diction has been well preserved by his translator.”
Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
=Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse.= Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.
A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass
of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with
one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its
influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.)
Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian,
Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern
life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.
* * * * *
“Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and
humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished
husband.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w.
“Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound
scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition.
And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present
volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the
man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w.
“These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the
writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with
worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which
showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the
same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding
extensionist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can
hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and
permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 970w.
=Jefferies, Richard.= Essays. 3v. ea. 75c. Crowell.
7–26039–41.
The three volumes reprinted in this set are Nature near London, The
open air, and The life of the fields. Each is furnished with an
introduction by Thomas Coke Watkins which reflects the author’s
passionate love for nature in all its aspects. The lover of woodland
and stream will find in Jefferies a companion for all his moods.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= New crusade: occasional sermons and
addresses. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–25555.
“A group of sermons whose aim is to aid in reclaiming our Holy
Land—America—from the Saracen of the twentieth century—the rum-seller,
the gambler, the unprincipled politician, the unscrupulous capitalist
and the anarchistic wage-earner. Consecrated personality and Christian
unity are the watchwords in bringing about international peace.”
* * * * *
“Their tone is militant and virile; they lift up the standard and
eloquently call to arms against the forces at work in the community
for moral decay.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 90w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Old year and the new: the art of
forgetting. **75c. Crowell.
7–28171.
A holiday sermon based upon Paul’s words “Forgetting the things which
are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I
press toward the mark.”
* =Jenkins, Stephen.= A princess and another. $1.25. Huebsch.
7–38268.
A story which has grown out of a study of the records of French
soldiers who took part in our revolution. The interest centers about
the events that lead to the identification of a French child that had
been kidnapped by a jealous uncle and sent to America in charge of a
girl who became a colonist’s bondservant. Not until he had grown to
manhood and had been courtmartialed as a British spy does he come face
to face with the treachery that had kept him from his father and his
birthright privileges.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. *$1.25. Holt.
6–18602.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a collection of essays that deserves the attention of
public-school workers for its vital contact with the real present, its
courageous but temperate idealism, and its sane counsels. It is
characterized rather by a semi-proverbial style than by sustained
argument, and contains numerous fresh and terse presentations of wise
and weighty principles and practical conclusions.” Edward C. Hayes.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The presentation is always interesting and illuminated by a wealth of
happy illustrations.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. ’07. 160w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 170w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 573. S. ’07. 80w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Political and social significance of the life
and teachings of Jesus. 50c. Y. M. C. A.
6–46236.
“This is not a book to read, but a manual for study. About a series of
twelve topics Professor Jenks groups references for reading,
suggestive quotations, and stimulating comment.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 70w.
“Among many recent works on the social teachings of Jesus this is of
unsurpassed value. For all pastors and other teachers in this field,
too often neglected in the churches, it is an eminently desirable
help.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 190w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Electricity for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–33979.
Mr. Jenks “tells in concise and simple language the progress of
electricity, showing its discovery and its practical uses. A
commendable feature is the combination of biography with scientific
accomplishment.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The book will please any young electrician from ten years up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
“He has made the present volume interesting as well as valuable
reading not only for children but for older people interested in the
subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Goldsmith. **$1. Barnes.
7–10578.
“Mr. Jenks does not attempt to go into over-much detail in recounting
his subject’s life. His effort is rather to give a rapid moving
picture of the man’s development from childhood and of his years of
struggle and final success. And this he projects against a background
of the chief events of the time in England, upon the continent, and in
America.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Capital reading for young people.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 60w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“The volume is a good sample of hasty bookmaking.”
− =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25. ’07. 160w.
“Approaches his subject in a spirit so intensely sympathetic that it
becomes controversial. For the general reader the scheme upon which
the book is laid out is excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= When America was new. †$1.25. Crowell.
7–30468.
The homes of the colonists during the seventeenth century furnish the
material for Mr. Jenks’s sketch. He tells of the home making, indoor
life, manners and customs, what the colonists knew and thought, their
books, reading and education, the women and children, the growth of a
new people to the point of independence and union.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“While the language used is simple enough for a child to grasp its
meaning easily, the book is one which older people can read with
pleasure and profit.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Jenks has tried to do for young people what we are sure will be
appreciated by many older heads.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 110w.
=Jennings, Edward W.= Under the Pompadour. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A romance which begins with an eighteenth century smuggling adventure.
“There are plots and counterplots, political and personal, and
although the hero, to judge by his own narration, was the most
innocent idiot that ever acted cat’s paw to a lovely woman, and played
cup-and-ball with kingdoms without an inkling of it, the reader
finishes the book with a distinct liking for him. The heroine is quite
out of the common, and very charming.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“A story told in the first person is hampered by the restricted point
of view involved, the impossibility of relating all things as they
happen, and the modesty which prevents the hero from eulogising
himself. Apart from these drawbacks Mr. Jennings has written a
readable story of life, the simplest forms of life, the meaning both
in England and France.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 130w.
“When all is said, if at times quite preposterously opulent in
material it is still a very entertaining, even plausible and suitably
told story.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Edward W. Jenning’s story is no worse, certainly, and perhaps a
little better, than the average of its numerous predecessors in the
same class.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 190w.
“If the reader does not like it we shall think him a real realist, and
we shall be sorry for him accordingly.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 240. N. ’07. 340w.
=Jennings, Herbert Spencer.= Behavior of the lower organisms. **$3.
Macmillan.
6–24590.
“This book is eminently worthy of the excellent series [‘Columbia
university biological series’] to which it belongs, for it is the most
detailed, accurate and complete description, analysis and
interpretation of the behavior of lower organisms in existence. More
than this, the work stands alone, the first representative of a class
of books in which animal behavior is to receive thoroughly scientific
treatment.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 217. F. ’07. 2090w.
“By his researches Professor Jennings has made himself the authority
on the behavior of unicellular organisms. His book is admirable with
respect to material, method of presentation and form. Its future
influence will certainly be tremendous, for it is a work which will
determine the direction of research as well as mould popular and
scientific opinion. It is the most important book on animal behavior
that has ever been written.” Robert M. Yerkes.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 3: 658. N. 22, ’06. 4800w.
“Professor Jennings’s admirable presentation of the results of his
observations in this most attractive field of study will appeal to the
professionals and laymen. The style of the book is clear,
straightforward, and convincing.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 424. N. 15, ’06. 840w.
“From the standpoint of the contribution of facts, the book is
exceedingly valuable. That portion of the book dealing with the
analysis of behavior has a somewhat doubtful value because of its
vagueness and complexity, and its constant allusions to pleasure and
pain and to other physical processes in man. The final chapter dealing
overtly with the relation of the behavior of lower organisms to
psychic behavior should be undoubtedly greatly modified when the book
comes to a second edition.” J. B. W.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 228. S. 15, ’07. 1070w.
“It would seem that Jennings in his enthusiasm for his own views had
become blinded to the real strength of the tropism theory and not only
was unable to accord it fair treatment, but also lacked appreciation
of its real value. It is to be regretted that a book excellent in so
many particulars should be marred by so considerable a defect.” G. H.
P.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 548. O. 25, ’07. 610w.
=Jensen, Carl O.= Essentials of milk hygiene; tr. and amplified by
Leonard Pearson. **$2. Lippincott.
7–23316.
A practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygienic
production and handling of milk, for students of dairying and
sanitarians.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the inspection of milk, and his treatise
is well translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 640w.
=Jephson, Henry.= Sanitary evolution of London. *$1.80. Wessels.
A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the
people of London based upon the experiences, inferences and
conclusions of men in a position to observe how London people live,
including the principal measures passed from time to time by the
legislature and the administration of those measures by local
authorities charged with their administration.
* * * * *
“The book is valuable as an outline of the sanitary legislation
affecting Greater London, and as an abstract of reports of health
officers and others during a number of decades past. The book would
have gained, both in interest and in force, if the author had put more
of his information in his own language and had used smaller type for
such quotations as he employed, and had grouped or classified his
discussion more thoroughly.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 510w.
“It is regrettable that Jephson has overburdened his book with too
many quotations, which are too tiresome for the ordinary busy layman
who should read it, and which obscure the generalizations.” Charles E.
Woodruff.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 1700w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 719. Je. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“A very interesting and instructive history of London sanitation.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 865. Je. 1, ’07. 1350w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tinker two: further adventures of the admirable Tinker.
†$1.50. McClure.
6–34688.
A sequel to the “Admirable Tinker.” The multiform activity of the
invincible young hero, is suggested in the following: “Tinker adopts
people. He adopts a sister, a pretty child near his own age, and a
daughter, a beautiful young woman who is quite grown, and a Russian
revolutionist to boot. Tinker is a matchmaker, though as a real boy he
cannot endure to be kissed. Tinker is a detective and a fugitive from
justice. He drives a big motor car ... and he goes tiger hunting in
the leafy coverts of Beauleigh park. Tinker is an amateur actor as
well. He plays female roles to admiration in a blond wig and a
pinafore.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it
goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the
author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on
such unlikely happenings.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is
allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to
act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found
entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w.
“It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both
adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and
whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel
at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness
is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a
full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s
responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares
with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible
little hero.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Jermain, Mrs. Frances D.= In the path of the alphabet: an historical
account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet.
$1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.
6–46295.
A painstaking history of our alphabet which gives in popular form the
results of much research, and follows the “path” from a time before
the earliest hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions down to modern
times with accounts of modern explorers in this field of inquiry.
* * * * *
“An excellent treatise clearly epitomizing a large amount of laborious
research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=Jerrold, Maud F.= Vittoria Colonna; with some account of her friends
and her times. *$4. Dutton.
7–32139.
A new biography of this gifted woman whose friendship not only with
Michael Angelo, but with bishops, cardinals, popes, artists and poets
made her a conspicuous figure of her time. Many of her sonnets are
included in this volume which also contains a complete bibliography,
genealogical tables, and an index.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Jerrold has not given us a final ‘life’ ... but she has produced
a pleasant book treating of movements and personalities which must
always be full of interest for students of the renaissance and human
nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 390w.
“A book to be recommended, and to be enjoyed.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Though Mrs. Jerrold’s prose is often marred by anacoluthia, her
verses are almost invariably equal in charm and style to the originals
which they so faithfully translate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 670w.
“[Mrs. Jerrold] has gleaned from all the sources of information with a
truth-seeking hand, and in all matters of fact has produced an
authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 690w.
“While this latest biography of Vittoria Colonna lacks some of the
grace of Mrs. Ady’s studies, it is a book full of charm and
inspiration.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“Mrs. Jerrold has marshalled her facts with industry and judgment and
has produced a work which can be read with pleasure.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 530w.
“She has collected all the available information on her subject, but
has hardly made the best use of it. Arranged with more skill, the
picture would have been far more telling.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 676. Ap. 27, ’07. 1590w.
=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.
5–42515.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 640. D. ’06. 510w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
5–33567.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The only novel thing about the work is its arrangement, which
suggests in many respects an improvement over the traditional
arrangement of the time.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 185. Mr. ’07. 150w.
=Joachim, Harold Henry.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.
7–2578.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s argument is genuine and sincere throughout, his analysis
of current theories patient and thorough-going, his criticism of them
acute and searching. Moreover, the book is written in a style that
befits a philosophical treatise. Philosophic reflection cannot fail to
be furthered by the stimulating and helpful criticism contained in Mr.
Joachim’s book. That criticism will certainly assist in clearing away
much sham knowledge and in preparing the ground for the ‘construction’
that is to come.” G. Dawes Hicks.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 197. O. ’07. 5220w.
“Mr. Joachim does not discuss the view of truth commonly described by
the term Pragmatism, and it is doubtful whether the reasons given for
this omission are adequate. There can be no doubt that Mr. Joachim’s
book is a very valuable contribution to philosophy, though it
confessedly leaves some fundamental difficulties unsolved.” J. S.
Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It seems to the reviewer that his main contribution to the subject
lies in the various criticisms he takes up apart from the rather
unsatisfactory negative result.” M. Phillips Mason.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 264. Ag. 15, ’07. 800w.
=Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.
6–40590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The stories have been softened by dropping ‘savagery, distressing
details, excessive pathos’ from the old versions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Country school, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–30474.
In which the author preserves the salient features of the schools of
the last century in their picturesque and poetic aspects. He writes
from personal experiences of friends and acquaintances, and goes back
to the year 1830.
* * * * *
“Readers who have had similar experiences will find Mr. Johnson a very
competent conductor back to the happy land of childhood.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“All is told in an animated and entertaining manner.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Farmer’s boy. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–29711.
A companion volume to “The country school.” It is a faithful portrait
of the farmer boy of fifty years ago who was a sturdy product of
sunshine and fresh air ready in all seasons to undertake the primitive
tasks allotted to him.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Johnson has exercised unusual diligence and skill in the
selection of material, and text and pictures alike contribute to an
intensely realistic view of scenes and incidents that are fast fading
into oblivion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
“We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton
Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which
strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s
boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a
bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”
− + =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2.
Macmillan.
6–40988.
An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the
mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual
highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads,
lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the
confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives
and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the
humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.”
(N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along
the way.
* * * * *
“The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of
information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 290w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1496. D. 20, ’06. 190w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
“Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into
the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so
that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study
of the average social life of the great valley.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of
more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Eleanor H.= Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s
ser.). †75c. Crowell.
7–26621.
Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of
their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the
explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the
volume, some of his letters are appended.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation.
**$1.50. Appleton.
6–20201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 467. N. ’06. 500w.
“We believe the book is a useful one for the commercial courses of
study now becoming popular in our institutions of learning and that it
should be included in the reference libraries of engineering schools
and engineering societies. The practicing engineer who meets problems
in connection with the economics of water transportation will find in
it up-to-date information obtainable only with great difficulty from
other sources.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 300w.
“For the general reader the book has comparatively little interest,
since it is necessarily elementary in matters most likely to attract
him.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 440w.
“The entire lack of general treatises upon the subject of water
transportation will incline teachers and students of the subject to
extend a warm welcome. The most valuable portions of the volume are
the chapters devoted to ocean transportation. Far less satisfactory is
his discussion of shipping subsidies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 600w.
“The book is of importance, making, with its predecessor, almost the
sole complete succinct presentation of the problems which confront the
transportation managers and the lawmakers of the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 414. Je. 23. ’06. 160w.
=Johnson, George Ellsworth.= Education by plays and games. *90c. Ginn.
7–26152.
“Its first part is a study of the meaning of play, its relation to
work, and its application to education. The second part is a series of
games chosen from a thousand or more, and judiciously graded for
progressive use. The author has wisely chosen the older forms in all
the games, thus giving the pupil the key to many references in
literature and folklore quite unintelligible if he knew only the
modern variations of the original game.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
=Johnson, Thomas Cary.= Virginia Presbyterianism and religious liberty
in colonial and revolutionary times. 50c. Presbyterian com.
A sketch of the services of Presbyterians during colonial and
revolutionary days to the cause of religious liberty.
=Johnson, Trench H.= Phrases and names, their origins, and meanings.
**$1.50. Lippincott.
“In alphabetical order the author has gone through a great number of
names and phrases heard in everyday speech, colloquialisms and
expressions and references of less usual occurrence, explaining in
brief statement their origin and meaning. In the preface the author
says that his sole design has been to account for the origin of
popular phrases and names.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is a very curious book that teems with every possible kind of
error. Had it been much elaborated and compiled by a man of learning
it might have been useful; the hotch-potch before us is almost too bad
to serve as a groundwork for a book of reference.”
− =Acad.= 72: 136. F. 9, ’07. 890w.
“The book is uncritical in its popular derivations, many of which have
been long exploded; and extremely careless in quoting foreign
languages. It is difficult to believe that the author knows Latin or
Greek. If he does, he ought to have seen that some care was taken with
his ‘proofs.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 223. F. 23. 140w.
“Compact and handy volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
“It is one of those books which, once you start to read, lure you on
from page to page and you rise longing to trip up your friends on all
sorts and kinds of catchy little points.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Many errors and defects may be found, but the book gives much
out-of-the-way information.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 260. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Johnson, Willis Fletcher.= Four centuries of the Panama canal; with
maps and illustrations. **$3. Holt.
6–42401.
“The design of Spanish adventures in the fifteenth century is being
fulfilled by American engineers in the twentieth.” So says Mr.
Johnson, and he deals with the incidents and circumstances leading
from Columbus to Roosevelt. His aim is to give the “salient and
essential features of the ‘story,’ with as little as possible of
detailed description of the Isthmian country, of its conditions of
resources, soil, climate, people, of the technical features of the
canal and its auxiliary work.”
* * * * *
“The book shows its newspaper origin by such glaring inaccuracies as
those referred to above, by the fact that it comes quite down to the
date of publication, by its newspaper English, and by its readability.
It is interesting reading, and we need for easy consultation such an
account of the origin and progress of the Panama republic and its
relations with the United States.” J. Russell Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 684. Ap. ’07. 880w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“In dealing with the technical features the author has been led into
several errors. Some result from his bias in favour of a sea-level
canal, which he makes no effort to conceal. These errors, however, are
not of great importance, and do not detract in great degree from the
merits of the book. It is but just to say that on the whole the work
is very creditable and will form a useful addition to the library of
any student of Isthmian canal affairs.” Peter C. Hains.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 429. Mr. ’07. 700w.
“Exhaustive historical study.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 126. F. ’07. 190w.
“The views and information which he imparts may be regarded as
authoritative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 340w.
“This is the most thorough and comprehensive work that has yet
appeared on the Panama canal. The discussion of the engineering side
of the question is very inadequate. For a work of such detail,
covering a new field, it is—except when the author gets enthusiastic
and eloquent—remarkably free from errors.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 920w.
“We should have had the assistance of a large map in detail; the
clearly printed small maps in color inserted with the text are useful,
but inadequate. As a whole. Dr. Johnson’s volume seems the most
exhaustive contribution yet made to the popular understanding of a
great subject.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 300w.
“In matters having a legal or semi-legal character, the author is not
at his best.” J. B. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 139. Mr. ’07. 430w.
“Described in a satisfactory manner.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 200w.
“Is a praiseworthy contribution to our knowledge of the project.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29. ’07. 430w.
=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876. 2v. ea.
*$2. Putnam.
5–36483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The exigencies governing the author in their preparation account
largely no doubt for the remarkable compression that characterizes the
several studies; the style is concise, the narrative compact, and the
discussion penetrating and rigorous. The solid worth of the author’s
contributions is shown by the infrequency of editorial corrections.
The editor’s method of indicating his additions to the text leaves the
reader in perplexity at times.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 480. N. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editor’s method of citation and cross reference cannot be
commended either for lucidity or seviceableness. Professor Johnston’s
acuteness in discerning the vital and fundamental facts in the
currents of our political life, his remarkable industry, accuracy and
thorough-going research constantly impress one.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 162. Jl. ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s knight comes riding.
$1.50. Page.
7–33204.
The little colonel, in this ninth volume of her series, finds her own
true knight and leaving her girlhood behind her, fares forth in veil
and orange blossoms to begin her new life near her old home.
* * * * *
“No boy or girl will be harmed, but only mildly entertained, by the
chronicle.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton.= Liberia. 2v. *$12.50. Dodd.
6–44331.
Cyclopedic in treatment and, accordingly extensive in scope, the
author covers a vast amount of ground in his two large volumes. The
first is devoted to the history of the Liberian republic from 1847 to
the present time, incidentally revealing Great Britain’s and America’s
colonization policy. The second is devoted to the fauna, flora and
anthropology of the country, the latter being treated in its
historical, physical and social aspects.
* * * * *
“Less objective than Lindsay’s book ... well written, interesting and
the most comprehensive book on the subject which has yet appeared.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“Our complaint against Sir Harry Johnston is that, with all his
cleverness and brilliance as a draughtsman ... he is somewhat wrong in
his perspective, if not also in his facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 63. Jl. 21. 1970w.
“The interest with which the welfare of the negro race is followed in
this country should secure for the book the attention to which it is
entitled by virtue of the industry and learning that have been
bestowed upon it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 610w.
“A vast amount of intelligent and widely diversified labor has been
expended upon these volumes, which give a comprehensive view of the
Republic of Liberia.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“It is a book not only of great utility to the traveller, but of
genuine interest to the untravelled; and the wonderful illustrations
from the author’s brush and pencil are sufficient of themselves to
fire the imagination.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 201. Ag. 11, ’06. 1330w.
=Johnston, John Black.= Nervous system of vertebrates; il. *$3.
Blakiston.
6–35709.
“A text-book of functional neurology. The unit of description is the
functional system of neurones, that is, the aggregate of related
neurones which co-operate in the performance of any given type of
reflex movement.... While this work is primarily a text-book of the
morphology of the nervous system, its great merit lies in the fact
that its facts so far as they go also express the functions of the
parts, so that comparative physiology and comparative psychology will
both find in it an immediate point of departure, for their special
researches.”—Science.
* * * * *
“A volume of this kind has been needed in English.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The book will be of great use to all engaged in instruction or
research. It would be easy to point out omissions in the text and
topics which deserve more adequate treatment. Satisfaction with
certain features of the author’s terminology is alloyed by his
indifference to the labors of his predecessors in that regard.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 20. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w.
“The book gives the impression of having been written by an able
zoologist interested in neurology, rather than by a pure neurologist,
and therein lies a good deal of its value. In the present work the
author presents a very readable and succinct account of his subject,
which forms a valuable and welcome addition to the literature relating
to it.” W. Page May.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 73. N. 28, ’07. 1040w.
“The basis of the work is sound and the leading conclusions abundantly
supported by the singularly concordant results of the studies of the
new school of comparative neurologists.” C. Judson Herrick.
+ =Science=, n.s. 24: 845. D. 28, ’06. 1100w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Goddess of reason [a drama]. **$2. Houghton.
7–16726.
Miss Johnston’s first drama “opens in Brittany on a summer morning in
1791, and the curtain falls at the end on the banks of the Loire at
Nantes. The plot is as skillfully devised to awaken and sustain
interest from the beginning to the end as any of Miss Johnston’s
stories, and not until the last scene does the reader face the
solution to the problem. The play has a beautiful setting of terraces
and ancient homes, and the refinement, dignity, and wit of the old
order, set in striking contrast to the turbulence, the passion, the
intense conviction, of the revolutionary movement.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The piece is conceived in terms of romantic situation, and for that
reason it is the most readable poetic drama in the popular sense of
the word, that has lately been seen.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 849. D. ’07. 530w.
“Deserves no permanent place in the library, and on the stage would,
in its present shape, be soporific.”
− =Ind.= 63: 570. S. 5, ’07. 200w.
“A rather extraordinary literary performance, very uneven in
character. Altho there is a certain richness of historic background
and a vividness of characterization, the defects of the piece are
glaring.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 140w.
“If much of the verse is simply fluent prose cut into lengths, if
there are many crude and not a few broken, halt, or utterly
commonplace lines, there are occasional passages of uncommon
descriptive power, full of pretty imagery and verbal eloquence, and
some that thrill with ardor, scorn, or vigorous passion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 460. My. 10, ’07. 850w.
“Readers of her other work will not be disappointed, for in the
‘Goddess of reason’ she gives full play to her power over romantic
situations, poetical backgrounds, and sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“As romantic as her stories and as interesting. As a drama ‘The
goddess of reason’ is probably too complex for successful
presentation. It is lyrical rather than dramatic; but as a piece of
writing, both in construction and diction, it will advance Miss
Johnston’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The verse is very dainty and musical, though Miss Johnston takes
strange liberties with metre, and the final tragedy is finely
conceived and executed. Our one criticism would be that her talent is
a little too delicate to reproduce the rude horrors of the
revolution.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Johnston, Robert M.= Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading
Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.
7–24610.
The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans.
Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are
sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment.
“Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which
makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the
interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
* * * * *
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed
out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for
contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including
the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with
intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed,
is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful
reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional
opinions found in the popular histories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us
differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge,
fairmindedness, and good sense.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 900w.
“In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in
this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains
in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men
whose lives are described from the point of view of the American
reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as
a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are
described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military
student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 240w.
“This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our
wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them
in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 240w.
“For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the
numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil
war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving
the essentials.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w.
“This is an excellent book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its
history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
6–25758.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of
documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service
and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W.
Garner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 482. N. ’06. 750w.
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 240w.
=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2.
Van Nostrand.
6–16984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07. S.
“A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment,
found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations
and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other
books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of
treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and
in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 300. F. 22, ’07. 820w.
* =Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
7–37980.
A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a
cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”
=Jones, John William.= Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and
man. $2. Neale.
6–30495.
An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal
study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained
in letters and various papers and documents.
* * * * *
“The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most
interesting part of the book.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 470. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 320w.
“Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and
other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow
partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the
past.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
“His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least
accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject
fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a
few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight
importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted
from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate
to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 390w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= College and the man: an address to American
youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.
7–13491.
A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they
can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better
preparation for the duties of life.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 110w.
* =Jordan, David Starr.= Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–28174.
A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,”
which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the
survival of the unfit.”
=Jordan, David Starr.= Philosophy of hope; originally published under
the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.
7–16384.
A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches
the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer
foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the
mainspring of successful life.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
=Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L.= Evolution and animal life.
**$2.50. Appleton.
7–29033.
An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories
relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three
chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and
discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life,
the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight
chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution
which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature
on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted
to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to
put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either
as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations.
This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the
well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of
literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was
hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant
knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 818. O. 3, ’07. 1240w.
“Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and
pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 426. N. 7, ’07. 570w.
“The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who
is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it
his fair and careful attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Joseph, Horace William B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
7–29050.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and
acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such
evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow
traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful
instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 638. My. 25. 930w.
“The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is
proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial
matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not
without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for
beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 215. Ap. 11, ’07. 980w.
“The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author
has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his
own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been
better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 680. D. 1, ’06. 1760w.
=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7.
*$5. McDonough.
6–14763.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A fine historical volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 320w.
“This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects
that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it
does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the
most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 12: 283. My. 1, ’07. 1870w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 40w.
=Jowett, Benjamin.= Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1.
Dutton.
W 7–97.
“The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological
topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the
limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom
by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
“It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable
material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 90w.
“An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.
=Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 80w.
“This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic
value.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 481. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Joyce, Patrick Weston.= Smaller social history of ancient Ireland.
*$1.25. Longmans.
“An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same
subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the
government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art,
the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life
of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman
invasion.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work
hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps
less fairly urged against a popular production.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly
portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such
as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old
Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman
customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society
that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 430. Mr. ’07. 2040w.
“Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and
responsibilities of scholarship.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 247. My. ’07. 440w.
“It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 197. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is
all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional
entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
* =Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one
of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the
methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
“Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles
which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1.
The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of
treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental
life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation
as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The
work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all
that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the
same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate
principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.
* * * * *
“While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for
the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be
amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here
presented.” J. Carleton Bell.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 416. N. ’07. 2080w.
“On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general
principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all
earnest students of the science.” W. B.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 540. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
=Jude, Alexander.= Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.
7–7508.
“The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential
part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design
form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that
the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines....
The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines;
Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines;
Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in
turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam
consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of
turbines.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up
and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially
to its value.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 636. D. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.= Literary history of the English
people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–35185.
“M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire
littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the
original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the
Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it
takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of
Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 590w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a
well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of
English literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an
original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings
into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of
‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does
not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his
opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with
such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
1.)
“Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book
permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a
dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its
English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and
verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to
English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily
executed.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here
and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book
gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of
English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be
said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious
sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakable
charm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble
development which it traces.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 1580w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
1.)
“It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its
two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole
the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been
written.” Brander Matthews.
+ + + =No. Am.= 184: 759. Ap. 5, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long
and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and
at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without
having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and
without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 457. Mr. 23, ’07. 1850w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
K
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Aboard the Hylow on Sable
Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–28976.
The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as
stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while
helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would
have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other
boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of
the life on the Newfoundland banks.
* * * * *
“[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the
interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland
banks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is
a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c.
Crowell.
6–27349.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much
pleasure to young readers.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w.
“A fresh, vigorous little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel.= Stolen throne; illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–14250.
“The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are
planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his
deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such
contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an
Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is
finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an
imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of
realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w.
“A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs.
Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s
long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Keays, Hersilia A. M.= Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–31480.
A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of
wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her
fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who
he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the
irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien
element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither
of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up
the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another
that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama
it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book
has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not
only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is
not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w.
=Kebbel, Thomas Edward.= Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4.
Kennerley.
7–37964.
A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal
experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.”
With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and
description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way
connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his
influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep
was the impression created, apart from all political considerations,
by his unique personality.”
* * * * *
“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w.
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material,
drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and
informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w.
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make
his strongest appeal to American readers of English political
biography.” Edward Porritt.
+ =Forum.= 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w.
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth
publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w.
“His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and
throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief.
We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w.
“Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly
entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an
idle hour.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly
of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one,
interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of
a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w.
“The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the
Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w.
“A book of rare and manysided interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
“The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it
may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who
would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly
take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least
to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s
chapters.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w.
=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of
the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of
photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.
7–19063.
A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to
California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification”
underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling
of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of
the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second,
furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.
* * * * *
“Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning
observation.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on
the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the
Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east
may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s
interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.
6–34644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
5–33677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w.
=Kellogg, Vernon L.= Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.
7–29032.
A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology
and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in
biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and
alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to
aid or replace the selection theories.
* * * * *
“The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of
organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the
student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a
whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the
scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this
literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly
criticism.” David Starr Jordan.
+ + + =Dial.= 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w.
“Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is
none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
4–32737.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
=Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w.
=Kelly, Edmund.= Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.
7–22709.
“After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing
out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and
the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he
makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes
organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential
election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical
programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and
municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the
road to coöperation.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty
weak as a practical program.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
=Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w.
“Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are
very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than
it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of
rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and
it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.”
Eunice Follansbee.
− =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w.
“It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive
reasoning.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–14256.
“The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed
by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a
country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds
that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply
wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented
by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving
him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ...
and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she
is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes
back.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s
greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the
web of her invention.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
“While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole
well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young
novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another
fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these
very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
“Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely
and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary
optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will
undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a
novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w.
“Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle
this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short
story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the
east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is
not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written,
unimportant story.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w.
* =Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas=, ed. Drink problem in its
medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib.
of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29117.
“Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of
whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles
range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the
alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the
spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not
as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors
have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found
exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem,
and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical
temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w.
“For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book
furnishes interesting reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w.
“The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the
various problems which have to be handled.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Kempster, James Aquila.= Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–39730.
The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless
outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts
on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins
a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not
dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications
galore and a much entangled love story.
* * * * *
“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an
attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its
separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w.
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or
special motive, but good in plot and style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall.= Pausanias: a
dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
7–22893.
Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and
his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself
with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How
he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot
win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes
with his own tragic death.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.= Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise.
**$1. Moffat.
7–482.
As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary
facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in
language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of
algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the
consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its
applications.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has
studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the
apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Kenney, Courtney Stanhope.= Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted
for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.
7–8557.
“This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the
second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of
the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the
insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our
own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is
admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be
greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely
about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w.
“A particularly well written text-book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general
treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume
to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions,
and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w.
* =Kent, Charles Foster.= Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the
days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and
diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.
7–20667.
The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general
divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising
injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws,
emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious
laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing
minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.
* * * * *
“The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes
to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable
information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity
is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that
of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books
of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w.
“A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly
interesting subject.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w.
“Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement
of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the
development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.
**$1. Scribner.
6–14527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely
articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading
and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full
of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and
John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠
“On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and
difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable
clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the
home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w.
“Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to
him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated
legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly
valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism,
and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be
acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or
condemn it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w.
=Kenton, Edna.= Clem. †$1. Century.
7–26020.
A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and
environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts
upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses
the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who
is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set
to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel
scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an
exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result
of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises
phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the
persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite
beyond their comprehension.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social
satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w.
“The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent
manner—a manner that is more than literary.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
“If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks
with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to
say.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in
its execution. The other characters in the book, although less
prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual
degree, the touch of life and actuality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general
effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Keon, Grace.= “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.
7–17046.
A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the
plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story,
hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become
her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her
Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love,
altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery
in which hypnotism plays a part.
* * * * *
“Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the
attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by
indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which
caters to the prevalent taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w.
=Kephart, Horace.= Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those
who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.
6–45323.
Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical
suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and
fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what
to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different
species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods
handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the
treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this
little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye,
and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the
first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w.
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full
of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the
woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.
7–29019.
“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the
products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or
nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland
was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired
to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of
this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri
Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of
Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be
found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is
the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the
subject for himself.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w.
=Kern, John A.= Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities.
$1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
7–25171.
A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant
features.
* =Kernahan, Coulson.= The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The
Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only
they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their
condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an
opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon
and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more
rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech
eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The
grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is
possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a
thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”
− =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of
sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to
understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a
work to public criticism.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w.
“Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from
adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be
confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Kerr, Alvah Milton.= Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
7–8218.
With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and
Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose
dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the
tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve
is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows
conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly
speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded
together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the
characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book
possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are
thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating
English.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Kerr, Walter S.= Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts.
pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the
setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal
outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of
the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously
designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the
historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of
movement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
* =Kester, Vaughan.= John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36098.
History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son.
His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes
closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story
chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of
Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in
the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which
forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed
and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of
structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care
little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no
question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the
manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give
abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author,
Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of steel mill buildings and the
calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.
6–37208.
The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition
contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to
the part of the work on stresses.
* * * * *
“The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are
so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the
limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the
student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4.
Eng. news.
7–23625.
“Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating
of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a
presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls....
The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc.,
giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part
three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot
afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable
assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting
different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is
the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w.
=Keys, Alice Maplesden.= Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth
century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the
Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science....
Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of
the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript
material.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps
somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by
any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may
think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light
on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from
Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a
valuable study in political biography.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50.
Macmillan.
7–7554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground,
and performed his task excellently.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w.
“His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w.
=Kidd, Walter.= Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin
structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of
epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in
eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show
only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this
varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of
animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of
touch.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index.
It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in
a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter
since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w.
=Kildare, Owen Frawley.= My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38913.
“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a
picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.”
(Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as
little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the
faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal
procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer,
from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young
men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the
“spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
* * * * *
“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets
a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a
‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered
in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the
efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of
a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the
part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he
writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w.
* =Kimball, George Selwyn.= Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young
leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of
college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the
secrets of woodcraft.
=King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr.= Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s
diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.
7–978.
The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from
the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms....
He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’
The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be
expected under the circumstances.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in
which the record has been kept.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w.
=King, Charles.= Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.
7–15592.
“An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor
caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is
misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these
are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in
the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general
reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn
and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino
warfare.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=King, Gen. Charles.= Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–22113.
A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas.
Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are
accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and
Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of
war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.
* * * * *
“As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles
‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest
for all lovers of civil-war history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the
turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
=King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H.= History of Egypt, Chaldea,
Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier
society, N. Y.
7–10615.
“A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were
commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of
all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the
nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to
western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the
other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by
the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which
do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w.
“The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and
research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with
care and criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
“Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement
is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account
would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are
the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find
the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland
Thompson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w.
=King, Most Rev. William.= Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his
autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by
Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.
“William King played a most important part in church and state.... He
was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’...
His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a
translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters
adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on
family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift,
Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his
pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford
movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him.
We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the
reader against an interesting and useful book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w.
“The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes
illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop
King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and
politics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and
sufficient.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w.
“The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on
contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=King, William Benjamin.= Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11209.
Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing
process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the
law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures
to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship
whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success.
The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in
the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and
Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life
happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young
Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the
author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with
such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has
given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the
hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme,
and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
“Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow
development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of
trial and trouble is admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w.
“There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional
false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his
material.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w.
“Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those
continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real
significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece,
which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w.
=Kingsbury, Susan Myra=, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London,
1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.
6–38015.
A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible
to students for the first time history that has been shut up in
carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a
careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with
introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
* * * * *
“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years,
to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first
colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former
efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the
delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much
better edition than would have been produced earlier.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the
excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second.
The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult
to see on what plan it was prepared.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
of American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present
publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and
critical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the
princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster
aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a
recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure
her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are
madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer,
nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and
it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
* * * * *
“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and
women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it
can not but prove a tonic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing
love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25050.
A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back
Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological
conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays
foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in
the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.
* * * * *
“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound
sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by
reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5685.
“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful,
high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London
relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and
insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put
the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s
battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real
touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable
knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries
her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole
story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity
which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–13436.
“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and
her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and
brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home,
finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free,
generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a
man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short
of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks
simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in
an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor.
There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with
imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross
had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America
as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–35734.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been
reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one
even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his
accomplishment.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which
for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored
to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this
reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant
performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks
his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may
pick out.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a
novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–9553.
An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one
“refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home
accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story
begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who
eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of
duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a
practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent
material.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.
“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its
interesting psychological analysis.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.
“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its
excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than
people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not
disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.
7–18089.
An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work,
health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of
it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The
author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly
the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of
truth’s expression.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.
7–19460.
A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr.
Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the
impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have
wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of
culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of
poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul
of nature.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged
by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially
unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism,
has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding
chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of
socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the
philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the
essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more
intelligible form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.
“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a
socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of
the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a
healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the
literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old
misunderstandings and enmities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.
“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable
love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are
an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.
=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.
6–16496.
“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His
bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where
he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his
careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the
text.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.
=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50.
Dutton.
7–28952.
Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are
usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This
story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made
the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It
tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from
cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered
Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we
all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking
chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and
romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these
qualities under severe restraint.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.
“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.
“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough
to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent
his book from being accepted as a standard.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several
misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and
interesting facts.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.
“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy,
and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great
explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has
expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more
fascinating than they were before.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.
=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a
decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.
7–38043.
“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of
antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been
developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both
in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to
sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro
and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is
not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients
thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so
little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond.
Times.
* * * * *
“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on
the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to
dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.
“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not
one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous
treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.
=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and
reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.
7–25078.
Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who
fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the
south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful
representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim
of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent
attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into
surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of
the “quality.”
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
6–42418.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to
overstate its value to serious students.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.
“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere
treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to
the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises
and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and
comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material
to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two
centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.”
*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18308.
One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this
study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of
his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was
original and to what degree he has been supplemented.
* * * * *
“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading
and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the
story of modern culture and intellectual life.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise
above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much
cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing,
some important facts are left out.”
− =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and
its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
6–22869.
“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written
impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and
personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the
Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie,
and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records
are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous
illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with
graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work,
and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good
feeling between the once hostile sections.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w.
* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the
wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
The author has collected from various sources estimates, or
characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of
mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in
their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and
work.
=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of
sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a
lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of
the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
* * * * *
“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake
which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the
poeticule of prose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from
the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable
standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary
novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and
original work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not
wisdom.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of
the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”
+ =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.
7–18292.
The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and
three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as
double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with
compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of
diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board
of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes,
porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included
considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors
with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual
practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young
engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of
practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to
approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be
equally useful.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50.
Putnam.
7–6732.
“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression.
Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the
unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’
These three have been variously modified during the comparatively
brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The
account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of
that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The
religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity,
as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the
development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.
“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by
another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic
presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the
human mind.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.
“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking
but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once
catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.
“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation
have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed
and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.
“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is
peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his
long residence in Japan.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
6–34855.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.
“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.
“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that
has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great
Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.
“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on
the Far East.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.
“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic
study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also
an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.
=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.
“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes.
Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when
England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in
1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen
Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long
experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and
handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is
at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.
“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.
“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in
itself noteworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.
“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious,
and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history
but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s
pamphlet.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
6–35736.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate
for all tastes.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.
“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some
dozen native airs.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38904.
An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of
those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is
divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital,
How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal
music.
* * * * *
“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting,
readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen
to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged,
but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers,
such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in
style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.
“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly
commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as
well as instruction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is
entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is
suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to
find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.
7–21369.
The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the
Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little
waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé
and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted
by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance
whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers
who are seen under thin disguises.
* * * * *
“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its
original setting.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby.
*$5.25. Oxford.
7–11038.
A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This
volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately
bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has
therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out
with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.
=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of
important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the
book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the
properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols
used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken
up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the
triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are
taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
* * * * *
“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and
compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential
for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
+ + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many
inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.”
Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
7–11010.
The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society
which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize
itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to
demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks
and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical
realization.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal
the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large
use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when
talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he
brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of
his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it
is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
− =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another
language.”
− =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling.
**$2.50. Grafton press.
7–26153.
An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the
educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions
together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational
career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened
“record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual
life and his character.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.
=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the
author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of
the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring
witnesses of the truth.”
=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.
7–12001.
The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of
club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General
improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their
theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to
retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of
husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the
club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher,
misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from
college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which
the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all
ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
* * * * *
“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is
readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
L
=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann.
$1. Kerr.
7–3090.
This volume in the “International library of social science” has been
translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and
amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a
conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that
we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of
historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He
has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with
the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its
prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”
=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.
6–37926.
“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their
barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of
civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and
go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the
civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and
tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply
religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a
missionary interest.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it
seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction
and how far it is fact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.
7–23081.
Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the
assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and
establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if
we must.”
=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of
engineering. *$3 Longmans.
W 7–137.
“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the
usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also
of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase
transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors
occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the
consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of
induction motors.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for
engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text
for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.
=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by
Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25.
Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with
such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an
introduction and notes.
=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.
7–30461.
A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation,
Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded
by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits,
Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These
headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book.
Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles.
The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several
additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.
=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the
nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.
“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is
“expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors
for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke
better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe
Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union,
rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial
and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political
events connected with recent Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.
“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political
discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s
volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.
“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish
conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of
this book is in the remedy he proposes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.
=Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want
of judgment.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.
“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well
arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the
highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish
misgovernment.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.
=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from
the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.
6–39434.
Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor
Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during
the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s
accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into
which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art;
Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and
Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and
great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight
on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the
modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause.
In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word
of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent
index.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.
“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian
studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to
render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the
passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.
“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their
semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made
available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself
aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B.
McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.
“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that
the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary
skill.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.
“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from
study of the old monuments.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His
sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of
telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly
hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in
hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so
frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of
the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie
within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his
accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the
essentials required for popular interpretation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.
“A notable and impressive looking volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and
diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these
poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.
“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and
he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting
detail.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35221.
“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over
India during the last five years.... Every province in India,
including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to
describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well
illustrated.”—Ath.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they
are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local
colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often
more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.
“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of
thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent
volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book,
include many unusual aspects of India.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions;
but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old
resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the
greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they
certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of
the scenes which they describe.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.
“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his
sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of
some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for
instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and
overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to
lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic
features of the picture are omitted.”
− + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the
Eastern wonderland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive
impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is
overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end,
of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter
in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining
contribution to history.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and
character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
7–29125.
A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the
life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was
printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one
copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly
eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the
habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political
leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and
sufficient.” G. S. Street.
+ =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.
“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling
that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the
product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.
“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of
politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s
political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume
any permanent value that attaches to it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.
“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have
much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.
“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has
bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a
literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the
stamp of true genius.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his
work with care and precision.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in
the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men
of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent
value.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its
predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather
with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that
throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details
as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the
burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions
of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem
are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and
vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the
poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.
“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too
late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this
championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods
together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.
“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which
every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.
“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more
thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and
would fain go the whole way if we could.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.
“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome
details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration
from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of
his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.
“He has evidently written up his notes _currente calamo_, with little
concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument,
or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we
can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.
“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with
eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed
of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal
with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the
Court of Chancery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.
7–31208.
Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life
to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France,
Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.
* * * * *
“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to
enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more
discreet years.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits
their being wholesome reading for very young children.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.
“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for
that—and one and all are entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60.
Longmans.
6–34647.
Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies
to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian,
Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian,
Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle
remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble
each other?’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager
hands.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.
“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child
reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or
other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some
illustrations of excellent quality.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.
In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations
of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are
Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith,
Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in
producing the volume.
* * * * *
“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only,
and a more careful selection would have made this book more
representative.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.
“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English
country.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has
plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great
pleasure.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–2430.
A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that
preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits
which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in
accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at
different sittings.
* * * * *
“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical
acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J.
H. Pollen, S. J.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.
“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its
suggestiveness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.
“An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our
knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and
miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a
fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and
Melville.” Robert S. Rait.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.
“With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the
arguments.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.
“The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of
Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather
to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to
consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.
“Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a
valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage
of being Scottish antiquarians.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about
Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn
information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample
justice.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.
=Lang, Elsie M.= Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton.
*$1.50. Scribner.
7–13410.
Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its
arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.
* * * * *
“Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots
associated with the great English writers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.
“As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include
completeness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the
relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a
delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.
=Langdon, Amelie=, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed
for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.
A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small
enough to serve two people without waste.
=Langfeld, Millard.= Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases,
including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction
by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.
7–17014.
A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear
description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner
of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on
bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.
* * * * *
“For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise
statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation
to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p.
51) is somewhat obscure, and the terminology, although justified by
numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.
7–29194.
This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise,
but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on
scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests
of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and
is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory
study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and
predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an
outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a
century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the
British association for the advancement of science.... The closing
essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical
Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the
race.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a
lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he
gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for
us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest
discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here
lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must
feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P.
Pycraft.
+ =Acad.= 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.
Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ =Dial.= 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.
“The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature.
Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions
of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the
‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of
provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.
“A work of interest and scientific insight.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.
=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.
6–34856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
“The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on
Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of
Charles d’Albert.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Lapponi, Giuseppe.= Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical
study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11197.
“The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he
points out the two considerations that have led some writers to
confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as
spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that
from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and
very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even
together.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does
not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic
manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Nature.= 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for
[one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than
occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be
pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which
many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the
exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are
commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness
with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the
day.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the
straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the
present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain
good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.
* =Lasance, F. X.= Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.
On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the
end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the
cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.
* =Lathers, Richard.= Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton
press.
7–21270.
Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina,
Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude
was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war
with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which
chiefly make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.
=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.
6–33547.
“Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop
volume.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the
Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume
to an edition of his works.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Latta, Marion Nisbet-.= Handbook of American gas-engineering practice.
*$4.50. Van Nostrand.
7–30142.
A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the
consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas
distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning
appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data,
containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the
properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.
* * * * *
“The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and
not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of
this book and gas engineers, should be prompt to disavow it as
representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering
practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.
=Lau, Robert Julius.= Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–46312.
“In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello,
unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated
to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them,
which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little
more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in
facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this
is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of
each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the
university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a
university of having access to such original material for study.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.
“Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the
first value for the student of the history of mankind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.
=Laughlin, Clara E.= Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–10619.
The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is
brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s
irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of
hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who
discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an
ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame.
Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate
view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and
struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the
story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from
her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her
profession.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of
gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the
sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not
pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.”
Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate
knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a
noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos
which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.
“It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are
content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its
qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s
output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.
“It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve
a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the
surface.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.
“The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual
features of the theatrical novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.
“There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole,
however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of
varied interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues
and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.= Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of
1906. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–37187.
These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university
were delivered in the German language and include the following
industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and
reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway
question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking
in the United States.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.
“The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand
these questions.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.
“But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts
concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason
consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important
problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.
“Interesting and well-written volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.
“It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument
some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace,
the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic
literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.
“There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American
readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of
those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace
White.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.
“Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust
that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic
missions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.
“The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and
even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious
matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.
“Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions.
There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be
suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or
art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the
lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will
be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of
reading.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Laurie, Simon Somerville.= Synthetica: being meditations
epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university
Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–19465.
The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge,
the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.
* * * * *
“As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness,
amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has
a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as
gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but
that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have
written more simply.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Acad.= 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions
between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an
emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the
conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well
repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and
in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are
written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which
the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is
made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute
without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In
their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the
restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement
of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the
second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the
first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For
whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too
little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the
positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to
persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if
the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly
perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ − =Hibbert. J.= 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is,
its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations
may yet be detected.”
− =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted
in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of
numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for
himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual
words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical
writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These
defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is
the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a
note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de.=
Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and
appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.
W 6–336.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect;
and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.
“Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the
identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history,
is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M.
Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.
“Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light
on the condition of provincial France during the months of the
Terror.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.
=Lavis, Fred.= Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M.
C.
6–34656.
A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods
of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.
* * * * *
“Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet
he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated
by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The
book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern
practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.”
M. P. Paret.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.
“After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room,
then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining
much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which,
without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire.
The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to
its author.” Willard Beahan.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.
=Lawrence, C. E.= Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into
heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he
becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie.
There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan,
where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls
Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is
devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted
monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in
a lazar house.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no
superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little
more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or
new thought.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from
experience, and too ethereal.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.
=Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a
knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of
the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Lawrence, Sir Thomas.= Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S.
Layard. *$4. Longmans.
7–28948.
Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence
which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to
do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the
story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two
daughters.
* * * * *
“In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as
interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“This volume does not make material additions to the known
circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous
biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.
“This volume contains much new and interesting personal information
about the great English painter.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.
“It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well
chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an
intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting
addition to the book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and
familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as
letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and
obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the
letters are however interesting enough.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a
satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material
(or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
=Lawson, Thomas W.= Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–8213.
The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a
proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried
on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock
market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized
as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes
its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors,
stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate
victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show
the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or
that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results
which he desires.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely
to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
− =Ind.= 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a
stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many
pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr.
Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as
for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course
everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the
book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
− =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows
him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the
depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns
and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of
greed.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.
=Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I
had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.
“We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little
or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s
characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely
puppets—are lovely or lovable.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–13425.
A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s
personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains,
Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is
vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.”
(Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last
the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost
alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic
art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his
hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.”
(Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and
gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography
emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value
as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is
conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable
opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more
clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the
general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.
“The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation
with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of
monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.
“Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent
reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better
understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the
plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not
necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive
description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt
whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could
bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the
author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.
“Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary
distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of
purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on
the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.
* =Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters
and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.
A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over
thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he
left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.
* * * * *
“The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his
subject.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.
“It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is
impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its
pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the
book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a
biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the
disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the
soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian
church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37256.
Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition
which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen
centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout
the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported
in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth
century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more
tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The
republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis
which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing
on.”
* * * * *
“The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the
subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high
standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated
collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more
correct and more accessible modern editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.
“Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will
welcome their enlargement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.
“It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.
“It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object,
and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among
standard authorities.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed
in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will
find that it is not undeserved.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
6–2996.
=v. 3.= The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon
“‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of
the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending
with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its
punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’
‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of
action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
=v. 4.= The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in
this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost
wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered
along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of
doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and
the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and
social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but
the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest
living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely
to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book
that deserves to be compared with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s
earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career
of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as
second to no other American historian.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in
the general field of European history there have been some notable
contributions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and
is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord
with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as
concrete as possible.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is
complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired,
Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his
history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as
a partisan.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Leach, Henry=, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous
players. **$2.50. Jacobs.
A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on
one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned
the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct
instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that
golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the
fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Well edited book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
“The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt
wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly
affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
“A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and
it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”
+ =Spec.= 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leage, Richard W.= Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of
Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–35562.
The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the
Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by
translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing
clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those
texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is
necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of
execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under
Justinian.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the
Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many
of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably
that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There
is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract.
But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many
mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly
of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent
principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.
“The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of
the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we
think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances.
Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great
advance on any previous work of the same character written for the
student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.
“Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He
has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding
controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is
conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition,
which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.
“The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to
elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble
of referring to the original Institutes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
“It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the
Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose
that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal
to the bare texts, much less English students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social
questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Leblanc, Maurice.= Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De
Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious
manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an
artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into
mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and
even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in
the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose
aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking
about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with
the reader eager in pursuit.
* * * * *
“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding,
are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous
trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most
impressive.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with
introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–38563.
A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as
sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England
and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their
reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts,
wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical
science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It
has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as
fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of
marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.
“In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book
is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate,
inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the
meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the
author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the
misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.
=Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
“A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it
would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2.
Macmillan.
6–46329.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
=Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre.= Nature and origin of life, in the light of
new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.
W 7–76.
“The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the
amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in
simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective
study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena;
decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s
systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living
matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in
diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the
present situation as he himself appears to see it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us
lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.
“Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding
of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent
science.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an
unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to
become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on
the margins of many of the pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the
question of _origin_, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted
sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.
− =Nature.= 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.
“The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are
exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and
completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all
that could be desired.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46753.
“The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty
pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious
experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining
poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts
the call to poetry.”
* * * * *
“Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the
blank verse, which is not successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.
“There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it
is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it
makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain
pieces of Longfellow’s.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high
seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent
enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank,
youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the
motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own
individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.
“In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical
feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and
truth is presented simply and clearly.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Voice of the machines; an introduction to the
twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.
6–46754.
Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn
to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and
immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men
behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets,
The ideas behind the machines.
* * * * *
“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams
miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize
contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about
Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever
reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.
=Yale R.= 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.
* =Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year
ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the
symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed,
to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his
alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays
is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is
essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle
is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and
Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or
significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if
it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large
class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than
discrimination.”
− =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lee, John.= Religious liberty in South America, with special reference
to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by
Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–11041.
In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the
movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of
Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
* * * * *
“The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a
sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special
interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and
from either of these standpoints is scientific.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book;
and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants,
the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the
author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is
unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the
volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left
out.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.
=Lee, Marian, pseud.= See =Comstock, Anna Botsford=.
=Lee, Sidney.= Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays.
**$2. Scribner.
6–38524.
“Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for
various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the
group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical
Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the
volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional
addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his
work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who
demand the public favour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.
“It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and
Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most
amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.
“Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based,
as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably
solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience
interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W.
P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.
“These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes
wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is
an intention in which all may join.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.
“Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on
Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of
unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an
occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to
feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected
essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever
Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.
“One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has
rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to
the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of
his time, but robust common sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
“In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always
interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr.
Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an
occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter,
lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and
scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.
=Lee, Sidney.= Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death
of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every
publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that
deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake.
This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets
and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and
industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of
Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do
with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
“Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has
added considerable information which historical researches since 1890
have brought to light.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.
“The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr.
Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George
Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more
interesting in the comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are
characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on
documents.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Lees, Dorothy Neville.= Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.
Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the
author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To
this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with
her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form
a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in
Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few
errors of taste or fact.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the
Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge
and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a
future experience to read this book.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.
7–8216.
The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the
center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s
complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a
magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to
get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit
him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither
characters nor situation to make it realistic.
* * * * *
“Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.
“It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is
essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
“It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money
king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be
recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.
“Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a
purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval.
Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew
warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the
story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.
“It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial
battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the
author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is
one not to be easily repeated.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with
his brisk short stories.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Leffler, Burton R.= Elastic arch, with special reference to the
reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.
6–45715.
A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject
from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of
drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and
simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined
thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique
forces.
* * * * *
“We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.
* =Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3.
Neale.
7–25045.
The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of
Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of
international affairs and political history and to the reader of
sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the
island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of
General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural
conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and
manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their
condition.
=Legge, Ronald.= Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.
“‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign
office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty.
The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for
which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets
things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Legler, Henry Edward.= Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a
compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.
A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been
collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the
circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives
the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in
heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,”
“Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The
parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds
bibliographical notes.
=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr.
*$1.25. Morris.
6–32457.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= Jesus Christ and the civilization of
to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the
moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18115.
A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical
teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of
civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of
Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an
interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It
addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly
seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of
Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused
life of contemporary civilization.”
* * * * *
“A careful study”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.
=Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.
“Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of
ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish
him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory
over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical
attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a
little to the soundness of his results.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
* =Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2.
McClure.
In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of
critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history
of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat
social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to
precipitate the revolution.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of
a true artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by
Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–28490.
The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she
is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with
panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong
figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and
dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something
great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is
neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.
“He has used the historical method as severely in determining each
detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The
fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his
sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told
in an entertaining fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who
takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm
enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on
fire.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities
against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always
picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as
striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his
revival of the past.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it
will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it
wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a
delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a
story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has
constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English
dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.
“One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be
no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at
all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including
many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should
neglect to read this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French
by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written
by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their
imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.
* * * * *
“The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by
the illustrations.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.
“He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so
that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is
deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real
characters and events.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.
“Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.
=Leonard, Arthur Glyn.= Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.
7–11550.
“The book opens with a description of the physical features of the
country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local
traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as
expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and
fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of
the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other
chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism,
etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of
theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.
+ − =Acad.= 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.
“Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major
Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be
valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to
serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.
“Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is
evidence of real sympathy and insight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.)
**$1. Crowell.
7–12999.
A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific
socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed
of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost
theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of
machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and
industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the
social revolution which has been threatened.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.
“Attractively and helpfully presented.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.
“His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of
thought is often apparent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen:
a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–19737.
Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who
built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our
imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form,
its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and
chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by
the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running
Thames.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and
minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts
and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable
principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
“Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most
authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many
years to come.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.
“The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that
slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically
a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy
guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John
Hope.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.
“The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve
years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of
individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has
secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical
organization of building operations.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.
“Written in a style which must win readers among all who love
Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of
research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled
in importance by any similar publication on either side of the
channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records
elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination
of qualities.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.
“It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has
a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so
much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert
Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown
on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
5–17608.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional
lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very
elementary way.”
+ =Yale. R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.
=Levussove, Moses Samuel.= New art of an ancient people, the work of
Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.
6–45172.
Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews
who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and larger
creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in
black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of
style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of
composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.
* * * * *
“The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the
rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by
a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the
European masters of line-work.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the
highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy
for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.
=Nation.= 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in
mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is
exemplified by Lilien’s works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
* =Lewis, Alfred Henry.= When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew
Jackson. **$2. Appleton.
7–36233.
“Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely
the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It
has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail
of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning
antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor
‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and
unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the
money crew.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the
reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it,
bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of
Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.
6–27939.
“In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the
treatment of the subject.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the
breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could
take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal
to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of
English verse-rhythms.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
“Compact and easily read volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Lewis, Elizabeth.= Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–20618.
In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story
of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his
attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which
is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed
figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented
painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All
this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a
match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.
=Lewis, Emily Westwood.= Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.
7–30990.
A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of
Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The
Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the
mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.
=Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet.= With Christ among the miners; incidents and
impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of
personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904.
It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the
coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement
and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.
=Lewis, Mary Elizabeth.= Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung.
**$1.50. Putnam.
7–30.
In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which
the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an
ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The
cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,”
which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution
of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the
hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in
the Divine Will.”
* * * * *
“The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully
indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value,
while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the
drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper
report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H.
C. C.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 194. F. 23, ’07. 960w.
“She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the
complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her
interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it
is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it
his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by
getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leyds, Willem Johannes.= First annexation of the Transvaal. *$6.30.
Wessels.
7–18148.
A work on the relations of the English and Dutch in South Africa in
which the author has prepared an indictment against Britain’s South
African policy during the past century. “He is not bitter about
England, though he is very bitter about English colonists, and cannot
mention the name of Sir Percy FitzPatrick without losing his temper.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“In this book the author displays the same combination of smart
intelligence and rash blundering which was conspicuous during his
European mission.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 332. S. 22. 1090w.
“The tone of the book is, however, so bitter that he damages rather
than strengthens his cause.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 580w.
“The book is well-written, orderly in arrangement, adroit in argument,
and extremely readable. His narrative is too much a design in snow and
ink to convince even the ill-informed reader.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 492. O. 6, ’06. 1920w.
=Lidgett, Rev. John Scott.= Spiritual principle of the atonement: as a
satisfaction made to God for the sins of the world. 4th ed. *$1.50.
West. Meth. bk.
The twenty-seventh Fernley lecture. The editor in these ten chapters
covers all phases of the atonement, its historical causes, the
Biblical doctrine concerning it, the theology of the atonement, the
satisfaction of God, the ethical perfection of our Lord, the
relationship of our Lord to the human race, the atonement in relation
to the spiritual life of individuals and the atonement and social
progress.
* =Lighton, William Rheem.= Shadow of a great rock. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18100.
Frontier life and the types of men whom it calls are portrayed here
true to the reckless abandon of “the formless western wilderness.”
* * * * *
“A short story—and a very ordinary, conventional short story that
might almost have appeared in any monthly magazine—and nothing more.”
− =Acad.= 73: 755. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a grandiose style, this story of American pioneering in
the fifties is interesting rather than remarkable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 150. Ag. 10. 120w.
“Occasionally marred just a little by ‘fine writing,’ [it] is
nevertheless, a good story of the winning of Nebraska in the early
fifties.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 28, ’07. 100w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Where the trail divides; with il. in colors
by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9842.
“As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and
scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive
by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl
baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are
taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought
up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed
upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these
two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.
* * * * *
“A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book
which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation
and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 285. My. ’07. 540w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75.
Tandy.
6–3554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any
public or private library of importance on account of its completeness
and reliability.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among
the great editions of our statesmen.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 11 and
12.)
“These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value,
not only in American political history, but to American literature.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=Lincoln, Charles Henry.= Naval records of the American revolution,
1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1.
Supt. of doc.
6–35020.
“More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds
filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are
concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This
is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the
nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the
state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators
to identify the ship, and from local records trace her
performances.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 930. Jl. ’07. 310w.
“We note some obvious misprints of names.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the
beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’
co-op.
6–7387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are
rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which
have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references
to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the
ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations
of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention
reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to
all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It
will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a
generation.” Roger Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 392. Ja. ’07. 2370w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Lincoln, Joseph C.= “Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.
7–21534.
Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on
at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of
“amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”
* * * * *
“In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the
true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 160w.
“Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the
well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of
humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 100w.
=Lindsay, Anna R. B.= Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.
7–31179.
Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual
growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform
with the “What is worth while” series.
=Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.= Warrior spirit in the republic of God.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42942.
“A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often
been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is
comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the
molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point
in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show
insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
“Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= America’s insular
possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
7–1324.
A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s
island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles,
Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to
the Philippines. The history, growth, political development,
industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little
attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second
volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses
of the former governor, William H. Taft.
* * * * *
“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of
view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is
nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our
outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general
reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and
valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost
voiceless.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that
they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report
any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false
proportions on false relations.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= John Smith, gentleman
adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29850.
Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of
romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is
history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a
tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming
generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Panama: the isthmus and the
canal. **$1. Winston.
6–26562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. 07.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 157. Jl. ’07. 120w.
“Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with
simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative
discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index
would enhance its usefulness.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 180w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Philippines under Spanish
and American rules. $3. Winston.
6–44314.
In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively,
historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ...
Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are
given.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation. 2v. ea. *$2.50.
Scribner.
6–23686.
=v. 2.= Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the
ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the
counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the
Council of Trent.
* * * * *
“We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of
them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression
left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they
are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine
scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not
merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker
Rockwell.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 874. Jl. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and
stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is
sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the
belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to
the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No
reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal
of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in
a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances,
inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed
over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could
desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has
presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert
Henry Newman.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history
deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who
will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing
of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will
make it for the general reader the standard English work on the
subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important
theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 281. S. 20, ’07. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as
sufficiently familiar with the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology.
*$1.50. Ginn.
6–23318.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of
the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large
number of original drawings direct from nature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 120w.
“The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to
us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 633. O. 25, ’06. 160w.
“This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology
for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only
interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 233. Mr. ’07. 440w.
=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max
Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.
6–33516.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating
value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 640. F. ’07. 170w.
“The translation ... is all that could be desired.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Lithgow, William.= Totall discourse of the rare adventures and
painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from
Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
7–28951.
Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and
customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of
a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter
ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles,
chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character,
written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale
for the reprint before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 430w.
“The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual
sumptuous fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 760w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
“His rare adventures are well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 1540w.
=Littlehales, George W.= Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position;
comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the
position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying
observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great
circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.
6–24890.
“An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating
officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their
complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of
mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical
determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the
position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles,
and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the
conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of
certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by
those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and
time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to
understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to
the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 74. Jl. 20. 250w.
“As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of
nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 1200w.
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 1000w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 50w.
=Livingstone, Alice.= Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
7–5060.
Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of
this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero,
who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears
and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society
queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later
the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero
and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown
daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the
book reaches its happy ending.
* * * * *
“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless
they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we
approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark
plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
− =Acad.= 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w.
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is
tolerably exciting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w.
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery
as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the
end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could
desire.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w.
“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel
and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for
thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the
wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley
was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for
studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept
their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With
boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at
night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their
warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections
of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w.
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit
his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of
the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to
the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w.
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly
readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it
relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the
unimportant as well as important matters.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper
Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.
7–35191.
An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the
northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long
time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid
impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with
unnecessary details.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 650w.
“Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for
those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will
be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent
in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 866. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable
interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and
superstitions of the natives.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the
qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
6–16757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of
his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and
sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of
vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 483. N. ’06. 1090w.
“As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is
deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s
luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes
of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth
as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is
exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete
sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his
sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 569. N. ’06. 780w.
“The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed
with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the
thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 466. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
“Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague;
as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the
exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole,
contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls
both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should
have been so wretchedly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 370w.
=Loane, M.= Next street but one. $2. Longmans.
W 7–77.
“This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be
supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained
nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic
conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal
illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and
deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific
incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at
formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences
and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A
little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of
her charming and enlightening book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.
“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of
chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour
an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the
nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.
=Lock, Robert Heath.= Recent progress in the study of variation,
heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.
7–12650.
“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed:
Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity
of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters
are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here
introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary....
Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated
in detail.”—Science.
* * * * *
“The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical
terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding
chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are
dealing with problems of human progress.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 640. My. ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the
layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of
recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered.
Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and
impartial.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 259. Ag. 23, ’07. 810w.
“The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth
with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one
except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to
correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this
volume will be among senior biological students rather than among
either advanced scientists or general readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.
“An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the
present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 573. Ap. 18, ’07. 1490w.
“Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable
criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 840. Mr. 1, ’07. 830w.
“The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his
somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of
‘mutation.’”
+ =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 820w.
=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
6–37606.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not
altogether pleasing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted
freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 119. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and
Bohemianism.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered
within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed
to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and
lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end
eccentric career.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.
“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr.
Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.
“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the
spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations
on a Rabelaisian theme.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.
* =Lockwood, Laura Emma.= Lexicon to the English poetical works of John
Milton. *$3. Macmillan.
7–37515.
“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained
the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the
meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’
Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at
making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular
stress on definitions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the
‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that
difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any
serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove
the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one
gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has
been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 515. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–34821.
The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose
incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the
Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United
States at Algeciras, etc.
* * * * *
“All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner;
he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon
historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a
book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge,
but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive
form.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 701. Ap. ’07. 440w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
“As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the
same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in
public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself
gratifying.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the
matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1185. D. 7, ’06. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver.= Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism
for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.
7–9613.
Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a
harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His
task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of
religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to
assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and
still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired
writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience
some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood
of criticism.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07.
“We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by
himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that
if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is
because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening
to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
− + =Dial.= 42: 341. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 470w.
=Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
=Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 60w.
“We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can
teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the
earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the
religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could
make it intelligible to children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
“His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation
to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of
science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Loftie, Rev. William J.= Colour of London, historic, personal and
local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist,
Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.
“Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense
and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great
metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is
devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however,
the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of
delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour
and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the
Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that
it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and
topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest,
marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 501. My. 25, ’07. 1060w.
“The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie
as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text
anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 612. My. 18. 420w.
“Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ...
treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true
feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The
enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved
London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness
and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist
has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to
produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear
the stamp of exceptional ability.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner.
These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the
fortune of any book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and
sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention
in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an
erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 340w.
“Well above the colour-book average.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 626. My. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Short history of comparative literature from the
earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.
7–18136.
“M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all
the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay,
and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M.
Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading.
It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it
bristles with misprints.”
− − =Acad.= 70: 423. My. 5, ’06. 1520w.
“As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the
narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys
and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual
characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very
antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so
good as it might be.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 970w.
“Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so
well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying
truth of his whole theme.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 338. My. 25, ’07. 800w.
“It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance
with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M.
Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court
of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M.
Ivimy. *$7. Lane.
In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its
magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of
Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de
Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all
pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined.
As each passes too you learn something of her character and
attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her
doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of
the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M.
Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that
desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been
untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation
is well done.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light
opera at that.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important,
sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic
Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about
pretty faces and dresses.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone
of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing
acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm
he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 129. Jl. 27, ’07. 1490w.
=London, Jack.= Before Adam. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–7191.
Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream
glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from
the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial
memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and
who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story
of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also
of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side
by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London
shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave
endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls
short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity,
but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 125. Jl. ’07. 1640w.
“It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the
latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity
of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific
accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 310w.
“The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who
finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the
type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full
career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w.
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives
and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of
the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it
all with poignant reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w.
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as
regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional
aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably
done and curiously fascinating.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w.
=London, Jack.= Love of life, and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29686.
A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the
polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even
humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal
instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are
Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of
Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the
coward.
* * * * *
“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of
his earlier stories of this author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their
author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J.
Marchand.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w.
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this
direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers,
save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief
achievement in arctic romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w.
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and
Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to
the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=London, Jack.= Moon-face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32351.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations
of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming
into full play.”
− + =Cath. World.= 84: 833. Mr. ’07. 190w.
“These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking
in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them
on the score of originality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 178. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
* =London, Jack.= The road. †$2. Macmillan.
Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the
vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land,
but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards
them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which
began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and
tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the
student of sociology.
=London, Jack.= Scorn of women; in three acts. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–43530.
A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The
heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is
worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The
incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and
the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier
conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 80w.
“In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a
trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly
entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 495. D. 6, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes
might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about
the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35449.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail
given in the fight with the bull-dog.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
“His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary
‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 270w.
“The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good
thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as
alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater
sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which
makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 599. F. ’07. 950w.
“The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history
of the wolf is an achievement.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 82: 111. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in
disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its
author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf
story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the
midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 547. Ap. ’07. 1020w.
“The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes
to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his
litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood,
and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the
dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Done in this author’s best style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Lonergan, W. F.= Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent.
Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met
many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage,
talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy,
and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish
existence, however, he found the time to read something else than
newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy,
especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s
new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its
purchase to our readers.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 110. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 400w.
“While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history,
does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements,
thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and
the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or
less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well
worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–34265.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but
equally well worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 805. D. 22. 150w.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 177. D. 20, ’06. 170w.
“When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us
stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts
his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be
a little tedious.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.
* =Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of
wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of
“Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the
unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them;
second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and
the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and
peace which the author has always found in the silent places.
Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself.
*$1.20. Century.
5–29965.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 26. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 484. D. 15, ’06. 1180w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.
7–21370.
Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While
the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful
Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor
car.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A.
Graef. †75c. Barnes.
7–11578.
A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the
author’s experiences in England.
* * * * *
“It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide
books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with
cheerful vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Lorimer, Norma Octavia.= By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.
7–4809.
“There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The
writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her
observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The
Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and
the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative
touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are
unusually fine.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable
romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
− =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Loti, Pierre, pseud.= Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less
superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 410w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 109. Ja. ’07. 730w.
“As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case
of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the
present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively,
for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 718. Mr. ’07. 1790w.
“Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no
less than irresistible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
6–13335.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Text of Shakespeare; its history from
the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the
publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
6–36417.
The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean
wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary
controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of
‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original
hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly
thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable
Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope,
Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake
and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring
points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything
about the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w.
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite
some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his
learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles
H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w.
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a
revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald
desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of
the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been
steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the
history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w.
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere;
but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the
substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the
critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the
title of the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w.
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious
labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students
will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent
toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for
its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and
atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w.
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor
Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the
lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light
it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the
method or order of his growth.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 330. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Another book that must take an eminent place among recent
contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far
the most important and the most interesting in its special field of
criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 724. S. ’07. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by George H. Browne.
+ + =School R.= 15: 304. Ap. ’07. 520w.
“A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the
history of English literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 979. Je. 22, ’07. 1690w.
=Louthan, Hattie Horner.= “This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.
6–45355.
The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in
our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying
homage to what each man really is.”
* * * * *
“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the
scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own
vocabularies.”
− =Ind.= 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w.
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the
reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but
these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and
exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of
human interest.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are
some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the
rector is well drawn.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Lovett, Robert M.= Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12977.
The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions
thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that
of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was
“winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great
fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed
contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”
* * * * *
“The book ... is rich in interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w.
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a
vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur
sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the
college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to
see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
− =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has
features of genuine merit.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts.
Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful
enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending
manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
“The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from
literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of
firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness
the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch
in spite of its real beauty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Low, Sidney James Mark.= Vision of India as seen during the tour of the
Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.
W 7–6.
A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today.
Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of
Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls
on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the
Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a
concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the
present strange form of Indian government.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly
detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in
spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 1160w.
“A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and
so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book
about India.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and
we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will
turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 180. My. 18, ’06. 1780w.
“Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is
more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for
that.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 770w.
“Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future
is clearly and impressively disclosed.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
=Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 370w.
“The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But,
on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it
appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study
of peoples and politics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w.
=Lowell, Percival.= Mars and its canals. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45164.
On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and
equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this
volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he
convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants
of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural
purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on
our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and
mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in
advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is
among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in
the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without
any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has
let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 577. F. ’07. 5900w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 211. F. ’07. 1790w.
“Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he
will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’
that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the
subject.” Herbert A. Howe.
+ =Dial.= 42: 76. F. 1, ’07. 1170w.
“In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized
Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to
acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 290w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1510w.
“The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with
which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy
appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into
a consistent whole.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities,
and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman
can understand it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 142. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 120w.
“While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most
recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or
thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its
inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 499. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the
United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.
5–32489.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 423. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
6–30901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 429. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to
the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of
zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.”
Carl Russel Fish.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 433. Mr. ’07. 430w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Historical geography of British colonies, v.
1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.
=v. 1.= The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up
to date by R. E. Stubbs.
“This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the
Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the
Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in
Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian
ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.
=v. 2.= West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.
“This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from
Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas,
the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant
possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South
Georgia.”—Nature.
=v. 6.= Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.
A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.
* * * * *
“Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician
will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the
historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the
earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 414. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing
of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever
descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical,
and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 245. Ja. 11, ’06. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Another book of verses for children, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32337.
An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided
appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as
a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness
for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including
it.
* * * * *
“Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method
of its arrangement.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and
he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will
please children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 110w.
“It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household
use.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 30w.
“Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and
playroom anthology.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a
Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second
part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like
letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with
exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows,
very prettily, the variety of his range.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 290w.
“A most delightful book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1317. N. 28, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than
dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour
that make every reader his warm friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 820w.
“The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious
papers make them delightful reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 521. O. 12, ’07. 1580w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–29018.
Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast,
squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter
writing.
* * * * *
“His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of
a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a
Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in
certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 500w.
“This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious,
with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and
with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin,
good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or
‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in
permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 338. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular
revival.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the
public as excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Forgotten tales of long ago. $1.50.
Stokes.
7–35046.
Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging
from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery
of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his
reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for
it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to
all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated,
and attractively bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the
urbane. $1.50. Holt.
6–10500.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse
and prose than this.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by
entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–32334.
The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of
letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and
includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known
eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen
headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children
and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends,
Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The
pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.
* * * * *
“A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–32676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters
which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the
year.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–32702.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
“He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many
and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less
heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the
reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never
oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
=Luce, Robert.= Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c.
Clipping bureau press.
7–18088.
The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing
information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation
of copy for the press.
* * * * *
“The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of
words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite
expressions, which it contains.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 682. Ag. ’07. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 191. Ag. 29, ’07. 70w.
“The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have
ever seen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 368. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
=Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.= Electricity as
applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
“Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable
length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the
applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer,
colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of
electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of
electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 290w.
=Lusk, Graham.= Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.
6–41748.
“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical
constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory
tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during
the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased
conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more
liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at
least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an
enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very
interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter.
Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes,
but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in
near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes
forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life
in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally
rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her
castles in Spain a reality.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Lyford, James Otis.= Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography.
$1.50. Estes.
6–41541.
“The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins
represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in
sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that
field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able,
conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection
and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion.
It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear,
orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire
during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford
has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James
F. Colby.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 906. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“This is a good example of the political biography.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 823. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, 07. 180w.
=Lyle, Eugene P., jr.= Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–25502.
A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion
of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is
autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and
sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high
courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and
Austin figure in the narrative.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather
aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and
rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
“He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of
plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of
character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every
other page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lynde, Francis.= Empire builders. †$1.50 Bobbs.
7–26019.
A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise
of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle
wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could
present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan
surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous
old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their
enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 270w.
“This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the
interest throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lysaght, Sidney Royse.= Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35217.
“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and
fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her
Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the
century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the
story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of
Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and
strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to
draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not
stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom
we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so
finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since
Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or
write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill
their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of
life itself.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w.
“Compelling story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what
journalists style actuality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 270w.
“Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the
art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He
is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 440w.
“Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many
passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious
character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 295. F. 22, ’07. 1540w.
M
=Maartens, Maarten.= New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29090.
A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is
to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no
inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his
characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored
by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will
have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps
Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in
disguise.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It
is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”
− − =Acad.= 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a
criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive
care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has
its charm and claim.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w.
“Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’
but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic
scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire,
nevertheless has point and significance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w.
“The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not
excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of
its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves
the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has
not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens
his arraignment of the medical profession.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we
profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and
wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w.
“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither
fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle
irritant.”
− =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to
hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book
are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of
acute observation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w.
=Maartens, Maarten.= Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50.
Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it
is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories
recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or
intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is
usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some
others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The
diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w.
“Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and
psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and
artistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w.
“One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has
cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to
various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w.
“The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the
hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the
number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons
and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must
have taken quite as much work.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w.
“The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious
versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most
part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now
and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle
character-drawing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are
little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Famous stories every child should know; ed. by
Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.
7–29005.
“Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented,
and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an
introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really
good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap
literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the
goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed.= Heroes every child should know. **90c
Doubleday.
6–36046.
“Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for
young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for
the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland,
King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father
Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and
fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the
subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling
power.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
“Most happy in its title as in its contents.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Legends that every child should know; a
selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and
decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.
6–32353.
Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some
adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf,
Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of
Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir,
The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of
Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing
of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy
Hollow.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
“A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
“Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s
introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w.
=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
6–18052.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the
controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his
material.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w.
=McAllister, Addams Stratton.= Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw
pub.
6–42400.
“This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction
motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator
motors.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w.
=McArthur, Peter.= Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
7–19470.
Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an
Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from
sentiment to slang.
* * * * *
“Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little
tame.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and
clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w.
=McCabe, Joseph.= Talleyrand: a biographical study; with 25 portraits
including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.
7–35192.
The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and
intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had
faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause;
who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”
* * * * *
“From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with
Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life
of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful
diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy
and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness
of judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w.
“His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w.
“Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in
his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many
governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry
myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure
of this man of mystery.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w.
“Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his
subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe,
doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful
in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to
his masterly and fascinating defence.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
6–39729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w.
“Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w.
“It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and
with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination,
is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave
beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of
France.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.
7–18594.
The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here
applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France
ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When
the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s
estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much
fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon
wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.
* * * * *
“Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft
literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a
field of sheer entertainment.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w.
“The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein
of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous
Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the
book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w.
“It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to
write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy
himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to
stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will
agree with his possible estimate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf.
lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
4–33115.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than
anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the
nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found
in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w.
“Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a
work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The
pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the
portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd
language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is
extremely useful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w.
* =MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school.
*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the
education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of
literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale
and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic
stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature,
the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8.
Winston.
6–9611.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=MacColl, Hugh.= Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29053.
“Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not
command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are
these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases
and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b)
that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in
classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false,
certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential
import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O
as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every
class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting
of the null or unreal members, O_{1}, O_{2}, O_{3}, &c., and considers
it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the
solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much
dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and
instructive, and the points in which it is incontrovertible are much
more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.
=Philos. R.= 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w.
=McCook, Henry C.= Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other
insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.
7–12257.
A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in
Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal
principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with
themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and
spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been
included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies,
wasps and ant-lions.
* * * * *
“Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07. S.
“One of the most interesting and instructive entomological
publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense
of the term.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w.
“The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the
observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s
style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular
natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
“An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school
library.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w.
“There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of
careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well
written, well printed, and well illustrated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the
exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird
spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so
easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest
children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable
of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought
forth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly
scientific in its treatment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
“Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.)
Il. $2. Page.
7–15494.
“Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes
of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes
themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores,
and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly
described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but
many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all
eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious
thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less
connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07.
“A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
“He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for
him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own
historical or artistic associations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few
errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or
picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s
attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by
the wayside.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
“Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted
with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content
in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or
Boniforti.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3.
Technical bk. agency.
7–19430.
“After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes
up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters,
pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply,
concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of
which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and
specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering
data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching
machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification
index.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of
information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on
the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most
part, has been selected with good judgment.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w.
* =MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest.= Selection and
cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and
coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of
Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.
7–21347.
The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the
study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Daughter of Anderson Crow. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25508.
It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town
marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures
including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the
small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the
parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position
made known.
* * * * *
“The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the
illustrations.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w.
“Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and
publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth
while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that
fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books.
Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either
written or published.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w.
“In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the
book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better
one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Jane Cable. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–27704.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the
action is a little jerky and uncertain.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w.
“It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry
conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive
where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely
suggestive.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w.
=McDavid, Mittie Owen.= Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.
7–32383.
A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the
English colonists.
* =Macdonald, Alexander.= In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s
experiences. $2. Jacobs.
“True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the
psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ...
and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and
jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They
are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and
British New Guinea.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in
the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the
author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his
preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may
mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w.
“At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences
a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much
colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally
told.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w.
“Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told
them well. These are right good stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside
the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely,
notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the
pen.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w.
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits
reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w.
=MacDonald, Frederick W.= In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes
dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church
fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and
Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also
gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even
caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s
‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs
both to literature and religion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w.
“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly
entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a
long time.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that
good.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w.
=Macdonald, Frederika.= Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50.
Putnam.
7–11002.
An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that
he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which
attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two
contemporaries.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner.
Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of
mind.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w.
“So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is
concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques
Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the
acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is
the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary
discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w.
“Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is
indispensable to every Rousseau library.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w.
“Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the
main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James
Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w.
“However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations
may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above
criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w.
“The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it
cannot be lightly put aside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and the goblin. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–12642.
A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s
story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur
Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some
attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit
of the story.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
=Macdonell, Anne.= Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6.
Dutton.
W 7–36.
Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of
chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.”
“Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser
castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where
the shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is
to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also,
that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the
shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift
and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“The book is especially strong on its historical side.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w.
“Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve
individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries
sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w.
“One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will
undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations
it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme
treated.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w.
“Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is
chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more
complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above
all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and
if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry
bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than
that of her predecessor.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who
possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of
this district of France where every site has its story and
association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery
and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in
recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care
for a fascinating subject.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.
7–7187.
“Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with
discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament
petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the
Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and
classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.
* * * * *
“It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional
elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with
the modern scientific and historical spirit.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w.
“The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study
of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible
and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or
not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick
Carl Eislen.
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
=MacFall, Haldane.= Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by
Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.
7–3098.
A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the
incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger,
Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.
* * * * *
“Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of
some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which
makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular
insight or sense of perspective.”
− =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
“This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and
sound criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
“We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.
“On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book
is a good one for beginners.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w.
=McGaffey, Ernest.= Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and
marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–14649.
“Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the
fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the
Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the
hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and
feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object
in itself.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w.
“The advice to sportsmen which the book contains is not full enough or
new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view
causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of
the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate
and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful
acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The style of the book vouches for itself.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the
out-of-doors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=McGehee, Lucius Polk.= Due process of law under the federal
Constitution. $3. Thompson.
6–32130.
A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which
some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of
railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of
child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce
based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which
‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as
possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he
criticises modestly, but firmly.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w.
“The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization,
arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work
lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much
legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w.
=McGinley, Anna M. A.= Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface
by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–4504.
“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the
fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on
human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The
dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim
of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws
of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward
universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely
dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with
principles rather than with their practical application, tho many
useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of
influence.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse
views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers?
This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation
for it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w.
“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the
conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings.
Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in
question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot
fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the
book is intended.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
=McGrath, Harold.= Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–30162.
Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures
of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story
of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he
loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn
between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s
grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep
her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love
and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good
fight.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–43779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of
American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior
to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w.
“There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of
incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a
good machine-made novel.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His
tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w.
“A bright, entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
=Macgregor, David Hutchison.= Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–12496.
“Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts,
cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author]
analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern
organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as
compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their
resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially
in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the
two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J.
Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and
no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used,
but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere
find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is
preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement
suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His
method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding
purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial
study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But
there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if
he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all
abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious
handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w.
“The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this
field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as
sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the
only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously
‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United
States.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr.
Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward
socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the
third division of his book and must be considered the least
satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of
the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts.
On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the
general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief
usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is
marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to
have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.”
Maurice H. Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting,
from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–30483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In small compass is given all the information that has so far been
scattered through encyclopedias.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Mach, Ernst.= Space and geometry in the light of physiological,
psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.
6–34085.
“The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the
senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural
development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last
essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical
inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some
of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The translation is well-nigh perfect.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w.
“There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or
secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr.
Mach’s series of essays.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for
adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they
have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w.
=Machen, Arthur.= Hill of dreams; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.
“The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral
development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty
for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to
call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it
with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is
like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and
terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its
intolerable sweetness.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w.
“His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and
thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w.
“Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not
sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a
curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and
scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should
be shut up, or set at manual labor.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad
dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it
isn’t true, after all.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
=Mackail, John William=, ed. Select epigrams from the Greek anthology.
*75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The
word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater
number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and
altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as
we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls,
lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work.
The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor
of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary
introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w.
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w.
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so
delightful a book were many times greater.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w.
“Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing
range.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w.
“It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w.
=MacKaye, James.= Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.
6–28423.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped
learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument
to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well
entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W.
S.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w.
“Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly
socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of
happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c.
Little.
6–37899.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms
of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and
theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average
thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme
differs from modern socialism.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w.
=Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.
6–35545.
“In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon
the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the
records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and
inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the
Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no
essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all
possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of
the times.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne
d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the
piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w.
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot,
and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of
Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to
be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy
embodying a criticism of life.”
− =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w.
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material
into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in
doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a
prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–17376.
In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’
quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist
present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho
and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of
her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are
Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves
Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus
relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy
grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional
vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and
mysticism.
* * * * *
“The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way
in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of
tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w.
“The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and
interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than
fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits
of the ancient Roman stage.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made
for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic
tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire
of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified,
eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its
emotions.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w.
“A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are
measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for
the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with
knowledge.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w.
“Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all
his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not
pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
* =McKenzie, F. A.= Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.
A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as
attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and
aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a
warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and
prestige are being threatened.
* * * * *
“We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w.
“His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and
makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far
Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is
not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has
visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the
literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w.
“Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions
with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly
constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of
manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement,
including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating
adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the
conversation of certain Far East residents.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w.
=Mackenzie, John Steuart.= Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–33950.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view
from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of
interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which
seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man
or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light
of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy,
politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two
closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of
humanism.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The
metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts
to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such
a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing
distance of him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w.
=Ind.= 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat
abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained
can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with
the applications of these teleological principles to politics,
economics, education, and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w.
“Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as
sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces
expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has
substantial merits.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.
* =MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Antoinette Sterling and other
celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.
These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their
central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the
most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor
in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve
such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or
such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true
filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by
amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.
+ =Spec.= 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w.
=McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter.= Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.
6–46772.
A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of
the wrong man.
* =Mackinnon, Albert G.= Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.
This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to
scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief.
It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding
the truth of the gospel.
=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.
6–15083.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by
an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an
important work.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Macklin, Herbert W.= The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.)
*$2.50. Dutton.
7–38576.
“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division
has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a
closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John
Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other
examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being
another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at
length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet,
Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively
dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the
monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The
illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found
convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more
leisurely reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.
“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and
of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus
falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.
“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations
have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has
managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by
connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the
history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so
eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing
with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with
advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp
of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and
art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
Reviewed by Charles De Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and
his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further
claim to plead for their better perservation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Maclaren, Alexander.= Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25.
Armstrong.
“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of
six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of
the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository
method.’”
=ser. 1.= Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.
=ser. 2.= Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First
book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.
* * * * *
“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)
“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and
expensive for practical use.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)
“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in
drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious
in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting
fresh point into trite texts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)
=Macleane, Douglas.= Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the
one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of
idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.
7–29051.
A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by
bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and
speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of
traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book
on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety,
and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr.
Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our
logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into
account.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s
book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly
prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense,
point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous
examples.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.
“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will
be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the
classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not
always convincing.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is
apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish
introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing
illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before
us.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.
=Macleod, Mary.= A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35074.
Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda,
The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin
Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders
gray, and two score more.
* * * * *
“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the
change of form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 53. F. ’07.
“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction.
[She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing
carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=McMahan, Mrs. Anna B.= Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess.
**$1. McClurg.
7–33927.
A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s
dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
* * * * *
“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious
readers both in substance and mechanical features.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of
the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in
Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
6–34853.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the
carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be
read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections
from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and
curtailments.”
− =Acad.= 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.
“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With
Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little
the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because
of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.
“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more
understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40.
McClurg.
7–31456.
A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have
to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and
the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the
subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of
Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved
haunts.”
* * * * *
“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring
guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is
illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments
are of no special value.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.
=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from
the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and
illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives
the impression of the progressive development of national powers in
relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.”
C. H. Levermore.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)
“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of
information. All the severest demands of the new school as to
scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome
human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)
=McNaugher, John=, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers
bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1.
Un. Presb.
7–18116.
These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to
promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are
now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church
at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and
on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a
comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in
worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a
doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader
type succeed.”
=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.
6–6931.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine
complications.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=McPherson, Logan Grant.= Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43941.
“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the
individual railroad departments as the general principles which they
pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction
and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and
executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads
and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this
book and place it in the hands of the public for educational
purposes.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are
explained in an interesting way.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.
“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various
functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.
“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise
exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical
railroad man and a trained economist.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the
railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.
“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to
the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a
careful and impartial study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain
the operation of an American railway.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.
“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad
economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.
“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad
situation in this country without going much into details, Mr.
McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least
important part of it is the list of references with which the book
concludes.” Ray Morris.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.
=Macray, Rev. William Dunn.= Register of the members of St. Mary
Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5.
*$2.50. Oxford.
=v. 5.= “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we
have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second
biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know
that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite
indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have
an interest for members of the college, and many have a general
significance.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Famous painters of America. **$2.50.
Crowell.
7–30413.
This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The
personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is
presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of
Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge,
Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen
handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and
their works.
* * * * *
“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains
material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found
elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 195. N. ’07.
“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from
the outside.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.
“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about
its method.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can
be said about every writer.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes
no pretense to give any information about art.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.
“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.
=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
7–7484.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise
ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such
exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression
of wit.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal
of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are
said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear
thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce
irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and
as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost
childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not
seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various
elements in his mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.
=MacWhirter, John.= MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a
selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John
MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in
water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a
famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There
are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color
studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or
Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some
interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of
value by the student.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two
sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so
often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Macy, Arthur.= Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
5–36098.
“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was
essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not
produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does
possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan
humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of
phrase.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost
unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual
exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.
=Madden, John.= Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy
pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–12644.
It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the
forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The
experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of
the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s
memory.
* * * * *
“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying
a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days
of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a
relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with
ordinary habits.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s
father.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
=Madison, James.= Writings; comprising his public papers and private
correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the
first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
=v. 6.= “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little
that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the
First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National
gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian
report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or
so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from
Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an
important series of instructions to the American representatives in
England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are
almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the
reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries
can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space
thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the
correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of
the editor are judicious and accurate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).= Maid of Salem
towne. †$1.25. Penn.
6–11309.
Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being
hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her
friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old
colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid
picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
* * * * *
“Most happily told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about
the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the
verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste,
William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont,
George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the
inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till
long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern
contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry
Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen
Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
7–15583.
Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included
among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat
heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty,
literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without
comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of
them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s
pondering.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of
the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the
possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes
to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is
the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type,
personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed
elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.”
Florence Wilkinson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.
=Maffitt, Emma Martin.= Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il.
$3. Neale.
7–429.
A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman,
surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by
Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst;
with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from
“The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately
phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases
singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted
literary charm as well as historic value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.
=Magill, Edward Hicks.= Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher.
**$1.50. Houghton.
7–9847.
“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now
over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the
whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its
simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal,
and professional.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting
chapters of American educational history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the
charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious
wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been
of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the
personal note.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are
never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.
=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
6–35732.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the
characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings
and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and
cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a
better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–20870.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get
a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and
saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been
depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor
Dill.” B. Perrin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have
published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his
learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and
an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a
costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.
**$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal
reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so
becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative
account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal
conclusions and generalizations.
* * * * *
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident
or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day
has been long and trying.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very
pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument,
and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of
autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the
autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with
The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture
of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part
played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the
impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the
conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
=Maine, Sir Henry James.= Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir
Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
7–26409.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Life and letters of Leslie Stephen.
*$4.50. Putnam.
7–15902.
The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and
intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first
among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential
among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable
literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with
the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine
and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Will amply repay reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to
all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and
conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a
biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and
literary value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen
did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that
he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
+ + + =Living Age.= 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from
Independent Review.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with
affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the
biographer has done of himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author,
or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more
historical background. Historically the letters need some
interpretation.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the
double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having
deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an
appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait
of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The
lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s
work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous
strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical
humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Malet, Lucas, pseud.= See =Harrison, M. S. K.=
=Malim, Margaret F.= Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak
furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
7–29184.
“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from
rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes.
Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given
in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak
furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.
“A really useful portfolio.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2.
Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may
serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with
equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists
at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of
socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties,
individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward
of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and
the social policy of the future.
* * * * *
“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an
inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
− =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated
various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at
close range.
* * * * *
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh
and impressive than methodical statistics.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Manly, John Matthews=, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–11577.
A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty
thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English
period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and
special significance in the history of English literature have
determined the choice of the poems.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.= Physics. *$1.25.
Scott.
5–33989.
In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or
fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has
abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the
point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of
physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery,
such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated
and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize
that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding
of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary
and somewhat kindergartenish.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
=Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.
=Mann, Horace K.= Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and
3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus,
795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six
pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the
‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr.
Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is
concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to
support their claims.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an
extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered
narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might
feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note
which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way
prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work
before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of
reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so
inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some
extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he
gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge
which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary
style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes
miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely
congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful
conclusion.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for
proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It
is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for
others, and on the social conditions of our country.
* * * * *
“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear,
tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.
=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
=v. 3.= Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St.
Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch
cousin. †60c. Page.
6–18353.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the
pretext for much interesting information that an American child would
most enjoy.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Automobilist
abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
7–21289.
“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel
abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of
Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to
motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and
inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European
motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing
chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading
European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club
of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile
regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses
and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not
overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad.
Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly
recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory
volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.
“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the
essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through
the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux
of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
6–29521.
Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this
sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional
rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance
châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who
rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of
Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the
rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth
and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another
château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is
handsomely illustrated.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material
in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and
sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is
very annoying.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.
“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled
like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time,
while author and artist bring up something from the past which may
pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology,
history or architectural technique.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w.
“Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w.
“This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though
very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion,
repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little
bewildering.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles on the
Riviera: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things
seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.
6–29989.
Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a
conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record
of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and
topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.
* * * * *
Reviewed by William Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w.
=Mantle, Beatrice.= Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.
7–29091.
An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young
heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father
who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to
nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is
bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking
joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when
she is changed into a thoughtful woman.
* * * * *
“A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w.
“With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a
pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human
breathing creature as Gret.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story
of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the
realm of romance into commonplace reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w.
“Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth
reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
* =Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of
patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.
The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from
original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers
during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards
and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a
national literature, although their own products were often immature
and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip
Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie,
William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= By wit of woman. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–16736.
“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the
kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced
officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can
stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average
appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn
out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w.
“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= In the cause of freedom; with a front. in
colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–16375.
“A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of
a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of
Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and
the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and
impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge,
and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw,
where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of
excitement.”—Dial.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w.
“The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
“If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong
food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth
escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero.
But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe
than to question.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up
business. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–27001.
Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might
be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher
success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered
in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business
integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the
office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an
explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w.
* =Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3.
Houghton.
7–36985.
A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many
who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence
to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door
of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi,
Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos,
Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely
illustrated.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= Richard III, his life and character
reviewed in the light of recent research; with a portrait and a map.
*$3.50. Dutton.
7–10996.
In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last
of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted
husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he
cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an
honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to
prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of
Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.
* * * * *
“He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again
makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place
of original documents.”
− =Acad.= 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but
hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in
his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his
portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w.
“His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments
cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to
say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate,
and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition
to historical literature.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w.
“Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor
historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more
ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more
than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C.
L. Kingsford.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w.
“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history
cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical
research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w.
“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has
done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor
prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w.
“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper
and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s
defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been
doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.
=Outlook.= 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w.
“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most
fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating
official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”
− − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author
has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of
Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained
geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and
Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w.
=Marks, Edward C. R.= Mechanical engineering materials: their properties
and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.
“A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture,
properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper,
manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in
machinery.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too
pretentious title.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w.
* =Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.= England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6.
Appleton.
7–34222.
Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her
work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction
against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of
that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of
£129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history
are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American
movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of
England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the
book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of
view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things
in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful
research into the records of the period.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w.
“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been
devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the
motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss
Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty
of an obscure allusion or two.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w.
“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in
spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the
dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought
appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The
arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not
seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious
defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w.
“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental
requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more
satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and
ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its
style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse
of history.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w.
“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive
characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a
keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years
whose history she narrates.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly
fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w.
=Marriott, John A. R.= Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland.
*$2.25. Putnam.
7–25683.
“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose
career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant
essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the
most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y.
Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in
church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand
remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those
describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his
well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume
of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality
of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real
points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character
that bears the impress of truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w.
“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of
his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to
us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong
preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and
loving study before he began his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w.
“This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a
historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar;
but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a
scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal
element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w.
“The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the
transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of
the richest themes in English history.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w.
“May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary
scholarship of our time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.
“There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A.
R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington
Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w.
“We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of
one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the
air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of
detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and
martyr of the via media.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w.
“In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he
has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely
out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w.
=Marsh, Harriet B.= Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public
school.
“Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs.
It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in
ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical,
scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science,
of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are
settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view
of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”
+ − =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will
repay the study of a teacher.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w.
=Marsh, Richard.= Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26342.
“‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words,
constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling
stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against
every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at
all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s
ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have
had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in
fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But
in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying
to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same
covers.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w.
“A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and
Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Marshall, H. E.= Island story: a child’s history of England; with col.
pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.
7–35150.
A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end
of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface
suggests.
* * * * *
“The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary
as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular
quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but
illustrated by poor colored pictures.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
“It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if
we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then
this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
“It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much
easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
* =Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester.= Cathedral cities of
France. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–32829.
A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to
enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one
who has covered the ground.
* * * * *
“Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of
familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel
the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as
artistic observers.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w.
“The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w.
“Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and
discriminating.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases
clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface
which is still the bane of most color printing.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are
familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in
so original and unconventional a way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w.
“The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their
predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified
their observation, by some study of what others have written.
Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no
means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s
great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of
the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to
perceive.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr.
2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
5–39509.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well
worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical
errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’
and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’”
Frederick C. Hicks.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w.
=Marston, Edward.= Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two
chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–34385.
“The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the
author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of
William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’
and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not
have his new volume any further recommended.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
=Marti, Karl.= Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the
religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25.
Putnam.
7–37540.
“A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s
religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point
of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading
representative.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“An interesting and suggestive sketch.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor
Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be
kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of
details.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
“It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an
index.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
“It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted
his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is
especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from
its pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M.= Stones of Paris in
history and letters. $2. Scribner.
6–35587.
A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris
thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from
photographs.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w.
“An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most
entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and
has been skillfully synthesized.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
“In all essential respects the work holds its own.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w.
“We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of
the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical
work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w.
“The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as
we have said before, the faults in their construction may be
overlooked.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.
7–29096.
Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who
with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the
graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to
school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil.
Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in
bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very
austere aunts.
* * * * *
“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that
characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this
book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming
predecessor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠
“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the
railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author
of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w.
“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls
outside the story books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like
Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures
adjectives.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.= Betrothal of Elypholate, and other
tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.
7–30437.
The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in
their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.
* * * * *
“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same
author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an
outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world
and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w.
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually
interesting life.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).= His courtship; il. by
Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15920.
A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch
during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of
the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured
parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she
had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along
which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the
cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of
happiness.
* * * * *
“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to
Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short
story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07.
“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great
naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality
of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w.
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w.
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel,
and got spoiled in the process.”
− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does
not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she
has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing
outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the
fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our
concert pieces.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.
=Martin, Louis Adolphe.= Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–17261.
=v. 1.= Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for
an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and
technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics
only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.
=v. 2.= Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the
following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle;
curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body;
Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid
body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for
rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)
* * * * *
“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.”
Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in
simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Martin, Martha Evans.= Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.
7–14831.
A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her
readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye
the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting,
their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing
characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no
preparatory instruction.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her
genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him
wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the
heavens.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby
leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the
author’s work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the
general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w.
“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language
which baffles the unscientific mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w.
“A useful and even interesting study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an
illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in
1906. $3. Cheltenham press.
6–40260.
“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region
which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal
portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the
volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by
Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present
conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the
features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in
an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with
impartiality and accuracy.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w.
“The description is technical and highly detailed.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Through five republics (of South America); a
critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela
in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.
6–18334.
The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author
says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances
made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of
British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic
capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I
have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have
represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat
fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the
countries visited.”
* * * * *
“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks
arrangement.”
+ − =Acad.= 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w.
“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and
possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr.
Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered
throughout the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w.
“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and
endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening
effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of
entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more
completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George
R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w.
“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and
sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his
conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know
what he means.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron
Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–41036.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and
wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief
biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of
intimacy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Martin, William A. P.= Awakening of China, il. from photographs.
(Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.
7–19477.
Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as
“the theater of the most important events now taking place in the
world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain
those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day
from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like
the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial
and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author
believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic
phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w.
“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading
authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made
for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have
induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where
his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting
contribution to our knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great
book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w.
“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series
is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is
rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden
rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference
purposes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w.
“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat
succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.”
G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w.
“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the
reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w.
=Marx, Karl.= Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.
6–43940.
=v. 2.= This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is
edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German
edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of
capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and
pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social
capital.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.
+ =Arena.= 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Marx, Karl.= Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848.
50c. Kerr.
Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They
form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of
Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under
which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well
as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und
oeconomie.”
=Marx, W. J.= For the admiral. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–28959.
A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th
century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The
hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying
an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and
later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.
* * * * *
“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this
season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.= Moliere. $1. Macmillan.
Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this
little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of
letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good.
The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane
and sober judgment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Masefield, John=, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–12996.
An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon
historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and
smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are
devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of
interesting folk-lore.
* * * * *
“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w.
“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the
forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w.
=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w.
“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
+ − =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
* =Mason, Alfred E. W.= Broken road. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37552.
An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman
continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by
his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with
the English rule over India.
* * * * *
“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The
lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr.
Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w.
“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight
suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the
story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these
shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful
sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital
piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not
unduly sensational.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Mason, Alfred E. W.= Running water. †$1.50. Century.
7–7196.
Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there
is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the
Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the
stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl
who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have
knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the
law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom
she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by
saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about
it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
* * * * *
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist
of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to
the hopeless second grade of literature.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the
situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an
unpleasant impression.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a
human document.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w.
“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w.
“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of
singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with
such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the
lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w.
“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual
workmanship.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it
resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which
a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”
− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w.
“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous
extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince
him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with
portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story
he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip
of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w.
“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Romantic composers. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43759.
Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are
studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt.
“In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with
Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition
from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and
traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these
frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance
of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what
would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical
writing.” Lawrence Gilman.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w.
“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute
musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent
sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and
satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to
the average reader, and will find their best public among
concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w.
“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and
sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by
wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his
taste appears to us a little fastidious.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w.
− + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than
his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w.
* =Mason, Edith Huntington.= Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.
The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a
clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable
Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six”
young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the
Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume
the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to
the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance
concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention
woos her.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Masse, Henri Jean L. J.= Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.)
*$1. Scribner.
6–46316.
A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler.
The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university
town.
* * * * *
“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything
else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who
love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is
not in a series of art monographs.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w.
“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess
does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the
book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem
possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w.
“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w.
* =Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups.
**$1.60. Moffat.
7–29740.
“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious
essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what
not.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w.
“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its
hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important
enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is
facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the
author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a
pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense
of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human
feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Masson, Thomas L.=, comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.
6–45700.
A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love
in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.
* * * * *
“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”
+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w.
“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in
English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once
graceful and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50.
Moffat.
6–41275.
The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to
accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result
in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel
fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less
effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent
entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w.
“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“A quietly humorous semi-story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.
6–28224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a
persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w.
“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w.
=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–6975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.= To colonise
England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.
The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by
Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England;
the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges,
and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while
cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence....
The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of
schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English
rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of
contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of
Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued
by the Board of agriculture.
* * * * *
“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that
should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third
part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the
book.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w.
“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few
considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution
of the question of the labourer and the land.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Matheson, George.= Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50.
Armstrong.
5–26910.
The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented
and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find
the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel,
Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas,
Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Well adapted for private reading.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w.
* =Matheson, George.= Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West.
Meth. bk.
7–33919.
A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative
men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died
suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the
unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the
placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided,
Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in
the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.
* * * * *
“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of
Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which
such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
5–35680.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a
very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring
gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and
grays.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.
7–22821.
A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents
and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years
of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
6–29094.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is
about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both
unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w.
“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call
the megaphonic method.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Mathews, Shailer.= Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18117.
Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of
institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that
it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks
to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own
ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better
to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to
the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to
social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.
* * * * *
“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07. S.
“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and
range rare indeed.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w.
“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal
with the church and social discontent and the church and the social
movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by
clergy and laity alike.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= American character. **75c. Crowell.
6–17850.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w.
* =Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–29534.
“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The
art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon
such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries
and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed,
‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive
touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas,
but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set
forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w.
“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line
of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w.
=Matthews, Irma B.= Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.
7–29099.
Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life
before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a
little boy brought up among them.
=Mauclair, Camille.= Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–64.
“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his
discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of
impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain
with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality
Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that
underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been
stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.
* * * * *
“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are
well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of
modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague
blurs.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Excellent little book for the price.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a
little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize
those who approach him.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w.
=Maud, Constance Elizabeth.= Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 6–392.
“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with
the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the
shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the
younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an
admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and
the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither
white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active,
yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally
intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified,
stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he
does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s
Provence, he is to be pitied.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w.
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives
enchanting glimpses of French life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume
indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she
does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen
glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author
in this presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in
the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice
bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.
=Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.= Portuguese East Africa; history,
scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–10990.
“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and
experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which
has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with
the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the
great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are
succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all,
some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and
dialects.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers
in search of game.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w.
“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and
description, his book will interest the casual as well as the
confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always
quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of
feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical
Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast
immediately south of Zambesi.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not
very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese
East Africa.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w.
=Maurin, M. J.= Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the
propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by
E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.
“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot
in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a
less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a
wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who,
devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in
the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to
most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever
existed.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and
simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the
English rendering is idiomatic and good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w.
“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine
manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the
intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w.
=Maxey, Edwin.= International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas
law bk.
6–11647.
A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’
experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon
peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out
of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially.
There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
− =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Maxse, Frederick I.= Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
War 7–22.
Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed
in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced.
“The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial
development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long
way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his
narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful
hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects,
such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the
disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight
defect in a delightful book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w.
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical
value arising from the important share which the author himself took
in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w.
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case
against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows
what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the
beginning of the Boer war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w.
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and
clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which
are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And
in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with
all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w.
=Maxwell, Donald.= Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage
from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
7–19483.
“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat,
from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway
begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube,
but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he
passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington
Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be
laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w.
“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated
by the author himself and another artist.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the
possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh
water route.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Maxwell, Gerald.= Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.
7–15322.
The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan
doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with
wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of
identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns,
until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart
of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution,
having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the
tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He
transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to
the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the
count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a
skin-grafting operation.
* * * * *
“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun
out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions
seems inadequate.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity
and sensibility finally rebel.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.
“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this
story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains
after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the
story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be
more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor
touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the
elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are
worth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.
In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers
will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in
the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove
willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original
observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and
appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The
illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst
errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w.
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the
margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the
work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w.
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and
the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful
information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert
Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by
means of these pages.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w.
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here,
there, everywhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w.
“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which
often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of
these notes.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
=Maxwell, William Babington.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–27707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the
justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the
presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w.
“There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible
amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and
maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.= Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50.
Houghton.
7–15547.
“The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to
their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to
keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The
new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard
university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the
sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent
views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with
Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a
good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book
will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable
assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various
elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the
Graal.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w.
“Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and
sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of
Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language
of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly
with reference to its earlier development.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution
of value to one of the most interesting departments of English
literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very
agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and
history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
“It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its
princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between,
and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the
gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for
Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w.
“The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No
teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It
is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just
appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w.
=Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth.= Epistle of St. Jude and the Second
epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments.
*$4.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these
epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended
introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is
obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor
discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding,
with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w.
“His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate
scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w.
=Mazzotto, Domenico.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the
original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.
6–16742.
“Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the
subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it
historically and technically ... and places at the service of both
scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on
the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and
therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from
translation.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w.
“Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
=Meade, Richard Kidder.= Portland cement; its composition, raw
materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.
6–32139.
“A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland
cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical
staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on
‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet
Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely
well.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort.
Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people
interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature
which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by
some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w.
=Meakin, Annette M. B.= Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.
W 6–316.
“Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer
and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital
the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over
the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the
Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical,
topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and
value.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects,
than the usual personal narratives of travel.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 212. N. ’06.
“This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good
books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations,
put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w.
“The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though
unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of
the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in
reading on we found reason to change our view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w.
“They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing
uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in
a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s
many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough
and discerning.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
“The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a
certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book
in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian
monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a
regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian
governments.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author
rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w.
“We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in
this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of
little-known facts about Russian towns.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w.
“The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time
and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and
non-controversial.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w.
=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond.
*$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Meakin, Walter.= Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.
7–38582.
A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of
the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first
traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the
empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the
salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and
the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers
the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally
expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he
writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also
a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the
equipment of our author.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w.
“His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of
the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But
when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States
to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to
feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w.
“His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are
cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing
himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
=Meany, Edmond Stephen.= Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits
and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features
of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
7–14804.
The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian
discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the
journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many
interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies
of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map
of the North American continent.
* * * * *
“In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s
‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in
this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes,
omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in
proof-reading.” William R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w.
“It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to,
comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w.
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these
vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of
a new world.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w.
“This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound
region of the State of Washington.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w.
“A volume which adds materially to the early history of this
continent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not
only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage
itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent
geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it
throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations
which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish
territorial claims.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest
sense.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.
“This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of
geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a
great Englishman.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w.
=Mears, Mary M.= Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–37599.
One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a
jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art
career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the
point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that
of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted
fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of
the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it,
misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of
“artistic temperament.”
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the
hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy
of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Ind.= 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w.
“There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic
outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which
permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w.
“The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The
writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Meline, Jules.= Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–19755.
Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of
the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here
given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial
questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the
book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world
that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers
in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for
the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the
working populations everywhere, and that the present is the
appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”
* * * * *
“M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the
question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly
practical.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w.
“He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as
well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at
times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure
to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give
assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of
thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting
and thought-provoking.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w.
“It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land
problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w.
“Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises
interesting reading for Americans.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w.
“Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis,
with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.”
Edward A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w.
“It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the
present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable,
for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is
master of his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.
“We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly
drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading
for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w.
− =Spec.= 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w.
* =Melville, Lewis, pseud.= Farmer George: a study of the life and
character of George III. 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.
“George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers
and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully
described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the
attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from
the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of
America.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know
something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in
the libraries.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w.
=Mendelssohn, Felix.= Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy
Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50.
Ditson.
7–5083.
Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight
“Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso,
besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w.
=Menpes, Mortimer.= Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy
Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–110.
Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums
than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of
Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the
various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the
shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other
phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and
shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within
the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w.
“The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that
practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but
it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very
pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in
color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former
are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of
tone that are very striking.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of
Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which
somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in
the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid
descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of
thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject,
hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The
two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes
and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr.
Menpes’s work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w.
=Meredith, Ellis.= Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.
7–12976.
All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub
street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the
penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little
successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their
naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages
of the story.
* * * * *
“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w.
“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la
vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s
little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it
will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger
generation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable
impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it
like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the
patches are incongruous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Personal and
literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed.
by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
7–26424.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of
biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can
surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”
+ + + =Blackwood’s M.= 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w.
“It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography
of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w.
=Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w.
“Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his
times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model
achievement.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w.
“A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton,
and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our
sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.”
Jeannette B. Gilder.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w.
=Merejkowski, Dmitri.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench.
$1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style
become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and
clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and
doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness
appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.
− =Ind.= 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w.
=Merrill, George Perkins.= Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils;
new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.
6–46275.
“There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views,
and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to
rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones.
The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and
constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this
subject.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of
the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and
their change into soils.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and
descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount
of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to
know about the earth on which he lives.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it
fail him in his classroom needs.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Merriman, Mansfield.= Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2.
Wiley.
7–6418.
A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance
have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The
two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have
been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past
eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on
water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first
edition.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Not only a creditable production but practically the only one
covering just its field.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w.
=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roofs
and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50.
Wiley.
7–6418.
“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary
text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment.
They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the
continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the
metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged
arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat
inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor
faults also remain.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w.
“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by
Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day.
Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so
general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every
student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern
analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w.
* =Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1.
Houghton.
7–37945.
This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject
presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive?
Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a
commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the
commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control
of rates.
=Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K.= Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33593.
The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined
religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere
lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in
today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a
religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation
of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a
showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one
woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing
all to save her gains her love.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a
novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly
developed and well maintained.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French
by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
5–41797.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Current Literature.= 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w.
=Meyer, Balthasar H.= History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c.
Univ. of Wis.
6–37905.
“The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and
readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case],
including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes
of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal
government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in
the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The
appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation
in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
“It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad
consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H.
Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w.
“A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm.
Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the
introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied
conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been
gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is
manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate
research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting
as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.
+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w.
=Meyer, Ernst von.= History of chemistry from the earliest times to the
present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr.
with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the
3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the
work down to date.
* * * * *
“The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except
Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous
inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w.
“The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical
and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and
directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well
preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w.
“An unbiased historical research study.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership
in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the
British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870,
from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy;
and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the
government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of
importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is
before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal
ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service
industries.”
=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–10877.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel
any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp
of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting,
presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer
assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special
pleader.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w.
“The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an
able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in
Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w.
“A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and
minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work
notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion
of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The
prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book
smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H.
Gray.
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public
ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from
original documents, of the efforts of the British government to
administer the telephone service in England.
=Michael, Mrs. Helen C.= Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and
literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.
7–17319.
“The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction
to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on
organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers
which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The
drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure
portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most
attractive woman.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.
“The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is
thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every
student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form
the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs.
Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Michel, Emile.= Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color
and photogravure. *$5. Lane.
7–28517.
This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which
was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the
great master.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art
will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is
complete with the special plate that is to be presented to
subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the
time.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w.
“The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this
is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates
in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w.
“The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the
present season.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w.
=Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30440.
Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from
drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two
in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love
and fearlessness.
* * * * *
“A first-class boy’s story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
* =Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Royal tragedy; being the story of the
assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50.
Dodd.
A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered
into the plot and its execution.
* * * * *
“He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as
might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to
tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies
in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w.
“M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably
interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w.
=Miles, George H.= Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by
John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.
7–18559.
“Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued
from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular
lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her
bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the
poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian
art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A
graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins
will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and
gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in
Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w.
“Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn
anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a
writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved
something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become
its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w.
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’
shows any trace of original talent.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory
analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–10925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he
is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none
the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have
on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early
Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36043.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid and absorbing narrative.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy
C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w.
“As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be
found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the
style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often
flags.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.
7–22861.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about
it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= For the best things, pa. bds. **65c.
Crowell.
7– 26992.
“A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the
best impulse in the human heart.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c.
Crowell.
7–20953.
Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims
to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible
reveals.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.
7–21332.
Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the
reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Miller, John Henderson.= Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1.
Funk.
6–44370.
A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration
of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the
“submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and
simples, and homely philosophy abound.
* * * * *
“We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers
seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a
writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and
the lessons of practical value.”
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w.
“The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the
jaded novel-reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= Harry’s
runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–32035.
A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in
restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs.
Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with
him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their
parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night
some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some
youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the
suppliant state.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= What
happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–15599.
A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s
story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is
interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of
proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we
know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility
of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able
to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated
account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the
schoolgirl stage.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w.
=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile
reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce
Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an
obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of
the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not
omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than
the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely
another so-called ‘art book.’”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in
physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.
6–31644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction
of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these
instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the
‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and
specialization from the university into the high school, where they
have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against
the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of
measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its
improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a _completed_ and
_tried_ course.” F. R. Watson.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and
Israel. *$4. Open ct.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there
is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints
that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two
bushels of chaff.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.
=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking,
based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.
6–38905.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. S.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w.
“It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Milton, John.= Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The
introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives
and intention of each of the poems individually.
=Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B.= Mathematical drawing. *$2.10.
Longmans.
An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic
geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which
makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is
devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.
* * * * *
“This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the
engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is
too brief to be of greatest service to either.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.
6–38893.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a
romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning
and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O.
Jones.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not
so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.”
Madeleine Z. Doty.
− − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w.
=Mitchell, William.= Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60.
Macmillan.
W 7–111.
“A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts:
The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic
intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct
explanation and the direct explanation.”
* * * * *
“It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to
be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of
written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his
phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking
attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To
the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work
is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern
literature of psychology.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w.
“The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned
views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality
would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional
elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not
altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G.
Smith.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w.
“It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not
fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and
indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w.
“The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would
often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition,
were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific
analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical
index.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w.
“Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best
philosophical books of recent years.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.
“A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to
elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are
not in a hurry to run while reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of
suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of
thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
6–2322.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.
7–28500.
Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became
interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions
of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The
book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the
“national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to
tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with
the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the
development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the
expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional
form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education
and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to
the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects
treated.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people. Congress, president,
and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.
A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties
which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese
attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.
* * * * *
“To the average American student, the book is a primer of the simplest
type. To the foreign lawyer who wishes to become familiar with the
theoretical side of our government the book will be of considerable
assistance, but to a foreign business man or a foreigner studying
modern institutions, the book is of little value, for it lives in the
dim, forgetful past, not in the pulsing present.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 320w.
“While there are some imperfections in the style, and while for the
general reader the book would be more valuable if it had undergone
revision by an English scholar, it is a remarkably clear and
comprehensive statement of the fundamental principles of our American
constitution and might well be commended to the lay reader who desires
to obtain a nonpartisan impression and scholarly view of the nature of
our government and the functions of its various departments.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 50w.
Modern pilgrim’s progress; with introd. by the Very Rev. H. S. Bowden.
*$1.60. Benziger.
A description of the “phases of thought through which an educated and
thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to
the Roman faith. The arguments in favor of the Roman faith are as old
as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical
originality.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 84: 264. N. ’06. 840w.
“The book is a striking one.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 462. O. 13, ’06. 630w.
“The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the
writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact
that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be
completely transformed and forever pacified by drugs of sacredotal
anaesthetics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
* =Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.= Pocket-book of aeronautics, by H. W. L.
Moedebeck in collaboration with O. Chanute and others; authorized Eng.
ed.; tr. by W. Mansergh Varley. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–29118.
The present work aims to review the history of aerial navigation and
its present development and to give scientific information on the
physics of the atmosphere.
* * * * *
“In this handy little volume we have an excellent comprehensive
summary of the whole subject of aeronautics, and the English reading
public have to thank Major Moedebeck for producing such a work which
has been so capably translated by Mr. Varley.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 100. My. 30, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“Useful and timely hand-book. No reference is made to the large amount
of data collected with kites in the United States by our Weather
bureau and at the Blue Hill observatory, nor to the more recent
observations with balloons at great heights, which were instituted by
this observatory.” A. Lawrence Rotch.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 25: 936. Je. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia: *$3. Dutton.
6–43228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A sympathetic and admiring portrayal of Queen Louisa, and a clear and
interesting picture of her times. While it throws no new light on
Prussian history, it never degenerates into a court calendar, but is
dignified and worthy of its subject throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“Well-written, well arranged, and always interesting memoir.” S. M.
Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 493. O. ’07. 400w.
“If not taken as a balanced history of the period it will do no harm,
and may serve to interest casual readers to a period of German history
of crucial importance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 180w.
“A good deal of new matter not found in Horn or even Lonke. There is,
too, a good index and a fair bibliography, though it lacks any mention
of Martin’s German biography (1887), and is wholly deficient in
American references.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 940w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 220w.
=Moffat, Rev. James=, ed. Literary illustrations of the Bible, ea. *40c.
Armstrong.
Six volumes of commentaries entitled; The book of Ecclesiastes, The
book of Daniel, The gospel according to Saint Mark, The epistle to the
Romans, The gospel according to Saint Luke, and The book of
Revelation.
* * * * *
“The treatment is novel and interesting, and we think might be
followed with educational effect by every reader of the Scriptures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 210w.
“A small but choice assortment of gleanings from a fruitful field.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 80w.
=Moller, Muriel.= Wood-carving designs. *$2.50. Lane.
“Six sheets of excellent working drawings of panels, frames, etc.,
with examples of furniture suitable for them, as to which Mr. Walter
Crane writes an appreciative foreword.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Should prove of great utility to the carver in wood.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w.
=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 86. My. ’07. 350w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 70w.
=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Sir Joshua and his circle. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–13429.
Less of a sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ life and character than a
portrayal of his relations to the group of men and women prominent in
the literature and art of his day.
* * * * *
“Mr. Molloy has re-told the old stories fairly well, and produced the
sort of book that very many people like to read.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The book certainly cannot be said to have been necessary; but it is
written with such infectious good humour and apparent zest, the touch
is so spirited and flowing, the local colour thrown on with so light
and lavish a hand, that it may be skimmed with amusement and
pleasure.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are
always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe
scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful
eyes’ and the like.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less
saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the
earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by
Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two
volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from
the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and
public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements,
schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions,
entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.
* * * * *
“Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the
word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive
notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters,
which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter
appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is
one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and
attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the
accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the
title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Among those who have made a serious study of the Venetian past,
perhaps none is more eminent than the Italian historian Pompeo
Molmenti.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 38. Jl. 16, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“In the main, we find Molmenti’s verdicts sound, and his attitude
judicial. We must praise the very readable translation of Mr. Horatio
Brown, himself a recognized authority on matters Venetian.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1435. D 12, ’07. 820w.
“Admirably translated by a scholar whose erudition is equal to that of
their author.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 331. Je. ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has what many who attempt works of this kind lack—charm, the gift
of presenting a great body of material so that it not only conveys
information, but gives pleasure.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 1170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The material which enables the author to describe these subjects in
the most minute detail has been collected with the greatest care,
patience and industry from original sources. So complete, indeed, are
the descriptions that in many cases we have pages of sheer
enumeration—of estimable value to specialists, but of doubtful
attractiveness to the lovers of the romantic phases of Venetian
history.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The
reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no
awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old
Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a
frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a
careful student.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a
far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder
knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is
that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers.
About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of
untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w.
=Moncrieff, A. R. Hope.= Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer, with 75 il.
in col. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–171.
Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the
“enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored
illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and
spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled
amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures
of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
“As a rule the neat and simple method of the artist suits the process
fairly well.” Charles de Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Altogether, the book is one of the most agreeable of this series.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
=Monroe, Will Seymour.= Turkey and the Turks: an account of the lands,
the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman empire. $3. Page.
7–26348.
A brief but unified picture, gained thru study and travel, of the
incoherent Ottoman empire and its complex civilization. A chapter is
devoted to the rise, another to the decline of the empire one is given
to the significant events in Turkish history during the past thirty
years, but the most of the book is devoted to matters of purely human
interest, including eight chapters upon Constantinople, its monuments,
characteristic quarters, street scenes, bazaars, baths, kahns,
fountains, mosques and dervishes.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a whole, the book is to be commended for the useful information
which it gives, but in some points it merits criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Sowing of Alderson Cree; with a front. by
W. T. Benda. †$1.50. Baker.
7–12272.
Alderson Cree is shot by an enemy and upon his death-bed exacts from
his young son the promise to avenge the deed. “His ‘sowing’ is the
spirit of revenge and hatred which is thus implanted in the child’s
heart, and the reaping comes ten years later, when the boy must choose
between revenge and love. The story has in it all the rough strength
of the mountain valley where the scene is laid and of the rough
mountain people who figure in its pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A book of extraordinary sweetness and strength, for in reading one is
led along by the sure touch of the writer, who, born and living all
her days among the mountain people, knows their lives and touches them
with truth and tenderness.” Harriet Prescott Spofford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1770w.
=Montgomery, Edmund.= Philosophical problems in the light of vital
organization. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–5071.
“This work is divided into two parts: 1, Philosophical survey; 2,
Biological solutions. Some of the problems discussed in the first part
are substance, identity, causation, the problem of the external world,
universals and particulars, innate faculties, subject and object,
etc.... The problems of substantiality, causation, mechanical
necessity, living substance as sensorimotor agent, sentiency and
purpose in movements, teleology in nature, etc., are discussed in the
second part, in conjunction, with the author’s own views.”—Psychol.
Bull.
* * * * *
“Futile as is all such philosophizing, there are valuable practical
applications of biology, in ethics, education, and sociology, and
these Mr. Montgomery has instructively presented, though disadvantaged
by a heavy and otherwise somewhat defective literary style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 390w.
“A somewhat peculiar setting forth of a familiar view, relating to
what is here termed the psychophysical puzzle. What is peculiar is the
mystical, or mystifying phraseology in which these views are
presented.” E. A. Norris.
− =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 243. Ap. 25, ’07. 670w.
=Montgomery, Hugh, and Cambray, Philip G.= Dictionary of political
phrases and allusions with a short bibliography. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–84.
A novel book of reference in which “foreign political phrases, terms,
and catch-words of international significance, but with particular
reference to Great Britain, are defined in simple language.” (N. Y.
Times.) “This book will help a hasty journalist to write in such a
fashion as to pass muster with a hasty sub-editor.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Numerous catch phrases of recent political campaigns are discussed
which surely do not deserve a place in a one-volume work of this
character, and even the allusions to strictly English politics are not
treated with comprehension of their relative importance. The worst
fault of the book is the lack of judicial attitude. Almost every page
is tinged with a national prejudice which warps the discussion so as
largely to destroy its value.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 150w.
“Most of the entries fall a little short of the exactness to be
desired in such a dictionary.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 769. D. 15. 1090w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
“To any one having occasion to refer to British acts of legislation or
to catchwords of British politics the usefulness of this volume is
obvious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 97: 991. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
=Montgomery, James Alan.= Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect. **$2.
Winston.
7–15492.
An exhaustive study of the Samaritans which treats of their history,
theology, and philology, with a closing chapter devoted to the
literary history of the sect.
* * * * *
“It is a mine of information. The author has apparently overlooked
nothing. The method and style are clear and simple, and the book
deserves a place in any library.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 40w.
“A large amount of diligent research is evident.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 130w.
“Its account of the romantic story of this curious sect will be an
authoritative work upon the subject, for it presents an amount and
variety of material which can be found nowhere else.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“The book is a contribution to the literature of an obscure subject.
It makes no pretense to popularity. But it will interest scholars who
will be especially thankful for the careful ‘Samaritan bibliography.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“We commend to our readers his volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.
=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in
animals. *$2.50. Holt.
6–16987.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our author undertakes the herculean task, we venture to think
successfully, of setting the study of phylogeny on a surer
foundation.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 530. Ap. 4, ’07. 990w.
“Every teacher and advanced student of biology should become
acquainted with the views of an author who has studied so many and
widely separated biological phenomena.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 167. F. ’07. 320w.
=Montresor, Frances Frederica.= Burning torch. †$1.50. Dutton.
The story of an orphan child endowed with second sight which has
descended to her from a Highland ancestor. “The heroine not only does
not marry, she is killed in a railway collision. This, being a kind of
domestic Cassandra, she has foreseen, as, helpless to prevent or to
convince, she has foreseen all the other catastrophes which have
befallen her circle—the suicide of her father, the almost patricide of
her favorite cousin, the violent death in the desert of the man she
loves.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is only just to state that in spite of a considerable lack of
sympathy with its philosophy we read ‘The burning torch’ with an
interest that surprised us.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 731. Jl. 27, ’07. 400w.
“One does not realize it (there are so many diverse interests touched
by a sympathetic and exceedingly observant perception) till nearly the
end; but the tale is compounded of elements which do not coalesce
quite happily.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 212. Jl. 5, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 85: 268. S. 26. ’07. 200w.
“Parts of the story are pretty dull, and the style tends to be
tedious, but for all that there is really good stuff in the rather
nondescript and futile whole called ‘The burning torch.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 380w.
“While there are many grim and not altogether pleasant traits
distributed among the actors, there is also a decided hopefulness for
humanity and faith in God pervading the story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 270w.
“A book heavier with fate and fatalities we have never seen. It is not
an easy book to read.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 239. N. ’07. 760w.
“Miss Montresor can always be relied upon for a straightforward story
without ellipse or obscurity; she tells it fluently and at some
length, as though she could not help telling it. She has delicacy and
enough observation to make every one of her numerous characters
distinct.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 59. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
=Moody, Winfield Scott.= Pickwick ladle and other collector’s stories.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–35226.
Sketches of “two hardened bric-a-brac hunters.... Each story breathes
an agreeable leisure, and the thread of the Wyckoffs’ adventures among
the antique dealers is enriched by a shrewd characterization of the
dealers themselves, from Dirck Amstell, the honest Dutchman, to a
proud representative of Du Val upon Fifth avenue.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Unusually well told stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 130w.
“Dainty in touch, with humor that is real and pervaded by an
atmosphere of good society.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The pleasant surprise of the stories as a whole is that treating of
the infinitely small, they constantly broaden into a larger
perspective.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 220w.
“Altogether delightful little stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
“After reading much of the fiction of the day, one feels as if in this
modest volume he is really once more in good society.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
=Moore, Edward A.= Story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in
which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the army of
northern Virginia; with introds. by Robert E. Lee, jr., and Hon. Henry
St. George Tucker: il. $2. Neale.
7–21269.
“In which is told the part taken during the civil war by the
Rockbridge artillery in the operations of the army of northern
Virginia.... It is history and romance in one, and at the same time a
chronicle and a picture gallery. To read it is to know intimately the
brave and noble young fellows who formed the company, a command that
proved its mettle in twenty-three engagements.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We heartily commend the volume as a truthful picture of real war.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 151. Ag. 10. 110w.
“The book possesses genuine value despite occasional eccentricities of
style which careful editing would have avoided.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.
“He tells the story of the four years’ struggle in a clear, direct,
soldier like way, always with a sense of the humorous, and always
sympathetically, like a man to whom life is larger than any one man’s
experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The story is well told, and gives a real insight into the every-day
life and typical privations of the confederate soldier-boy. Mr.
Moore’s sympathetic narrative is full of ‘human interest’ of a very
genuine kind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 140w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
6–41820.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story throughout is as straightforward and as thoroughly to the
point as could be desired. There is no pretension, the facts are told
in simple style, readable and interesting from beginning to end. The
book as a whole gives a better idea of the life in the Balkan region
than any other similar volume yet published.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 190w.
“He has the capacity to see the really interesting things and record
his impressions so as to convey them to the reader. And this he does
without the tall writing which as a rule disfigures the work of a
newspaper correspondent. He possesses also the gift of humor.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 730w.
=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.
5–37156.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is Irish to the core, but with a quiet and contemplative
melancholy. Of the few events none is cheap or trite.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–42372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The collection is a rather sickening blend of Henry Harland at his
fluffiest and of Goncourt at his feeblest.” H. T. P.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 479. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 398. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“It probably contains more of himself than is to be found in the sum
of his other works, which would be equivalent to saying that it
surpasses them in interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 54: 218. F. 9. ’07. 260w.
=Nation.= 84: 62. Ja. 17, ’07. 730w.
“‘The memoirs of my dead life’ is even more dead than Mr. Moore is
wont to be. It is worse than dead—it is defunct.”
− =Putnam’s.= 1: 767. Mr. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 130w.
=Moore, John Bassett.= Digest of international law. 8v. per set, $10.
Supt. of doc.
6–35196.
Eight large volumes in the preparation of which Prof. Moore,
“analyzed, digested and epitomized diplomatic discussions, treaties,
and other international agreements, international awards, the
decisions of municipal courts, the writings of jurists, the
documents—published and unpublished—of presidents and secretaries of
state of the United States, the opinions of attorneys-general, and the
decisions of state and federal courts.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 466. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w.
“By far the best feature of these volumes is their admirable analysis
of the subject-matter with which they deal.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 783. Je. 22, ’07. 1550w.
=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown. †$1.50. Winston.
6–17871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story has so much that is excellent in it, and the author’s
spirit is so fine and fair, and his humanity so broad, that it is a
source of sincere regret that the book is so diffuse.”
+ − =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 390w.
=Moore, Joseph Augustus.= School house; its heating and ventilation. $2.
Joseph A. Moore, 28 Conway st., Roslendale, Bost.
5–39873.
“The author has here embodied in convenient form a large amount of
useful information based on his experience during the past eighteen
years in inspecting public buildings in Massachusetts and ‘in
supervising the construction of and testing the various methods of
heating and ventilation, especially in school houses.’ He has also
included further useful matter in the way of quotations from state
laws and regulations on the construction and state supervision of
public buildings.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is written in an easily understood, direct manner. It would
constitute a good beginning of a library for a school janitor’s
library.”
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 182. Ag. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Collector’s manual; with 336 page engravings
and with borders by Amy Richards. **$5. Stokes.
6–43921.
A guide for the collector of antiques in which the author gives
helpful information about old furniture, old glass, brass and copper
articles, English pottery and porcelain, old clocks, pewter, etc.
* * * * *
“Pleasant reading but not particularly valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“Mrs. Moore writes definitely and concisely.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 380w.
“These chapters are all full of information, given in a popular,
chatty way from the collector’s standpoint, giving account of shrewd
bargains and the money value of things, rather than of their artistic
merit.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 310w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“The book is evidently the work of a practised and ardent pursuer of
this peculiar game, one, moreover, who can point to what exists in old
books about this favorite sport. And yet the space occupied by rather
useless borders might well be filled with careful footnotes.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
“Not only the collector, but the home builder, will find much in the
book that is of value to him. The illustrations are very good and
clearly show the different articles presented.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 118. F. 23, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–40212.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is to be regretted that these stories, which are based on acts of
heroism and are inspiring to girls, should be so poor in workmanship.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Correggio. *$2. Scribner.
7–35193.
“The originality of the book lies largely in the asides, though the
author does good service in challenging previous vague attempts to
define the peculiar sort of ecstacy wherein Correggio’s Corregiosity
must surely consist. Mr. Moore’s own view is that the master fully
realized himself only a handful of the classical pictures, notably the
Io, the Ganymede, and perhaps the Antiope. As the favored decorator of
the provincial and by no means highly cultured court of Parma.
Correggio lacked the sustaining forces behind a Titian or a
Michaelangelo, frequently availing himself too readily of his own
formulas, seldom realizing the full dignity of his position as
artist.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Not so readable as Brinton’s book in the ‘Great masters’ series, nor
does it contain so much about the life of Correggio, but is much more
exhaustive as to technique.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
“Rarely have we read a book more bewildering in general plan, and this
in spite of not a little classification into divisions and
subdivisions. It is moreover, written in a style of liquid and
wandering reverie.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2:624. N. 17. 1150w.
“He again devotes rather too much space to the exploitation of his own
critical creed; and he is unnecessarily hard on Mr. Berenson and
Signor Conrado Ricci.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1126. N. 14, ’07. 290w.
“When Mr. Sturge Moore shakes himself free of the other critics and
deals with his professed subject, Correggio, he reveals himself as
admirably qualified for the task. He brings to his work that rare
combination, a practical training in art and a wide knowledge of
literature, with a power of philosophical analysis to which very few
writers on the history of art can pretend. The catalogue ‘raisonné,’
in which Mr. Moore has been helped by his friend. Mr. C. S. Ricketts,
is fairly complete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 399. N. 30, ’06. 1030w.
“The style is occasionally crabbed, its discursiveness extreme, but as
the sincere effort of a poet’s mind to interpret a most poetical
painter it abounds in wisdom even in the byways of the theme.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 230. Mr. 7, ’07. 620w.
“The result [of defining the temper, address, inspiration and quality
of works], though somewhat spun out in generalizations, is
interesting, suggestive, and important, especially as coming from one
who questions the value of the aims and methods of modern historical
art criticism.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.
“There is much in this volume with which it is possible to disagree;
there is, I think, too much controversy in it, and Mr. Moore is not at
his happiest in controversy. Nor is the design of the book quite
satisfactory. But, whatever the faults, I believe that it is on the
main lines of such work as this that aesthetic criticism, if it is to
have any vital hold on the intelligent interests of the world, must
proceed.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 799. D. 29, ’06. 1900w.
=Moore, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; with biographical sketch by
Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.”
=Moore, William Harrison.= Act of state in English law. *$3. Dutton.
7–18175.
“A systematic treatment of ‘Matters of state.’ with numerous citations
of important cases. ‘The type of “matter of state” is the matter
between states, which, whether it be regulated by international law or
not, and whether the acts in question are or are not in accord with
international law, is not a subject of municipal jurisdiction.’”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and
his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the
work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on
this borderland of international and municipal law.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
=More, Mrs. Louise Bolard.= Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards
and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H.
Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50.
Holt.
7–30623.
A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the
wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the
economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence
is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families
who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and
patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful,
verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form
and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.
* * * * *
“As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the
present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is
accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w.
“The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a
certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–45344.
=ser. 4.= This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains,
“informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert
Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin
Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other
essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise
lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.
* * * * *
“Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes
charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4)
“Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.)
“By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently
well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with
reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Never here shall we find anything more than comfort and instruction.
The one thing more that we should desire to find is inspiration.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He makes no cheap bid for favor. He dispenses altogether with
smartness, and almost altogether with humor. He is never audacious,
like Mr. Lang, nor ironical, like Mr. Saintsbury. He possesses no gift
of style, but writes in clear, unembarrassed sentences, making a
legitimate demand upon the intelligence of his readers.” Agnes
Repplier.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
(Reprinted from Philadelphia public register.)
“By the soundness of his critical method, and by virtue of the range,
depth, and precision of knowledge, combined with literary charm and
human interest, which these essays evince, Mr. More, takes a secure
place in the forefront of American criticism.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 752. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The essays are appreciative, and it is saying little for them to
assert that no one, however familiar he may be with the men into whose
characters and works they probe so tenderly and searchingly, can fail
to receive instruction from the book. Moreover, the style is limpid
and easy; the author is never ‘clever’ or paradoxical, according to
the new fashion; he is never startlingly witty, but always sane and
apt; and a spirit of sweet reasonableness prevades all.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 91. Jl. 20, ’07. 1460w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Morgan, Conway Lloyd.= Interpretation of nature. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42351.
“This little book is an extension of an article which appeared in the
‘Contemporary review’ of May, 1905. It deals with the scientific and
teleological aspects of the interpretation of nature, the aim of the
book being, in the author’s words, to show that a belief in purpose as
the casual reality of which nature is an expression is not
inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the
explanations of naturalism within their appropriate sphere.” (Int. J.
Ethics.)
* * * * *
“The book is enriched with extremely well selected examples, which
serve to make clear and precise the author’s meaning and to make the
book intelligible and interesting to the general reader.” C. T.
Preece.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 517. Jl. ’06. 670w.
“This little book deals with big questions, and many who have pondered
over them will be grateful to the author for the lucidity of his
argument, which is an expression of his own clear vision.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 265. Ja. 18, ’06. 1410w.
=Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
An intimately analytical biography of Patrick Henry thruout which the
white light is turned upon him. He lives again in the atmosphere of
the revolution, becomes the center of situations and scenes which he
dominated, is lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and executive, and is
seen surrounded by his contemporaries and friends. The historical
value of the study is apparent, while it is as fascinating as any
romance.
* * * * *
“The rapid narrative style, plentifully seasoned with personal details
quite upholds the claim of the publishers that the book is ‘as
readable as a spirited romance.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 280w.
=Morgan, James.= Theodore Roosevelt: the boy and the man. $1.50.
Macmillan.
7–31182.
A simple, straightforward, withal complete sketch of our president,
showing the rounds by which he did ascend to the present heights from
which he defends and promulgates America’s sturdiest democratic
principles. “Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the
varied dramatic scenes in the career of a Man who still has the
enthusiasm of a Boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated
before the world the spirit of Young America.”
* * * * *
“Written in a mechanical style and without originality but will be
useful until replaced by a better work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
“The book is one that will appeal to the ‘plain people.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
“He has accomplished a difficult task accurately and impartially.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Rarely is a living man so adequately celebrated. Mr. Morgan’s
appreciation of his subject is hearty; his selection of material out
of the enormous mass of Rooseveltiana available is so admirably
calculated to his purpose that the reviewer can do no better than
quote from the text. An almost ideal biography.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 610. O. 12, ’07. 1250w.
“Altogether, this new biography is one of the indispensable books of
its class so far as contemporary literature is concerned.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 300w.
=Morgan, Lewis H.= Ancient society; or, Researches in the lines of human
progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization. $1.50. Holt.
Mr. Morgan classifies his study under four general heads as follows:
Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries, Growth of
the idea of government, Growth of the idea of the family and Growth of
the idea of property. His presentation is logical and suggestive.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 280w.
“It is gratifying to see a reprint of a work which may be called one
of the minor classics among American archeological monographs.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 120w.
“We are glad to see so valuable, scholarly, and interesting a work
again made accessible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 350w.
“Really epoch-marking work in the history of thought.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Morgan, Thomas Hunt.= Experimental zoology. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–3114.
“A work of 450 pages, based on thirty-five lectures; a treatment that
does not pretend to be entirely exhaustive, but for which ‘the plan
has been to select the most typical and instructive cases.’ Divided
into main sections on the Experimental study of evolution; Growth;
Grafting; Influence of environment on the life cycle; Determination of
sex, and Secondary sexual characters.”
* * * * *
“The novelty of the field covered in this work and the very
fundamental bearings of the data and hypotheses here gathered in a
critical summary combine to make Professor Morgan’s work indispensable
to anyone who wishes critical information of recent movements in the
biological world.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 400w.
“Professor Morgan’s book is the best, indeed the only up-to-the-moment
abstract of the results and the various phases of this experimental
investigation of the life and make-up of animals. It is not primarily
a book for the general reader, but there is no other for him on the
same subject. And he can better afford not to understand a few of
Professor Morgan’s references and yet be able to rely on what he does
understand as being true, than to look for a more popular and less
reliable account.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 218. Jl. 25, ’07. 820w.
“There is much original matter, in spite of the space necessarily
given to compilation. The most serious defect is in the index, which
is all too scant for such a mass of diverse subject matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 343. Ap. 11, ’07. 490w.
“We may be allowed to compliment the author on his highly successful
execution of an arduous task; his workmanship is marked by
carelessness, lucidity and impartiality, by the salt of good-tempered
criticism.” J. A. T.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 313. Ag. 1, ’07. 1160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.
“The book treats primarily of those subjects and problems of
experimental zoology which have not been considered in other books.
The material which is presented is not always fully digested. Style
and method of presentation present certain features which can be due
only to haste or lack of care.” C. M. Child.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 824. D. 13, ’07. 3920w.
=Morgan, William Conger.= Qualitative analysis as a laboratory basis for
the study of general inorganic chemistry. *$1.90. Macmillan.
6–42922.
“Less a work for the beginner than for the student who has already
acquired a certain familiarity with experimental chemistry. It is in
fact, a comprehensive study of analysis from the theoretical side....
The book is divided into sections, the first of which deals with
general principles, such as mass action, equilibrium, reversible
changes, and dissociation; the second section is devoted to reactions
of the common elements, arranged according to the periodic system, and
the third deals with systematic analysis.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“To those who want a textbook with ionic notation, and do not mind
having the names of certain elements and compounds written in the
American spelling, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 300w.
“A course of general educational value.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 360w.
“It is simply and clearly written, although the American spelling and
the alternate use of names and symbols in the text are a little
confusing to the English reader. Nevertheless, the book has a distinct
character of its own; it is interesting and suggestive, and will fill
a gap in chemical philosophic literature.” J. B. C.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“The press work of the book is excellent and typographical errors are
very few. There is a complete index.” Jas. Lewis Howe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 535. Ap. 5, ’07. 1120w.
=Morley, Margaret Warner.= Grasshopper land. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–17914.
The foreword to this careful inquiry into the affairs of the denizens
of grasshopperland explains that the book is not for children but for
their “grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in
the country and who may be in danger after all these years, of
forgetting about grasshoppers.” But the little volume will not only
refresh the memories of those who have forgotten, but will also tell
those, who never knew, much that is interesting about the ways of the
grasshopper folk. There are many illustrations from drawings.
* * * * *
“She evidently knows a great deal about such insects, and what she
knows she has set forth in very entertaining and lucid form.” George
Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“The book is a well executed piece of sugar-coated science, intended
for children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in literary rather
than scientific form.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 90w.
“This information will be convenient for teachers by giving them
something more to talk about.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Useful in the children’s room as well as in the general library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07. S.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of progress in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43546.
Short chapters deal with forty-five men who have taken the initiative
along the highroads of statesmanship, invention, scientific research,
benevolent activity and moral earnestness from the days of Roger
Williams to the present.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. 07. S.
“The language is simple and easily understood by the younger readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 70w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the army in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43547.
America’s fighters by land and sea, “striking for liberty and union
and sowing the land with memories of valiant deeds” furnish many a
narrative for the youthful patriot of to-day. There are thirty-six men
in Mr. Morris’ group including men from George Washington to Nelson A.
Miles.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 13. Ja. ’07. S.
“Should be a valuable form of supplementary reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the navy in America. *$1.25. Lippincott.
7–15488.
Accounts of conflicts on the high seas which do honor to both our navy
and the heroes who fought in it. There are chapters upon: John Paul
Jones, William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, David
Porter, Oliver Perry, Farragut, Dewey, Hobson, and a score of others
as brave if not as well known.
* * * * *
“Is exceedingly well adapted to the needs of young readers. Treating
chiefly, although not entirely, of our naval successes, it presents a
rather one-sided and flattering picture of our naval history as a
whole.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 410w.
=Dial.= 43: 21. Jl. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Morris knows how to tell a story, and his compendium ought to
attract many who do not see their way to attacking the minute Mahan,
the much-questioned Maclay, the entirely discredited Buell, or the
laborious Spears.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 100. O. ’07. 150w.
=Morris, Charles.= Home life in all lands. **$1. Lippincott.
7–28638.
A book that might be used as a supplementary reader for geography
classes. It tells of the people of far-away quarters of the world,
their queer food, strange clothing, curious habits, customs and
methods of securing a living.
=Morris, Charles.= Old South and the new. **$2.25. Winston.
7–36220.
A complete illustrated history of the southern states, their
resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of
their wonderful growth in industry and riches from the earliest times
to the Jamestown exposition.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Morris, George Van Derveer.= Polly. $1.50. Neale.
6–46773.
A fairy tale of love in which it is shown that men love not so much
the reality, the substance, as they do the ideal.
=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
W 6–266.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Morris, has given us in his volume a most entertaining and
valuable review of the work of the great statesmen of our rising Far
Eastern neighbor.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 233. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“Convenient for newspaper reference, and for all those who do not seek
more than the current notions about distinguished men.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
=Morris, William.= Stories from Morris, by Madalen Edgar. (Children’s
favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22916.
Stories from “The earthly paradise.” The author has held close to
Morris’ rehabilitation of the spirit of the middle ages with its
superstitious belief in magic, and its love of mystery and romance.
* * * * *
“To strip his work of all its poetic beauty, its meaning, and its
intellectual distinction is unfair both to him and his childish
readers.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Chronicles of Martin Hewett, detective. $1.50. Page.
7–12979.
A new illustrated edition of the earlier adventures of Hewett whose
“‘well known powers’ are nothing but common sense assiduously applied
and made quick by habit.”
=Morrison, Arthur.= Martin Hewitt investigator. †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of Mr. Morrison’s detective stories. Martin Hewitt,
master of both the science and art of detective study, is an
interesting personality. In addition to the usual keen perception,
shrewd observation, and deft logic required of sleuths, he operates
the law of human kindness.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The stories present many varied phases of crime, and they are very
well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 50w.
=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.
6–31643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Charmingly written, well worth reading, but deals with perhaps too
much assurance about matters concerning which there are wide
differences of opinion among astronomers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“His book is carelessly put together, repetitious, decidedly
partisan—and always lively.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 40w.
“The present author takes the viewpoint, rather, of the special
pleader, marshals the evidence that bolsters up the theory he is
advancing, ridicules opinions divergent from his own, and leaves the
reader in a state of wonder as to what arguments might be advanced on
the other side of the question.” Herbert A. Howe.
− + =Dial.= 42: 75. F. 1, ’07. 950w.
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 160w.
“One cannot but admire the ingenuity of his argument, even if unable
to accept his conclusion.”
+ − =Nation.= 34: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 490w.
“The book is a useful guide to further study of the subject, as it
gives full references to the original sources of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’07. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 60w.
* =Moryson, Fynes.= Itinerary of Fynes Moryson. 4v. ea. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of
Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland,
Italy, Turky, France, England Scotland and Ireland.” This reprint is
the first in full since the original was published in 1617.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is worthy of a place on the shelf which contains that delightful work
of ancient travel and whimsical humor, ‘Coryat’s crudities.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Mosenthal, Philip J.=, and =Horne, Charles F.=, eds. City college;
memories of sixty years; ed. for the Associate alumni of the college of
the city of New York. *$5. Putnam.
A memorial volume recording the life and history of the college of the
city of New York, prior to its removal to its new home on St. Nicholas
Heights.
* * * * *
“The work has been done and notably well done.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
“It is a mosaic of admirable arrangement whose separate stones have
been polished for the setting by a number of distinguished alumni.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 721. S. ’07. 250w.
=Moses, Bernard.= Government of the United States. *$1.05. Appleton.
6–12152.
“This is a sketch of the organization and general methods of working
of the United States government. The subject matter rather outruns the
title, as all grades of government, and not the national alone, are
covered.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “Especially noteworthy is an inclusion
among the topics of that new phase of American government—the
dependencies. Roosevelt’s letter instructions to the Philippine board
and an act of Congress bearing upon it are appended.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The style of the work is pleasing and there is no unnecessary
padding.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“The discussion of the various topics are very lucid and followed by
the fullest topical references, perhaps a little too advanced for the
average student.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
=Moses, Josiah.= Pathological aspects of religions. *$1.50. Stechert.
6–32848.
“A dissertation for the doctorate at Clark university, made by a
diligent collection of more or less important instances of the
perversion of the religious instinct, such as mysticism, fetichism,
ritualism, emotionalism, etc.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“There is very little originality perceptible either in his methods or
conclusions.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 50w.
“Its value is impaired by a number of misstatements of fact, and by
the author’s lack of training in historical research. The
proofreading, also, is very bad. As Dr. Moses’s general points of view
are good, we feel confident that he will be able to revise his book in
such a way as to bring out more clearly its fundamental idea.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w.
* =Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50.
Kennerley.
7–38221.
A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared
after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters
covering the history of children’s books from early times to the
present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books
besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged
and classified.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2.
Crowell.
6–34709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is
trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference
work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had
the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in
America.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34369.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w.
=Mother Goose.= Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum.
†75c. Houghton.
7–30443.
Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking
way of speaking for themselves.
=Mott, Lawrence.= To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17361.
Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador
coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of
waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam
Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.
* * * * *
“Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has
produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w.
“The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at
current popular sentiment.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= White darkness and other stories of the great
Northwest. $1.50. Outing.
7–4162.
Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of
the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough
exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted
police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and
few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are
elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include
beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear,
Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid
descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them.
Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps,
in two cases.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w.
“What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr.
London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and
self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters,
that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures
he draws.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means
that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal
horror) really ‘bookable.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w.
“They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which
make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full
white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows
in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic
appreciation of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the
dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more
frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon
Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam
Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be
sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely
written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a
genuine production nevertheless.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–14049.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of
the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular
hypothesis of Laplace.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of
the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of
presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question
that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W.
Whitney.
+ + − =Astrophys. J.= 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible
with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed.
with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.
7–34574.
A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of
the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James
version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions
follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller
separate editions.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular
illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–29024.
The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in
‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary
observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the
first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized
as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the
world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third
considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as
these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one
end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.
* * * * *
“The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the
oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and
stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue
to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w.
=Mozart, Johann.= Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke.
(Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–1326.
The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a
sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.
* * * * *
“There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano
student’s interest in Mozart.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w.
=Mudd, Samuel A.= Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter,
Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.
7–3.
Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where
he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A.
Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination
and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction
of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also
“diary” of John Wilkes Booth.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Mudge, James.= Fenelon: the mystic. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14595.
An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and
influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom”
series.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.
7–23640.
“Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New
Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with
prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of
Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20
outfit.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed
without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20
invariably worsts its enemies.”
− =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w.
“A rattling good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w.
* =Mumby, Frank Arthur=, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1.
Dutton.
7–18132.
Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with
Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as
follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early
Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.
* * * * *
“Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without
suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the
volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come
across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are
capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you
have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of
the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for
testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in
literary annals.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind
to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational
enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been
spared.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals
most to the reader.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w.
* =Munn, Charles Clark.= Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and
old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–38603.
In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big
woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated
school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the
environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter
and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of
the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important
factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been
prominent in the nation’s development.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Munro, Neil.= Bud. †$1.50. Harper.
7–20870.
Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her
staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of
owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her
thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found
relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.
* * * * *
“We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have
the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his
descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst.
But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression
that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w.
“Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too
picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a
freshness about it that many will find charming.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it
in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w.
“A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out
unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her
dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this
high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides
in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic
world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions
counterfeited.’”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w.
=Munro, William Bennett.= Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in
French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.
7–11561.
“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of
French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial
grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical
apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes
the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and
the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with
chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction
that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the
famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task
extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus
is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard
both of historical insight and of scholarship.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w.
“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable
sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It
will be long before the work has to be done again.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w.
“It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate
materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which
have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper
perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set
forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w.
“The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters,
Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students
of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w.
“It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is
written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w.
“We congratulate the author on the success with which he has
accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall
below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which
deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which
might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w.
=Munson, John William.= Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2.
Moffat.
6–40255.
Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of
their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of
the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one
who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast
riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he
gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be
called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type
produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative
and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner
of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable
humor.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w.
“Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s
guerrillas.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w.
“This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary
grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring
incident.”
+ =Outlook.= 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
5–11083.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument,
though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however,
essentially metaphysical.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.
6–15720.
“This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter
before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg
indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain
fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form
the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the
classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers
of the books and articles which he has published during the last few
years.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and
simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is
admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w.
“The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct.
Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an
address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and
effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the
man on the street.” J. E. C.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w.
=Murray, A. M.= Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial
aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface
by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–38236.
“Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial
outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese
alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean,
Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to
Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should
be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which
the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When
Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of
an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining
direct.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the
preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we
thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of
the most careful consideration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w.
“He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state
the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether
they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w.
“The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of
much value.” George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w.
“Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military
strategist of whatever country.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w.
“It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight
contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w.
“This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of
the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w.
“The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to
see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and
interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire
which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire
more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of
the author.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
=Murray, David.= Japan; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35.
Putnam.
6–37650.
Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of
the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary
chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.
* * * * *
“Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its
comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things
narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though
uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on
the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess
singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot
be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an
advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w.
“The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so
much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the
beginning of the empire down to the present time.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w.
=Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
=Murray, James Erskine-.= Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory
and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and
operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
7–37604.
A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple
exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand
something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who
are familiar with the technical terms.
* * * * *
“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough
general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the
latest knowledge and theories.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.
“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this
handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless
telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value
and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on
theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell).= What Marjorie
saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.
6–43797.
A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given
helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not
intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”
* * * * *
“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as
to be tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the
author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.
A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has
been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the
old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new
volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine
gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold
rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the
reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the
last.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.
“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from
realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the
past, but also to the future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.
“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest
of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much
more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.
“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified
enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for
the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine
Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment,
excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.
“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.
“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method
(which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the
very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In
spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought
together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now
and then hits on a very apt comparison.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.
“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of
the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the
unique value of this work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the
real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as
individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read
Prof. Muther’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.
“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in
not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books.
Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the
ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with
critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.
7–11026.
An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant
style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The
work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals
with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall
of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the
nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A valuable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07.
“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional
merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B.
McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.
“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume
‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work
of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so
pleasant to read.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.
“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the
times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this
method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his
development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the
field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the
kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of
art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the
reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent
opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they
strike him as particularly clever.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.
“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad
philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient
premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things
without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious
facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner
consciousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.
“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art
throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the
general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are
exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the
effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy,
custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying
results.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.
“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible,
their author approaches every great movement and every great man from
a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.
“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat
lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the
author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And
yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational
volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.
=Myers, Frederic William H.= Human personality and its survival of
bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3.
Longmans.
7–1302.
An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect
evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters
to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of
interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction
the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality,
Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead,
Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 144. My. ’07.
“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the
literature of psychic science.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor
has compressed the original into this one volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.
N
=Naish, Ethel M.= Browning and dogma; seven lectures on Browning’s
attitude towards dogmatic religion. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–6792.
In this volume the author “takes half a dozen poems—‘Caliban upon
Setebos,’ ‘Cleon,’ ‘Bishop Blougram’s apology,’ ‘Christmas eve and
Easter day,’ and ‘La Saisaz’—and subjects them to minute running
analysis.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“In all her two hundred pages there is no note of freshness or
originality, and she has nothing of importance to contribute to our
knowledge either of the special works selected or of Browning’s poetry
in general.”
− − + =Acad.= 70: 328. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.
“The style is clear and workmanlike, the matter often thoughtful, and
the plan most patiently elaborated. The reader whose concern is with
poetry, the reader, that is to say, who can hop with catholic delight
from Milton to Shakespeare and from Keats to Wordsworth, will not get
through this book. It is too conscientious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 398. Mr. 31, ’06. 1090w.
=Naylor, James Ball.= Scalawags. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11210.
This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house
when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp
and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds
among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and
casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s
reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the
lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.
* * * * *
“Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are
often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 200w.
=Neame, L. E.= Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.
7–32192.
Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s
portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and
stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s
boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion
that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted
for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers
is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a
fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of
manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Neame’s book is one of very great value to anybody desirous of
understanding this question, not only in South Africa, but also in
Australia and Canada.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 450w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 413. Je. 29, ’07. 1480w.
* Near East: the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia. il. *$3. Doubleday.
W 7–173.
An anonymous publication which reveals the author in close touch with
European rulers and prime ministers. “He sipped coffee, smoked
cigarettes, and talked with the ‘various kings and princes of the
Balkan states,’ the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members of
the various cabinets, as well as with people of the middle class and
with peasants, in order to form some conclusion as to the real
situation—political, economical, social, and financial—in this
European hotbed of discord.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The author is animated by strong, though obviously unconscious, bias
against the Hellenic element in the Balkans, as well as against
Germany and Austria.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 661. Je. 1. 550w.
“Every page reveals the author as one who investigates his subject
thoroughly, discriminates his information carefully, and writes
convincingly.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The book is specially valuable in the light it throws upon Servia.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A trenchantly written volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“That he has been told the whole truth and nothing but the truth on
all occasions he does not himself contend. But by separating the grain
from the chaff of official information and relating it to his own
private investigations he claims to have obtained a uniquely accurate
insight into Balkan affairs.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 320w.
=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= South America, a mission field. *35c. West.
Meth. bk.
6–42354.
A compact presentation of South American missions intended to awaken
interest in the field and its evangelical possibilities.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 20w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Lonesome trail. †$1.50. Lane.
7–19597.
Twenty short stories which are concerned with the Indians of the Omaha
and Ponca tribes, with French and Indian half-breeds, with gamblers
and trappers and ranchmen and [various] types of the frontier.
* * * * *
“One or two of the stories, regarded from the point of view of art,
pure and simple, are excellent specimens of their class. We should be
reluctant to pass judgment on Mr. Neihardt on the strength of this
collection of stories, and we are inclined to think that he will do
better work when he has learnt restraint.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
“Despite their undeniable charm and the vivid manner in which they
picture the life of the Indian and the half-breed trapper of the west,
they leave a distinctly depressing effect on the mind.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 222. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“[The stories] have good workmanship in them; strength of incident and
feeling, and no padding. The author has more feeling for style than
usually falls to the man who knows the extreme limits of
civilization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29, 60w.
“Mr. Neihardt overdoes his effects very frequently, and he is much
given to allowing his people to talk in grandiloquent style.... It
will be a pity if he continues to allow his excellent endowment of
strength and vividness of imagination to be marred by such obvious
faults of taste and style.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“He gives us an over-accumulation of vivid detail which defeats its
own ends. He is original, he is frequently haunting and inspiring, but
somehow he just ‘misses.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 80w.
Nelson’s encyclopaedia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman.
12v. $48. Nelson.
7–7496.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole, we think highly of this encyclopedia, which fairly
realizes the German ideal of a konversation-lexicon, and which is
published at a price moderate enough to place it within the means of a
large number of readers.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 338. Ag. 8, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“The blurred and badly printed illustrations, the poor maps, and the
comparatively large proportion of space given up to subjects of
‘current interest’ are still the points that most seriously detract
from the permanent value of the books.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 5–10.)
“In general, the most obvious faults appear to be (1) too great a
condensation resulting sometimes in vagueness, but oftener in a
failure to bring out properly the comparative importance of real
significance of facts and events, (2) a lack of proportion from which
no encyclopedia is ever free, but which is here possibly more marked
as a result of its bi-national origin, and (3) too great emphasis on
matters of current or contemporary interest, both as to text and
illustration. No great reliance should be placed on the atlas feature
of the work.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Searching through this book at random we are pleased with the
articles, however on the whole.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–10.)
“Some of the longer articles are comprehensive and as nearly
exhaustive as encyclopedia articles can well be made. The minor
subjects are treated in a terse and condensed manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Nernst, Walter.= Experimental and theoretical applications of
thermodynamics to chemistry; with diagrams. **$1.25. Scribner.
Ten lectures delivered on the Silliman foundation at Yale university
in 1906.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the work is its suggestiveness and stimulus to
thought and research. It will be of that value to every one who will
‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ its contents.” J. W. Richards.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 180. Ag. 15, ’07. 790w.
=Nation.= 85: 256. S. 19, ’07. 480w.
“Whether the reader is interested in the fundamental theoretical
speculations or the practical application of the derived formulae,
Prof. Nernst’s series of lectures cannot be too warmly recommended.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 52. N. 21, ’07. 230w.
“Nernst has here produced a thoroughly interesting and readable book
on a very abstruse and difficult subject. As a résumé of the question
of chemical equilibria at high temperatures it will have a distinct
value.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 579. D. ’07. 540w.
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Land of make-believe, and other Christmas poems.
**$1.40. Harper.
7–36127.
Mr. Nesbit weaves in rime the fancies of make-believe land that every
child loves to cherish. His poems are all about Christmas and the
unrealities and impossibilities that make a veritable stalk to meet
the sky
“And Jack goes up and down it—we have seen him, you and I.”
* * * * *
“Children will like them, but grown people will like them even
better.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“Taking it as a whole the book is a trifle tiresome.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Nettleship, Richard Lewis.= Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, late fellow of
Balliol college, Oxford, and Whyte’s professor of moral philosophy in
the university of Oxford; with a short preface specially written for
this edition by Mrs. T. H. Green. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–15903.
“The writings of Thomas Hill Green lie in the three fields of
philosophy, religion and politics. Mr. Nettleship in this memoir ...
brings out the development of the author’s thought in each of these
three fields.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The estimate of the thought and personality of the
statesman-philosopher is sympathetic. and appreciative.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 90w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
“I do not know where one could look for a worthier portrayal of the
philosopher’s life and mind nor for a simpler statement of the central
position of idealism, than in this short biography.” B. Bosanquet.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 117. O. ’07. 1600w.
“So admirable an account of a great man well deserves the wider
circulation which one hopes it may obtain in this independent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“It is indeed a singularly frank and faithful, and yet loving
account.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 986. D. 15, ’06. 1420w.
* =Nevill, Lady Dorothy.= Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy
Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$3 75. Macmillan.
Mr. Ralph Nevill, aided by the note books and the good memory of Lady
Nevill, has produced a book of reminiscences which reflects the
current thought of the period and pictures its prominent men. It is a
supplement to the “History of the Victorian era.”
* * * * *
“There are only slight blemishes on some very bright recollections.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1150w.
“Full of sidelights on many great characters affording with its
cheerful gossip a picture of the times such as the more formal
historian seldom attempts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Ralph Nevill would have discovered a more tactful care of his
mother’s literary reputation if he had resisted the temptation to
publish these notes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 580. N. 9, ’07. 680w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s memory yields a valuable picture of her times.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 777. N. 16. 1800w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by
Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–9818.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 280w.
“She chats pleasantly through the pages of this book—always in good
humor and always bright and entertaining.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 506. Ja. ’07. 360w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Dawn in Russia; or, Scenes in the Russian
revolution. *$2.25. Harper.
6–35593.
The author has included in this volume “a diary of the revolutionary
acts which have followed in all parts of Russia the disasters of the
war with Japan.... A catalogue of well-known horrors ... and much
personal evidence of his own, drawn from visits, necessarily short, to
widely separated parts of European Russia.” (Ath.) The volume is
illustrated with cartoons and photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
“We should prefer a treatment of the subject in which the record of
the writer’s own observations was distinct from his chronological
account of events which passed during his journeys, but of which he
was not a witness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 280w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1290w.
“The all-pervading melancholy of Russian life as it manifests itself
in the music and the literature of the nation—all this is treated with
the sympathetic insight and the charming sincerity of true art, yet
with a conversational informality, liberally interspersed with humor,
which gives the reader a pleasing sense of intimacy with the writer,
as well as with an irresistible subject.” Abraham Cahan.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 668. O. 5, ’06. 1520w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
6–18826.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Mr. Nevinson’s account is very interesting, the illustrations are
good and the total impression is that it is an account of a truthful
eye-witness.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient
Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
4–21092.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Opinions may differ as to some of the author’s conclusions, but they
give in concise form material which is practically unobtainable
elsewhere in so small a compass, and the book will be found useful. A
defect which might be remedied in future editions is the absence of a
bibliography.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Newbolt, Henry John.= The old country: a romance. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The story begins at the present time, and suddenly shifts to the year
in which the battle of Poictiers was fought, The characters for the
most part remain the same, nor does the scene change. Stephen Bulmer,
in the early chapters, is a young Englishman, of Colonial upbringing,
who ‘speaks of things to come as if he saw them.’ In the later
chapters, he is the same Englishman, modified by an Italian education.
But the sense of time has vanished from his brain.” (Acad.) “He is
taken into ‘the backwoods of time,’ where ‘the real work of men was
going forward, with sweat of the brow and blistering of hands, with
action and agony and endurance in place of talk and speculation.’ He
sees that all his doubts are long descended, that Ralph Tremur, the
eternal dissident, is an image of himself, and that the future must
lie with the constructive minds, who serve under discipline and keep
close to the earth in their toil.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Ingenious as is Mr. Newbolt’s thesis, it is not for that that we
would most highly praise his book. The story is told with a tact and
delicacy rarely found in the modern novel.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 810w.
“In his dedicatory epistle he frankly acknowledges that he has a
purpose and we as frankly state our conviction that that purpose is
wrong. Nor can we commend the machinery of the novel.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 240w.
“Beautiful romance.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1770w.
“The end far more than atones for the stiffness of the beginning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12. 548. S. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Very clear indeed is the picture of rural mediaeval England set
before us in the unfolding of the tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
“An uncommonly thoughtful and interesting novel. The style is
distinguished, and there is no lack of good images. It is an admirable
expression of the genuine Tory spirit.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Mr. Newbolt reads his countrymen an eloquent lesson, none the less
profound because it is decked with all the graces of romance.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of
popular science. **$2. Harper.
6–34834.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.
“Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has
great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the
‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.
“A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical
world.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 440w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
5–40985.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Done in a clear terse style, avoiding technical jargon.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 130w.
=Newman, George.= Infant mortality: a social problem. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–32191.
Dr. Newman studies the distribution and extent as well as the causes
of infant mortality, and directs attention to the best means of
prevention.
* * * * *
“His familiarity with his theme is unquestionable, and the volume of
the facts and statistics that he has arranged and co-ordinated is a
proof of painstaking effort.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“It is written well and clearly, and should be read by every one who
is interested in preventing the waste of child life which is occurring
not only in England, but also throughout every civilized country.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Newman has gotten together an immense amount of statistical data
bearing upon infant mortality-rates, of which data he makes most
effective use.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 247. Ap. ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 230w.
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 1280w.
“These thoughtful and intelligent studies cannot fail to interest all
who apply themselves to sociology, political economy and
philanthropy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 310w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 951. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Poetry and progress in Russia. *$3.50. Lane.
W 7–152.
“In five chapters Miss Newmarch considers the literary development of
Russia from Pushkin to the present. In the empire of the Czar,—as,
indeed, throughout the rest of the civilized world, the poets have
been the pioneers of liberty and enlightenment. This phase of Russian
culture is represented by the poets Pushkin, Koltsov, Nikitin,
Nekrassov, Khomiakasov, and Nadson. Translations of a number of the
representative poems from these masters supplement the essays.”—R. of
Rs.
* * * * *
“Her book is practically a re-writing of what is generally known about
Pouschkin, his life and works. Of the translations ... by Mrs.
Newmarch and others perhaps the less said the better.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We wish all success to this book: we know of none which will give the
reader more just ideas of what is good in Russian poetry.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 850w.
“The translations by the author and Prof. Morfill are, for the most
part, without much distinction; those of Miss Helena Frank are
somewhat better. The value of the book lies in its clairvoyant and
interpretive criticisms, which should do much toward creating a
deserved interest in Russian poetry.” Anne Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 566. S. 21, ’07. 2400w.
=R. of Rs.= 36:. 512. O. ’07. 110w.
“Candidly speaking, the reviewer must allow that the fault is more
with the title than with the actual scope of the book. But when all is
said and done, Mrs. Newmarch deserves to win readers for the poets to
whose humour she has devoted so much scholarly pains and ingenuity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Songs to a singer and other verses. *$1.25. Lane.
“A small collection of verse, mainly concerned, as its title
indicates, with the emotions evolved by another’s singing, and suffers
somewhat from the consequent lack of variety.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“These songs might pass muster, as being well up to the average, if
read between staves of music. Considered as poetry, or even verse,
they are weak.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 430w.
=Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 100w.
“Miss Rosa Newmarch’s lyrics are very slight and quite unambitious;
they flow pleasantly and are free from solecisms and self-conscious
oddities. Just why any one of them was written would perhaps be
difficult to say, for none show much individuality or depth of
feeling.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 389. S. 29, ’06. 120w.
=Newton, Samuel Donald.= Dolorous blade: being a brief account of the
adventures of that good knight of the Round Table, Sir Balin, called “Le
Savage,” done into rhyme by Samuel Donald Newton. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10041.
A new poetic version of the tragic story of Sir Balin, Le Savage, and
his fateful dolorous blade.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
6–37588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The form is a rhymed four-line stanza in iambic octometer, the rhymes
being in couplets. It is a jog-trot movement, and grows very
monotonous after a few pages. But a great poem in the higher sense,
this epic is not, and a fair sense of its historical importance is
obtainable from the present version.”
− =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 70w.
“All in all, this effort seems praiseworthy; but a comparison of the
average of the verse with the Lachmann text shows more than one
radical departure from the sense of the original, departures that
other versions seem not to have required.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
“A fine swinging translation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 40w.
=Nicholson, Frank C.= Old German love songs; translated from the
Minnesingers of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.
A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to
illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the
main lines of its development.
* * * * *
“On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr.
Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that
his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w.
=Dial.= 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang
as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of
all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways
exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and
he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his
subject.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Port of missing men. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–5062.
A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted
among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of
the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart
against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness,
who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic
life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there
are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of
war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure.
The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both
sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to
“House of a thousand candles.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is
wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”
− =Arena.= 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w.
“Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model,
but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w.
“The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and
displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce
the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.
“Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description,
written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in
other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever
conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual
entertainment except its exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 131. Mr. 2, ’07. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 110w.
=Nicholson, Watson.= Struggle for a free stage in London. **$2.50.
Houghton.
6–38899.
“Dr. Nicholson, who is instructor in English at Yale, traces the
history of nearly two centuries in which London tried to free herself
from the theatrical monopoly. The triumph was reached when the passage
(on August 22, 1843) of the parliamentary act known as the Theater
regulation bill deprived the two patent theaters, Drury Lane and
Covent Garden, of their monopoly of playing Shakespeare and the
national drama.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 503. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
“A record so satisfactory is a welcome addition to the libraries of
all who are interested in the drama and its varying fortunes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 586. My. 11. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Evidence is scrupulously weighed, original documents are carefully
collated and minutely examined, the whole thing is done with
scientific precision: the artistic aspects of the matter are severely
let alone.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1080w.
“This book although not likely to prove very attractive to the
ordinary reader of theatrical biography or gossip, will be valuable to
the genuine student of dramatic history.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 830w.
“Mr. Nicholson, who has approached his subject in a thorough and
scholarly manner, has drawn his material from a multitude of sources
including many old documents.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29. ’06. 600w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Nicholson has given a carefully constructed narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue
closet. *$1.40. Dodd.
W 7–54.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So wholesome and enjoyable a book as this little volume of essays
should find many readers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16. ’07. 280w.
“It ought to be a compliment to say that this book is thoroughly
sound, genial and interesting, without being in the least clever, and
without any of the little tricks of paradox and epigram that appeal to
our decade.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Lamp of sacrifice;
sermons preached on special occasions. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“The keynote of Dr. Nicoll’s sermons is religious optimism.... The
preacher does not reckon without the sorrows of life ... but the book,
as a whole, and each chapter in particular, impresses upon the reader
the conviction of the writer that they are none of them incurable, and
are in some sense discounted by religious faith.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The pen of a ready and vigorous writer is easily recognizable in his
pages. Equally so is an intensely evangelical spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
=Nielsen, Fredrik Kristian.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century.
*$7.50. Dutton.
7–2580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The weakness of the book is to be found ... in its narrowness of
treatment and in its lack of precision of detail. The book sins most
of all by its lack of breadth and of historical proportion.” R. M.
Johnston.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 377. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“The reader is never pulled up by the difficulty of understanding some
obviously foreign construction, and is not often repelled by ugly
English. The work of a learned Lutheran bishop of broad sympathies and
massive erudition.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 460w.
“In all this Dr. Nielson gives evidence of wide reading and a sane
historical judgment. The book is a mine of interesting matter
collected from innumerable scattered memoirs, collections of
documents, and other works. But though these are presented with a
sufficient impartiality, little attempt is made to interpret their
deeper significance. His narrative is overloaded with detail and
obscured by digressions, which, however interesting in themselves,
would have been better relegated to notes or appendices. Certain
criticisms in detail remain to be made which may prove useful in the
event of a new edition of the book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 9. Ja. 11, ’07. 2230w.
“Timely in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 470w.
“His two volumes make not only an interesting and careful narrative,
they are also a significant and important contribution to the history
of the past hundred years.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 390. Je. 15, ’07. 2870w.
“We have to thank the Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge for his
excellent editorship of the English translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 176. F. 9, ’07. 1410w.
“Readers who are acquainted with the language of Holberg, Hans
Christian Andersen, and the Brandes of to-day, with its delightful
post-articles, passive verbs, and amusing numerals, will be well
satisfied with the present version of the Danish text.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 2100w.
=Noble, Edward.= The issue: a story of the river Thames (or Fisherman’s
Gat). †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5686.
(2d ed. with title. Fisherman’s Gat.
7–13441.)
“A story of the Thames estuary, a drama of London’s great river, a
romance of lives of those who come and go in the lesser crafts in
which deep-sea certificates are not required of a man.... Love,
treachery, passion, crime, the stress and strain of dangers afloat and
labour complications ashore; owners, sailors, good simple folk and
smug hypocrites, evil livers and honest dealers—all figure in this
story.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Horror is piled upon horror a little clumsily, so that strength gives
way at times to brute force, and brute force is never convincing. But
the book is essentially one to read. It grips, and its grip is rough
as a sailor’s grip may be.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 170w.
“A drama of real interest, strong in atmosphere, characterization, and
first-hand observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 350w.
“A strong and unusual story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 430w.
“He has the rare gift of verbal dry-point which fixes a picture
indelibly upon both memory and imagination.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“His drawings, which illustrate the book, give their messages better
than his words. But the whole is rich, vivid, comprehensive, and like
his picture of the lives and characters of his sailors, it has the
sharp realization that comes of knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 390w.
“His chief character, ‘Windbag’ Saunderson, just misses being a
remarkable achievement. But only a few telling artistic touches, a
little more here, and a little less there, would have made it a much
more striking figure and the book much more significant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 135. Mr. 2. ’07. 510w.
“It needs compression and it lacks brightness, but it is ambitious in
its dissection of motives and character.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 50w.
=Noble, W. Arthur.= Ewa; a tale of Korea.
$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–36433.
“Mr. Noble shows two Korean heroes with their Asiatic prejudices and
beliefs crumbling away under the influence of western ideas. Both
Sung-Yo, a son of rank, whose chief duty had hitherto been idleness
and incapacity, and his friend, Tong-Siki, of a lower class but.
greater ability, devote their lives to their country and their hopes
of seeing it free.... This little story, with its love interest woven
about a slave girl who becomes a convert to Christianity and suffers
for her faith, may be relied on to find many eager readers.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The book is fairly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. S, ’06. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Nolhac, Pierre de.= Versailles and the Trianons; with 60 full-page il.
in col. by Rene Binet. *$3.50. Dodd.
6–40558.
M. de Nolhac is the keeper of the Versailles museum and writes out of
the fulness of his historical information. “He has recorded in
connexion with various portions of the palace the remarkable events
they have witnessed, and in the course of this volume manages to tell
the whole story of the locality.” (Sat. R.) “M. de Nolhac indicates,
in a large and poetic description, how much artistic stimulus the
place contains and will increasingly disengage as ‘the art of
Versailles’ recedes into a softened perspective.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is ample guaranty of the historical correctness of the
information he imparts. He writes also with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“It is a pity that no credit is given to the painstaking and able
translator.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 565. D. 27, ’06. 310w.
“An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for
this kind of book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
* =Nordau, Max Simon.= On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2.
Jacobs.
7–28523.
A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development
of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors:
Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier,
Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga,
Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of
the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan,
and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.
* * * * *
“There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its
bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has
one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and
that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those
pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the
minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the
plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible
for artistic success,”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Nordau has not made up his mind, which seems to vary with the
state of the weather, and he contradicts himself again and again. Yet
there is in the book a great deal of wisdom and not a little acute
criticism.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 69. Mr. 1, ’07. 900w.
“We may note also that Dr. Nordau has a keen nose for indecency, and
finds it both where it is and where no one else perceives it. There
are many bits of shrewd criticism and many remarks the soundness of
which leads one, temporarily, to think of the author as of a person
really equipped with some judgment and knowledge of his subject, until
the next incredible caprice upsets the notion and leaves one wondering
what Nordau would be at and what is the real basis of his confidently
pronounced opinions. The translator is to be congratulated on his
success in avoiding foreign idiom and in making his translation read
like a piece of original and only too vigorous English.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 502. N. 28, ’07. 2730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 210w.
=Nordau, Max Simon.= Question of honor; authorized translation by Mary
J. Safford. *$1. Luce, J: W.
7–18817.
A tragedy of present-day Germany in four acts, which deals with the
strong anti-Semite feeling of the Germans by presenting the case of a
young Jewish mathematician, and by showing the odds against which he
fights in his efforts to win a professorship, and finally the insults
to which he is subjected when he asks for the hand of the German
fräulein who loves him. It is a dramatic plea for the man who is
denied position, love, and even life itself because he is a Jew.
* * * * *
“Though the translator has done well, in a few places she might have
done better. The play is excellent reading, and offers food for
thought.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 360w.
“It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of
producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a
study of one of the problems in European politics it is both
illuminating and interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 42. Jl. 11. ’07. 300w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.
7–21537.
A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth
practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college.
The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the
co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry
her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be
properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter
proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist,
is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the
man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming
worthy of her.
=Norton, Charles Eliot.= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his
life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c.
Houghton.
7–1293.
Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in
less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but
neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and
duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader.
The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The
wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other
favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most
valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in
which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple
and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan
régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly
evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and
favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental
characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the
fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his
self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 285. Mr. ’07. 1900w.
“He has honored other friends in a more elaborate and impressive
fashion, but none, I think, with more true sympathy and reverent
poise ... than he has displayed in this brief memoir of Longfellow.
The essential facts are given, the right note of praise is struck,
there is no meaningless and confusing parade of literary references
and allusions.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 555. Ap. ’07. 770w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 57. F. 22, ’07. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Norton’s centenary memorial of Longfellow is perfect in its
kind.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 106. O. ’07. 700w.
“This is a most pleading little book, and worthy of its author,—an
author whom we may fitly describe as one of the most cultivated men
who speak and write the English language, whether on his or our own
side of the Atlantic.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 240w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Flower of old Japan, and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–21391.
Poems in which “the feet of children are set dancing.” They deal with
the Kingdom of dreams in which a journey is made to old Japan. Back of
the fantasy are serious lessons and vivid pictures of Japan with
kaleidoscopic glimpses of pirates, mandarins, bonzes, priests,
jugglers, merchants, ghastroi, etc.
* * * * *
“There is a proficiency in the workmanship that, coupled with Mr.
Noyes’s humorous tenderness in approaching his theme, all but disarms
criticism. Yet if we look at the matter in a cool objective light, it
must be said that the attempt is only partially successful.” Ferris
Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 843. D. ’07. 620w.
“In ‘The flower of old Japan’ ... it is possible to see little but
futile ingenuity in the misdirection of poetic energy.” Wm. Aspenwall
Bradley.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 1420w.
“Mr. Noyes has the instrument, the lute, in tune, but has not met the
revealing hour which shall give him a message for its strings.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 260w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Poems: with an introd. by Hamilton Wright Mabie.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
6–38994.
The poems of an Oxford man, only twenty-six years of age, who is
looked upon in England as destined to “be of the greatest service in
the re-establishment of the great traditions of English song.” “Mr.
Noyes has ‘drawn inspiration from a rather exceptional range of
literature—classic poets, Celtic legends, travellers’ tales, English
ballads, Holy Writ, tales of the road, and Lord Rosebery on Napoleon;
but he has digested this heterogeneous beebread with the eupepsy of
vigorous poetic youth.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Acquaints us with a singer whose note is both fresh and vital.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 390w.
“There is a gusto in his work, a savor of opulence, variety and ease
that is full of hope. As yet Mr. Noyes is a little too adventurous in
his quest of the striking subject, too proud of the mere muscles of
his verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Noyes does not show the faults usual in a young poet. You will
never be in any doubt about his meaning, but neither will you be
carried out of yourself by any exaltation of words, any intensity of
passion, any abandon of beauty.” Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
“I am sure that [the reader] will not need me to point out their
spontaneous power and freshness, their imaginative vision, their
lyrical magic.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1179. D. 7, ’06. 1050w.
“He is ... a singer and not a thinly disguised philosopher or a
reformer who has possessed himself of a musical instrument. He has a
voice of compass and sweetness, and his tones flow clear and sweet,
with the courage of a real talent and the richness of a full nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 372. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 60w.
=Noyes, Carleton Eldredge.= Gate of appreciation: studies in the
relation of art to life. **$2. Houghton.
7–15336.
A personal record of the author’s “adventures with the problem of
art.” He wishes “to suggest the possible meaning of art to the
ordinary man, to indicate methods of approach to art, and to trace the
way of appreciation.” He believes that the final meaning of art to the
appreciator lies in his sense of its relation to his own experience.
* * * * *
“The book is not a mere summary of art history and criticism, but the
outcome of original study and possesses real value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
=Nugent, Maria, lady. (Mrs. George Nugent).= Lady Nugent’s journal:
Jamaica one hundred years ago; ed. by Frank Cundall. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–122.
Lady Nugent was the wife of the Governor of Jamaica a hundred years
ago and this journal was intended only for her children and friends.
“A great part of the journal is devoted to things personal and
domestic; hence the propriety of its private circulation when, five
years after the writer’s death, it first saw the light in a modest
way.... Historical, biographical, and bibliographical matter is
furnished in abundance.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“All that editorial skill could do to render attractive her sometimes
monotonous chronicling of unimportant details—for she had few others
to record—has been done.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“The intrinsic interest of what she has to tell us is not a little
enhanced by the skilful and scholarly editing of Mr. Cundall.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
“This journal [contains] ... pictures of social life drawn by a close
and delicate observer; shrewd comments upon the usages of a
civilization quite alien to everything in the writer’s former
experience; an elaborate account of the process of making sugar;
amusing stories of the ups and downs of diplomatic life; suggestive
sketches of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. My. 25, ’07. 500w.
“We think [Mr. Cundall] might have omitted far more than he has done.
But there are a good many passages ... which are informing and of
value.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20. ’07. 240w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny
Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
5–18321.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 140w.
O
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Amerigo Vespucci (Heroes of American history.)
*$1. Harper.
7–7447.
His early life amid Florentine surroundings, the avidity with which he
absorbed accounts of Marco Polo’s wonderful journeys, his study of
charts, globes, nautical instruments for the sake of acquiring skill
in cosmography lead up to a very informing narrative of his four
voyages. His relations with Columbus, and the diverging
characteristics of the two explorers are interestingly sketched.
* * * * *
“Scholars will object to his interesting but irrelevant digressions.
It is a real contribution to popular history.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Within very moderate limits, and in a clear, attractive way, Mr. Ober
succeeds in presenting an interesting portrait of the man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“For several reasons it is less satisfactory than its predecessors.
Far too much prominence is given to secondary figures. There is also
too liberal a piecing-out of the narrative by quotations. Mr. Ober has
paid scanty attention to the results of recent investigations.”
− + =Outlook.= 80: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The story is told in an entertaining way from original, authentic
documents, and is illustrated with portraits and maps.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of
Florida. **$1. Harper.
6–32459.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This little volume is neither dry nor dull, and in its pages is
recreated a good story of the adventures, dangers and thirst for gold
of De Soto and his sturdy band.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 550w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand Magellan. *$1. Harper.
7–15946.
Magellan is the subject of this volume in the “Heroes of American
history” series. The story of the life and voyages and tragic death of
the great Portuguese explorer, his discovery of the Straits of
Magellan, Guam, and the Philippines in the first transpacific voyage,
is told in compact detail.
* * * * *
“Worth buying for the small library because of the brevity of material
found in the general works that most small libraries can afford.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07. S.
“The book is an instructive and interesting one to add to a boy’s
library.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 100w.
“In clear and convincing style, and with candor as well as sympathy,
Mr. Ober traces the short and stormy career of Magellan.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 420w.
“Is even more interesting than the excellent life of Vespuccius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Ober’s volume is not the least interesting of an interesting
series.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
6–37625.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a book for young readers and will undoubtedly hold their
attention. Its chief value is that it presents in rapid story form
facts affording a correct general idea of early Spanish exploration
and settlement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 110w.
“Young and old readers alike should be interested in the present
volume, especially in its chief dramatic episode, the discovery of the
Pacific.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v.
**$7.50. Jacobs.
7–33957.
A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in
the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the
family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents
preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an
open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have
been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war
without the help of so great and loyal a financier.
* * * * *
“The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect
rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take
larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr.
Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of
reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only
to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of
entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this
honest man and patriot is called for.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating
admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a
work that is otherwise of real value.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 450w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer has made a valuable contribution to the history of
the civil war period.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 350w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams. †$1.50. Century.
6–29530.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 125. Ja. ’07. 210w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Susan. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–22115.
“Susan, a beautiful and impossible maid, receives a letter proposing
marriage to her from a young and imaginative peer, who has presumably
fallen in love with her pretty face without ever having spoken to her.
Susan, greatly embarrassed ... consults her mistress, who ends by
conducting her correspondence for her, eventually falling in love with
her correspondent. The climax comes when the young lord—his love
fanned by the beauty of his lady’s letters—discovers that there has
been a mistake, and that the girl whom he saw and loved is the
mistress and not the maid.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Mr. Oldmeadow knows how to write, and should entertain a wide circle
of readers this spring. His book has a sense of character, too, which
is the more effective for not being lost in a cloud of verbiage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 90w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“The sprightly tale of ‘Susan’ is delicately, and at times humorously
feminine, in its grasp of that only constant theme, love, to which it
is a delightfully clever variant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 330. My. 25, ’07. 470w.
“It has a unique and daring plot, and is written with an airiness and
humor that make its pages most entertaining and attractive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is a dainty trifle, pleasantly written, but it has, in spite of
its modern setting, no relation to the life and action of to-day. The
story is developed with considerable skill and humour, and although it
is written in the literary diary form, it is never tedious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
“[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point,
is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American
union. *$3.75. Putnam.
6–16717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of
the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some
shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John
Spencer Bassett.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w.
“It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of
the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in
that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an
infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in
mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more
addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at
once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= Redcoat captain: a story of that country, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29092.
A story fraught with tender symbolism which “contains the key to the
right of entry into ‘that country’—the country of those who have
learned to remain young in heart and to look out upon life with the
frank serenity of little children.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“The form of nonsense that finds expression in ‘Redcoat captain’ does
not please us at all.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
“Curious, alluring and altogether unique volume.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 271. N. ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Those who bring the heart and mind of a boy will discover that it is
a striking piece of work, and also that it is a very beautiful
parable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 473. N. 2, ’07. 690w.
* =Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Journey in the back country in the year
1854. 2v. *$5. Putnam.
“This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of
secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery
to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a
personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the
south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life,
not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no
abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual
cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the
awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system.
His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid
realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in
the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and
pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’
whites.”—Spec.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute,
and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar
institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very
opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 826. N. 23, ’07. 640w.
=Olney, Oliver, pseud.= Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29151.
How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus
performances for the benefit of their town library provides material
for a capital story.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.
6–42914.
“The late André Reville had projected a work on this movement, and had
got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests,
petitions, and escheators’ rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has
enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new
and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has
discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how
the poorer classes in England conspired to defeat its operation, and
how the counterstroke made by this government provoked the rebellion.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Oman has written his account without prejudice, and its value, we
imagine, lies less in any thesis it may be thought to establish, than
in the picture it gives of England in 1831.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 57. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
“It is because Prof. Oman’s book, as we have said, supplies a want for
teachers and students, that we have drawn attention to certain points
which will require revision if he should undertake a fresh edition.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 124. Ag. 4. 1810w.
“We have dwelt at what may appear disproportionate length upon his
treatment of the poll tax returns because it is here that he specially
lays claim to originality. What is valuable in his suggestions is not
materially affected by the inaccuracies pointed out above, but we rise
from the examination with a somewhat shaken confidence in the
scientific exactitude of his methods of research. The narrative of the
rebellion itself can be more unreservedly commended. It is full, well
digested, and spirited. But even here we must not look for pedantic
accuracy in details.” James Tait.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 161. Ja. ’07. 2300w.
“Alike from its summing up of recent results, and from the new
material it contains and the freshness and suggestiveness of its
style, this book will be indispensable to the student of the
fourteenth century. It will also find readers beyond the ranks of
professional historians, for it narrates a dramatic story, and
Professor Oman has told it well.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 930w.
“The most interesting, if not the most valuable feature of Prof.
Oman’s book, is the diversity of material which it contains. The whole
episode assumes new meaning under his skilful analysis of the causes
which prompted such a widespread and spontaneous uprising.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 557. D. 27, ’06. 940w.
“Brilliant narrative.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 429. O. 6, ’06. 1240w.
“A valuable historical study, picturesque and compact.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 464. O. 6, ’06. 2190w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Problem of faith and freedom in the last two
centuries. *$2.75. Armstrong.
7–29073.
“A critical review of two centuries of debate upon the problem of
faith and freedom, which arose in the Protestant reformation....
Jesuitism and Pascal’s ‘Pensées,’ English deism and Butler’s Analogy,
Rationalism and Kant on Pure reason, Romanticism and Schleiermacher’s
Discourses on religion, The French revolution, and Newman’s
‘Apologia,’ the Development theory, and Baur’s Church history, the
Theory of experience and Ritschlianism ... make up a conspectus of a
highly diversified field.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has
also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and
interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w.
“His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly
the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered
with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of
humanity.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of
great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to
the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion
indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor
Oman exhibits marked ability.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w.
=Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English
from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes.
**$1.50. McClurg.
6–41520.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely
as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring
many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur,
should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone
to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but
judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to
FitzGerald’s.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
“Workmanlike little book.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w.
=Omond, Thomas Stewart.= English metrists in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism
during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.
7–37517.
A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but
traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.”
Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal
periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old
orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new
prosody.
* * * * *
“In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend
to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism.
We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought
which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly
disagree with Mr. Omond.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w.
“The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his
own ideas.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 465. Ap. 20. 1790w.
“Is one of the most important books on versification that have
appeared since Sidney Lanier’s ‘Science of English verse.’” Edward
Payson Morton.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 33. Jl. 16, ’07. 2210w.
“But neither these strictures nor some omissions and slips and even
misjudgments, which are inevitable in such a work, can change the fact
that the work is carefully done, and is to be received with
gratitude.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1020w.
“Has no competitor in this history of prosody save Prof. Saintsbury.
It is eminently scholarly and conscientious, and a noteworthy and
valuable contribution to this much-debated and still debatable
subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 660w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Enoch Strone. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition. Enoch Strone, mechanic and inventor, in a
moment of humiliation caused by a rejected suit, marries an impossible
factory girl. His struggle between relinquishing his career as member
of parliament and saving his wife from herself ends in his facing his
duty and in finding definite reward.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Lost leader. †$1.50. Little.
6–18998.
“The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.”
(Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering
retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his
former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues
of both love and politics.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political
novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is
expecting some one to be shot on every page.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
“This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its
opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly
professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of
doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the
fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w.
“There is at least one person in the book—Mrs. Phillimore—which is a
well conceived and convincing character. This is the best thing in the
way of character study that Mr. Oppenheim has done. His hero is a weak
man, and most of the other characters are far from taking the flesh
and bone of reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The story is readable enough, but not of great importance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Malefactor. †$1.50. Little.
7–984.
One finds In the malefactor of Mr. Oppenheim’s story a companion study
to the hero of his “Prince of sinners.” Grown ascetic and bitter
during a period of unjust imprisonment, Sir Wingrave Seaton, at the
end of his confinement, slips into the world incognito for purposes of
revenge. His nature is too generous to permit him to carry out his
scheme of injury. Under the mask of indifference, even cruelty, he is
a philanthropist. After numerous logical digressions the love interest
shapes itself into a typical bachelor’s romance.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07.
“Had Mr. Oppenheim been content to make the outcome of the story a
little less obvious from the beginning, the novel would have gained in
strength.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim’s latest venture will bring no discredit upon his
reputation as a storyteller.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. Je. ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“This is a typical example of the modern realistic novel which,
without any pretence to literary art, contrives to hold the interest
of the reader.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“An amusing yarn, and not without a moral.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 340w.
“It is the most enticing excuse for suspended mental activity that has
yet come from Mr. Oppenheim’s gifted pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 47. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
“Is a frankly sensational story with little pretence to literary art
but constructed with all that skill in development of power and
exciting interest of which the author is an acknowledged master.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Sleeping memory. †$1.50. Little.
A new edition with frontispiece. The story records a physician’s
experiment of performing an operation upon a willing patient which
results in a loss of memory. With the memory disappears also the soul
of the girl leaving only a superficial, pleasure-loving, heartless
coquette. A second operation restores her to her former self, and
eliminates any memory of her seven months of changed identity.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The part of the book dealing with the development and present state
of the law of neutrality is perhaps the most valuable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The general arrangement is admirable; the style is careful, though
sometimes a little cumbrous. Solid merit is the distinguishing
characteristic of these volumes.” T. Raleigh.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 388. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Orczy, baroness.= Beau Brocade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28961.
The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back
to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a
cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for
justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous
highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the
guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his
chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in
aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge
of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and
wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled
rival.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not
scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 320w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–21538.
“In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt
hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs,
embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards
Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“There is no question that ‘The gates of Kamt’ ranks high in its own
class as a piece of pure imaginative audacity.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 601. Ag. ’07. 520w.
“Granted her situation, the author has made the human heart terribly
convincingly true to it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.
“Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she
has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and
no end of exciting adventures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.
6–35520.
The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which
sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world:
the method of external observation ... and the method of inner
reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two
methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a
synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of
deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing
with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.
“It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a
thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the
philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the
work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.
“We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the
suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his
philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as
a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.
“Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work
throughout.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
“Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a
very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large
measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment;
but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the
book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with
the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the
religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the
point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.
“To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to
seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of
knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.
“The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical
specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is
written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous
terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.
* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training
school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.
7–31231.
“The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of
the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections,
and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this
transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to
defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of
living scholars.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
“He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally
presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth.
His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the
traditional view that can be made at the present time.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all
times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is
shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands
how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above
all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and
positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a
doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an
historical critic or a seeker after light.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.
=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little
novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.
7–28457.
The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the
Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr.
Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as
the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil,
Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the
love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for
Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Both author and publisher have begun promisingly and expressively
their intended Series of ‘Little novels of famous cities.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Adventurer. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31207.
Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his
step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for
men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in
a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South
American pampas.
* * * * *
“In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification
of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids
fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian
and Stevensonian kindred.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is
more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution
possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by
the irresponsible and exacting reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity
and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly
worth while even as a plot-story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.
7–21226.
Schmidt is a stolid East-Side German shopkeeper. “The inner Schmidt
was as much a butter-slicer and ham-shaver as the outer article. He
was consistently Schmidt all the way through.” Yet when he loved Ella,
his colorless life changed, he became a man of feeling, capable of joy
and grief. It is the human note in the story that holds the reader.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Three speeds forward: an automobile love story with
one reverse. †$1. Appleton.
6–31657.
The motor mad hero and heroine of this story meet unconventionally by
the roadside when the heroine’s car breaks down opportunely and all
goes well save for the sorry fact that her parents cannot bring
themselves to approve of a young man who made his fortune thru the
invention of a popular puzzle. The hero, undaunted, sets about winning
them to his cause, despite the puzzle, and finally succeeds by
cleverly mending a break in their car, a break which he had with equal
cleverness previously arranged for.
* * * * *
“While it has its amusing moments, its humour is for the most part
distinctly thin and rather forced.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 160w.
“It is a bright and sprightly little story, very strongly flavored
with gasoline, but quite readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 440w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Tin diskers; the story of an invasion that all but
failed. †50c. Altemus.
6–25690.
“An amusing although entirely trivial short story about an American
girl who has curious adventures in England, growing out of the recent
newspaper sensation known as ‘treasure-hunting.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“This is a bright, breezy love story written with no other object than
to entertain. One of Mr. Osbourne’s best short stories”
+ =Arena.= 36: 574. N. ’06. 260w.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 30w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. *$3.
Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The present volume contains a history of British colonial
administration during the period under review, together with treatment
in some detail of the external development of Virginia and of domestic
relations in the other royal provinces. The author attempts in this
volume, to trace the history of the British systems of control as a
distinct and separate feature of colonization.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Osgood combines in a remarkable degree the quality of patient
research and a mastery of numerous details with the power of
philosophic generalization.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 804. O. ’07. 1490w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This work marks an epoch in the writing of colonial history.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 444. N. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Admirable work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is distinctly a product of real scholarship, distinguished by a
constant and conscientious weighing of authorities and a keen
discrimination between the trustworthy and the unreliable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 968. Ag. 3, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality. 1906. **75c.
Houghton.
6–4176.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. A. Hammond.
=Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Letters to a painter on the theory and practice of
painting; authorized tr. by H. W. Morse. *90c. Ginn.
7–3698.
The technique of painting is dealt with in these letters which
advocate the “empirical experimental” method. The artist’s explanation
of the rise of his “tools,” of pastel painting, pigments, fresco oils
and tempera is given, also a discussion of academies, etc.
* * * * *
“The art student will find in these letters much food for reflection,
particularly in the treatment of media, their optical characteristics
and results.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The placing of the book in the hands of every art student would do
more for the cause of sound education than any number of lectures on
aesthetics.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“Will be found attractive to the lay reader interested in painting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 110w.
“Professor Ostwald’s scientific explanations ... may at least stir up
a more vital interest among professional artists and lead them toward
independent investigations useful to themselves and others.” Elisabeth
Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 358. D. ’07. 290w.
=Otto, Rudolf.= Naturalism and religion; tr. by J. Arthur Thomson and
Margaret R. Thomson. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–18190.
“The present volume by a Göttingen professor gives in a compact form
to the general reader the main points in the great controversy that
now seems to have been fought almost through.... He points out that it
is not in the proper domain of science, but ‘in the teacup of logic
and epistemology that the storm in regard to the theories of the
universe has arisen.’ And he acutely concludes that the theory of
naturalism, that there is no such thing as free creative mind, is
refuted by its own existence as the actual progeny of such a
mind.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He pursues [his argument] with enthusiasm as well as with logical
force.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, 07. 330w.
“Presented here in eleven chapters by a discriminating thinker, as
hostile to exaggerated assertions in a religious as in a scientific
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 22, ’07. 230w.
=Oudin, Maurice A.= Standard polyphase apparatus and systems. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
7–27156.
The fifth edition revised and enlarged to keep pace with the notable
increase in the size of apparatus units and in the development of
appliances for their control and protection.
* * * * *
“As a whole the book is readable, interesting and stimulating. Will be
intelligible to any one who is reasonably familiar with electrical
machines.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 670w.
=Outcault, Richard Felton.= My resolutions: Buster Brown. †750. Stokes.
6–35950.
Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in
Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his
little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow
virtuous beyond their years.
=Oxenham, John.= Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–10620.
The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to
Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment
for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian
village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in
hearts and homes.
* * * * *
“But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative,
capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of
the story is inspiring, not depressing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the
desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not
easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w.
“The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life
depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w.
“A charming story, charmingly told.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and
for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and
strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of
its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and
dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative
it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Oxenham, John.= Man of Sark. il. †$1.50. Baker.
7–29685.
A story which tells “in the first person, of the adventures of a
sturdy youth who seeks his fortune as a privateer during the
Napoleonic wars. Although loyal to England, he is mistaken for a
Frenchman after an exciting engagement, and his English captors take
him to a prison stockade by the North sea. When he escapes and finds
his way back to Sark, he is welcomed as one from the dead. He is also
just in time to rescue the maiden whom he has loved all his life from
the hands of certain villainous persons who have abducted her.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The vivid account of island life and customs, of landscapes and
sea-scapes relieves the obsession produced by this competent villain.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 180w.
“The author has evidently steeped himself in the history, the
folk-lore, and the customs of the island folk whom he describes, and
tells a tale that is deeply appealing and full of varied interest.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 150w.
“To sum up, ‘A man of Sark’ shows a brisk imagination and capable
workmanlike treatment of wholesome, legitimate material.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“The novel is very well written, with much poetic feeling and with a
certain distinction of style, which, with its vigorous manner and its
hardy and manly characters, makes it a very pleasing romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“It is a stirring story, but one likely to please the young rather
than the experienced reader.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Oxley, James Macdonald.= North overland with Franklin. †75c. Crowell.
7–22915.
This volume in the “Crowell’s young people series” tells the story of
the boy Denis who went with Franklin and his party from York factory
overland to the farther north and whose flute cheered the men in time
of despair and danger. It is a tale of hunting and adventure, of
hardship and of peril.
P
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Coast of Bohemia. **$1. Scribner.
Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with
no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a
minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer
world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see.
It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the
lesser poet his only reward.”
* * * * *
“So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable
work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w.
“Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he
has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not
varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly
textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w.
“The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they
are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often
happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Novels, stories, sketches and poems. “Plantation
ed.” 12v. $18. Scribner.
Twelve illustrated volumes make up this “plantation edition,” so
called because all the stories, novels, verses and essays present
phases of plantation life.
* * * * *
+ + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“What one might almost call definitive edition.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1351. D. 6, ’06. 480w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 27. Ja. 19, ’07. 780w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–35938.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Under the crust. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37269.
“In the seven stories which make up the volume of short tales, ‘Under
the crust,’ the discerning reader will find the characteristic
idealism of Mr. Page expressing itself in delicate and sympathetic
studies of men and women to whom commercialism exists only to be
resisted, and who live in the world as if life were still a matter of
the spirit and not a matter of physical luxury.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The lack of distinction is made up for by a healthy, cheerful tone,
and there is reality to the men and women the author depicts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 826. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The stories in this volume are not of equal excellence, but it
contains work which Mr. Page has never surpassed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 742. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= From van dweller to commuter. †$1.50. Harper.
A breezy account of the trials that overtook a man, his wife and the
“Precious Ones” while moving from flat to flat in New York in quest of
a really comfortable and livable place that they might call home.
Comparative peace falls to their lot only when they enter upon the
commuter’s life in a near-by suburb. The entire story is a “sort of
general unburdening” of the troubles that haunt one during an
attempted solution of the problem of living, with a view to “relief of
spirit which is said to follow confession.”
* * * * *
“Though the narrative for the most part runs too familiarly along
well-worn grooves, its facile humor and abundant sentiment may well
afford some innocent diversion—especially to readers whose memory
turns backward to adventures of kindred nature.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 270w.
“It will find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner’s ‘My summer
in a garden.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“There is much humor of a popular kind, and many clever character
sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 70w.
* =Paine, John K.= History of music to the death of Schubert. $2.75.
Ginn.
The posthumous work of Professor Paine which includes his lectures on
the history of music to the death of Schubert. The lectures are
arranged under the headings Ancient and mediaeval music and Origin of
dramatic music, opera and oratorio.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Greater America. *$1.50. Outing.
7–14803.
A series of glimpses of the splendid activities of the American west
of to-day. The author introduces the reader to numerous activities
along the line of extension movement which show great creative and
pioneering forces at work. Some of his chapters are as follows: Past
and present of the “Soo,” The story of a copper mine, The magnet of
the wheat, The cow puncher versus irrigation, The heart of the big
timber country, A breath from Alaska, and Gold camps of the desert.
* * * * *
“To read the book is to get a new appreciation of the greatness of
America, the greatness of her present and the possibilities of her
future.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 200w.
“Belongs to a class of books which may be called rare even in this age
of print. It bears the same relation to the ordinary volume of travel
and description that the realistic novel of actual events bears to the
novel of romantic cast.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 430w.
“Mr. Paine has felt and has put into his book the very spirit of
energy and enthusiasm and confidence and ambition and kindliness which
fills the vast miles to the west of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50.
Outing pub.
6–11303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Uncommonly good tales of the straight-ahead sort.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye=, ed. Romance of an old time shipmaster.
*$1.25. Outing pub.
A collection of letters and Journals written by an American sea
captain during the early part of the nineteenth century. “It reveals a
most charming and lovable personality, a sort of Lord Chesterfield of
the quarter-deck, and throws a curious light on life at sea at that
time.”
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E.
Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
5–33942.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Indeed every page of the book is full of illuminating and original
ideas. For the most part the translation reads well, and a certain
number of un-English expressions do not detract from its value, nor
can we say that much is added by the greater part of the
illustrations.” G. McN. Rushforth.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 556. Jl. ’07. 610w.
“Professor Pais is a difficult writer. There is much to be learned
from his book. His notes cite the sources with considerable fulness,
occasionally ... possessing an interest for students outside the
narrower limits of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 366. Mr. 23, ’07. 1510w.
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= Treasury of sacred songs; selected from the
English lyrical poetry of four centuries: with explanatory and
biographical notes. *$1.15. Oxford.
3–25607.
A well chosen collection of sacred songs which includes many of our
best sacred poems and such of our hymns as can be termed poetry.
* * * * *
“On the whole it is a good selection and gives a just idea of the
quality of our sacred poetry.”
+ − =Acad.= 71:325. O. 6, ’06. 2290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07. S.
=Palmer, Frederick William=, ed. With the sorrowing: a handbook of
suggestions for the use of pastors, missionaries, and other visitors in
the homes of sorrow. **75c. Revell.
5–41616.
“Appropriate prayers, hymns, and passages of Scripture for use at
funerals.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 10w.
“Most profitable for the avoidance of monotony and formalism in the
effort to discharge a sacred duty.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 278. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Pardo Bazan, Emilia.= Midsummer madness; tr. from the Spanish by Amparo
Loring. $1.50. Clark.
7–11214.
“The story tells of a gentle flirtation, occasionally verging on the
dangerous, and always inclining to the superficial. The book is
readable, however, while not elevating. The best feature is the minute
detail with which the story describes the everyday life of the
characters, both nobility and peasantry.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The English translation ... is well rendered, and follows the Spanish
form of conversation with great conscientiousness. Of plot and
counterplot there is very little.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 150w.
“The little tale is conceived in a spirit of tender gayety which marks
it for that rare thing, a work of true humor.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
“The pages ... are full of the deplorable effects of rapid production,
clever, vivid, and interesting picture of Spanish life though it is.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 500w.
“Besides, the translation, by Amparo Loring, fulfills the difficult
task of conveying the original writer’s sprightly, animated style in a
manner quite spontaneous and natural.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 250w.
=Pares, Bernard.= Russia and reform. *$3. Dutton.
“Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable
sketch of the rise and advance of Russia from the earliest times, Mr.
Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed
study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s
great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently knows his Russia
thoroughly, and his Russian in every walk of life. The geographical
and economic aspects of the country, the governmental system, the
educational facilities, the home life of the noble and the peasant,
the literature that has been produced and the men who have produced
it—all this and much more is expounded by him in a way that is equally
interesting and authoritative.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We have many faults to find, but they do not affect the value of the
work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 500w.
“In our opinion, Mr. Pares would have added to the value of his work
by more concentration and by resolutely leaving on one side those
matters which have already been adequately dealt with by other
authorities.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 131. Ap. 26, ’07. 1360w.
“On the whole, it may be said that he has succeeded in gaining a place
close to Wallace and to Leroy-Beaulieu’s ‘Empire des Tsars.’ In its
range, method, and adequacy of knowledge and insight, it is certainly
the best account that the Russian liberation movement which began in
1904, has brought forth.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“For all who wish to broaden their knowledge of a highly complex
question Mr. Pares’s volume may be recommended as a safe guide.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The work is in reality encyclopedic. We feel that in some matters,
particularly with respect to prison methods, Mr. Pares takes an
over-roseate view.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“If Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we
are all the more ready to believe his word ... and if he tells us
nothing exactly new, he at all events presents his points with a
lucidity of the first order. Altogether, this book is valuable because
it contains the comments and judgments of a competent and wise
observer.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 674. Ap. 27, ’07. 1960w.
=Paret, William, bp.= Place and function of the Sunday school in the
church. *50c. Whittaker.
6–34266.
A discussion of the place and function of the Sunday school in
relation to the greater subject on which it rests, namely, the duty
and relation of the Church to children.
=Park, James.= Text book of mining geology, for the use of mining
students and miners. *$2. Lippincott.
GS 7–1129.
“The author deals with the subject in nine chapters. The first
contains a brief summary of geological principles, and the following
chapters are devoted respectively to the classification of mineral
deposits, ore veins, the dynamics of lodes and beds, ore deposits
considered genetically, the theories of vein formation, ores and
minerals considered economically, mine sampling, and the examination
and valuation of mines.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special
interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded
are judicially dealt with.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Parker, Gilbert.= Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.
7–30167.
A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock.
David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization
of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident
of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a
reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the
fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible
in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming
traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are
treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.
* * * * *
“Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and
matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both
the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David
Claridge.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w.
“Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn
out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“He spoils his material by wilfully romanticizing it; nevertheless he
produces an interesting tale, set forth with such a serious air that
we are bound to take it seriously.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 190w.
“The truth is that Sir Gilbert has tried to write a story without
first thinking it out clearly to the end; he has tried to make his
readers realise characters which he has never successfully projected
in his own imagination; and the result, with all allowance made for
good intention and a certain amount of good workmanship, cannot be
called a success.” Ward Clark.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 169. O. ’07. 1000w.
“A work that, despite certain quite obvious faults, is nevertheless
endowed with unity of design and fine idealism.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The whole conception is as dead as any mummy in Egypt, the chief
difference being that it is embalmed in an excellent literary style.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Sir Gilbert Parker’s book is not lacking in well-drawn, dramatic
scenes growing out of the conflict between Oriental subtlety and the
straightforward Quakerism of David; and the picture of Egypt, although
possibly not an altogether accurate one, emerging from its centuries
of political darkness, is an interesting contribution to the romance
of history.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 650w.
“Deserves and has achieved a place among the leading novels of the
year.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Ungrateful though it may seem it is not easy to follow this long
drama with any keen interest or to feel that the people in it are any
more sensitive than the props that sustain old-fashioned cumbersome
draperies. It is ungrateful because the purpose of the book is
earnest, and Sir Gilbert evidently writes with knowledge and from his
own observation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
“Although Sir Gilbert Parker uses a civilized if somewhat heavy
English, and puts his book together in practised fashion, his
treatment of Egyptian troubles ... on the whole lacks the brilliancy
given to the same event by the late Archibald Clavering Gunter. It is
hard to believe that ‘The weavers’ comes from the same hand which once
gave so thoughtful and sincere a study of character as Charley in ‘The
right of way.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 806. O. 3, ’07. 140w.
“The idea has obtained very generally of late that the good old
three-volume novel of the mid-Victorian age was forever extinct, like
the dodo or the drama in blank verse. There were to be no more wronged
or missing heirs, no more ‘papers’ turning up in old cabinets, no more
‘heavy’ old men telling their stories in quavering voices with the
lights burning low and the violins going soft, no more benevolent
low-comedy gents coming in slapdash at the critical moments, no more
singularly fatuous villains getting caught in their own toils. It is a
mistake; read ‘The weavers’ and be convinced. All, all are here, the
old familiar faces. The book is written with the author’s usual
facility and command of English.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is full of brilliant and striking passages, but the parts of the
story do not perfectly cohere, and the tale is a series of dramatic
episodes rather than a well-knit narrative of action.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 368. D. ’07. 1460w.
“Much practice has made Sir Gilbert Parker a skilful weaver of a kind
of plot which has no relation to reality, or even to probability, but
which always fascinates a large novel-reading public. Sir Gilbert
Parker writes about society and politics as if he were an outsider.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. O. 19, ’07. 450w.
“Whatever fault may be found with the novel, it certainly shows no
sign of scamped work or perfunctory handling. In every sense in which
the phrase is applicable to a novel, the author has given us full
measure,—length, wealth of colour and exciting incident, careful
portraiture, minute character analysis. It may not be unfairly urged
that Sir Gilbert Parker has been too lavish of his materials, and that
his book loses in directness of appeal from the complexity of his
theme, the kaleidoscopic nature of the narrative, and the widely
divergent phases of life which he essays to depict. Yet of its
picturesqueness, its eloquence, and its exciting quality there can be
no doubt.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 1140w.
=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36474.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Although the book is generally quite readable, the English is by no
means perfect throughout. The reasoning is here and there
unsatisfactory, loose language creeps in, or the style becomes
diffuse. The descriptive portion of the work is throughout very
carefully written and illustrated.” D. K. M.
+ − =Nation.= 74: 581. O. 11, ’06. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Beth Norvell. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–30865.
Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An
ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an
adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small
town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of
the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the
Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the
aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting
precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.
* * * * *
“It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but
absorbing as to incident and plot.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3. 203. N. ’07.
“Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose
and hope, will never die out.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w.
“The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w.
“It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort, and the hero’s
conversation is a little more preposterous than anything else in the
book.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 570. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
“He wallows in adjectives, his conversations are stilted, and the
actions and motives of his characters are unconvincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Some striking situations are evolved, but the high-flown language of
the hero and heroine when in peril of their lives on various occasions
seems unnatural and detracts from the effect of several strong
scenes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–34646.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One would like to see the same quality of narration expended upon a
simpler and more natural plot.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Randall Parrish has mastered the trick of popular narrative after
a comparatively brief apprenticeship to the trade, and is to-day one
of the most effective of our story-tellers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Great plains. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–29851.
To write accurate history so clothed as to appeal to the imagination
has been Mr. Parrish’s aim. He tells how the stretch of country
between the valley of the Missouri and the foothills of the Rockies
was discovered and settled, emphasizes its possibilities and
picturesque wonders, and dwells upon the characteristics of men and
customs of the frontier towns.
* * * * *
“The choice of material is commendable, the weaving skilful, and the
interest well sustained.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 283. N. 1, ’07. 780w.
“He shows care and judgment in the balancing of contradictory
accounts. And he has told the story well and in interesting style. But
he has missed not a little of the high spirit, the valiant courage,
the dauntless expectations of the men who conquered the plains.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w.
“Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he
has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a
well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident,
adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army
camps, and frontier scouts.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is
attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of
the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w.
=Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Electric railway
engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.
W 7–100.
“This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity
to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an
exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive
power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great
store of collected data regarding the results obtained in
representative examples of its application.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation
of the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 385. Mr. 30. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive book on electric railway practice which has
yet appeared.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 1130w.
“The present volume endeavors, not unsuccessfully, to combine [the
practical and technical phases] and to give the reader a clear
knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie the application
of electricity to haulage.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 531. Ap. 4. ’07. 1080w.
=Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.= Family. **$3. Putnam.
6–42901.
An ethnographical and historical outline, with descriptive notes,
planned as a text-book for the use of college lectures and directors
of home-reading clubs.
* * * * *
“The best book yet prepared for the student, whether in school or at
home.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological
study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method,
and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to
live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to
the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w.
“A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for
trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon
the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w.
“Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of
the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory
of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the
book more useful to the elementary student.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w.
“It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to
text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the
family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate
as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically
ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian
family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
“The attempt of the author to subject the family to careful scientific
examination is exceedingly praiseworthy and altogether helpful. And
there will be no question in the mind of the reader that the work has
been courageously and honestly done. As a broad-minded piece of
inductive research it is worthy of imitation in other fields. The book
will probably stand as one of the many single and helpful pieces of
inductive sociological study.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 744. D. ’07. 1750w.
“Is essentially a work for students of sociology, teachers, and men of
temperate and studious minds, and takes its place, for instance, with
such books as Stanley Hall’s ‘Adolescence,’ which, by the way, it
surpasses in original research.” Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 557. F. ’07. 1850w.
“Judging from the scope of the book and the method of instruction
recommended, the author imposes no bounds to the subject to be studied
by these young people, and it is on this point that she is most open
to adverse criticism. Whatever may be the criticism to which her
conclusions are subjected, no one can object to the tone of the book
or doubt the courage and transparent honesty of the writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 689. Je. 1, ’07. 1310w.
=Parsons, Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons).= Garrick and his circle;
il. **$2.75. Putnam.
6–45350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
“Not only does she appear to have read—and to have mastered—everything
the most exacting could require; but she has shown excellent judgment
as to fact and fable, essentials and non-essentials.” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 290w.
“Her portraits have that fulness and unity which impart a conclusive
notion of personality, set with a due sense of perspective against a
well-balanced background.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 390w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway
discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies
proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.
6–13090.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid, concrete, interesting; covers with great detail one problem
only, that of discrimination and its remedy.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Emory R. Johnson.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 560w.
“While he occasionally disturbs the reader’s confidence by basing his
charges upon rumors and hearsay evidence, after the manner of the
newspaper reporter, he relies principally upon official
investigations, hearings and reports, and in his handling of this
material he shows a thorough familiarity with his subject.” Frank
Haigh Dixon.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 270w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Railways, the trusts, and the people. 25c. Taylor, C.
F.
6–46268.
“A comprehensive work on the political, industrial, and social effects
of different systems of railway control.... The work is divided into
two parts, the first dealing with the relations of the railways to the
public, ... and the second analyzing the railway problems.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“As a source of information Professor Parsons’s volume is a rich mine.
It is unfortunate that so valuable a work should suffer so from the
author’s lack of literary discretion.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 360w.
“As far as bulk and comprehensiveness are concerned, all previous
contributions are outdone. Despite the many facts and figures
presented by Professor Parsons, there is still wanting a comprehensive
and scientific study of the railroad problem.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 387. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 210w.
* =Pasteur, Violet M.= Gods and heroes of old Japan; decorated by Ada
Galton. *$3.50 Lippincott.
7–18124.
Faint gray drawings of Japanese plants and flowers furnish marginal
decoration while the text consists of “short stories taken from the
sacred writings and ancient histories of Japan. Some are legendary and
miraculous; others correspond to the tales of our own age of
chivalry.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Interesting, to those especially who have a real sympathy with old
Japan.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 838. D. 29. 170w.
“Simply and gracefully told, with a quaintness that suits the
primitive type of the stories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends,
but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most
confusing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings
before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.
“This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first
place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She became
a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied.
Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from
our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them....
In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an
excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to
her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.
* * * * *
“There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this
excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing,
and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w.
“It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much
interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have
the best of her.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s
contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader
of her letters feel, today.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence,
for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w.
“We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract
of time.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w.
“When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful
appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts
into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2380w.
“The true significance of Lady Mary’s life story, that which gives it
value to readers of to-day, is the light it throws on the period in
which it was lived, and the fact that ... Lady Mary herself was par
excellence a product of her times.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 80. S. 14, ’07. 3700w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 235. N. ’07. 1030w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 901. Je. 8, ’07. 2140w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Lady of the blue motor. $1.50. Page.
7–16942.
An automobile story which does not content itself with the gentle
excitements incident to motoring, but which involves a young
Englishman, who undertakes to champion a mysterious lady who drives a
blue car, in a series of strange complications which do not stop short
of murder. The villain, also equipped with a car, is as diabolical as
any of his class and the whole story moves at third speed along a
highway bristling with dangers to a conventionally happy ending.
* * * * *
“The misprints are sometimes serious. Apart from this, the story is a
well-constructed melodrama, interesting in its own way, and with less
hysteria and more character-study than one usually finds in books of
this type.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling
shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped
sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w.
“While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney
Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be
courageous and loving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Paterson, Arthur Henry.= John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50.
Holt.
7–14252.
John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her
rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that
unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a
young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course,
furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the
life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong
characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.
* * * * *
“The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere
love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction
will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters
are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 414. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w.
“The characters are well drawn and, on the whole, convincing. What is
lacking in literary merit is overlooked in the swift succession of
incidents.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 156. My. ’07.
“The characterization is stereotyped, each figure being plainly
labelled, good or evil, and painted in bold colours. Plot and general
treatment are in keeping with this class of work; but the book is not
without its instructive side, and despite occasional tendencies to
claptrap, and frequent exaggeration, has here and there touches of
genuine human wisdom, and indications of sincere thought regarding
some of the problems which face the worker among the poor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 130w.
“The book holds more entertainment—if only you can forget that first
chapter—than many a better one.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 520. Jl. ’07. 930w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 130w.
“The pictures of the seamy side of London life are said to be true
without being unwholesomely realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The author evidently knows thoroughly the region he describes. He is
less happy, however, in his allusions to the western United States,
whence his hero has just come with a fortune made in the cattle
business.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20. ’07. 340w.
“The tone throughout is frankly and conventionally sentimental and
emotional, and though ‘John Glynn’ is a well-intentioned and even
entertaining story, it can hardly be considered as a serious attempt
to add to our knowledge of criminology or of the best methods of
social reform.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 290w.
“Like many stories with a purpose. ‘John Glynn’ would be very much
better without the love interest which Mr. Paterson has thought it
necessary to introduce, and perhaps it would be truer to life but for
a certain melodramatic tendency which he has not been able to keep out
of its pages.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, 07. 270w.
=Paterson, William Romaine.= Nemesis of nations: studies in history: the
ancient world, Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, Rome. *$3. Dutton.
W 7–123.
“The first of a series of studies analyzing the causes why
civilizations—ancient, mediaeval, modern—have broken down, and the
manner in which national sins ... have avenged themselves by bringing
retribution on the sinners.” (Ath.) “In each of these studies the
method pursued is substantially the same: There is an examination of
the origin of the race in question: an effort to trace its
affiliations with other races; a sketch of the salient features of the
land. The religion, laws, politics, and social customs of the people
are then considered; and, finally, we are given a comprehensive
account of that slavery which was at the base of all these
civilizations.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Throughout this learned book, covering an immense range, and parading
a large bibliography, there are hardly any citations to verify the
assertions of the text; yet these are often, to our knowledge, loose
or inaccurate.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 346. Mr. 23. 1440w.
“It is no common piece of work dreamed out without labor—but betrays
on every page an intimate acquaintance with the best modern literature
on antiquity and also with the original sources themselves.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Paterson’s book is on the whole too audacious. He admits the
complexity of the subject, and yet practically he writes as though the
fall of his four great empires could be explained by the same simple
causes acting in the same simple way.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 121. O. ’07. 600w.
“Thoughtful and scholarly essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 490w.
“Viewed not as a philosophical interpretation of the downfall of
ancient civilizations, but as a history of their slavery systems, it
is clearly a product of thoughtful and painstaking research, and
contains much that is informing to a high degree. The reader, however,
cannot be too strongly warned against unreserved acceptance of the
sweeping conclusions Mr. Paterson would draw from his investigations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 472. Je. 29, ’07. 580w.
“Remarkable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 834. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.
=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil
Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–2591.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 407. Je. ’07. 350w.
“It is fitting that there should be a definitive edition of his
poetical work, and nothing could be in better taste than the volume
‘Poems.’”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 180w.
=Spec.= 98: 17. Ja. 5, ’07. 1420w.
=Patten, Gilbert (Burt L. Standish, pseud.).= Frank Merriwell at Yale.
75c. McKay.
Little that fills the life of a college youth of to-day is missing
from this spirited tale. Frank Merriwell is made of true stuff, and
with manly courage dominates every situation unexpected and
prearranged that confronts him during his four years.
=Patten, Helen Philbrook=, comp. Intimations of immortality: significant
thoughts on the future life. **$1.50. Small.
7–2422.
An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical
argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a
composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the
ages.
* * * * *
“This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like
the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and
discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every
well-ordered library.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 213. Ag. ’07. 680w.
=Patten, Simon Nelson.= New basis of civilization. (American social
progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.
7–18589.
A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which
“interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning
and significance of recent social changes with which the practical
social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in
point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself
the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a
participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family
life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and
social control.
* * * * *
“Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by
expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the
formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has
nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive
things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the
truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 347. Je. 1, ’07. 2000w.
=Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can
deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important
differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called
attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered
illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made
many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E.
Vincent.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.
=Patterson, Annie W.= Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.
Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following:
How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How
to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing
for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How
to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.
* * * * *
“It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch
of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries
weight.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.
“Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Pattison, James William.= World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4.
Duffield.
“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he
treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools
or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence
exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great
distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s
Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and
giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and
ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae
will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of
sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than
theories.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.
=Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J.= University of Virginia:
glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.
5–39859.
“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C.
Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the
institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian
buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s
development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators,
participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that
an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
4–2649.
Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.
=v. 4 and 5.= Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and
closes with the defeat of the Gladstone government in 1885. The
closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English
history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in
some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to
the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.
* * * * *
“The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to
thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the
merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of
being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive:
his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway
between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History
of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good
sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read
for enjoyment as well as for information.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise,
sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition,
and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political
information.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he
accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both
Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader
of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in
his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly
not hold its own either as history or as literature.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary
events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but
possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent
participant.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)
“No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the
cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as
literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both
in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.”
George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Paullin, Charles O.= Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.
6–42974.
“A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author
has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the
administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies.
Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the
Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has
emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the
well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly
studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the
study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.
“This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be
congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and
ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.”
Herbert C. Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and
scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student
of this epoch.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.
“Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are
given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.
=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study;
authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
6–12846.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited,
idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some
awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the
English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at
second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.
+ + + =Nature.= 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.
“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving
which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these
same problems.” J. H. Finley.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.
* =Paulus Diaconus.= History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr.
by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography
of the author, and an account of the sources of the history.
(Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ.
of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)
7–20902.
The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes
and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.
* * * * *
“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant
introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius
Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’
does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in
profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the
authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.
“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval
historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has
hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the
seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.
=Payne, Will.= When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–40589.
A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict
between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against
bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward
“big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted
these standards respectively is further complicated by their close
domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other.
“The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is
whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will
speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited
convictions.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of
men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.
“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although
it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably
sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable
because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a
menace.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are
dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and
is in close touch with human nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.
=Payne, William Morton.= Greater English poets of the nineteenth
century. **$2. Holt.
7–32172.
A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron,
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti,
Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men
in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their
relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry
with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon
religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude
toward the political and social conditions of their time.
* * * * *
“They deserve wide reading.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.
“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the
treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.
* =Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Mornings in the college chapel: short
addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25.
Houghton.
7–37984.
Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way
of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25.
Appleton.
6–34050.
“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had
been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into
such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the
little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something
peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness
coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.
=Pearson, Elizabeth Ware=, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the
time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.
6–46220.
These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners
who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop
of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay
Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of
the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very
considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in
league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or
jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their
own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.
=Atlan.= 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and
elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.
=Pearson, Norman.= Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–32165.
“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the
standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as
‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the
problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the
author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the
immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form
a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds
under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles
in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question
of the mind.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and
philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as
rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an
attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the
age.”
+ − =Nation.= 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in
which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with
which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.
=Peary, Robert Edwin.= Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35225.
A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S.
S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the
dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well
illustrated.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.
“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of
story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of
success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.
“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.
“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic
exploration that we have had for many years.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.
“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative
account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.
+ + =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.
“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work
are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm,
too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written
records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that
confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on
paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.
“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of
necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is
the scientific spirit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.
“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.
* =Peck, Harry Thurston.= Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.
7–36100.
The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother
gave her the power to make.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their
enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the
especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to
find in writing of a very different style.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–39787.
A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s
history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of
the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.
“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be
plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both
of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a
personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working
of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after
its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history
in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative
style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of
history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his
way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.
“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic
spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted;
instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now
and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as
they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a
nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find
no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot
hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best
contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five
presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable
narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a
habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words.
Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been
corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity
with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright
blundering.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country
which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and
unattained ideals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and
occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air
of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the
evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are
hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read
his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one
important way it is soundly informative.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an
occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question
that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His
characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is
told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.
“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation
he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter
of narration his book contains many points which the more stately
writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington.
**$2.50. Duffield.
7–23717.
A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago,
illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters.
The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of
revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the
Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the
patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.
* * * * *
“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the
narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a
young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to
all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic
days.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–37648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves
much to be desired.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.
“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures
by the author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent
drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and
superficial.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.
“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling,
and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the
reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Peloubet, Francis N.= Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama
illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.
6–32405.
For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses
in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual
use.
* * * * *
“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate
of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the
interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less
than that of any other Old Testament writing.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to
Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader
a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian
ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M.
Cobern.
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.
“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of
the Old Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–28763.
“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond
ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an
organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a
captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast
scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in
search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of
hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much
literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.
“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting
tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward
tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course,
cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is
well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
− =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has
shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the
rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the
construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the
discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.
=Pendexter, Hugh.= Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man
Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11207.
A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman,
who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen
sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions
do not daunt him.
* * * * *
“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that
breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in
slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the
accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”
− =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.
“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the
grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb
for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.
* =Penfield, Edward.= Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–36404.
Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are
the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style
than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous
skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little
by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing
smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old
brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes
about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel
books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is
published.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and
Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.
7–8551.
“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter
of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a
brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great
marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru
Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and
to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing
rapidity.”
* * * * *
“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not
a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque
language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a
little truth.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.
“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the
fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he
speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.”
Elizabeth Kendall.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.
“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we
predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.
“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost
total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by
the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are
timely and deserving of general attention.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of
view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh
interest.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.
“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look
at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.
“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means
trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.
“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.
“This is an eminently readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey
Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
6–31406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Only for the larger library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
=Atlan.= 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.
“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than
discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.
“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.
“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the
time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.
“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not
offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque
and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50.
Moffat.
7–26347.
A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half
goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed.
Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever
manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph,
are vividly described.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a
buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.
“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of
the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious
history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story
is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the
rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of
prose without its flexibility.”
− =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly
entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and
the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
6–10671.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as
Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the
enlightening of American public opinion.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.
=Pepys, Samuel.= Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson
Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.
7–29045.
Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They
are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a
criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the
navy of this period are included.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Periam, Annina.= Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style.
*$1. Macmillan.
6–24558.
“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the
genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic
problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to
predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel,
Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s
work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and
mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.
* =Perkins, Lucy Fitch.= Book of joys: the story of a New England
summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–34806.
A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring
and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of
the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in
turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets,
with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence
all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
* * * * *
“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations
of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an
alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its
whimsicalities and oddities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch)=, comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures
as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–32850.
The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood
ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their
original form.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections,
but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in
color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.= Modern American lathe practice. $2.50.
Henley.
7–4843.
“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are
given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe
design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the
latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also
chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments,
turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book
is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly
treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35721.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that
disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy
to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little
disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions
as well as for his information.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to
read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely
different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual
comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the
first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s
antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life.
This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than
any that has come from the Whitman cult.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.
“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has
performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.
=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75.
Little.
6–24566.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.
5–40797.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and
personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Peters, Edward Dyer.= Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–12991.
“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods
and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting,
Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting,
Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags,
Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper,
Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry,
Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy
matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along
the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the
most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and
thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.”
Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.
=Peterson, Henry.= Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle.
†$1.50. Winston.
7–12980.
A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft,
with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It
mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft
ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released
from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips
lends her assistance.
* * * * *
“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full
of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring
recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful
thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest
well sustained until the very end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50.
Lane.
“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and
1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the
lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the
topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and
forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then
follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and
culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide,
1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding
winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at
Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of
Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two
sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter
in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save
interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is
considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single
campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done
a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his
forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic
history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.
7–25140.
A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the
information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two
interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending
armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class,
the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details
of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the
maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these
respects.”
− =Acad.= 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.
“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806,
there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault
Dodge.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.
“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling.
In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.
“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of
Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and
ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.
“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to
follow.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.
“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of
view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.
“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to
become the definitive authority upon the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto
not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly
successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely
humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.
“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of
footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in
this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of
the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
5–26752.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Solidly packed with facts.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Janus in modern life. (Questions of
the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.
7–37957.
A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley
lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present
day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and
individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what
the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the
bettering of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of
competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather
amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects
as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”
− =Acad.= 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.
“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon
archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little
book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we
may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about
them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think,
Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.
6–40918.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–9289.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.
“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and
tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating
features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing
to this growth.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings
in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D.
Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.
7–16364.
=v. 1.= “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has
availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present
volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied
with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting
way, the author’s well-known views.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records
and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned
critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St.
Paul.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by
Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.
7–29077.
A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author
defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the
beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian
systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of
Israel down to Christianity.
* * * * *
“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The
translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does
not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.= (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of
Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.
6–45018.
A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned
during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The
volume is illustrated by five drawings.
* * * * *
“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle
her material critically.”
− =Ind.= 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
=Phelps, William Lyon.= Pure gold of nineteenth century literature.
**75c. Crowell.
7–25233.
A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as
embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth.
Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin,
Eliot and Hardy.
* * * * *
“There is no alloy in his criticism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Philipson, David.= Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.
7–15617.
A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the
progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and
accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform
are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair,
The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England,
Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The
Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and
Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments
in Europe.
* * * * *
“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and
his book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.
“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the
reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and
importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.
=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
W 5–5.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming
pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all
the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional
language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but
neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr.
Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant
analysis carries conviction.”
+ + − =Spec.= 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30833.
A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered
gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world.
The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of
the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of
it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side
that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his
divorced wife.
* * * * *
“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the
theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private
interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power.
But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the
special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star
reporter on the daily newspaper.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the
dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal
brush.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–4160.
Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the
idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern
education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money,
and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of
Mr. Phillips’ preachment.
* * * * *
“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful,
absorbing, and timely.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠
“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best
novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of
a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The
moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of
unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift
were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and
industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these
ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic
heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the
children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a
certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth
may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen
system of finance wearisome to read about.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous
American life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips
has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency
rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract,
however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.
“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is
interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully
drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an
accomplished and universal fact of life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.
“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in
the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is
too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 100w.
“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most
exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I
am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon
Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 218. Ag. ’07. 190w.
=Phillips, Le Roy.= Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3.
Houghton.
6–43541.
“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books,
giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first
edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part
2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed....
Part 3 is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An
appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been
staged in London.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is
admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very
considerable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory
patience and care:” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 1210w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–7415.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will
not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 572. Mr. 9. ’07. 400w.
* =Phillpotts, Eden.= Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–32559.
Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw
color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of
Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant”
in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all
the fascination of her oriental heritage.
* * * * *
“We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an
unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 210w.
“In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that
imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and
here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of
the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words
make nature live again.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but
of no marked power.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 360w.
“The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.
7–8530.
Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born
of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall
love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his
garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the
world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost
magically.
* * * * *
“He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 380w.
“The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they
will enjoy it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. D. 24, ’06. 630w.
“Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves
besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader,
however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names.
The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur,
but it has no Index.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4812.
Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a
large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of
nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that
blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all
the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story
of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts
has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a
case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two
of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a
new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a
student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little
delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that
lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is
belittling.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 95. Ja. 26, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of
falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the
artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 450w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as
the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves
serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the
same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 127. Jl. ’07. 1350w.
“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less
spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital
individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something
stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot
is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has
found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty,
and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w.
“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the
greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
“So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and
the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1090w.
“It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine
himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many
and too much in the way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 400w.
“Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects
with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of
it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 191. Mr. 30, ’07. 570w.
“At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful
presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his
worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies
between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than
real.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 90w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Doubloons. †$1.50.
McClure.
6–39024.
A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which
abounds in the local color of the West Indies.
* * * * *
“There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of
nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a
failure, and does not arrest the attention.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.
“Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so
zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame
conclusion.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 210w.
“Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with
which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 148. F. 2. 160w.
“The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides
a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so
great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge
in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging,
and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 150w.
“The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by
the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of
satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 430w.
− + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being
quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 320w.
“It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with
a unique criminal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 530w.
“The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an
exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of
burlesque.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from
the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Phyfe, William Henry P.= Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il.
**$1. Putnam.
7–20318.
An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from
Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his
tomb in the Hôtel des invalides in Paris.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.
=Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many
facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 416. Je. 29, ’07. 190w.
=Pickering, Sidney.= Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just
‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life.
The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh
English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her
skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming
half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised
in serious style.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 130w.
“For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The
characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal
themselves by their speech and actions.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 891. D. 22, ’06. 590w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
“Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant
reading,”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
=Pickworth, Charles N.= Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.
A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be
simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative
examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few
of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 240w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33574.
“A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later
teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England.
The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life,
and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot
of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1. ’06. 100w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–16383.
“Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals,
their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their
work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself
in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human
nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense
of the niceties of language.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 380w.
“A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is
certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable
and comprehensive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection.
*$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41525.
=pt. 1.= “The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in
twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and
other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants,
ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more
than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue
describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 230w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from
ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is
increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and
devices on the scarabs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 447. N. 22, ’06. 240w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily
remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his
plan to its end.” H. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 148. Je. 13, ’07. 920w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Pierce, Ernest Frederic.= Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–37555.
“The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young
writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge
Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher.
It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 330w.
“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst
faults are those of inexperience.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4381.
In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley
tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of
oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he
institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many
illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly
England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of
corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of
the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part
justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between
the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Clear, forceful, controversial.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“The book contains the most startling array of facts.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 645. My. ’07. 670w.
“The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the
stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of
exports and imports at different periods and of different countries
should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils
of the protective system.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on
very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student.
We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of
this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.”
Chester W. Wright.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 308. My. ’07. 1230w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the
student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose.
The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation
of protective tariffs to public morals.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but
it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are
unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 104. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15. ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 60w.
=Pierce, James Oscar.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.
6–24023.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction
that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the
development of our country.”
+ + =Yale. R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 50w.
* =Pierson, Clara Dillingham.= Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.
6–35325.
A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do
the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out
to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the
kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be
dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration.
The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great
fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
“We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to
saints. **$1. Funk.
6–39748.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“We could wish that there might have been somewhat less
insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant
missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying
reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 25, ’06. 160w.
=Pirscher, Johanna.= Growth without end: a popular exposition of some
current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.
7–21388.
One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An
optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle
of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself
in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose,
devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.
=Pitman, Isaac.= Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in
English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.
A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common
commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but
rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some
knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.
* * * * *
+ =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.= Correspondence of William Pitt
when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval
commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society
of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6.
Macmillan.
“This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence
of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial
governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These
were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring
genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe,
and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.
* * * * *
“Valuable documentary publication.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 469. Ja. ’07. 70w.
“The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are
taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full
of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the
thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred
years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from
typographical errors, although there are one or two slight
topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the
Saguenay river.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 663. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 799. D. 22. 1730w.
“Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic
society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available
these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 117. S. 1, ’07. 790w.
“The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted;
while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of
practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil
Williams.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 377. Ap. ’07. 1980w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1413. Je. 13, ’07. 790w.
“Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready
arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers
preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the
less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking
public in this clear and readable form.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 3. Ja. 4, ’07. 2160w.
“The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss
Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 244. Mr. 14, ’07. 1780w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 970. Ag. 31, ’07. 550w.
“Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 326. Je. ’07. 990w.
“It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is
presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far
completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches
had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot,
however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 757. Mr. ’07. 460w.
“It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable
documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and
accessible form.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 170w.
“The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious
task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their
nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The
book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 143. Ja. 26. ’07. 1330w.
=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied
Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–30015.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There are a few minor features in the work which seem to fall short
of a sympathetic understanding of Catholicism. Looking for the good in
the work, however, we find it full of Christian sympathy, and of an
honest desire to make Christianity true to its social mission.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 698. F. ’07. 870w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1. ’07. 170w.
“A wholesome book and a tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 330w.
=Plumb, Charles Sumner.= Types and breeds of farm animals. *$2. Ginn.
7–1488.
Commonly accepted types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle,
sheep, goats and swine are treated in this volume, as for instance,
the draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle, and bacon type
of swine. It includes a discussion on original habitat, breed
development, history, work of pioneer breeders, characteristics, etc.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 130w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Mexico. Il. **$1.75. Holt.
7–19788.
A story told from the standpoint of Roy and Ray Stevens, lively twins,
who spend a summer in Mexico. They visit Mexican cities, meet
President Diaz, take part in an American colony’s celebration of the
fourth of July, visit ruins and landmarks, and incidentally learn
interesting bits of Mexican history. It is a travel book that will
interest old as well as young.
* * * * *
“Will be helpful to teachers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07.
“The pictures are particularly good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“A sensible book of travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 60w.
=Plunkett, Charles Hare.= Letters of one: a study in limitations.
**$1.25. Putnam.
7–12641.
“The book consists of more than forty letters, all purporting to be
from a writer who is cursed with the artistic temperament, and
addressed to a lady with whom he has fallen in love.... Every one of
these letters explains, from one aspect or another, the writer’s
conviction that courtship and marriage would involve infidelity to his
true mistress—his art.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The writing of these letters, from the literary standpoint, is
excellent. The sameness of the matter in them, tends to spoil the
book, which would have been more interesting if it had included some
of the replies to these highly wrought outpourings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 550w.
“Bears the unmistakable Benson stamp in conception and execution. As a
tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness at the summit of its
absurdity, the little book is a sort of curiosity.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 610w.
“An interesting study of the morbid and irritating type. As a reductio
ad absurdum of the artistic temperament theory, the book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 590. Je. 27, ’07. 490w.
“Not a manly enough character to arouse much admiration in the
reader’s mind. But it painted, with all its curious limitations and
contradictions, very clearly and convincingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 380w.
“Take it all in all, is pretty thin gruel, fit for an invalid, maybe,
but not very tasty at that. They do these things better on the
continent, you know.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“A very clever book this.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= Dorcaster days. †$1.25. Little.
7–31228.
A story for young people in which the simple, pure, near-to-nature
life of one family reforms the false, snobbish standards of another.
=Podmore, Frank.= Robert Owen, a biography. *$6. Appleton.
7–11019.
Mr. Podmore has gathered together and presented the details of the
life of this Welshman whose plans for a co-operative village marks the
beginning of modern socialism. The sketch follows his efforts and his
failure. “There is hardly an item in the whole modern programme of
social endeavour to-day, apart from religion, which he did not
initiate, promote, or suggest; and the gospel of salvation by
material-means, which is his gospel, gains ground everywhere at the
expense of all other gospels.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“An excellent and well-balanced biography. Mr. Podmore’s work will be
found of value to students of present social conditions, as well as to
those interested in early history in the middle west of America.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.
“It is not the final biography of the prophet of socialism—a more
illuminating one remains yet to be written; but it is opportune,
meritorious and acceptable.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 1300w.
“The life of Robert Owen, which Mr. Podmore has written with much
insight and considerable literary skill, is full of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 1040. Je. 30, ’06. 1400w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Poems; collected and edited, with a critical
introduction and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward
Woodberry. $1. Duffield.
7–21324.
The text adopted here is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the
edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe’s hand. There
is a critical introduction to the poems and notes including variant
readings.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
=Politovsky, Eugene S.= From Libau to Tsushima: a narrative of the
voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to eastern seas, including a
detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident; tr. by Major F. R.
Godfrey. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–10987.
A diary in the form of letters to his wife written by the chief
engineer of the fleet from Aug. 28, 1904 to May 10, 1905. “It presents
with greater vividness than any formal history can the life on the
Russian vessels during the seven months’ cruise from the Baltic around
Africa, the long, tedious stay at Madagascar and Kamranh Bay and the
preparations for the last fatal fight.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“If the author had been a closer observer and a more trained writer,
the letters might have been very valuable, since little is known of
that remarkable journey after the fleet left Tangier until it met its
doom.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 382. O. 13, ’06. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
=Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27. ’06. 190w.
“He is merely an intelligent outside observer, ready enough to make
allowances for the difficulties with which Rojdestvensky was beset;
but on that account his casual and incidental remarks are all the more
illuminative.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 310. S. 14, ’06. 1170w.
“His diary ... has deservedly been called a valuable contribution to
the history of the great struggle in the Far East. It holds material,
however, which should be subjected to careful interpretation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.
“The translator is to be congratulated upon his terse English and his
successful avoidance of foreign idioms. An index would have been most
acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of
life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it
can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster
of Tsushima.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w.
“A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did
during these nine months there could not be.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Factors in modern history and their
application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.
“Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing
chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object
is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects
‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as
they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and
inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century
history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from
which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the
period.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures.
His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the
middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting
and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is
happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen
to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of
detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 850w.
“A word should be added in appreciation of the author’s literary
style: the reviewer recalls no other discussion that brings out the
humor of history so freely and so delightfully. Professor Pollard’s
latest work is one that lovers of history will read with enjoyment as
well as with profit.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 480w.
“It is long since we have approached a book of historical philosophy
so intelligent or so incisive.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 640w.
“Some of the chapters are worthy of their author at his best; but
others are not likely to add to his reputation and, though they may
have been useful for their original purpose, ought not to have been
given to the world in this form.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 70w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 272. Ag. 31. ’07. 940w.
“It unquestionably merits the adjective ‘readable,’ which is more
often bestowed than deserved.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 390w.
=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
6–18588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 150w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It has occasional touches of verisimilitude, but its dramatic climax
belongs to the region of the impossible.”
− + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
=Pollok, Allan.= Studies in practical theology. $1.50. T. C. Allen &
co., Halifax, Canada.
“While the subject of preaching and pulpit preparation is not
neglected, much more space is devoted to such topics as the
clergyman’s life as a student, the conduct of public worship, the
adminstration of the church and the visitation of the sick, than is
usual in homiletical treatises. The best traditions of the Scottish
ministry, among which are scholarly industry, personal dignity,
unfailing courtesy, and above all things, fidelity and
conscientiousness, find a kindly and gentle exponent in Principal
Pollok.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 190w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.
=Pond, Oscar Lewis.= Municipal control of public utilities. **$1.50; pa.
**$1. Macmillan.
7–4379.
“He begins with the definition of the purely governmental and the
private or business functions of municipal corporations, discusses the
legal construction of municipal charters and the implied powers of
municipal corporations. He then sets forth ‘municipal purposes within
the meaning of the constitution,’ shows the grounds on which municipal
property is exempted from taxation, and treats of the sale of
municipal property, power to grant exclusive franchises, and the
regulation of charges for services rendered by private
corporations.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Legal rather than economic in its discussion, it is rather more
interesting to the student and general reader than most purely legal
treatises.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 166. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–19774.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is strong in its story element, but is not likely to have a large
influence in changing conditions.” Madeline Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 420w.
=Porter, Eleanor H.= Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.
7–27618.
The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a
little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to
grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets.
The book is a revealing child-labor document.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).= What I have done
with birds. **$3. Bobbs.
7–17394.
The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope:
“character studies of native American birds which through friendly
advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by
good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their
pictures.”
* * * * *
“Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears
throughout the book.” George Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 330w.
“A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes
it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of
the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style
and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 216. O. 1. ’07. 220w.
“Besides the numerous half-tones, the volume contains seventeen
full-page colored plates of unusual accuracy and beauty.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.
“Few books entail such actual labor as this, such marvelous patience,
and few books are produced with a spirit of enthusiastic at-one-ness
with the subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 170w.
=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
2–8573.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
=Porter, Robert Percival.= Dangers of municipal ownership. **$1.80.
Century.
7–3905.
A study of conditions in many of the most famous industrial centers of
the world lies back of Mr. Porter’s exposition. By way of a warning to
the United States, he gives a brief history of Municipal ownership in
Great Britain, pointing out the serious consequences of the
indiscriminate pursuit of the system there. He says “Trading with the
public credit, whether state or municipal, must, of necessity, lead to
stupendous financial liabilities, add to the burden of the rates,
weaken municipal credit, bring about inequality of taxation, interfere
with the natural laws of trade, check industrial and scientific
progress, stop invention, discourage individual effort, destroy
foreign trade, establish an army of officials, breed corruption,
create an aristocracy of labor, demoralize the voter, and ultimately
make socialistic communities of towns and cities.”
* * * * *
+ − =Acad.= 73: 108. N. 9, ’07. 1000w.
“Partisan in spirit but useful because it is practically the first
presentation of this side of the question.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
“As a wholly partisan writer on his chosen subject, Mr. Porter is an
unqualified success except as his zeal defeats his own ends.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Porter has given us one of the most vigorous and readable books
on this much-discussed subject. It is the work of an advocate but of
an advocate perfectly sure of the correctness of his position and
thoroughly alarmed at the tendencies he describes.” Wm. Hill.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 495. O. ’07. 600w.
“The book is well worth the study of those interested in present
economic conditions and is likely to attract considerable notice.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w.
“It is a real service to put the facts, which are accumulating clearly
before the public and to explain them, so that people may know what
they are doing. Mr. Porter’s book does that, and therein lies its
value.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 1270w.
“He Is a confessed and violent partisan, and too many of the figures
which he gives are untested and unfairly collated for inferences
dubiously drawn. This we the more regret because we agree in the main
with his point of view. Nor is his sense of order good.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.
“He goes on to declare that the object of his book is to set forth
‘the inherent defects of the whole principle of public trading.’ We do
not think that a book founded on this lack of discrimination and
taking for itself this sole object, will be of any great help to the
student of this problem.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 370w.
“This volume by Mr. Porter will attract attention, since it is
practically the first popular presentation of that side of the
discussion. Mr. Porter is a trained investigator and statistician, and
presents his case in an attractive and entertaining way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 38. Mr. ’07. 110w.
“Valuable as the work of a practical official and citizen of a
practical nation.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 130w.
=Porter, Thomas F.= City songs and country carols. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
6–41028.
Nearly two hundred and fifty poems including fireside reveries,
reminiscences, and sentiments of the philosopher, patriot and citizen.
=Post, Louis Freeland.= Ethical principles of marriage and divorce. *$1.
Public pub. co., Chicago.
6–13427.
A serious treatment in which “Mr. Post ... argues that without
unifying love marriage is essentially no better than concubinage.
Genuine marriage is not created by the formal ceremony that is
requisite to declare it; it exists before such declaration; it dies,
if the love that constitutes it dies; it is reasonable and also
conducive to moral interests that there should be a conventional
release from the remaining conventional bond.” (Outlook.) “The natural
inference from this is that when marriage ceases in reality, it should
cease also in form. Divorce should be granted and remarriage
permitted.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“We do not hesitate to call this book a classic on the subject of
marriage and divorce. It is the ultimate analysis, the final answer to
a problem engaging now, more than ever, human attention. We commend
its consideration to all Bible-bound ecclesiastics as well as to
free-lovers and sex-radicals wherever found.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 322. Mr. ’07. 2120w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Potter, Beatrix.= Tale of Tom Kitten. †50c. Warne.
7–28973.
A prettily illustrated children’s story by the author of “The tale of
Peter rabbit” and companion to it.
* * * * *
“Other folk, as well as Pickles, will find pleasure in the dry and
simple humor of the narrator, and the dainty pictures she has
provided.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 140w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and
archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
6–33595.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“The whole collection has so finely human a quality that it should
have interest to those in no way connected with either of the offices
that make so impressive an appearance in the title.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 260w.
“He is able to indicate character by a stroke here and there, and the
man stands before us, recalled by a good memory.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 39. Ja. 5, ’07. 1170w.
=Potter, Margaret.= The princess. †$1.50. Harper.
7–9844.
A sad story of love and intrigue with scenes drawn from Russian court
life. The central figure is Princess Catherine, who lived in aloofness
and isolation amid the social corruption about her which affected her
in its most humiliating sense thru the inconstancy of her husband. The
Czar and Czarina, diplomats and courtiers appear upon the stage where
there is enacted a drama lacking neither romantic nor tragic interest.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 120w.
“It is a pity that Miss Potter should have resorted to this trick of
supernaturalism, which seriously weakens her book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 240w.
“An interesting novel of sufficient verisimilitude to give life and
character to her narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 170w.
“It would be hard to imagine an uglier situation than that upon which
the action turns. Nevertheless the tale is in its way absorbing, and
not likely to be at once forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.
“Considering the general unpleasantness of Miss Potter’s theme, she
has managed its development with a good deal of skill, though some
doubts insist on obtruding as to her solution of the story’s final
problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 570w.
“Represents the highest achievement of its author yet given to the
public.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185. 549. Jl. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“An occult strain runs through the novel, managed with frankness and
some skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
* =Poulsson, Emilie.= Father and baby plays. †$1.25. Century.
7–38013.
A book of pictures, verses, music and notes for the teacher, father,
mother and baby. It is designed as a means of strengthening the tie
between father and child who are separated the whole day thru.
* * * * *
“A new and very attractive book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 20w.
“The verses which Miss Poulsson has written are most uneven. The
illustrations, however, are spirited and above the average.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 80w.
=Powell, Elmer Ellsworth.= Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s
metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with
a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and
incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.
6–21921.
“The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his
philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.
“The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much
logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w.
“The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his
liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does
much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to
be either stimulating or pleasing.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w.
“Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all
critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied
the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to
grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 339. My. ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–19419.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is popular in style and suggestive as to matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
=Pratt, Ambrose.= Counterstroke. *$1. Fenno.
A melodramatic story filled with lurid pictures. The characters are
“either Nihilists of the most rabid breed or members of a society
pledged to exterminate Nihilists by the use of tactics exactly modeled
on their own bloody methods—whence the title, ‘The counterstroke.’”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As lurid as the wildest dream of villainy and injured innocence that
ever found its way into the pages of the cheap story papers.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 180w.
=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a
naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. *$4.
Lippincott.
6–24917.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Pratt devotes little space in this book to natural history, its
bulk being given to a gossipy description of the author’s journeyings,
with remarks, too often inaccurate, on the natives he came in contact
with.” C. G. Seligmann.
− + =Nature.= 74: 58. My. 17, ’06. 890w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–7780.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:104. Ap. ’07.
“The pamphlet is well worth studying.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= Course in vertebrate zoology: a guide to the
dissection and comparative study of vertebrate animals. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–1432.
“The work includes practical directions for the dissection and study
of seven types of vertebrates; the dogfish for the elasmobranchs; the
perch for the teleost; the Necturus and frog for the amphibians; the
turtle; pigeon; and cat.... Each type is treated independently of the
rest, and may be studied separately.... It is strictly a laboratory
guide, not a treatise on comparative anatomy.”—School R.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding drawbacks, the work remains as a useful guide to
those teachers who wish to arrange a course in comparative anatomy.”
+ − =Nature.= 74: sup. 8. O. 11, ’06. 750w.
“One might have wished that the author had omitted entirely the very
incomplete, incorrect, antiquated, and obsolete outline of the
classification of the vertebrates, for which, however, the author is
responsible only in accepting Wiedersheim as an authority. The work
itself, for which the author is responsible, is remarkably free from
errors.” S. W. Williston.
+ − =School R.= 15: 235. Mr. ’07. 280w.
=Pratt, James Bissett.= Psychology of religious belief. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–4164.
A discussion which is more concerned with the modest and concrete
problem of the nature of belief in a God or gods and the basis or
bases on which this belief really rests than with the nature or the
definition of religion. The author aims to break ground in a rich but
neglected field.
* * * * *
“The book will repay study. We must, however. submit that Professor
Pratt’s definition of intellectual belief stands in need of
modification.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 25: 255. My. ’07. 430w.
“Valuable work.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 418. Ap. ’07. 1820w.
“As a simple direct presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is
to be commended.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, 07. 280w.
“The argument is well reasoned, and is expressed in clear and popular
style.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 140w.
“This volume is a happy addition to the rapidly growing literature of
religious psychology. It deals with the side of the subject that as
yet has received scant attention from the scientific students of the
religious consciousness. The clear and simple style of the book,
together with the note of earnestness and sincerity that pervades it,
makes it a pleasure to read. It is a scholarly study of a
psychological problem. It will be read with profit by many who have
neither a psychological training nor scholarly interests. A carefully
selected bibliography of the psychology of religion and an index add
to the usefulness of the book for the purposes of the student.” F. C.
French.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 383. Jl. 4, ’07. 1680w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“One can hardly ask for a clearer vindication than this volume
presents of the absolute validity of the religious consciousness.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 831. Ag. 17, ’07. 1030w.
* =Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. Schirmer.
Distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or
critical survey of a few salient aspects, or a specialist’s report of
original research. It is encyclopedic in its fulness and from
primitive or savage music down to later nineteenth century music the
leading tendencies or movements of musical advance are discussed.
=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of
the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–22387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Threshing as it does over fields already covered by many excellent
works, such a book as this should find its justification in clearness
of presentation, yet in this respect it can hardly be called a
success. The language is often so confused as to be almost
unintelligible, and many errors appear which should have been detected
in a careful reading of the manuscript or of the proof.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 650w.
=Prendergast, William A.= Credit and its uses. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–40205.
“This book treats briefly of the theory of credit, urging that,
besides the tangible element of property, the intangible element of
good faith, or confidence, is fundamental. Thus he holds strongly that
credit is chiefly dependent on these intangible elements.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is sufficiently popular to be understood by the layman, is
strong on the practical side. Its weakness on the theoretical side
will not hurt it as an introduction to practical problems of credit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07.
“The weakest part of the book is that dealing with the theory of
credit.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 480w.
“Whatever the value to be assigned to his treatment of the academic
side of credit, the book must really be estimated by the useful
compilation he has made of material bearing on the practical side of
the question.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 320w.
“A work serviceable at some points and altogether unsatisfactory at
others.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 142. F. 7. ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentice, Ezra Parmalee.= Federal power over carriers and corporations.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4172.
A book which deals with the nature and extent of powers belonging to
the general government and not with Congressional legislation. In Mr.
Prentice’s study, constitutional construction is interpreted by the
aid of constitutional history.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Prentice’s excellent work has serious limitations which are
doubtless the result of his close identity with certain large
corporations whose activities may be more or less affected by the
enforcement of the anti-trust act.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 186. Jl. ’07. 800w.
“Apart from its interest to the lawyer and the lawmaker, the book is
of value to all who are concerned with or are interested in the
problems of government and economics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 273. Ja. 31, ’07. 950w.
“On the whole, however, it must be said that the book’s place is as a
readable partisan account of the development of a constitutional
doctrine, and not as a serious contribution to the legal literature of
the subject.” James Parker Hall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 238. Ap. ’07. 1680w.
“For some students of constitutional theories they may have their
interest; but to the elucidation of the practical questions now before
the country they contribute substantially nothing.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 350w.
“He writes like a lawyer, with close study of the precedents, and with
no wandering from his text. The book is not large, but it is weighty,
and calls for an answer. The subject cannot be allowed to drop until
it is settled, and those wishing the latest word cannot afford to
neglect Mr. Prentice’s discussion.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. ’07. 1670w.
“This is the book of a lawyer, but one written less for lawyers than
for those, whatever may be their lines of life, who are now studying
from the historical standpoint the Rooseveltian theory of
constitutional government.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 311. F. 1, ’07. 1530w.
“The rarity of lapses emphasizes the scrupulous care with which the
work has been prepared, while the industry, skill and conviction of
the author make criticism difficult.” H. A. Cushing.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 716. D. ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentis, John Harcourt.= Case of Dr. Horace: a study of the importance
of conscience in the detection of crime. †$1.25. Baker.
7–12637.
In the interests of psychology, to prove how great a part the
conscience of a criminal plays in the detection of his crime, two
friends devise a daring test. They substitute the body of a man who
died at a hospital for Dr. Horace, who promptly disappears on a two
weeks’ vacation. They arrange the body so that murder is evident, they
furnish a motive and every clue points to Wallace, the other man in
the plot, as the murderer. Then follows the work of the detectives on
the trail of the murderer without a conscience. The story is
interesting, and the end is clever, altho it evades the psychological
point.
* * * * *
“The story, however, though readable thruout, weakens deplorably in
the latter chapters.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Price, George Bacon.= Gaining health in the West, (Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona); being impressions of a layman. *$1. Huebsch.
7–19791.
Based upon seven years’ personal experience with “climate” this little
volume offers sane and valuable advice to all who are obliged to seek
the West in search of health. It discusses climatic conditions,
marital obligations, social and ethical aspects, tells where and how
to live, how to avoid loneliness, how to get employment and many other
things which only one who has learned the detailed lessons taught by
experience can know.
* * * * *
“Anyone contemplating a Colorado residence, especially if in search of
health, will find this little volume an admirable substitute for such
advice as he might expect from an experienced sensible, and
sympathetic friend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is a sensible little book of good advice for the consumptives:”
+ =Ind.= 63: 344. Ag. 8, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 70w.
* =Price, John Ambrose.= The negro: past, present, and future. $1.50.
Neale.
A three part treatment. The Past is a vindication of the old south as
regards the black man, the Present reveals the negro as he exists in
the south to-day under peculiar conditions and circumstances, the
Future relates the possibilities of what may come to the American
negro.
=Price, William Hyde.= English patents of monopoly. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–36187.
In this volume “the application of the common law to cases of monopoly
down to the enactment of the common-law principle in the statute of
monopolies in 1624, is followed in detail.... Having treated of the
political and economic aspects of the monopoly system as a whole, the
author devotes succeeding chapters to several selected important
industries wherein monopolies were established.... In appendices,
occupying something over one hundred pages, original documents,
statutes, letters, and proclamations concerning patents, monopolies,
and commissions, and touching grievances, are reprinted.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
“This somewhat perfunctory treatment of the larger question involved
is our principal, in fact almost our only criticism of this serious
study by a well-trained investigator of an interesting and important
subject. We regret that a more restricted subject was not taken, or
else that the first chapter, the ‘political history’ of the
monopolies, was not made much longer and more serious, more
discriminating and more scientifically historical. We have no doubt
that the author is entirely capable of having so treated it, but was
led astray by a predominatingly economic interest.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 878. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“To that literature [English economic history] the present monograph
is a scholarly contribution.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Price ... deals with the matter as a historian rather than as a
legislator or statesman, but publicists cannot read his excellent
contribution to the subject of monopolies without finding it highly
suggestive.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 1650w.
=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh
(E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–42429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His various adventures are well told, and we shall be delighted to
meet him again next time he comes to life.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“Here are twelve new sketches of the career of this redoubtable
brigand; and if they are inferior to their predecessors, the
difference is not noticeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.
“The narratives making up the volume ... are crowded with exciting
incident and are capitally told.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 110w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 86. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian.= Modern bookbindings; their design and
decoration. *$3. Dutton.
6–33798.
“An account of the best English and French bookbinders of the day,
written by an artist of their work.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The only objection to it that can be raised is that, none of the
artist’s own work being included, it is incomplete as a representation
of what is being done.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 81. Jl. 21. 550w.
“Miss Prideaux has admirably supplemented her former volume,
‘Book-binders and their craft.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 160. Jl. 18, ’07. 280w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.
“There is scarcely any attempt at technical exposition, so that these
who take up the book with the object of gaining information on these
points must be warned to look elsewhere.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
=Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 100w.
=Prince, Leon Cushing.= Bird’s-eye view of American history. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–12868.
A brief survey of American history from the discovery by Columbus down
to the Roosevelt administration.
* * * * *
“In view of the space-limits of the book, some topics receive
surprisingly comprehensive treatment. To the mature reader this
outline will prove serviceable in connection with more extended
histories. The book’s usefulness, however, is greatly impaired by the
inexcusable omission of an index.” George H. Haynes.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 183. O. ’07. 610w.
“There are too many errors of fact. Nor is Mr. Prince always happy in
his generalizations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 271. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
“Is generally speaking, in accord with the findings of modern
scholarship. It is not free from questionable statements. But against
these defects must be set some really striking features.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Any student of American history who finds himself confused or
overwhelmed by the mass of material that is presented in more
elaborate works should make it a point to read Professor Prince’s book
for the sake of its clarifying effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 90w.
=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in
abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
5–42041.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Francis Harold Dike.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 2340w.
=Prudden, Theophil M.= On the great American plateau: wanderings among
canyons and buttes in the land of the cliff-dweller, and the Indian of
to-day; il. by E. Leaming. **$2. Putnam.
7–1482.
The reader is here afforded “glimpses of the rugged southwest country,
with its quaint aborigines and the ruins of an older folk.” “Of
prehistoric remains, of the life and work of primitive house-builders,
and of the present conditions of Indian life on the great plateau Dr.
Prudden tells us much, while the natural wonders of the locality are
graphically described.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The interpretation of the far southwest requires a command of
language and a power of appreciation possessed by few writers. Mr.
Prudden has both. Perhaps the best recommendation that can be given
this picturesque description is that it makes the reader anxious to
see what is spoken of with his own eyes.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 646. My. ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Prudden’s style is notably vigorous and enthusiastic.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 735. Mr. 28, ’07. 210w.
“The book on the whole has the charm of freshness and reality.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 748. N. 10, ’06. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.
“A popular travel book, but it is not of the superficial variety. It
is the work of a keen observer who reflects upon what he sees.” Cyrus
C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 100w.
=Pryce, Richard.= The successor: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25083.
Here is a story with a mystery surrounding the birth of an heir to a
vast English estate. The moral law is sacrificed to the interests of
ambition, and like many a modern story, no retribution follows for the
offenders. The art of the story teller protects the mystery almost too
well. The best character of the story is that of a faithful servant
who served the house rather than individuals.
* * * * *
“However venturesome the foundation of its plot, this book cannot be
charged with grossness. The seasoned reader will get from if no great
harm, but much delightful entertainment. The immature reader will do
just as well not to make its acquaintance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The style is evidently an earnest attempt to follow in the crooked
footsteps of Henry James, and the matter, too, is not so very
different from the sort of exposition upon which that master expends
his genius. One might even say at the risk of great contumely, that,
being at least lucid, it is really a little better worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Birth of the
nation, Jamestown, 1607. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–14669.
In view of the Jamestown celebration special emphasis is here laid
upon the part which it played in the birth of our nation. Beginning
with the legends of early discoverers, the story of the colonization
of Virginia is given briefly but with good detail, the men both white
and red, who took active part in the struggle with the wilderness are
vividly pictured in connection with the work they did. It is not a
history of Jamestown, it is a history of the great movement which
created Jamestown and preserved it, and it is a timely tribute to the
town’s significance.
* * * * *
“It is based upon all the available sources, and these have been
fairly well used. There is no offensive display of the critical
spirit; neither is the author credulous. In the way of criticism, it
may be said that the author seems to think that Powhatan is a name,
not a title; that too much space is devoted to descriptions of the
Indians and their life, and not enough attention to conditions among
the colonists; that there is no index, and some of the illustrations
would be better suited to a work of fiction.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 66. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.
“It is the careful, finished work of one who loves the task for its
own sake, and who has lived long with her materials.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 230w.
“This book is in all respects a worthy and interesting memorial of the
Jamestown celebration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“She has weighed the reputations of men in the balance, and one feels
that her judgment is equally just and sympathetic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 1320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“No better book could be found to give a lively impression of the
early days of the seventeenth century, and to refresh our knowledge of
the events we are now celebrating in old Jamestown.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 70w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
5–16135.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is composed of a series of delightful essays whose charm can escape
neither the casual nor the critical reader. Its difficulties are
exactly the crucial difficulties of the subject.” I. Madison Bentley.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 86. Ja. ’07. 1700w.
=Pulitzer, Walter.= Cozy corner confidences. 75c. Dodge.
A collection of epigrams gathered from comic periodicals.
* * * * *
“The collection makes a readable booklet after the style of the
‘Cynic’s calendar.’”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Pullan, Richard Butterfield.= Currency and coin. *$1. Occasional
publisher.
7–23269.
“This excursion of a business man into monetary reform is based upon a
desire to adjust bimetallism and the use of silver to the gold
standard. Instead of ‘asset currency’ he suggests more silver.
Thinking our currency insufficient, he advises that the government,
‘under a safe and conservative system of bimetallism,’ should greatly
increase our circulating medium.... Next, the author proposes an
indefinite increase of government bonds, to be called upon request of
any national bank which will pay in gold or silver to an amount equal
to the par value of the bonds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The whole scheme is whimsical, and not worthy of serious attention.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 493. O. ’07. 230w.
“We have suffered too much from bad finance to allow tenderness for an
author to encourage his errors by condoning them.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 520w.
“The whole treatment shows lack of familiarity with the principles of
monetary science and the literature of the subject.”
− =Yale R.= 16: 335. N. ’07. 90w.
=Putnam, George Haven.= Censorship of the church of Rome, and its
influence upon the production and distribution of literature. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–1301.
To be complete in two volumes. The work is a study of the history of
the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some
consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of
censorship by the state. It includes a list of the more important
decrees, prohibitions, briefs, and edicts relating to the prohibition
of specific books from the time of Gelasius I., 567 A. D., to the
issue in 1900 of the latest of the church under Leo XIII.
=v. 2.= “The theological controversies in France, Germany, England,
and the Netherlands, from 1600 to 1750, are first discussed. These are
followed by a study of the treatment of the Scriptures under
censorship in these countries and Spain, and then the author considers
the relations of the censorship to the various monastic
orders—Jesuits, Dominicans, Casuits Seculars, and Regulars.” (N. Y.
Times.) Further he describes the Roman Indexes, gives brief
descriptions of examples of condemned literature, and discusses the
subject of censorship.
* * * * *
“Who can commend in any way, especially to a general reader, looking
for the information on a specific point, a book which contains
numerous errors on almost every page?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12. 871. Jl. ’07. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Can he cite any instances of a misunderstanding of the subject of the
books, and of the language in which they are written, as remarkable as
those of which he himself is guilty?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 135. O. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 2.)
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 403. Ap. 6. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As we turn over these pages we have often felt ourselves, like the
cave dwellers in Plato, trying to reconstruct the facts from the
shadows of them before us. The author’s general conclusion as to the
effect of censorship is correct and obvious.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book ... is honorably free from bias. He is simply and
solely a historian, and he tries, and successfully tries, to put
before us the main facts, in the history with which he deals.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 552. Jl. ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We do not mean to say that the book is free from hints and phrases to
which the majority of Catholics would object. But, looking at the
matter impartially, we are bound to credit Dr. Putnam with the desire
to be a just and equitable historian.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 839. S. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It may be remarked in passing, however, that the value of the work as
a book of reference might have been enhanced by the provision of a
more complete general index.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 338. Je. 1, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam has accomplished his difficult task with conscientious
thoroness and complete scientific impartiality. If we may suggest a
possible improvement in the work, we would observe that the medieval
prohibitions of Bible-reading in the vernacular are too summarily
dismissed.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 969. Ap. 25, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work, as now completed, ranks second only to Reusch as a history
of prohibitive book legislation, and is easily the best authority on
the subject in the English language.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Fairness and justice, and that essential historical perspective which
is attained by transporting oneself into the epoch described are the
prevailing traits of the work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In dealing with this large and difficult subject, Dr. Putnam appears
to have fallen between two stools. Although the book shows evidence of
considerable labor and contains much matter not to be found elsewhere
in convenient form, it is frankly selective, and therefore not of
essential value for scholars. On the philosophical side, again, Dr.
Putnam has but little to offer. The book is somewhat loose in style
and inaccurate in minor details.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The temper in which the work is done and the purposes manifested by
the writer are open to the appreciation of all. It would be ungracious
to close this slight notice of Mr. Putnam’s work without an expression
of appreciation for the unusual lucidity of his style.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is prepared by a scholar for scholars. It takes rank with such
works as Henry Charles Lea’s volumes on ‘The Inquisition of the middle
ages,’ ‘The inquisition of Spain’ and ‘Sacradotal celibacy.’ We
predict that it will be an authority on this subject for American and
English readers.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 520. Jl. 6, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam presents the facts with all impartiality, and has given
scholars a serviceable book of reference. The profusion of misprinted
Latin words in volume 1 is unfortunate.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 209. Ag. 17, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book is a triumph of industry and, what is not less
important in such a matter, impartiality.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 296. Ag. 31, ’07. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Pyle, Howard.= Stolen treasure. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18095.
Four as stirring tales of romance and adventure of pirates and buried
treasure as ever delighted boys old or young. They are entitled: With
the buccaneers, Tom Chist and the treasure box, The ghost of Captain
Brand, and The devil of New Hope. The volume is illustrated by the
author.
* * * * *
“Should prove entertaining to both young and old.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Although Mr. Pyle’s delightful tales appeal primarily to youthful
readers they may be recommended as a sort of tonic for adults grown
weary of the fiction of the day. The pictures, which are by the
author, are of course in perfect tune with the lively narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6.’07. 210w.
“These stories are his best of the type. There are four of them and
they are each distinctive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Story of Sir Launcelot and his companions, il.
**$2.50. Scribner.
7–34314.
The story is told in text and pictures. The book is “a companion to
the former volumes dealing with the Round table, and it follows the
original closely in spirit. In the re-telling of Malory, there is
always a loss of spirit and of ruggedness, however sincere the effort
may be: and it takes a genius equal to Malory’s own to rewrite him.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is far superior to the average attempt.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Pyle, Katharine, and Portor, Laura S.= Theodora. †$1.25. Little.
7–32563.
A book for little girls which tells of the experiences of Theodora
Winthrop in an Episcopal sisters’ school in New York city during her
father’s absence abroad. It contains a lesson of hatred turned to love
through careful guidance.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
Q
=Quayle, William Alfred.= God’s calendar, il. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–34142.
The significance of each month is imaginatively revealed and its
secrets uncovered in the thirteen chapters of Mr. Quayle’s offering.
The illustrations are beautiful and suggestive of dream life in
nature.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book is distinctly rapturous, but it will find many
appreciators. One would surmise that it will be especially popular
with the older generation of readers, who have not been sated with
nature books, and who will like it for expressing feelings which they
have never quite dared to voice for themselves.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
Queen’s festivals: an explanation of the feasts of the blessed Virgin
Mary for her little ones. 60c. Benziger.
7–16988.
An introduction is followed by three parts devoted respectively to The
Queen’s anniversaries, Festivals of the Queen’s titles, and The
Queen’s Sundays.
* =Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
The hero of this story is a young minister at the head of a
fashionable Chicago church who recoils from the luxury of his
congregation’s worship, and espouses the real and vital cause of the
dwellers in the underworld. With him are associated a sturdy,
strong-willed propagandist of the Henry George principles and a
dark-skinned girl who fearlessly lives her faith. It is a study which
involves various religious and economic questions of to-day.
R
=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital. **$4. Macmillan.
6–7791.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His rearrangement of the text represents a great improvement over the
original form. While he has employed his privilege of annotating very
sparingly, such notes as he has attached are uniformly helpful.” Alvin
S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 162. Mr. ’07. 1310w.
“Dr. Mixter has done work of a valuable type in producing this volume,
for, whether Rae’s economic conclusions are accepted or not, they are
certainly a most stimulating contribution to the history of
economics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.= Dante and his Italy. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–29016.
“To look at Italy through the eyes of Dante himself, and having looked
to realise her for others, as she appeared to the poet during his
sojourn upon earth, has been the chief aim of the author of this new
study.... He begins with a rapid sketch of the state of Europe as a
whole at what he calls the ‘critical moment of Dante’s life, the ideal
state of his vision,’ passing on to concentrate his attention first on
Italy, then on Florence, and finally on Dante himself, tracing his
literary antecedents, calling up one after another the possibilities
of his contemporary authors and of his hosts during the weary
wanderings of his exile, the narrative terminating with an eloquent
account of the last days at Ravenna, and of the impression caused by
the news that the great genius had passed away.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Our chief quarrel with Mr. Ragg is on account of his trick of
introducing trivialities, hardly suited to the dignity of his theme.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1120w.
“Canon Ragg is steeped to the finger tips in Dantesque lore, is
thoroughly familiar with everything written by the man to whom his
book is one long tribute of homage, and is gifted with an imagination
so vivid that he has been able to piece together a very realistic
picture of the period at which his hero lived.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 169. Ag. ’07. 200w.
“His task is suited to his powers, which are, it must be said, not
inconsiderable. He gives the delightful impression, so rarely received
in these days, that he knows a great deal more than he has set down.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 164. My. 24, ’07. 1340w.
“With a little more system, a greater tenacity in developing each of
his themes, Mr. Ragg would have written a book to be often opened for
reference after being once read for pleasure. It is a pity, that this
book should be marred by many misprints in foreign words. A more
serious defect is an excessive fondness for the dramatic and
picturesque, which leads Mr. Ragg into baseless conjectures and
striking inconsistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 1070w.
“Everywhere Canon Ragg writes as a man, scholarly and imaginatively
dominated by his subject, and yet with a painstaking discretion which
at once enables the reader to separate facts from hearsay. On one or
two points, however, he shows that he has not followed the researches
of Dante’s scholars as carefully as he has the half-forgotten
chronicles of the poet’s contemporaries.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 2220w.
“Dr. Ragg’s narrative style, clear, compact, smooth, well fits his
subject-matter.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 410w.
“Many of Mr. Ragg’s statements have that air of generalization which
belongs to ideas absorbed at second-hand. He needs a course of
reading, and above all a study of statutes and documents.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 688. Je. 1, ’07. 750w.
“If the writer allows himself here and there a touch of fancy not
altogether authorised by known facts, he never in any case sins
against probability.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 233. Ag. 17, ’07. 1140w.
=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a
tale of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
6–35940.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and
Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest.
As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the
marvellous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w.
“Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness
of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful
pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The
result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception
and treatment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.
=Raleigh, Walter Alexander.= Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.
7–15578.
A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets
Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters:
Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre,
Story and character, and The last phase.
* * * * *
“A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07. S.
“It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this
country has yet produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w.
“Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have
considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama.
This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward
Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w.
“He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what
everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes
not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we
have said enough.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w.
“To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the
writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The
point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read
with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and
failed.” Frank Moore Colby.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w.
“For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public
favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an
abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the
style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the
felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a
display of genius.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Raleigh has given us an essay, overflowing with life, crammed
with suggestion, full of stimulating ideas and happy turns of phrase,
and with no dull page from beginning to end. It is table-talk _in
excelsis_, stamped with all the freshness and brightness of an
original mind. This impromptu nature of Mr. Raleigh’s criticism brings
with it, of course, the defect of its quantity.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2870w.
“We are delighted to find him penetrating to the root of the matter,
which is that Shakespeare’s stage was a platform and not, like ours, a
picture-frame, and that drama written to be played on a platform took
a peculiar shape from that very fact. Alive to the fact, he seems to
be dead, or only half alive, to its consequences. He has the key,
nourishes it, and then, instead of using it, puts it in his pocket.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 141. My. 8, ’07. 1700w.
“The book is not well constructed; and throughout, the author’s
strength lies rather in stimulating comment than in logical
inference.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 11, ’07. 1400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 256. Ap. 20, ’07. 330w.
“Prof. Raleigh’s comprehension of this theatre and its demands lends
much value to his book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 288. My. 4, ’07. 1230w.
“It is in his consideration of Shakespeare as a poet and as a creator
of character that Professor Raleigh is seen at his best.” Brander
Matthews.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 780. Ag. 2, ’07. 1090w.
“Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker,
and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy
assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better
than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w.
“Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a
vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard
without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.
“Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a
scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w.
“The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is
a professor.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Pauline, and other studies in early
Christian history. *$3. Armstrong.
7–29067.
A group of fifteen essays touching upon the character of Paul, the
authorship of the Acts and early Christianity in Asia Minor. They have
been collected from various British magazines and are accompanied by a
great number of illustrations.
* * * * *
“The book exhibits all those qualities which we are accustomed to look
for in Professor Ramsay’s writings; freshness of standpoint, flashes
of insight only possible to a scholar of rich and varied learning,
unflagging zest in the handling of his subject—a zest which
communicates itself to the reader—and that lucid and forcible style
which has done so much to popularize the results of his
investigations.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 527. Jl. ’07. 1330w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 820w.
“Many possess permanent value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 60w.
“Since the author confessedly speaks as ‘a historian and geographer,’
one cannot fail to notice the dogmatic tone that marks some of his
purely theological utterances.” George H. Gilbert.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 294. O. ’07. 1030w.
=Ind.= 62: 505. D. 28, ’07. 50w.
“The title is inexact and the unity of character in the studies
slight.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.
“Not only does Professor Ramsay bring fresh and valuable instruction
from the field of his special study, but he renders good service as a
judicious moderator of the schools of critics.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the most
interesting in the book, not only intrinsically, but because Professor
Ramsay is so great an authority on the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Randal, John.= Sweetest solace. $1.50. Dutton.
7–7197.
Gascoigne square, Whitborough, is made the scene of a pretty love
story in which two young girls from Australia come into the square as
mistresses of a board school. Here they meet a number of interesting
people, differing widely in character and social position, and here
the mystery of their father, who had lived his young life in this very
square, is unravelled, leaving them free to marry the two young men of
wealth and family who have come to love them. It is not the mystery,
however, which is uppermost for interest centers around the quaint
characters and their old prejudices: the social climbers, dear old
Miss Blackiston, wholehearted Ben Cox, Lord Streybridge, narrow-minded
Mrs. Petch, spiteful Miss Marston, and all the others.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.
“This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope
atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when
depicting a cad.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
* =Rannie, David Watson.= Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.)
**$3.50. Putnam.
“Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together
as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with
the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises;
Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers,
Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper
perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd
slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and
dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book
yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very
atmosphere in which these men moved.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w.
“This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book
on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Ransom, Olive.= Woman’s heart: manuscripts found in the papers of
Katherine Peshconet and ed. by her executor, Olive Ransom. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
6–11548.
The diary of a woman who loved a priest. “It is difficult to imagine a
twentieth-century Abelard receiving letters from an American Héloïse;
letters so quivering with intensity of emotion and with also a touch
of classicism that would have suited well the Renaissance spirit.”
(Ind.) “As for Katherine, if hers was a woman’s heart, then, indeed,
is a woman a daughter of Eve. She argued through years, got what she
wanted, and died for it.” (N. Y. Times.) The book “tells an
interesting story, altho its hold is purely psychical.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The old arguments against the theories and practices of the Roman
Catholic church, even here in America, are reiterated with amazing
vivacity and freshness.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 220w.
“The book leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 500w.
* =Ransome, Arthur.= Bohemia in London. **$1.50. Dodd.
Here is presented London’s historical and present-day Bohemia with the
Parisian “tinsel and sham” wanting. “The ‘Bohemia in London’ is
distinctly British and not Gallic; it is founded on the same code of
laws as that which prevailed in the more famous Bohemia of Paris;
there is no exaggeration in its pictures and there is no suppression
of realities.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“His book, if not exciting, is readable enough.” G. S. S.
+ =Acad.= 73: 158. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“I feel very confident that ‘Bohemia in London’ will prove a distinct
literary success. I can say with conviction that the book gives the
most life-like picture of that London quarter which the author sets
himself to describe. The book is rich in humorous descriptions and
portraitures, has many pathetic scenes, and gleams here and there with
genuine poetic feeling.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1420. D. 12, ’07. 200w.
“The book is entertainingly and thoughtfully written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for
high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
6–24099.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book contains little or nothing that is original either in
material or treatment. Moreover. it does not seem at all adapted to
the use for which its author intends it.”
− =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.
=Rappaport, Philip.= Looking forward: a treatise on the status of woman
and the origin and growth of the family and the state. $1. Kerr.
6–23736.
“As the preface states, ‘this book is written from the standpoint of
historic materialism.’ Its aim is to show how past forms of the family
and of the state have been determined by economic conditions,
especially by methods of production, and to demonstrate incidentally
that Marxian socialism is the only means of social salvation and the
natural goal of development. The author shows considerable
acquaintance with the socialist school of social and economic writers,
but beyond that his acquaintance with the scientific literature of the
subjects upon which he writes is very limited.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“Like all socialist writers, he makes large use of Buckle and Morgan,
but he seems utterly unaware of the works of later investigators which
long since have made Buckle and Morgan out of date.” Charles A.
Ellwood.
− =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 563. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It is an extremely valuable book, because it is fundamental in
character and rationalistic in method of treatment. There is,
therefore, no appeal to emotionalism, sentimentality or prejudice that
would tend to cloud the reason or obscure the unbiased judgment.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 443. Ap. ’07. 3280w.
=Rashdall, Hastings.= Theory of good and evil: a treatise on moral
philosophy. 2v. *$4.75. Oxford.
7–18191.
“In the first instance it is intended for ‘undergraduate students in
philosophy,’ and is not supposed to assume any previous acquaintance
either with ethics or with general philosophy. In the second place, it
aims at working out an ethical theory which shall be in some sense a
higher synthesis of Green and Sidgwick, to whose memory the book is
dedicated.” (Lond. Times.) “In the first volume, Mr. Rashdall deals
with the fundamental conceptions of ethics.... In the second volume
the author examines what he regards as the metaphysical implications
of ethics, but he hardly proves the propriety of introducing such a
discussion Into a treatise on moral philosophy.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This treatise, though concerned with the investigation of profound
questions, is singularly successful in its avoidance of all
ponderosity and pedantry. Written in a pleasing style, it is readable
throughout. The problems discussed are clearly presented, the line of
argument is always developed with logical care and dialetical skill,
the discussions of even the most abstract questions are uniformly
lucid and illuminating. Much of the suggestive power of the work is
derived from the wealth of pertinent illustration, upon his abundant
store of which the author draws freely.” A. R. Gifford.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 548. S. 26, ’07. 1900w.
“In spite of the disadvantages incident to his plan, Dr. Rashdall has
produced a very readable and useful book. Without being strikingly
original his criticisms and contentions touch fundamental issues and
rest upon a full knowledge of ethical thought in the past as well as
of recent discussions. One of the features of the book is its
fairmindedness and moderation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1690w.
“The discussion is generally sympathetic—often entertaining, and in
attention to details the author has been industrious and thorough. Yet
the final impression left upon the reader is that of logical looseness
and structural weakness.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 870w.
“The chief merits of his book [are] clearness and force with which the
problem of morality is stated and the fearlessness with which the
author follows out his own solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1004. Je. 29, ’07. 1800w.
=Rauschenbusch, Walter.= Christianity and the social crisis. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–13925.
The author begins his study of tracing the relations of Christianity
to the social crisis as far back as the days of the greater Hebrew
prophets. He finds reasons for the “halting and groping,” conscience
of Christendom, “perplexed by contradicting voices” and finds reasons
for “freeing an honest man’s heart” on the maxims of the past and the
imperious call of the future.
* * * * *
“Of less value is the later and constructive part of the work where an
attempt is made to outline the immediate measures which should be
taken to mitigate the evils of our time. Such questions cannot be
successfully treated in the form of rhetorical appeals to somewhat
vague and elementary feelings and without a mastery of technical
economic reasoning which is not revealed in the work itself.” Charles
Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
“There is not room here to show the successive stages by which
Professor Rauschenbusch builds up his structure of thought to its
culmination: we can only say that nothing in it is set down in
carelessness or in ignorance, and that it cannot be ignored by any one
who would understand the social thought of today.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 410w.
“Professor Rauschenbusch writes in the heat of religious zeal and with
reforming passion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 530w.
“It is a book to like, to learn from, and, though the theme be sad and
serious, to be charmed with.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“While its argument is strongly based on economic, historical,
ethical, and religious grounds, its temper and tone, admirably
dispassionate and judicial, commend it to fairminded men.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 264. O. 5, ’07. 1100w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.
=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction. general and special.
**$2. Revell.
6–3543.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The section on the ‘Text’ is rather uneven. ‘The Pentateuch in
general’ is handled somewhat in detail, and always to the detriment of
the modern view. We are still more amazed that a modern textbook
should be published without an index of any kind. This is
inexcusable.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Raven, John James.= Bells of England; with 60 il. (Antiquary’s books.)
*$3. Dutton.
7–2433.
The result of a sixty years’ study of campanology. “It is a work that
can scarcely fail to give satisfaction to any who are interested in
the story of bells, whether experts or novices. The Celtic, Saxon,
Norman, Plantagenet, and Tudor use of bells, and the history of the
later foundries are fully discussed; whilst other chapters tell of
particular dedications, of change-ringing, of chime barrels and
carillons, of handbells or tintinnabula, of bell usages and laws, and
of the legends and poetry to which they have given birth.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The critic looks in vain for sins of commission.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 15. 350w.
“Dr. Raven’s book puts a new and deeper meaning into a thousand
familiar quotations and allusions, and makes understandable numerous
rites and customs that may previously have been past over without a
thought of their significance.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 170w.
“A volume highly creditable to his patient industry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 420w.
“Mr. Raven’s book is well worth the notice of students, serious and
slight, of the subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A book which should take a high place in the literature of the
subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 339. S. 8, ’06. 280w.
=Ravenel, Harriott Horry.= Charleston; the place and the people.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
6–42434.
A story that “has more to do with the antebellum Charleston than with
the city of to-day. A great store of local history and tradition has
been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this work, while the
artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, has co-operated ably with the author in
picturing the distinctive architectural features of South Carolina’s
stately and dignified capital.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“It is in a fine spirit of reverence for the traditions of her
home-land that Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel has written this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is of peculiar interest, not only for the information it
contains, but for the manner in which all is presented.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“It has much of the haunting fascination peculiar to the old town.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 510w.
“Mrs. Ravenel writes with loyalty, deep interest, and great care for
important detail. She infuses into otherwise dry history the elusive
charm of a vivacious and discriminating mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 420w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Ackroyd of the faculty. †$1.50. Little.
7–12975.
Ackroyd, the young professor of much intellect and worse than no
family, comes in contact with a wholly new social scheme of things
thru his position on the faculty of a great university. The daughter
of the head of his department stands for the world of culture he has
never known and the influence of these two characters upon each other
forms the story of the book. In the end, of course, each finds in the
other all that an early environment had failed to give.
* * * * *
“This is the best of the three faculty stories recently published. It
is better worked out and stronger than Miss Ray’s previous work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“The book is charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
“The story offers some unusual attractions to the discriminating
reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 140w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Day: her year in New York. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30834.
The third volume in Miss Ray’s “Sydney books.” It deals largely with
the development of Phyllis, Sydney’s younger sister, an untamed,
withal sensitive girl, who needs people and kindness to bring out the
best in her.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry,
painting, sculpture, and architecture. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–3936.
A handbook in which the author “traces the phenomena of the arts to
their sources in material nature and the human mind; he shows that the
different arts have been developed by similar methods and that these
methods characterize the entire work of artistic imagination.... There
are chapters on nature, art, beauty, artistic mental action, form, and
significance, the personality of the authors, art composition, rhythm
and proportion.... There are a large number of half-tone illustrations
and pen-and-ink sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Some of his essays, notably that on Rhythm, are full of interesting
suggestion, and prove that their author, whatever else he may lack, is
a master of literary style.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 249. My. ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It can be said that its superior in an effective, all-around
discussion of its subject is not in sight.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“As a whole, the work lacks those psychological foundations which many
of us consider desirable in a treatise on aesthetics. As a result, the
subject matter is more that of art theory than of aesthetics in any
broad sense. Yet the pervading tone is one of sanity and tolerance
which will commend the book to many. We cannot, perhaps, agree
entirely with the author’s own estimate of his work.” Robert Morris
Ogden.
− + =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 225. Jl. 15, ’07. 1310w.
=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Reade, Charles.= Cloister and the hearth. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper, limp leather reprints. It is prefaced by
an “Appreciation” of Charles Reade by Algernon C. Swinburne, reprinted
from “Miscellanies.”
=Reade, Willoughby.= When hearts were true. $1. Neale.
7–25510.
The title expresses the thought uppermost in four good short stories,
as follows: His last song, Forgive us our trespasses, For the child’s
sake, and The ghost of Oak Ridge.
Readers’ guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by
Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the periodicals seem too trivial for such a record, whereas
neither of the English quarterlies is represented. But on the whole
the work bears all the marks of being well planned and carefully
edited.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 90w.
=Reagan, Harry Clifton.= Locomotives, simple, compound, and electric.
$3.50. Wiley.
7–11983.
In the fifth edition of this practical treatise on the locomotive
engine and its handling in service, the work has been revised in order
to include the latest developments of steam and electric locomotives.
* * * * *
“There is no doubt but what a great deal of information for the
practical engineer can be obtained from this book, but it is a pity
that the arrangement has not been more systematic and that so many
prominent and important parts of the locomotive have been omitted from
discussion.” G. R. Henderson.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 666. Je. 13, ’67. 1260w.
=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs, with special reference to secession
and the civil war; ed. by Walter Flavius McCaleb; with introd. by George
P. Garrison. $3. Neale.
6–34012.
“The book itself is short, embracing but three hundred and fifty pages
of not very compact print. The main topics treated are the author’s
early life in Texas, his part in Congress during three or four years
prior to 1861, the organization of the Confederacy at Montgomery, the
civil war, as viewed by an active and efficient cabinet officer in
Richmond, and the problems of reconstruction. The most interesting
portion of the book is the plain, unvarnished story of Reagan’s
hardships and early struggles.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The editing of the work has been very well done.” William E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 679. Ap. ’07. 700w.
=Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 3, ’07. 100w.
“Are partly dull and partly interesting. Perhaps it would be more
accurate to say that Mr. Reagan’s recollections of the early days of
Texan independence is not particularly lively. As postmaster general
of the Confederacy, however, Mr. Reagan stands on firmer ground, and
has written pages that are not without future historical value.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Napoleon’s young neighbor. †$1.50. Little.
7–34325.
A side-light story based upon the “Recollections of Napoleon at St.
Helena” by Mrs. Abell. It tells of Napoleon’s friendship for a little
girl, Betsy Balcombe, at whose house, “The Briars,” he spent the first
ten weeks of his banishment.
* * * * *
“Is a bit of history interestingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Love affairs of literary men. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–31403.
The author brings out of their lavender the love-memories of Swift,
Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Poe, Shelley
and Keats.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“A collection of more or less well-known facts, retold in pleasant
fashion. A book that will find favor among the many whose appetite
prefers entrées to joints.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–33577.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This story—especially the earlier part of it—has both charm and
originality, its diction being excellent, and the characters, if not
altogether life-like, well imagined.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 90w.
“The only trouble is that the author has resorted to narcotics in
order to produce effects sufficiently weird in the minds of her
characters, and, as is too often the case with women writers, she
cannot quite achieve the dramatic without falling into the
melodramatic.”
− =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= Double love; a tragedy in five acts. †$1.
Winston.
7–17377.
In this poem-drama of American life a modern capitalist in blank
verse, insists that his daughter’s love must choose between her and
his other love, a literary career. He demands that he “walk the Rialto
of true trade, the mart of traffic.” Naturally tragedy is the artistic
result.
=Reich, Emil.= Success in life. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–11564.
The philosophy of success is the outgrowth of definite basic
principles. Mr. Reich denounces the “fluke” idea of success and plants
success on the principle of energetics. The hope of the author is to
establish an ideal so universal that it may be used by anyone in any
walk of life for the attaining of honest, successful results.
* * * * *
“In spite of this ill-advised plan of constructing a mathematical
framework on which to fashion a body of doctrine dealing with the most
unmathematical of subjects, the book is so fresh, so unconventional,
so ingenious, and so suggestive, that its weaknesses and imperfections
do not need to plead very hard for forgiveness. He has the readiness,
not to say looseness, of the fluent talker and lecturer, but little of
the exactness, the terseness, the fine reserve of the scholarly and
painstaking writer.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
“He is the possessor of a lucid and attractive style which enables him
to clothe abstract and even trite themes with a new and timely
interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 370w.
“The book, however, has an interest and value not promised in its
title. The whole book is written with reference to British conditions.
As a criticism of these it is interesting. Dr. Reich is a Teutonic Max
O’Rell, who has read Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 440w.
“Dr. Reich’s misfortune is that he presents real and false
explanations with equal confidence and equal felicity. His merit is
that he is always readable and always suggestive, even when he is as
wrong as sheer ignorance or rash haste to conclusions can make any
man.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 155. Mr. 16, ’07. 1620w.
“A sagacious writer he is, though at times amusingly otherwise.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Reichel, Rev. George Valentine.= Bible truths through eye and ear.
**$1. Whittaker.
6–45727.
A volume of “object teachings,” written for children, based upon such
subjects as Harbors, Fog-signals, Life-saving, Lessons of the snow,
Knots, Having salt, Fort builders, Like unto clear glass, and a great
many more.
=Reid, George Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.
5–40286.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book not only lacks evidences of seasoned thought, but of
familiarity with the more recent literature bearing on the discussion
of heredity, and, on the whole, is a disappointing analysis of the
subject. Nevertheless, we believe it will be of service on account of
the new point of view adopted and the citing of evidences hearing on
heredity furnished by disease.” William A. Locy.
− + =Science=, n.s. 25: 60. Ja. 11, ’07. 1400w.
=Reid, Homer A.= Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. *$5.
Clark, M. C.
7–6665.
“The book is divided into 34 chapters. The subject matter may be
grouped as follows: Cement and its manufacture and tests, the
aggregate, proportioning, mixing and placing concrete, cost of work,
and finishing concrete surfaces, 132 pages; physical and elastic
properties of concrete and steel, 85 pages; principles and style of
reinforcement, mechanical bond, curved pieces subject to flexure, and
columns, walls, and pipes, 53 pages; theory of flexure of beams and
strength of columns with formula and calculations, 136 pages;
foundations, 58 pages; general building and construction and matters
connected with practical construction, 142 pages; retaining walls,
dams, conduits and sewers, tank and reservoir construction, chimneys,
tunnels, etc., 144 pages; bridges, arches, piers and abutments, 104
pages; concrete building blocks, 20 pages.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The analytical or theoretical portion of the book is its weakest
feature. On the whole, with a few important items to be excepted, the
analytical treatment is more complete than that in other books which
have appeared. The general plan of the book is excellent, the
proportioning of parts good, and the manner of presentation
commendable. In some minor particulars objection may be made to the
exact order of presentation, and some headings and forms of statement
need editing.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 301. Mr. ’07. 3180w.
=Reid, Rev. John.= Jesus and Nicodemus: a study in spiritual life.
*$1.75. Scribner.
A series of studies given in the form of lectures or sermons to
different congregations in Scotland. “The conversation with Nicodemus
peculiarly invites exposition, not only because of the far-reaching
truth contained in it, but also because from our knowledge of the
historical situation we are enabled to fill out the scene which the
gospel gives in bare outline. Mr. Reid has become himself master of
the historical situation, and has thus made luminous the mental
attitude of Nicodemus. He has also given the right place to the
reflective illumination of the mind of the evangelist as it came to a
larger, fuller understanding of Jesus.” (Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“There is perhaps only one interpretation which will not meet with
general acceptance. Would that we had more of such penetrating,
illuminating, vital interpretations of the scenes of the fourth
gospel.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 534. Jl. ’07. 460w.
“Characterized by literary skill and religious insight.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 20w.
=Reid, Stuart J.= Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham
(1792–1840). 2v. *$10. Longmans.
7–10998.
An authoritative and detailed biography of John George Lambton, first
Earl of Durham; “The Durham book has been written with full access to
the letters and papers of Lord Durham, and will throw a new light on
the reform struggle of 1830, the secret history of the reform bill of
1832, on the creation of the kingdom of Belgium, on the affairs of
Russia, when Durham pleaded for the Poles, and subsequently when he
was Ambassador at St. Petersburg; on the strange vicissitudes of the
Whigs under Grey and Melbourne, and much else that will be much worth
reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Of the misrepresentations to which he was exposed and all else
pertaining to this interesting chapter of his life Mr. Reid writes
fully and well.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 970w.
“If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his
work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes
lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always
pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of
Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his
contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w.
“Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of
a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities
carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive
to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately
disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w.
“There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history
which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is
now filled.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w.
“He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh
exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather
long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of
Durham’s personal character and political temper.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w.
“These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of
bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.
“The book is a painstaking—even laborious—survey of the life of a very
interesting man. The author has a strong bias in favor of his subject,
which is not always an advantage to the reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 106. F. 23, ’07. 1330w.
“Must at once be ranked among the great biographies of English
statesmen of the nineteenth century. It is one of the class to which
Parker’s ‘Peel,’ and Morley’s ‘Gladstone’ belong. As a literary
achievement its place is alongside the ‘Life of Peel’ rather than
alongside Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’” Edward Porritt.
+ + − =No. Am.= 184: 755. Ap. 5, ’07. 1790w.
“Like most biographers, Mr. Reid paints the character of his hero in
too bright colors, and he claims entirely too much for him as a
statesman.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 363. Je. ’07. 1060w.
“Durham has found in Mr. Reid a capable and warmly sympathetic
biographer.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 50. Ja. 12, ’07. 2430w.
“As a biographer Mr. Reid is painstaking, industrious, and
inordinately appreciative, but we cannot think that the style he has
adopted was the best in which to write the ‘Life’ of so curious a
personality. His is the old-fashioned type of biography, filled with
moralisings and platitudes, very wordy and very lengthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 727. N. 10, ’06. 1830w.
=Reid, Whitelaw.= Greatest fact in modern history. **75c. Crowell.
7–6398.
The greatest fact in modern history which Mr. Reid presents is the
rise and development of the United States from a group of struggling
colonies to its position of commanding power among the nations. He
says two factors operating in American success have been character and
circumstance.
=Reid, William Maxwell.= Story of old Fort Johnson; il. by John Arthur
Maney. **$3. Putnam.
6–34695.
A sketch occasioned by the recent purchase and presentation to the
Montgomery county historical society of old Fort Johnson, the most
historic house in the Mohawk valley to-day. The story closely connects
people and events associated with the famous “first baronial mansion
in New York” with the history of the Mohawk valley.
* * * * *
“An interesting, rambling tale; it is a mixture of history, fiction,
ethnology and gossip.” C. H. Rammelkamp.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 397. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“To the lover of the old, the wild, the picturesque in early American
life, the book will possess charm; to the general reader, it will
supply abundant detail with which to reconstruct a most romantic
period. To the historian, it will offer a reason for doing the work
over again.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 42. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.
“His facts will be accepted as accurate, and some of them are here
brought together for the first time.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“He is well versed in early history, but he should have had the
guidance of hands more accomplished than his own in the art of putting
a book together properly.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 330w.
“Its chief blemishes are discursiveness, fragmentariness, and
unnecessary repetition; its virtues are enthusiasm, informativeness,
and entertainment.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= Apollo; tr. from the French by Florence Simmonds.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–15337.
A new edition, expanded and furnished with editorial matter to date,
of a work which long ago appeared under the title, “The story of art
throughout the ages.” The book comprises twenty-five lectures
delivered by Dr. Reinach during 1902–1903 at the Ècole du Louvre upon
the historic schools of art. There are abundant illustrations and an
ample bibliography. “The original title is restored, and the
additions, concerning British art, are now inclosed in square
brackets, so that one may know when one is reading M. Reinach and when
one is reading Miss Simmonds.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 137. F. 9, ’07. 1250w.
“A second edition ... which is an improvement noon the first.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.
“It is a really uncommon achievement.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 160w.
=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= American legislatures and legislative methods.
*$1.25. Century.
7–8279.
A critical exposition of the manner in which the law making
bodies—state and federal—in the United States are organized and
operated.
* * * * *
“All things considered, Professor Reinsch’s volume is an important
addition to the literature of American politics. It is a contribution
both to the understanding of the present situation and to the
establishment of a better method for future studies of a similar
character.” Charles Edward Merriam.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 118. Jl. ’07. 700w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.
“As a whole the book is the best presentation of this subject in
limited space which has yet appeared.” Luther F. Witmer.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 615. N. ’07. 460w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 700w.
“A most admirable volume of a practical sort.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 90w.
“Without a doubt there is room in the citizen’s library for such a
useful and suggestive study of national and state politics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 630w.
“He finds so many and such serious defects in our system of government
and sees so plainly the forces of selfishness on one hand and of
indifference and ignorance on the other hand, with which reform has to
contend, and he describes both with such clearness that the reader
will be likely to rise from the study of the volume in a discouraged
mood.” Edward Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 1150w.
“In every way the volume is not only informative but suggestive, and
is eminently thorough in treatment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“A work of great value, that marks a distinct advance in scientific
treatment of legislative procedure. He has grasped a principle of
cardinal importance, oversight of which is a common defect in academic
study of political institutions, namely, that the character of
institutions is to be found in their working.” Henry Jones Ford.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 713. D. ’07. 1270w.
“Professor Reinsch’s method of treatment is frankly critical.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 140w.
* =Reissig, Carl.= Standard family physician: a practical international
encyclopedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the
household. 2v. $13. Funk.
7–15943.
In this undertaking Professor Reissig has been assisted by Smith Ely
Jelliffe and nearly fifty associate editors. “Taken as a whole, the
work is a commendable effort to lead the layman to take a rational
view of diseases and of ‘the results which may be reasonably expected
from therapeutic measures.’ The opposition to quackery in its various
forms, to all the ‘pathies,’ and to ‘natural’ methods is praiseworthy
and ought to do good.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“While ordinarily such works are likely to do at least as much harm as
good, there seems to be no reason why this one should not prove a
source of benefit in every way to its readers.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1005. O. 24. ’07. 340w.
“In general, it may be said that too little attention is paid to the
emergencies of domestic life, the very conditions where such a book is
most needed in families at a distance from medical aid.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 300w.
Religion of Christ in the twentieth century. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–2998.
“The unnamed author’s theme is the radical question of our time, ‘What
is Christianity?’ and his text is Lessing’s remark, ‘The Christian
religion has been tried for eighteen centuries; the religion of Christ
remains to be tried.’ By the Christian religion is meant a body of
religious doctrine supported by an ecclesiastical organization. The
religion of Christ is the attitude of the spirit toward God and man
that Jesus manifested as controlling his life.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Gerald Birney Smith.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 704. O. ’07. 370w.
“The book is a shrewd, discerning critique of regnant forms of piety,
and a discriminating projection of the faith and theology that ought
to come.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1038. N. 1, ’06. 280w.
“These thoughts have been uttered before, but never more clearly or
attractively, and they well express the spirit in which the movement
for the improvement of theology should proceed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 370w.
* Remco’s. Manual of apartment house service. **$1. McClure.
Under “General instructions” there are rules applicable to every
contingency apt to arise in an apartment building. Such subjects as
the conduct of heating apparatus, the eradication of vermin, the
technicalities of elevators, steam and hot-water boilers and
engineering and sanitary details about the apartment house.
* * * * *
“What a paradise apartment life would be if this book were widely
circulated and its contents enforced.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= Four seasons in the garden: with 27 il. and with
decorations by Edward S. Holloway. **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–16936.
Gardening for the home-maker is treated in all its phases by the
“foremost amateur gardener of the United States.” The book treats of
the making and care of the lawn, flowerbeds. back-yard gardens and
window boxes, of the more ambitious garden of the suburbanite and the
country dweller, and concludes with two chapters on village and rural
improvement societies.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07. S.
“The book is not what its title might indicate—a guide to the seasons
in their order. It is likely to be most serviceable to beginners in
garden making. The author’s language is simple, his style is popular,
and he gives facts and instruction in an easily understood form.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 16, ’07. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“A gathering into one unusually attractive volume, from the standpoint
of the maker of books, of all the knowledge which has been coming
piecemeal from this prolific writer on the gentle subject through many
years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“It contains clear and definite instruction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 70w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Dull girl’s destiny. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The “dull girl” is twenty-six, and inexperienced, yet able to produce
“novels esteemed worthy to rank as a ‘counterblast’ to the plays of
Bernard Shaw.” (Ath.) “However, the interest of the story centres, not
in the question whether the heroine could have written the novels of
Jane Smith, but in the description of contemporary manners and the
amusing sketches which the author gives us of her dramatis personae.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“In liveliness and brightness the novel is much above the average.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 190w.
“The heavy artillery of analysis, should not be trained upon an
amiable, unpretentious story of this kind, since its obvious qualities
are neither subtlety nor penetration but a wholesome right-mindedness,
a mild humor, and unfailing good taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All but two characters are so odious as to arouse the reader’s
personal resentment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.
“Although the plot ... invites criticism, still the book is pleasant
and entertaining reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 984. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s innate strain of romanticism would not permit her to
write the evenly sustained story of a simple life which she appears to
have been qualified to do.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 400w.
“Its characters and its mystery are alike improbable; but the writer
knows how to tell her story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 350w.
=Rhead, George Woolliscroft.= Chats on costume; with 117 il. *$2.
Stokes.
W 7–41.
A book which begins with a general survey of the subject and follows
with “brief accounts of the development and history of the tunic,
mantle, doublet and hose, kirtle or petticoat, crinoline, collars and
cuffs, hats, caps and bonnets, dressing of the hair, mustachios and
beard, and boots, shoes, and coverings of the feet.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
* * * * *
“Felicitously conceived and successfully accomplished. Mr. Rhead is a
pleasant writer, and his facts, quotations, and verses are judiciously
selected.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.
=Rhead, George Woolliscraft, and Rhead, Frederick Alfred.= Staffordshire
pots and potters. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–38577.
“To the amateur as well as to the expert collector, the book, with its
clear definitions of the peculiarities differentiating the work of one
potter from another, and its wealth of illustrations. some of them in
colour, of the treasures in museums and private collections, will be a
mine of wealth; but it will also appeal forcibly to the antiquarian
and historian, for the authors have made a point of tracing the
condition between the progress of their art and the advance of
civilization.... Especially fascinating is the chapter on the passing
of the Elerses—the predecessors of Wedgwood.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Might well be called the romance of English ceramic art. so forcibly
realized are the personalities of the craftsmen presented to the
reader, so skillfully are the accounts of their technical triumphs
interwoven with their life stories, and so vividly is the local
colouring of their environment reproduced.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 82. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“The book stands apart from most of the ceramic works published during
recent years by reason of its independence and personal point of
view.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The authors are peculiarly fitted for the task they have set
themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 380w.
=Rhead, Louis John.= Bait angling for common fishes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
7–22908.
A handy volume of practical information on how to angle for common and
familiar bottom fishes. A score or more varieties are discussed, carp,
eel, perch, bass, etc., descriptions of their habits are given for the
benefit of amateurs, and the whole is illustrated with drawings by the
author.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 380w.
=Rhodes, Harrison.= Flight to Eden: a Florida romance. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30836.
Basil Forrester, London born and bred, finds that there is no place
for him in England after his infidelity to his wife results in her
suicide. He goes to Florida, begins life over, fostering only the
impulses of primitive man. His love for a maiden of the wild impels
him to relinquish every hold upon England. After years have passed he
remembers that the house of Kingstowne must be perpetuated through him
and sends his ten year old son back to be educated to the traditions
of his title.
* * * * *
“There is no question that Mr. Rhodes knows how to portray people and
incidents in a way that forces you to see them. But he has something
still to learn about the unities of construction.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 420w.
“A singular mingling of the crude and the romantic is here.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
=Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise
of 1850 to the final restoration of Home rule in the South in 1877. 7v.
v. 6–7. per set, **$17.50. Macmillan.
5–12579.
These concluding volumes of Mr. Rhodes’ history cover the period
1866–1877. “A peculiar claim can be made on behalf of a historian who
writes candidly and yet firmly of the burning of Columbia under
General Sherman, the disputed Hayes-Tilden election, and the whole
melancholy reconstruction period.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Rhodes possesses some of the most important qualities of the true
historian. He has the judicial temper and he spares no pains in
accumulating and sifting material. To an English reader he
occasionally seems somewhat prolix though seldom actually tedious.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 793. Ag. 17, ’07. 2120w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“As in volume 5 he finished what is on the whole our best history of
the civil war, so in volume 7 he has finished the best history yet
written of reconstruction. Unfortunately, however, the superlative
does not in this second instance convey nearly so high praise as in
the first. There exist several reasonably good histories of the war,
but until these two volumes appeared there was no work covering the
period of reconstruction which could be commended.” William Garrott
Brown.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 680. Ap. ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“It may be stated without fear of successful impeachment, that no
other period of American history has been so well and interestingly
written as the one covered by Mr. Rhodes. Although seven volumes have
been devoted to the history of about thirty years, there is no useless
detail to weary the reader, but a concise, well-balanced story, that
can be followed with unflagging interest by the general student as
well as the specialist.” J. W. Garner.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 435. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 6 and
7.)
“His sense of proportion is artistic, as well as his perspective.
Aside from the almost unexampled impartiality of judgment which the
work displays throughout, its most striking characteristics to the lay
leader will be found in its subordination of the literary to the
judicial element.” Bernadotte Perrin.
+ + + =Atlan.= 99: 859. Je. ’07. 5850w. (Review of v. 8 and 7.)
“Dr. Rhodes’s works ... certainly carry the stamp of verisimilitude
and have the force necessary to lure the reader on and invite him to
return.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 180. Mr. 16, ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“The evidence from quantity is abundantly supported by other evidence
that Dr. Rhodes lost interest in his task after he had brought the
story of actual warfare to a close, or perhaps, more exactly, after he
had described the struggle between President Johnson and congress.”
Wm. A. Dunning.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 109. S. ’07. 2160w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“The greatest historical work that has been written in America—great
not in length alone, but in excellence of scholarship, and the
magnitude and interest of his theme.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Within the limits I have tried to indicate it is not easily
overpraised. That, however, breeds regret—regret that once more a work
so excellent as history should not be also excellent as literary art.”
William Garrott Brown.
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 552. Mr. 7, ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“The work has the rare quality of being dispassionate and yet
interesting.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Mr. Rhodes is to be congratulated on having accomplished a difficult
and laborious task with something like conspicuous success.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 242. Ag. 9, ’07. 1920w. (Review of v. 6 and
7.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 14. Ja. 3, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“It need hardly be said that these volumes have fully met the
expectations of readers of their predecessors. He has set new
standards in the study of and interpretation of events, in the use of
materials, and in the generosity and kindliness of his estimates of
men.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 4. Ja. 5, ’07. 3460w. (Review of v. 6 and
7.)
“Must be deemed pre-eminently the standard work for the period with
which it deals, and a work so exhaustive and so able that it will
probably be long before its supremacy is challenged.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 113. My. 18, ’07. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“It seems probable that the general verdict will be that, though
entitled to high praise, they are not in all respects up to the high
standard set by some of the volumes that appeared before them.” Paul
Leland Haworth.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 513. S. ’07. 2710w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“While not strikingly original either in his conceptions of the import
of the events of his period or in the manner in which he sets them
forth, Mr. Rhodes has given us a piece of historical narrative which
will command respect for solidity, fairness, and accuracy.” John
Spencer Bassett.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 252. My. ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 5–7.)
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Far the best existing narrative of the events which led up to and
followed the civil war as well as of the war itself, apart from more
merely technical military treatises.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“His one great limitation is that he has not penetrated deeply into
the great underlying forces at work in our history and his judgments
therefore are not always profound or such as will stand the test of
time. Especially well suited for the reference library in our
schools.” Webster Cook.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 716. D. ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Other subjects such as finance and currency, commercial crises,
political corruption, the tariff, and the broader economic and social
changes affecting American society are not ignored, as they were not
in the previous volumes; but they are not adequately treated, and the
author shows in his treatment of them none of that breadth of view and
well-balanced judgment which appears in his account of the political
controversies that have to do with slavery, the civil war and the
reconstruction.” G: Stevens Callender.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 198. Ag. ’07. 3390w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=Rhys, Ernest.= Fairy-gold; il. by Herbert Cole. $2.50. Dutton.
7–35196.
“Mr. Rhys has retold many legends and fairy tales of the semi-mythical
days in England.” (Outlook.) “The first part contains old favorites,
of many of which the editor has found new versions; the second part
consists of shorter fables and stories; and the third of fairy tales,
and poems from Browning, Elia, Keats, Tom Hood and others. The book is
daintily gotten up and Mr. Herbert Cole’s illustrations are
excellent.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“A delight to handle and to read.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 112. Ap. ’07.
“This is a book to find welcome.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is one to please older readers, but none the less for that
will be acceptable to children.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 80w.
“A very interesting and artistic production.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
=Ribot, Theodule Armand.= Essay on the creative imagination; tr. from
the French, by Albert H. N. Baron. *$1.75. Open ct.
6–32845.
A discussion of the subject under the following heads: Analysis of the
imagination, Development of the imagination, Types of imagination,
Conclusion and Appendices.
* * * * *
“As a manual to a region well worthy of exploration, the volume may be
recommended both in the original and in the present form.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“Mr. Baron has done us a service of some value in rendering into
English M. Ribot’s monograph on the creative imagination. The
translation sticks somewhat closely to the original idiom, but this is
a virtue rather than a fault. It forms a valuable addition to the
psychological literature on imagination.” Felix Arnold.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 695. D. 6, ’06. 800w.
“Like all its author’s work, it is suggestive and thorough.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell (Hegan).= Captain June. †$1. Century.
7–29097.
The story of a dear little American boy who stays with his Japanese
nurse in her country while his mother is in Manila nursing his sick
father through a fever.
* * * * *
“A charming tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 100w.
“Told with a certain freshness, although the situation is slight. Mrs.
Rice has done better work.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.
“Very charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
“Pleasantly told.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
“While in ‘Captain June’ Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice does not write with
quite the same firmness of touch that characterizes the work of the
author of ‘Emmy Lou,’ she, like Mrs. Martin, throws her picture upon
the screen in clear, sharp light and shadow.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 230w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Night in Avignon [a drama], **50c. McClure.
7–15143.
The theme for Mr. Rice’s drama is “a momentary revolt on the part of
Petrarch from the apparently unresponsive and remote Monna Laura, and
the consequences in which it involves him.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The situation is conceived with an admirable intensity, but it is
worked with such agitation of mood and manner that it fails to be
pleasing or even convincing.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.
“Though brief, and slight in detail, as a one-act play must
necessarily be, it is nevertheless so vivid and the fusion is so
complete between the dialogue and action that it embraces in small
compass all the essentials of the drama.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 920w.
“Among the recent group of dramatic poets, Mr. Cale Young Rice ... has
done excellent work, particularly worthy of comment on its
architectonic side. Mr. Rice has an instinctive sense of dramatic
relations; his dramas move by first intent and the unity of word and
action is admirably maintained. His work is not without its
immaturities.”
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Rice, William de Groot C.=, comp. Book of American humorous verse, lea.
$1.25. Duffield.
7–25551.
An anthology in which the verse of well-known American humorists
appears.
=Rich, Charles Edward.= Voyage with Captain Dynamite. †$1. Barnes.
7–26459.
“The story of three boys who go out from Cottage City in a small yacht
and who are caught in a storm and run down by a larger vessel, a
filibuster. They are rescued by Captain Dynamite, who carries them off
to Cuba. There, having sent word home that they were safe, they take
part in many adventures and do, perhaps, a little more than a boy
outside a book would be able to do. Harry Hamilton rescues Juanita, a
young Cuban girl, who is in prison, and who escapes in his
clothes.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
“Does not spare adventures, and boy readers will be thrilled by the
excitements provided.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 70w.
=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northwest. **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
The author does not cover the broad field of general ornithology but
narrows his scope to include only groups of birds of special interest
to sportsmen. These he treats in a manner to be of interest also to
the professional ornithologist and to the general reader. Fair
sportsmanship is the keynote, discountenancing record-killing
slaughter. Hunting yarns and bits of hunters’ wisdom gathered here and
there over the gun-barrel mingle with the observations. Nearly ninety
birds are described, located and illustrated in full-page half-tones.
* * * * *
“His descriptions are so good that enjoyment of them need not be
confined to sportsmen.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“On the whole, he succeeded in making a thoroughly, reliable and
entertaining volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The illustrations which are diagnostic, add considerably to the value
of the volume. Mr. Rich has, however, fallen into the error very
general among artists, of placing his ducks too high out of the water.
On the more technical side we find recent scientific names given
accurately, and the facts concerning life-histories, although of
course mainly drawn from the point of view of the hunter, are
reliable. As literature, the essays are commendable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 402. O. 31, ’07. 380w.
“Chatty and humorous as well as informing, and well illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
* =Richards, Ellen Henrietta.= Sanitation in daily life. *60c. Whitcomb
& B.
7–37734.
A thorogoing manual on sanitation in the home and city based upon the
most approved methods of sanitary science.
* =Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Grandmother. †75c. Estes.
7–24770.
“A young girl forced by circumstances into marriage with an old man
gave him the loyal gratitude and devotion his kindness merited. She
overcame the hatred of his passionate granddaughter of her own age,
and became the loved ‘Grandmother’ of all the village children for
whom she wove sweet songs and pretty stories. The tragedies of her
inner life were never realized by those about her, but they caused her
to be a benediction to every one who knew her.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Those who enjoyed ‘Captain January,’ (and that means every one, young
or old, that read it) will like Mrs. Richards’s new story,
‘Grandmother.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
“A sweet and touching story.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of
fables. †$1.25. Little.
6–29779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Useful to parents, teachers, and librarians, but containing little
for the children themselves.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Richards, Ralph Coffin.= Railroad accidents, their cause and
prevention. $1. Ralph C. Richards, 215 Jackson boulevard, Chicago.
6–32141.
“A general discussion of various classes of accidents is accompanied
by citations of examples showing how the very accidents in question
had happened to individuals. References to operating rules—which
rules, if followed, would have prevented the accidents in many
instances—are freely made throughout the book, and the rules
themselves are given in an appendix forming the last 15 pages of the
book.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 56: 418. O. 18, ’06. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 70w.
=Richards, William R.= Apostles’ creed in modern worship. **$1.
Scribner.
6–32847.
“An exposition of the creed rather than a defence of it; and the
exposition is spiritual and practical rather than historical and
scholarly.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book may be considered to represent the best that can be said in
favor of the adoption of the creed by the non-liturgical communions,
though it by no means answers the objections raised against its use in
the controversies over it in England and Germany.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18. ’06. 330w.
“It is not and does not purport to be of value to the critical
student; it will be of aid in giving rational significance to the
creed to those who are accustomed to use it in public worship.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
=Richardson, Charles.= Chancellorsville campaign: Fredericksburg to
Salem church. $1. Neale.
7–17004.
An account of the battles from Fredericksburg to Salem church and a
description of the battle field, to which is appended a collection of
abstracts from the reports of the operations of the Union army of the
Potomac, covering the entire Chancellorsville campaign.
* * * * *
“Borrows a certain quality of value from the circumstance that it
contains in convenient form the text of President Lincoln’s
correspondence with the egregious Hooker, together with other official
notes of the campaign, and the report of Gen. Lee upon the battle in
which Thomas Jonathan Jackson lost his life. Mr. Richardson’s own
story of that battle is negligible.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 270w.
“Had Colonel Charles Richardson chosen to utilize his personal
experience as the basis for his ‘The Chancellorsville campaign,’ he
might have made an interesting contribution to civil war literature;
but as it is, his narrative is quite negligible. Barring a tedious—and
to readers not familiar with the ground—difficult description of the
scene of conflict, his account of the operations of Early and Sedgwick
about Fredericksburg, displays little originality, and consists for
the most part of quotations from official reports strung together in a
commonplace way.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22. ’07. 110w.
=Richardson, Charles.= Tales of a warrior: sanguine but not saguinary
for old time people. $1.25. Neale.
7–16755.
Nine simply told tales of the civil war time. Several of them are in
southern dialect, and they deal with the county squire, the soldier,
the old negro, and other southern types.
=Richardson, Frank.= 2835 Mayfair: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
A detective story which has a double identity mystery in it, and one
in which the author “takes care to discount the criticism that his
story is not credible by making it absolutely impossible.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Regarded as satire or melodrama, ‘2835 Mayfair’ must be considered
unsatisfactory. There is, however, plenty of ingenuity in the manner
in which Mr. Richardson develops his tale, and his admirers will find
no lack of those inconsequent humours which he has taught them to
expect.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 459. My. 11, ’07. 270w.
− + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Richardson’s efforts in what may be called his satirical manner
are rather laboured in the present book, which may be best described
as a sensational extravaganza and, as our American cousins would say,
not very successful at that.”
− =Spec.= 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 150w.
=Richardson, Leon Josiah.= Helps to the reading of classical Latin
poetry. *50c. Ginn.
7–6757.
The book is intended for students of classical Roman poetry, primarily
that of Virgil and Ovid. The book outlines the part that reading
should play in the field of classical study, compares Latin and
English rhythms, and explains simply the nature and structure of Latin
verse, with special reference to the dactylic hexameter and the
elegiac meter.
* * * * *
“In all probability it contains rather more than the average student,
or perhaps even the exceptional student, if he be an undergraduate,
will take the time to read with care. On the other hand, one who is
more advanced will scarcely find here anything that is new to him.
Some of the illustrative material is ... well selected; and the first
twenty pages or so may be read by any one with interest and pleasure.”
H. T. P.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 207. Ap. ’07. 360w.
“A helpful little volume for the sympathetic reader of Latin verse.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 90w.
=Richardson, Rev. Willard S.=, ed. David: warrior, poet, king. il.
$2.50. Appleton.
7–31970.
In this narrative told by means of various passages of scripture,
special stress is laid upon the qualities of the man David, the
frailties over which the might of character triumphed, the friendship
for Jonathan, and the anguish and grief over Absalom. The character
development is traced thru the experience of exile, thru the early
years of opposition to his rule over the two tribes, and thru the
years of prosperity and adversity as king over Israel.
=Rickaby, Rev. Joseph, S. J.= Free will and four English philosophers; a
study of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. *$1.25. Benziger.
“Father Rickaby believes that, though men are slow to see and loth to
own it, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical
speculation. The four philosophers whose views are here criticized are
Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. His method is to quote a passage from
these authors and then discuss it.”—Ath.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 330w.
“A long matured volume abounding with acute criticism and close
reasoning. The most original feature of Father Rickaby’s treatment of
the question is his theory on the working of free-will.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 564. Ja. ’07. 330w.
“A vigorous and interesting book.” St. George Stock.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 704. Ap. ’07. 1330w.
=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Golden hawk. †$1.50. Baker.
7–15544.
“A modern romance in the picaresque style, steeped in the sunshine of
Provence.... Trillon, the hero, has a lordly disdain for
commercialism.... We meet him ... fascinating the daughter of the
inn-keeper by his audacious flattery, and after a courtship conducted
with lightning rapidity in the teeth of every sort of opposition,
going off to seek his fortune, while his betrothed is left to the
untender mercies of her parents and the priest.... She enters a
nunnery. But the irrepressible Trillon returns from the sea, abducts
his betrothed ... sets himself to perform a labour of Hercules imposed
by the priest as the condition of his consent to the marriage,—the
conversion of a rocky wilderness known as the Pit of Artaban into a
farm. Trillon’s exploits as a farmer ... make a most entertaining
recital; and the final scene, in which he plays the part of a
Provençal Lochinvar, brings a fantastic story to an appropriate
close.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The only fault we have to find in her work is that it needs pruning.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“The sort of thing that could easily be turned into operetta.” Harry
James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 330w.
“It is not a book to be judged by ordinary standards; it must be read
indulgently, sympathetically, softly laughed over for the sake of its
fantastic humor, its unexpected mingling of sunshine and of shadow.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 300w.
“A pretty story, full of surprises for even the seasoned reader of
summer fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 210w.
“Her portraits with all their charm seem sometimes a little stiff,
sometimes over flamboyant But there are fine, airy landscapes in
plenty; the action is spirited throughout; and few of the incidents
fail of the graces of pathos, humour, enthusiasm, and, above all,
imagination.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 580w.
“She escapes the danger of letting her picaresque hero seem hackneyed
and mediocre, by tracing his mental processes from within out, here
and there giving a genuine touch of character study, instead of
relying entirely upon description of his fantastic dress and twinkling
hawk-like eyes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Rickart has undeniable talent, a grace of style, a keen sense of
verbal felicity and skill in reproducing a superficial effect. She has
not yet learned the lesson that to be a real artist one must not go
too far afield from one’s own life and temperament.” Florence
Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 314. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“The tale is told with dash and spirit, and has unity of conception.
There is buoyancy and there is color, and the reader’s interest is
swept along impetuously from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.
“The ‘bravura’ style is at times somewhat forced.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. ’07. 640w.
=Rickett, Arthur.= Vagabond in literature. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35194.
A volume “made up of ‘papers’ on Hazlitt, De Quincey, Walt Whitman.
Robert Louis Stevenson, George Borrow, Henry Thoreau, and Richard
Jefferies.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“These agreeable essays are not epoch-making—how few books are!—but
they offer many a page of good reading, none the worse for being on
well-worn themes.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 330w.
=Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
=Ricketts, Charles S.= Art of the Prado: a survey of the contents of the
gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and
biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them. *$2.
Page.
7–30412.
A finely illustrated volume which deals with the paintings of the
Prado—Madrid’s famous treasure house of masterpieces. Here are found
at their best the gold of Titian, the silver of Velasquez. the glow of
Rubens and the magic and awe associated with Rembrandt. In what manner
and to what extent these pictures are an unchallenged “congress of
masterpieces” the author essays to enlighten the reader.
* * * * *
“He understands how to give his criticism a turn which is at once
illuminating and suggestive.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“This is a real book, containing real opinions, which may be read with
profit and pleasure by any one who cares for the serious study of
art.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 550. D. 12, ’07. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“At best the book is an excellent and readable guide to a collection
not too widely known, and considered as such the author is deserving
of unqualified attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Rideal, Samuel.= Sewage and the bacterial purification of sewage. $4.
Wiley.
A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a
statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles
involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem,
together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on
sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into
1906.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most
up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now
available.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 667. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that
this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the
English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is
only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 370w. (Reprinted from
Engin. Rec.)
* =Rideout, Henry Milner.= Admiral’s light. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–36092.
The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story
in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad,
hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a
lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the
tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something
rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the
story.
=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–38551.
Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale
of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic,
pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
* * * * *
“All are striking, and more than usually well told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are,
seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare
sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave
or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 691. F. ’07. 330w.
“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills
them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his
characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr.
Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the
collaboration of the reader.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.
“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against
the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w.
“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite
unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat
abrupt manner.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w.
=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25.
McClure.
7–15114.
A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure
largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of
Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The
local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink
mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and
poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of
a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the
winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 380w.
“It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 360. Je. 4, ’07. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
=Riedl, Frigyes.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
7–2035.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.
+ =Acad.= 71: 652. D. 29, ’06. 940w.
“This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian
literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.
“An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without
pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length
upon the formative period of the literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. E. 16, ’07. 320w.
“This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian
literature in the English language.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 710w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 386. Ap. 25, ’07. 330w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
=Riemer, J.= Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J.
W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.
“The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be
resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on
account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft
sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and
the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four
main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2)
Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking
drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each
method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate
the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 58. 178. Ag. 15, ’07. 180w.
“It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the
careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The
translation has been carefully made.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 291. Jl. 25, ’07. 380w.
=Ries, Heinrich.= Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with
especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.
6–37212.
“The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin
of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay,
methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United
States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American
clays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.
“Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a
distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly
meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and
will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know
more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research
and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.”
Edward Orton, jr.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 437. Ap. 18, ’07. 1380w.
=J. Geol.= 14: 459. Ag. ’06. 230w.
“This book is very well produced and free from slips.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 411. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.
“The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only,
presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 999. Je. 28, ’07. 1370w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.
7–26127.
The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the
following:
“Let us see as we have seen—
Where all paths are dewy-green,
And all human-kind are kin—
Let us be as we have been.”
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his
earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 200w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.
6–36414.
Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s
child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin
Betts.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ − =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
“Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he
did more than a quarter of a century ago.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 90w.
=Ripley, William Z.= Railway problems: a collection of reprints with
maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.
7–6187.
Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book
is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of
transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the
general reader and student of American public questions authoritative
information upon this important economic and political question.
* * * * *
“Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor,
and the debator.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.
“Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation
that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 616. N. ’07. 460w.
“The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up
the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.
+ =Arena.= 38: 219. Ag. ’07. 330w.
“We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a
study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.
“Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the
more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 435. Jl. ’07. 320w.
“One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume
for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable
questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making
college courses on railway problems interesting as well as
profitable.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 210w.
“Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the
editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 269. Je. ’07. 1050w.
=Ristori, Adelaide.= Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori;
rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–26130.
“Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the
present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame
Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with
her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months,
and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance,
which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music
in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth
taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs
is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her
répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’
Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’
and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:171. O. ’07. S.
“To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition
of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the
date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for
a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress,
prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 160. S. 16, ’07. 1770w.
“Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the
translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem,
easily have bettered.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24. ’07. 210w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 452. S. 28, ’07. 1200w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the
English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but
little credit upon the original composition.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 239. S. 12, ’07. 1000w.
“The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due
to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms
of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying,
sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a
moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the
ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne
Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 537. S. 7, ’07. 1400w.
“The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way,
without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and
things.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 130w.
=Ritchie, Rev. Arthur.= Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5.
Young ch.
6–39459.
“The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim
is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr.
Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided
each study into an exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus
adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 170w.
=Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 120w.
=Rivers, W. H. R.= Todas; with il., map and chronological tables.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
7–18149.
The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs
and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand
individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological
method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri
hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs,
ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are
informingly discussed.
* * * * *
“A work as laborious as it is original.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 551. N. 3. 1350w.
“An exhaustive study.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious
monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 680. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 960w.
“An admirable study of savage life.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.
“Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and
scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the
history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and
care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and
is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology
may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 462. Mr. 14, ’07. 960w.
“Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central
place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish
anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and
the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 1380w.
“Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the
interesting race with which he deals.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 120. Ja. 26, ’07. 300w.
=Rives, Hallie Erminie.= Satan Sanderson. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–26018.
Plot and action abound in this story of confused identity. In his
college days, only four years past, the Reverend Harry Sanderson was
known to his fellows as Satan Sanderson. There crosses his path one
day an old associate, Hugh Stires, the degenerate son of St. James’
richest parishioner, and so closely resembling Sanderson as to cause
all the trouble that ensues. The ghosts of the past appear, but are
downed by the invincible might of the young rector. The degenerate
weds the woman Sanderson loves, proves unworthy of her, and throws
himself upon Sanderson’s mercy, and the latter in attempting to save
him meets with an accident that robs him of his memory. The climax and
the fall grow out of the confusion of identity that follows, and a
ne’er-do-well’s one impulse of manhood.
* * * * *
“The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer.
They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional
tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
“Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native
luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her
imagination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w.
=Rix, Herbert.= Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with
some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.
7–15906.
“This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a
scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in
part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying
Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his
record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted
questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities
are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and
illustrated.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain
outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with
information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which
abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left
so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy
places] in a work which has permanent interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 351. Mr. 23. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 70w.
“The narrative is sufficiently enlivened with incident and anecdote to
give it continuous interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 110w.
“His narrative of travel is that of an intelligent and well-informed
traveller who went without prepossessions and was both able and
willing to weigh evidence. His observations were careful. Now and then
he is able to correct even so great an authority in Palestinian
topography as Dr. George Smith.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 300w.
=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
6–37923.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author is evidently a close observer of human nature and a clever
analyst.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 352. Mr. 22. 180w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Haunters of the silences. $2. Page.
7–18302.
In the course of these eighteen short stories of the wild, Mr. Roberts
not only introduces us to types of animal life in the earth’s silent
places but takes us down into the depths of the sea to meet the orca,
the shark, the narwhal, and the ocean cuttlefish.
* * * * *
“The book is very well worth buying and keeping for the illustrations
alone, and again it is well worth buying and keeping even had it no
illustrations. It will be a world dull of appreciation which does not
recognize great qualities in this volume.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 106. N. 9. ’07. 620w.
“Charming stories of creatures of the air, the deep sea, of the
northern forests and silent wastes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“The book is full of good reading, and it is well written.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 587. N. 9. 270w.
“It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief
and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the
horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w.
“For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the
book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best
nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w.
“The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history.
However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as
the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the
author of this and with those of similar books.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet
written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w.
“Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D.
Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most
interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an
article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more
full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w.
“He writes of his subjects with sympathy and imagination, while his
descriptions of their ways and hunts are scientifically exact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“He talks about wild life from the standpoint of a man who knows it
well and is also a writer of refinement and of literary instinct.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
6–30929.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 440w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= In the deep of the snow; il. by
Denman Fink. †50c. Crowell.
7–21228.
A short Christmas story of the northern frontier in which a
stout-hearted father takes a long snow-shoe journey to bring Santa
Claus to his wilderness cabin.
=Roberts, George Simon.= Historic towns of the Connecticut river valley.
Il. *$3.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.
6–24568.
“The history of each town is given, some anecdotes of some of its
distinguished sons and their careers told, old houses are described,
landmarks pointed out, and places of historical interest shown.
Pictures, too, are given of houses, sites of buildings, etc., and
there are portraits, views of the town, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The towns are taken up one by one, in an order extending from the
mouth of the river northward. There is, however, little other order;
repetitions are frequent, and in the selection of information to be
included or excluded no clear purpose appears beyond that of
furnishing entertaining reading matter.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 434. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“He writes pleasantly, but he has not written a chronicle, for he has
written loosely. Names are spelled wrongly, dates are awry, and now
and again some statement amazes those familiar with the old towns.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Its wealth consists mostly in the assembling of anecdotes, and of
certain of the vital historical facts appertaining to each of the
towns. A more analytic index would have greatly relieved the
congestion of the text, and served to reveal its riches.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w.
“The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.
=Roberts, Margaret.= Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the
author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.
7–10561.
“St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when
Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do
citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and
the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her
life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably
adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable
woman.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this
inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its
class which we have seen.”
− − − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w.
“An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed
from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 890w.
“Her pages present no evidence of her right to undertake the serious
task in question; rather they give us reason to think that neither the
faculty of clearly and logically presenting facts, nor the power of
sympathetically appreciating Catherine Benincasa, has been granted to
the saint’s latest biographer.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 254. N. ’07. 100w.
“Miss Roberts ... brings a large store of knowledge and no small
literary skill to her congenial task.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1416. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.
“The way in which this new ‘Life’ of her absorbs one, seeming to
transmit her force and charm, is the best proof of the author’s
excellence. It would, indeed, be hard to find an historical biography
better done.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 630w.
“Readable, vivacious life. References to volume and page of the works
quoted are rarely given and, on the whole, one is forced to the
conclusion that the historian’s well-documented life of St. Catherine
is yet to be published. Throughout the book there are evidences of
careless proof-reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.
“The book, in short, is more interesting than informing. It fails to
leave a distinct impression of St. Catherine.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w.
“For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy
sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might
almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the
book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of
‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be
read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth
century.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.
7–15115.
Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his
school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek
his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have
given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the
two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of
opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways
of the sea and the seamen.
* * * * *
“We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only
anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity
of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do
excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a
great deal less.”
− =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 260w.
“As story pure and simple has faults. When warmed to his work, he
throws aside all that is pretentious and mannered, sloughs his
colloquialism as a writer, and deals in sound, moving, graphic
English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 535. My. 4. 180w.
“If the reader can once get over the rhapsodical opening chapters of
this very good tale of the sea, he is probably in no danger of
abandoning the gallant Flying Cloud.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 150w.
“This new marine tale by Mr. Morley Roberts has the tang of authentic
brine and the swift pulse of life in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 690w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 593. My. 11, ’07. 200w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Painted Rock, tales and narratives of Painted Rock,
South Panhandle, Texas, told by Charlie Baker, late of that city and
also of Snyder, Scurry county. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of ten short stories dealing with the citizens of Painted
Rock, their “histories and their affairs.” There is a good deal of
bloodthirsty revenge portrayed, and life seems to be cheap. The
realism and its primitive setting will no doubt prove fascinating to
people who look for the kernel of humanity amongst the waste of
savagery.
* * * * *
“Mr. Roberts’s intimate knowledge of Texas and its people enables him
to reproduce both the atmosphere and the personalities of that strange
country.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 290w.
“This sort of record will ... always be interesting to English
readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 351. Mr. 23. 280w.
“Mr. Roberts seems to have caught most admirably the spirit of the
southwest, its ethics, its code of manners, and, best of all, its
inimitable breeziness of speech.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“The stories (of the familiar Alfred Henry Lewis stuff) in the present
volume seem hardly up to Mr. Roberts’s mark.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 393. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Red feathers. $1.50. Page.
7–26602.
A story of the Island of Newfoundland before it had a name, of the
days when chiefs and their warriors made prayers to the sun, the
winds, the frost and the stars, when magicians were abroad in the
land, evil as well as good ones, practicing their witchery to
terrorize or to bless their tribes.
* * * * *
“Mr. Roberts who has much real knowledge of Indian lore, tells his
story in a delightful way that will please both little people and
adults.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
* =Roberts, William.= Sir William Beechey. (Library of art.) *$2.
Scribner.
W 7–140.
The honesty of the work of Beechey is emphasized in this study. “The
task of tracing out the identity of Beechey’s sitters, which included
most of the celebrities of his time has been pursued by Mr. Roberts
with most patient industry and he has unearthed a mass of information
of great value to future biographers. He sifts out carefully different
versions of the same period of the artist’s life, and gives the
evidence in their favour without insisting on the acceptance of one or
the other.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The book was well worth publishing for its information not only about
Beechey but about many of his distinguished contemporaries.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 602. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.
“This expanded catalog of the work of that rather commonplace
portraitist is both commonplace and dull.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1176. N. 14, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Roberts’s monograph is expository rather than critical, and
particular interest attaches to the chapter of forty pages in which he
gives a series of extracts from Beechey’s account books.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=Robertson, Alexander.= Discourses on the history, art and customs of
Venice. *$3. Scribner.
A group of discourses which contain interesting information as to the
religion of the early Venetians. The volume “is remarkable for two
things—its seventy-three half tones reproduced from some of the most
attractive photographs that we have yet seen of modern Venice and the
attempt of the author to read into Venetian monuments Presbyterian
texts as to their inspiration, building, and perpetuation.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 130w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 294. My. 1, ’07. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 120w.
* =Robertson, Archibald Thomas.= Epochs in the life of Jesus: a study of
development and struggle in the Messiah’s work. **$1. Scribner.
7–35611.
“These lectures, delivered at a Missouri summer assembly in 1906,
present in popular form the main facts of Jesus’ life. The writer
seeks to give ‘a straight-forward constructive discussion of the
career of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels’ putting the emphasis upon
the pivotal points in the movement of Jesus’ ministry, and avoiding
critical discussion.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The point of view is conservative.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robertson, James Peter.= Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old
officer. **$3.50. Longmans.
An octogenarian’s reminiscences of deathdealing adventures. In spite
of the fact that his mother predicted early death unless he reformed,
Colonel Robertson is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-four. “The
volume is full of good stories, telling anecdotes, gallant exploits
and hair-breadth adventures, related in a manner which at once
fascinates and compels admiration for the old officer and his
comrades. Like Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir John French, and Sir Henry
Hildyard, Colonel Robertson was a middy before he took to soldiering,
and a love for the sea and life afloat bore fruit in many stirring
episodes in his subsequent career, while to the credit of the seaman’s
instinct thus early imparted may be placed that readiness of resource
so frequently exhibited during the vicissitudes of his military
life.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Our readers will find it as exciting as any adventure story, and
described with a naturalness and simplicity as delightful as they are
unusual.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 36. Ja. 12, ’07. 1730w.
“An eminently readable and entertaining book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 287. Mr. 9. 560w.
“The startling exploits with which the book is packed ... make the
ordinary sensational novel seem tame in comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 450w.
“Something exciting, of one sort or another, happens in nearly every
paragraph. And it is all told with a naive sort of charm, in blunt,
simple, and straightforward statement, with no more attempt at
literary embellishment than you would find in a Quartermaster’s
report. And the narrative gains much in interest and dignity by this
soldierly simplicity in the telling of it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 540w.
“Colonel Robertson writes with energy and natural force, and his
anecdotes are lively as his adventures.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
“Colonel Robertson leaves us with a most agreeable impression of
soldierly qualities.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 380w.
=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and
modern. 2d ed. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
W 7–14.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole this is an excellent book, and yet it has one
characteristic—for the author perhaps, an unavoidable one—that may
limit its usefulness. It is written with a purpose additional to the
scientific recording and explaining of facts, namely, to spread
free-thought as above defined.” Carveth Read.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 513. Jl. ’07. 1480w.
“He writes in narrative style and enlivens his thesis with humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 139. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.
“It is desirable to caution the unwary reader against accepting too
confidingly his conclusions; but the skill with which he marshals the
luminous points in a difficult subject is worthy of all praise.”
Edward Fuller.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 127. Ap. ’07. 1200w.
=Robertson, Louis Alexander.= Through painted panes, and other poems.
*$1.50. Robertson.
7–16926.
Consists chiefly of poems reprinted from earlier volumes, the plates
of which were lost at the time of the San Francisco destruction.
“Resurgam,” a new poem of the collection, grew out of the earthquakes
ravages, and contains a prophecy for the rearing of earth’s fairest
city where the old one stood.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= The convert. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–35623.
“The convert” is not merely a novel, it is a strong plea for woman’s
suffrage. The work of the suffragettes of London with their open air
meetings in squares and on wharfs crowded with rude and unsympathetic
mobs is glaringly described until the heroine, if not the reader, is
drawn over to them and their cause. The heroine, now a splendid woman
moving in society’s inner circle, was, when a young girl, deceived by
the man she loved and led to sacrifice the child which was to have
been hers. Now, with this burning loss in her heart and the cause of
down trodden woman strong in her soul, she meets the man once more
and, closing the past forever, gives him to the girl he now loves but
asks in return his help in the cause, that by helping other women he
may expiate his guilt toward one.
* * * * *
“Extremely clever and well written.”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 113. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“The play was said to have had its dramatic movements; but the novel
is one long welter of talk.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 649. N. 23. 130w.
“A sterling example of the bigger, worthier sort of book.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 406. D. ’07. 770w.
=Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“With the fullest admiration for much that is good in ‘The convert,’
we regard it as an opportunity missed, not only by Miss Robins the
novelist, but by Miss Robins the advocate of female suffrage.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 660w.
“It is a strong book in many senses of the word. It is difficult,
however, to speak of ‘The convert,’ as a novel. The conditions
portrayed in the book, however, are British rather than American, and
thus in this country ‘The convert’ will make its appeal to the
critical judgment more as a work of fiction than as a brilliant and
possibly accurate account of a burning political question.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“An interesting book written with skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 180w.
“Its weakness as a novel lies in the fact that this girl had such an
extraordinary past that she is not a typical figure.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16. ’07. 180w.
“Successful as a story it is not, and it may be doubted whether is
makes any serious contribution to the literature of the struggle.”
− =Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.
3–13052.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 509. D. 15, ’06. 1100w.
=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed.
*$1.50. Ginn.
6–6250.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 190w.
=Robinson, William.= English flower garden and home grounds. 10th ed.
*$6. Scribner.
A volume of nearly a thousand pages which sets forth the design and
arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and
Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs for the
open-air garden and their culture.
* * * * *
“To those who love to plan their own pleasure-grounds and make their
own choice of plants, this is one of the best treatises within reach.
It is moreover, written in such a pleasing style that it might even
serve to wean from idleness those who now depute to professional
gardeners the task of selection and care of plants.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.
“Exhaustive, detailed authoritative, and immensely practical, this
book is one that has come to be regarded as indispensable to every man
having such a piece of work in hand.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Robinson, William.= Garden beautiful: home woods, home landscape. *$4.
Scribner.
Agr 7–1170.
A book of good counsel particularly for those who own large estates.
The reader is told how to beautify his grounds, and the treatment of
both forests and flower gardens is considered in detail. A plant
dictionary is appended.
* * * * *
“The author has a final chapter defending his use of common English
names of plants and trees; and here we must differ with him.” Edith
Granger.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 367. Je. 16, ’97. 550w.
“This book is most valuable in England, as it is written for that
climate, but his careful list of trees with directions where each
should be planted, his list of shrubs, and the true love of nature
that runs thru the book will make it one that owners of woodlands or
large estates will enjoy and find useful in spite of the mustard and
pepper with which it is highly seasoned.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“Mr. Robinson is an attractive writer, who knows how to put sound
advice in a telling form.... The only trouble with his books is the
marked tendency to repetition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 40w.
“Undoubtedly the best modern book of reference for flower gardens.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Robinson’s chapters are full of interesting suggestions about
landscape gardening. He can give some practical as well as aesthetic
advice, moreover, to owners of woodlands and parks.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 714. N. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Robinson, William Henry.= Golden palace of Neverland. il. †$1.50.
Dutton.
7–21222.
“Mr. Robinson’s story tells of the transporting of a girl and boy to a
fairy island on a magic raft. Numerous exciting adventures befall them
there, leading them into the society of gnomes and other interesting
beings; also into Mother Goose’s domain, where they encounter
well-known friends, such as Tom the piper’s son, Little Jack Horner,
etc.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“An excellent new fairy story book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 60w.
=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.
6–16205.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and
animation.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w.
=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of
Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–29135.
What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished,
namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties
that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a
clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable
account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople
and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue....
The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek
restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices,
the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a
map ... and an index.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for
the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste
elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down
to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his
subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a
distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w.
“It is a conscientious and critical work. The author does not strain
after effects, though he is fully alive to the interest of his
subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 375. Mr. 30. 960w.
“Our author has spared no effort to reach available sources, or to
make his results perfectly clear. The style is simple and direct.” F.
B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 42: 306. My. 16, ’07. 2850w.
“Sir Rennell Rodd possesses almost every qualification for writing the
history of Frankish Greece.” W. Miller.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 570. Jl. ’07. 1060w.
“Though this history of medieval Achaia has certain limitations which
the specialist will detect, it is based on sound and large
foundations.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 82. Mr. 15, ’07. 1080w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 342. My. 25, ’07. 380w.
“As a narrative his work is not likely to be superseded. Unfortunately
the most interesting part of the book comes first.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 334. Mr. 16, ’07. 1910w.
“A coherent narrative such as has not been offered to us before in
English, though we do not forget Finlay.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1600w.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 420w.
=Rodocanachi, Emmanuel.= Roman capitol in ancient and modern times. *$1.
Dutton.
7–29082.
In which are considered the citadel, the temples, the senatorial
palace, the palace of the conservators and the museum. “The first part
tells the story from the foundation of the city down to the sixth
century. At this time a period of darkness set in. The place was
practically forgotten. Then in the eleventh century it emerged again
into light. The second part tells the story of the locality as it was
in the period of the revival.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It must be admitted that the task of translating the mass of
ill-digested material of which the book consists cannot have been
otherwise than tiresome, but the shortcomings of the translation make
the work in its present form still more tiresome to read.”
− =Acad.= 72: 189. F. 23, ’07. 510w.
“The translation is faithful, but not attractive. We notice a good
many misprints. The shortcomings of the book do not seriously
interfere with its general interest and usefulness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 546. My. 4. 500w.
“It is, of course, scholarly and scientific—too much so, perhaps, for
the traveler who has neither time nor inclination for a minute
examination of the antiquities, buildings and ruins of the famous
hill; for such as have, the volume cannot be excelled.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.
“At first sight the book, with its multitudinous footnotes and wealth
of historical erudition, may appear to be more acceptable by the
student than by the ordinary reader. For the special kind of reader
mentioned as being bodily on the capitol it must be invaluable, being
a guide book informed with this peculiar charm, that, although no
information is omitted which the pilgrim might be expected to possess
already, the style conveys a delicate compliment in being far above
the comprehension of the vulgar ignoramus.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 1210w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 544. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
=Roe, Fred.= Old oak furniture. **$3. McClurg.
The author says “If any apology is needed for what may be termed old
oak worship, I may say that the final aim of art is—or ought to
be—beauty, and that the cult of old oak is really only one aspect of
the pursuit of beauty.” He discusses English archaic rarities, Gothic
styles of medieval time, styles of the renaissance and after, oaken
chairs and stools before the renaissance, coffers and chests,
cupboards and sideboards, bedsteads and cradles, panelling and filled
furniture, furniture with hiding-places, vicissitudes of old
furniture, and forgeries in old oak.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 260w.
“Written rather for the inexperienced than the expert, his book will
be an excellent aid to the neophyte; but it also contains much new
information of value even to the accomplished antiquarian.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 130w.
=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Religious conception of the world; an essay in
constructive philosophy. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–5078.
“In the opening lines of his introduction the author tells us that he
set out to defend a view of the world which is frankly religious and
theistic.... With grace and skill he discusses the eternal problems of
philosophy regarding the relation of God and nature, God and man, the
purely metaphysical question concerning the nature of God. In plain
language he tries to explain the greatest historical mystery, the
permission of evil on the part of God. He also dwells at some length
on the problems of freedom and immortality.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Treats of religion in a logical and constructive manner. Despite the
abstract nature of the topics, the author uses simple language,
carefully avoiding the technical expressions of the philosophical
schools.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 820w.
“An acutely and cautiously reasoned work. It is addressed to earnest
thinkers, it presumes patient consideration, and may weary those who
are disinclined to intellectual exercise.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 420w.
“Perhaps the strongest chapters in the book are those devoted to
theism proper. A less satisfactory part of the book is that dealing
with the foundations and validity of knowledge.” H. W. Wright.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 555. S. ’07. 700w.
=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Student’s history of philosophy. *$2.
Macmillan.
7–27624.
A new edition whose revision includes some corrected errors of fact,
“a large number of mistakes of judgment,” says the author, “and
infelicities of expression.” The exposition itself has also been
rewritten, references have been added in connection with quoted
passages, and the bibliographies have been brought down to date.
* * * * *
“Is not in any sense noteworthy and the author’s style is decidedly
heavy.”
− =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 70w.
“Next to the comprehensiveness of the treatment and the clearness of
the exposition, the most remarkable characteristic of the book is the
accuracy of the bibliography.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 390w.
• =Rogers, Gertrude.= Cobwebs. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–26605.
A little book of dainty verse whose silvery texture is enhanced by the
sunshine of youth, buoyancy and possibility.
* * * * *
“A pale distillation of old poetic symbols.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 110w.
=Rogers, Robert Cameron.= Rosary and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–32395.
Four classical idyls in blank verse.
* * * * *
“Are distinctly out of the common. But the talent of Mr. Rogers is for
the most part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 390w.
“With all its variety and intelligence, the volume just misses
distinction, chiefly, we should guess, because of a certain limitation
of sentiment and because the life in it has been strained through too
many books.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 30w.
=Roller, Frank W.= Electric and magnetic measurements and measuring
instruments. *$3.50. McGraw pub.
7–6710.
“A summary of the instruments and methods used or proposed for all
kinds of measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities.”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“It is not a treatise that will be useful to a student, unless
accompanied by very careful directions from a competent instructor.
The descriptions appear to be accurate and a vast amount of
information is rendered accessible.” Henry H. Morris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 660w.
=Rollins, Frank West.= What can a young man do? **$1.50. Little.
7–32570.
Over fifty possible careers are here sketched for the benefit of the
young man with his life work before him. There are chapters upon the
professions, various branches of business, politics, consular service,
the sailor, the actor, the chauffeur, the farmer and many other ways
of earning a living.
* * * * *
“The book will be read with interest and profit by the heads of
families and by their sons who are about to choose their life work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9. ’07. 170w.
* =Rollins, Montgomery.= Money and investments: a reference book for the
use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the
investment thereof. *$2. Estes.
7–31980.
“The object of the book is essentially to furnish to the layman
information about the simple forms of financial transactions, to
explain the slang of the stock market, and to guide him in his
investments. The foreword of 36 pages gives a general review of the
financial situation with suggestions to investors. The remaining 436
pages are in the form of an encyclopedia, with headings alphabetically
arranged.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“We have received many letters lately from our subscribers asking us
to recommend an elementary book of finance. The present volume ...
seems to fill the bill.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 270w.
“Is a workmanlike compilation of little financial essays, cast in
dictionary form. The book is rather suitable for reference than for
counsel in action.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Romanes, Ethel (Mrs. George John Romanes).= Story of Port Royal. *$5.
Dutton.
7–28621.
“An attempt to give an account of the remarkable religious movement
known as Port-Royal—which ... in the seventeenth century ... touched
French life at almost every point.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“We cannot commend the style of the writing. The sentences are jerky
and the paragraphs disjointed. There is a running comment of religious
and moral sententiousness which is both irritating and tedious. We
have, however, nothing but praise for Mrs. Romanes’s industry and
enthusiasm for her subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 696. Je. 8. 940w.
“Sainte-Beuve’s great book, ‘Port Royal,’ is, as every one knows, the
one supreme work on the subject. No substitute for it exists in
English, nor can we honestly say that Mrs. Romanes’s book will occupy
that place. It is written in a rambling, inconclusive style, which
wanders from subject to subject, from biographical sketches of the
principal actors in the story to long theological disquisitions and
back again in a way which is most confusing to the reader.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.
“It is to be regretted that Mrs. Romanes did not submit her manuscript
to somebody competent to correct her French.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
“Perhaps her seemingly unnecessary fullness of detail is essential to
give a complete picture, but occasionally one feels that the text
might have been condensed. This, however, if it be a blemish, is
certainly a minor one. Her volume is to be heartily commended to all
students of religious development.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“Mrs. Romanes has dealt with it sympathetically, if occasionally her
observations are rather English and conventional.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 273. Ag. 31, ’07. 690w.
=Rook, Clarence.= Switzerland, the country and its people; painted by
Effie Jardine. *$6. Putnam.
7–26626.
Mr. Rook “gives us neither an arid chronological history nor a
descriptive guide-book, but takes up chapter by chapter for broad
intelligent treatment such subjects as ‘Swiss patriotism,’ ‘The growth
of a republic,’ ‘The Swiss government,’ ‘Popular control,’ ‘Winter
sports,’ ‘The Swiss as engineers.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The artist’s little pictures are very much like what one has been
used to in similar books. She is more successful, to our mind, with
lowlands and street scenes than with the high Alps, and with summer
scenes than with winter. Mr. Rook writes in a cheerful journalistic
style, without more regard for accuracy in details than that style
tolerates. On the main facts of Swiss history and institutions he is
usually correct.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 500. Ap. 27. 1260w.
“We were very much surprised to find Mr. Rook’s part of this book not
only readable, but interesting, even informing, tho not burdened with
statistics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 802. Ap. 4, ’07. 260w.
“It is one of the most entertaining and instructive of the season’s
books of travel.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 24: 724. My. 4, ’07. 240w.
“About the text there is nothing heavy. In a style which is both easy
and graceful, Mr. Rook introduces his reader to the admirable
government and fine characteristics of the sturdy Swiss.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20. ’07. 570w.
“In several well-considered chapters the government of Switzerland is
very adequately treated, and there are some suggestive comparisons
between Swiss methods of government and those of other nations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w.
“With very few exceptions these pictures can be cordially praised.
Each subject, whether serious or light, is treated in appropriate vein
and with evidence of knowledge and discrimination.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Rook is a lively and picturesque writer, and we have never come
across a more readable account of the rise and progress of the Swiss
confederation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.
“A volume which is bound both to please and to profit.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 140w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Good hunting in pursuit of big game in the West.
$1. Harper.
7–6650.
These true stories of big-game hunting in the West are written for
young people, especially for young hunters. The tales are told wholly
from the sportsman’s point of view and over-sympathetic little readers
of the modern animal story may not enjoy these triumphant hunts which
meant death to: the wapiti or round horned elk, a cattle-killing bear,
a Christmas buck, the timber-wolf, the prong-buck, or the white goat.
The volume closes with some sound advice upon ranching.
* * * * *
“It is eminently suited for its purpose, as its tone is sportsmanlike
and the descriptions are in well-chosen words.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 90w.
“Full of wholesome advice on hunting and ranching.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
“Spirited papers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 90w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
6–36925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Root, Edward Clary.= Unseen jury: a novel; with il. by Phillipps Ward.
†$1.50. Stokes.
7–9546.
The father of a girl with two lovers is found dead in a stream. All
evidence points to the guilt of the dissipated lover whose suit had
been repeatedly rejected by the father. When conviction seems
imminent, the other lover, a lawyer, takes up the defense, wins the
case and the free man goes back to the girl only to learn that his
rival is her choice.
* * * * *
“Detective stories involving murder mysteries do not seem likely to
offer anything agreeably new. But in this respect a pleasant surprise
awaits the reader of ‘The unseen jury.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 440w.
“The theme is an interesting one, and the author has handled his plot
fairly well. Mr. Root could also have improved the story not a little
by judicious condensation. And the manuscript has been edited with
shocking carelessness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 310w.
=Root, Elihu.= Citizen’s part in government. (Yale lectures on the
responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
7–22700.
“Secretary Root discusses (1) the task inherited or assumed by members
of the governing body in a democracy; (2) the function of political
parties as agencies of the governing body; (3) the duties of the
citizens as a member of a political party; and (4) the grounds for
encouragement.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“It is a vigorous and stimulating book, well worth addition to Bishop
Goodsell’s list.” Edward A. Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 830w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Root’s sensible and well-proportioned treatment of these topics
is precisely what is needed by the young American who aspires to have
a real part in making the political conditions around him better.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 290w.
=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who
has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
6–18575.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 60w.
=Root, Robert Kilburn.= Poetry of Chaucer: a guide to its study and
appreciation. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–34823.
The author’s purpose has been “to put his readers in possession of the
most recent results of Chaucerian research, which are at present
widely scattered in learned periodicals. The scanty facts that have
been unearthed about Chaucer’s biography, the chronology of his works,
the sources to which he was indebted for his material—for, like
Shakespeare and Molière, Chaucer took his own wherever he found it—and
the social conditions and surroundings amid which and for which the
poet wrote are amply set forth.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“This interesting study avoids both the iridescent foam of clever but
shallow appreciation and the dead calm of unanimated learning.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Especially to be commended is his conservatism in rejecting the
ingenious speculations which have recently aimed at revolutionizing
the generally accepted chronology of Chaucer’s poems. Like most books
that issue from American universities, it is perhaps too didactic in
aim, and the shadow of orthodoxy at times hangs a little heavily over
its pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 390w.
“It is written with learning and from a sane and sympathetic point of
view.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 737. N. 10, ’06. 940w.
=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism.
**$1.50. Scribner.
6–14529.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is constructive in method, conservative in treatment, clear
in style. An excellent supplement to Kent’s ‘Origin and permanent
value of the Old Testament.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 128. My. ’07.
“The interpretation of the Acts in ... Dr. Ropes’s Apostolic age ...
is a living and breathing matter, a real thing, seeking honestly and
earnestly for truth, and bringing us the truth thus found with all
frank generosity.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“The general tendency of the book is distinctly orthodox. It is from
such contributions to the subject that real progress may be hoped.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7. ’06. 90w.
=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
6–6895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
* =Rose, Elise Whitlock.= Cathedrals and cloisters of midland France;
il. by Vida Hunt Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
“Together the volumes contain four photogravures and two hundred
half-tone illustrations picturing the churches of central France,
whose architecture is differentiated from that to the north and south
by the dominance of the Byzantine influence. Miss Rose has already
written of the south of France cathedrals; and the new books are bound
uniformly with the others, and follow a similar method.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Architectural beauty, historical associations, and human interest are
all considered, and accuracy rather than popularity is the author’s
aim.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 60w.
“The book is almost as pleasant to read as to look at, being quite
competent on the technical side and betraying the same artistic
sensibility in text as in pictures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 560w.
=Rose, Elise W.= Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France: with
il. from original photographs by Vida H. Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
6–45154.
In which are arrayed artistic and historic charms of the cathedral and
monasteries chiefly of Provence, Languedoc and Gascony. “This work
aims to allure the curious traveller. It is not technical, and its
historical side is not very systematic. Yet the author preserves a
just sense of proportion.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“Only those who know intimately the south of France can appreciate the
amount of trouble that has gone to the making of this book, and the
excellence of the photographs by which it is illustrated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 488. O. 19. 170w.
“She writes impersonally but informally, employs few technicalities,
and describes and criticises in a general way rather than in detail.
For the stay-at-home reader also these volumes will prove somewhat too
diffuse to hold his interest.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.
“The author struggles rather helplessly with general historical and
archaeological questions in the opening pages, and is often uncertain
and inexpert in the use of language, but manages, nevertheless, with
the help of many fine illustrations, to convey the charm.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 480w.
“Miss Francis’s work as a photographer is characteristic of technical
ability, artistic selection of models, and a thorough knowledge of the
subjects photographed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A delightful book. One can hardly imagine a more fascinating sort of
collaboration.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 94. F. 16, ’07. 330w.
“The work is more attractive because of its apparent spontaneity of
production.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
“It is evident that loving and conscientious thought and ample time
have been given to the making of these volumes, which are full of
interest, architectural, historical and picturesque.” Charlotte
Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
“One of the best books we have read for many a day.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 620. Ap. 20, ’07. 1520w.
=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900.
2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
5–34973.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As essays, these volumes, apart from certain evidence of haste, would
hold a high place; as serious history they do not appear, to the
present writer, at least, to attain to the standard of historical
writing set by Mr. Rose in his other work, nor indeed that reached by
other work in the same field.” William E. Lingelbach.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 485. N. ’06. 760w.
=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph
Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By far the most lucid contribution to the political literature of the
past few years.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 133. F. 9, ’07. 430w.
“Costs too much for the amount or value of the material in it.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
“With all deductions made, however, it is a lifelike as well as
brilliantly attractive portrait that Lord Rosebery has sketched in
this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 439. Ja. ’07. 1540w.
“Is especially valuable for its candid tone and its critical
judgment.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Lord Rosebery’s brilliant style and sparkling epigrams are admirably
displayed in this study. Lord Rosebery’s book is full of charm, and
one who begins it will not lay it aside until the end is reached.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 240w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 499. F. 28, ’07. 770w.
Reviewed by Gertrude Atherton.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 87. Ja. 4, ’07. 2030w.
“A fascinating study, absorbingly interesting from first to last. And
yet, because of the anomalous attitude of the author toward the
subject of his essay, it leaves an impression that is decidedly
unpleasant.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1077. D. 29, ’06. 750w.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 762. Mr. ’07. 1380w.
=Rosenberg, E.= Electrical engineering: an elementary text-book; tr. by
W. W. Haldane Gee and Carl Kinzbrunner; authorized ed. rev. and brought
down to date for the American market by E. B. Raymond; new enl. rev. ed.
*$2. Wiley.
7–970.
“The author aims to describe in concise form and in simple
non-mathematical language the important applications of the electric
current. The underlying principles were stated and briefly illustrated
in an easy conversational style, the evident attempt being to write as
one would have spoken in addressing his audience in person. The scope
of the book covers the construction and operation of direct and
alternating current generators and motors, electric lighting and power
transmission.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The revision has improved the work as a text-book for schools and has
not made it inaccessible to the general reader, as he can pass over
these pages without losing the general plan. It covers the same ground
as ‘Electrical engineering,’ by Slingo and Brooker, and is one of the
very few books in which the attempt is made to do so much in a small
space. The general make-up of the volume shows plainly the way in
which it has been built; in fact, the ‘patching’ is quite evident.”
Henry H. Norris.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 196. F. 14, ’07. 610w.
* =Rosengarten, Joseph George.= French colonists and exiles in the
United States. **$1. Lippincott.
7–30856.
An important undertaking in a field heretofore only partially covered.
The author has gathered together from the works of recognized
historians facts about the French colonists and the Huguenots which
show how much “character and ability they brought to the United
States.”
=Ross, Denman Waldo.= Theory of pure design: harmony, balance, rhythm.
**$2.50. Houghton.
7–15335.
“A notable attempt to show the mathematical origin and structure of
the plastic arts.... [it] deals principally with harmony, balance and
rhythm.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The reasoning is clear and in most respects convincing; it would be
entirely so but for a false note at the outset, in a definition of
harmony which virtually makes it synonymous with unity and takes no
note of the accordance of correlations.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 350w.
“The impression given by a reading of Professor Ross’s volume is a
singular one. Each definition seems precise, each paragraph logical,
and the sequence of ideas seems clear, the argument convincing, yet
one goes on the end with an increasing dissatisfaction, a growing
sense that something is wrong.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 506. My. 30, ’07. 2270w.
“Endless discussion is invited by every point he makes. There is no
doubt, however, that perusal of his volumes will stimulate the faculty
of artistic precision in production and criticism.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 450w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–15556.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Charities.= 17: 473. D. 15, ’07. 590w.
“No brief review, however, can do justice to the masterly manner in
which most of these topics have been handled. Excellent as the book
is, one receives the impression that it will hardly serve as the
foundations of a science. It is rather a collection of carefully
selected materials for such foundations. But ‘Foundations of
sociology’ is something more than a scientific treatise. It is a piece
of literature—and that it is good literature few would deny.” Alvin S.
Johnson.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 208. F. ’07. 1080w.
* =Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society: an analysis of latter-day
iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
“Professor Ross’ book is less an arraignment of the dictator-sinner,
hiding behind corporations, than an exhortation to society in general
to educate itself to know when our own democracy is outraged, and to
the individual in particular to spend less time in painting Utopias
and more in making good the things he has led his fellow men to expect
of him. The discussion is pragmatistic.”
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 180w.
=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael
Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
6–45370.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a wonder that with his vast opportunities Mr. Rossetti did not
make a more readable book. The trouble is he has not the dramatic
gift; he has little feeling for portraiture.” James Huneker.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 2240w.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 507. Ja. ’07. 570w.
“No one can put down these reminiscences without a feeling of
kindliness and respect for the writer, which in these days of
‘revelations’ and disclosures is no small praise.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.
* =Round, Douglass.= Date of St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. *60c.
Putnam.
“It is urged that Galatians was written from Antioch before the
Council at Jerusalem and the second missionary journey, that is about
49–50 A. D. The argument is especially directed against certain
elements in Ramsay’s position.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 30w.
“We neither assent nor dissent, but welcome the very reasonable and
moderate tone of the writer.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 110w.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great
variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
=v. 2.= Includes the following chapters: American cut glass, Street
scenes in different lands, A visit to Mammoth cave, How flax is made,
The great Arizona desert, Plowing in many lands, A word about Turkey,
The grape and raisin industry in the United States, The capitol at
Washington, From Greece to Italy, Cadet life at West Point, and Grain,
and how it is handled.
=v. 3.= Includes chapters on the great Eastern question, The West and
the great petrified forest, In the footsteps of the apostles,
Revetment work in the United States, Near to Galway town, In the heart
of the African forest, The “blind” readers of the post office, The
little republic, A day in the Zoo, The reclamation, service, and
School-days in Egypt.
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Rowe, Eleanor.= Practical wood-carving: a book for the student, carver,
teacher, designer, and architect. *$3. Lane.
W 7–124.
“The implements and woods employed, the various methods of work,
Gothic, Renaissance, and pierced carving, are treated in successive
chapters, amply illustrated, concluding with an instructive discussion
of treatment and design. A useful glossary is appended.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The book is practical, and the illustrations are beautiful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 950w.
“Carries her subject to a still further and more practical, more
artistic development.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 279. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.
“No one who reads this book can help being the wiser, for it is clear
and practical, and the advice of the letterpress is well illustrated
by reproductions of old and new work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 150w.
=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade,
v. 1, *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–17254.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not too much to say that the result is one of the most
important books upon the subject ever produced. It is very doubtful
whether there exists elsewhere, in so convenient form, information
relative to the systems of taxation by the different states of this
country.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 469. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is a mine of information on almost every phase of the
subject and constitutes a notable addition to the scanty literature
dealing with this side of taxation.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 565. S. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ruete, Frau Emilie.= Memoirs of an Arabian princess; tr. by Lionel
Strachey. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–29873.
“The ‘Memoirs,’ originally written, during a period of ill-health, for
the future perusal of the author’s children, describe with great
simpleness the Princess of Oman’s childhood in the Sultan’s palace and
subsequently at the home of one of her brothers. The life of the
harem, education of children, female fashions, the position of women
in the East, Arabian suitorship and marriage, social customs,
Mohammedan beliefs and festivals, medical methods, and the system of
slavery are set forth from an intimate point of view.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Her book is written in the simplest manner, and with a feeling for
the value of picturesque and telling detail, and the two together make
it a vivid picture of a sort of life as distant and as different from
that of the princess’s American readers as if she had come out of the
days of Haroun al Raschid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 330w.
“A new book containing some interesting intimate revelations of Arab
life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 60w.
=Ruggles, John.= Recollections of a Lucknow veteran. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29042.
“This is an interesting and characteristic narrative of the Indian
mutiny by a Lucknow veteran.... The familiar story is given here with
many added incidents by a veteran who looked all these things in the
face, and who retains a keen recollection of them.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It is fresh and spontaneous, commendably brief and modest, and in
many ways a model autobiography.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 240w.
=Ruhl, Arthur B.= Break in training, and other athletic stories; il. by
Howard Chandler Christy. $1.25. Outing pub.
6–43781.
A reissue of a book first copyrighted in 1900. The present edition
contains a colored frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.
“They could not have been written before Kipling, but they are none
the worse for that. We should like to see Kipling beat them. These
stories are clean and wholesome, yet emphatically manly.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 290w.
“It is a clean book and a healthful book. It is not profound, and it
does not ruffle the waters of psychology. This collection of stories
is noteworthy for its sincerity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Ruhl’s style of writing suits his subjects very well, as a ‘Break
in training’ pleasantly demonstrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 50w.
=Russel, Mrs. Florence Kimball.= A woman’s journey through the
Philippines on a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen
en route. $2.50. Page.
7–23256.
An interestingly written and fully illustrated book which is chatty
and informing and characterized by truly feminine observation.
* * * * *
“Bright and witty travel-talk.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“She sprinkles her sprightly narrative with much information, some of
it intentional and some of it unconscious, about the native character
and the nature and resources of the islands.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 420w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Uprising of the many. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23946.
Questions are answered here that grow out of “the threat of a moneyed
autocracy, the passing of wealth, and the power for which wealth
stands, into the hands of a few.” “These chapters, largely a
republication of material that has already appeared in Everybody’s
magazine, form a powerful indictment against the shameless greed of
‘vested interests,’ and exhibit our own country as tolerating,
constitutionally, legally, and by tacit consent, some of the most
outrageous injustices in the history of the world.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“His book is rich in instructive matter.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Has collected an immense amount of information that is of value to
the perplexed student of current economic conditions in this country.
The author’s view is a partizan one and occasionally passes over
fairly obvious defects in the workings of the system of governmental
and municipal control and ownership which he describes.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 390w.
“Altogether while much that he says is really informing, there is so
much that requires to be read with great critical caution that we can
hardly commend his work to the otherwise uninstructed reader.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 260w.
“It is a comprehensive survey of the world movement for the
democratization of industry.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 60w.
=Russell, George William E.= Seeing and hearing. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–37516.
“A volume of mixed gossip and reminiscence.... Mr. Russell knows
English society intimately, and this volume is a sort of chorus
accompanying it throughout its ‘season’ and on its travels. There are
five chapters on the pleasures, or pangs of the table; others on
social changes, purple and fine linen, suburban Sundays, hospitality,
ostentation, publicity versus reticence, etc.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“On the whole, we like Mr. Russell best when he is touching on his
earlier reminiscences.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 450w.
“In ‘Seeing and hearing’ he still further works the vein opened in the
two earlier volumes, but leaves the reader a little disposed to query
whether the vein is not getting worked out.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 310w.
“This new book differs from the old in not containing so many
anecdotes, and in being a trifle more reflective, even pensive at
times, but the note is much the same.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 160w.
“His style, less severely academic and chastened than Mr. Benson’s,
has a charm of its own—the charm of the easy, flowing talk of a man of
the world.” A. I. du. P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“It has ... an excellent literary touch, and it is full of good
stories, most of which will be new even to readers of Mr. Russell’s
books.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 403. Mr. 30, ’07. 200w.
“It is always easy to read Mr. Russell and it is commonly worth while.
But he writes in haste, and does not always verify his references.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 1410w.
=Russell, Louis Arthur.= Commonplaces of vocal art: a plain statement of
the philosophy of singing. $1. Ditson.
7–23091.
A volume for the singer, teacher and platform speaker which treats of
the philosophy of the voice and of voice use, and offers suggestions
as to the best method of practice for the development of the speaking
voice and the voice in singing.
=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an
optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Taken in small quantities, Mr. Russell’s prophecy is diverting, but
those who read it continuously may wish that parts of it had been
written in the age predicted by the author, when ‘boredom’ shall have
been abolished.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 470w.
=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radioactive transformations; with diagrams.
**$3.50. Scribner.
6–39464.
The Silliman lectures delivered at Yale in 1905. “Some treatment of
radioactivity in general is given, and then a detailed development of
the special subject of the book. This treatment differs only from the
author’s previous expositions in the greater detail in which the
subject is worked out.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Although this book is less comprehensive, as far as the general
treatment of radioactive phenomena is concerned, than his previous
work on ‘Radioactivity,’ it is divested of most of the technical terms
which baffle the general reader, and is, in consequence, a book for
both the student and the intelligent layman.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“We have the less compunction in thus drawing attention to these
blemishes in what we believe to be a very valuable book that they are
all such as may be easily removed either in the next edition or in the
next public pronouncement Prof. Rutherford may make on the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 18. Ja. 5. 2190w.
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 68. Ja. 17, ’07. 940w.
“The only doubt which can be felt is whether it meets any want which
was not already satisfied by his previous work, ‘Radio-activity.’” R.
J. Strutt.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 195. D. 27, ’06. 780w.
“Whilst his writings are always authoritative, and therefore welcome
to the student, they have been divested in this volume of most of the
technical and mathematical subtleties which necessarily repel the
general reader in such a book as that of Professor Thomson, and there
is hardly a page which cannot be understood by the intelligent
layman.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 820w.
* =Ruville, Albert von.= William Pitt: earl of Chatham. 3v. *$9. Putnam.
After the manner of German scholarship thoro research prepared the way
for Ruville’s life of the “Great commoner.” “On two points he has, we
think, added something valuable to our knowledge of Pitt. He brings
out strongly the share which Pitt was forced to take in the personal
intrigues which seemed so large an element in contemporary politics,
the influence of his connections, of the Grenvilles especially, on his
career, and the extent to which for many years he depended on the
support of the Prince of Wales and the Leicester house party. And.
secondly, Dr. von Ruville succeeds in making Lord Bute’s share in
English politics clearer than it has been made before.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“One does miss, perhaps, now and then, a style and manner rising to a
great occasion, as in the account of Chatham’s last speech in the
lords—where, by the way, he did not die, as pictorial tradition
represents. The fact of translation, though this one is excellently
well done, may account for this, though, to be sure, impressive
writing is not the mark of modern histories.” G. S. S.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 85. N. 2, ’07. 1070w.
“The perusal of his conscientious pages leaves behind it a sense of
disappointment. Dr. von Ruville is, in the first place, destitute of
eloquence. Secondly, he takes but little account of human nature.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 511. O. 26. 890w.
“Will always be of value to the historical student, at any rate as a
mine of information. Throughout it he shows extraordinary wrong-headed
judgment not in the presentation of facts, but in the deductions which
he draws from them.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 329. N. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is only when we come to look for breadth of view or width of
treatment, for perception, proportion, sympathy, illumination, in fact
for those larger qualities which make history and biography alive,
that we are driven reluctantly to the conclusion that the book is
unhappily depressing and depreciatory.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 517. D. 5, ’07. 1770w.
“Dr. von Ruville goes through his work after the fashion of a chemist
in his laboratory, weighing, dissolving, calculating, and recording
results with the patient pen of science.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 638. N. 23, ’07. 2420w.
“It is the first history of Chatham which in any way brings together
all the results which may be obtained from manuscripts and printed
material. Save for a few trivial mistakes, the translation is well
done. It is not inspiring; but then the original German has none of
the qualities of eloquence.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 775. N. 16, ’07. 1970w.
=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects.
*$1. Macmillan.
6–14607.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Is a good contribution on a most important subject. All good men
everywhere should welcome this serious attempt to find the ethical and
economic basis of just wages, and be grateful for its sane and dearly
stated findings.” T. J. Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 561. Ja. ’07. 860w.
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 234. Ja. ’07. 600w.
Reviewed by W: J. White.
=Charities.= 17: 471. D. 15. ’06. 880w.
“As a whole the work appears to be scholarly. The organization of the
material used is excellent. On the main point however—the validity of
the author’s ethical theory and judgment—the economic student cannot
of course pass judgment.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 641. D. ’07. 280w.
“The writer of this book has brought together in clear and readable
form most of the essential arguments which have been offered for his
contention; and he has supplied to trade unions and advocates of
advanced social legislation very telling arguments for their
position.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.
=Ryan, Marah Ellis.= Indian love letters. **$1. McClurg.
7–10045.
The hopeless love of a high-minded Indian for a fair haired girl in
the East chants its sorrow here. Pathos, despair, renunciation, never
impersonal where love is concerned, all stalk by the side of this
stalwart young Indian over the sand dunes of Arizona. It is the old,
old story but is tempered and colored by the strain of Indian poetry
that reflects innate worship of Nature.
* * * * *
“The author has compressed a great deal within a few pages, and has
managed her original and difficult theme with much artistic skill. The
ethnic is one with the romantic element of the letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 400w.
* =Ryley, M. Beresford.= Queens of the renaissance. **$2. Small.
A study of these types of the renaissance really means a study of the
rapid development of woman’s intellect and fascination thru the
humanist movement in Italy.
* * * * *
“Miss Ryley has done her work well. She writes clearly, and with
gusto, though at times she is led into being gratuitously ornate.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 864. S. 7, ’07. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The subject necessarily brings the writer and reader into situations
which require tact to be properly dealt with. Here, again, we find
little to commend.”
− + =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 170w.
S
=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–21194.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book lacks unity but presents the material in a style both
instructive and clear. It is especially valuable for its presentation
of the causes underlying the contest.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 222. Ja. ’07. 820w.
=Sabin, Louis Carlton.= Cement and concrete. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$5.
McGraw pub.
7–14245.
“The second edition has been enlarged from 507 to 572 pages, two pages
of which have been added to the chapter on ‘Definitions and
constituents,’ 12 pages to the chapter on ‘Manufacture,’ and the
remainder to a new chapter on ‘Concrete building blocks; their
manufacture and use,’ and to three appendices giving the standard
specifications for cement.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book as it now stands is an admirable treatise on concrete as a
material, but must be taken in connection with some reference book of
design and construction to make a complete survey of the field of what
may be called concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 450w.
=Sage, William.= By right divine. †$1.50. Little.
7–21363.
Two men contend for political supremacy in their state and for the
love of the heroine, in this political romance. One is the old
Senator, the boss of his state, and the girl he loves is his daughter.
The other is a young man of rigid principles who has been elected
governor, whose growing power with the people menaces the older man’s
prestige, and whose manly courage bids fair to supplant him as first
in his daughter’s heart. The contest is bitterly fought, until honesty
and youth and love triumph.
* * * * *
“Though the element of improbability is at times present, the book as
a whole is very true to life, and as a present-day political study it
ranks with the best romances of recent years.”
+ + − =Arena.= 38: 348. S. ’07. 970w.
“Mr. Sage handles his stock situation skilfully, and gives his story a
certain freshness by various accessory devices.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 220w.
“It should be noted that all the love passages have a convincing,
manly air, while an underlying sincerity runs through the book and
makes it a most readable and wholesome novel of its class.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. O. 5, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
=Saglio, Andre.= French furniture. (Library of applied arts.) *$2.50.
Scribner.
W 7–141.
A general history of the subject from the time of the Gauls down thru
the Empire. There are ninety full-page plates, reproduced from
photographs.
* * * * *
“This volume has not many obvious faults, and constitutes a fairly
accurate guide to a study which, however, requires knowledge of the
French tongue.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. Je. 1. 300w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 100w.
“He has wished perhaps to make a thoughtful and readable book. The
result is that we are presented with an essay upon the decorative art
of many periods of French history, without being enabled to grasp
firmly the manufacture and the design of any one period.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 289. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13. ’07. 430w.
* =Sakurai, Tadayoshi.= Human bullets: a soldier’s story of Port Arthur;
introd. by Count Okuma; tr. by Masujiro Honda and ed. by Alice M. Bacon.
**$1.25. Houghton.
7–31244.
The actual experiences of the author who was a lieutenant in the
Japanese army. One feels the personal responsibility which every
soldier assumed for the outcome of the war, “the determination, the
devotion to duty and the adaptability which won for the Japanese
soldier such general sympathy and admiration in this country.”
(Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Not only is the work ... the best that we have on fighting, but it
also forms a valuable study of the relations between Buddhist and
Shintu or official Japanese doctrine. The translation appears to be
thoroughly competent.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 820w.
“A curious study in race psychology is afforded by this ‘soldier’s
story of Port Arthur’. The book furnishes a striking picture of what
war actually is, even under its most humane aspects. And at a time
when the eyes of the whole world are on Japan, it is worth while to be
told so authoritatively just what manner of fighting man the Japanese
soldier is.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 414. D ’07. 580w.
“Considering the great difficulty of finding English phrases to give
the exact meaning of the original, the translation has been very well
done, though occasionally the choice of words is not happy. No review
of the work would be quite complete without some reference to the
colored frontispiece, reproduced from a drawing made by the author
with his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.
“The essential interest and the real value of the little book is its
record of the writer’s inner man, not merely of what his bone and
flesh and blood and nerves did and suffered, but of his essential
personality, perfectly exemplified that ‘as a man thinketh so he is.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 400w.
=Salaman, Malcolm Charles.= Old engravers of England in their relation
to contemporary life and art. *$2. Lippincott.
7–6389.
“In a brief compass the author cannot do more than glance at many of
the two hundred and more engravers whom he mentions, but his
description of the principal characters is adequate, and the whole
army is marshalled before the reader in strict relation to the object
of the book.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“This is a novel, interesting and almost romantic book. It clothes the
dry bones of black-and-white prints with human attributes, and makes
them live. The illustrations considering the low price of the book,
are exceptionally good; in fact, some of them may be said to be
remarkably beautiful.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 117. F. 2, ’07. 700w.
“His pages flash with coronets, and sentimental rapture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 310w.
“The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served.
Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the
reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles
Henry Hart.
+ =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 540w.
“The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by
knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all
the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such
an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice
and a companion of the already wise.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 300w.
“The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a
certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a
more grave and orderly treatment.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 490w.
“If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because
of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much
because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been
needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At
last it has come.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers,
and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the
inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1090w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Worry, the disease of the age. **$1.35.
Stokes.
7–16990.
“Dr. Saleeby apparently conceives worry as a sort of an entity, and he
seems to hold to the old distinction of body and mind. Worry, for him,
can be a cause, and one may gather is rather a cause than a mere
result. And so he gives us instances of how worry can ruin one’s
digestion, with it one’s temper as well, and make one thoroughly and
really ill. This seems to the writer a curious reversal of the
familiar relations of the cart and the horse.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A new volume of double usefulness: from the practical side offering
serviceable hints for what he considers the disease of the age, and
from the theoretical setting in their proper, light the current
notions as to the healthful relations of mind and body.” I. Woodbridge
Riley.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 1950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.
“A profoundly serious medical consideration with much that is
philosophical in the most practical and helpful way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
“He has read widely, he has studied deeply, he has thought out things
for himself, and these are the fruits. Dr. Saleeby is a true
philosopher.” Carl Snyder.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2110w.
“This is a good book on a grave subject, which it treats in an
all-round discussion on causes and effects, physical and psychical,
from scientific and practical, moral and religious points of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“A noteworthy volume of sociological as well as scientific import.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 70w.
“A most capable and thoughtful series of essays.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 1110w.
=Salisbury, Rollin D.= Physiography. (American science ser., advanced
course.) *$3.50. Holt.
7–16499.
An important text-book achievement which provides a complete course
for those “who have no purpose of pursuing the study of physical
geography beyond its elements, but who are yet mature enough for work
beyond the grade appropriate for the early years of the secondary
schools.” It outlines the work covered in the University of Chicago in
a twelve weeks’ course.
* * * * *
“The field is thoroughly and consistently explored.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 200w.
“Teachers of physiography will welcome this new book, not only on
account of the large amount of fresh material and the fine
illustrations that it contains, but also because it represents the
accumulated experience and the method of a scientist whose skill as a
teacher is well known and widely appreciated.” L. H. Wood.
+ + =School R.= 15: 621. O. ’07. 1230w.
“Professor Salisbury’s book meets a real want and the character of its
compilation, based as it is, on many years of experience in teaching,
gives the book a completeness far beyond any other physiography
published up to this time.” George Burbank Shattuck.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 830. D. 13, ’07. 510w.
=Salmon, George.= Human element in the gospels: a commentary on the
synoptic narrative; ed. by Newport J. D. White. *$4.50. Dutton.
“By ‘the human element’ is meant, in distinction from divine
revelations, ‘things that can be proved by ordinary historical
testimony’—including, as Dr. Salmon assumes, the miraculous element in
the gospels. His work is essentially devoted to an investigation of
the sources of the gospel story, conducted with a purposed
independence of traditional opinions.... ‘Editorial blunders’ are
found in Matthew, and Luke is found to have ‘taken liberties with the
earlier tradition’ of the resurrection. The Greek text only of the
gospels, substantially that of Wescott and Hort, is given in parallel
columns, beginning with the entrance of Jesus on his public
career.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“While the reader comes upon interesting and suggestive remarks, he
meets with no real or consistent solution.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 640w.
“It is a striking fact that a scholar of the breadth and thoroness of
Dr. Salmon, who gave so many years to this problem, apparently paid no
attention whatever to the works of continental scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 696. S. 19, ’07. 540w.
“The chief usefulness of Dr. Salmon’s book lies in the acumen with
which he discusses particular passages.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 1060w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 600w.
“The critical commentary upon it shows a cultured scholarship and
freedom which prompt to agreement with the author’s regret that he had
not undertaken the study till late in life.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 260w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 200w.
=Salmon, Lucy Maynard.= Progress in the household. **$1.10. Houghton.
6–38548.
Ten essays entitled Recent progress in the study of domestic service,
Education in the household, The relation of college women to domestic
science, Sairey Gamp and Dora Copperfield, Economics and ethics in
domestic service, “Put yourself in his place,” Our kitchen, An
illustrated edition, and The woman’s exchange.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“While the author does not offer any universal agent for a lightning
change she does write with knowledge and ability, and her opinion
should have weight with thoughtful women.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 130w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Lords of the ghostland: a history of the
ideal. *$1.25. Kennerley.
7–14564.
The history of the ideal, the genealogy of its overlords, Brahma,
Armuzd, Amon-Râ, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter and of the Christ
himself, is here given in a spirit which lifts the veil without
rending it.
* * * * *
“His treatment of each subject is a deft mingling of historical
knowledge, philosophical method and poetic feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
* =Sanday, Rev. William.= Life of Christ in recent research. *$1.75.
Oxford.
7–33561.
“Certain recent lectures, reviews, and sermons of Professor Sanday’s
have been combined into this volume. It presents a survey of the most
important literature of the past twenty years upon the life and person
of Christ with a special chapter on miracles.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Professor Sanday’s well-known scholarly moderation characterizes the
whole.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“As a matter of fact, we have another preliminary essay—a survey of
the chief tendencies and the more important conclusions of the
criticism to which the evangelic narratives have been subjected in the
last twenty years. No English writer is so well qualified as Dr.
Sanday to make such a survey. Not only is he himself one of our most
thorough and most cautious critics, but his appetite for German
brochures is insatiable. The charm of the whole book lies in the
receptiveness of its author’s mind.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1270w.
=Sanders, Frank Knight, and Fowler, Henry Thatcher.= Outlines for the
study of Biblical history and literature; with maps and charts.
(Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 9.) **$1.25. Scribner.
6–39458.
“Intelligent direction for systematic and discriminating study” is the
aim of this book. It meets the needs of four classes of student: (1)
the college student, (2) the graduate student in oriental history, (3)
the student of theology, and (4) the general student of the Bible. The
book covers both the Old and New Testaments, and is divided into four
parts: (1) Hebrew literature and history, reaching from the beginning
to the fall of Jerusalem (586 B. C.); (2) early Jewish history and
literature (586–168 B. C.); (3) later Jewish history and literature
(168 B. C.–135 A. D.); (4) early Christian history and literature.
* * * * *
“If there is one point in which the work does not come up to the
standard laid down by the authors, it is that of answering the
requirements of the graduate student. Otherwise, by a wise use of the
literature assigned and a classification of the material thus procured
there is little doubt that the book will prove very useful and helpful
in filling the blanks in many students minds which should be occupied
by Biblical history.” Ira M. Brice and John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 141. Ja. ’07. 260w.
“A valuable outline with useful bibliographies which would help small
libraries in purchasing the best books on the subjects treated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07. S.
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“As is the case with most works in English covering both the Old and
the New Testaments, the treatment of Old Testament subjects is much
superior.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“They give ample direction to the most recent works of Biblical
scholars, with strict impartiality toward the supporters of divergent
conclusions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Sanders, Wilbur E.; McDonald, Bernard; Parlee, Norman W.; and others.=
Mine timbering. $2. Hill pub. co.
7–19426.
A collection of papers which form a series of essays emphasizing many
important details rather than a complete treatise on the subject.
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. J. McCaustland.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 880w.
=Sanderson, Edgar.= Great Britain in modern Africa. $1.75. Scribner.
7–10993.
“A volume which gathers into easy compass the history and geography of
all the present divisions and governments of Africa.... It treats of
Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy in Africa, as well as of Great
Britain. The only parts left untouched are the western countries in
the Mediterranean.... It is a handbook of information concerning
Africa, including statistics of imports and exports, revenue,
population, and other matters.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 640w.
“Mr. Sanderson’s history ... is told with vivacity and exact detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 460w.
“Mr. Sanderson’s account of recent events is admirably concise and
comprehensive, and affords an excellent idea of the many-sided
activity of Great Britain from the Cape to Cairo and from Nigeria to
Uganda.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 170w.
=Sanford, P. Gerald.= Nitro-explosives: a practical treatise concerning
the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances,
including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid. 2d ed. *$4.
Van Nostrand.
War 7–20.
A work which “for ten years has been a standard authority, and now is
revised and brought up to date. It describes the processes of
manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, picrates, and
fulminates, and gives the methods of analyzing them and testing their
strength.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The text is too much like the old, with some slight changes and
explanations, and not at all enough reference to the progress in the
manufacture of smokeless powders and insensitive blasting powders.”
Charles F. McKenna
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 860w.
=Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 130w.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
5–5419.
“This book is so wanting in clearness of thought that I doubt whether
it can be of much use to anyone. Throughout the book, Mr. Santayana
makes a great many scattered remarks, which are certainly
‘suggestive,’ and perhaps (as he himself declares to be his object)
‘stimulating,’ but what he says seems to be always mixed with a great
deal that is definitely erroneous, and always imbedded in a mass that
is greatly wanting in clearness.” G. E. Moore.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 248. Ja. ’07. 2500w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“These later volumes, though containing much that would be
interesting, if Professor Santayana had not already made us familiar
with his point of view and characteristic method of treatment, are
something of a disappointment. It is not easy to see exactly for what
class of readers they are intended. Unfortunately the last volume
‘Reason in science’—the only one of the last three volumes in which
the author enters a new field—is perhaps the most disappointing of
all.” Ernest Albee.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 195. Mr. ’07. 3980w. (Review of v. 3–5.)
=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–37870.
An attempt “to place the training of the body upon the same
educational basis as the training of the intellect.” There are
chapters upon The physical training of the American people; Physical
exercise and longevity; Physical education in colleges, in secondary,
and in elementary schools; and ideals in physical education.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. S.
“There is much of interest in the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5.
McClurg.
7–29604.
A full summary in three volumes of the campaign of our army and navy
at Santiago in 1898. It is compiled from official documents, contains
twelve maps which show the scene of fighting, and above all is
fearless in its “criticism of American arms and in its tributes to the
feats of Spanish valor.”
* * * * *
“The first thorough and complete account of the war between the United
States and the Spanish in Cuba.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 190w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall (“Marshall Saunders”).= Beautiful Joe; with
an introd. by Hezekiah Butterworth. il. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
7–28456.
A new and enlarged edition of this companion to “Black Beauty.” It is
a dog’s autobiography which teaches a lesson of kindness not only to
dogs but to the entire animal kingdom.
=Savage, William G.= Bacteriological examination of water-supplies.
*$2.50. Blakiston.
Agr 7–1421.
By eliminating elementary matter, and by omitting a part of data early
collected, the author has made his treatise one which covers only the
pertinent phases of the subject.
* * * * *
“Among the many books which have been recently written on the
bacteriology of water, this latest one ... is by all odds the best.
Although it is a comparatively small book, it covers the ground more
thoroughly than any other.” George C. Whipple.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 1040w.
“The chapter on the interpretation of results is particularly to be
recommended. The medical officer of health, and the analyst, and the
bacteriologist will find this book a trustworthy and useful guide.” R.
T. Hewlett.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 120w.
=Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry.= Archaeology of the cuneiform
inscriptions: Rhine lectures. *$1.75. Gorham.
The volume “opens with a brief, but excellent account of the method of
decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, describes the nature of
the inscriptions found, shows the relation of the Sumerians to Semitic
people, that of the Egyptian to the Babylonian civilization, that of
Palestine to Babylonia, the character of the Hittite people of Asia
Minor, and describes the condition of Canaan before the Exodus.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 850w.
“The whole forms a sufficiently compact and readable account. Both
these faults (the habit of stating conjectures as facts, and of
catching at any parallel, however wild, which seems to bear out
preconceived conclusions) are very much in evidence in this volume,
and go some way towards spoiling what is one of the most interesting
books that Prof. Sayce has written.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 296. Mr. 9. 1590w.
“Like all of Professor Sayce’s writings, it is very suggestive, broad
in treatment, and the conclusions sometimes rest on insufficient
evidence.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 90w.
“Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 753. Je. 15, ’07. 1040w.
“The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history
surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in
its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not
by any mean finished.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 340w.
=Schaff, Morris.= Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.
7–32862.
While there is a personal note sounded thruout this autobiography, it
chronicles the universal experiences of all West Point cadets and so
is important as a historic document. The early experiences of the
newly-arrived youth through physical hardening processes to which he
is subjected give way to the months of patriotic endeavor which result
in the “ever-enduring virtues that characterize the soldier, the
Christian and the gentleman.”
* * * * *
“His love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse with life and
feeling the inanimate objects about him, his fondness for drawing
spiritual truths from material facts give to his narrative a higher
beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont to find in a soldier’s
reminiscences.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43. 310. N. 16, ’07. 1500w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 410w.
“This book presents an interesting and vivid description of this
discipline, physical, mental, and moral, by which a boy acquires ‘the
ideals of the soldier and the gentleman.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 499. N. 28, ’07. 920w.
“A volume that has both historical value and picturesque interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Throughout the volume the element of human interest strongly
predominates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 120w.
=Schaff, Rev. Philip.= History of the Christian church. 5v. v. 5, pt. 1.
**$3.25. Scribner.
=v. 5, pt. 1.= The middle ages from Gregory VII., 1049, to Boniface
VIII., 1294, by David S. Schaff. “The period of the present volume is
that of the papal theocracy and the scholastic theology, the
‘Blüthezeit’ of Catholicism, when it would hardly do to laugh in one’s
sleeve at an encyclical. It was the time also of the rise of the
universities, of the enthusiasm of the crusades, and of the noblest
development of church architecture. The coming historian who writes a
really great history of this period will find the ground well broken
by this honorable endeavor of a son to complete a father’s unfinished
task.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
“General libraries, as well as those of ministers and ecclesiastical
institutions will find the work invaluable for reference.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 420w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
“A narrative interestingly put, well arranged and with copious
references to the original sources. This volume is valuable both for
the general reader and for the special student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 5, pt.
1.)
“It is conspicuous for the qualities which secured to his father
international fame.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
* =Scharff, R. F.= European animals. *$2.50. Dutton.
An introductory chapter treats of general matters affecting zoological
distribution and the value of land mammals and molluscs as a basis for
zoological geography. Then “beginning with Ireland he describes some
of the most characteristic animals—and, in spite of his title, the
plants—and by tracing them to their original homes, he, little by
little, reveals the past geological changes which have affected that
island.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 80w.
“For thoroughness and general scientific worth in its restricted
geographical field, Dr. Scharff’s volume will long remain unequalled.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 550w.
“The volume should be in the library of every naturalist.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 441. Ag. 29, ’07. 790w.
“Dr. Scharff’s work contributes to the science a great wealth of facts
and observations collected from many sources. The general reader will
find the subject treated in a manner that is rather beyond him; for
the book is one that must be read with care and concentrated
attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 450w.
=Scherer, James Augustin Brown.= What is Japanese morality? *75c. S. S.
times co.
6–43772.
Five essays which discuss Japanese morality. While they do full
justice to Japan’s lofty idealism, they also point out the weak points
in the Oriental code.
* * * * *
“On the whole Dr. Scherer is reasonable and judicial.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 328. F. 7. ’07. 510w.
“Has been able to cram an astonishing amount of information into a
little volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott.= Studies in humanism. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
7–25524.
“This volume is the most comprehensive and far-reaching exposition of
the new humanism that has appeared, yet the possibilities it suggests
are more fascinating than the theories it definitely develops.” (Ind.)
“What is humanism? And what its Transatlantic cousin, pragmatism? Have
we in either of them a logic or a metaphysic, or both, or neither? Dr.
Schiller does not shirk these questions.” (Ath.) His best constructive
work is the essay on “The making of truth” in which he “disclaims the
notion that truth is created by us out of nothing.”
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 281. Mr. 9. 2020w.
“Whatever we may think of Dr. Schiller’s theory, he has given us an
attractive and stimulating book—marked by acuteness and lucidity.”
Herbert D. Stewart.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 938. Jl. ’07. 2320w.
“Is largely controversial. Unfortunately only one side is given, so
the effect is like listening to a man talking into a telephone. Our
enjoyment of the author’s wit is often restrained by the question
whether it is properly deserved.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 797. Ap. 4, ’07. 880w.
“His criticism is always well worth reading. On the other hand, his
own system contains not a few features which will give many pause.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 560w.
“Yet with all his noble rage for concrete truth he is one of the must
abstract of writers. This characteristic makes his latest work ...
pretty stiff and not extravagantly fruitful reading.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The finished and attractive literary style in which he presents the
new humanism manifests its identity, notwithstanding difference, with
the old.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 360w.
“Not only is Dr. Schiller, as we infer, young himself, but he is also
writing for the young.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 420. O. 5, ’07. 2170w.
=Schillings, Carl Georg.= In wildest Africa. *$5. Harper.
7–35387.
Encouraged by the reception of his “With flashlight and rifle,” the
author offers this fresh series of sketches and impressions of
Africa’s wild life, illustrated by 300 photographs or what Dr. Heck
chooses to term “Nature documents.” The chapters reproduce in
description and picture animals of jungle and plains, aiming to
impress readers with the importance of taking active steps to prevent
the complete extermination of wild life.
* * * * *
“For the most part well written, and, we think, particularly well
translated; the style is often narrative, which is specially
attractive to young people, but besides tales of adventure there is
much that deserves serious attention.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 620w.
“It brings the lives of African birds and beasts before us with almost
startling accuracy. As a matter of fact, there is a wide divergence
between title and text in this volume; the larger part of the text
deals with matter entirely foreign to the title.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 371. D. 1, ’07. 510w.
“The power of the photograph in revealing the marvels of tropical
scenery has never been so clearly demonstrated as in this volume,
wherein the spirit of adventure is blent with the scientific spirit of
investigation.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Whyte’s part in the preparation of this volume is admirably done.
So easy is his style and so free from the traces of a foreign language
that one hardly realizes that the writing is a translation.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 333. O. 10, ’07. 620w.
“It is a pity the text—though it contains much information and some
really important matter—is not of commensurate worth. But Dr.
Schillings is a photographer—not a writer.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 595. O. 5, ’07. 1380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 130w.
“The illustrations in this book are just as notable as those in ‘With
flashlight and rifle.’ And the spirit of the book is the same.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 572. O. 19, ’07. 1550w.
=Schmid, Rudolf.= Scientific creed of a theologian; tr. from the 2nd
German ed. by J. W. Stoughton. *$1.50. Armstrong.
A plea for a mutual understating between science and Christianity in
which the author takes up successively “the subjects of Creation,
Providence, Prayer, Miracles, and the Person of Jesus Christ, he
argues that science and religion nowhere collide, and that the
Christian view is entirely compatible with all proper claims of
science, to which he makes large concessions.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Charles R. Barnes.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 357. Ap. ’07. 450w.
“His book is mediating in a good sense of the word, and its pages
inspire the reader with a feeling of confidence in the justice, if not
always in the persuasiveness, of the writer’s intellect.” James
Moffat.
+ =Hibbert J.= 5: 468. Ja. ’07. 720w.
=Ind.= 63: 516. Ag. 20, ’07. 60w.
“On the whole it is a useful book to credit to a country which has
sent us too much of the contrary kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07, 190w.
“May be recommended as an admirable handbook on its subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudrun, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
6–36031.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Herman and Thusnelda; tr. from the German, by
George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–31226.
This story of the hero of Tuetoberg forest extends from his early days
to his defeat of Varus, the Roman general, in that year which his
victory has celebrated, 9 A.D., and to his union with Thusnelda,
daughter of Segest. With the thrilling incidents of Herman’s life are
side lights upon the customs and superstitions of the day.
=Schmidt, Johann Kaspar (Max Stirner, pseud.).= Ego and his own; tr.
from the German by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
7–13485.
“The book ... is divided into two parts: first, The man; second, I....
Goethe’s ‘I place my all on nothing,’ ... is Stirner’s keynote to his
egoistic symphony. His ego and not the family is the unit of the
social life.... The world belong to all, but all are I. I alone am
individual proprietor.... He repudiates all laws. Repudiates
competition.... Socialism is a new god, a new abstraction to tyrannize
over the ego.... Stirner was a foe to general ideas. He was an
implacable realist.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“What interests one in Stirner is not his argument, but his audacity.
The book is involved and incoherent, and even curiosity to see what
can be said by an _advocatus diaboli_ will not tempt many to read it.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1091. My. 9, ’07. 860w.
“The English translation of ‘The ego and his own’ is admirable; it is
that of a philologist and a versatile scholar. Stirner’s form is open
to criticism. It is vermicular. His thought is never confused, but he
sees too many sides of his theme, embroiders it with so many
variations, that he repeats himself. He has neither the crystalline
brilliance nor poetic glamour of Nietzsche.” James Huneker.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 249. Ap. 20, ’07. 5430w.
“Max Stirner may shock, may amuse you. But he is bound to set you
thinking.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 332. Je. 7, ’07. 2340w.
=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
5–39858.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is difficult to take Schmidt’s arguments seriously. A perusal of
recent studies of the life of Jesus is an instructive discipline in
the estimating of critical theories. Few of them, indeed, can be
accused of the baseless extravagances which appear on the pages of
Professor Schmidt.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 155. Ja. ’07. 930w.
“A very scholarly, scientific, and iconoclastic, yet reverent,
volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Je. ’07. 160w.
=Schnabel, Carl.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It will be seen that the criticisms made are all with the style and
arrangement, rather the matter itself, which is copious and well and
judiciously collected.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2)
“The description of the alloys is usually rather meagre, with
curiously slight regard to the work of the last twenty years. In
general, however, the information is full, accurate, and up to date,
and is conveyed in a pleasant, readable manner.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 486. Mr. 21, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Home life in order. $1.50. Funk.
“This book deals with the anatomy and physiology of the human body,
the elements of hygiene, sick nursing, and first aid. It is written by
one who has had a long and successful experience as a lecturer on all
these subjects, and who is therefore able to speak with authority. The
information conveyed is just of the right sort, and expressed in the
simplest language.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A few strokes of the pen will easily remedy these small mistakes, and
the book is good and trustworthy in every other respect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 310w.
“As the work of a physician of eminence in London, it has scientific
value, but its greater merit is the charmingly intimate and humane
spirit in which it is written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 80w.
“Filled with solid and reliable information useful to all who desire a
knowledge of their physical nature and needs.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.
=Schofield, William Henry.= English literature, from the Norman conquest
to Chaucer. *$1.50. Macmillan.
6–36418.
This is the first of a two-volume work covering the literary history
of England from the Norman conquest to the time of Elizabeth. “The
book differs in plan from the other volumes in the series, and indeed
from most histories of English literature, in that the author does not
deal with the whole production of each successive period. Instead, he
treats his material according to the different ‘genres,’ tracing
separately the evolution of each.... In the main division of the
work—that which deals with English literature proper—the chapter on
the romance takes the leading place.... The chapters on the tales,
historical, religious, and didactic works, and lyrics in the
vernacular, are thorough and adequate—like the excellent bibliography
which concludes the work.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Both the strength and the weakness of Prof. Schofield’s work may be
expressed by saying that it is written from the point of view of a
‘Professor of comparative literature’ rather than from that of an
expert in the special literature of Middle English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 94. Ja. 26. 1540w.
“The shortcoming is not in scholarship, for the book is a marvel of
labor both close and discursive, but in maturity.” Frank Jewett
Mather, jr.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 617. Ag. ’07. 1670w.
“It offers an exceptionally thorough treatment of its period, done in
the light of a scholarly tradition that runs from Gaston Paris to
Child, and from Child to Professors Kittredge and Norton.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Whatever the merits of Professor Schofield’s book, it is not
particularly clear or easy reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 540w.
“Tho of less interest to the general reader than to the special
student, is to the latter fairly indispensable, in spite of its
decided unevenness, as a contribution to the history of a period which
has never been treated either quite thoroughly or satisfactorily.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Schofield has not always succeeded in keeping the illusion of
life and progress: we imagine that his work will be found more
interesting as a book of reference than as a history to read through.
The book is full of instruction, written with a delight in learning
which comes out more clearly the more the argument is tested,”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1240w.
“In literary execution there is considerable unevenness. Parts are
admirably written; for example, the introduction, distinguished by its
freshness of treatment and breadth of view, the general discussion of
the matter of Britain, and the chapter on religious works. On the
other hand, the style, as we have intimated, betrays lassitude in the
concluding sections of the chapter on romance and in some pages of the
chapter on Anglo-Latin literature. On the whole, however, the work is
excellent.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 443. N. 22, ’06. 1530w.
“To most readers the most interesting part will be the romance,
Arthurian and other; but whatever the subject it will be found
adequately treated.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Scholl, John William.= Ode to the Russian people. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10040.
An ode to Russia’s millions which cries not only “evolution” but
“revolution.”
=Scholz, R. F., and Hornbeck, S. K.= Oxford and the Rhodes scholarships;
with list of Rhodes scholars and other information complete to the end
of January, 1907. *85c. Oxford.
7–26974.
Information of a statistical nature required by those who contemplate
trying for a Rhodes scholarship.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“A useful little volume.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young
women. *$2. Benziger.
6–23286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“They treat important topics in a practical fashion suited to the
needs of the people.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Schultz, James Willard.= My life as an Indian: the story of a red woman
and a white man in the lodges of the Blackfeet; il. from photographs
mostly by George B. Grinnell. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–6737.
“An intimate revelation of the domestic life of the Blackfoot Indians
by a man who married into the tribe and lived many years with them.
Reads like a romance from beginning to end, not the least interesting
part of it being the traditions and bits of old stories retold by the
author with simplicity and real charm. Published originally as a
serial in ‘Forest and stream,’ under the title of ‘In the lodges of
the Blackfeet’ and the pseudonym W. B. Anderson.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07. S.
“The value of the book is its record of a state of society which has
now passed.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 280w.
“The author has inherited the Indian’s native eloquence along with his
tastes and ideals, and his story is one of the most authoritative and
interesting revelations of Indian life that we have seen.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 330w.
“This trader is evidently plagued, like many others, by the presence
of a secondary personality under imperfect control. His narrative is
perpetually disturbed by the emergence of an invader, an unclean
spirit in the shape of a literary person, a lover of the heroic, the
romantic, the Arcadian, quite a gifted literary person too.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 970w.
“Through the straightforward and unaffected manner in which he
pictures his life, the reader learns more about the nature of the
Indians among whom Mr. Schultz has lived than in the most elaborate
scientific treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 220w.
“Should be widely circulated, if only to correct mistaken impressions
of what the Indians were before the buffalo disappeared; and what they
still may be under the guidance of honest and generous Indian agents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 490w.
“There are all sorts of humorous and other anecdotes, told in a
literary manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 426. Jl. ’07. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 730w.
“Furnish the truest and most sympathetic records of the inner and
domestic life of the Indian of the plains.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 134. Jl. 27. ’07. 350w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. il. 2v. **$6. McClure.
7–36232.
Reminiscences that are important for their German-American quality.
“There are two characteristics of this attractive autobiography which
should commend it to the study of the general reader. It is in the
first place the account of an individual brought up with all the
advantages of German education, amid all the associations of
monarchism, and with prospects of success in his own country, whose
convictions and predilections drove him into the arms of American
republicanism.... In the second place, it throws a new light on the
events of recent American history.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“With the externals of this work one might easily pick a few quarrels.
Either the proofreading has been lamentably careless in a considerable
number of instances, or else bad editorial judgment has religiously
followed mere slips of the pen in the original manuscript. All this,
however, cannot seriously detract from the value of the really great
biographical works of recent years.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 413. D. 16, ’07. 2320w.
“The whole character of the work is one of frank and easy
self-revelation. It is full of personal anecdote, personal adventure,
personal opinion. Those who take it up are not likely to put it aside
until they have read the whole of it, and, indeed, it is well worth
reading both as a source of interest and an inspiration.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 950w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“They throw much light on the stormy politics of the time, on the
characters and attainments of the leaders on either side, and on the
temper and methods of party action. It is not too much to say that
Lincoln cannot fully be known without this study.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 832. D. 14, ’07. 1900w.
“To most of us this book reveals a new phase in his character in that
it is pervaded with a gentle humor, with a shrewd discrimination as to
men’s character and motives, and a power of direct and forcible
narration which is rare indeed. The work will take a high place in the
literature of biography and reminiscence.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
“He enjoyed intimate personal acquaintance with a remarkably large
number of American soldiers and statesmen. For that reason and because
of the clarity and grace of his literary style these volumes of
reminiscences by Mr. Schurz are of surpassing interest.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 250w.
* =Schuster, Ernest Joseph.= Principles of German civil law. *$4.15.
Oxford.
7–26411.
Here Dr. Schuster has presented to English readers the entire private
or civil law of the German empire. “The immediate and practical
purpose of the book is to aid the English lawyer in dealing with
conflicts of law; and for this reason the German rules of
international private law are set forth and compared with the English
in connection with the matters in which choice of law has most often
to be made. The author’s chief purpose, however, is ... to aid in
placing the study of the English law on a higher plane.” (Pol. Sci.
Q.)
* * * * *
“This is an admirable book, well calculated to promote the serious
study of comparative law and to give a trustworthy account of the
great work accomplished by the juridical science of Germany. He has
carried out his purpose with great acuteness and learning.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 1370w.
“Dr. Schuster has done his work so well that his book is to be
recommended to English, American and German lawyers. In helping
Anglo-American and German lawyers to understand one another Dr.
Schuster has not only facilitated the exchange of useful ideas, but
has enabled the lawyers of each country to gain a better understanding
of their own technical terms.” Rudolph Leonhard.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 723. D. ’07. 530w.
“One of the most useful of studies for the young lawyer whose interest
in law is not yet confined to turning up books for his cases, would be
to read Mr. Schuster’s admirable book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.
=Schuyler, Montgomery.= Westward the course of empire: “out West” and
“back East” on the first trip of the Los Angeles limited; reprinted with
additions from the N. Y. Times. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42436.
An account of a trip across the continent in less than a fortnight, to
which the author has added under the head of “Consideration by the
way,” four suggestive chapters upon: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
and Triumphant democracy.
* * * * *
“Writes philosophically and out of a full mind.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 80w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 160w.
=Schuyler, William=, tr. and ed. Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
6–36184.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is all done reverently enough, and can be read; but there is an
effort at modernization in the attitude of the characters, and in the
style there is more than one elapse of taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 240w.
“Considering the perennial interest of the subject and the skill and
discretion of this treatment, one would expect for ‘Under Pontius
Pilate’ a success, from the publisher’s point of view, by no means
likely to exhaust itself with the season of the first publication.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22. ’06. 1130w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Easter-song; lyrics and ballads of the joy of
springtime. $3.50. George W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
6–11539.
A collection of half a hundred lyrics and ballads, all of which sing
of the gladness which comes in “The green o’ the year.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w.
“It is gentle April verse, not riotous nor riant ... full of delicate
perception and expression.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 121. Ap. ’07. 200w.
=Scott, Dixon.= Liverpool. il. (Color books ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
Liverpool is described by Mr. Scott and pictured by J. Hamilton Hay.
It is “an attempt to mirror the vital aspect which the city presents
to the world today rather than to offer a rechauffé of the past.”
* * * * *
“The plates in colour are far above those usually found in books of
this series, and while not doing full justice to Mr. Hay’s powers,
they at least attest the quality of his colour and the purity of its
application. Mr. Scott’s style, unlike his Liverpool, though
‘variegated and distracted,’ fails to be ‘puissant and concerted.’”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 840. Ag. 31, ’07. 760w.
“We cannot call the book a success, for it conveys nothing very
definite to the mind of the reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 308. S. 14. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is somewhat fatiguing. Sometimes, too, it lapses into
something that a hostile observer might call silliness.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 400w.
=Scott, Ernest F.= Fourth gospel: its purpose and theology. *$2.
Scribner.
7–36975.
A work which “is wholly concerned with the literary form, the purpose,
and the theology of ‘John.’... A twofold purpose is seen in it;
primarily, the expression of a profound personal religion, and at the
same time the adjustment of it intellectually to a new age and
environment, in the reconciliation of Hebraic with Hellenic
ideas.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Thoughtful and stimulating book.” James S. Riggs.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 535. Jl. ’07. 1280w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 760w.
“A thorough study.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Perhaps it is best to take Mr. Scott as he has taken John (whether
rightly remains to be seen)—a combination of streams of thought which
can hardly be harmonized, and which leads to inconsistencies of
thinking and direct contradictions of expression.” Frank Grant Lewis.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 235. S. ’07. 1180w.
“A more complete and enlightening presentation of the Johannine
theology has not been produced in recent years, and to one who would
work his way into the thought and spirit of the fourth gospel no
better guide could be recommended.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The most valuable treatise on the Gospel of John that has appeared in
recent years.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 100w.
“It is the merit of Mr. Scott both to have made clear the profitable
line of study in connection with the Gospel of John, and also to have
exhibited some valuable results of endeavor of this sort.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 540w.
“This is a fresh work of the first rank among the many on its
subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 450w.
“We think that it is hardly possible for the case to be put more
fully, more clearly, or more temperately than in the volume before us;
and though we may disagree with its arguments and conclusions we
cannot but admire the admirable way in which they are presented.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 1410w.
=Scott, G. Firth.= Romance of polar exploration; interesting
descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic adventure from the earliest time to
the voyage of the “Discovery.” *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–35304.
This book ably sustains the claim of its title. It gives the story of
the explorations toward both poles in a fashion not only interesting
but historically exact.
* * * * *
“Is a slight affair, milk for babes.” E. T. Brewster.
− =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 40w.
“We may compare Mr. Scott’s book on polar exploration with the
original records, and it will stand the test. It covers both the
arctic and antarctic regions, and may be commended to any reader as a
compilation that tells in a way that interests the story of many
leading incidents in polar research.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 657. N. 2, ’06. 180w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Beatrix of Clare. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18101.
England in the time of Richard III, forms the setting for this tale of
romance and adventure which takes place close about the throne.
Beatrix, beauty, heiress, and countess of Clare is won by the young
knight and courtier De Lacy beneath the friendly smiles of both king
and queen, while their love affair is troubled by abduction and
bloodshed, and influenced by the great events which stir the kingdom
and even threaten the crown.
* * * * *
“Rather better than the average of its kind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“Done with a freshness and a verve that makes one forgive the familiar
situations, and well-worn devices, and for an idle hour quite enjoy
the knight’s tempestuous wooing of his wilful lady.”
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 320w.
“In manner and sentiment is poor stuff, and about as unreal as
possible.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 130w.
“The book abounds in royal gossip.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 402. Ag. 15, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“It is a good story, as historical romances go.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 525. Ag. 31, ’07. 820w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–21386.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is impossible but more readable than most, and it is well
printed and illustrated, full of bright dialogue, and has for heroine
the most outrageous flirt since Rosalind.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 192. F. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Scott, Leroy.= To him that hath. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23303.
“The story turns on the heroic self-sacrifice of a young man, David
Aldrich, who, at the death of his best friend, the Rev. Philip Morton,
finds out that the latter was hopelessly in the toils of an
adventuress, who had blackmailed him out of $5,000.... Aldrich assumes
the theft himself and goes to prison for four years.... It is a tract
on prison discipline, the reformation of the criminal, the uplifting,
physical, mental and moral of the masses, and the greed of wealth,
thinly veneered with ‘heart interest.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is the simple directness of the narrative, as well as the reality
of the types depicted, that holds you to the end.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 310w.
“The plot of the novel is forced ... and the action is over
melodramatic, but it is a particularly striking production for all
that, and its essential pathos is relieved by much subsidiary
incident, and even by touches of genuine humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Scott is a hero worshiper of martyred manhood among the poor and
unfortunate, a writer who compels admiration and attention by his
friendliness to the friendless and by the sanity of his conclusions
concerning some sociological problems, rather than by literary
ability.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 817. O. 3, ’07. 620w.
“Far more important than its literary merit implies.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
“It is written with much effort and earnestness; and it is fairly
entertaining. The author is not without a sense of humor. But when all
is said, fiction makes a poor appearance in the pulpit; and most books
of this sort are neither good stories nor good sermons.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“That which gives Mr. Scott’s book the vitality and strength which it
unquestionably possesses is his ability to make one see these luckless
types ... as his hero saw them.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 450w.
“It is good story-telling genius to get theory into the reader without
his knowing it.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 238. N. ’07. 710w.
=Scott, M. H. Baillie.= Houses and gardens. *$12. Scribner.
7–33972.
“We have here the fruits of an exceptionally wide and varied
experience in the planning, decoration and equipment of houses of all
dimensions, from small week-end cottages to large country houses both
in England and abroad. This volume testifies eloquently to the fact
that, besides being an architect equipped with an ample fund of
scientific knowledge, Mr. Scott is also an artist possessing a mature
understanding of the proper relations of use and beauty; and the aim
of this work is to show what possibilities of beauty are present in
the construction of a house.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“In many ways this is a surprising volume. Its most striking feature
is the skill of the draughtsmanship, particularly in the coloured
plates. Much of it is well written, with eloquent passages and not a
few well-turned epigrams, but more is equally dull, with the same idea
reiterated in chapter after chapter in almost identical words.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 360w.
“It is to be hoped that a valuable treatise such as this will meet
with that wide recognition which it deserves.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 83. Mr. ’07. 200w.
“There is, on the whole, so much of good suggestion; of good taste,
and of common sense in the book, that one easily overlooks minor
deficiencies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 106. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Quentin Durward; ed. by R. W. Bruere. *50c. Ginn.
7–7198.
An edition designed for the use of high schools and academies. It is
equipped with ample editorial helps.
=Scratton, Howell.= Fortuna filly. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
The Fortuna filly is a horse of rare promise and this story, while it
is a romance, centers about the race track and the training stables,
and concerns races and trainers so exclusively that the love affair of
the owner’s daughter and the young lawyer who in the end wins his wife
and a fortune on the Fortuna filly, is thrust into the background.
* * * * *
“Food, drink, and horse are the delightful ingredients of this
innocent idyl.”
− =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 570w.
=Scripture, Edward Wheeler.= Researches in experimental phonetics; the
study of speech curves. (Carnegie inst. of Washington. Pub. no. 44.) pa.
$2. Carnegie inst.
7–2321.
“The groundwork of the results of Dr. Scripture’s recent work abroad,
in the laboratories organized at Munich, Berlin and Zurich. Save for
illustrative examples from the records, the present volume deals
almost exclusively with methods; nearly all of the last fifty pages
are taken up with tables, some of which appear for the first time, and
should prove most helpful to other investigators along these
lines.”—Science.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 223. Jl. 25, ’07. 420w.
“We congratulate Dr. Scripture on the production of a splendid
monograph. It might have been improved by fuller bibliographical
details, and perhaps by a more adequate recognition of the work of
others.” John G. McKendrick.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 392. F. 21, ’07. 2530w.
“Perhaps the main objection to the work is that the correctness of the
original gramophone records has been taken too much on faith.”
Frederic Lyman Wells.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 740w.
=Scudder, Vida Dutton.= Disciple of a saint: being the imaginary
biography of Raniero di Landoccio dei Pagliaresi. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–125.
“This ‘imaginary biography’ of Neri di Landoccio, secretary of Saint
Catherine of Siena is ... a book full of human interest.... Of story,
in the ordinary sense, except such as is furnished by the background
of actual recorded events, there is little.... The drama is a drama of
‘soul-states.’ Yet, if the chief interest is psychological, this is
not through inability on the part of the author to present the
material side of things: Siena in the throes of the plague-epidemic
and the papal court at Avignon are vividly set before the
reader.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The author’s familiarity with her period is pleasantly apparent, and
her characters, although they speak a language happily free from
deliberate archaisms, fairly represent their century.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 240w.
“Perhaps, despite the author’s deft allusions and unmistakable
accuracy, the historian will not be content.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 825. S. ’07. 710w.
“A noteworthy success in a most difficult form of writing. In the
dialogue, the most difficult part of an historical romance, Miss
Scudder has achieved a distinct success. Her diction, however, is at
times decidedly overstrained.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07, 640w.
“All through the exquisitely elaborated story there are a reserve, a
dignity of expression, and a comprehension of the required attitude of
mind that are refreshing to the thoughtful reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
Sea stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.
7–29583.
Jack London, Güstav Kobbé, George Kennan, Tudor Jenks and a good many
others tell of exciting sea-happenings with a good bit of general
information about divers, light-houses, tidal waves, etc.
=Seabrook, Phœbe Hamilton.= Daughter of the Confederacy: a story of the
old South and the new. $1.50. Neale.
6–43778.
“Unlike the majority of novels of the war period, this one does not
dwell upon the horrors of camp and field, of prison and hospital, but
upon the daily life of a family left to the so-called slighter horrors
of inactivity, anxiety and starvation.”
=Seaver, Richard W.= To Christ through criticism. (Donellan lectures,
1905–6.) **$1.50. Scribner.
The burden of these lectures is “Justification of the new theology and
defence of critical principles and results as not hostile to devout
life.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A reverent and thoughtful discussion of the Gospel miracles in the
light of modern criticism.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. Mr. 14, ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 84: 265. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Loves of the lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs:
6–36177.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A readable enough little tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 62. F. 2, ’07. 500w.
“This old-fashioned romance, with its familiar types and conventional
action, is charming because of its literary style and generally
artistic workmanship. Mr. Underwood’s illustrations are a little
stiff, and crude in color.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 30w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Secret of Toni; il. by George Brehm. †$1.50.
Appleton.
7–5687.
“The story of a dirty, lazy, little boy whose only friends are a nice
clean little boy and a tin soldier to whom he tells all his trouble.
The boys grow up as friends, and both become soldiers who have ups and
downs enough to interest the reader to the happy end.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
* * * * *
“The plot is absurd, but there is a certain freshness about it that
many fiction readers will enjoy.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠
“A rather thin, unsubstantial little tale. But ... one feels no
resentment toward it, for the childhood portion is really quite
enjoyable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 270w.
“Toni, the hero of the present novel, need not fear comparison with
any of the cherub group that we heretofore have met in Miss Seawell’s
pages.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 310w.
“A sprightly story, well constructed and vivaciously told.
Notwithstanding the numerous books which Miss Seawell has written, she
has not yet learned what literary virtues are to be gained by an
occasional due reserve of statement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Fountain sealed. †$1.50. Century.
7–30436.
A character study of three distinct types. A mother whose peace of
mind was constantly assailed by a selfish husband exploiting all the
proprieties of life decides to live apart from him. She goes abroad
and makes a cozy drawingroom the center of a warmth which she radiates
after the fashion of her own serenity, sincerity and dignity. The
daughter, devoted to the father, furnishes the second type. At his
death the mother returns to find her daughter an arrogant, selfish,
heartless girl unable to detect values. The third type is honest Jack
Pennington whose integrity but reveals more convincingly the girl’s
shallowness and the mother’s patient unselfishness.
* * * * *
“The workmanship is excellent and to those readers who enjoy a
ruthless dissection, skilfully done, the book will be worth while. Of
plot there is scarcely anything.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“The best of many good qualities is the spirit in which it is written.
A finished piece of true comedy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 550w.
“The plain citizen, the clamorer for a simple story, will not take
kindly to ‘A fountain sealed.’ On the other hand, the reader who is
attracted by the subtle in style and substance, who likes a maximum of
soul-searching with a minimum of ‘scene,’ will find it a mine of
interest, and will have the further satisfaction of perceiving that a
novel may deal with the subtleties, yet be unquestionably clean.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is such a moving, vivid, illuminating picture of the kind of
tragedy that everywhere dignifies human life, that it can but make a
wide appeal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 694. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“It will add to Miss Sedgwick’s already secure reputation, and give
much real pleasure to thoughtful readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 340w.
“Its admirable character-drawing, and its distinction of style, will
add to a reputation already secure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 40w.
“Well-wrought and engrossing story.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 780. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
=Sedgwick, Mrs. Mabel (Cabot).= Garden month by month. **$4. Stokes.
7–15329.
A new plan is employed in this practical volume. “On each page there
are six vertical columns under the month in which the flower blossoms.
The first column gives the color, the next the English name, the next
the botanical name, the next the description and method of culture,
propagation and origin, and then the height and situation in the
garden, and finally, the duration of the blooming. These are
illustrated by over 200 ... engravings from photographs of growing
plants.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The index is full and carefully made. Altogether. this is a most
valuable book for the shelves devoted to one’s garden library, in a
location handy for reference.” Edith Granger.
+ =Dial.= 42: 368. Je. 16, ’07. 590w.
“There is in it no nonsense of fine writing and poetical quotations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
“We should suppose it might remain a standard for many years.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 110w.
“It is an intelligent and amplified catalogue of the plants described,
and its painstaking sincerity and infinite care of detail should give
it a place on the reference shelf of garden books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 1060w.
“The beginner in this delightful pursuit would probably find some of
the simpler and less exhaustive garden books more helpful and not so
bewildering.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 200w.
=Segur, Marquis de.= Julie de Lespinasse; tr. from the French by P. H.
Lee Warner. *$2.50. Holt.
7–37963.
The letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse not only form a human
document that reveals a tortured existence but are a symbol of the
revolution accomplished in contemporary thought during her period,
viz., “the change of the age of reason into the age of passion and
sentimental license.” The author had access to archives heretofore
unattainable which cleared up facts regarding the early life of
Mademoiselle Lespinasse, her education, relations with the Marquis de
Mora, and the public and worldly side of her character. The sketch
embodies its negative lesson chiefly in this intense woman’s blind
adoration for Count de Guibert. Her suffering strikes the universal
note, and she pays the full retributive price for her wrong-doing.
* * * * *
“The book is a model of wise biography. The translation is on the
whole, good and clear; but it is marred by occasional lapses which
should certainly be amended before the second edition is produced.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 770w.
“[The translation] is characterized ... by inelegance, and not
infrequently by mis-representation of the original.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 177. Ag. 17. 190w.
“At last we have an authoritative, and, it would seem, a definitive
life of that most interesting [Julie de Lespinasse].” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 280w.
“The Marquis de Segur has brought enough personal interest and
enthusiasm to his work to counteract largely his lack of constructive
literary ability.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 360w.
“Though ample and interesting, contributes but little of real weight
to a familiar story.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 503. Je. 30, ’07. 420w.
“Probably comes as near telling the truth about this remarkable woman
as any sentimental biography written long after the death of the
subject can be expected to come.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 1100w.
=Outlook.= 86: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 300w.
“More than one book has been written around her, but this simple
record of her life by the Marquis de Segur is by far the most
interesting of them all.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 80w.
“This book was really worth translating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Seignobos, (Michel Jean) Charles.= History of ancient civilization; tr.
and ed. by Arthur Herbert Wilde. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–32375.
=v. 1.= An English version of a well-known French text book designed
for use in secondary schools. Volume 1 covers a period from
pre-historic times down to the third century of our era.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is the most satisfactory history of civilization that has yet
appeared.” J. W. Moncrief.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 30: 238. S. ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A plain straightforward account.... The translation seems to have
been carefully made, and the editor’s notes, though not numerous, are
of distinct value. Nevertheless, the book is something of a
disappointment. In his effort to cover the entire field the author has
naturally been compelled to include a great deal that is already found
in the high-school text-book.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is a sorry, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, and unprofitable
compilation.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Seitz, Don Carlos.= Discoveries in every-day Europe. **$1.25. Harper.
7–29537.
Little details that eminate from the store of a traveler’s latent
impressions, the sort that fill the chinks of the memory but that are
seldom offered to the stay-at-home tourist. In his shrewdly observant
fashion, entertainingly humorous, the author tells the reader things
worth remembering, and things that can be remembered for their very
epigrammatic clearness. For instance, he says, “Ice is regarded with
superstitious reverence in Italy, France and England. Common waiters
are not allowed to touch the precious product. Instead, the head
waiter hands it out in infinitesimal fragments with a pair of
sugar-tongs.” The marginal illustrations are suggestive of the book’s
humor.
* * * * *
“The ordinary reader will find in it a great deal more about Europe
that would interest him than he gets in the usual ponderous book of
travel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
“Alert, humorous, and irrepressible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special
reference to American conditions. 2d ed. *$2.25. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the present reviewer’s opinion, Professor Seligman’s volume is
likely to prove of more value to the teacher of economics than to the
beginner in the subject for whose benefit primarily it was written.
This is not because of any lack of clearness or other defects of
style. It is due rather to the fact that the author has attempted to
cover too much ground and to introduce the student to too great a
variety of subjects.” M. B. Hammond.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 36. Ja. 16, ’07. 2910w.
=Selleck, Willard Chamberlain.= New appreciation of the Bible: a study
of the spiritual outcome of Biblical criticism. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
7–11195.
An attempt to popularize some of the results of scholarship. It aims
to do three things: first, to state, briefly but clearly and
accurately the principal conclusions of modern learning regarding the
Bible; second, to show the enhanced values, ethical and religious,
which the Bible exhibits thru the new views of its nature thus
developed, and lastly, to point out practical ways in which it may be
used in consonance with such conclusions and such views.
* * * * *
“A most useful and valuable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. F. ’07. S.
=Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“Readers of his careful chapters will have little to unlearn if they
pursue their studies further.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 210w.
“The book is an excellent combination of the conservative spirit with
the radical method in a constructive treatment of its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= Recent hunting trips in British North
America. *$5. imp. Scribner.
“Mr. Selous divides his book into short chapters, each dealing with an
expedition to various parts of the country. Thus he begins with a
moose hunt in the forests of Central Canada, goes on to Newfoundland
after woodland caribou, and visits St. John’s lake, the Macmillan
river, Yukon territory, and other places, finding sport, and adding
trophies to what must be one of the largest collections ever made by a
single person.” (Ath.) “One last chapter is devoted to outfit, food,
etc., all excellent practical hints.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Is sure of a cordial welcome for many reasons.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 680w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 630w.
“There is one quality about all Selous’s books which will win the
attention of his readers: he is preeminently honest and sincere. There
is no fine writing, no exaggeration: all his descriptions of
adventures bear the hall-mark of truth.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 189. Ag. ’07. 1340w.
“The book at large, while, of course, of much more interest to the
British (or American) sportsman than to the casual reader whose tastes
have not been developed that way, has a good deal, of the charm of its
kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Selous’s account of his daily doings is a plain, straightforward
narrative which will be invaluable to those who follow him, into these
northern wilds. He also gives much interesting information about the
aspect of the country, the fauna, the habits of beavers, the races of
wild sheep in North America, and the big game generally.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 520w.
* =Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse,
to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding
Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index. by Frank Justus Miller.
*$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
Aside from the fact that Seneca’s tragedies serve as the only
connecting link between ancient and modern tragedy, the plays are of
value and interest as independent dramatic literature of merit, and
also as an illustration of the literary characteristics of the age of
Nero. The author has aimed to present to the English reader all of the
values accruing from a study of these plays except the benefit to be
derived from reading them in the original.
* =Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Last empress of the French. **$3.50.
Lippincott.
A contribution to history. “The book begins, as careful biographies
should begin, with a due account of Eugénie’s grandparents, leading up
to the birth of Eugénie, her early days, and eventual marriage with
Napoleon III., through the machinations of her mother and the help of
her own beauty.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The present book is a painstaking collection of facts about the life
of the Empress Eugénie, written without enthusiasm and without
distinction. From one point of view it is an improving book, from
another a very blasphemy against that most mysterious, most sacred of
all things—life.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 841. Ag. 31, ’07. 960w.
“If not treated as history may be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 208. Ag. 24. 910w.
“Agreeably written, clearly printed, and handsomely illustrated, the
book is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care and painstaking
research in its preparation; but one might have expected that the
restraint imposed upon the biography by the Empress Eugénie’s being
still alive would have been offset by the advantage of some little
help from her in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her
eventful history.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The book is well done, and the portraits and views are well
selected.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14. ’07. 90w.
“It is, as may be supposed, a difficult subject which Mr. Sergeant has
elected to treat; and he must be allowed the credit of having
accomplished his task with success.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 180w.
=Seton, Grace Gallatin Thompson (Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton).= Nimrod’s
wife. **$1.75. Doubleday.
7–18186.
An account of the author’s life in the open while accompanying her
artist-author husband on his trips in search of copy rather than game.
Many interesting feminine side lights are thrown upon experiences of
camp and travel while there is much good advice to women as to proper
dress and equipment.
* * * * *
“This is a book to read; if you like books about hunting, without any
adventures which give a distinct thrill.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a spirited manner, pervaded by enthusiasm for outdoor
life, a love of adventure, and a cheerful, wholesome philosophy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“It is bright, unconventional narrative, and would be better if the
writing were more coherent and less ‘highfalutin.’ But it is agreeable
enough.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 130w.
“Offers another study of feminine self-consciousness, superimposed, in
this instance, upon a perverted and, and at times, amusingly naïve
hero-worship.” George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 140w.
“We can unreservedly praise her for her quick wit and catching humor,
for her thorough-going sportsman-like manner, and for the literary
graces of good composition.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 380w.
“The views of Nimrod’s wife partake still of the charm of comparative
novelty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“Certainly with safety and entire truthfulness it may be affirmed of
Mrs. Thompson Seton’s animal anecdotes that they are at least good
reading—and that in these intimate and formal records of camp life and
travel she has so well preserved the atmosphere of close companionship
with woods and waters that, even to the uninitiated, what is after all
the chief charm of sport with gun and rod is made quite clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 210w.
Seven sages of Rome, ed. from the manuscripts with introduction, notes
and glossary, by Killis Campbell. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–5077.
Besides the text, which follows the Cotton MS., this volume, one of
the “Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry,” contains
an exhaustive introduction which discusses the early history of The
seven sages, the Oriental, European, and English versions, and gives a
list of originals and analogues. Full notes, a glossary and index
complete the volume.
* * * * *
“We congratulate Prof. Campbell on the skill and care displayed in
this edition, which students of ‘comparative literature’ will find of
great use.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 370w.
“The text is an important one in the history of stories and a new
edition was obviously needed. This want has just been supplied in a
thoroughly satisfactory manner by Prof. Killis Campbell.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Gillette’s social redemption. Il. **$2.50.
Turner, H. B.
7–18591.
A review of world-wide conditions as they exist to-day, offering an
entirely new suggestion for the remedy of the evils they exhibit. Mr.
Severy but gives expression to Mr. Gillette’s ingenious plan for the
amelioration of the ever-increasing ills of the existing social
system,—a plan which combines the best of the single tax scheme, the
best of socialism with the best part of our present system as it
exists to-day.
* * * * *
“Sensational ‘stories’ from daily newspapers, even of the ‘yellow’
type, are seriously treated as historical materials, without rational
criticism. All the muckrakers are here invited to unload their
unsavory burdens, and the result is a sort of literary
dumping-ground.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
− =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 190w.
“One could wish, however, for less material and a better sorting of
what is used.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 250w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 410w.
“It may be that some of the world’s scandals are omitted from this
large and handsome book, of whose paper and print it is possible to
speak well.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 160w.
=Sewell, Tyson.= Construction of dynamos, (alternating and direct
current): a textbook for students, engineer-constructors, and
electricians-in-charge. *$3. Van Nostrand.
A text-book for students and apprentices in electrical engineering as
well as helpful to civil, mechanical and other engineers. The earlier
chapters are devoted to an exposition of the fundamental principles of
direct and single phase alternating currents, and their bearing on the
subject, of dynamos; the effects of polyphase currents being treated
later on as an introduction to polyphase alternators.
* * * * *
“A great deal of good information is given, but there is a lack of
perspective the reader being left in doubt as to what is the standard
practice.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 423. O. 17, ’07. 370w.
“A perusal of Mr. Sewell’s book will leave the reader with the
impression that the designer of dynamos will learn nothing from it,
and that the student may with equal advantage read any of the previous
publications treating of the dynamo in a popular style.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 217. Jl. 4. ’07. 1190w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 160w.
=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Saunterings in Spain. **$3. Dutton.
7–35147.
The “saunterings” include Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville,
and Granada. “The introduction giving an historical sketch of the
Moorish occupation of Spain is a noteworthy tribute to remarkable
people who shed light upon European art and science at a time when
Europe was ‘in that slough of despond which we term “the dark ages.”’”
(Sat. R.) “The book is essentially for the journey and not the
fireside.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The historical sketch is good and concise, the description
commonplace, superficial and too personal.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.
“[The reader] should guard himself against too implicit an acceptance
of all the dicta it contains. A spirit of recklessness may be found at
work at various points in the main narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 980w.
“The book is more deeply laden with useful knowledge than most, the
studies of the art galleries in Spain being particularly close and
appreciative.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The illustrations are so fine that they almost make up for the
shortcomings of the text.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 170w.
“Perhaps the most interesting chapters of the book, in which there is
not one dull page, are those on the Alhambra.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Seymour ... is not a saunterer at all, but the cicerone, with
much of the dryness and ponderosity of the guild, but informing, and
if not so suggestive as Mr. Williams, far more valuable as a guide.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 1040w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Siena and her artists. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38017.
A dissertation upon Sienese art as exemplified in her architecture,
sculpture and painting. “General Seymour does not write as a
specialist. He eschews technical language, and contents himself with
setting down in simple terms the impressions produced upon him by
study of the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti, Taddeo di
Bartolo, and their disciples and successors. It is interesting to
note, from the records of these impressions, how strong an appeal to
the modern mind may be made by an art which has deliberately adhered
to a set of rigid conventions, if only it possesses the fundamental
qualities of beauty and sincerity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“A book for the amateur—yes! Unimportant, but redeemed by enthusiasm
and headlong interest in the subject.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 673. Je. 15, ’07. 310w.
“The unpretending volume before us contains nothing for the scholar or
the art-critic, but it will be welcome to the ordinary traveller
visiting Siena for the first time, and desiring counsel as to how he
may most profitably spend his leisure there.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 60w.
“Another book which will be useful to the visitor to Italy who wishes
for criticisms of pictures not too learned or technical.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 27, ’07. 30w.
=Seymour, Thomas Day.= Life in the Homeric age. *$4. Macmillan.
7–36949.
Based upon a study of the Homeric poems, this book deals with the life
and times as reflected in the poet’s language. Hence it is
philological rather than archaeological. The importance of the
undertaking to the modern reader lies in the fact that Homer’s picture
of the life of his age is the earliest account extant of the culture
from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The cosmography and
geography of the country are studied, the family, education, dress,
food, slavery, trade, sea life and ships, agriculture, animals,
worship, arms and war.
* * * * *
“Very learned and extremely readable book, which we heartily recommend
both to scholars and to the general reader.” R. T. Tyrrell.
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 181. N. 30, ’07. 1250w.
“Is an admirable addition to a scholar’s bookshelves. There is little
doubt that this work is exhaustive and accurate enough to satisfy all
but the keenest departmental specialists.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 510. O. 26. 1530w.
“The work seems too detailed for a younger student, while for the
advanced worker it ought to embody more results from archaeology and
the increasingly important science of anthropology. Again, one is
compelled to notice a regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of
repetition that might be called otiose if one did not know the
over-conscientious author, and a constant recurrence of a negative
method elucidation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 311. N. 16, ’07. 3100w.
“No one can doubt that it is definitive.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1059. O. 31, ’07. 680w.
“A more complete guide to the knowledge of life’s externals in the
Homeric age we have never met with.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There is all through a certain lack of precision of view in this
book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 420w.
“The present volume will be an indispensable work of reference in
public and college libraries and a handsome ornament to private
collections. But we fear that it is too bulky and too expensive for
the students who need it in their reading of Homer.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 472. N. 21, ’07. 2220w.
“In a broad sense one might call this work of opulent learning a
sociological commentary upon the Bible of ancient Greece.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 290w.
=Shackleton, Robert, and Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth.= Quest of the
colonial. **$2.40. Century.
7–30414.
While the chapters of this book are the personal experiences of two
enthusiastic homemakers in quest of the useful, beautiful and
interesting articles of colonial furniture and bric-a-brac, they
afford generous information concerning colonial furniture of every
kind, and offer helpful suggestions in the matter of selection.
* * * * *
“It contains a great deal of definite and accurately stated
information for the amateur collector, besides many anecdotes
calculated to quicken his enthusiasm and arouse his envy and
admiration.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“It is rare that one finds a book that deals so accurately with facts
pertaining to the furnishing of our forefathers and at the same time
uses dry data with sufficient cunning to make a charming readable
tale.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“No one who has the slightest love of the old could fail to gain
sincere pleasure from the reading of this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. from the
text of the early quartos and the first folio by William A. Neilson. $3.
Houghton.
6–38336.
Uniform with “Cambridge poets,” this volume shares with the others of
the series the excellencies of book making. Professor Neilson’s
“radical procedure in frankly adopting a modern punctuation will
probably please readers, if they notice it, and raise questions among
scholars. His rearrangement of the plays according to chronology
within the three well-recognized divisions of comedies, histories, and
tragedies, by which ‘Tempest’ appears as the seventeenth instead of
the first play, is likely to give qualms to readers rather than to
scholars. Both innovations seem to me to be worth trying, and it is
needless to approve the small amount of textual apparatus in such an
edition and the consequent saving of space for a good glossary.”
(Forum.)
* * * * *
“We recommend it most cordially to the scholar, the student, and the
general reader.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 262. My. ’07. 170w.
“Calls for a word of hearty praise.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.
“Professor Neilson ... has done a real service in his one volume of
Shakespeare. His critical introduction and textual notes are very
admirable.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 50w.
“No more attractive single-volume edition exists.” W. P. Trent.
+ + + =Forum.= 38: 379. Ja. ’07. 480w.
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 270w.
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“This new edition by Prof. Neilson is easily the best single-volume
edition that has yet been published.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1340w.
“In every way the volume is suited for the use of the general reader
and for a place on his library shelf.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 210w.
“These textual variations are the merest trifles after all, and
detract nothing from the general merit of the book, which is
unquestionably the best one-volume edition of Shakespeare that has
appeared—so nearly perfect in its way indeed, that its supremacy is
not likely to be disputed for many a year.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 723. S. ’07. 840w.
=Shakespeare, William.= First folio Shakespeare; ed. with notes, introd.
glossary, list of variorum readings, and selected criticisms, by
Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, ea. 75c. Crowell.
—As you like it.
6–42340.
This volume shares with the volumes that have gone before the
excellencies of the carefully compiled editorial matter.
—Henry the fifth.
6–45068.
The characteristic features of this entire series are found in this
volume.
—Much ado about nothing.
7–11050.
Uniform with the “First folio edition,” and the twelfth to be issued.
It is supplied with the full editorial equipment characteristic of the
edition.
* * * * *
“The reading public cannot be too grateful to the editors and
publishers of this Shakespeare for bringing within their easy reach
that which has hitherto been accessible only to millionaires and
scholars.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 220w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
“Altogether the editors deserve to be warmly complimented on the
thoroughness of their work, which must have cost them abundant time
and labour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 798. D. 22. 630w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20. ’06. 50w.
“There is nothing better at hand for the genuine student of
Shakespeare and the development of the English language.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 340w.
“We have no hesitation in saying that this is as great a help to
Shakespearean study as has been produced for many years.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra; ed. by Horace
H. Furness. *$4. Lippincott.
7–28476.
“Antonie and Cleopatra” complete with the unsparing equipment of the
“Variorum edition.”
* * * * *
“Differences of opinion with regard to the soundness of Dr. Furness’s
original contributions, do not affect the high value to be placed upon
the main purpose of his work and the splendid manner in which he
continues to carry it out.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17. ’07. 1100w.
“To exactness and fullness of knowledge the editor of the ‘Variorum
edition’ has added the wisdom which is born of a great love.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 87: 329. O. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 80w.
+ + + =Spec.= 99: 535. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= From old fields: poems of the civil war.
**$3. Houghton.
6–39442.
A collection of poems chiefly about civil war topics.
* * * * *
“In a way, Mr. Shaler was the Crabbe of the battlefield. He saw the
sordid, tragic commonplaces of war with an undeluded eye, and
portrayed them with a firm and vivid pen.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 60w.
=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will.
**$1.50. Duffield.
6–32864.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. S.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Soldiers of fortune in camp and court. **$3.
Dutton.
Phases of history “as it was built up by personal gallantry.” The
author begins with the mediaeval Condottieri and ends with the Indian
adventurers, the modern representatives of the Condottieri.
* * * * *
“We have said that this is an interesting book, and apparently Mr.
Shand, to judge by his reticence in the matter of dates and stern
exclusion of references, does not mean it to be more than simply
interesting. That, however, should not preclude a little care in the
writing. The style, on the whole, is not unattractive, but it is
sometimes careless.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 9. O. 12, ’07. 940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“‘Soldiers of fortune’ is very different from the kind of sham history
we are often given under such a title. It is not tawdry or
sensational; the author observes it as a point of honour with himself
never to make what seems to him the truth lopsided in order that it
may be more exciting.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 482. O. 5, ’07. 1440w.
* =Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
In five chapters, as follows, Dr. Shaw discusses the relation of the
average man to present social, economic, and political conditions in
the United States. The average man under changing economic conditions,
Present economic problems, Our legacy from a century of pioneers, The
business career and the community and Jefferson’s doctrines under new
tests.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30. ’07. 180w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Political problems of American development. (Columbia
university lectures George Blumenthal foundation, 1907.) *$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–22104.
“The book as a whole is a study of national development, dealing not
with the questions of constitutional law that vexed the minds of the
fathers, but with the practical difficulties that democracy has
continuously encountered in its attempt to realize the national ideals
in the American environment. Immigration and race questions, problems
relating to our public lands, party machinery, the regulation of the
railroads and the great industrial trusts, the tariff, the currency,
foreign policy, and territorial expansion are all discussed from the
point of view of the journalist and man of affairs.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The book is so valuable as to deserve a second edition.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1372. D. 5, ’07. 620w.
“We cannot feel that this work will add to Mr. Shaw’s reputation
either as a writer or as a student of American problems. The whole
volume smacks of the haste of journalism. It is frequently
repetitious, and is not lacking in that dogmatic finality of opinion
which is a pitfall for all editors.”
− =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 750w.
“His views in their entirety are not always ours. But we may say that
in no instance does he fail to illumine his subject for the great
general public to whom he addresses himself; and that his little
volume is an admirable textbook for the use of those who would pursue
intelligently and conscientiously the schooling that makes for an
efficient and triumphant democracy.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 540. N. 9, ’07. 1040w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 230. N. ’07. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 180w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well
A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James
Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
6–39443.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A combination of acute and searching criticism of modern plays and
players with unlimited flippancy and egotism. Deliciously
entertaining, if not altogether profitable, reading; for those
familiar with the plays and the actors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Shaw is at his sanest in the dramatic criticisms contributed
weekly to the ‘Saturday review.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 553. Ap. ’07. 5910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 71. Ja. ’07. 2050w.
“They made sparkling reading in those days, but that is hardly
sufficient to justify the preservation of such current chroniclings in
permanent form.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1, ’07. 120w.
“If there is anyone surviving at this time of day who thinks Mr. Shaw
merely a crank or merely a ‘farceur’, these collected dramatic
criticisms ought to open his eyes. They are, on the whole,
tremendously earnest and absolutely sane; the work of a man who
obviously longs to leave not only the stage, but the world, better
than he found it.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 117. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“These criticisms of Mr. Shaw’s have had, and we believe are likely to
have, a wholesome effect upon the contemporary stage, but whether such
be the case or no, they must at least be allowed this great
virtue—they are tremendously entertaining.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 754. Mr. ’07. 620w.
“Mr. Huneker has chosen the criticisms for republication, and written
an heroic, gunnerlike preface, full of explosions and boomings, which
is, perhaps, suitable to so gallant an occasion.”
− =Spec.= 98: 567. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= John Bull’s other island and Major Barbara.
**$1.50. Brentano’s.
7–21528.
There are three plays included in this group: John Bull’s other
island, How he lied to her husband, and Major Barbara. There are the
usual characteristic prefaces, and for an introduction he makes use of
his “First aid to critics.”
* * * * *
“Both ‘John Bull’s other island’ and ‘Major Barbara’ are ill put
together. They share with the ‘Doctor’s dilemma’ the defect of
straggling on after the play is really at an end.” St. J. H.
− =Acad.= 72: 621. Je. 29, ’07. 1120w.
“It is only by the ideas which they embody that Mr. Shaw’s stage-works
will live. Should those ideas ever become commonplaces—an unlikely
contingency!—his plays possess, apart from their humour and wit, no
quality which can save them from the doom of oblivion. They contain
but the smallest amount of story, no plot worth speaking of, and very
little emotional stress or conflict; any catastrophe they set forth is
of a strictly intellectual sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 107. Jl. 27. 1500w.
“The latest is the most interesting volume of Brentano’s new edition
of Shaw, because none of the three plays in it has appeared in print
before and only one of them has been played often enough in this
country for many people to see it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 879. O. 10, ’07. 860w.
“If only to find the secret that is in Mr. Shaw’s heart, his prefaces
are to be read. There are the plays to be read, as well—two of them as
good plays as Mr. Shaw has ever done, and all three as amusing and
stimulating in print as on the stage, all three brilliantly successful
devices for compelling you to swallow the powder of the
‘paper-apostle’ in the jam of the ‘artist-magician.’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 1890w.
“As a study of actual social conditions, or as drama, [Major Barbara]
is quite worthless, being wholly unreasonable and packed, as is the
writer’s habit, with all kinds of false and reckless generalizations,
cynical extravagancies, and perverse misrepresentations; but it is,
nevertheless, highly entertaining in its witty, bumptious, paradoxical
and wholly irresponsible fashion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 350w.
“The present writer is considering not Mr. Shaw the playwright, but
Mr. Shaw, the clairvoyant, the acute observer and the critic of things
as they are in the year of grace, 1907, the philosopher, if you will,
of the open eye and mind. He is, as a matter of fact, the very
inspiration of critics whether of literature or of life, for he is
inexhaustively suggestive because he is marvelously perceiving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 437. Jl. 13, ’07. 2370w.
“In these two more substantial plays, as always, Mr. Shaw makes it
plainer than ever, as has already been said, that he is first the
determined moralist, the servant of his profoundly passionate
convictions; then the architect of what happens to be their vehicle:
in this case, satiric and imaginative drama. But scarcely less notable
is the demonstration which is here furnished of that other
inconvenient and embarrassing fact which Mr. Shaw is at such elaborate
pains, when he is on his guard, to conceal: the fact that he is, ‘au
fond’ and incurably a poet.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 284. O. ’07. 2000w.
“Not even Mr. Bernard Shaw’s wit and paradox can make his play about
Ireland ... altogether easy reading.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“The three plays show Mr. Shaw’s characteristic genius.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 100w.
=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. **$1. Whittaker.
6–31412.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The literary quality of the book is very good indeed; and, while the
author does not pretend to original thinking, he has the knack of
putting ancient truth in a fresh and pleasing, as well as convincing,
manner.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Early essays and lectures. *$1.60.
Longmans.
7–11584.
A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they
appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan
discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such
subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and
Irish youth and high ideals.
* * * * *
“In many places, the essays would have been improved by the
application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have
gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one
find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph
that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w.
=Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.
7–34809.
The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the
few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the
“young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the
beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the
environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and
also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The
Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and
The praise of John Harvard.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John
Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard
might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w.
“Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his
slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in
piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious
possibilities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to
the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an
interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the
first twenty years of its history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w.
“In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand
entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he
shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w.
“Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to
Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Shelley is entitled to the honor due a pioneer and to the
satisfaction of feeling that he has produced a book interesting in
itself and bearing the promise of fruitful results.” Elisabeth L.
Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 679. O. 26, ’07. 1600w.
“It is no detraction from the supplementary value and interest of Mr.
Shelley’s work if we recognize at once that his is a secondary book.”
Ripley Hitchcock.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 611. D. ’07. 1830w.
“As the life of John Harvard it can only be described as conjectural
biography carried to the nth degree. Its sole distinction is its
attractive reconstitution of the environment in which John Harvard was
brought up, and the people he possibly knew.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
6–34854.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Shelley is in many respects quite the ideal guide, unassuming,
sympathetic, and exceedingly well informed. He refreshes vague
memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is
exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to
poetic shrines, but—and it is a serious but—for the clumsy proportions
and gross material weight of the volume.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 390w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of information
and instruction for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
6–19004.
(2d ed. rev. and enl.
7–18184.)
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07. S.
* =Shepard, William Kent.= Problems in strength of materials. *$1.25.
Ginn.
7–30998.
“A collection of nearly 600 specific problems or exercises in the
strength of materials ... [which] confines itself strictly to the
statement of problems, and with one exception, eight pages on the
design of riveted joints, avoids explanatory interjections.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“In the absence of either explanation or cautionary reference, the
student is likely to go astray, even when the book is being
administered by a teacher. Regardless of this, however, we welcome the
appearance of such a collection of problems.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 537. N. 14, ’07. 620w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 584. D. ’07. 100w.
=Shepherd, Henry Elliot.= Life of Robert Edward Lee. $2. Neale.
6–46779.
Not so much a biography as a characterization. The conditions under
which Lee lived and worked and the results he achieved are outlined,
as well as his ideals, motives, genius and character. The author says
“It is my distinctive purpose to exhibit the life of our hero in those
critical and all-pervading relations which constitute the abiding test
of true greatness.”
=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Running horse inn. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18182.
George Kennett, a soldier in the Peninsular campaign, returns to
Running Horse inn in a little town in the south of England upon the
day that his brother, believing him dead, weds the girl who had
promised to wait for him. At first the returned soldier succeeds
fairly well in accepting the inevitable, but when financial hardships
come, and his old love for Bess masters him, he turns scoundrel, and
brings misery to his brother’s home. He pays the penalty for the guilt
which he was morally responsible for, although he is innocent
technically of the charge that hangs him.
* * * * *
“A really fine historical novel.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 479. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“His military experiences show more power than any other portion of
the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“The tender character studies of rural English folk, the captain’s
yarns, the homely life within the Inn, and the eternal scenery along
the downs, and, above all, the solemn tread with which all events seem
to march toward the final, inevitable tragedy gives the book power.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 140w.
“Has set himself a difficult task and if he has not fully succeeded it
is fair to recognize the ambition.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 250w.
“The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole,
interest is fairly well maintained.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
“The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the
best part of it is near the close.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
“The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr.
Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a
theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere
of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the
growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is
of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Sheppard, S. E. and Mees, C. E. Kenneth.= Investigations on the theory
of the photographic process. *$1.75. Longmans.
A theoretical rather than practical work whose subjects are dealt with
from the point of view of what is now understood as physical chemistry
and are described in the language of that branch of science.
* * * * *
“This volume will find a place, which it will worthily fill, in the
libraries of all who are interested in the scientific aspects of
photography.” C. J.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 70w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some
recollections of a literary life; 2d ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
6–18833.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= Major dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
The rivals, The school for scandal, The critic; ed. with introd. and
notes by George Henry Nettleton. (Athenaeum press ser.) *90c. Ginn.
6–43927.
A school edition with abundant editorial matter.
* * * * *
“He succeeds, not only in giving all the information needed by
beginners with sterling fulness and accuracy, but in adding a great
deal that will interest those who have already a good working
knowledge of the plays.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 112. F. 2, ’07. 1310w.
“Is by far the most pretentious attempt yet made to edit these
masterpieces of English comedy. It is to be regretted that the
apparatus is more evident than the criticism. The several sections in
which Professor Nettleton discusses Sheridan’s position in the English
drama display no real insight into the art of dramaturgy.” Brander
Matthews.
− + =Educ. R.= 33: 318. Mr. ’07. 1200w.
“A compact and careful piece of work, containing a considerable amount
of useful information in small compass.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 251. Mr. 14, ’07. 310w.
“We do not know any other book on Sheridan which crowds so much
information into so small a compass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
“Admirers of Sheridan’s [plays] may now have their favorites printed
(for the first time in America) from the authentic text of Sheridan’s
plays taken from the original manuscripts and edited (for the first
time anywhere) with complete annotation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 625. O. ’07. 350w.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley B.= Rivals; with an introduction by Brander
Matthews. il. $2.50. Crowell.
7–24460.
A de luxe edition illustrated by a series of five drawings, the work
of Mr. O’Malley, which are reproduced in full-page photogravures. The
drawings, the introduction by Brander Matthews and the excellent
workmanship of the book make it a choice holiday offering.
* * * * *
“Mr. Power O’Malley has illustrated the play for the present edition
in a fashion to emphasize both its old-time quaintness and its
sparkling humor.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“The notes are of little value.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Sheridan, Wilbur Fletcher.= Life of Isaac Wilson Joyce. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.
7–20972.
A biography of Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church which
reveals him as preeminently the man of action, a man “too busy making
history to record it.” His missionary zeal at home and in foreign
fields sounds the strongest note in the sketch.
=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Words to the wise—and others. **$1.50. Holt.
7–36126.
A dozen delightful essays upon social and literary subjects such as:
The root and foliage of style, Our kin and others, A plea for the
naturalization of ghosts, Ruskin, Modern letter-writing, and Our
comédie humaine. In each we find a discriminating taste for the best
works of God and man.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6.
Longmans.
7–19489.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It comes too late, and it is far too bulky.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
“The best parts of Mr. Sherring’s volume are the chapters devoted to
the legends and myths of the natives especially the Bhotia tribes of
the frontier, and to the quaint customs and manners of the British
borderland.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 580w.
“The present volume is one of the most valuable works that we have
seen upon the subject.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Sherring is much to be congratulated upon the way in which he has
acquitted himself of his task.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1030w.
“Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist,
botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that
the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important
additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best
things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most
of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w.
=Sherrington, Charles Scott.= Integrative action of the nervous system.
**$3.50. Scribner.
6–38912.
“The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in
detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together
in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The
whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a
strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness....
The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author
supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own
extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by
other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc.,
illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.
=J. Philos.= 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w.
“We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the
comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared
up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments
quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due
inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands
out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w.
* =Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Princess Pourquoi. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–31285.
The five tales in this volume are wonderstory fables. “The ‘Princess
Pourquoi’ represents, let us say, the modern spirit of feminine
inquiry in its dignified aspect; ‘The princess and the microbe’ and
‘The seven studious sisters’ represents the same spirit in an amusing
light; and ‘The clever necromancer,’ its pathetic side. ‘The gentle
robber’ is a more pungent satire upon the theoretical and the actual
attitude of the world toward greed and dishonesty on a large scale.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
“They are very gracefully written, and the effect of each is something
like that of an old piece of richly colored embroidery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 649. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Shoemaker, Blanche.= Woven of dreams. **$1.25. Lane.
7–10279.
Under the four headings, Sonnets, Youth’s journey, Gathered petals,
and Woven of dreams, are gathered more than a hundred exquisite
verses, full of the joy of life and the depths of its emotions.
* * * * *
“The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There
is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that
poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before
us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Winged wheels in France. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–42912.
The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the
author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The
snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The
book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer
him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The
volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.
“The descriptions are graphic, and there is a wise avoidance of the
geographical details.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 899. D. 22, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Shoemaker writes with sympathy, although his pages might well
have been more picturesque and luminous considering his subject
matter.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
“A good bit of descriptive travel writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“It is a succession of rapid impressions, which seems to require eyes
and a brain especially made for the purpose, if any fixed recollection
is to be carried away. Yet these impressions are clear, in spite of
their quickness and slightness.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Through wintry terrors. $1.50. Cassell.
“A struggling clerk and his silly young wife, a vicious little poet,
an old maid, and a few of the submerged—these are the characters in
‘Through wintry terrors.’” (Lond. Times.) The tragedy of a hasty
marriage is enacted in which misunderstandings lead to separation, and
this, for the wife, to the sober trouble of London’s darker side. “The
simple story moves straight to its end through troubles very real and
affecting, shaped by the hand of an artist and touched with the spirit
of a poet.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a
number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst,
that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”
− =Acad.= 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.
“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.
“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has
the qualities of a work of art.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Shurter, Edwin DuBois=, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.
7–3094.
A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a
view of offering them to students as models for study.
* * * * *
“Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has
committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w.
“Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains
such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task
well.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w.
=Sichel, Walter Sydney.= Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original
sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new
letters. *$5. Dodd.
6–1105.
The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story
of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman;
it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his
capacity for taking pains is great.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w.
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w.
“There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole
subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy
Jeaffreson.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w.
“His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly
always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and
not very often quite convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w.
“His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period,
not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too
minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a
complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that
robs the book of value.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w.
“He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he
has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His
style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and
expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w.
“This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w.
=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur
Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
6–18307.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in
the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.”
F. Melian Stawell.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w.
“It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British
thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann.= Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–4161.
Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A
young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to
England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon
his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a
worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been
drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his
well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end
everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a
happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak,
pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.
* * * * *
“An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠
“The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but
is wholesome and mildly amusing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w.
“A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any
doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be
an excellent thing of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
“An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being
read and of no consequence afterward.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w.
“Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce,
yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and
chivalrous sentiment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
=Siegfried, Andre.= Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.
7–22822.
Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1,
considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and
instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by
Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in
ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of
part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and
endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject
full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French
Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
=Sigerson, George.= Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic
literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the
Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.
A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It
follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series
specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times
and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of
the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this
edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well
translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present
volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing
the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader
that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than,
that of the Greeks.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w.
“A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w.
=Silberrad, Una L.= Good comrade. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–30840.
An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia
Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for
“shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch
bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb,
sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does
steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable
explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to
secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally
crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.
* * * * *
“She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both
vivid and true.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and
has produced an exceptionally good novel.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.
“In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of
the hero the book is not a silly one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as
American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write
such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of
the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so
atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w.
“The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of
honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in
the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The
character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor
gentle and pleasing.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w.
“Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has
made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
6–35717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. 07.
=Simpson, M. W. Hilton-.= Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.
The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of
Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the
mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within
the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the
region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of
the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most
genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s
versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate.
He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a
useful and practical sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w.
“What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very
agreeably set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend
his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with
things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w.
=Sinclair, May.= Helpmate. †$1.50. Holt.
7–25509.
While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach
the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once
enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby
securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she
martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates
intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away
the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks
consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does
Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one,
and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as
a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier
group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.
* * * * *
“It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a
bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
“Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse
for the small library putting money into it, first because it has
appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore,
accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be
consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the
small library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and
with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is
almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are
not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w.
“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its
predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run
of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w.
“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a
day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w.
“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the
year comes from May Sinclair.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too
artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and
admirably distinguished in expression.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w.
“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various
reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on
the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to
examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British
convention.” Eleanor Cecil.
− + =Living Age.= 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w.
“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite
of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a
document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we
admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of
all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and
tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w.
“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a
picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our
literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of
kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which
is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing
which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of
understanding.” H. I. Brock.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w.
“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for
some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a
great story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a
perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a
powerful study of temperament.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Sinclair, May.= Tysons. $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the
relations of an ill-assorted pair.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Industrial republic: a study of the America
ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–18298.
It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a
dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory
of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a
careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts
that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the
presidential election of that year, that after that will be
established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.
* * * * *
“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but
little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the
reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which
deal with the present and not the future.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w.
“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A
modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than
is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer.
His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own
intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of
his own judgment.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w.
“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is
one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his
story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor
broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the
worst together, and makes the most of it.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w.
“His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in
regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and
slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not
like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most
ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the
book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the
consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the
social and political conditions of the moment.”
− − =Spec.= 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–6264.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
“If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the
experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a
cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work
had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Overman. 50c. Doubleday.
7–30837.
A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who
went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a
tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty
years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly
passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by
contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer
and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to
break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to
make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr.
Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural.
And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that
it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and
convincing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Dutch and Flemish furniture. **$7.50. McClure.
A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It
opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury
first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and
plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of
battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the
religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and
prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its
comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the
Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a
great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive
work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and
its material adjuncts in the low countries.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w.
“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic
connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book
unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w.
“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her
subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has
considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it.
Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative
faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not
appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the
necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur
and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of
various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The
general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the
narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared
for.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Historic buildings of America as seen and described
by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–38380.
“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the
best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in
her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is
possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is
persistent enough in search.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.
“Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in
unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and
described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
7–35639.
“The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and
soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only
cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.”
(Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington
Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel
Rawson Gardiner, and others.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a
place in a collection of this character.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–40554.
“The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous
buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful
environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of
modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week,
the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr.
Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the
multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will
be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to
the librarian in reference work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S.
“The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those
who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the
vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive
information, well distributed between topography, history,
architecture, and manners and customs.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w.
“Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the
writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too,
is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or
publisher.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to
authors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.
Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social
life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John
and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de.= History of the Italian
republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the
light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by
William Boulting. $2. Dutton.
Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into
eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts
are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate
republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.
* * * * *
“The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack
of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the
text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and
revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the
work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the
most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things
Italian can do without it.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w.
“The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto.= Pagan races of the Malay
peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.
7–11553.
The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the
Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and
the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr.
Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material
culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available
material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the
path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved
by our authors.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w.
“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their
task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from
consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes
have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs
with which they are illustrated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w.
“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is
never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in
anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember
any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not
only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native
decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected
by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w.
“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of
interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more
graphic by reproductions of photographs.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w.
“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication
of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and
critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt
with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which
may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature
of much that has been written as well as by the length of the
bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together
in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published
by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with
material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social
life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is
quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races
whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w.
=Skinner, Robert P.= Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first
mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of
Kings. *$3. Longmans.
7–7544.
The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to
treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that
country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces,
elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its
history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full
of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization
and equipment of a caravan.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’
which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that
needs one.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w.
“Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of
personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his
lively, entertaining account of his travels.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w.
“The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up
with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining
manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and
contains some profitable suggestions.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5.
Lippincott.
7–37968.
The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is
“guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of
the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present
edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–145.
“It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the
moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle,
sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the
intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous
descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments,
curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the
country.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his
subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not
easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w.
“_The_ book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good
advice.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Very practical book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch.
*50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–29757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis.= Master of the world: a study of Christ.
**$1.50. Longmans.
6–45051.
“The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern
scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of
information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have
grown up around his person.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”
− =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w.
“The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by
combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a
considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to
his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present
faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical
judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w.
“Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from
dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.
=Slicer, Thomas R.= Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6629.
The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book.
The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by
self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way
of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship:
happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home;
The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the
vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.
* * * * *
“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor
Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w.
“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not
through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than
to the flesh.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w.
“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many
passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w.
“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and
encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the
wall.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the
strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
6–35989.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened
to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find
much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until
only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating
textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational
profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w.
“It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in
engineering design.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w.
=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
6–23320.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Nature.= 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Small, Albion W.= Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the
methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–32182.
A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic
partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development
of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to
take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which
was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed
for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the
production of wealth.
* * * * *
“Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very
strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does
not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w.
“In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make
out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious
and severe criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago
press.
5–32452.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w.
“In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only
one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the
anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated
with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of
another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand
of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he
has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of
thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with
imperfect appreciation of real issues.”
− =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w.
=Smalley, Harrison Standish.= Railroad rate control in its legal
aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public
regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.
6–26074.
“This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public
regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial
review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter
specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a
plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.”
William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–9556.
“The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born
fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her
daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling
she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book,
apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the
day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that
this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the
present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w.
“Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss
Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she
does not obtrude it.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w.
“The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack
of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity
about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false
ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing
solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had
something genuine to say.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a
vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under
the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to
demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w.
“The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an
opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by
the first few chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, A. Croxton.= British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in
colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.
“A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first
friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how
to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general
management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science
of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments.
Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter
hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish
setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms
criticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w.
“The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour
and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very
readable, but not very thorough or practical.”
+ − =Spec.= 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-.= Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.
7–16502.
A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited
opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”
=Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo.= Machine design. $3.
Wiley.
5–39881.
“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions
of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of
all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the
proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up....
Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then
considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their
bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then
follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed
wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the
concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine
frames are discussed.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design
which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book
should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their
first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country,
with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.
A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in
1863.
* * * * *
“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its
happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as
worth buying and reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w.
=Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25.
Century.
6–7325.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w.
“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill,
and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the
facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information
little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical
chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w.
=Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.= Montlivet. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33573.
“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French
rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old
materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and
freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de
Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in
disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.
* * * * *
“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting,
it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 217. N. ’06.
“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be
described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with
an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The book has unusual merit.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it
contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s
rest from the dread of horrors to come.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= China and America to-day: a study of
conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.
7–26625.
In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is
shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and
discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a
discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United
States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is
given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly
changing conditions and relations.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and
customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many
volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s
missionary movement.
7–38590.
A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a
bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged
for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up
and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is
attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.
“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with
an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to
be found in the same compass.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Smith, Bertram.= Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences
in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.
“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the
night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the
covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets
forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the
United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind
to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to
show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and
satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover
the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this
guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that
there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a
number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches
and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written
is pleasantly humorous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
* =Smith, Bertram T. K.= How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.
A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information
regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other
matters included in the field of philately.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w.
“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w.
“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little
book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29156.
The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother
love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains
a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Hill top girl.
†$1.50. Lippincott.
Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and
poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the
top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this
symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A
sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is
discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion
against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w.
“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in
the ‘Hill-top girl.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
− =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Little school mothers: a story for
girls. 75c. McKay.
7–21231.
A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a
contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the
school-mother of a motherless child.
* =Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Three girls
from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most
intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for
financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain
prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt
in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is
a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to
the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in
consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This
dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end
of complication and humiliation.
=Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told
and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–42437.
Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in
picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full
of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the
expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the
new volume.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury
than a necessity.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w.
“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text
is apparently historically correct.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Francis Asbury.= Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the
defendant. Knickerbocker press.
7–8252.
A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature
claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.
* * * * *
“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome
note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater
commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w.
“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s
book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as
literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the
conditions under which they are probably produced.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading,
but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm.
J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w.
=Smith, Francis Henry.= Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the
centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.
6–32410.
“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its
creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt
university maintain.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the
Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of
fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands
of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 356. Ap. ’07. 570w.
“The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close
debate.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 9, ’06. 160w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E.
Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.
7–17373.
“A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an
arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity,
written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a
stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating
the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.”
(N. T. Times.)
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 200w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–31210.
“In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome,
noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from
the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as
a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of
life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past,
though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a
younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely
through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as
well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠
=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr.
Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds
its magic to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 410w.
“‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and
true.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Veiled lady, and other men and women, il.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–12697.
Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of
the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have
grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that
delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and
indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. 70w. ✠
“There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in
‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume
of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion
and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1102. Jl. 11. ’07. 180w.
“For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and
unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the
stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many
of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 130w.
“It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but
the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of
the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 300w.
“The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except
the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the
painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in
them.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 620w.
“A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but
every one will repay the time spent in reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
5–34173.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they
seem to be—charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 504. Ag. 11. ’06. 240w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
6–35588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much
those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and
precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 419. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Smith, George Armitage.= Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25.
Dutton.
7–6425.
An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on
which it is based.
* * * * *
“Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods
of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be
commended for educational purposes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 607. My. 19. 510w.
=Smith, Gertrude.= Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.
7–36981.
Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by
Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl
and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a
pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other
people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their
plays and their pleasant surprises.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend.
**50c. Macmillan.
7–7165.
A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression.
“Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than
revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the
socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of
the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no
leaping into the millenium.”
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 647. My. ’07. 60w.
“The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of
a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is
reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 80w.
“A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Written in a characteristically clear style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.
=Spec.= 98: 985. Je. 22, ’07. 820w.
=Smith, Rev. Haskett.= Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.
7–10989.
“The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who
journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by
various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form
the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal
of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 061. D. 29, ’06. 120w.
“The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day
Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a
certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that
subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9. ’07. 130w.
“Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or
his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic
picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of
finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 147. F. 2, ’07. 1120w.
=Smith, James Allen.= Spirit of American government: a study of the
constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–16497.
In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system
upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He
calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent
opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way
of majority rule.
* * * * *
“Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and
earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will
from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly
exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be
safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy
vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the
nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the
inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 620. N. ’07. 620w.
“It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and
inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth
annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and
highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 560w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
“The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing
to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a
movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What
Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the
untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no
understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty
of the individual as also of the masses.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 1540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Smith, Captain John.= Generall historie of Virginia, New England and
the Summer isles. 2v. *$6. Macmillan.
7–18581.
An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called
forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in
convenient form for the first time since their original publication in
1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the
maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits
of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 310. Mr. 30, ’07. 1070w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the
work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers
have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence.
J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 163. S. ’07. 2290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 26. My. 9, ’07. 1060w.
“These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color
and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.
“Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory
statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in
ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For
this there can be no excuse.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.
“It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The
volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may
make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 460. Mr. 23, ’07. 1860w.
=Smith, Justin Harvey.= Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada
and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.
7–26025.
The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own
independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal
primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general
readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to
gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those
which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are
so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done
differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for
broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt
to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part
of his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 970w.
“What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our
attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith
has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an
interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7. ’07. 390w.
“Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile
and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort
to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a
levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while,
on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to
include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But
his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves
the heartiest of welcomes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be
interesting.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable
industry.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 150w.
=Smith, Margaret Bayard.= First forty years of Washington society: a
portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith;
ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–40262.
Letters which until recently have been kept well guarded make
available an authentic record of Washington society during its first
forty years. Manners and customs, no less than notable political
characters, appear in a new and intimate light.
* * * * *
“The editor has furnished a satisfactory index and the notes necessary
to explain the text.” Montgomery Blair.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 669. Ap. ’07. 760w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“The editor’s notes are always to the point.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 494 O. ’07. 480w.
“Upon the deeper character and influence of the many notable men about
her, Mrs. Smith’s comments are of no great value. But a clever woman
is often able to see and portray the peculiar characteristics of an
individual or an event in a way that is illuminating and valuable. It
is this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayard Smith that makes
their publication well worth while.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 139. Mr. 1, ’07. 1620w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book is too long ... but when we lay it down we feel as if we had
been at a pleasant gathering, where no evil was spoken, and every one
had a moderate old-fashioned enjoyment of life.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 83. Mr. 15, ’07. 1220w.
“Possessing no special charm in themselves, they will be often
resorted to for color by other writers. The editorial work is
competently done by Gaillard Hunt. His candor in preserving the
simplified spelling of the writer, and certain even more simplified
grammatical constructions, contributes to the impressions of essential
veracity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“This collection of letters ... is a distinct and valuable
contribution to the completeness of the historical pictures of life in
the highest political circles in the first half century of the
American republic.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 870. D. 15. ’06. 1740w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25.
Badger. R. G.
6–25984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and
unusual feeling for rhythm.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mary P. Wells.= Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.
7–31225.
Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are
narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which
brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary
period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion
true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships,
their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the
narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal
to young readers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the
overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending
chapter.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w.
=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk,
Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
6–32121.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with
praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the
popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student
already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs
enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to
the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness.
Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader
disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a
satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too,
calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray,
was it not strictly alphabetical?”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
=Smith, Rodney.= Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1.
Revell.
“This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from
its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in
four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and
forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by
unmistakable sincerity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.
7–5061.
A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of
wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757,
after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the
happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The
Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold
spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety
animate the pages.
* * * * *
“A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton
Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old
age,” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of
his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy
him.”
− =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
=Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w.
“In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical
literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but
taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w.
“All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but
wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill.
$1.50. Page.
7–30991.
This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting
things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new
adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses
his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill,
in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters
on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor
leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen
want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours,
increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete
suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control,
state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed
shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty,
freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work
for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The
author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a
final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion
that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w.
=Smyser, William Emory.= Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.
7–6733.
This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets
and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the
religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a
spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and
social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of
the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.
* * * * *
“The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought
in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the
poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a
sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w.
=Smyth, Eleanor C.= Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform: told
by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.
The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous
detail concerning the originator’s home life.
* * * * *
“This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter
of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate
and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but
this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes
on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but
such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake
to apply to the past the standards of the present.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
5–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is
valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of
all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the
conquest of arid America.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–14547.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the
ultra-cynical scene at the end.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w.
“Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and
carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its
measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of
mediocrity.” Mary Moss.
+ + − =Atlan.= 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w.
“Is a book to be reckoned with.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has
written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has
deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon
the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
“The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so
that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its
results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real
thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr.
Snaith.”
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd.
by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
6–37964.
A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after
the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely
coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of
his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch
between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he
had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that
held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat
landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at
last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of
the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the
mind of the man involved.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
“A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but
otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the
Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of
the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of
incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due
admixture of fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
=Snider, Denton Jaques.= American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.
6–34283.
The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its
starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the
beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the
Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It
represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the
varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there
some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in
regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”
− + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.
“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one
interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read
these illuminative and instructive chapters.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w.
“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of
the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to
the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is
negligible.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a
rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too
frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he
undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Snider, Guy Edward.= Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in
Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.
6–46362.
A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the
superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for
the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of
taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The
fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to
recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a
part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w.
=Snyder, Carl.= World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism.
*$2.50. Longmans.
W 7–93.
When complete there will be three volumes under the general title,
“The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one
treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The
mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how
the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude
fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection,
into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized
knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand
result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w.
“It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the
general reader more information on the history of science than he can
find anywhere else in a readable form.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w.
“He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few
references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability
to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash
prophecy.”
− =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w.
“The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea
or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author
has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science
whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a
trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.
− =Nature.= 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w.
“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of
assured facts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the
vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the
work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of
mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w.
“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The
story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout,
and, at times, picturesque.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w.
“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we
have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries
which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book
contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along
with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing
character.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis
Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their
meaning very obscure.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of early Christian literature: the
writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev.
W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
6–11299.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have
happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w.
“A good English translation.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w.
=Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of.= Correspondence of two
brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his
brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by
Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.
“This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of
distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke
and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by
no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several
short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and
the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not
ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a
competent and conscientious piece of work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w.
“The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is
valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for
the characters revealed by it.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be
ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in
a very high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w.
“If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness
is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w.
“These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students
of the Waterloo period.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w.
“The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the
cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the
modern Athens.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w.
=Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Some Irish yesterdays: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ.
Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–35223.
“A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and
gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and
the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form
an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to
those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as
amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish
R. M.’ have ever done.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07.
“The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less
spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w.
“One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the
gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle
expression in the brogue.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w.
“The book is seldom interesting, often dull, and sometimes almost
unintelligible.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17. ’06. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 624. O. 27, ’06. 1420w.
=Soothill, W. E.= Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.
“A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author
tells of the difficulties of establishing a mission, of its daily
work, of the travels of the missionary about the country and the
multitude of varied things his hands find to do, of the Chinese
converts to Christianity and the aid they give, of the work that is
done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of
the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese
education.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His book is vigorously informative, shot thru and thru with human
interest, and made attractive with wit and humor.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w.
“It is an entertaining volume, brimful of information about the life
and work of the missionary, and vivid with pictures of the daily life
of the Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.
“With many interesting descriptions and touches of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Sorrel, Moxley.= Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2.
Neale.
Not so much of a narrative as a series of pictures of “camp and field
and of the more striking personalities of the Southern armies.” (Ind.)
The reminiscences begin with the battle of Manassas, and continue thru
Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w.
Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.
7–29580.
A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The
earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times,
The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.
=Souttar, Robinson.= Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of
the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.
7–25500.
“Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes
three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious
narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress of the Roman empire
from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of
the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for
a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the
crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire
from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that,
notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact
very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman
literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of
little use even to the historian.’”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 312. Mr. 30, ’07. 2140w.
“The reader appears to be in safe hands, however, for the current
modern opinion is not departed from, unless the author takes occasion
to differ with some one as to the causes of the decline and fall of
the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political
and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 175. O. ’07. 470w.
“He has used in his book what may be regarded as respectable
authorities but he shows no knowledge of the special literature
concerning the topics which he treats. The author is seen at his best
in his chapters on the early emperors, whom he treats with both
fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated
because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w.
“Granting Mr. Souttar’s method, he has chosen his material with skill
and knowledge and described it with as much vividness as his method
will allow.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“The whole thing is certainly not the work of a thorough scholar, or
of a literary man with any cultivated skill in his craft.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 114. Jl. 27, ’07. 1370w.
“The truth of the matter is that Dr. Souttar is not sufficiently armed
with authorities to reverse the judgment of history. Dr. Souttar’s
inability to deal with the more obscure problems of history is shown
by his treatment of the subject of Roman persecution of the
Christians.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 399. S. 21, ’07. 1340w.
=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–5679.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work is a masterly volume marked by a firm and comprehensive
grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and
investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the
hour.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 205. F. ’07. 5540w.
Reviewed by Mary Willcox Glenn.
=Charities.= 17: 497. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
=Spargo, John.= Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.)
50c. Kerr.
7–23082.
The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor
Goldwin Smith’s attacks on socialism in his book “Capital and labor;”
the second, a lecture on “Modern socialism,” delivered to the students
of the school of philanthropy, New York City.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Albion W. Small.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 272. S. ’07. 110w.
“The paper will be especially valuable to the average reader whose
acquaintance with socialism consists chiefly of a bundle of
misapprehensions.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 150w.
=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist
principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–22326.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.
“Mr. Spargo’s views, which if not authoritative are representative,
have the merit of being those of a socialist who is an educated man
commanding a clear and temperate style, accustomed to dealing with
actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene
Balch.
+ =Charities.= 17: 464. D. 15, ’06. 2030w.
“In spite of the brevity of his work—the result of conciseness rather
than of superficiality—Mr. Spargo gives a satisfactory general view of
his subject, and his book is to be recommended especially as a
foundation for a more detailed knowledge to be afterwards acquired.”
Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 300w.
“As an elementary presentation Mr. Spargo’s work is distinctly
meritorious, in spite of undoubted faults of style, exposition, and
reasoning. Economically it need mislead no one. Sociologically it will
prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing,
though it adds nothing to the specialist’s knowledge of socialist
history or theory.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 122. F. ’07. 540w.
“It is to be regretted that in preparing such an able hand-book for
the propagation of socialistic ideas, the author did not give more
serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought
and thus bring the ‘economics of socialism’ into closer harmony with
the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 166. Mr. ’07. 960w.
=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples
ser.) †75c. Crowell.
7–26624.
Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the
little boy in the lonely woods into Lincoln the patriot, the lover and
friend of his whole country. The sketch has been prepared especially
for boys and furnishes the keynote to a successful life in any place
or station.
* * * * *
“Adapted to the understanding of the young. At the same time, it is
not written in a tone of condescension, an attitude which boys are
sure to resent. Adults might well read it and be instructed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Sparling, Samuel Edwin.= Introduction to business organization.
(Citizen’s lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) $1.25.
Macmillan.
6–43943.
“This book is another indication of the growing interest in the
systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work
definitions and analysis of business organization are given with
considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization.
After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of
such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization,
Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct
selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and
collections.”
* * * * *
“The only book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07.
“So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the
very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible
for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.”
Charles Lee Raper.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w.
“The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much
detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the
organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and
suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to
the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own
business.” Wm. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Short history of the American navy. **50c.
Scribner.
7–12867.
Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United
States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive
people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of
America’s history.
* * * * *
“This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new
knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.”
Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
“Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim
consideration as a serious historical study.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a
history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so
labeled.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w.
=Speed, Capt. Thomas.= Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–14671.
A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active
participant.
* * * * *
“The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in
the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but
unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s
controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for
arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the
best available source of information about the Union cause in
Kentucky.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not
altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and
events, sometimes only locally interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w.
“It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have
value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian
of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=Speer, Robert E.= Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian
character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–16361.
The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects,
Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for
ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of
a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.
=Speicher, Jacob.= Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.
7–20641.
A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in
southern China.
* * * * *
“Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent
form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang
and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on
what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training
the missionary needs.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
* =Spinners’ club.= Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.
7–32566.
A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its
mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club
to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb.
Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the
earth-quake is the first beneficiary.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Spinney, William Anthony.= Health through self-control in thinking,
breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–2729.
An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and
mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard
matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.
* * * * *
“There is much ... nonsense in the book.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Spitta, Edmund J.= Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the
microscope. *$6. Dutton.
This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the
instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to
the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the
microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that
Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns
himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume
considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates
the most recent types.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a
future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and
every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w.
“Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume
extremely helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w.
“In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w.
“The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are
the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its
theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which
he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w.
=Squires, Grace.= Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50.
Dutton.
6–39753.
The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world
was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys
as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.
* * * * *
“It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would
suggest.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough
seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do
any girl good to read it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
=Stael-Holstein, Mme. de.= Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by
Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr.
from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–29169.
“These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of
great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as
well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They
are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when
these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the
decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the
inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to
current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest,
but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness
de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too
obviously a translation.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of
great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the
name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this
publication of new letters.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.
6–37191.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07.
“It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is
too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for
students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to
plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any
interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred
pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this
presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s
book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical
knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art
history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his
gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment
Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any
profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173
pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of
the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to
the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the
book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with
Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity,
daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but
generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real
quality of the work praised.”
− =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.
“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote
to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his
advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his
pictures inserted as marginal notes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.
“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.
=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.
6–16206.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language
rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the
author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton.= Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.
7–20751.
Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel
Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in
rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is
well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been
carefully sought out.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of
the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been
filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s
interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline
to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes
lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.
“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified
with study of the original records and documents, has written a
thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.
“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that
there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case,
there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Standage, H. C.= Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50.
Van Nostrand.
Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a
great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds
are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.
=Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron.= Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of
Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–28487.
Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography
he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch
of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such
as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and
certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that
had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His
chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on
his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded
themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and
policies.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers
will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and
opinions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.
“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who
are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the
Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no
books which are more valuable from this point of view than the
biography of Sidney Herbert.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.
“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his
biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His
treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not
unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.
“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the
space.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly
interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on
Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of
the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work
formidable and rather dreary reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.
“Very interesting memoir.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.
=Stanton, Coralie.= Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50.
McBride, T. J.
7–11588.
The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a
compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power
for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays
with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the
horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the
adventuress.
=Starbuck, Robert Macy.= Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive
and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of
plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly
by the author for this work. $4. Henley.
7–2755.
A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling
of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.
* * * * *
“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These
exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and
probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of
readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably
fulfilled.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and
apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have
occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated
information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.
=Starke, Dr. J.= Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically
established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the
German. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–12259.
A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms,
especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also
the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that
“There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the
moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that
speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are
not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes,
exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a
nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the
disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities
and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of
itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.
* * * * *
“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in
order to influence public opinion more effectively.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.
“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the
unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in
circulation.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.
“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth
and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are
somewhat obscure.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.
“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it
might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense
of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.
=Starr, Frederick.= Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles.
$1. Forbes.
7–20882.
An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions
in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel
of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and
found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well
illustrated by photographs of the natives.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.
=Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on
his Congo trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things
under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been
afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy
over alleged atrocities there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
6–7716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the
reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable
compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which
is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.”
F. Lavis.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.
* =Stead, Richard.= Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this
volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the
dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the
Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The
compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St.
Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many
notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and
Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as
less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.
“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to
run through the 328 pages.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great
rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and
perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50.
Lippincott.
6–45336.
An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line
of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to
Klondyke.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.
“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure
and wilder beasts.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been
better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the
topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque
scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And
from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think,
the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and
steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as
well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine
stories of adventure and exploration.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
* =Stead, William Thomas.= Peers or people? the House of lords weighed
in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.
A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary
chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate
which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the
study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has
done, and What must be done with the House of lords.
* * * * *
“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or
social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the
authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill
and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of
the problem.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2.
Lippincott.
6–37623.
A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found
in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it
“contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and
loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are
varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything
that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.
“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness
of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the
distinctive feature of his work.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with
some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen
sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great
romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his
surroundings.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.
“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio
Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even
new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and
valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it
furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
should not be.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.
* =Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and public services of George Luther
Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.
7–38430.
A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the
antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary
evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting
sidelights on the civil war and its issues.
=Steel, Flora Annie.= Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–26482.
“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable
millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a
philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her,
and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but,
being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a
humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes
of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard
commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by
domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of
prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed
accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the
ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on
his lips.”—Spec.
* * * * *
+ − =Acad.= 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.
“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of
interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.
“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that,
out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to
determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and
which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This
confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable
strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.
“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work
always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers
only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian
life.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite
evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and
noble outlook upon life.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.
“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story
which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a
novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without
ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for
symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and
the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.
“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”
− =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.
“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be
measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters
are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is
quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we
read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.
“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of
skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the
fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.
“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the
story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they
look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say
melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the
strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to
put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely
to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps.
Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on
modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a
reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or
are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.
“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern
mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and
beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main
theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the
revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.
=Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.).= Naomi’s
transgression. †$1.50. Warne.
A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to
his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin
Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it
goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place
crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes
engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the
complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its
untangling is deftly accomplished.
=Stein, Evaleen.= Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.
6–25686.
“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went
daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful
illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most
skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to
his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into
the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Maryland during the English civil wars.
pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–11189.
=pt. 2.= Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of
this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail
down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of
1649.
=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
6–39003.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon
personal experience and investigation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.
“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and
important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.
Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.
=Charities.= 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.
“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially
valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The
volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific
interest.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.
* =Stejneger, Leonhard Hess.= Herpetology of Japan and adjacent
territory. $1. Supt. of doc.
7–35282.
With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has
treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a
large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to
geographical distribution.
* * * * *
“A valuable systematic monograph.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.
“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs
helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits,
produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly
technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.
6–20202.
A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment.
The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer
relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social
problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.
* * * * *
“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His
language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things
in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of
reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of
the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.
“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity,
and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
=Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and
critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
=v. 6.= English literature and society in the eighteenth century.
The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903,
which deal more with the literature of the period than with society.
“Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose
writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y.
Times).
* * * * *
“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was
one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity
for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the
whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the
work of his prime.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining
style than that in which the average professor delivers the average
lecture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.
* =Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.
W 7–196.
Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down
an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that
occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as
Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert.= Clementina’s
highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.
7–27613.
The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in
his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman
for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets
himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the
wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance
whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century
beau.
* * * * *
“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine
style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of
the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of
George II.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25.
Lippincott.
7–31224.
The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and
the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school
age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like
it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.
* =Sterns, Justin.= Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.
The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of
the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing,
climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the
pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and
friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the
Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the
pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses
while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the
poem.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.
“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and
excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a
telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an
admirable promise.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50.
Scribner.
5–32666.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press
home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of
victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and
importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a
learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and
belief.” W. H. Drummond.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.
=Stevens, Horace J.= Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.
“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history,
biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are
not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.
“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on
copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of
the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful
in making the contents accessible.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34368.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.
“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the
attention.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr.
Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of
continental politics convincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.
7–34779.
A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who
disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was
to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young
lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are
mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half
solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly
thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and
mystery to the last page.
=Stevenson, Richard Taylor.= John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.
7–14592.
A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin
the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R.
Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.
7–33227.
The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here
Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley
until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful
picture all done in silver-gray.
=Stewart, Charles D.= Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.
7–12003.
In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone,
happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats
and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s
partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot
rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance,
sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever
cheerful philosophers.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as
long as his river, and as crooked.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.
“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough,
the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.
“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by
any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive
one.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in
books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.
“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in
critical prose.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.
=Stickney, Albert.= Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.
6–37188.
“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate
statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention
to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to
suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the
administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders
of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is
full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.
“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not
sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of
their value or lack of it.”
− =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.
“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little
appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by
wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make
his book not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Still, Alfred.= Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.
W 7–56.
“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of
the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is
devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the
rotary converter.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or
treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the
systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very
useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know
something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or
inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.
“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a
field.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.
=Stockton, Francis Richard.= Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales.
$2.50. Scribner.
6–39760.
The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this
volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old
Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine,
Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The
accomodating circumstance.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.
“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it
is almost in a class by itself.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Stockwell, Chester Twitchell.= Evolution of immortality: suggestions on
an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th
ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.
6–37617.
That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual
self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed
without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into
action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions
either suggested or demonstrated.
* * * * *
“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into
which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.
+ =Arena.= 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.
“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many
interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=Stoddart, Anna M.= Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.
7–25137.
A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and
philanthropist.
* * * * *
“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is
inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her
subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the
momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its
usual fine steadiness.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.
“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird,
and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is
that she has written an excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.
“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the
more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of
her travels.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.
“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which
the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.
“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value
of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and
results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer;
suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting
form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.
“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of
her accomplishments.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.
“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this
was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks
about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of
ignorance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.
“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration
which it deserves.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.
=Stoddart, Jane T.= Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
7–26628.
After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and
various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh
material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life
rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up
to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents,
descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of
Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt
to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of
character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to
give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.
“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very
few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is
espoused.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.
“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way
in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view,
however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its
subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice
to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly
by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very
unsatisfactory.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.
=Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.
“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less
accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to
gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil,
irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.
=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving.
**$7.50. Macmillan.
6–36011.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other
hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to
consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Stone, Christopher.= Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher
Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.
7–12668.
“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’
ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days,
ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not
destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’
and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the
chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the
only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each
adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty,
the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.”
(Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere
will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships.
We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive
form of the volume.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07. S.
“All that is given here deserves preservation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.
“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as
entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
=Sat. R.= 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Stone, Melville E., jr.=, comp. Book of American prose humor. lea.
$1.25. Duffield.
7–25552.
A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes
written by the best known American writers.
Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29585.
Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land
and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the
groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and
earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.
* * * * *
“A most attractive series of tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *$65c. Century.
7–29582.
Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great
lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of
war, and their vast commercial importance.
=Storm, Theodor W.= Immensee; translated from the German by George P.
Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–33212.
Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation
of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give
English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story
is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily
which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of
“Immensee.”
* * * * *
“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly
graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm
and his work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Strachan, James.= Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part
2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c.
Scribner.
“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in
the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after
studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too
modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view
is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Strang, Herbert.= Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy
among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–41714.
A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber
traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white
man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a
nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies
with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt
government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the
fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries
on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had
first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber
slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and
cruelty.
* * * * *
“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and
indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic
missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the
exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central
African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is
primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of
the triteness of its characterisation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.
“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave
political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is
a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is
admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all
Mr. Strang’s books.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Strang, Herbert.= In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
6–32681.
Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty
fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the
capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of
course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to
historical setting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.
“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly
absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands
while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters
are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.
“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact
and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.
“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any
normal, healthy boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.
“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and
romantic in acceptable proportion.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much
when we remember how good his previous work has been.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.
“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.
* =Strang, Herbert.= On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds
in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–29572.
Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of
rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the
Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different
region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the
Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote
fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures
are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they
attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are
when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”
* =Strang, Herbert.= Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada,
il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31414.
A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec.
It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and
brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the
wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of
the story.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.
=Strang, William.= Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank
Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.
It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has
brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does
full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great
range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling
fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as
artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which
makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the
slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style,
without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge
which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.
“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper
on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise
concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of
this kind.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.
“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the
Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory
account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Strange, Edward Fairbrother.= Hokusai; the old man mad with painting.
(Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.),
*$1. Scribner.
6–46317.
Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great
Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which
make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder
understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and
ten times more pretentious.”
* * * * *
“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his
subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an
entertaining and stimulating fashion.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.
“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art
of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which
ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.
Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.
7–17360.
Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of
early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the
treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of
pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors
include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan
Stevens and others.
* * * * *
“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school
history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.
Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.
7–18099.
Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our
soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and
their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of
a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy
and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of
the Constitution.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.
Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.
7–18097.
The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories
which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of
the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes
which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman,
a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how
Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping
sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s
ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John
Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe
and others.
Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.
7–15588.
This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of
dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown.
They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days
before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of
Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis,
and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival
Redsdale and others.
=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O.
and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
7–4810.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75.
Macmillan.
6–45303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
“All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical
skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new
opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some
opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his
authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w.
=Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.
=Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney.= Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ:
a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics.
*$1.25. Meth. bk.
“The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and
learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and
sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two
respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined
precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further,
the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the
possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of
the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w.
“The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has
overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms
are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he
seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”
− + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w.
* =Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in
the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how
unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent
one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the
straightening of the tangle.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Street, George Slythe.= Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.
With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and
studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and
women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton,
Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.
* * * * *
“On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about
the Town.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w.
“Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the
point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and
balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail
sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a
medium of imaginative talk.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w.
“Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly
because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written
for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but
in installments.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w.
“Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for
every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
=Stringer, Arthur.= Phantom wires. †$1.50. Little.
7–12004.
A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily
and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their
questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to
turn against them and once more Durkin turns his electrical
engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns
burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite
as novel as they are thrilling.
* * * * *
“We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”
− =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than
ordinary ability.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with
restraint.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w.
“There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of
this intricate and highly sensational novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
6–16649.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in
particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.
− + =Forum.= 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w.
* =Stringer, Arthur John A.= Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25.
Little.
7–37033.
In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the
“huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among
the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in
Leucadia.”
* * * * *
“Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers).= Roman sculpture: from Augustus
to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.
7–35388.
Based upon a series of lectures delivered at intervals during the past
seven years Mrs. Strong’s work is “an exposition of the distinctive
character and the evolutionary process of Roman art from the inception
of the empire to the official triumph of Christianity.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“We have criticised this book somewhat closely because it has
interested us deeply. Mrs. Strong is a vigorous critic and will not
shun criticism. The book is more than a valuable addition to the
literature of Roman art. It is practically the first book in this
language to give a wide conspectus of the scope and aims of Roman
sculpture.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 530. Je. 1, ’07. 2620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“Inasmuch as her ability and attainments are so well known that
unfavorable criticism cannot be regarded as unfriendly, we must record
the unhesitating opinion that she could have written a much better
book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 168. S. 16, ’07. 470w.
“It is no flattery to say that she is foremost among the excellent
women now working in the classics. She is, however, hardly justified
in saying that it is ‘evidently absurd to talk of a realistic as
opposed to an idealistic art.’”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 40w.
“Mrs. Strong has thrown down a gauntlet which will doubtless be taken
up; but he will be a bold man who does it. Her knowledge is immense,
her observation most accurate, her criticism penetrative and fine.
There is no one now writing on ancient art with greater insight than
Mrs. Strong. The points to which we have demurred are not among the
essentials of her book.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 171. My. 31, ’07. 1670w.
“A volume like this should be welcomed. It should not be concealed
that Mrs. Strong hurts her case very often by claiming too much for
her works that are cold and clumsy, poorly disposed, and lacking in
true distinction.” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 1570w.
“Small blemishes should not prevent us from expressing our deep
gratitude to Mrs. Strong for a book produced at the right time and in
the right way.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 56. Jl. 13, ’07. 1740w.
* =Strong, Rev. Josiah.= Challenge of the city. **$1. Baker.
“The president of the American institute of social service here adds
to his widely read and stimulating books one for younger readers.”
(Outlook.) He “treats the problem of those churches and parishes which
are being crowded out of many city districts by the oncoming of
business houses. Eighty-five churches below Fourteenth street have
gone out of existence during the last twenty years. The author finds a
remedy in the direction of federation. Four chapters of the book
appeared previously in a periodical.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Strong, Very Rev. Thomas Banks=, ed. Lectures on the methods of
science. *$2.50. Oxford.
6–37941.
Nine lectures by as many eminent lecturers upon such subjects as
Scientific method as a mental operation, Physiology, Inheritance in
animals and plants, Psychophysical method, The evolution of double
stars, Anthropology, Archaeological evidence, and Scientific method as
applied to history.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 59. Jl. 21, ’06. 1840w.
“The present volume, however, depends too much upon its title and its
preface. Uninspired by their suggestions, the reader would not suspect
that he was following a course on scientific method. He would rather
suppose that he was receiving an amount of very interesting and very
miscellaneous information.” Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
− + =J. Philos.= 3: 692. D. 6, ’06. 1820w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 238. Jl. 6, ’06. 2230w.
“The first two lectures ... which treat explicitly of the subject
designated in the title of the book, are in reality the least valuable
chapters. The real contributions to the study of method are tacit and
incidental features of the other papers, which make the least overt
reference to the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 400w.
− =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 200w.
“In this handy form they should do much to teach the ordinary reader
what science claims to be and how its operations are conducted.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Woman’s exchange of Simpkinsville. †$1.25.
Harper.
Two spinster sisters, “upon whose frail maiden shoulders had devolved
responsibilities hitherto unknown to the women of the name of
Simpkins” lose the fortune of their Arkansas forebears and have to
face the question of earning a livelihood. They hit upon the idea of a
Woman’s exchange, establish it and manage it with credit to the name
of Simpkins. Their rather tame existence is broken by bits of town
gossip, echoes of sentiment of long ago, and chiefly by a proposition
of ten thousand dollars for the collection of birds in the extending
of which an only brother had lost his life.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Stuart’s touch is broader than Mrs. Deland’s, and she is more
open to the charge of sentimentalism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 110w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: by former students of Charles
Edward Garman, in commemoration of twenty-five years of service as
teacher of philosophy in Amherst college. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–22901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Dewey.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 312. My. ’07. 4220w.
Reviewed by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 18. Ja. 15, ’07. 2840w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Charles H. Judd.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 24. Ja. 15, ’07. 1960w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Sturdy, William A. (Isaac Didwin, pseud.).= Degeneracy of the
aristocracy. $1. Pub. by the author; For sale by the Rhode Island news
co., Providence, R. I.
7–15554.
“The purpose of this book is to show, by the retrospect of history,
that democracy is destined to assert itself in such a positive manner
as to overthrow the commonly accepted theories of the past, that are
so tenaciously held to, for the apparent purpose of trying to maintain
a declining aristocracy.”
=Sturgis, Russell.= History of architecture. 3v. v. 1. per set. **$15.
Baker.
6–45368.
“Mr. Sturgis’s book belongs to the monumental class. It belongs also
to the encyclopedic class, except that the arrangement is
chronological and by countries instead of by topics arranged in
alphabetical order.” (Lit. D.) “An important feature of this work will
be the careful study of the climatic influences on architecture and of
the relation of the domestic to the monumental architecture in various
countries—a field which has been somewhat neglected by architectural
writers. The first volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt,
Western Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Masterly work. Beautifully printed and illustrated, but the paper is
so heavy and brittle as to be unsatisfactory for library use.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Much of it is brilliantly written, and the whole is evidently the
result of wide reading, travel, and study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 187. Ag. 17. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a record of architectural events, this history, as evidenced by
the volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. The task of
collating and arranging the great mass of detail has been heavy, and
the outcome is a work of great value and a matter of congratulation to
both author and publisher.” Irving K. Pond.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 137. Mr. 1, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The nomenclature of places is occasionally open to criticism. A book
full of information and suggestion, the fruits of a ripe scholarship,
and far more readable than most works of this kind are apt to be.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 271. Ja. 31, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work must at once be accepted as a standard treatise.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Despite these minor blemishes, the work is plainly the fruit of
careful scholarship, accurate in all its specific information, and
usually sound in all its analysis and criticism. It ought to be of
real service in the stimulation of public interest and the training of
public taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One need have no hesitation in commending the work as by far the best
on its subject and of its scope in the English language. It takes its
place at once as an authority.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Half the volume’s value ... is represented by the illustrations.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sturt, Henry Cecil.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and
thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36468.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Sturt has produced a book of vigorous and suggestive criticism of
current thought and especially of the logical and metaphysical
doctrine of Mr. Bradley, who has to bear the brunt of the attack upon
‘Anglo-Hegelianism.’ One could wish, however, that the standpoint of
personal idealism had been more fully indicated.” A. Mackie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 403. Ap. ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by John Watson.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
=Sue, Eugene.= Wandering Jew. 2v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
A reissue of, uniform with the limp leather “Thin papers sets.”
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$7.75.
Oxford.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Students of Professor Suess’s masterpieces hardly know whether to
admire most his encyclopedic knowledge of the earth’s surface, his
familiarity with the literature of his subject, his grasp of detail,
his reach of speculation, or his fine poetical feeling and gifts of
expression.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 77. Ja. 19. 770w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Sumner, William Graham.= Folkways: a study of the sociological
importance of usages, manners; customs, mores, and morals. *$3. Ginn.
7–21403.
An analytical definition of the folkways and a description of their
functions in the formation and integration of society. Folkways are
the ways of satisfying needs which become habitual and customary by
the uncoördinated coöperation of individuals. The author shows how
these uncoördinated acts grow into habits, thence into traditional
customs related to social welfare, later have a philosophy and become
rules of the life policy.
* * * * *
“Professor Sumner has written a very valuable and timely book, and one
involving years of patient research as well as the possession of a
ripe and fearless mind. The two most serious defects of ‘Folkways’ are
a lack of psychological standpoint and a lack of systematic and
complete presentation.” Wm. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 116. O. ’07. 730w.
“The data from anthropology and ethnology seem at times to overweigh
the book by their sheer bulk and multiplicity, but for the most part
they deepen the impression of the main thesis.” George E. Vincent.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 414. N. ’07. 2000w.
“A distinct gap is filled by this dissertation. From the student’s
point of view it is not an easy text-book to read or digest. From the
standpoint of those of larger growth it appears congested and scrappy,
and suffers the penalty of brevity in drifting occasionally into
overstatement and uncritical acceptance of evidence. Throughout the
book the author hits hard and does not stay to bandy words with his
adversary; but, although the reader may not always agree with him, he
will find Professor Sumner suggestive and stimulating.” C. H. Hawes.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 666. N. 21, ’07. 640w.
=Sweeney, Mildred I. McNeal-.= When yesterday was young; poems. $1.50.
Cooke.
7–1960.
Poems descriptive of nature or of places, with a few of legendary,
historical or personal character.
* * * * *
“Nearly every one of the poems in the book seems a ‘tour de force.’ A
phrase, a line, or, at the most, a stanza speaks: the rest is
deliberate verse-making—elaboration.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Sweeney’s verse in both conception and phrase is the product more
of fancy than of imagination, and a book of the size of this can
scarcely be energized save by the latter.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 260w.
“One will not read far in Mrs. Sweeney’s poems without noting both
their delicacy of vision and their reflective mood. Though now and
again of blither note, they have, in the main, a thoughtful quality,
wistful, but never melancholy.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.
=Sweet, J. M.= Birth and infancy of Jesus Christ. *$1.50. Presbyterian
bd.
6–43773.
An exposition of the arguments that tend to prove the historical
authenticity of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
* * * * *
“His reasoning is not always cogent, but his research has been
patient, his consideration of the subject on all sides thoro, and he
has preserved thruout the convincing spirit of inquiry”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“His critical skill and appreciation are not sufficient to allow him
to do full justice to his theme, this being especially noticeable in
his treatment of Old Testament passages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 80w.
“If there is a more thorough and scholarly defense of the virgin birth
of Jesus Christ than this monograph of Mr. Sweet, we are not
acquainted with it. It is not and does not pretend to be impartial; it
is a defense of the orthodox doctrine. But it is fair-minded, erudite,
thorough.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 400w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.
=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from Thackeray, il. †$2.
Duffield.
7–28978.
A companion volume to “Boys and girls from Dickens” and “Boys and
girls from George Eliot.” A volume warranted by the emphasis which
Thackeray has placed upon his juvenile sketches, They are reprinted
without the adult intrigue and plot surrounding them in the novels
from which they are taken.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Swete, Henry Barclay.= Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with
introd., notes and indices. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Preceding the text and occupying about half the book such introductory
subjects are discussed as Prophecy in the apostolic church, Jewish and
Christian apocalypses, Contemporary scholarship and thought in western
Asia, Origin of the apocalypse of St. John, including a discussion of
its grammatical, rhetorical and literary style and an interpretation
of the text from the religious, symbolical, mystical, historical and
biographical point of view.
* * * * *
“Dr. Swete’s work is marked by all the care, thoroughness, and
precision of scholarship in linguistic and grammatical interpretation
which distinguished all his work and secure to him his place as a
member of the famous ‘Cambridge’ school. But to the present writer he
appears, by the complete rejection of the methods applied, e. g., by
Boussett, to exclude the only possible means of arriving at an
interpretation of the book which is at once consistent and primary;
i.e., an interpretation of what was in the mind of the author.” C.
Anderson Scott.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 540. Jl. ’07. 1140w.
“We must be content with adding an emphatic commendation of Dr.
Swete’s volume to the attention of our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
=Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane.= British Malaya: an account of the
origin and progress of British influence in Malaya. *$4.50. Lane.
7–7542.
Essentially historical. “Of the fourteen chapters, the first deals
with the milieu, the next with the early history according to native
and European sources; then follow two chapters on the dawn of British
influence; they are not always pleasant reading, for our treatment of
the Sultan of Kedah was anything but creditable. The next two chapters
cover the middle fifty years of the last century. This was a period of
anarchy, brought to an end, though not at once, by the appointment of
British residents.... Not the least attractive portions of the work
are of the author’s testimony to the virtues of the Chinese and his
condemnation of the ordinary system of building railways in British
colonies.... The final chapter gives us the author’s views on the
future of the British colony with some more criticism of irrational
methods.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 71: 651. D. 29, ’06. 400w.
“The volume is one which should appeal in an extraordinary degree to
American readers, for there is scarcely a page which does not present
some problem or recount some incident which throws light upon the
peculiar character of the Peninsular Malay who is the first cousin of
the Filipino.” Alleyne Ireland.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 154. O. ’07. 970w.
“If ever we should reach the conclusion that instead of trying to fit
people to institutions, institutions should be fitted to the nature
and capacities of the people as they develop under the influence of
industrial opportunity, our administrators may derive valuable
suggestions as to sensible procedure from such books as this one by
Sir Francis Swettenham.” Henry Jones Ford.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 663. My. ’07. 1170w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 330w.
“May well rank as a masterpiece among the host of similar books
written by the servants of the British government.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 480w.
“Will appeal not only to those interested in the geographical and
political questions discussed, but also to the comparatively
restricted public who delight in Oriental art work unmodified by
western influence.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 160w.
“It is [a story] that has never been told before with any historic
continuity or in any detail; he tells it with full knowledge, with
great literary skill and with infinite sympathy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 351. O. 19, ’06. 2200w.
“Were the applicants for positions in our Philippine civil service
obliged to pass an examination to prove their fitness, ‘British
Malaya’ would be an invaluable text-book.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 249. Mr. 14, ’07. 1030w.
“Sir Frank Swettenham writes always with force, sometimes with humour,
very often with charm, with delicacy, and with finish, in spite of an
occasional tendency to split a hapless infinitive. It should be read
by every Englishman who loves his country, for from Sir Frank
Swettenham’s eloquent pages all who read will carry away many
beautiful and striking pictures, many facts of great value, and a
number of imperial lessons very well worth learning and remembering.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 1730w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur
Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
6–34710.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This admirable little volume brings the cream of Swinburne’s poetry
within easy reach of all lovers of poetry, and in a handy-sized
volume.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 635. D. ’06. 100w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= William Blake; a critical essay. 3d ed.
*$2. Dutton.
7–35152.
Along with the revival of Blake literature appears a reprint of
Swinburne’s essay published forty years ago. “Where Mr. Swinburne’s
book is invaluable is in his interpretation of poetry, of symbolism as
poetry, of pictorial design as poetry.... In this huge book of
criticism, in which the main incidents of the life of Blake are told,
and a detailed account is given of nearly the whole of his literary
and much of his painted and engraved work, there is not a page—not
even in those flaming foot-notes which spire from page to page after
the dwindling body of the text—which is not essentially poetry rather
than prose.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 86. Mr. ’07.
“It is difficult to think of another book, written by a poet on a
poet, which is so generous and so illuminating.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 149. Ag. 11. 1920w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07 1100w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Allowing for some extravagance of expression, the criticism of the
book is both just and profound; and the commentary, whether it be
right or wrong on particular points, provides a clear and probably
accurate statement of Blake’s ideas and beliefs. It is all written
with the confidence and prolixity of youth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.
“There is never likely to be a work on Blake which will supersede that
just, eloquent, generous, and illuminating ‘critical’ essay which Mr.
Swinburne wrote forty years ago and has only now reprinted. It is a
book marvellous for sanity and insight; it was a defence of Blake at a
time when he needed to be defended, and it repeats his praise now,
when the praise is no longer startling.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 231. Ag. 25, ’06. 1840w.
* =Swing, Albert Temple.= James Harris Fairchild; or, Sixty-eight years
with a Christian college. **$2. Revell.
7–15571.
An intimate sketch of the life of President Fairchild who was
associated with Oberlin college in the capacity of student, teacher,
president and professor emeritus from 1834 to 1902.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Instead of a real book [this is] a volume that makes its chief appeal
to the alumni of Oberlin, by whom it will doubtless be appreciated, in
oblivion of the larger public.” Montgomery Schuyler.
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 120w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Essays, speculative and suggestive; new ed.
*$2. Scribner.
A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time
the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.
* * * * *
“On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is
certainly full of ideas.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w.
“Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman,
are in his best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Wine, women, and song; being an essay on
the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il.
*$1.50. McClure.
Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely
studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that
the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania
ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a
monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs
in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them
to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A.
Symonds’s translations and comments.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 837. Ag. 31, ’07. 1070w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities. *$2.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Symons’s note is his own.... Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville,
Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople are
traversed and exposed for us by a temperament at once subtle and
impressionistic.”—No. Am.
* * * * *
“Mr. Symons is quite at his best. It is witchery of fine sensations
that characterizes Rome or Seville or Prague or whatever city Mr.
Symons visits.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
“He is the Whistler of critics.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 205. Ap. 7, ’06. 550w.
“The book is of a rare charm.” James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 160w.
“Some of these [cities] he loves; some he hates. In both cases he
tells us why and with frank thoroughness.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Fool of the world and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
7–18138.
“The title poem of the volume, a brief Morality play, called ‘The fool
of the world,’ employs a style which admirably suits the theme,
infusing into the simple colloquy between Man and Death all the dread,
the fear, the mystery of mortality as they pervade ‘Everyman’ and
other of the old Morality plays. Following this ... Mr. Symons has a
group of ‘Meditations,’ poised and passionless as a Buddhistic
reverie, fatalistic, ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.’...
Contrary to the mood of his prose, the prevailing note of Mr. Symons’
poetry is negative and over his pages futility, and ever futility, is
written.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“[‘The fool of the world’] shows, for all its slenderness, strong
dramatic power. It asks a question; it leads you on, as you fancy,
ever nearer to the answer, working up your eagerness in every line;
and suddenly at the close, in the very last word, it flashes upon you
the piteous truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 640w.
“Although Mr. Symons has not mastered poetic forms, his poetry is full
of sensitive beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 380w.
“There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational,
and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to
find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w.
=Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w.
“It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w.
“He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable
intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his
cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes
his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant
endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an
expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very
thing he would escape.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w.
“His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks
the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is
restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of
divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w.
“An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups
offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and
life and death.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w.
“He has developed a theory of poetry and the arts; he has found a
locality other than London; he has even touched Keltic dreams in
Cornwall; in the lyric rather than in the drama lies the value of his
new, as his older, tone.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Introduction to the study of Browning. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–18128.
A reissue, revised and enlarged. “Mr. Symons discusses Browning’s
‘general characteristics’ and those of each of his poems. In the
appendix will be found a bibliography of the poet and a reprint of
discarded prefaces to the first issues of some of his works. There is
also an index to poems referred to in the text. Like other books of
this type, there are innumerable quotations from the writings of the
poet. In addition to all these, the footnotes are full and clear.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“In this second edition ... Mr. Symons has been able to add materially
to the interest of the book through the publication of comments upon
it by three no less authoritative critics than Walter Pater, George
Meredith, to whom the book is dedicated, and Robert Browning himself.”
A. G.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Notwithstanding the appearance of numerous studies of Browning, his
introduction remains the best commentary upon that poet’s works.”
James Huneker.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 75. My. 3, ’07. 390w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 77. My. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Studies in seven arts. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–6390.
Containing the following studies: Rodin, The painting of the
nineteenth century, Gustave Moreau, Watts, Whistler, Cathedrals, The
decay of craftsmanship in England, Beethoven, The ideas of Richard
Wagner, The problem of Richard Strauss, Eleanor Dusé, A new art of the
stage, A symbolistic farce [Ubo roi, by A. Jarry], Pantomime and the
poetic drama, The world as ballet.
* * * * *
“In his last book Mr. Symons has adventured in search of new
sensations and new moods into unfamiliar fields of art, where he has
occasionally lost confidence in himself and followed the advice of
every person of authority he chanced to encounter. When he confides in
his own faculty of insight he is still an admirable interpreter of the
eternal miracles of beauty: when he mistrusts his own powers he
becomes merely a conscientious student of the opinions of other men.
Criticism distilled from criticism is wanting in life and personality:
it is a branch of the dead sciences.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 770w.
“It is agreeable to read this cunning prose, but we must not be
forbidden to challenge some of its pontificial assumptions. The charm,
however, of these essays lies not in their critical or technical
exactitude, but in their incomparably delicate impressionism.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 1250w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 297. Mr. ’07. 400w.
“In at least five cases out of the seven (the exceptions being the
articles on architecture and handicraft, the first of which is merely
descriptive and the second merely a pointed and forcible repetition of
standing truths) he has something good, often something profound to
say, not merely on points of detail, but on what he conceives to be
the principles of the art in question. And after reading his charming,
illuminating, often exquisitely written book, we reach instinctively
for an antidote—‘The Republic,’ or ‘What is art?’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1000w.
“Seven essays ... belong to the best of our time. They are indeed
discriminating.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Symons preserves order throughout his book and reproduces for the
reader much of his own original aesthetic enjoyment.” Percy Vincent
Donovan.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20, ’07. 1610w.
“He has personality, charm, erudition.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 78. My. 3, ’07. 600w.
“Each paper is distinguished by a general excellence in the selection
of material and by an extreme finish in the manner of its exposition.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 420w.
“Here is subjective impressionism in the finest flower. As a matter of
record few Frenchmen, even, can excel Mr. Symons in subtlety or
penetration. A poet first and last, his attitude is always imperiously
personal.” Christian Brinton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 180w.
“Why, then, when we think thus highly of the book, have we spent
nearly our whole space in criticising rather than in praising it? On
his own terms he comes to us, and on his own terms right glad are we
to welcome him. But, to quote the old saying, though Plato is dear to
us, Truth is dearer. This too daintily allusive, too artificially
picturesque, too laboriously, extravagantly illustrative method of art
criticism ... is dangerous: in the hands of the commoner critic it
becomes absurd.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 1. F. 23, ’07. 1930w.
=Symons, Arthur.= William Blake. *$3. Dutton.
7–37535.
“An enthusiastic interpretation and impassioned defense of the poet
and painter whose art still puzzles and fascinates.... Mr. Symons
begins by narrating every fact of importance in Blake’s life and
achievements, giving his own interpretation of Blake’s intentions.
Then comes a verbatim reprint of all available documents, containing
every personal account of Blake printed during his life, to which are
added references to him in the diary and letters of Crabb
Robinson.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It will be seen that any new book on Blake must justify its
appearance by extraordinary merit, and it cannot be said that Mr.
Symons’s work quite stands the test.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 286. S. 26, ’07. 1480w.
“Mr. Symons has written a book of unusual interest. Absorbed and in
accord with his subject, he employs a style elevated and somewhat
mystical at times, yet well sustained and peculiarly fitted for the
narrative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 307. O. 12, ’07. 1610w.
“We did not expect from him the divine energy and insight of Mr.
Swinburne; but we did expect scholarship, research, grace and order,
and we have them here in a book which we cannot do without.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 1230w.
=Synge, M. B.= Short history of social life in England. **$1.50. Barnes.
7–11534.
“A decidedly entertaining account of the growth of social institutions
and modern customs in England. The absurdities of bygone fashion, the
changes made by scientific inventions, domestic conveniences and
inconveniences, old-time gambling, the abolition of dueling, the
improvement of table manners, and a hundred other little land-marks of
advancing civilization are discussed in an unconventional, amusing
way.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He has thrown together a mass of details, apparently without being
able to determine which facts were worth being told, which were not,
nor yet which were actually facts and which were only supposed to be
such. He seems to have no well-ordered plan for presenting his
material. Finally, he devotes too much space to political history,
though he gives notice in his introduction that he will avoid doing
so.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 194. O. ’07. 550w.
“The author treats the entire subject as one of development, advance,
and betterment, and does it very successfully. The work is evidently
based on wide reading and research.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 289. My. 1, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Synge’s book is exceptionally helpful in giving an idea of the
occupations, the pleasures, the manners and customs of the English
people of all ranks from the days of the early Britons to the
present.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“He tells his story well. It is not a work of original research. The
records are all easily accessible. It is not the first work of its
kind. But it is one of the most readable books of the year thus far.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 160. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.
“A series of shifting society pictures not without significance and
with a strong interest to all who like to delve into the quaint,
queer, and curious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30. ’07. 80w.
“This book is pleasant to read, full of sprightly humour, and as far
as we have been able to test it, historically accurate.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 212. F. 9, ’07. 2170w.
=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
6–33579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is brilliantly told, and is a study of ‘temperaments,’
artistic and otherwise, of an unusually readable sort.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 410w.
=Szold, Henrietta=, ed. American Jewish year book 5668, September 9,
1907, to September 25, 1908. $3. Jewish pub.
Two directories are included in this year book: The directory of
Jewish national organizations, and The directory of Jewish local
organizations.
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=Tabb, John Banister.= Selection from the verses of the Rev. John Tabb,
made by Alice Meynell. **$1. Small.
“The deliciously tender songs of childhood, of flowers, of lament, the
delicate fancies and symbols ... and the sacred poems, which in their
union of individuality and universality remind us often of the best of
Herbert, are the work of one who is none the less a poet, because four
lines often contain his thought.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“One of Mr. Tabb’s leading characteristics is his power of suggesting
by the lightest of touches, the most delicate of hints, some mighty
truth.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“His tiny poems like the psychologist’s pinpricks, are very perfect
tests of poetic sensibility.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 846. D, ’07. 280w.
“Mrs. Meynell’s selection, which is not free from misprints nor
immaculately edited, should at least prove a valuable introduction to
the four little volumes of ‘Poems,’ ‘Lyrics,’ ‘Child verse,’ and
‘Later lyrics.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1940w.
“Is a fairly satisfactory exhibition of the quality of that keenly
individual poet.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 360w.
“His pearls here have been beautifully strung, and they show him at
his best.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mrs. Meynell has made a good selection from Mr. Tabb’s poems, and we
miss nothing we should desire to see reprinted. At his best he has the
quaintness and poignancy of Crashaw, but he is not always at his best;
and when his conceits master him he is guilty of doubtful taste.
Sometimes, as in the sonnet ‘Unmoored,’ he attains a fine dignity of
rhythm; but his strength lies usually in simple catches, in which a
thought or an emotion is delicately wedded to a metaphor.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Taft, Lorado.= Talks on sculpture. pa. 15c. Caproni.
7–16504.
A pamphlet reprint of papers written by the sculptor-author in
response to the movement instigated by Miss Brinkhaus to beautify
school rooms with casts of sculpture masterpieces. These brief talks
will awaken in both children and grown ups a desire for and an
appreciation of good art.
=Taft, William Howard.= Four aspects of civic duty. (Yale lectures on
the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
6–46256.
The duties of citizens viewed from the standpoint of a recent graduate
of a university, of a judge on the bench of colonial administration
and of the national executive constitute the four aspects of civic
duty considered by Secretary Taft.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’97. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 420. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 190w.
“As a talker to young men on civic duty Dr. Hadley can hardly have
failed to see in him the supreme fitness of a man who has done a great
deal of that duty in an especially effectual fashion.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 290w.
“There is no rhetorical attempt at all, but a rhetorical success all
the same, in which the lecturers, can quite unmistakably say what they
mean and in which they always mean something.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“The manner in which the character of the speaker, who has been so
effective an actor in the various public offices to which he has been
called, impresses itself upon the reader is not the least of the many
valuable features which the lectures contain.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 130w.
* =Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daughters of the little grey house. †$1.50.
McClure.
7–33202.
A sequel to “The little grey house.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Doctor’s little girl. $1.50. Page.
7–30163.
Other little girls will enjoy reading of this sunny child of ten whose
father is the kindly village doctor. They will delight with her in her
games and her playmates, sorrow at her troubles and her illness, and
with the others drink her health in the closing toast to “Everybody’s
little girl.”
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and the tea room. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26963.
A companion volume to “Six girls and Bob,” in which the cheerful
Scollard family make light of their poverty and force their little tea
room to yield them pleasure as well as financial profit. Their
lighthearted optimism carries them and their friends thru many
troubles and brings to them happiness and, in the end, prosperity.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Takekoshi, Yosaburo.= Japanese rule in Formosa; with preface by Baron
Shimpei Goto; tr. by George Braithwaite. *$3. Longmans.
7–25501.
A “narrative of all salient facts of historical interest since the
date of the annexation of Formosa to Japan.... [It is] typical of the
Japanese administrative system, which is the enthronement of
bureaucratic principles of collective effort to the rigid exclusion of
individualism. The book deserves study by all who wish to acquaint
themselves with the methods by which Japan has raised herself to her
present high position in the world, and which her statesmen will
continue to use in pursuing their further plans of Imperial
expansion.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Where the author is not concerned to emphasize the success of his
countrymen the volume is one of undoubted value, since it contains a
great deal of information as to the administrative mechanism of the
government, which is not available in other works on the island.”
Alleyne Ireland.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 156. O. ’07. 840w.
“An interesting, informing account of present conditions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07.
“His ability to see the contrasts and similarities in the peoples and
the economic and geographical conditions make the book not only
informing but entertaining.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 622. N. ’07. 690w.
“Throughout ... the book which has been admirably translated by Mr.
George Braithwaite, there is not a single touch of imagination; but in
its place a succession of useful statistical tables elaborated with
the methodical accuracy which delights the Japanese mind, and
illustrative of every conceivable subject, connected with the
government of the island.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 1410w.
“It is obvious that he is bent on making as favorable a showing as
possible for his beloved country, his conclusions must be accepted
with some reserve. Faithful and intelligent translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 320w.
“This book ... is neither as lucid in style nor as felicitous in
diction as his previous works, but it is none the less readable,
containing as it does many bright passages and charming expressions.”
K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1670w.
“Graphic attempt to describe the conditions and possibilities of
Japanese rule in Formosa.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20, ’07. 230w.
=Talbot, Arthur Newell.= Tests of concrete and reinforced concrete
columns. gratis. Engineering experiment station, Urbana, Ill.
7–19783.
“This pamphlet summarizes tests of (1) the shearing strength of
concrete and (2) the bond or adhesion between concrete and straight,
plain bars embedded in it; the tests were made in 1905 and
1906.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.
=Talbot, Ellen Bliss.= Fundamental principle of Fichte’s philosophy.
*$1. Macmillan.
7–21441.
This monograph “contains a critical interpretation of Fichte’s
teaching concerning the Ego, Being, and Existence. Incidentally Dr.
Talbot sets forth ... the relation of Fichte to Kant, the nature of
‘intellectual perception’ in both the critical and the absolute
philosophy, and adds an important appendix to show that Kant’s ‘I
think’ is a purely formal principle.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“As under the category of ‘Fichte-studien,’ the book deserves the
highest praise, not only for careful scholarship, but also for
clearness and articulation of argument. It is a characteristic product
of the thoroughness of training which is shown in the ‘Cornell
studies.’” W. H. Sheldon.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 471. Ag. 15, ’07. 1190w.
“[The author] expresses herself with simplicity and great clearness;
her temper is judicial; and in her interpretation she is faithful to
the philosopher’s writings undistorted by her own preconceptions, or
by deductions as to what he ‘ought to have thought.’”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 210w.
“The work as a whole is an admirable discussion of the main principles
of Fichte’s philosophy, and one could not ask, for one entering upon
the study of Fichte, a much better guide. Such monographs as the
present one are not mere pieces of philosophical archaeology. They set
the contributions of great thinkers in a clearer light, and so furnish
points of departure for the systematic investigations of the present.”
J. A. Leighton.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 437. Jl. ’07. 1710w.
=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
6–39742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.
“Bishop Talbot writes in a popular literary style, and for the
entertainment of the general reader.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 17, ’07. 130w.
“It is a vivacious and veracious transcript of a fascinating stage in
the evolution of the West, a life that is fast becoming a memory, and
Bishop Talbot has rendered a service in preserving some of its more
picturesque features and characters in his story.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1036. My. 2, ’07. 180w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 40. Ja. 5, ’07. 570w.
“We feel that we cannot too warmly recommend ‘My people of the plains’
to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 864. Je. 1, ’07. 1420w.
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
6–31411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Cath. World.= 84: 554. Ja. ’07. 120w.
=Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Friends of Voltaire. *$2.30.
Putnam.
W 7–118.
Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has
worked her material into “an anecdotal history,” thru the pages of
which is easily discernible pre-Revolutionary thought. The ten men
whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot,
Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and
Condorcet.
* * * * *
“Her book is an agreeable contexture of anecdotes, epigrams and light
biographical sketches.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 56. Ja. 19, ’07. 1360w.
“Taste of a sort and talent of a sort are certainly exhibited in its
composition: taste to select amusing stories, witty sayings, and
lively traits of character; talent to frame out of this material a
light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 440w.
“The book, throughout, is entertaining and helpful to a clear
understanding of a momentous and often misunderstood epoch in both
history and literature.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 58. Ag. 1, ’07. 1180w.
“Apart from petty vices and the constant effort to awaken the
momentary interest of uninformed readers, the book has a certain
journalistic merit. It can be read rapidly, and many of its judgments
strike one as sound, while still more of them are no doubt sincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“S. G. Tallentyre, knows the France of the eighteenth century rather
better, one may say, than she knows the art of English composition.
But for all that, her book throbs with life, and an exceeding
interesting, if often deplorable, phase of life it portrays.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 364. Je. 8, ’07. 1550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“Even in the least successful of the studies ... apart from an
occasional and sometimes pardonable lapse into extravagance of
statement, there is little to criticise.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.
“Her sallies are saddening, and no vivid picture is given of the
brilliant circles through which she leads her readers. But none the
less her book is worth reading and forms an adequate sequel to her
‘Life of Voltaire.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 208. F. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“This new work was well worth doing, for the subjects cannot fail to
be found interesting, especially by readers of the former book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 803. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
* =Tappan, Eva March.= American hero stories. †$1. Houghton.
6–13065.
Designed for young readers this volume gives “accounts of the most
important of American explorers, from Columbus to Lewis and Clark,
tales of life in five of the early colonies, north and south; lives of
our most famous pioneers, and some stories of war times.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Children will find here no end of things that will interest them in
the lives of Magellan, Drake, Stuyvesant, Dolly Madison, Kit Carson,
Davy Crockett, and many others.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.
5–8088.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by John Maxwell Crowe.
+ + =School R.= 14: 698. N. ’06. 230w.
=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= He knew Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
7–12636.
A brief sketch which Billy Brown, one time druggist at Springfield,
Illinois, gives of the Abraham Lincoln whom he knew, the Lincoln who
used to sit swapping stories with his cronies in Billy’s little store.
It is a vivid picture of the man; pathetic, humorous, but above all
human.
* * * * *
“Although short, and expensive for the number of its pages, it is
worth buying because of its excellence and the universality of its
appeal.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“It is sure to take its place among the permanent and valued tributes
to the memory of its hero.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 135. Jl. ’07. 180w.
“A little masterpiece sure to have a place in future collections of
such.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4. ’07. 40w.
“Throughout the recital Miss Tarbell has shown a restraint which is
the finest art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 560w.
“As a piece of art this story belongs with the best of recent American
writing; as a piece of fiction it is so faithful in its interpretation
of the spirit of its subject that it is more veracious than a great
deal of history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Once in a while a modern writer with enough journalism to be vivid
and vital, and sufficient dignity and scholarship to keep the idea of
a book in mind, gives us a picture of contemporary or bygone character
which is more than mere writing. It is life itself. Miss Ida Tarbell,
it may fairly be said, has done this.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 110w.
=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the
International Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
5–40811.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of
equal value.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“The teacher who has not access to large library facilities, or time
and training for wide personal study will find in Miss Tarbell’s
‘Guide’ a veritable treasure house.” Henry T. Fowler.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 70. Ja. ’07. 810w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= His own people. il. **90c. Doubleday.
7–30869.
An Indiana hero in realizing his dream of a European tour succumbs to
the wiles of a bogus countess who shows him a good deal of Europe and
then cheats him out of his last dollar at cards.
* * * * *
“One may criticise it with downright hostility, rail at its staleness,
and deplore its triviality. But always it is impossible to ignore the
fact that it is the work of a writer who, ever and always, at his
worst as at his best, possesses the rare and absolutely indescribable
gift of charm.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 279. N. ’07. 390w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 380w.
“In this latest novelette of Mr. Tarkington’s there is a little more
intention and a little less brilliancy than we are accustomed to
associate with his work.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 380w.
“Is real comedy and is decidedly interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–30926.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Taylor’s touch is everywhere light and pleasing: he has the gift
of gentle social satire and the trick of clever dialogue.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
“As fiction the book stands on a par with many of the stories its
author has satirized so freely in the past. It is woefully lacking in
literary distinction, and even in literary promise.”
− =Ind.= 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Taylor, Edward Robeson.= Selected poems. *$2. Robertson.
7–18557.
This selection includes pieces from the author’s two volumes “Visions
and other verse” and “Into the light and other verse,” whose unsold
copies were destroyed in San Francisco’s fire, and also some poems
written since.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 180w.
“The whole book shows everywhere the stamp of the thinker and the
student. A great poet he is not; a true poet, in his degree, he is.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1310w.
=Taylor, Emerson Gifford.= Upper hand. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–24575.
A story of mystery in which the rich man of a New England village, the
pretty girl who in a strange fashion becomes his ward, a pirate, a
fanatical labor leader and others are involved in many exciting
complications which include labor troubles and narrow escapes from
death. There is also a love interest.
* * * * *
“A story which, despite its fantastic character, sustains our interest
to the end.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 320w.
“Told with some vigor in the writing but with little charm or literary
grace.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 20w.
“The construction of the book is somewhat loose and episodic.”
− =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“When Mr. Taylor learns to take more pains with his work he will find
that it is much better.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 585. S. 22, ’06. 440w.
=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–32900.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 421. Mr. ’07. 220w.
“As a text, however, Professor Taylor’s work fills a need of the time.
Whether we agree with the author’s rather tenuous theories and
laborious mathematical demonstrations or not, we feel that he is
following the right track, in applying economic theory to practical
agriculture in a special treatise. The reader is constantly made aware
that Professor Taylor has wrought with rare patience, industry and
intelligence.” Royal Meeker.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 157. Mr. ’07. 700w.
=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Moliere: a biography; with an
introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
6–34857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Except in the account of the death-scene, which (based on Grimarest)
is related with passion, good sense and good feeling, it lacks
inspiration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 644. My. 25. 540w.
“One may challenge Mr. Chatfield-Taylor’s presentation of his
materials in these and other points, and still assert that his book is
the best that we have so far in English for the general reader who
wishes to know the life and work of the master of comedy.” A. G.
Canfield.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 2130w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783–1837. 2v.
*$6. Scribner.
A fair-minded study of the life of Napoleon’s step-daughter, Hortense
de Beauharnais. The author says “Hortense has not been permitted to
make her defense to the public. Her confessions, perhaps her
justifications, remain as she left them, unprinted, and it is upon the
data supplied by contemporaries that posterity must form its
conclusions.”
* * * * *
“There was need of a book in English on Queen Hortense. Miss Taylor
has fairly supplied it and incidentally has furnished the best
complete account of her in any language.” George M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 137. O. ’07. 790w.
“It is a creditable piece of popular biography, founded on a careful
study of the best authorities, and making no concessions to readers
whose sole appetite is for scandal relieved by domestic sentiment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 6. Jl. 6. 1490w.
“Although Miss Taylor affects the pose of the historian, let not the
unwary be taken in; she clearly has done little else than get together
enough picturesque materials for her purpose.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 210w.
“The chief events of Hortense’s life are traced at length in these
two-volumes by a biographer almost too discreet and conscientious for
a task which leads her through such worlds of gossip, back-stair
politics, of queer people and gimcrack pretenders.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 434. S. 28, ’07. 1540w.
=Taylor, J. A.= Robert Southwell, S. J., priest and poet. *70c. Herder.
“A truthful and forcible sketch of the most widely known and most
interesting of the heroic band that gave their lives for the faith
under Elizabeth.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding its aloofness from sympathy with Southwell’s cause,
this short biography does full justice to the holiness of the man, to
his remarkable and winning character; and does not slur over the
baseness of the creatures who hunted him to death. The simple style of
the narrative sets forth, more adequately than would florid periods,
the grandeur of the man and his deeds.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 832. Mr. ’07. 500w.
− + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
=Taylor, John W.= Coming of the saints: imaginations and studies in
early church history and tradition. *$3. Dutton.
7–29078.
The story of the journeyings of saints from Palestine to the West in
the early days of the Christian era. Mr. Taylor writes of the comings
of both the Hebrew and the later Greek missionaries, and in his
account he has mingled both history and legend.
* * * * *
“It may not satisfy the technical critics of the writings of the
sub-Apostolic age; but all will admit that it is a well-written,
interesting and discriminating narrative.” J. Charles Cox.
+ =Acad.= 71: 328. O. 6, ’06. 1200w.
“This is no ordinary book. With much patient learning, and careful,
sympathetic study of all the reputed resting-places of the early
saints, Mr. Taylor weaves together the frail but fine threads that
link the Christianity of tradition with the Christianity of the Bible,
and both of these with the histories of Gaul and Britain.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 435. O. 13. 2060w.
“An uncritical use of medieval miracle stories in the attempt to write
history.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 60w.
“If, instead of constructing imaginary histories, he had endeavored to
account for the rise of these legends, he might have added a chapter
to the history of the early English church; as it is, his volume is a
collection of fanciful stories, and nothing more.”
− =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 320w.
“These studies ... are marked by ample learning and good judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.
=Taylor, Sedley.= Indebtedness of Handel to works by other composers.
*$4. Putnam.
7–27021.
Two centuries of accumulated evidence go to show that Handel was a
plagiarist. Mr. Taylor brings together the results of the careful
investigation on the part of capable authorities. “The main object of
this book appears to be the presentation, by a simplified process, of
the materials necessary to enable every intelligent person to compare
passages in Handel’s music with the sources from which they have been
derived.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 430w.
“His reasoning is close and exceedingly clever; but he will hardly get
the acquittal for which he seeks in the face of his masterly
presentment of the evidence against the master. The author has turned
out an excellent piece of work, and one with which no student of
Handel can afford to dispense.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 427 D. 21, ’06. 460w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 183. F. 21, ’07. 970w.
Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 960w.
Reviewed by Harold E. Gorst.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 167. F. 9, ’07. 1880w.
=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood
carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
6–20689.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.
=Taylor, Walter Herron.= General Lee, his campaigns in Virginia,
1861–1865, with personal reminiscences. *$2. Nusbaum bk.
7–1480.
The author, who served on General Lee’s staff, thruout the war, has
written a clear account of the great battles in which Lee’s army took
part, and has added an appreciative memoir.
* * * * *
“The present writer has undertaken his task in a spirit of fairness
and without a trace of bitterness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 130w.
=Teasdale, Sara.= Sonnets to Duse, and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Nine sonnets which pay exquisite tribute to Eleonora Duse and two
score other poems and sonnets some breathing of love, some singing of
little children and some chanting a hymn of joy with an undernote of
sadness.
* * * * *
“The book is a small, delightful thing, which one is not tempted to
say much about, but to welcome.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 426. O. 5, ’07. 260w.
=Tegner, Esias.= Frithiof saga; tr. from the German of Ferdinand
Schmidt, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c.
McClurg.
7–31176.
The Frithiof saga which narrates the stirring adventures of Frithiof,
a hero of the Northland and viking of its seas, is “noble, heroic, and
free from exaggerated description or overwrought sentiment.... The
central motives of the saga are his love for King Bele’s daughter,
Ingeborg; the refusal of her brothers to sanction their marriage
because the hero is not of royal birth; her unwilling marriage to the
old King Ring; Frithiof’s exile and final union with Ingeborg.”
=Teller, Charlotte.= The cage. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–9551.
A novel built up along the lines of socialism, with its setting in the
lumber-yard districts of Chicago. A preacher of the gospel whose point
of view is “We must teach these working people to respect the laws of
the land,” a young Austrian socialist whose opinion is, “We must
change the laws so that they can be respected,” an “egotistical
philanthropic employer” and a group of women, subordinating their
ideas to the men whose opinions they respect, occupy the stage of the
drama.
* * * * *
“Aside from [one] rather irritating feature, which savours of
trick-work, the book is a good piece of work, painting in certain
aspects of labour troubles with broad, comprehensive brush strokes.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 300w.
“The unaffected style, the ease and strength with which she has put
together the varying phases of a difficult situation so as to produce
a perfect illusion, indicates that she may win high rank among the
writers of the new fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 559. Mr. 7, ’07. 710w.
“It is a readable book rather than a conclusive one; interesting
rather than valuable; a ramble, by turns painful and pleasant, rather
than an arrival.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 390w.
“Unlike most American novels the book has in its fibre something
more—indeed, a good deal more—than its bare story. It is evidently the
fruit of a mind and heart that have studied and questioned life in its
nakedness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 143. Mr. 9, ’07. 640w.
* =Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
Lady Tennant permits the figures in the pictures of the Tennant
collection to come to life, step down from their canvases, and tell
her children tales of the life and times which they helped to make.
“Thus the real children who have been taught to love them in their
frames play with Beppo, Dolores, the Leslie boy, and Charlotte and
Harry Spencer, who tell the story of their kidnapping by the
gipsies.... Lady Crosbie flits by, looking ‘permanently mischievous;’
and Peg Woffington rustles about the passages, sometimes finding the
children a nuisance.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is a charming and original idea, which Lady Tennant has carried
out very gracefully.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 240w.
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Tenney, Rev. Edward P.= Contrasts in social progress. **$2.50.
Longmans.
7–14562.
The method used in this comparative study of religion “consists,
briefly, in applying the principles of natural selection and the
survival of the fittest to the great religions of the world, with a
view to ascertaining which may justifiably claim pre-eminence on a
basis of concrete services rendered to mankind.” (Outlook.) Social
betterment is used as the basis for the test of conditions which
appear in countries under the sway of Brahmanism, Buddhism,
Confucianism, Mohammedanism and Christianity. “In each case his
examination comprises distinct sociological departments—as, the
condition of women and children, the individual situation,
philanthropic and charitable measures, educational facilities.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The author manifestly aims to be fair: he uncovers the errors and
evils of Christendom, and praises the virtues and truths of alien
civilizations, and everywhere are the evidences of painstaking
industry in the collection of facts and of expert judgments.” Charles
Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 300w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Jl. 1, ’07. 410w.
“As developed, Mr. Tenney’s book becomes in some important respects a
mine of valuable information relating to present-day conditions in
various countries; and although it is open to a certain degree of
criticism on the score of imperfect appreciation of the Oriental point
of view, there can be no question that he has satisfactorily made out
his case. A book which the Christian reader will find unusually
hopeful and inspiring.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.
* =Terhune, Albert Payson.= Caleb Conover, railroader, il. 50c. Authors
& newspapers assn.
7–11205.
“Vastly more obscure and poor than the Corsican, and in addition
illiterate, Caleb Conover has become by the masterful force of his
natural endowment a ‘Napoleon of finance.’... And it is with his
career as an imperious, despotic and unspeakably corrupt political
boss that Mr. Terhune chiefly concerns himself—tho the militant
railway as a basis and bulwark of Conover’s empire is kept constantly
in sight.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 160w.
“This book is one of the strongest studies ever made of the American
‘Big boss,’ and from beginning to end is increasingly clever and
interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 230w.
* =Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Ballads and songs. $1.50. Putnam.
Containing “Ballad of Bouillabaisse,” the “Mahogany tree,” the
“Sorrows of Werther,” “At the church gate,” the “Lyra hibernica,” the
“Old friends with new faces.”
* * * * *
“This is one of the ready choice illustrated books of the year.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“In make-up the book lacks distinction, and seems moreover, peculiarly
out of harmony with the subject matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.
“All illustrated by Mr. H. M. Brock with that friendly, graceful
pencil of his. A welcome, simple, neat volume, great riches stored in
a little room.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 70w.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Lion’s share. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31229.
The ingredients out of which Miss French compounds her “Lion’s
share” are many and varied: high finance with accompanying
intrigue, kidnapping and consequent detective work, and love and
adventure to suit the most satiated appetite. The hero is a United
States army officer who occupies the centre of the stage and is
champion-in-general. “When the time comes for him either to uphold
the laws and constitution of his country as he has sworn to do, or
protect and aid his relatives in a criminal proceeding, he decides
on the latter course, easing his conscience by resigning his
commission.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Miss French’s book, however, is certainly built on lines calculated
to please the multitude. The book is not a particularly valuable one
and hardly up to Miss French’s standard. Its characters are not
admirable when they are good, and not bad enough to be fascinating
when they are bad.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 570w.
“Although quite convincingly sensational, and, apart from its
entertainment as fiction, it touches suggestively some of the graver
industrial problems of the day.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.
5–26124.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
=Thomas, Edward.= Heart of England. *$6. Dutton.
7–25143.
“Rambling descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry and
philosophy, and an occasional backward glance at the ‘old-fashioned
times,’ serve to string some forty-eight colored pictures together.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The fault of the book is that it is written in a style that is much
too affected.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 417. O. 27, ’06. 540w.
“Mr. Thomas suffers from an over-excitation of the colour-sense, and
he indulges in a great deal of fine writing. The process of
reproduction is not kind to Mr. H. L. Richardson’s illustrations, some
of which are pretty; but they bear singularly little relation to the
text.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 735. D. 8. 510w.
=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 80w.
“Imperceptibly the reader is impressed by the writer who carries him
here and there in and about England and shows him new and old things
with equal charm.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1396. D. 13, ’06. 110w.
“Such a book as Mr. Thomas’s makes one take root in England.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Thomas possesses in an uncommon degree the primary quality of a
good writer, imagination.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 53. Ja. 12, ’07. 710w.
=Thomas, Henry Wilton.= Sword of wealth. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42369.
A story of industrial slavery which is set in Northern Italy. “The
capitalist is a Sicilian rogue, the hero is a socialist, and the
rioters are Italian peasants.” (Ind.) Such dramatic incidents are
included as the insurrection of Milan, the assassination of King
Humbert and the radical democratic movement in Italy.
* * * * *
− =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 220w.
“It takes a more practiced hand than Mr. Thomas seems to possess to
combine romance and economics in the same novel.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 380w.
=Thomas, J. M. Lloyd.= Free Catholic church. *80c. Am. Unitar.
Under the essay titles: The catholicity of religion, The fulfilling of
Christianity, An undogmatic church, The importance of doctrine, The
need of symbolism, and The higher churchmanship, the author advocates
a church based on union of spirit which shall meet the demands of our
critical age, and he urges ecclesiastical bodies to “abandon the
treacherous dogmatic principle on which they are now organized and
seek another and firmer foundation.”
* * * * *
“In his brief essay on the establishment of what he calls ‘A free
Catholic church,’ Mr. Lloyd Thomas shows himself if not a fanatic, at
any rate a wholly unpracticed visionary.” A. E. M. F.
− =Acad.= 72: 289. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.
=Nation.= 85: 164. Ag. 22, ’07. 190w.
=Thomas, Northcote W.= Kinship organizations and group marriage in
Australia. *$2. Putnam.
7–28949.
“This interesting monograph belongs to the Cambridge archaeological
and ethnological series. It is an endeavor to summarize what is
actually known and understood as to the Australian systems and to
point out the obscure points which need further investigation. It will
be of assistance to all who are studying the history of the
development of the family.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“Mr. Thomas’s book is a severely critical and much-needed essay in
restraint of the making of hasty theories.” Andrew Lang.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 87. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 70: 168. Jl. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Thomas ... both is, and seems, sound. No one, indeed, is more
competent than Mr. Thomas to give the world an accurate digest of the
information at present available in regard to the status regulations
affecting marriage amongst the Australians.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 257. Mr. 2. 1180w.
“The author seems to be at his best in the discussion of such a vexed
question as group marriage; the argument is closely reasoned, and
brings out several new points.” A. E. Crawley.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 221. Jl. 4, ’07. 170w.
=Thomas, William I.= Sex and society; studies in the social psychology
of sex. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–7162.
The author says in his preface: “While each study is complete in
itself, the general thesis running through all of them [eight in
number] is the same—that the differences in bodily habit between men
and women particularly the greater strength, restlessness, the motor
aptitude of man, and the more stationary condition of woman, have had
an important influence on social forms and activities, and on the
character and mind of the two sexes.”
* * * * *
“Valuable and stimulating contribution to sociological literature.”
Alfred C. Haddon.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 113. Jl. ’07. 2220w.
“A strong, scholarly, well-balanced, and well arranged book.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
=Current Literature.= 42: 445. Ap. ’07. 1770w.
“Professor Thomas moves with an expert discernment, discloses many a
short-coming in prevalent doctrine, and builds up a consistent
objective picture of woman’s sociological status.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 370w.
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 561. Mr. 7, ’07. 900w.
“The book has genuine interest for the general reader and makes a
direct appeal to the student of sociology.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The data upon which the conclusions rest though drawn from a wide
area of social observation, are admittedly incomplete; but Professor
Thomas is commendably cautious in his inferences, and does not
hesitate to point out the weak spots in the chain of evidence. We do
not imagine that Professor Thomas holds any brief for the so-called
‘rights’ of woman, but he has certainly put the case in an interesting
light.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 320w.
“The book is extremely interesting. It is written with clearness and
charm, and in spite of its scientific character, it moves with the
speed and life of a narrative. Prof. Thomas is a sincere and
intelligent man, and his book is a fair and useful addition to the
literature on the subject. Women had better read it with sympathy
rather than hysteria; it will do us good.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 89. F. 16, ’07. 1040w.
=Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 870w.
“In scientific circles the essays will be accepted as presenting many
novel and weighty conclusions on society as seen from a single, but
extremely important, view point.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 655. N. ’07. 750w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 320w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 622. Ag. ’07. 270w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 174. Ag. 10, ’07. 1250w.
=Thomas, William S.= Hunting big game with gun and with kodak; a record
of personal experiences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; with
70 il. from original photographs by the author. *$2. Putnam.
7–4834.
In which “Mr. Thomas gives his readers ample variety, hunting the
bighorn and grizzly in British Columbia, the caribou and moose in New
Brunswick and Quebec, and deer in Virginia and Mexico.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.
“His camera was apparently unsuited to the work. In comparison with
the recent achievements of Schillings and Hornaday and others in this
field they make a very poor showing.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.
“It is hard to make a flat failure out of an outdoor book, but still
harder to make it a distinguished success. ‘Hunting big game with gun
and kodak,’ comes some distance from either extreme.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.
“This charming book, excellently printed and illustrated, has the
value of convincing and picturesque simplicity. By adhering strictly
to an account of personal experiences the author, while limiting the
scope of his narrative has shown himself to be a discriminating and
appreciative observer of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 300w.
“His book is very readable without being remarkable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study
of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author gives evidence of thorough familiarity with social and
industrial conditions in the southern states, and his study is a
valuable contribution to the literature descriptive of our industrial
development.” J. C.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 57. Ja. ’07. 230w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 80w.
=Thompson, Mrs. Jeanette May.= Water wonders every child should know.
**$1.10. Doubleday.
7–35227.
“This is an interesting book, because it deals in a very simple and
entertaining way with frost, ice, snow, dew, and running water; and
because it is enriched by many reproductions of beautiful photographs
of crystals taken by Mr. Bentley.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07. ✠
“This book happily combines adequate knowledge of the subject with a
graphic and entertaining style.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6. ’07. 50w.
=Thompson, R. F. Meysey-.= Hunting catechism. $1.25. Longmans.
Colonel Meysey-Thompson has lived with hounds and horses and hunting
men the greater portion of his life. So he is on familiar ground in
everything pertaining to the etiquette of the hunting field, hunters
and hounds, as also pertaining to habits of the hunted,—of stags,
foxes, and hares.
* * * * *
“A man who does not know most of it before he dreams of riding ‘cross
country’ cannot learn it here, and the work has the aridity of a
schoolbook to one who has had its contents knocked into him years
ago.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 470w.
“A most amusing little volume. Although it is nominally intended for
the use of beginners, many who have had some experience of the
hunting-field can learn from it; and if they are above learning, they
cannot fail to be entertained by the anecdotes, recollections, and
reflections which many seasons’ hunting has enabled the author to
sprinkle through the pages.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 480w.
* =Thompson, Ralph Wardlaw.= Griffith John, the story of fifty years in
China. *$2. Armstrong.
7–15464.
“While the book sets forth the enthusiasm and optimism of a gifted
missionary working under nineteenth-century conditions, its real value
lies in the fact that it gives the evolution of mission methods under
exterritorialty.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book is one of the best ever written for its frank portrayal of
the ups and downs of a great missionary’s aggressive work and his
boundless hope for China.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 260w.
=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.
6–34653.
A symposium embracing opinions as to the future life whose
contributors include scientists, psychical researchers, philosophers,
and spiritualists.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 717. O. ’07. 20w.
“In spite of the fact that in a few instances the thinkers who wrote
for the symposium or whose opinions are here cited, have advanced to
more positive grounds since the book was compiled, it is a volume of
real merit, not the least interesting part being the writings of Mr.
Thompson introducing the subject and the different groups of
thinkers.”
+ =Arena.= 86: 671. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
W 6–274.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 102. Ja. ’07. 1340w.
=Thomson, W. G.= History of tapestry, from the earliest times until the
present day; with 4 plates in color and numerous il. in black and white.
*$12. Putnam.
7–25516.
A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present
day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the
present volume we find many more instances than are generally known
where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and
princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by
them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give
us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of
folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and
half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.
* * * * *
“We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is
faultless.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 217. Ag: 24. 1020w.
“It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the
innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable
as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 36. Jl. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“Full of interest, full of surprises and always spiced with romance,
and Mr. Thomson has not spoiled the story in its telling.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1471. Je. 20, ’07. 900w.
“We take leave of the author, then, with admiration of his power as a
faithful draughtsman, and with respect for his diligent search among
original sources of information.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 63. Jl. 18, ’07. 710w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13. ’07. 190w.
“It is impossible not to grumble especially at the information
withheld by Mr. Thomson.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 52. Jl. 13, ’07. 1240w.
=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical
relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–6262.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
“The book is printed in the United States, the illustrations are poor,
and there is no Index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 470w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Works. Bijou, ed. 5v. $2.50. Crowell.
These five volumes of the selected works of Thoreau are furnished with
introductions by Nathan H. Dole, Annie Russell Marble, and Charles C.
D. Roberts, while Emerson’s biographical sketch prefaces “Excursions.”
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Writings of Henry David Thoreau. (Walden ed.)
20v. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
A monumental undertaking which becomes an atonement to a mighty soul
for lack of appreciation during the most of life. The first six
volumes include Thoreau’s miscellaneous writings and the remaining
fourteen are devoted to his journal which is published for the first
time. The edition furnishes “a record of the life-work of one whose
observations of the phenomena of nature were most thorough and
untiring and whose descriptions are among the best in literature.”
* * * * *
“On the whole this ‘Walden edition’ is every way satisfactory in its
different forms for different purchasers and prices.” F. B. Sanborn.
+ + − =Dial.= 41: 232. O. 16, ’06. 2880w.
“Have the interest of an autobiography, and will be read for more
light upon one of the most piquant and romantic careers among American
scholars and reformers. For the full understanding of this part of the
copious work, many more notes and explanations are needed than the
editors had room to afford even had they the needful knowledge.” F. B.
Sanborn.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 107. F. 16, ’07. 2140w. (Review of v. 8–20.)
“If we should quarrel with it for anything it would be for its too
great abundance. Much is trivial, yet much also is of extraordinary
interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 11–20.)
“Mr. Torrey is an accomplished writer as well as a well-known
naturalist. His introductions are of a quality rare in such
performances. They are free from the spirit of hero-worship or of
hero-manufacture; now and then they perhaps approach the other
extreme.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 681. O. 20, ’06. (Review of v. 1–10.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 990w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with an introd. by Annie R. Marble.
35c. Crowell.
7–37720.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe.
*75c. Macmillan.
6–4648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is based on independent study and ... it abundantly proves
its point.” A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 396. Ap. ’07. 350w.
=Thorp, Frank Hall.= Outlines of industrial chemistry: a text-book for
students. 2d ed. *$3.75. Macmillan.
The second edition, revised and enlarged, and including a chapter on
metallurgy. “This work has been prepared for the purpose of comprising
in a single volume of moderate dimensions an outline treatment of the
more important industrial chemical processes.... It is divided into
three parts: Inorganic industries, Organic industries, and
Metallurgy.” (Technical Literature.)
* * * * *
“Gives in one volume a comprehensive and clearly written description
of all branches of chemical industry.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“The work is well suited to the instruction of students in engineering
and will be found of value to engineers in all branches, who are often
confronted with problems requiring a knowledge of industrial chemistry
for their solution.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 30. Jl. ’07. 370w.
=Thorpe, William Henry.= Anatomy of bridgework. $2.50. Spon.
7–28955.
A book which treats “of the behavior of bridges under traffic so as to
show the weak points in their design and their effect upon the cost of
maintenance.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book will be of relatively small service to American engineers.”
Henry S. Jacoby.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 890w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 280w.
=Throckmorton, Josephine Holt.= Donald MacDonald. $1.25. Murdock McPhee
& Co., 221 Pennsylvania av., Washington, D. C.
7–20710.
In this story which begins at West Point and later depicts army scenes
during the civil war, the characters of two men are brought into sharp
contrast. Red Tracy, the selfish boy who becomes a false lover, a
thief, and an officer untrue to his friends and ashamed of his old
father, is a fitting foil for MacDonald, the best type of gentleman
and soldier.
=Thrum, Thomas G.= Hawaiian folk tales: a collection of native legends;
il. from photographs. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–9782.
In this group are twenty-five folk lore tales contributed by
recognized authorities including Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson,
J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, Dr. C. M. Hyde and others. The
volume rescues from oblivion tales of mythology, religious functions,
tradition and cosmology, and preserves their native poetic quality.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 250w.
“Of this collection some [of the legends] are obviously sophisticated
and treated in a literary manner, others are crude and dry.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Thruston, Mrs. Lucy (Meacham).= Jenifer. †$1.50. Little.
7–16941.
The Carolina mountains form the setting for this story of the
development of the character of Jenifer, a poor country lad, who
discovers kaolin upon some land which he promptly buys from the needy
owner, who does not suspect its value. This makes him rich and he goes
to the city to see life and there marries Alice the frivolous clerk of
a glove counter. This is but the beginning. How he comes back to his
land, awakes to the responsibility of his position and re-orders his
life, forms the story.
* * * * *
“Is a firm, smooth piece of work, without those early marks of the
amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 190w.
“The plot itself is not very original, but the literary handling of it
is worthy of all praise. Spontaneity and genuine imagination mark the
book, and the descriptions of mountain scenery are admirable.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 130w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 514. Ag. 24, ’07. 210w.
“As charming and as open to criticism as the vivacious yet irregular
features of a pretty girl.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=Thureau-Dangin, Paul.= Saint Bernardine of Siena; tr. by Baroness G.
von Hugel. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–28.
“Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for
a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning
known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly
preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral
and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the
story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he
kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and,
finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the
less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Admirable life.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 90w.
“Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to
idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine
intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his
career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of
these imperfections, merits special commendation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 838. S. ’07. 260w.
“By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the
Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely
recognizable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 750w.
“The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to
students and to the devout,”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
“A delightful book. It is characterized by a limpid felicity of style,
a quiet power of objective presentment, complete sympathy with its
subject, and a serene impartiality which, however—a great gift
this—takes none of the fire and life out of the book. Of the Baroness
von Hugel’s translation we can say that it is eminently readable and
writ in passable English. But it bristles in inaccuracies, and the
translator’s fear of being fettered by the original causes her at
times to take undue liberties with the text.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Katherine. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11213.
Katherine Crichton marries a big-hearted, broad-minded man whose work
principles she does not understand, and therefore nurses unhappiness
as a result of fancied neglect. An accident results in a physical
state that promises her only two years of life, and she determines to
give herself up to happiness and the romance which had been denied
her. How her husband spares her the ignominy of dishonor and restores
her to her home is handled with keen perception and an understanding
of genuine nobility of heart.
* * * * *
“Men and women do not speak and think as Mr. Thurston writes. Of the
evolution of Katherine we see nothing; what we see of the evolution of
Mr. Thurston does not inspire us with any confidence as to his future.
His characters bear much the same relation to life as do the emerald
woods in a penny shooting-gallery.”
− =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Thurston continues to display a familiarity with feminine
psychology which is unusual in English fiction. Will no doubt soon
shed his Meredithian manner. At present he has a bad attack.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 300w.
“‘Katherine’ differs from his earlier books in portraying Protestant
England rather than Catholic Ireland; but it conveys the same
impression of being the outcome of direct, keen observation of
flesh-and-blood men and women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 283. My. ’07. 510w.
“This story, weighted with much futile philosophizing, is not exactly
edifying, and its dulness is relieved by few flashes of brilliancy.”
Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Thurston takes it out of the class to which it apparently
belonged, and cloaks it with the dignity of a grave psychological
problem.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 116. Jl. ’07. 350w.
“It is characteristic of the horror-minded present that a writer like
Mr. Thurston should dramatize the diagnosis of cancer and call it a
romance.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 210w.
“The most striking and most interesting thing about Mr. Thurston’s
book is the manner in which it is written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6, ’07. 930w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
6–29093.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly
as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he
keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult
readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 420w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–14253.
A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for
seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect
known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to
violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect
until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word
for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a
prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper
moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these
people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though
logical dénouement.
* * * * *
“The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the
episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”
− =Acad.= 72: 416. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.
“She has taken her public too cheaply.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 1. 190w.
“The story is not only short, but jejune and projected on a low level;
though it may be granted, freely, that the presentation is powerful,
the few characters well marked, and the plot simple and logically
worked out.”
− + =Cath. World.= 85: 550. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“The wild improbability of the plot and the essentially childish
nature of the whole story make it barren as a subject for criticism.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.
“Mrs. Thurston possesses imagination and a laudable desire to skip the
dull parts; explanations, for instance.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 280w.
“Is rather a disappointment to those who have read ‘The gambler’ and
‘The masquerader.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“A piece of manufacture and not particularly interesting at that.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 220w.
“It might have been written by an incompetent understudy so far as
interest is concerned, and no amount of oxygen in the reader’s blood
can make it seem to him other than hopelessly wooden.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“The contents are so vapid and drearily profitless that it seems
unfair to seek a type for them in any semblance to humanity.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 529. Ap. 27, ’07. 410w.
=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.
4–6902.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These volumes, as is usual in the series, are well edited. The
reviewer suspects—only suspects because he has not been able to
compare the reprint with the original edition—that there are a few
errors in proof-reading; but these would not be worth mentioning were
it not for the high standard already set for the workmanship of the
series.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 430. Ja. ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 18 and
19.)
“Continue to reach the standard of value and interest found in the
earlier issues.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 878. O. 11, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 18–24.)
“Is the most valuable of the five or six volumes published in the
series this year.” Webster Cook.
+ + =School R.= 15: 712. D. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 25.)
=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America.
**$3. Appleton.
6–35963.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.
“One cannot but regret that the author has not seen fit to describe
the highest type of university as it exists today in this country, and
to present a view of higher education in its latest and finest aspects
with the particularity and appreciation which he devotes to its
beginnings in the early colonial days.” J. B. P.
+ − =Educ. R.= 33: 87. Ja. ’07. 700w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“An eminently readable and human account of the history of higher
education with especial attention to the story of the older colleges.”
J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.= François Rabelais. (French men of letters, v.
3.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29040.
A biographical and critical study of Rabelais written for the “French
men of letters” series. The author’s familiarity with his subject and
his comprehensive study of sources, have resulted in an authoritative
narrative which assumes less knowledge on the part of readers than as
tho it had been written for Frenchmen.
* * * * *
“Let it be said at once, and with all frankness, that it is the very
work to be consulted by anyone who wants to be well instructed in the
known facts concerning Rabelais. It is when we cease to consider facts
and dates and such matters that Mr. Tilley becomes tiresome and quite
ineffectual.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 133. N. 16, ’07. 1870w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 390w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 260w.
=Tillson, Benjamin Richards.= Complete automobile instructor. $1.50.
Wiley.
7–1971.
A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six
hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the
principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.
* * * * *
“The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car
owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset,
and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his
machine as necessity demands it.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Nation.= 84: 152. F. 14, ’07. 30w.
“Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the
last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner
who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Tinney, W. H.= Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and
installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and
engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5.
Van Nostrand.
The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water
motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of
pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air
drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts,
compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Walter R. Crane.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Tinney’s production fails in its purpose, for it is out of date
and superficial.”
− =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 130w.
=Titsworth, Alfred Alexander.= Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.25.
Wiley.
6–35444.
“This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, for
beginners, the various drawing instruments in common use are
described, and a series of exercises is given to illustrate the use of
each of the instruments. The rest of this section is devoted to
examples in simple projection, to intersections, of solids, and
development of surfaces. Part 2, for more advanced students, comprises
problems in descriptive geometry, isometric projection, oblique
projection, shadows, and perspective work, and concludes with a series
of problems.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Its mechanical make-up is unusually neat.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 120w.
* =Tittle, Walter.= First Nantucket tea party, il. **$2. Doubleday.
7–38632.
“This is a letter written in 1754 by Ruth Starbuck Wentworth to her
mother. Besides relating the amusing story of the first teabrewing
that ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance of Ruth
Wentworth and Captain Morris, which began and ended while the letter
was being written in those delightful daily portions that our
grandmothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did their other
daily stints.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A curious little document.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The illuminated illustrations and decorations by Walter Tittle,
reproducing the style of some medieval manuscript, form an admirably
appropriate setting to the pretty little colonial romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Toch, Maximilian.= Chemistry and technology of mixed paints. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
7–2131.
“Intended for the student in chemistry who desires to familiarize
himself with paint, or the inquirer who desires a better knowledge of
the subject, or for the paint manufacturer and paint chemist as a work
of reference.” “The whole effect of the book will be towards
improvement of manufacture and in the mutual relations between makers
and users.... The microphotographs are excellent, and inserted on
calendered paper, the print is large and clear, paper good, binding
attractive.” (Technical Literature.)
* * * * *
“Authoritative. Contains much useful information. Only book on the
subject.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07.
“Taken as a whole, the book will be found instructive and useful.
Naturally, it does not give away trade secrets, but on the other hand,
it contains much that is very little known by the general public, and
it will well repay careful study.” Robert Job.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 552. My. 16, ’07. 1570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79 F. 9. ’07. 60w.
“Altogether, a credit and an ornament to American technological
literature.” Joseph W. Richards.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 520w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Massachusetts. **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–23474.
In these sketches of old times and places during the early days of the
commonwealth are included descriptions of Cambridge in midsummer, a
day in Lexington, autumn days in Quincy, Marblehead scenes, Martha’s
Vineyard, and tales of Nantucket’s first tea-party, wrecks and
wrecking, historic Deerfield, Pittsfield, the Hoosac tunnel, Lenox,
and other historic places, many of which are pictured by photographs.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 290w.
“An entertaining volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 60w.
=Todd, Margaret Georgina (Graham Travers, pseud.).= Growth. †$1.50.
Holt.
7–17048.
The growth, not only of Dugald Dalgleish, the hero, the son of an
obscure nonconformist minister, who from a student at the University
of Edinburgh develops into a popular preacher, but also the growth,
mental and spiritual, of his friend Thatcher, who becomes a priest of
Rome, is chronicled in the course of this tale of inward struggle.
Judith Lemaistre, the big doctor, the woman Dugald marries, and many
other characters worth knowing, take their leisurely way thru the
story, which with its religious background and earnest Scotch
atmosphere is very different from the usual novel of today.
* * * * *
“We honestly admire the author’s thoroughness and all-round fairness
of view. The tone is dignified and sincere, the story gravely
interesting; it is also, though we say it with regret, many pages too
long.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 160w.
“There is little plot in the story, but it is written with care, and
bears the signs of good workmanship on every page.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 120w.
“Out of all this diverse material we get a picture of human life that
grows fairly absorbing in its interest as we proceed, a dramatic
structure in which the claims of both spirit and sense are allowed, a
residual philosophy that is shaped to fine intellectual issues, yet
which keeps all the time in close contact with the world of practical
affairs.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 320w.
“The characters all stand out very vividly, each one strongly
individualized. And they are interesting people to meet in the pages
of a story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 590w.
“The picture of student life is particularly appealing in respect of
certain characteristic natural qualities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“The story is too serious to attract the regular novel reader, and
perhaps too much occupied with past questions to absorb the lovers of
problems, but it is a well-constructed, interesting bit of work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
“It is a relief, after the slight and sketchy specimens of fiction
which are published as complete novels, to come across a piece of
conscientious and detailed work, even if that work is not completely
successful.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 300w.
=Toffteen, Olaf A.= Ancient chronology. Pt. 1. Published for the
Oriental society of the Western Theological seminary. *$2.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
7–36124.
A volume which covers the ancient chronology of Palestine, Assyria,
Babylonia, and Egypt down to 1050 B. C. The first chapter treats
biblical chronology solely on the basis of the dates furnished by the
Bible, taking them at their face value, and without any inquiry,
either into the age of the documents, or into their historicity; the
second chapter contains a full treatment of the ancient history of
these countries; and the third is devoted to Egyptian chronology.
* * * * *
“An interesting work designed to defend traditional views. It presents
a wealth of material, many new interpretations of fact, and original
conclusions. The work is marred by many inexcusable errors in
spelling.”
+ + − =Bib. World.= 30: 479. D. ’07. 30w.
“The treatment of monumental sources is careful, and the general
conclusions do not contradict the more sane and conservative scholars,
to whose investigations he has added much that is of value.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 250w.
=Tolstoy, Leo.= Tolstoy on Shakespeare: a critical essay on Shakespeare;
tr. by V. Tchertkoff; followed by Shakespeare’s attitude to the working
classes, by Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G. Bernard Shaw. *75c.
Funk.
7–14638.
Full of disagreement with the “universal adulation,” in fact,
iconoclastic thruout, Tolstoy argues, among other things, that
Shakespeare is lacking in the very point of excellence that by general
consensus of the world’s opinion earned for him the right to be called
an imperial genius, namely, delineation of character.
* * * * *
“The orthodox must consign this book to perdition, and anathematize
its author as a literary iconoclast steeped in guilt inexpressible.”
− =Cath. World.= 84: 836. Mr. ’97. 630w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 46. Ja. ’07. 2460w.
“No doubt such critical onslaughts upon our accepted standards of
literary achievement, as those contained in this little volume, serve
a useful purpose, if only by arousing us from a conventional and lazy
acquiescence in fundamental matters of literary taste, which receive
from us all too little consideration.”
− =Ind.= 62: 441. F. 21, ’07. 970w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 1160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 80w.
* =Tolstoy, Leo.= Twenty-three tales from Tolstoy; selected and tr. by
Louise and Aylmer Maude. *75c. Funk.
These twenty-three stories are arranged under seven heads: Tales for
children, published about 1872 when Tolstoy was interested in the
education of peasant children; Popular stories, including What men
live by; A fairy tale, which contains Tolstoy’s indictment of
militarism and commercialism; Stories written to pictures, intended to
help the sale of cheap reproductions of good drawings; Folk-tales
retold; Adaptations from the French; and Stories given to aid the
persecuted Jews.
=Tomalin, H. F.= Three vagabonds in Friesland with a yacht and camera.
*$3. Dutton.
“A book which is frankly described in its introduction as a ‘book
of photographs, with letterpress obligato,’ records a vagabond
trip through Friesland, a little frequented part of North
Holland.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It will take rank amongst the best illustrated volumes of travel that
have recently appeared.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 251. S. ’07. 430w.
“Charming account of a June outing in northern Holland.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The photographs are remarkable both from an artistic and a technical
point of view, and illustrate the life and people of one of the most
picturesque districts in Europe. The ‘obligato,’ too, is rather well
played.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 60w.
“They are cheery fellows and capital company, and Mr. Marshall’s
numerous photographs of the scenes, and especially of the natives, are
deserving of praise.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Marching against the Iroquois. †$1.50.
Houghton.
6–37600.
A tale based upon General Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois
in the Mohawk valley in the year 1779.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.
“It is a combination of history and fiction that the young people will
find both instructive and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Tompkins, Herbert W.= In Constable’s country; with many reproductions
from his paintings. *$4. Dutton.
More a transcript of impressions, penned, in the first instance, by
the wayside than an essay on Constable and his art.
* * * * *
“A gossipy chronicle of unimportant wanderings, readable because the
author has written of what interested himself.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 13, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Tompkins gives us no formal essay on Constable, but instead, the
more instructive, informal illumination contained in a transcript of
impressions written, in the first instance, by the wayside.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 390w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Tonge, James.= Principles and practice of coal mining. *$1.60.
Macmillan.
“A compact, comprehensive, and not too technical treatise covering the
entire field of coal production.... The illustrations, both
photographic and diagrammatic, are comprehensive, and serve well to
illuminate the descriptive matter. At the end of each chapter is a
series of questions bearing upon it, as on aid to fixing the subject
matter thereof in the memory of the student.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“It is adapted to use as a lighter text-book for students intending to
specialize in mining engineering, and is so written as to be equally
well adapted to the needs of the practical miner who may wish to
qualify for higher and more responsible positions in the coal-mining
industry.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 297. S. 12, ’07. 330w.
“These varied subjects are dealt with in a thoroughly practical
manner, and although necessarily brief, the descriptions are well up
to date.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 364. F. 14, ’07. 530w.
=Toothaker, Charles Robinson.= Commercial raw materials. $1.25. Ginn.
A comprehensive and conveniently arranged handbook describing briefly
the important materials which enter into the commerce of the
world—such as cotton, sugar, woods, rubber, silk, iron and coal.
* * * * *
“The book is distinctly a book of facts, with no attempt to bring out
the causal side of production or trade. Hence the volume can only be a
supplementary reference text, a present help in trouble; and it is not
intended as a class book.” Richard Elwood Dodge.
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 534. D. ’07. 170w.
=Topliff, Samuel.= Topliff’s travels: letters from abroad in the years
1828 and 1829; ed. with a memoir and notes by Ethel Stanwood Bolton. $2.
Boston Athenaeum.
7–6782.
The letters of a “typical hard-working American” written during his
travels in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain and Italy during
1828–29, including a visit to Lafayette at his chateau Lagrange. “His
travels are of interest because few Americans in his day indulged in
such pleasures.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 724. Ap. ’07. 70w.
“He was an accurate observer, writing in the formal and stately style
of the age, though he often condescended to waggishness on such
subjects as leapyear and matrimony, and had clearly a liberal spice of
the Old Adam in his composition.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 165. F. 9. 440w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 226. Mr. 7, ’07. 580w.
=Torrence, Frederic Ridgely.= Abelard and Heloise. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–8253.
In this poetic drama “there are four acts, the first two being
separated from the others by a score of years. The first half of the
work gives us the Paris school and Fulbert’s villa, the second half of
Paraclete and Chalons. The dramatic handling of the story is spirited
and rapid.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“To his close study of the sources we owe the thousand vivid
historical details that are woven into the vigorous give and take of
the dialogue with fine, dramatic and poetic effect. In the matter of
structure, however, there is a question whether Mr. Torrence’s play
has not lost its effectiveness through his endeavor to give the whole
story as it is in the books.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 847. D. ’07. 620w.
“It is not without infelicities, verbal and rhythmical, but its
movement is, on the whole, stately and impressive.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 17, ’07. 640w.
“Nor can it be said that the poet’s style has changed for the better.
There is a general air of strain; his metaphors frequently pall before
he has done with them, and his metre has a way of being so free as to
be crabbed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =No. Am.= 185: 86. My. 3, ’07. 1440w.
“Is disappointing when one reflects upon what one demands of so high a
theme. The ejaculatory method of speech in the first twenty pages is
nothing less than exasperating, and one wonders if no one will ever
stand still long enough to utter a finished sentence. The character of
Abelard is so weak and vacillating as to make the love of Heloise seem
unworthy.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 120w.
“The difficulties presented by this famous love story are so great as
to be almost insuperable. Mr. Torrence has met them with courage and
with tact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.
“The character of Heloise seems illogical and there are certain points
in the conception of the plot which might be challenged, as poetry it
is full of exquisite passages and has the choice, uncommon beauty, the
distinction, of Mr. Torrence’s art.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 230w.
=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–36033.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Endowed with sound taste, and a fine literary touch, he pronounces,
in a desultory review of the man’s life or work, much sound
common-sense judgment upon his methods or his productions.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 638. Mr. ’07. 480w.
“Some little matters to quarrel over might easily be singled out.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 470w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 637. F. ’07. 670w.
=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments
on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English
by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Tosi, like most of the men of his day, is witty and garrulous even
when he is most earnest about his subject, and in the very racy
contemporary translation he makes capital reading.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.
=Tout, Thomas Frederick.= Advanced history of Great Britain from the
earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria. *$1.50. Longmans.
W 7–13.
A book which “serves a double purpose. It belongs to a series designed
for school use.... But it is also a most convenient volume of easy
reference.... The maps are abundant and simple, and there are a number
of genealogical and other tables, including a list of ministers and
governments since 1689.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“He weighs and sifts his evidence with the aim of writing history, not
a pleasant mixture of facts and fancies; and he never lets his
enthusiasm get the better of his judgment. As a history for students
who are within a year or so of leaving school we do not hesitate to
say that Professor Tout’s is the best obtainable at the present day.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The maps are the best for their purpose which the writer has ever
encountered in a text-book. The scholarship displayed in the book must
be heartily commended. The information is drawn from the best primary
and secondary sources and is used with great discrimination. In only
two points has the present reviewer found anything to criticize.”
Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 193. O. ’07. 950w.
“The bibliographies given are altogether too short and unsatisfactory
for an advanced history. In this respect the book leaves much to be
desired. As a chronicle of events the work is well done.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 130w.
“It is abundantly provided with maps and genealogical tables, and has
all the well-known merits of his scholastic work.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 70w.
“The narrative is pointed and succinct, but broad enough to include a
clear account of political and constitutional changes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 90w.
“The complicated politics of Charles II.’s reign are set forth with
special clearness.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 302. S. 1, ’06. 280w.
* =Tower, Walter S.= History of the American whale fishery.
(Publications of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Series of political economy
and public law, no. 20.) $1.50. Winston.
7–19443.
This work which appeals to both historians and economists gives a
“comprehensive review of the origin and development of the whaling
industry from colonial times to the present. The volume has its
particular value in the fact that it is the only complete history of
its kind both as regards time and treatment. As the author pointed
out, the latest work on the subject in question appeared in 1876 but
the discussion was superficial, especially of the whole period after
1815.” (Yale R.)
* * * * *
“An exceedingly valuable work. Every library will desire to own this
book, and economists and historians will wish to have the volume upon
the shelves of their private collections.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 603. N. ’07. 170w.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 226. Ag. ’07. 140w.
=Tower, William Lawrence.= Investigation of evolution in chrysomelid
beetles of the genus leptinotarsa. (Carnegie institution of Washington
publications, no. 48. Station for experimental evolution. Paper no. 4.)
$3.25. Carnegie inst.
7–9833.
“This genus embraces forty-three species, of which the best known is
the common potato beetle. Starting with the distribution of the group,
Professor Tower passes to individual variation in color pattern, size,
and shape: he discusses the structure, ontogeny, and phylogeny of
coloration in these and other insects; experimental modification of
the colors and the significance of the various hues and patterns, both
in the larvae and adults; the normal habits and instincts of these
beetles; details of interesting selection experiments in breeding and
the production of new races; and a final chapter on the relation of
all the results obtained to the problem of the origin of
species.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Not only does it extend our knowledge of evolution along the old
lines of research, but now for the first time do we have clear cases
of the modification of the germ plasm by external conditions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 398. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w.
“The thoroughness of the work and clearness of exposition inspire
confidence in the results and conclusions. It is a valuable
contribution to the literature of evolution.”
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 250w.
“It is of the first importance to every biologist.” T. D. A.
Cockerell.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 71. Jl. 19, ’07. 2170w.
=Townsend, Charles Wendell.= Along the Labrador coast. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20631.
“The journey which this book records was undertaken chiefly for the
study of birds, but the author became greatly interested in the
scenery, the geology, the flowers and trees, the fish and fishermen,
the Eskimos and Eskimo dogs, the Hudson bay company’s posts, the
Moravians, and Dr. Grenfell’s mission.” (R. of Rs.) The author writes
of Labrador “merely as an interested visitor and amateur
ornithologist.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“The simple narrative makes enjoyable reading and admirably
supplements the more technical ‘Birds of Labrador,’ which Dr. Townsend
has published.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 270w.
“A straightforward and pleasant narrative of a summer vacation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 510w.
“Both text and pictures form a distinct contribution to our knowledge
of Labrador life and scenery.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 120w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Beaver Creek farm. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–29726.
A city lad’s experiences while rusticating at his grandfather’s farm,
where he meets a country boy who teaches him the wholesome wonders of
country life.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 371. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Our constitution: why and how it was made,
who made it, and what it is. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38915.
“A popular review of our great instrument of government.... After a
brief review of the previous experiences of the colonies with
self-government, the various movements toward union are described, and
the familiar struggles and compromises which finally ended in our
present constitution. A discussion of the amendments concludes the
text proper. A last chapter and an appendix include the chief
documents, English and colonial, which form the background of the
history of our present constitution.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“In the light of its object it should be said that on the whole the
work is entertainingly written and will furnish an easy introduction
to the study of the constitution to a class of readers who would be
repelled by a work of greater scholastic pretensions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 225. Ja. ’07. 300w.
“As a whole ... the book should be of service, as it is clear, compact
and expressed in a fairly interesting manner.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 230w.
=Townsend, John Wilson.= Kentuckians in history and literature. $2.
Neale.
7–29721.
A love for Kentucky’s history, traditions and literature has prompted
the researches which have resulted in this volume of side-lights. The
galaxy includes poets, novelists, lawyers, warriors and statesmen.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 508. S. 28, ’07. 110w.
* =Tozier, Josephine.= Spring fortnight in France. **$2. Dodd.
7–31243.
The journeys which Angela Victoria, thirty-six and alone, makes thru
central France are strung upon a thread of romance and are only the
more captivating for that reason. “In her own charming fashion, she
visits Le Mans, Poitiers, Carcassonne, Arles, Tarascon, and half a
dozen other cities of southern France, and many excellent
illustrations from photographs show characteristic views of them.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“A sprightly combination of romantic fiction and traveller’s
impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“Josephine Tozier, besides knowing her France, is gifted with
vivacity, and imparts all the information we want in most engaging
style.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Tozier, Josephine=, comp. Travelers’ handbook; new and rev. ed. **$1.
Funk.
7–17665.
This manual for transatlantic tourists “is not concerned with
descriptions of sights and tours, but is full of practical advice as
to the customs of the various countries, their coinage, tramways,
railroad guides, fees, food, etc. Much of the information is intended
for American women.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 30w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 30w.
* =Tracy, John Clayton.= Plane surveying: a text-book and pocket manual.
$3. Wiley.
7–33942.
A complete manual for students. “In plan it is a text-book and pocket
manual combined, while in scope its aim is not to cover the whole
field of surveying, but to treat with thoroughness fundamental
principles and methods. As a text-book, it deals with the theory of
surveying, while as a manual it gives many practical suggestions and
directions which are usually left for oral instruction.” (Tech. Lit.)
* * * * *
“Prof. Tracy has written a book of great value to the surveyor, both
in his student days and in the first years of his practice.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 569. D. 12, ’07. 730w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 458. N. ’07. 760w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Captain of the Kansas. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–6181.
Mr. Tracy uses his well-tested ingredients again,—the sea, shipwreck,
fights with cannibals, hairbreadth escapes, etc. “He has valiantly
succeeded in making the primary colours once more effective. Even in
Chile the black angel whose disciple puts sticks of dynamite among the
coals of a seagoing steamer is not ill-served. The voyage of that
steamer is a triumph of pyrotechnical narrative, assisted by a map....
Peril from cannibals obliges a physician to reserve a bullet for the
heroine, but Ossa on Pelion could not have flattened the good cherub
who looked after her and her lover.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“If heartiness can freshen a stale phrase, Mr. Tracy’s romance may be
described as a thrilling novel of adventure.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 120w.
“Everybody in the book is a live human being, and they are all carried
along by the skillful story teller who has a very neat and effective
style and a happy knack of characterization.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16. ’07. 770w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“As a sea-story the book is capital, as a novel it is nothing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.
* =Train, Arthur Cheney.= Mortmain. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33597.
Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A
man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated
expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies;
but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a
welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more
nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick,
lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class,
more competently worked out, less childish.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 160w.
“[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most
indifferent reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
=Train, Arthur Cheney.= Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the
administration of criminal justice. **$2. Scribner.
6–43223.
“The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the
actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is
by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual
observation and experience, the author having been associated for some
years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal
courts of New York city.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most
important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 235. Ja. ’07. 590w.
“He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of
criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs
may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 484. Ja. ’07. 840w.
“Although thoroughly serious in purpose, he lightens his chapters with
amusing anecdote and thus gives us an entertaining as well as a
strikingly suggestive book.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Let no one think that because Mr. Train has written a book lightly
readable and brimming with humor that it has no significance.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30. ’07. 360w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
“An instructive and interesting account of the actual administration
of criminal law in the largest of American cities.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 202. Je. 28, ’07. 1010w.
“A set of most interesting sidelights on the actual administration of
criminal justice in our large cities. The voice is the voice of the
expert, though the hand is rather that of the journalist.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.
“The book as a whole belongs to the same class as Mr. Francis
Wellman’s ‘Art of cross-examination.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Train’s greatest service, perhaps, lies in his showing partly
intentionally but partly unconsciously, the extent to which we
tolerate mediaeval methods ill-adapted to modern conditions, and the
extent to which, in practice at least, we hold the mediaeval theory
that vengeance is the object of punishment.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 160w.
“We hope that Mr. Train’s book will meet the reception in this country
which it deserves.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 128. Jl. 27, ’07. 1980w.
=Trask, Kate Nichols.= In my lady’s garden; pages from the diary of Sir
John Elwynne. **$1. Lane.
7–6766.
A love idyl whose background is a tangle of fragrance. The capricious
Mary is wooed by the staid Sir John and is simply waiting for him to
conquer her caprice. When the conquest is made the feminine question
comes, “O, Jack, why did you let us waste so much time?”
* * * * *
“The fragrance and beauty of the English garden in May are in the
book. There is wisdom in it, too.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. My. 9, ’07. 130w.
=Trask, Kate Nichols.= Night and morning. **$1.25. Lane.
A side-light on the divorce problem. It upholds the “higher inner law
of love itself which in itself is the highest freedom,” and which is
“a Beatitude rather than a law.” It “is the story of the woman taken
in adultery retold in picturesquely colored blank verse, with the
imaginative addition of the personality of her lover, a ‘subtle Greek’
Leonidas.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Its development and constructive power indicate a mind of very
uncommon order. There is a continuous upbuilding of interest until the
last words are spoken. The poem is didactic, but its artistic form is
preserved, in spite of the extreme difficulty of the situation which
might easily have resulted in the art being, at all events, obscured
by theological discussion.” D. Frangcon-Davies.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 556. My. ’07. 2730w.
“The story is told with picturesque beauty and adorned with happy
imagery. Avowedly a didactic composition, the poem is nevertheless
deeply moving, and its spiritual message is high and clear.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The mood of the poem is admirable throughout, and the workmanship
respectable.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 150w.
“Here and there an occasional false quantity is found, but the poem,
as a whole, is of surpassing beauty and Miltonic dignity. This quality
of its verse and the high quality of its philosophy should destine
‘Night and morning’ to become immortal.” U. W.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6, ’06. 800w.
=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28–July 14,
1888). **$3. Small.
6–6242.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is as revealing in character as it is unconventional in its literary
make-up.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 325. Mr. ’07. 1860w.
=Treffry, Elford Eveleigh=, comp. Stokes’ encyclopedia of familiar
quotations. **$2.25. Stokes.
6–46744.
“A work that can be easily consulted for phrases and sentiments, as
the quotations are arranged under subjects. A general index gives the
usual reference for every important word in every quotation, making it
available for fugitive line or passage. The author index, with its
long list of mere page references to authors, is of little value. An
effort has been made to include quotations by modern authors, Kipling,
Hay, Roosevelt, Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
* * * * *
“The work will supplement but not replace Hoyt’s ‘Cyclopaedia of
practical quotations’ and Bartlett’s ‘Familiar quotations.’”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 170w.
=Trent, William P., and Henneman, John B.=, comps. Best American tales.
35c. Crowell.
7–25511.
Tales from Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fitz-James O’Brien, and Edward
Everett Hale have been selected for this addition to the “Handy volume
classics.”
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Garibaldi’s defence of the Roman republic.
*$2, Longmans.
7–21750.
“This volume has to do with Mazzini’s short-lived Roman republic in
1849.... The volume is divided into three parts, the first ... tells
the story of Garibaldi’s childhood at Nice, of his adventurous life in
South America, and his romantic marriage ... of the condition of the
Roman states from 1815 to 1846, and of the reform movements and
democratic protests. This prepares the way for part second, which
describes the defense of Rome, and part third, which treats of
Garibaldi’s retreat and escape.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is at once illuminated by enthusiasm and clarified by faithful
scholarship. It is a worthy English monument to one of the noblest
periods in the life of a noble nation.” H. S.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 455. My. 11, ’07. 1260w.
“He deserves the warmest thanks for his picture of a period which
suits excellently his vivid style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 780w.
“Mr. Trevelyan does not display much knowledge of Italy as she is
to-day.” W. Miller.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 816. O. ’07. 390w.
“A book of literary distinction and genuine utility.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 420w.
“It is to be hoped that a serious historical work, at once so
authoritative, so well written, and so romantic, will do much to
dispel the popular illusion that history must needs be ‘dull.’”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2300w.
“It is when he enters into communion with the soul of his hero that
Mr. Trevelyan is at his best, and that is to say that he excells at a
point where even the greatest historians have failed.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 569. Je. 20, ’07. 830w.
“The author’s attitude is that of sympathetic admiration, but he does
not permit enthusiasm to blind him to the mistakes and errors of his
hero.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 308. My. 11, ’07. 450w.
“We wish that Mr. Trevelyan would write another volume like this, of
exceptional merit, recounting Garibaldi’s later triumphs.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“An interesting and scholarly—a rare juxtaposition of
adjectives—account of this strenuous patriot’s heroic defence of the
short-lived Roman republic.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Trevelyan has walked over every inch of the ground; he has
described the country and the military problem in a clear and
picturesque narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 619. Ap. 20, ’07. 2350w.
=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= In the fire of the heart. **$1. McClure.
7–4378.
The author “has collected a vast quantity of statistics and quotable
facts upon social conditions in America and woven them together in the
web of his own enthusiasm for humanity.” (Outlook.) The subjects are
as follows: With the people: a revelation; The conditions that hold
among us; As time deals with nations; As to government; A great
people’s movement; Public utilities for the public good; Labor and its
uniting power; Agencies whereby we shall secure the people’s greatest
good; The great nation; and The life of the higher beauty and power.
* * * * *
“With strong moral undertone, the book presents rather strikingly a
number of the vital facts of our modern industrial system and the
problems resulting from it.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 169. Jl. ’07. 230w.
“This work is a very important addition to the rapidly growing
literature of social progress that is emanating from our younger men
of clear mental vision, of heart and of conscience.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 328. Mr. ’07. 1310w.
“The simple reassertion of opinions is not proof of their soundness,
and the reader can easily discover that the arguments on one side are
here urged without much consideration of those on the other side. With
the ethical ideals of the author it would be difficult to take issue.”
Charles Richmond Henderson.
− + =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 130w.
“A deep and fervent sympathy with the toilers characterizes the book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“Abounds in suggestive ideas bearing upon present-day life.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= This mystical life of ours; a book of suggestive
thoughts for each week through the year. **$1. Crowell.
7–29412.
An even fifty-two helpful thoughts selected from the works of Dr.
Trine. They exhort the one striving for success to come into harmony
with the higher laws and forces, to come into league and to work in
conjunction with them, for only then is the wayfarer in a position to
test and to be benefited by the “ever present Help.”
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=Trobridge, George.= Emanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and
influence. 25c. Warne.
A reliable life of Swedenborg which “is not only a mine of original
information, but provides the means of correcting many current
misconceptions concerning this remarkable man.”
=Trow, Cora Welles.= Parliamentarian. 75c. Wessels.
6–16228.
A manual of parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous speaking and
informal debate.
=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old
Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2574.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Merely a superfluous piece of book making, badly done. Its style is
journalese of a poor type”
− =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Trumbull, William.= Evolution and religion: a parent’s talk with his
children concerning the moral side of evolution. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–17356.
In these brief religious talks on evolution the author touches upon
all the great facts of life, in a simple, wholesome way that will
prepare the child mind for larger and more scientific works upon
prolonged infancy, race survival, government, human beliefs, animal
worship, selection, and the hundred other topics here suggested.
=Tucker, T. G.= Life in ancient Athens: the social and public life of a
classical Athenian from day to day. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–4807.
Athens during the hey-day of its classical period is portrayed, the
time when Athenian life stood for vigorous vitality and unblemished
character. It is mainly of the things that have been too well
preserved in antiquities for time to efface that Mr. Tucker writes;
actual events, actual buildings; knowledge of manners, customs,
ideals; of Attic virtues, vices, weaknesses, humors, drolleries; and
knowledge of what law and society allowed.
* * * * *
“If we must criticise, we would cast a doubt upon the statement that
the Athenians were a mixed race. We can find no evidence of an Achaean
strain in their ancestry. Nor do we hold that the Greek tongue was a
Homeric importation. And to speak of the Propylæa as a ‘triumphal
arch’ is surely misleading to the novice in these matters. Apart from
these points, our only quarrel with Professor Tucker is the complete
absence of all references.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 560w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 40w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.
“On the whole, the volume achieves its modest aim, which at once
disarms criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable
comparison with some of the other members of the same series.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 210w.
“Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note
errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which
leaves a pleasant taste?”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1414. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.
“It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live
again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to
the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style,
dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at
the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of
Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1420w.
“Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the
subject here treated as does this book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w.
“A most instructive and illuminating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tuker, M. A. R.= Cambridge; painted by William Matthison. *$6.
Macmillan.
A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information
which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who
writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations
of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of
Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of
their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page
illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William
Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Miss Tuker has put a quart of solid information into her pint pot,
but her text is as a whole much above the standard hitherto reached in
these ‘colour’ books.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 400w.
“If Mr. Tuker chose to write a reference book instead of evoking a
spirit, perhaps there is nothing to say except that he has performed
his task well.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 450w.
“Contains nearly a hundred colored illustrations, as to the excellence
of which tastes will doubtless differ. The text, however, may be
commended as an intelligent and careful exposition of the mysteries of
an English university, sound, discriminating, and readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The pity is that this middle portion has not been expanded to shut
out both the beginning and end of the book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
“Topics that have been handled not once or twice only before become
fresh under the author’s vigorous treatment. And a new topic, which
has hitherto been but casually referred to, receives the full
attention which it requires. The pictures themselves are very
attractive, finely finished, and always pleasant to look at. One might
say that the imaginative element is wanting. We see the places to the
very best advantage, but there is no hint of anything more. There is
nothing Turneresque about them.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’07. 340w.
=Tunison, Joseph Salathiel.= Dramatic traditions of the dark ages.
*$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18809.
Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned,
cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever
dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages
were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of
interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as
connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the
Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be
accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly
interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and
independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces
as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in
etymology.” John Matthews Manly.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 124. O. ’07. 1200w.
“The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular
history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire,
but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of
being widely misinformed.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 1100w.
“Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him
to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together
into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own
vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which
he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a
pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
=Turgenieff, Ivan Sergieevitch.= Novels and stories of Ivan Turgenieff;
tr. from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 14v. English ed. in 16v. ea.
$1.25. Scribner.
A complete translation of Turgénieff’s works, “The present version by
Miss Hapgood is more extended [than Mrs. Garnett’s] as it includes all
the well-known works, with the addition of a few writings of minor
importance which had not been before translated.” (Ath.) Mr. Henry
James has furnished the set with an introduction which is “a
sympathetic study of the great author as a man.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“On the whole, the translation is distinctly good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 70. Ja. 20. 1000w. (Review of v. 1–16)
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 60w. (Review of “Smoke.”)
“In any proper sense of the word, Turgénieff is one of the most real
of writers. We feel, though we cannot test the feeling as we could in
the case of a story of English life, that the characters are truly
drawn, that their creator knows a great deal more about them than they
know about themselves, and that they are at once individuals and
types.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 285. Ag. 24, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
Reviewed by S. Strunsky.
=Nation.= 85: 488. N. 28, ’07. 2690w. (Review of v. 1–14.)
“A great service to the younger generation of readers.” Florence Finch
Kelley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 339. My. 25, ’07. 1400w. (Review of v.
1–16.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 9–14.)
“Miss Hapgood knows Turgénieff as thoroughly as she knows the language
in which he has written.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“The translator, an accomplished Russian scholar, appears to have done
her work as well as possible”
+ =Spec.= 96: 222. F. 10, ’06. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
=Turner, George Frederic.= Frost and friendship. †$1.50. Little.
At the court of his friend, King Karl of Grimland, a rich young
Englishman, a draper’s son encounters an amazing series of adventures
and in the end, of course, wins a wife. Winter sports, tobogganing,
and curling furnish amusement and also play their part in the drama in
which frost and friendship melt beneath the warmth of love.
* * * * *
“Comes dangerously near the superfluous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 651. N. 24. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“There are exciting incidents, but improbabilities end by becoming
absurdities.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 779. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary
bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
6–28227.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author records his experiences with no word of complaint for the
hardships he was called upon to endure, and his book cannot fail to be
an inspiration to the younger members of the ministry of his church,
to whom he gives useful advice upon a variety of topics.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 247. Ap. 17, ’07. 720w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern
Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
6–16716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The style is clear and entertaining, and, though the numerous byways
through which the author leads us, destroy the logical arrangement and
proportion of the book, still she tells us much that is welcome
concerning Mexico which it would have been necessary to omit had she
confined herself more strictly to her subject.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 423. Mr. ’07. 500w.
=Twelvetrees, W. Noble.= Concrete-steel buildings; being a companion
volume to the treatise on Concrete-steel. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“In this book, detailed accounts are given of various buildings in
reinforced concrete which have been built in Europe and America, the
original data for which have for the most part appeared in the
technical press. The descriptions are very complete, entering into all
the details of design and construction, and are very well illustrated
with numerous drawings and photographs.”—Engin N.
* * * * *
“The book presents a very satisfactory compilation. Great care has
been taken to acknowledge all indebtedness to British publications; to
French, German and American authors small consideration is shown.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58. 182. Ag. 15, ’07. 340w.
“An excellent index adds much to the value of this book for reference
purposes, which will prove a welcome addition to the library of every
architect and civil engineer.” T. H. B.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 330w.
=Tybout, Ella Middleton.= The smuggler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31227.
Three American girls seek refuge from hayfever on a Canadian island
and instead of passing an uneventful summer they find themselves
involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever
smugglers who pose as their friends and use them as a blind to pass
their ill-gotten goods over the border. The story is told in a
sprightly fashion and there is a pretty love tale and two not so
pretty but more dramatic. All in all, it is an interesting novel with
a pleasing mixture of love, mystery, adventure, tragedy and humor.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Tylee, Edward Sydney.= Trumpet and flag, and other poems of war and
peace. *$1.25. Putnam.
These poems are largely upon present day topics and include among
others “After Vereeniging,” studies of “Bismarck” and “Rhodes,” an
elegy on Queen Victoria, “The drummer,” The salute, Balliol college
chapel, Somersetshire dialect poems, and Sculling at midnight.
* * * * *
“The verse is smooth and pleasing, although its themes are often
grim.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Tylee’s more ambitious pieces have a certain careful timeliness,
a skilful obviousness that gives them rather the attraction of an
eloquent leading article than of poetry.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Tylee’s chief fault is that he is a little inclined to monotony
both in rhythm and imagery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 370w.
* =Tyler, John Mason.= Growth and education. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–22411.
The author evidently agrees with Spencer that “man’s first duty is to
become a good animal.” “While the book deals mainly with bodily growth
and development, the writer is led naturally by his subject into the
field of moral and intellectual culture. He recognizes the importance
of character-forming agencies in all periods, but justly emphasizes
the high school as the time of final determination.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual
authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer,
and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain
warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended
for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every
teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 400w.
“To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this
enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical
correctives.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 420w.
* =Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in
the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the
ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of
to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and
tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with
its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the
material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of
description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up
his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
* =Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.
7–15463.
In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a
perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and
caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.
* * * * *
“Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the
esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and
interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the
Protestant church.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 250w.
=Outlook.= 87: 564. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old
theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.
An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the
dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the
difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with
the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be
accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as
if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and
hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who
is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let
religion altogether go by the board.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 395. O. 5. 1320w.
“His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for
Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 600w.
U
=Underwood, Rev. John Levi.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.
6–37621.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 332. F. 7, ’07. 340w.
=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 130w.
=Underwood, Loring.= Garden and its accessories. **$2. Little.
6–45023.
A book full of suggestion to people who make their gardens out-door
living rooms. Points of comfort and beauty are adapted to the
individuality of the maker and the character of the corner to be
developed and adorned. Heavy plate paper and some charming
illustrations add attractiveness to the instruction of the text.
* * * * *
+ + =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 270w.
=Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 240w.
“So far as it goes, it is practical and carries many hints of
first-rate importance, but it aims rather to open the subject
intelligently than to publish directions.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 54. Ap. ’07. 420w.
“To one who is interested in gardens this work will be found to
contain many suggestions of value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 60w.
“Is full of suggestion for rendering the garden more homelike, more
livable, and more picturesque by the appropriate addition of
accessories.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and
their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.
6–38906.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
“The book, being full of errors ... is untrustworthy.”
− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 711. Je. 9. 110w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28. ’07. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Ussher, Sir Thomas, and Glover, John R.= Napoleon’s last voyages; being
the diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (on board the
Undaunted), and John R. Glover, secretary to Rear-admiral Cockburn (on
board the Northumberland); new ed., with introd. and notes by J. Holland
Rose. *$3. Scribner.
7–15907.
“The personality of Napoleon is as fascinating to the present
generation as it has been to any since his death. And no part of his
life is more fascinating than the story of his adversity. The two
books before us, of very unequal value, illustrate this period of his
career. The first contains the journal of his voyage to Elba, and of
his slow progress to his prison-island, the other gives the history of
his reign at Elba.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“It is annotated, illustrated, indexed and confessed—if the word may
serve us—in a manner which disarms criticism.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 631. D. 22, ’06. 1040w.
“The notes are not abundant but are pithy and to the point. By what
seems an excess of conscientious editorship Mr. Rose has translated
back into what he surmises to have been Napoleon’s actual words the
language attributed to him by the diarists.” J. W. T.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 691. Ap. ’07. 240w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 257. Ap. 16, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Rose’s introduction is of no particular importance, but several
of the illustrations are new and interesting.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 50w.
“These documents are historically valuable, because they were written
without partisan bias, or the desire to prove anything.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 580w.
“Dr. Rose will not enhance his reputation by his editing of this
volume. His notes consist mainly of pen-knife digs at the hero of the
narrative, and in the emphatic denial of everything asserted by
Napoleon in the slightest degree favourable to himself.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.
=Uzanne, Louis Octave.= Ingres. (Newnes’ art lib., no. 23.) *$1.25.
Warne.
W 7–57.
A brief sketch of Ingre’s life and works is followed by reproductions
of sixty-five of the artist’s paintings.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.
V
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50.
Dodd.
6–24581.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is delightfully written, and the people and places stand
clearly before us.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 83. Mr. ’07. 960w.
“The book must be called successful, if only for the very striking
background which Mr. Vachell gives to a drama otherwise lacking in
intrinsic interest.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 836. My. 26. ’06. 290w.
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Her son: a chronicle of love. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31481.
The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the
man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that
arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s
mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much
self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the
point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of
action.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last
page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which
nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained
these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author
treat them.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w.
“For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is
disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this
wantonly sentimental manner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w.
“The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality
of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative
style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present
morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w.
“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in
the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the
characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only
the properties of his art.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w.
“No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The
hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind.
It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy
way of speech.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w.
“Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think
and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm
discussion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w.
“A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in
England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and
character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it
holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of
purpose.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
“We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is
bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the
story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we
fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady
Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an
unearthly idiot.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w.
=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of
the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50.
Dutton.
6–25742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof.
Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of
his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into
a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not
frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style
rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin
Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w.
* =Vance, Rev. James Isaac.= Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.
7–13923.
An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a
citizen of the eternal world.
* * * * *
“A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w.
“Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine
of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an
excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Brass bowl. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–12274.
A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for
the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief
stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a
young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the
chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the
resemblance of the two men.
* * * * *
“A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read.
Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be
amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting
glimpses into American life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.
“Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only
to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.”
Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w.
“A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of
probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its
end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
=Vanderlip, Frank Arthur.= Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–17640.
A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing
authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions.
The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and
writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made
valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of
business judgment.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. C.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their
literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not
every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced
in more permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in
finance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone.= How to find Happyland: a book of
children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–16944.
A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.
* * * * *
“Charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w.
“A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken
interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice
little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has
the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by
Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.
6–34847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means
without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were
to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a
discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more
smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of
patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20955.
This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears
uniform with the “What is worth while series.”
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Days off, and other digressions. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–33932.
Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off”
are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of
hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the
Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the
laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish
subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of
fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably
elusive.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w.
“One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the
secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no
vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w.
“Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more
prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Good old way. **30c. Crowell.
7–20954.
An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is
the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality,
avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference,
hypocrisy and indecision.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Music lover. **$1. Moffat.
7–35629.
“Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he
sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great
symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a
colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately
attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A beautiful prose poem.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Story of the other wise man. $5. Harper.
A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He
tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three
wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de
Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had
never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Particularly well printed and illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–8871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put
himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Van Dyke, John C.= Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous
galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–9576.
The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student
of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging
justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place;
Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies,
forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters;
Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art;
Landscape and painting.
* * * * *
“To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates
historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes
suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain
beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a
composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture
itself.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. S.
+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower
the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush
him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly
about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of
them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will
take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these
brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy,
had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights
will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is
talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who
enjoy a great reputation as critics.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w.
“Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably
adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves
in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is
based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the
writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w.
“Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover
of pictures on the right track.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B.= Rejoice always: or,
Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.
7–514.
A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its
value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show
its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No
anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.
* * * * *
“Very optimistic little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as
well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended
to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life
indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly
dissipate.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Van Norden, Charles.= Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29008.
Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college
president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The
adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the
wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before
Ferdinand awakens her.
* * * * *
“The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its
characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest
mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print
and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite
plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be
hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Van Norman, Louis Edwin.= Poland, the knight among nations; with an
introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.
7–32871.
“Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr.
Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in
all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his
comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and
political and social problems are well worth considering; but his
account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great
historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland
himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the
greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van
Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling
the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores
Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w.
“A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues
and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at
first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as
he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are
conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w.
“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and
accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct
service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w.
=Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M.=, eds. Our Moslem sisters: a
cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it.
**$1.25. Revell.
7–16363.
“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts
that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in
Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the
absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the
wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times,
is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame,
and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey,
Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this
unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa,
India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie.= Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36049.
Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women
“occupying quite different places in the historical development of
love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a
woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She
spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too
old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman
is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man
she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in
order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them
over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions
without injuring society.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting
book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its
possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human
interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’
result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her
dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every
guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
5–8736.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20363.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same
time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out
distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George
Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Stories of the Italian artists; collected and
arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.
W 6–323.
A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly
with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young
readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in
sepia and 8 colored plates.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for
artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of
Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject
with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly
suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists
or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully
emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while
everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=Vaughan, Charles Edwyn.= Romantic revolt. (Periods of European
literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–32815.
A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic
revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German
writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the
romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of
romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries,
Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w.
“The book is exceptionally readable.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.
“It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary
history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book
which may be read within a comparatively short time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w.
=Vaughan, Herbert M.= Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28488.
“A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most
interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.
“Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had
to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George
III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of
the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed
for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the
author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry
Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the
Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.
+ + =Am. Cath. Q.= 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w.
“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the
biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate
references.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w.
“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the
rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the
Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the
literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s
footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of
their value and usefulness.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great
historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written
it well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
“This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of
recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w.
“Interesting and carefully prepared book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w.
=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= The Naples Riviera. il. $2. Stokes.
W 7–197.
“Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera,
including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid
atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a
dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii
long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous
medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when
S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme
at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.)
“The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of
effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a
little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places
which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an
ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever
in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen
could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is
somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr.
Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in
some is a sad lack of perspective.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
5–37146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes,
the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the
great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so
much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Velvin, Ellen.= Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.
6–40578.
“Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the
perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal
life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred
topics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.
“The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack
of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the
reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that
approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals
which have been bred in captivity.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is
enlivened by many capital photographs.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
* =Velvin, Ellen.= Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.
7–31196.
Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the
author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and
elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and
besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers
encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on
exhibition.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of
wild animals.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Vernon, Ambrose White.= Religious value of the Old Testament in the
light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.
7–10032.
A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the
present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher
criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word
of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.
* * * * *
“Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what
they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between
the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through
its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect
be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them
many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper
Fullerton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w.
“The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read
by every minister and Bible student.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with
conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature,
and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant
facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w.
=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and
intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity
in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always
smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
“The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so
praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in
commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment
of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Vianney, Joseph.= Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.
“In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and
self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense
and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the
narrative is not free from exaggeration.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w.
“The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has
been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely
suspect that the version is not an original.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
=Victoria, queen of Great Britain.= Letters of Queen Victoria: a
selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and
1861; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.
7–36986.
While there is to be found political history in plenty in these
letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief
importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her
prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every
page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her
feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business,
which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp
of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates,
though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their
readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have
extricated them.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w.
“The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great
quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr.
Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w.
“If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the
letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give
little enjoyment.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w.
“There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these
volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us
quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared
when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would
have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for
students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the
future historian of the reign.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w.
“It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can
give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w.
“It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a
revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w.
“It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w.
“Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her
Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To
say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for
it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w.
“Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence
to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson
and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The
introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of
each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w.
“Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives
a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief
figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the
success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view
it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are
as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts
and excerpts from letters.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w.
+ + =Spec.= 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Game at love and other plays. †$1.25.
Brentano’s.
6–28417.
“A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects
treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the
restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric
animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title,
‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its
accomplishment.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w.
“They may be dismissed at once as naught.”
− =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w.
“What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly
luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and
common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is
devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w.
“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first
adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared
with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm.
Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle,
as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely
amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ − =No. Am.= 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat
decadent outlook upon life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= House of the vampire. †$1.25. Moffat.
7–28969.
“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves
among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are
actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental
creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every
note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates,
reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the
essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ...
Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of
which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also
embodiments.”
* * * * *
“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects
he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w.
“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely
melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in
dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of
large words.”
− =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping
with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The
house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from
the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–17378.
“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the
anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are
glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries
to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and
the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane
because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has
fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to
convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional
part of defiant Titan.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w.
“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud
symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if
unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in
his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w.
“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him
to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he
must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is
greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected
art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow
to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these
compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their
licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of
their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Ind.= 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w.
“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays
up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w.
“With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse
there seems little promise in it.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund
music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of
subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from
life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w.
Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the
memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of
Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing
also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own.
He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious
hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but
his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w.
“It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for
the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely
certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck
has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A
near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w.
“He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device
more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the
printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a
long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his
form.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w.
* =Villani, Giovanni.= Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the
first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani; tr. by
Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.
“Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled
tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess
Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a
fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces
at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky
volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the
historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”
* * * * *
“Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for
its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects
the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w.
“Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s
chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so
anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be
expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a
few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused
struggle of Florentine politics.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w.
=Villari, Luigi.= Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.
7–7543.
“A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife
that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within
the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w.
“Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author
makes few mistakes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w.
“We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent
guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of
silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards
the situation in Russia.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w.
“The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are
interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w.
“It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief
races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of
the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w.
“Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day,
however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w.
“He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s
variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w.
=Vincent, Charles John=, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib.,
v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.
6–37861.
The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as
follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly
sung in the original performances, Settings composed since
Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent
settings.
* * * * *
“Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average
seeker in any other form.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 214. N. ’06.
“The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on
the songs.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w.
=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Nation.= 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Vincent, James Edmund.= Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by
Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.
W 7–45.
Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr.
Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and
“the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent
enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each
with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book
too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes
off second best.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w.
“A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect
record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far
as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his
itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w.
“Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic
interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial
everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days
gone by.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w.
“The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not
already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But
the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce
with the southern and eastern sides.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w.
“The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the
author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent
is never dull.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w.
“The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and
the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book
one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and
gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free
withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to
catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to
which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task,
literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county
of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy
ease of style.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with critical
introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50.
Scribner.
“As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest
and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with
pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the
drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is
discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Note-books; arranged and rendered into English,
with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.
7–15913.
An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record
and results of his studies in the theory of art together with
fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative
character, and much personal and biographical matter.
* * * * *
“His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be
so.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w.
“We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to
the volume.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w.
“The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the
hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w.
* =Voorhees, Irving Wilson.= Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1.
Broadway pub.
7–30873.
“After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and
environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets
forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education,
morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the
gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work
throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator,
full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by
day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of
arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for
the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A sympathetic interpretation.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s
great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the
flaws in his theories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson
and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.
7–19453.
“After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries
examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries
in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the
Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in
favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as
well as to the scientific student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of
the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w.
“It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful
development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the
bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of
mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and
should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion
concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w.
“The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of
plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general
interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be
read with satisfaction and profit by all.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w.
“The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists
usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its
suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of
plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly
comprehensible by the general reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
“This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical
science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read
because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that
underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w.
“The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the
gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of
evolution and the lover of plants.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w.
“The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe
guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant
plants around them.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed.
by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.
“Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors
of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have
been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
“The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations
in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w.
“All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first
edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity
in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as
physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the
uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to
commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only
available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D.
D.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w.
W
=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of
the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Building the nation: stories of how our
fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c.
Wilde.
7–26964.
The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This
portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught
lesson in American patriotism.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian
hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.
7–26965.
The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters
who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and
ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring
adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes
and their manner of living.
=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by
Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.
=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely
translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
6–32851.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest
in musical drama.”
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
“Is a rather languid performance.”
− =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.
=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31209.
A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and
the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running
thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big
Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested
possession of two rival tongs.
* * * * *
“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish
marked satisfaction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Walford, Lucy Bethia.= Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.
7–31230.
The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on
the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford
professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her
reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that
the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which
he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable
specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very
best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas!
somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or
carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either
her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good
plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.
“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful
stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless
full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot
summer’s day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its
mischief nor in England to its circulation.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.
=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a
famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
6–30490.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to
readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic,
and considerable narrative charm.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Walker, Dawson.= Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.
“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament
problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal
phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem
recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the
fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third
gospel.”—Sat R.
* * * * *
“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the
subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly
improbable, all are worthy of attention.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R.
Shoemaker.
− =Bib. World.= 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts
well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift
of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A thoughtful little book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.
=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of
nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.
6–39448.
A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the
year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and
poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how
they are made.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 253. D. ’06.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no
end of the sort of employment that all children like.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.
=Walker, Rev. William Lowe.= Christian theism and a spiritual monism:
God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3.
Scribner.
7–12986.
“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in
the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now
preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual
interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of
philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument
is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the
plain man.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly
handled than by this able writer.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.
“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and
philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C.
Kierstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.
“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it
is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions,
and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.
“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper
treatment to make it convincing.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.
=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed
Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–34268.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent
from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of
opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To
say that the book is the best biography written in English is not
enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast
amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so
much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so
judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both
the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert
Darling Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.
“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.
“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains
to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his
failings, and he has succeeded well.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John
Calvin’ is a model.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is
luminous.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.
“His book is admirable in every way.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.
7–17002.
This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the
wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the
irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish
the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas
Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay
to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the
divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.
* * * * *
“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the
irresistible charm of real exploration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this
region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly
independent of literary charm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.
“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the
description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim
determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer
feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.
“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation
may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too
seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.
“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils
ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the
strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always
above its environment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.
“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29093.
These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of
Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him
there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves
on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the
Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring
accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador
country.
* * * * *
“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness.
Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.
“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting
enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life
in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of
that frozen country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl
is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is
found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as
an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other
than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences
roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is
a record.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it
unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here
presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–20711.
A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of
Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers
one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of
chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles
II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story
which is full of action and feeling.
* * * * *
“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the
type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.
− =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.
“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of
the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic
imagination and good taste in the management of these various
faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in
creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v.
**$5. Harper.
6–38539.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.
“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence,
including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults,
can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a
thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.
“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with
which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some
of its vital facts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.
“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an
over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which
suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the
value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not
inconsiderable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my
heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew
Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.
+ + + =No. Am.= 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.
=Wallace, W. G.= Locomotive breakdown questions answered and
illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.
7–21741.
Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine.
“All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and
about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their
casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition,
serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men
whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are
always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the
principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade
Hibbard.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il.
after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in
photogravure. **$3. Little.
6–42908.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her
insight into human nature is quick and deep.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.
“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full
of conviction and enthusiasm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Walling, Robert A. J.= Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins.
**$1.75. Lane.
A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the
charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”
* * * * *
“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense
of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé
of uncritical stuff.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.
“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of
work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.
“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable
and animated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with
this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly
judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure,
but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero
worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.
=Wallington, Nellie Urner.= Historic churches of America; with an
introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.
7–31235.
Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic
churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which
were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct
religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant
to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely
illustrated.
* * * * *
“Brief but entertaining sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book
there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious
movements which took their starting point from the days of the
colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable
edifices thruout the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this
kind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
7–29124.
Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden,
Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and
Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,”
concludes the volume.
* * * * *
“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly
presentment of fact.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an
impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating
conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.
“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high
degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general
history.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.
“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who
will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the
accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by
may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows
every inch of it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.
“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but
because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed
for the enriching of historical studies in general.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They
are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high
eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win
sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their
manifest frankness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.
“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition
and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and
breadth of view.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.
“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our
vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a
writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical
faculty.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the
lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in
science. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–38910.
In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the
enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some
Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to
physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre,
Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
* * * * *
“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by
prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and
religion are in conflict.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham
university press.
7–7512.
The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in
the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern
science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth
of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior
motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen
at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian
religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that
religion.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously
(certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently
indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow
freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of
‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much
designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow
the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three
doctors there will be two atheists.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of
the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like
the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.”
W. G. MacCallum.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.
=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
6–37868.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a
useful, arraignment of the war system.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
7–35229.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 145. My. ’07.
“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external
respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to
the mind of the classical scholar.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and
is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not
commented on.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.
* =Waltham, T. Ernest=, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco.
$1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the
chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of
course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the
Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a
gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
=Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.= Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night
in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester
a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of
his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and
recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
=Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.= The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient
working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of
Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its
conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of
life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings
of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern
archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation
given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even
incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a
work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense
feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a
purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in
English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness
of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of
history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is
nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence,
contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems
and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost
tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has
seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the
case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–32116.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a
plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but
she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at
all to sensational methods.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man,
is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of
convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with
the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows
the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own
undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own
reward.
* * * * *
“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious
improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
6–23549.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social
science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical
interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the
true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit
by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in
rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to
all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr.
Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to
prove interesting and suggestive.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No
writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a
conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the
teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.
=Wardle, Jens.= Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
7–21364.
“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with
a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man
with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not
beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him
protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to
call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s
pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all
her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr.
Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its
work.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to
expect.”
− =Acad.= 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought
to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping
a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor,
comprehension, sympa-
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Waring, Henry F.= Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private
reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–19773.
Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the
specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious
field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the
author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future
hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
* * * * *
“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who
are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase
religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
=Waring, Luther Hess.= Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
7–29710.
A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land,
and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays
by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical
introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–9259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
=Warner, Horace Everett.= Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1.
Lippincott.
7–31376.
Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and
hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and
thunder of man made things.
=Warren, Ina Russelle=, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of
Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
7–36928.
An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which
presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of
the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of
the little child over its toys.”
* * * * *
“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
=Warren, Thomas Herbert.= Magdalen college, Oxford. (College
monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor,
from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
* * * * *
“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to
desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of
Magdalen.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
=Warren, Waldo Pondray.= Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
7–33622.
A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been
contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by
prominent business men the country over. The general captions under
which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points,
Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the
manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–14264.
Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true
home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her
husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She
lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love,
and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and
cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to
get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She
says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not
only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential
woman.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to
what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important
problems of domestic and social life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very
pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a
wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life
and character.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=Washington, Booker T.= Frederick Douglass. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–8512.
A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race
problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals
Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked
the transition from slavery to citizenship.
* * * * *
“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of
life—the ordinary reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright,
jr.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.
“The book deserves a better index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero,
but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a
biographer.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great
impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views
of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights
and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of
Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is
told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such
a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in
Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.
=Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.= Negro in the
South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious
development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907.
**$1. Jacobs.
7–21310.
An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures
by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic
development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of
the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the
South; and Religion in the South.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness
of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and
drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings.
anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no
dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His
eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an
optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is
getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to
get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.
“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view
of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the
Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.
=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington;
being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing
the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs
with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare
old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied
pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic
sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.
=Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand
Babcock).= Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen
with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is
she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many
things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of
which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la
Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the
right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her
young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and
pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her
heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say
that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory,
for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially
when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of
self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are
done rather deftly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.
=Waterman, Nixon.= Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25.
Forbes.
6–46363.
Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The
keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
=Waters, N. McGee.= Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation
of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29737.
A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places
where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to
be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
* * * * *
“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of
their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender
feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is
most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of
Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling,
had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its
title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid
daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life
and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though
full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a
narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home....
Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The
traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until
one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went
into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to
desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland.
Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him,
but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen
again.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste
for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always
difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the
simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which
without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see
sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise
the effect of the whole.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and
especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a
placeless world of fancy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
=Watson, Helen H.= Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth
Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with
the sea.
* * * * *
“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has
made an interesting choice of characters.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy
example of a simple thing done well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be
said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and
without much literary art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the
only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the
hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50.
Appleton.
6–31656.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is
also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows
upon his work.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.
“The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written
makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w.
“As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s
dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his
inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that
sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never
twists it violently for the sake of effect.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
“It is a delicious book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w.
“Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light
enough for a successful soufflé.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–2061.
A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a
block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous
American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and
it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one
hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the
numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra
shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much
of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could
follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and
considerably less fatigue.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w.
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher
sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w.
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and
their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination
rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w.
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of
the gallery gods.”
− =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w.
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and
women are solid wax.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left
her a mere figurehead.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w.
“A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence,
though of no substance.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w.
“Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious
sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some
particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to
which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w.
“A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud).= Graham of Claverhouse; il. by
Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
7–14589.
“A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable
Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of
the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well
known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers
of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and
kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero
of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as
Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the
lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier
by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of
Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith:
sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
5–41620.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to
sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal,
poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=Watson, W. Petrie.= Future of Japan; with a survey of present
conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he
does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its
tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not
so much one which records achievements or glances at historical
perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and
derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be
expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese
development will not materially influence the civilization of the
west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she
will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet
that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon
Western lines.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on
account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should
be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In
it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are
admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w.
“We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more
of his information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w.
“If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings
of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great
transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life
of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with
Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to
things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real
Japanese thought or origins.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w.
“No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of
the various aspects of Japanese life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become
familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history,
but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to
suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan
and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an
immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book,
which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so
inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of
disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to
undertake.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w.
=Watson, William.= Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.
“A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no
description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author
has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions
as to points of minor importance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w.
“Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating
the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w.
“Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher
work.” S. S.
+ =Nature.= 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w.
“Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the
contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w.
* =Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–26961.
The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase
of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out
a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum
of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year
of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract.
Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are
dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings
to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been
successful enough to endure.
* * * * *
“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly
ingenious and interesting withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam=, ed. Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the
notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to
day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in
1900—the year of the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the
legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of
the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the
diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ...
[there are] comments upon the way the different international troops
behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it
had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to
have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis
on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint
which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the
most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w.
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the
volume.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w.
“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really
is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is
doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other
portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to
stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be
willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.”
Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w.
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that
the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of
the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after
all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the
siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of
horrors.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout,
although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his
effect.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w.
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in
regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full
of spirit and picturesqueness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs
through all the pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
“He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they
happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled
in our experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w.
“The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in
their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word
pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto
which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers,
but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the
feeling that they wish to read no more.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w.
“The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in
cynicism, and invariably clever.”
+ − =Spec.= 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the
sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–12875.
A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is
known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into
three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and
The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against
over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does
believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of
diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a
permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred
pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the
subject-matter of the political chapters.
* * * * *
“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but
with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w.
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of
the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w.
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too
dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia
than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any
European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least
convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly
formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and
thought.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w.
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of
a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely
too seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w.
“An interesting contribution to the discussion.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w.
=Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.
“His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination
with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that
inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G:
Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w.
“Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the
same time as accurate and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w.
“The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear
grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a
position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for
good or evil—been set in motion.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w.
=Weatherford, W. D.= Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s
poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.
7–23628.
“Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has
gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in
systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning
interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted
Browning’s interpretation.”
=Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice.= English local government, from the
revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county.
*$4. Longmans.
6–40962.
The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local
government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals
methods of great accuracy in the use of material.
* * * * *
“This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the
authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in
quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott
Howard.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w.
“Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history
or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every
such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his
subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense
industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much
use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is
little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor
points.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w.
“The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial
temperament.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w.
“The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but
the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn
on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English
government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively
handled.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w.
“The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and
detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite
care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and
innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking
public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of
its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be
skipped by those really interested in local government.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w.
“The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never
lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of
growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should
become a classic.”
+ + + =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 470w.
“A wholly new contribution to the history of England—a contribution
which is invaluable on account of its thoroughness of research, the
fulness of the authorities quoted for every important statement, and
not least for the excellence of its arrangement and indexing.” Annie
G. Porritt.
+ + + =Yale R.= 15: 460. F. ’07. 1420w.
=Webb, Walter Loring.= Economics of railroad construction. $2.50. Wiley.
6–35441.
“It is designed as a manual of instruction for those engaged in the
practical problems of railroad engineering, but it aims at the same
time to give an insight into the problems of railroad management and
control. With this in mind, Part 1 is devoted to the ‘Financial and
legal elements of the problem,’ in which an excellent summary is given
of railroad statistics, organization capitalization and valuation, and
a chapter on methods of estimating volume of traffic. Part 2 concerns
the ‘Operating elements of the problem,’ including motive power, car
construction and operation, track economics, and train resistance.
Part 3, called the ‘Physical elements of the problem,’ discusses
distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
* * * * *
“A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would
have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and
operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w.
“The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the
complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests
the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of
railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into
convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source,
should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.”
Walter W. Colpitts.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w.
“The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its
substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In
spite of the author’s modest assertion that the lawyer or legislator
will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the
implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by,
this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these
classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w.
=Webster, Jean.= Jerry Junior. †$1.50. Century.
7–13435.
The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of
Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out
of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed
sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by
villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in
order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with
earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the
donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her
hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell
off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t
know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠
“A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a
soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w.
“Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions
are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic
environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w.
“The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of
nonsense.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.
=Weed, Walter Harvey.= Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–25687.
“The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from
the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader
into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On
the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper
world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the
deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability
to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic
occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts
on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is
the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and
probable future production?”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men,
investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in
the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological
standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable
mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in
Chapter 2, on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and
diagrams are in terms of metric tons, others in terms of long tons,
while United States statistics are given in pounds. This disparity in
units does not facilitate off-hand comparisons by the reader.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 430w.
=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50.
Houghton.
6–13925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and
to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous
time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures.
His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on
ordered evidence and argument.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 408. Ja. ’07. 820w.
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always
keen, pungent, and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is
refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and,
with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore
Clarke Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
* =Wegmann, Edward.= Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and
enl. $6. Wiley.
7–31985.
A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including
masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the
principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to
date.
* * * * *
“A thorough and satisfactory revision.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 539. N. 14, ’07. 550w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 459. N. ’07. 460w.
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50.
Little.
6–29775.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31479.
Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of
activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in
the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work,
pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She
is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone
is worth any young girl’s emulation.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“Altogether it is a very good book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.= Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony
writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75.
Scribner.
7–18586.
An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms,
Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt
have made to orchestral music.
* * * * *
“The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being
a model.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 10, ’07. 720w.
“It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward
and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too
great familiarity with German.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19. ’07. 410w.
=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ.
ed. *$3. Putnam.
6–9695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections
and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times
stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating,
because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but
inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been
driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 481. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
* =Weir, Archibald.= Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2.
Houghton.
The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of
events which formed the groundwork of European history in the
nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between
1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms
introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of
the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French
revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal
liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of
continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial
revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence
on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”
* * * * *
“A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said
by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which
makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to
be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some
of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines
of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1100w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H.
Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v.
ea. *$3. Funk.
6–17019.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by
German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has
studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep
religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The
meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising
clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise
to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these
works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth
of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 300w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
5–3717.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the
true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.”
Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 80w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Patty’s summer days. †$1.25. Dodd.
6–30458.
“With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have
that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet
girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities
thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her
career.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“As delightful as its predecessors.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 524. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good
advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior
year at the Oliphant school.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 370w.
* =Wells, Carolyn.= Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.
7–28641.
The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing
tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form;
Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations;
Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 60w.
“Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual
entertainment.”
− =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
=Wells, David Dwight.= Parlous times. $1.50. Holt.
Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The
trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of
the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of
justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but
playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love
of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an
understanding of right and of her sense of duty.
=Wells, Edward L.= Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.
7–17887.
“Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General
Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’
Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of
Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of
his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in
the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the
later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired
citizen.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing,
and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
“The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while
sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 946. O. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities.
**$2. Harper.
6–40259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows
considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked
out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the
American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced
eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather
than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w.
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow
will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more
philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade
van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w.
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its
superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
− =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer
prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone
for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary
art with which they are expressed.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 174. Mr. ’07. 1410w.
“Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English
social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic
more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that
during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted
from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are
not peculiar to America.” John Perry.
+ =Nature.= 75: 265. F. 17, ’07. 1550w.
“The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the
actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and
good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our
country as this is.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
6–34685.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal
commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a
love story it is pretty weak.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 99: 115. Ja. ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
=Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 490w.
“He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion,
but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible.
He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard
his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 160w.
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Time machine; an invention. †$1. Holt.
Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in
his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru
the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations
upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in
hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of
disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the
close resemblance of the sexes.
=Welsh, Charles=, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v.
$2.50. Dodge.
7–11574.
“The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of
Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the
folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic
songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous
and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country
abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish
revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised,
that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of
odds and ends into the bargain.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 120. O. ’07. 450w.
=Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 1270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of
Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend
itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission
of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is
fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to
call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 160w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29424.
“Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but
the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to
explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in
their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament
is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better
understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the
author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of
his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from
having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is
both interesting and informing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 1320w.
“The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal
reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made
only as a result of genuine experience.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 380w.
“Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can
be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French
character.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author
combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows
also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without
being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable,
his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The
book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
“It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament
which Professor Wendell gives.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very
much from this thoughtful book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 822. N. 23, ’07. 1780w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals
of America. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–36883.
From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of
independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces
Americanism historically.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree
fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot
deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view
and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an
unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 624. N. ’07. 500w.
“It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more
has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents
of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had
his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal
intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 213. Ja. 24, ’06. 770w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight,
pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon grace of speech,
he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great.
The book should be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1390w.
“The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved
a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1182. D. 7, ’07. 1250w.
“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental
elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s
‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 430w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 107. Ap. ’07. 1970w.
“His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his
interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.
=Werder, Karl.= Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by
Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6156.
Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60,
which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by
circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the
king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and
discussions upon other disputed points.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
=Bookm.= 26: 158. O. ’07. 360w.
=Ind.= 63: 155. Jl. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 560w.
“Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of
the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and
coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most
readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will
be welcomed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
“The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.
=Wesley, John.= John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of
the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts
that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved
in a continuous narrative.
* * * * *
“The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and
valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are
preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with
Wesley’s text.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 40w.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P.= Diamond king and the little man in
gray. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30454.
A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes
and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as
well as wholesome.
* * * * *
“A new kind of fairy tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 150w.
=West, Andrew Fleming.= Short papers on American liberal education.
**75c. Scribner.
7–8568.
“How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar
benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher
education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of
Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the
tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good
arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know
each other at all.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07.
Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.
=Dial.= 43: 286. N. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a
collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common,
but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which
they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s
little volume.” E. C.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 1180w.
“Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with
advancing change.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians:
the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which
is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends
and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the
last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are
the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of
Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2, ’06. 1130w.
=Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 120w.
=Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17. ’06. 70w.
“In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on
Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is
Westcott at his best.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 242. F. 23, ’07. 830w.
=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while
the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.
* * * * *
“When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as
well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these
sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who
stand to-day in similar pulpits.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
=Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
“They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full
of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
=Westell, W. Percival.= British bird life: being popular sketches of
every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25.
Wessels.
One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume
which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird
is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief
description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some
comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in
vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar
species and especially respecting migrants.”
− =Ath.= 1905, 2: 213. Ag. 12. 400w.
− =Nature.= 72: 196. Je. 29, ’05. 580w.
“When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more
stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal
experiences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but
ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to
fail in style.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ’05. 100w.
“The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the
British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is
inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar
as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”
− =Spec.= 94: 752. My. 20, ’05. 110w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–18579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The citations are accurate and from so many writers that this volume
at once becomes a source book of great value. The style is compact,
but very readable. Only in a few of the first chapters did the
reviewer have any sense of an attempt at hair-splitting. On the whole,
the volume is a masterly discussion of great moral questions and
leaves one anxious to see the second.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 489. N. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Westermarck’s book makes good reading for all who are interested
in the evolution of human ideas and human institutions, from the
tariff to woman suffrage, and from capital punishment to the elective
system in colleges and universities.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The interpretation of these facts may here and there be questioned,
but the important thing is to have the facts collected so as to be
within easy reach. Ethical theorists should find the work invaluable,
as thus furnishing them with concrete facts to rest their theories on
or to test their theories by. The sociologist will find illuminating
discussion of many customs, while the general reader if interested in
matters of universal human concern, cannot fail to get pleasure and
instruction from the reading of the book. Altogether it is perhaps
safe to say that the work is the most important contribution to
ethical literature within recent years.” Evander Bradley McGilvary.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 70. Ja. ’07. 3830w. (Review of v. 1.)
Western frontier stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29581.
Sixteen stories for young readers of early frontier life which teem
with such adventure as only western made grit can cope with. Indians,
desperadoes, wolves and storms give the stout-hearted and quick of
action plenty of opportunity to show their courage.
=Weston, Thomas.= History of the town of Middleboro, Mass. **$5.
Houghton.
6–23056.
“This volume not only gives the dry facts of history and genealogy
very fully, but also tells of the social customs of the eighteenth
century, and supplies many pictures of and scenes in King Philip’s war
and the French war.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“This is an unusually interesting history of a class which ought to be
very large, for every town should have an official historian.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 430w.
“Does credit to all concerned in its publication.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
6–37198.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.
“There is, perhaps, nothing better in the book than the sense of
tension everywhere prevailing on the eve of an election.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 400w.
“On the whole, we must congratulate the author upon what is very
nearly if not quite the best of all his novels.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1. ’07. 290w.
“Stanley J. Weyman has come to that place as a novelist where he can
afford to amuse himself when he writes whether he entertains the
reader or not.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07 70w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Laid up in lavender. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–32320.
“A venerable arch-deacon is entreated by a lady whom he knew in his
youth to visit her in her illness. She is an actress, and has a
daughter who is a well-known and beautiful actress; and he finds it
rather embarrassing when he is asked to undertake the charge of the
latter in the event of her mother’s death. When he does find his ward
on his hands, he takes counsel of his son, a barrister, who gives him
advice in the hypothetical case put to him. Of course the father,
hoping to marry off the awkward ward to the man he has heard she
loves, discovers this to be his own son under his writing name.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“They are all good stories, and each of them causes something of that
feeling of excitement which Mr. Weyman knows so well how to produce.”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 420w.
“[The stories] are uninspired and take the author’s reputation no
further. Indeed, they ‘drop’ it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 250w.
“Slight as they are, these early sketches leave the impression that
Mr. Weyman understood contemporary life so well that a very promising
disciple of Trollope was lost when he turned aside to don the sword
and buskin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 350w.
“The variety of the provender supplied in the group makes a wholesome
and digestible banquet from nourishing soup through seasoned entrée to
contenting coffee.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“None of the twelve tales has anything to raise it above the level of
ordinary magazine fiction, and two or three of them are positively
dull.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“Most of the other tales bear internal evidence of having been written
some time ago, and the author would have been best advised to have
kept them still laid up in lavender.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 641. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
=Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= Italian days and ways. **$1.50.
Lippincott.
6–41526.
The amusing experiences of “three women—one young, the others
uncertainly older—who land at Genoa and travel through the highways of
Italy à la American tourist.” (Nation.) The record of the travels is
in the form of letters written by one of the older women to a friend
at home.
* * * * *
“Lacks the humor and buoyancy of Mrs. Wiggin’s Penelope stories but
has much human interest and reflects considerable culture and
appreciation of Italian sights and scenes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.
“Something of the unfading charm of Italy is caught in the pages of
Miss Wharton’s ‘Italian days and ways.’”
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“There is a tendency to enlarge upon trifling incidents, which
produces the effect of padding; but the spirit of enthusiastic
enjoyment gives a fresh view to old scenes.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Her accounts of life in the various towns of Italy are as unhackneyed
as they are simple and unaffected.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Fruit of the tree. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–32842.
The interest of the first part of this story centers in the efforts of
young John Amherst, who occupies a subordinate position in the
management of the Westmore mills, to solve some of the industrial
problems there presented, particularly in providing for the health and
safety of the employes. His opportunity to carry out his cherished
plans seems to be at hand when he gains the sympathy and interest and
finally the love of the beautiful young widow who owns the mills. The
marriage follows, and a little later there befalls a terrible accident
in which the wife is hopelessly injured and to put her out of her
pain, Justine, friend and nurse, administers an overdose of morphine.
Justine marries Amherst who thru the blackmailing scheme of a young
physician learns of Justine’s act and for a time is overwhelmed with
her technical responsibility of Bessie’s death while his reason tells
him that she is innocent.
* * * * *
“A novel of extraordinary power and intense interest, interpreting
American life of the present day, done with Mrs. Wharton’s usual
subtlety, ease and precision.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠
“Though a better book than its predecessor, is not likely to provoke
an equal amount of that heated and emotional public discussion which
is the true sign of popularity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 273. N. ’07. 1300w.
“Besides its accomplished artistry, Mrs. Wharton’s work always gives
us the sense of ethical responsibility.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 580w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 330w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1436. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
“Again Mrs. Wharton has done a difficult thing with ease and
precision.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 970w.
“The astonishing thing is that we close the book with the feeling
that, after all, the execution is superior to the idea; the story is
better told than such a story deserves to be. We admire, but we are a
little chilled; Mrs. Wharton sits at her desk like a disembodied
intelligence; acute and critical and entirely unsympathetic; she is as
detached as a scientific student viewing bacilli under a microscope.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 637. O. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“Even better than ‘The house of mirth.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Is not a bringer of joy, but it is penetrating in analysis, and
evades none of the issues it raises. It lacks humor and contrast of
character. The luxury and frivolity of a certain set of society people
are almost too insistently driven home.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
=Wharton, Edith.= Madame de Treymes. †$1. Scribner.
7–8219.
Mrs. Wharton’s stage is occupied by two women—one French by birth, the
other by marriage—and an American who at forty is dabbling in the
rather unsafe business of aiding one of them in divorce proceedings in
order to attain his belated happiness. In transferring her point of
observation from a New York to a Paris drawing room, Mrs. Wharton has
made the enamel of convention only a little more brilliant, and in
suffering it to crack to reveal a shrivelled up heart, only shows that
underneath such gloss, life has ceased to ring true to any standards
of spontaneity. Family, society, and the church are inexorable Molochs
to whom must be sacrificed infant joy, freedom, hope and even courage.
* * * * *
“Now there is much that is admirable and subtle in the story and its
treatment. The different points of view of two types of character are
set forth with great clearness. The story, however, loses its
poignancy owing to the fact that these types are not individualized.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 465. My. 11, ’07. 470w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.
“The writing is distinguished by that blend of strength and grace
which is characteristic of Mrs. Wharton.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 4. 170w.
“Whether or not in her most recently published novelette Mrs. Wharton
gives a just evaluation to the ideals of another race, there can be no
two opinions of the story’s literary merits.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 131. Jl. ’07. 550w.
“Although a miracle of condensation, in matter, in form, and by an
unimpeachable distinction of style, Mrs. Wharton has written a short
story which stands entirely above criticism.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 303. My. ’07. 1000w.
“The author’s ideas are evaporated into Henry James subtleties, and so
it is merely a little pamphlet of elegant discriminations.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 220w.
“Mrs. Wharton’s little story is as thin as her astral shape and should
not be mentioned except to call attention to the fact that she has
learned to begin where Henry James leaves off.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“Her pages exhale the undefinable atmosphere and aroma of aristocratic
French life of the present day—a phase of life almost incomprehensible
to the foreigner. The author’s style is full of distinction and is
marked by those exquisite reserves that characterize the born artist.
Slight as the volume is, it reveals artistic possibilities hitherto
undiscerned.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 350w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 313. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“She succeeds in painting her gray picture not so subtly that we
forget her art, but exquisitely enough for us to recognize how fine
that art is.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 1400w.
“The precision of her technique ... the sensitiveness and significance
of her observation, her feeling for the harmonious sentence and the
suggestive phrase ... must always stamp her work as superior to that
of many writers of wider sympathy and more spontaneous talent.” Olivia
Howard Dunbar.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 218. My. 17, ’07. 1200w.
“A characteristic piece of work from an extremely careful and artistic
writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 150w.
“An absolutely flawless and satisfying piece of workmanship.” Vernon
Atwood.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 320w.
“The great force of the French family as an organization has never
been better treated by a foreign pen, and the little book is written
with all the author’s usual delicacy and distinction of style.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 90w.
=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
6–43469.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 150w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w.
=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
6–33569.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 252. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
5–11644.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Whelpley’s conclusions are forcefully stated even though it is
impossible to follow him in all of them.” Arthur B. Reeve.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 506. D. 15, ’06. 930w.
=Wherry, Elwood Morris.= Islam and Christianity in India and the Far
East. (The student lectures on missions at Princeton theological
seminary for 1906–’07.) **$1.25. Revell.
7–17908.
In which the author “recounts and describes the various methods of
conquest by which Islamism established itself in these several
countries, how it has been modified by Hinduism, Buddhism, and
Confucianism, and, finally, what Christianity is doing for the
conversion of the Mohammedans of these various countries, and what
success is attending its efforts.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is evident throughout the book a thorough knowledge of the
history of Islamism, and also of present-day social and moral
conditions in Mohammedan countries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 140w.
=Whinery, Samuel.= Specifications for street roadway pavements. *50c.
Eng. news.
“After a discussion of the theory of specifications, the general
features of specifications are considered, such as those providing for
inspection, public convenience and safety, extra work etc. Foundations
are then taken up, concrete, old paving stone and broken stone being
included. Under the heading ‘Bituminous pavements’ are found asphalt,
block asphalt and rock asphalt. The various ingredients of these
pavements are treated in detail, and the best methods for laying each
pavement are specified. Granite, brick and woodblock pavements are
given ample attention, and in the closing pages paragraphs of a
general nature, relating to all pavements, are given, including
payments, specifications for experimental and untried pavements,
etc.”—Technical Literature.
* * * * *
“The pamphlet is a valuable contribution to the literature upon the
proper construction of pavements, and will undoubtedly have much
influence in standardizing, so far as local conditions will permit,
specifications for this kind of work.” Edwin A. Fisher.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 179. Ag. 15, ’07. 1750w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 220w.
=Whipple, George Chandler.= Value of pure water. $1. Wiley.
7–8249.
Here “an attempt is made from valuable data to establish formulae
which may be employed to calculate the allowable depreciation due to
sanitary quality, physical characteristics (colour, odour, etc.),
hardness, etc., of a water supply.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“This little book is planned on novel lines and deserves recognition.
The book is suggestive and stimulating reading, the various tables add
to its value, and we heartily commend it to the sanitarian and water
engineer.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 450w.
“The book is well worth its price and should be found in every water
library.” W. P. Mason.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 400w.
=Whistler, Charles W.= Gerald the sheriff: a story of the sea in the
days of William Rufus. †$1.50. Warne.
A story of life in England in the twelfth century. “It tells of the
outlawing of a young Saxon thane, who joined wits and grievances with
a displaced Cornish sheriff and, gathering together a hand of Saxon
malcontents, hatched a plot for driving out the hated Norman king and
seating in his place a Saxon heir to the throne. The tale is told in
the first person and merely recounts the adventures which befell the
young man and his friend as they followed their forlorn hope. But the
adventures are perilous and exciting, and they follow close upon one
another, until finally the chief actors win back to place and lands
and safety.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has made an interesting tale of swift action and high
motives, and has told it with a simplicity and dignity of style worthy
of a higher grade of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.
=Whitaker, Herman.= Settler. †$1.50 Harper.
7–32564.
Manitoba in its primeval loneliness is the scene of his story. A
gently reared girl enters the wilderness to care for her brother in
his last illness. After his death she marries a rough, crude,
strong-hearted settler, then permits her regret for the step to drive
the pride-hurt man from her. The situations which grow out of the
separation and final reunion are all intensified by the savagery of
the wild surroundings.
* * * * *
“A rapid, active tale of adventure.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 190w.
“Much information may be gleaned from ‘The settler’ relating to lumber
camps and farming lands of the Canadian Northwest and to the effects
on its industrial conditions of the scheming of railway monopolists.
We submit that the attempted realism here, especially in the freedom
of speech employed by the women, is, in any case, unnecessarily
offensive.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Whitcomb, Ida Prentice.= Young people’s story of art. $2. Dodd.
6–38344.
A concise and interesting sketch of the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman,
Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French schools
of art into which are woven stories and legends of the artists and
their works.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.
“It is interesting and instructive and will be read quite as eagerly
and with as much profit by the older folks.”
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“The accounts are full, biographically, historically and in a literary
way, while the illustrations are in themselves of distinct value.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
“A sympathetically written text, interpolated with most carefully
selected pictures. No child who has any sense of the beautiful will
find this book dull. Its inspiration to visit museums and see with his
own eyes the pictures described is undoubted.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 440w.
* =White, Frederick M.= Nether millstone. †$1.50. Little.
7–36980.
A fine old English estate is the scene of most that happens in this
tale. Ralph Darnley, the lost heir, returns to find Sir George
Dashwood the next of kin in possession, but with only his grandmother
and an old butler in his confidence Darnley plans to conceal his
identity until he teaches the girl he loves, the daughter of Sir
George, the futility of her Dashwood pride which stands in the way of
accepting his suit. He aids a false claimant to a nominal control of
the property, which renders Sir George and his daughter penniless. The
daughter is thrown upon the world and when she has learned its lessons
and discovered what true worthiness is Darnley reveals his identity
and carries her back to Dashwood hall.
=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.
6–24582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We are glad to notice in [this novel] the evidence of more care in
its production than the last one or two from his pen had led us to
expect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 100w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= Camp and trail. *$1.25. Outing.
7–31474.
A practical experience book for the wilderness traveler. The author
tells in detail how to select what is necessary and to reject what is
unnecessary for camp convenience and comfort.
* * * * *
“Certainly with the drawings, and even the names of firms that furnish
the desirable articles, the way of it all is as ‘plain as plum
porridge,’ so that the westward-faring man, tho a tenderfoot, cannot
err therein.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The humors of life in the open air are happily touched upon, and make
the book something more than a manual.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= The pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
6–325827.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He impresses one as being more true than Mr. Jack London, with a
measurably broader outlook than Mr. Thompson Seton, and more vigorous,
more actual than Dr. van Dyke. There are times when one cannot help
wishing that he would be a shade less conscientiously breezy in his
language.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 386. Ap. 20, ’07. 580w.
=White, Stewart Edward, and Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Mystery; il. by Will
Crawford. †$1.50. McClure.
7–2060.
“The plot turns upon the mysterious and wonderful happenings that
occurred on a volcanic island in the Pacific and upon equally strange
and uncanny encounters on the high seas. A long series of happenings
follow. More astonishing than anything that ever occurred to the
imagination of Stevenson or Marryat.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The book is a happy mixture of R. L. Stevenson and Mr. H. G. Wells.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 441. My. 4, ’07. 360w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠
“The authors indulge in more slang and technical detail of a marine
sort than the ordinary reader can readily grasp.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 572. My. 11. 90w.
“A well-rounded romance.” Richard Hughes Remsen.
+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 84. Mr. ’07. 720w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
“The story is well told in a lively style, and the characters are
strongly portrayed. Perhaps there is in the dialog a dash too much of
smartness. The credibility of the reader is at times overstrained. But
the novel has real merit and is a notable contribution to the
‘thrillers’ of the sea.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“The narrative sags badly amidships, but the faith of the romancer
serves to keep us afloat till we reach port.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.
“Even ‘Treasure island’ has need to look to its laurels when books
like the ‘Mystery’ are being written, though the former’s claims are
safe as long as Mr. White and Mr. Adams are compelled to adopt such a
theatrical device for their wonder worker as the precious substance
which the chest on board the Laughing Lass was supposed to contain.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 1050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“In a certain way it is very well done; but it is a tour-de-force, not
a piece of real writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.
6–12564.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a clever and a wholesome book about people large and small who
live in a little city.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Whitehouse, Henry Remsen.= Revolutionary princess; Christina Belgiojoso
Trivulzio, her life and times, 1808–1871. *$3. Dutton.
A biography which gives in detail the story of the devoted Milanese,
her exile in Paris, her revolutionary plots, her travels, her writings
and the remarkable characteristics which make the princess a
conspicuous figure of her time.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 1320w.
“Mr. Whitehouse has given the English reader an interesting account of
a romantic personality.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Though his book cannot rank very high either as literature or
history, it will do well enough to introduce to the subject those who
cannot read Italian.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.
“It is a pity that the publishers of the life of the Princess
Belgiojoso did not select a biographer more in sympathy with the
subject.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 98. F. 16, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Whitehouse has given us not only an interesting biography but a
vivacious history of the first three-quarters of the past century in
leading to one of the greatest achievements of that century, the
unification and liberation of Italy.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07.
=Spec.= 98: 577. Ap. 13, ’07. 1620w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
6–34801.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Whiteing knows the difficulties of the great city for the
untrained bread-winner, but his present attempt to give this knowledge
literary form is a pretty flat failure.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.
“Is clever, readable, and not to be taken too seriously.” Mary Moss.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 114. Ja. ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Whiteing has a big social purpose and he makes you feel it, but
the book as a story is not sufficiently interesting and vital to hold
popular attention.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
− + =Charities.= 17: 485. D. 15, ’06. 690w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 70w.
* =Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. **$2.50. Little.
7–37741.
A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic
view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the
period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of
Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of
the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artistic life
attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries
of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in
Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi,
and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of
Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.
**$2.50. Little.
6–42359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07.
“The historian or he who would present economic and political
conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his
investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all
the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a
valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature.
And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss
Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”
+ + − =Arena.= 37: 211. F. ’07. 2190w.
“It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and
original study.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 43. Ja. 3, ’07. 180w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
=Whitlock, Brand.= Turn of the balance. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–10046.
An arraignment of the law as it is administered in our commonwealth
to-day. Pitted against the big machine of the law is human justice
which attempts to overthrow the merciless momentum of legal
incompetence, and fails. The force of the story lies along the line of
a plea for human sympathy and improved conditions.
* * * * *
“The book is as strong and purposeful as ‘The jungle,’ and as
literature it is a more finished creation. It is a distinctly great
novel, presenting a vivid and effective picture of the miserables of
our social order.”
+ + =Arena.= 86: 664. Je. ’07. 2870w.
“From beginning to end there is not one scene that is forced or
unnatural or out of place or out of proportion or improbable or
inadequate; there is not one sentence or phrase that is overdone or
written for effect; of all the characters there is not one that fails
to be convincing.” Charles Edward Russell.
+ + =Arena.= 38: 209. Ag. ’07. 1450w.
“It is a particularly sordid story of criminal life, unredeemed by any
special skill in the telling, and lacking the breadth of treatment
which alone can make such a subject impressive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 130w.
“Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate
devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound
recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.”
Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 130. Jl. ’07. 750w.
“Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its
viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other
side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments
of society of recent years.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1031. My. 2, ’07. 340w.
“The author has an eye for details that give many passages of
description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by
the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all
very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 366. N. 29, ’07. 430w.
“Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to
read and—worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author
surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he
describes with great power.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
=Whitlock, William Wallace.= When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
7–28962.
A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An
unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements”
find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a
young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy
join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place
the prince upon the throne.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Whitmore, C. S.= Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy.
85c. Benziger.
7–22914.
All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering
in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who
turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had
greatly feared.
* =Whitney, Helen Hay.= Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox
Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25151.
A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people
surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to
bed.
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 200w.
“The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of
seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of
Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive,
though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art
to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to
equal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 100w.
=Whitney, Rev. James Pounder.= Reformation: being an outline of the
history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal
ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–37538.
A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known
as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the
Christian church as a historic body.
* * * * *
“His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to
the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent
success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent.
Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer
ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the
‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and
misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the
possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These
chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and
justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 876. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the
point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 50w.
“He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But
we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed
ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his
notice.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 244. Ag. 24, ’07. 440w.
=Whitson, John Harvey.= Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.
7–16940.
A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While
enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly
confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one
of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is
thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and
carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian
Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter
of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little
from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters,
which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he
has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.
* * * * *
“Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that
still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last
read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 600. Ag. ’07. 550w.
“Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to
prove its plausibility.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 230w.
“The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is
as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.
* =Whittier, John Greenleaf.= John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his
life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.
7–36386.
A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and
presents the chief formative influences which made the character and
career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his
boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature
years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was
brought to a close.
Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute,
Cleveland, O.
A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car,
prepared for the non-technical reader.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.
A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the
Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent
competition.
* * * * *
“The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble,
others are exceptionally good.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please
children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
“A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32567.
The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled
in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the
once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful
family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of
youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.
* * * * *
“A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking
in humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 110w.
=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Story book girls. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–41715.
“A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to
story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but
the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 643. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
“A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a
delightfully fresh plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Widney, Joseph Pomeroy.= Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4.
Funk.
7–23307.
=v. 1. The old world.= Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race
life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced
chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an
unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”
=v. 2. The new world.= In this volume the author carries his “race
epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people
from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions
and problems.
* * * * *
“It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for
that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should
sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those
of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment
than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might
have written this book from an English point of view.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 161. N. 23, ’07. 990w.
“It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are
extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost
him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 484. O. 19. 970w.
“The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style
and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific
value, it has none.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 410w.
“His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme
already set forth at length by other writers, but an original
conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and
written in a clear and attractive style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 208 Ag. 10, ’07. 420w.
“Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a
clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is
misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific
ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E.
Woodruff.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 497. Ag. 17, ’07. 2380w.
“His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive,
poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of
generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total
impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and
international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least
satisfactory portion of his work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.
“Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an
unusually absorbing narrative.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 270w.
“A highly interesting and suggestive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 330w.
=Wieland, George Reber.= American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.
6–34020.
“This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with
fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American
collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they
have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on
the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a
comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a
discussion of relationships.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of
the Carnegie institution.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 220w.
“A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct
group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a
precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of
recent plants.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 329. Ja. 31, ’07. 1760w.
“Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the
cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general
problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed
relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 856. My. 31, ’07. 1530w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= New chronicles of
Rebecca. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–11587.
Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru
various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday.
They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s
thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The
state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The
green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair
Emmajane.
* * * * *
“Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 848. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07. ✠
“The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty
of humour in the chronicle.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 179. Ag. 17. 210w.
“The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry
James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
=Bookm.= 25: 304. My. ’07. 800w.
“The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as
a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 693. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior
to its predecessor.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 240w.
“There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her
former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the
same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in
perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations
should be.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 290w.
=Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 200w.
“This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and
humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 190w.
“Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm
are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 86. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.
“Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the
present generation of American and English readers much what Miss
Alcott did for its predecessor.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1037. Je. 29. ’07. 990w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= Old Peabody pew;
a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–32837.
A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of
names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A
new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with
care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the
Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet
and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew,
sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone
taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes
Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son,
seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.
* * * * *
“One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the
most delightful from a literary point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it
might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’
of the day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Many pathetic and humorous touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the
elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of
much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of
sentiment and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora
Archibald.= Fairy ring. **$1.50. McClure.
6–42427.
Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some
well known stories and some recently discovered ones.
* * * * *
“A choice collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason
they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Most readable fairy tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 70w.
* =Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Pinafore
and palace. †$1.50. McClure.
7–30444.
“This volume of jingles is judiciously divided, somewhat like Charles
Welsh’s edition of ‘Mother Goose,’ to accord with the physical
activities and dawning mental appreciation of small folk. There is a
diversity of selection, ranging from ‘Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have
you been?’ to Tennyson’s least childlike and most stilted poem,
‘Minnie and Winnie.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 211. N. ’07. ✠
“Taken in a set, these three volumes of verse represent an agreeable
progress from classic jingle to rarest poetry.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Wigram, Edgar T. A.= Northern Spain; painted and described by Edgar T.
A. Wigram. *$6. Macmillan.
“The kind of description which lies halfway between the guide-book and
the book of atmosphere.” (Outlook.) “The author made his tour as a
bicyclist. He journeyed with observing eyes, and very little in Spain
that was really worth while escaped him.” (Ind.) “Besides ‘hamlets’
and small towns, the traveler stopped at the larger cities, including
Covadonga and Asturias, Leon, Galicia, Benavente, Zamora, Toro,
Salamanca, Bejar, Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Navarre, and
others.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“One cannot open these pages anywhere without being struck by our
author’s capacity for presenting a scene in words at once fit and
few.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 9. Ja. 5. 1360w.
“As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new
significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer
understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied
on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who
would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the
scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted,
moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr.
Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the
idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he
met.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of
Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by
essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to
be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account
for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w.
“The author not only describes the country through which he rode or
walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain
places, and provides other interesting information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who
possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of
describing by picture as well as by pen.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“As a writer he harps too much upon merely pictorial effects, which
were doubtless attractive to an artist but suffer through vain
repetition. Though we may not claim him as guide or philosopher, he is
certainly well met as a soothing friend.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103:372. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Wilberforce, Wilfrid, and Gilbert, Mrs. A. R.= Her faith against the
world. *$l. Benziger.
A young barrister asks the aristocratic Sir Richard Forrester for the
hand of his daughter, Gertrude and is refused because he lacks
position. Later he gets into Parliament on assuring his constituents
that he is not a Roman Catholic. Sir Richard then welcomes him, but
Gertrude, who has joined the Roman church, refuses to marry a
Protestant, and is turned out of her father’s house. The solution of
this complication is the burden of this political-religious novel.
* * * * *
“The book is written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic, but
without bitterness and intolerance.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“An entertaining novel, although it is somewhat sketchy in both action
and character, and although it does carry a moral instruction.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 701. F. ’07. 260w.
=Wilcox, Earley Vernon.= Farm animals: horses, cows, sheep, swine,
goats, poultry, etc. **$2. Doubleday.
6–35959.
A practical book giving general information about the breeding and
care of farm animals.
* * * * *
“A good, popular guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07.
“It is rather an excellent compend of general information. The chapter
on dairy stock is the best in the book, but every chapter is good. The
illustrations have the advantage of being well related to the
subject.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Wilde, Oscar.= Decorative art in America: a lecture, together with
letters, reviews, and interviews; ed. with an introd. by Richard B.
Glaenzer. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
6–39452.
Mr. Glaenzer in his introduction sets forth the characteristics
chiefly as they pertain to art, of “the most pitiful dreamer, the
wittiest cynic and the most brilliant wit of his century.” The
nineteen essays or groups of letters which this volume includes strike
the dominant art notes of Oscar Wilde’s nature. Among the
personalities touched up by the “verbal colourist” are Mrs. Langtry,
Sarah Bernhardt, Whistler, Keats, and Kipling.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= Ballad of Reading gaol;
drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. *$1. Buckles.
7–16474.
In this new edition of the well-known ballad the spirit of the
gruesome revelation of a soul in torment is marred by the
illustrations which, lacking any subtle suggestion of the horrors of
the hangman and the terrors of death, are commonplace and repellant.
=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= Foods and their adulteration. Il. *$4.
Blakiston.
7–19428.
This book, descriptive in character, reaches a large audience,
including the consumer, the manufacturer and the scientific as well as
the general reader. It treats of the origin, manufacture and
composition of food products; the description of common adulterations,
food standards and national food laws and regulations. The information
contained in this manual appeals especially to the intelligent and
scientific cook.
* * * * *
“The book is invaluable to the manufacturer and the consumer, to the
scientist and the layman; it is indispensable to even a small
collection on this subject of wide, present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“This is the most authoritative and comprehensive book that has
appeared on this important subject, and there is no other man in
America who is better fitted to handle it from both the scientific and
the legislative sides than the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 834. O. 3, ’07. 360w.
“This is not the book of a crank, and Dr. Wiley’s views regarding the
future of the American food-supply are in general optimistic.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 213. S. 5, ’07. 750w.
“The information furnished by Dr. Wiley arms the public with
knowledge—knowledge of the conditions and of its own rights.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 1370w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 120w.
“Amid a large mass of confusing and often exaggerated newspaper
articles dealing with the subject, it is a comfort to find a book
covering the field so completely, so sanely and withal in so
interesting a way.”
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 714. N. 22, ’07. 880w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
5–32655.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 573. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Coming of Philibert. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–18078.
A tragic poem-drama of three acts in which Prince Philibert, who has
been reared in the forest and kept unconscious of his heritage,
according to the wish of his dead father, is brought to the court of
Artacia by his twin brother, the young king who feels that he has been
unjustly dealt with. Here the world is opened to him, all his latent
emotions awake, and unwittingly, he usurps his brother’s place in the
hearts of his people, and comes to wear his crown and marry his
Clementia.
* * * * *
“It will bear reading. But, in the acting, it would appear lamentably
monotonous and wanting in almost every essential of a play, notably
characterization, contrast and ‘suspense.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 330w.
“Is an interesting bit of dramatic blank verse which just misses
distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 210w.
“As a play there is much good exposition but little vital action. The
verse is always correct, and occasionally there are flashes of fine
poetry.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 100w.
“Mrs. Drummond is an essentially feminine poet of fine insight and
delicate sensibility. The chief gain in ‘The coming of Philibert’ is
the dramatic action and force.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 97. S. ’07. 270w.
=Wilkinson, Florence.= Silent door. †$1.50. McClure.
7–10292.
A village story ... “which revolves about Justinian Penrith, incarnate
genius of austerity, and a little child left ... upon his doorstep.
Given a beautiful daughter who had fled from home some years previous
for an affaire d’amour and whose whereabouts had baffled all
search—and you have the key to ‘The silent door.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“In Miss Wilkinson’s novel ... one recognizes the promise rather than
the achievement. The story taken as a whole is unimpressive. The plot
is mildly preposterous, and none of the characters, not even little
Rue herself, seems ever quite detachable from the printed page. But
the details of Miss Wilkinson’s work are a constant delight.” Harry
James Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The chief charm about Miss Wilkinson’s style is its absolute lack of
hurry. It is seldom that one encounters such genuine charm in a volume
constructed upon a plan so simple.”
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. My. ’07. 480w.
“There are some fine pages of description. The humor is abundant and
genuine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“It has a pervasive, though not obtrusive, spiritual quality, and
leaves upon one an impression of sweetness and light.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 970w.
“In her first novel, she has accomplished something also rare, and
certainly thoroughly delightful.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Wilkinson, Rt. Rev. Thomas Edward.= Twenty years of continental work
and travel. *$3 50. Longmans.
“The record of an Anglican bishop’s experience in north and central
Europe among British colonies, factories, and communities, comprising
an area eight times the size of Great Britain.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Bishop Wilkinson has great power of observation and much skill in
expressing that observation in words. There is in the volume a good
deal of padding which, should have been omitted.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 580. N. 10. 1360w.
“An interesting panorama of Europe, with a fine historic perspective.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
+ − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w.
=Willcocks, M. P.= Wingless victory. $1.50. Lane.
7–35625.
Devonshire furnishes the setting of this story. “The plot centres
about the winning of an unloving and pretty nearly unfaithful wife
by her husband.... The husband is a physician, a curious mixture
of strength and weakness, heroism and failure, and altogether a
very human and lovable person. The wife is not so comprehensible a
type, but still real enough in her feminine perversity and
unreasonableness.... Johanna is of another type, and she, too,
makes one see deep down into the reality of things. The whole book
is alive with human passion, powerfully portrayed, and with the
vigor and freshness of the open air.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Talent such as hers was not and never could be acquired in any of the
ready-made schools of fiction. It bears the stamp of originality.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 319. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story.
It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and
metaphor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w.
“The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through
it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate
sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of
the book.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious
ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid
descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of
Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts
and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w.
“An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is,
on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w.
“In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic
word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a
giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if
not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement
seem a little out of place.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w.
“Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s
elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery
being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such
indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the
ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology
and prehistoric anthropology.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w.
“A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are
particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it
conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a
thing worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w.
“A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than
remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.
“No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel
should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
=Williams, Archibald.= How it works: dealing in simple language with
steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and
their application to apparatus in common use. $1.25. Nelson.
7–29122.
“Here the reader will find explained in a concise, straightforward
manner the working of everything from a locomotive or a motorcar to a
Bunsen burner or a Westinghouse brake. The book is profusely
illustrated with helpful diagrams, and we are glad to note that an
index has been provided.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Hardly any other volume will answer as many of the questions that a
bright boy asks and ought to ask about the things he sees and uses. It
should head the list of books to be bought for school libraries.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 150w.
“The volume furnishes much that is practical and lucid.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Williams, Archibald.= Romance of early exploration, with descriptions
of interesting discoveries, thrilling adventures, and wonderful bravery
of the early explorers. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–39449.
“The present book brings exploration down to A. D. 1600 beginning with
its infancy 200 years before Herodotus. Pictures and maps add
desirabilty to the book.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The writer’s own manner is one of manly straightforwardness, as free
from dulness as from misplaced embellishment.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“An intelligent boy could hardly have a book which would give him more
entertainment and more instruction.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale
of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–36880.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.
“One thing is certain about Mr. Williams’ first attempt to write a
novel; he has succeeded.”
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.
=Williams, Elizabeth Otis.= Sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris,
a handbook particularly for women. **$1. McClurg.
7–18307.
An excellent little book into which has been compressed a wealth of
valuable information for the woman who is traveling alone in France.
It contains the addresses of suitable hotels, boarding houses, schools
of art, places of amusement, and shops in Paris, it tells what
charges, fees, etc. are just, it explains customs and conventions,
tells where one may go without an escort, what one may bring home
without duty, how to arrange one’s finances, and appends a classified
vocabulary which contains all the words and phrases essential to a
shopping tour or an excursion.
* * * * *
“A suggestive, helpful little handbook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.
“Just the sort of information needed by American ladies in Paris. And,
altho written for women, we fancy that men will find it almost as
valuable.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.
=Williams, Henry Llewellyn, jr.=, comp. Lincoln story book. **$1.50.
Dillingham.
7–8232.
It is the story-telling Lincoln shorn of platform oratory who is
revealed in this generous collection of anecdotes. There are over four
hundred of them and in the retelling nothing of the humor, or of the
tone of the classics has been sacrificed.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Madame Recamier and her friends. *$2. Scribner.
The details of the long salon-reign of Mme. Récamier are carefully set
forth here. “With no commanding ability such as in itself might draw a
group about her, yet, in wealth and in poverty, in court favor and
banishment, in youth and in age, Mme. Récamier was ever the center of
a great circle, and ever herself simple, contented, generous,
unspoiled by attention from all the famous people of her time.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Granting the ‘raison d’etre’ of the biography, it may be said that
the author has conscientiously studied the life of his heroine,
together with those of her friends as they affected hers, and presents
the results in a pleasant, easy manner, which makes the book an
entertaining one.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 260w.
“A most satisfactory story of an extraordinary career.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France.
*$7.50. Scribner.
7–25144.
Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the
brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and
forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily
swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in
the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her
husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their
children.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a
full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself
satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical
events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w.
“Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth
century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little
illuminating criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 83. F. 2, ’07. 720w.
=Williams, James Mickel.= An American town: a sociological study. Priv.
ptd.
6–46255.
“The author, formerly a fellow in sociology in Columbia university,
has in connection with his graduate work, made this sociological study
of a small town of rural New York.... He has given us a little bit of
the social history of the town and community, dividing it into two
periods—from the settlement to 1875 and from 1875 on.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a painstaking, intelligent, and extremely suggestive piece of
scholarly work. On the whole Mr. Williams is to be heartily
congratulated on a piece of work which opens up new possibilities in
the intensive study of localities, and proves that monographic work of
this kind is to be of prime importance to sociology.” George E.
Vincent.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 421. N. ’06. 850w.
“This volume is valuable because it is an illustration of careful,
conscientious field work, even if occasionally the conclusions seem
unwarranted.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 190w.
=Williams, John E. H.= Life of Sir George Williams, founder of the Young
men’s Christian association. **$1.25. Armstrong.
6–42910.
Written at the request of Sir George Williams’ family by “one who has
had intimate access to all the sources of information and who writes
with keen sympathy and appreciation.... Beginning as a poor young
clerk and without other resources than his own strength of character
and an indomitable will, the subject of the present work rose to be
one of the most considerable men in England.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2. ’07. 240w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 403. N. 30, ’06. 750w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Is a contribution to the literature of power.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and
impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
6–35342.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.
=Williams, T. Rhondda.= Evangel of the new theology. *$1.50. Scribner.
“The basal question of religion, as he observes, is the relation of
God to the living world. The theology now being outgrown conceived of
God and man as external to each other, beings apart, and out of this
fallacious dualism the Unitarian controversy grew. But ‘the gist of
the new theology’ is the oneness of the spiritual nature in God and
man, so that humanity itself is ‘an incarnation of the divine
life.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“In one way or another the whole realm of modern religious thought is
touched upon with profound discrimination. The book will prove
exceedingly helpful to all who desire a clear and sane statement on
vital matters from the modern point of view. As a group of sermons,
however, it would seem that the book gives undue emphasis to intellect
and does not sufficiently appeal to the deeper things of the heart.
Also, the use of Scripture is not large.” E. A. Hanley.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 475. Je. ’07. 220w.
“It is marked by warmth as well as freshness and force, and by
intentness on the realities of religious faith.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Car of
destiny. †$1.50. McClure.
7–30841.
“This is a description of several of the more interesting Spanish
cities, strung on the thin threads of an automobile trip and a love
story. The hero and the heroine fall in love—of course at first
sight—at Biarritz. The heroine and her mother are whisked off through
Spain in an automobile by the wicked Spanish duke whom this scheming
mother wishes the daughter to marry. The hero follows in his
automobile. The account of the roads, the country, and the towns is
broken by the incidents of the chase—some of them highly
melodramatic.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Frankly, the book contains every one of the elements which ought to
annoy a reader of critical taste. And yet, paradoxically, instead of
annoying, it furnishes a very genuine, even though not enduring,
enjoyment.”
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 267. N. ’07. 740w.
“So unconvincing is the characterization, that marriage as well as
misadventure leaves the reader cold.”
− =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 180w.
“Splendid descriptions of Spanish life and scenes abound.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is a penny-in-the-slot romance, as mechanical as if it were turned
out of a factory, marketable like calico, and of about as much
distinction.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 450w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston.=
Princess Virginia. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15121.
This story “provides a lovely princess with American blood in her
veins and ... a pretty will of her own. Also a proper American
romantic idea of falling in love with whom she pleases and marrying to
suit. But the safety of Europe depends upon her marrying the young
Emperor of Rhaetia. What is to be done?... The impressionable Princess
Virginia must happen upon the handsome Emperor when she does not know
who he is, and he does not know who she is. They will, of course, both
of them fall in love at sight. It is always thus. No sooner said than
done.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The most one can say for it is that it is harmless.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.
“No motors in this, but a manner so glib and facile that it resembles
nothing so much as the swift revolutions of a new front wheel, when
the salesman turns the bicycle upside down and gives a twirl to prove
the smooth perfection of its ball-bearings. There is the same near
approach to perpetual motion, and the same lack of arriving.”
− =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 190w.
“The Williamsons have produced another fine, galloping romance of the
most approved rose-color order.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 260w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Rosemary in
search of a father. †$1.50. McClure.
6–40214.
“The five-year old Rosemary at Monte Carlo, seeing that her mother is
sad, sets out to find a lost father, and meets with such extraordinary
good luck that we can only suspect the intervention of Christmas
fairies. They send Rosemary a wonderful father, far more attractive
than the real one, and just the man her mother most desired to meet
again. So with the help of an old love-affair, an American
millionaire, a pretty French adventuress, a profusion of jewels, and
costly raiment such as might haunt the delirious dreams of a
milliner’s girl, the tale runs on to a happy conclusion.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“It is a brisk, highly coloured story, of the lightest possible
construction.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“This little novel has distinction, a literary aroma.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“When this has been described as a ‘pretty’ tale of the whipped cream
and bonbon box type, there is not much more to say about it.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
“All this is highly melodramatic, but Rosemary is a quaint little
creature, and adds a large redeeming feature to an otherwise
impossible picture.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 370w.
“An agreeable little short story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 8w.
=Willys, A. A.= Swiss heroes, an historical romance of the time of
Charles the Bold; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. (Life stories
for young people.) **60c. McClure.
7–31242.
The careers of Hans Vögeli, Heinrich Vögeli and Walter Irmy. three
Swiss heroes, are followed in their relations with Charles the Bold,
whose oppressive measures they avenged for the safety of their people.
=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. E.= Devota; il. by Stuart Travis. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
7–21224.
“‘Devota’ is the story of a tragedy in the lives of two persons, a man
of sterling character, and a proud woman—does it not sound
familiar?—who are separated by a misunderstanding and kept apart by
the woman’s obstinacy. But after many years they are reconciled.
Surely Mrs. Wilson has filled her ink bottle from the spring of
eternal youth!”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Without having read ‘St. Elmo,’ one may safely assert that not even
an ornamental border on every page, and illustrations of preternatural
loveliness will quite bring ‘Devota’ the vogue of its predecessor.”
− =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 180w.
“Although it is hardly more than a novelette, has the self same
characteristics of style, thought, conception, viewpoint, which marked
Mrs. Wilson’s novels of the long ago and which will carry back to his
youth the memories of many a gray-haired reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 180w.
* =Wilson, David Henry.= George Morland. *$1.25. Scribner.
The growing popularity of the Morland paintings seems to be reason
enough for producing this biography which covers all of the phases of
his artistic career and besides records a good many impressions of the
seamy side of man’s life.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wilson does not exhibit, in his pleasant little volume, any
special qualification for his task. He moralizes too much on Morland’s
career. He seems to fail when he has an opportunity of adding a useful
chapter to his book.”
− − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 625. N. 16. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 700w.
* =Wilson, Harry Leon.= Ewing’s lady. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–38598.
The story of a young Westerner with genius for painting who is both
the protégé of a young New York widow and the object of diabolical
revenge on the part of the man whom his mother ran away from to marry
his father. Apart from the melodramatic fury of the story a group of
minor characters is drawn including “the cowboy in the clear, heady
Colorado air, the genial freemasonry of the studio, Clarence, the
lovable convert from civilization, dyspepsia and predigested food, and
Ben Crider, fit associate for Billy Brue.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A generation ago such a story would have been branded as the rankest
and frankest of shockers. But Mr. Wilson keeps a strong literary grip
on his plot. His characters are admirably drawn, consistent and
lifelike. There is plenty of real humour in the book, and some
excellent pictures of manners, Eastern and Western.” Burton Blass.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 415. D. ’07. 960w.
“It is the drawing of the minor characters and their environment that
gives the book its charm.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 190w.
=Wilson, James Harrison.= Life of Charles A. Dana. **$3. Harper.
7–19056.
This volume has grown out of the biographer’s intimate acquaintance
and immense admiration for a man who during fifty years and more of
the past century helped to make the history of our nation. Chapters on
his education and early battle with poverty, association with Greeley
on the New York Tribune, his telling service to the Federal government
during the civil war have been written from letters, documents and
clippings bearing upon public and private life.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07. S.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 419. S. ’07. 1210w.
“The whole narrative is very interesting. One could wish that General
Wilson would have given us as minute a study of Dana the editor as of
Dana the commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of War.” Richard W.
Kemp.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 612. Ag. ’07. 800w.
“His long and intimate acquaintance with an admiration for the man
have qualified him to write understandingly without dependence on such
outside aid.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 32. Jl. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome
sense.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w.
“The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are
set forth authentically in good chronological order.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.
“Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it
relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it
lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete
survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w.
“While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana
more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr.
Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a
personal history of the past generation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w.
=Wilson, James Southall.= Alexander Wilson, poet-naturalist: a study of
his life with selected poems. $2. Neale.
7–410.
A sketch of the life of America’s first ornithologist, and poet of
somewhat indifferent fame. Alexander Wilson came to America from
Scotland in 1794 to be free from the turmoil of revolution. The life
story includes Jefferson’s letters about birds, a study of the
Scotland of Wilson’s and Burns’s time, and a careful analysis of
Wilson’s character.
* * * * *
“The one serious mistake of the author is reflected in the title. He
undertakes to rescue from oblivion not only the man and the bird
fancier, but the poet.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 630w.
“An interesting memoir.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Wilson, May (Anison North, pseud.).= Carmichael. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–12002.
“A pretty story of Canadian rural life. The heroine tells the tale,
and we see her loving, helpful ministry to family and neighbors, yet
sharing her father’s feud and trying to keep it up after his death.
But justice and love are too strong for her filial theories, and the
houses of Mallory and Carmichael are reconciled. The illustrations and
marginal decorations do not add especially to the simple
narrative.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“A story with a distinct moral lesson—which lesson is well to the
front in the author’s mind. Yet it is a very pleasant and readable
story also—one which will recommend itself particularly to
old-fashioned maiden ladies but need not necessarily on that account
be scorned by younger and wiser persons.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 630w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 80w.
=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James
A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–29420.
“What a few decades of spade-work have revealed of more than three
thousand years of civilization is presented here, with the caution not
to expect any connected history of it until future excavators shall
have done the work awaiting them.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 300w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= President of Quex: a woman’s club story. †$1.25.
Lothrop.
6–36041.
A novel whose heroine, the president of Quex, “is led out of the
useless life of a sorrowing recluse by her work as president of the
club, which she makes a factor of consequence in the social,
industrial, and political life of her state.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 675. O. 13, ’06. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
“We close the little book with a smile compounded of amusement and
skepticism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36042.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is too full of reflected culture, and lacking in realism and
vitality. It is weak fiction.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Winter, Nevin Otto.= Mexico and her people of to-day. $3. Page.
7–34163.
An account of the customs, characteristics, amusements, history and
advancement of the Mexicans, and the development and resources of
their country illustrated from original photographs. The author bases
his book upon both travel and study and presents it in the hope that
it may help Americans to a better understanding of their neighbors
across the line.
* * * * *
“A book of up-to-date information of a miscellaneous sort about a
nation concerning which, though she stands at our very doors, most of
us know very little.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Winterburn, Mrs. Rosa V.= Methods in teaching. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–20690.
“This book is made up of a series of monographs explaining the methods
employed in the elementary school of Stockton, California. The English
teacher will find much here that is obvious, but the monograph on the
teaching of English deserves attention.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The monographs are very thorough, but also, for the most part very
dull.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 130w.
“It is a record of experience, of the deductions made by a body of
practical teachers working together for a considerable period. As such
it is valuable—of greater value perhaps to many teachers than a more
profound statement of theoretical pedagogy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Wister, Owen.= How doth the simple spelling bee. *50c. Macmillan.
7–8533.
An extravaganza on reform spelling, in which the reformer “at the age
of seventy-five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States
Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, proposed to hand
his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all
over the earth.” The sketch is worthy a Dickens up to date, and
exposes humorously the unrelated scraps in the “rag-bag of
lawlessness” which Mr. Wister chooses to denominate English spelling.
* * * * *
“The author has mist his aim and is badly mixt in his ideas.”
− =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 50w.
“A witty satire.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 30w.
“Were well worth preserving, for a time at least.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
“This fantastic skit is immensely amusing at its outset, but becomes a
little tedious before the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 40w.
=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–10312.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The first serious and patriotic American story which candidly has the
courage to uphold the aristocratic ideal.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 121. Ja. ’07. 620w.
* =Wister, Owen.= Mother. †$1.25. Dodd.
7–32323.
“Love and speculation in copper stocks are the themes of the
novelette, which Mr. Wister blithely dedicates ‘To my favorite broker,
with the earnest assurance that Mr. Beverly is not meant for
him.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
* =Wister, Owen.= Seven ages of Washington: a biography. **$2.
Macmillan.
7–38230.
An elaboration of a Washington address by the author. It is “a
full-length portrait of Washington with enough of his times to see him
clearly against.” Mr. Wister shows how the unfreezing of Washington
began by Irving, but that he went at it gingerly; “to-day,” he says
“we can see the live and human Washington full length. He does not
lose an inch of it, and we gain a progenitor of flesh and blood. The
seven ages are Ancestry, The boy, The young man. The married man. The
commander, The president, and Immortality.”
* * * * *
“His portrait is thoroughly convincing.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
3–15103.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is no better book of the kind.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:86. Mr. ’07.
=Wolfe, Albert Benedict.= Lodging-house problem in Boston: published
from the income of the W. H. Baldwin, jr., 1885 fund. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 2.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–45064.
While for two years holding the South End house fellowship Dr. Wolfe
collected the material which he has presented here. His treatise
“deals with the class of dwellings that are known in many cities as
rooming-houses or furnished-room houses, and with the mercantile
employees and skilled mechanics who are sheltered in these houses.
Oddly enough, it appears that there has never been, heretofore,
anything like an adequate investigation of lodging-house conditions in
any of our great cities.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Societies which aim to promote the wellbeing of young people of this
class will find here materials and methods of investigation of highest
value.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 275. S. ’07. 100w.
“The author has made an important contribution to our knowledge of
home (?) life of the great class in our communities, and his volume,
and its suggestions, should be carefully studied.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 227. Ja. ’07. 450w.
“The author is disappointing in not being more convincing and
conclusive in some of the salient points he has raised; he has left
vital issues related to the subject for others to investigate and
develop.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15, ’07. 420w.
“Taking the volume as a whole, the student of social conditions will
find in it much to interest him, and he will certainly credit the
author with much conscientious industry. At the same time, he will
hardly avoid the conclusion that valuable time and energy have been
sacrificed to microscopic detail of trivial importance and leading to
nowhere in particular.” E. R. Dewsnup.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 179. Mr. ’07. 590w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“While somewhat academic, Dr. Wolfe’s discussion of immediate and
ultimate means for the betterment of lodging-house conditions is
written broadly and judicially.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 569. S. ’07. 330w.
“Dr. Wolfe has gone into the subject very thoroughly.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 180w.
=Wood, Robert Williams.= Physical optics. *$3.50. Macmillan.
6–5702.
“While the book hardly claims, perhaps, to be a complete treatise, it
covers a great deal of ground, and in particular deals with a number
of matters, such as the laws of radiation, dispersion, fluorescence,
and the optics of moving media, which are not so fully treated in some
other recent works. A student commencing the study of optics would
perhaps hardly begin with this book; he would find, however, in its
pages when he came to read them some most instructive views of the
subject.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“It is full of instruction clearly conveyed, is instinct with
intelligence and is uncommonly interesting, because it is largely
about the author’s own work. Some day we shall have a better
proportioned book, but that it will be a more serviceable one is not
so certain.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
“The theoretical treatment of the matter is perhaps less
satisfactory.”
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 509. S. 20, ’06. 1150w.
“It would be difficult to collect a more instructive and interesting
group of experiments in optics than that presented. In quite a number
of places the notation does not agree with the figures. Apart from
these slight defects the book is an inspiration to students and
teachers and will be a great aid in rescuing physical optics from the
absurd mathematical symbolism which sometimes seems to throttle
progress in this fruitful field of investigation.” J. S. Shearer.
+ + − =Phys. R.= 25: 303. O. ’07. 240w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
5–35776.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is enough to say that the book can be read with pleasure, but we
have to read slowly and closely.” J. E. Morris.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 386. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the
great imperial war. Definitive ed. $2.50. Little.
6–15420.
A new edition which includes revisions and additional notes. The
author gives much detail concerning the personnel and technical
equipment of the army and of the navy, and emphasizes particularly the
part played by the naval forces in the campaign against Quebec.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 100w.
“The author writes with clearness and force. His characterizations are
often presented with succinct and epigrammatic phrase. One defect in
the author’s treatment is that all men are either black or white; none
are, to use Professor Morse Stephen’s illuminating phrase, pale gray.
The author’s strong convictions on present-day subjects ... show a
lack of judicial restraint.” S. J. McLean.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 438. Mr. ’07. 680w.
=Wood, William Wallace.= Walschaert locomotive valve gear. $1.50.
Henley.
6–46770.
A practical treatise on the locomotive valve actuating mechanism,
originally invented by Egide Walschaert, with the history of the
development by American and European engine designers, and its
evolution into the mechanically correct locomotive valve gear of the
present day.
* * * * *
“The work is clear and explicit in the manner of handling the subject,
and it should give any careful reader an excellent idea of the
principles and application of the Walschaert gear, together with much
important relative information of practical value to the engineman and
master mechanic.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.
* =Woodberry, George Edward.= Great writers. **$1.20. McClure.
7–33931.
Essays of a critical nature upon three prose writers and three poets:
Cervantes, Scott, Montaigne; Virgil, Milton and Shakespeare.
* * * * *
“The peculiar critical genius of G. E. Woodberry is seen to
exceptional advantage. He approaches high matters with a subtle
simplicity that lends a dignity to the texture of his prose, and
reinforces his humane imagination with a singularly concrete and vivid
sense of the individuality of historical periods. The essays upon the
prose writers are perhaps a little more interesting and satisfactory
than those upon the poets.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Carefully wrought and singularly beautiful, Mr. Woodberry is so much
of a poet in temperament that his prose sometimes exchanges simplicity
and clear definition for a vagueness which gives the atmosphere of the
critic’s mind rather than the fullness of his ideas.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 766. D. 7, ’07. 470w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Ralph Waldo Emerson. **75c. Macmillan.
7–3927.
The life of Emerson written for the “English men of letters” series.
“‘The process of a soul in matter’ was his biography,” says Mr.
Woodberry. The life is sketched thru the following chapters: The voice
obeyed at prime, “Nature,” and its corollaries, “The hypocritic days.”
The essays, The poems, and Terminus.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07. S.
=Current Literature.= 42: 288. Mr. ’07. 1410w.
“The volume is charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas
so often luminous and so generally fascinating.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
“In our opinion this is the best of the American volumes that have so
far appeared in the series, and it is about the best work of its
author. But if the book as a whole deserves high praise, there are
still grave reservations to be made. There is altogether too much
repetition; certain ideas, such as Emerson’s relation to the clergy
and the pulpit, come up with needless frequency. And again, there are
a few apparent contradictions that call for reconciliation, such as
the varying portraiture of Emerson now as practical and now as
unpractical. Graver than these are the lapses in scholarship.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 179. F. 21, ’07. 950w.
“It is a book by which we may be content to have our Emerson and his
critics judged on the other side of the Atlantic.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 90. F. 16, ’07. 1260w.
“More serviceable to the student than any previous biography or
criticism, because it expounds Emerson from the inside out instead of
from the outside in. Professor Woodberry’s study is a triumph of sweet
reasonableness; but it is planned without abandonment and executed
without ecstacy.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 83. My. 3, ’07. 1040w.
“It is altogether the best among recent additions to the ‘English men
of letters series’—indeed, quite the most satisfying interpretation of
Emerson which has been offered.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 107. O. ’07. 1050w.
“Professor Woodberry’s treatment of Emerson is adequate and
dignified.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.
=Woodburn, James Albert, and Moran, Thomas Francis.= American history
and government: a text-book for grammar schools on the history and civil
government of the United States. *$1. Longmans.
6–9273.
An attempt “to combine in a single grammarschool text-book the related
subjects of American history and civil government.... The combination
consists of ... the interpolation, just after the account of the
adoption of the constitution, of seven chapters descriptive of the
skeleton of national and state governmental forms.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The style of the historical chapters is not attractive; the
subject-matter is too condensed to be interesting. In the main the
spirit of the book is eminently fair and judicial.” Archibald Freeman.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 196. O. ’07. 690w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 60w.
“The historical narrative, while devoid of literacy merit, is, as a
whole, accurate and well proportioned, and shows skill in selecting
important incidents.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 320w.
− =Spec.= 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 190w.
“The author is admirably successful in bringing his subject down to
the level of those for whom he writes. The style is simple and
picturesque. In a few instances, however, he seems to forget that he
is writing a condensed, general account.” E. D. Fite.
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 101. My. ’07. 310w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow).= Bird of time: being
conversations with Egeria. **$1. McClure.
7–15323.
“Contains a series of essaylike conversations on the subject of the
many-sided phases and attractions of the typical person who came to be
generally known a dozen years ago as ‘the new woman.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Sitting with Egeria and her friends in her ‘sweet, sedate, secluded’
garden, or around her birchwood fires, the reader may hear much good
talk on subjects as old as the story of Joseph and as new as the
balefulness of woman’s economic dependence.... A pretty wisp of story
binds all the parts together.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07.
“Short crisp chapters of conversational give and take.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.
“These conversations of Egeria and her friends are thoroughly
delightful. The pages sparkle. Epigram is kept within bounds, and the
style is natural and pure. The book is of the sort that makes waste
paper of whole shelves full of ‘smart-set’ fiction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
“A book by a woman largely about ‘us women’ naturally contains a good
deal about ‘you men.’ But never does it fall into the humor-lacking
acridities of its class. The proof-reading leaves very much to be
desired.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 380w.
“A series of clever conversations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07, 470w.
=Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
=Woodrow, Nancy Mann.= New missioner. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33209.
“In this story the central figure is Frances Benton, a missionary to
the mining camp of Zenith, and around her is woven a story of much
originality and some force. Here, if we are not mistaken, blackmail as
a missionary’s weapon is introduced into fiction for the first time.
Miss Benson’s advent is not welcomed by the feminine population of
Zenith, and her existence there is not an enviable one.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The author’s delineation of character is clean cut and sympathetic,
and her restraint in the use of thrilling situations, in which most
western stories are too prolific, is commendable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 260w.
“It is an unusual piece of fiction, and more than once really touches
the heart.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Woods, Francis Henry.= For faith and science. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–29070.
“The author’s purpose ... is to indicate how science as a whole is
actually influencing Christian faith and the attitude of intelligent
minds towards Christian faith.... There is a good discussion on the
limitations of the Bible as the standard of faith and morality.... The
main interest is in the third part of the book, which discusses such
problems as ‘Is evolution consistent with the Bible?’ ‘Has science any
valid ground of objection against miracles?’ and so forth.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“We confess that, amid much that is scholarly and sound, we find a
certain lameness in apologetic works of this class.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 696. D. 1. 850w.
=Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 20w.
* =Woods, James Houghton.= Practice and science of religion: a study of
method in comparative religion. (Paddock lectures, 1905–1906.) *80c.
Longmans.
6–22299.
Mr. Woods “classifies religious faiths according as the judgments they
imply are individual, collective, or universal and normative. Under
the first division he considers primitive beliefs not strictly
religious, under the second ancestral systems, and in the third he
includes various forms of mysticism, of the Vedânta system and
Buddhism as well as Christianity.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious]
problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the
employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so
frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s
initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present
also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are
described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels
himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a
clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.
* * * * *
− + =J. Philos.= 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w.
=Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w.
“When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is
clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of
religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious,
without making any solid contributions to the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley).= Invader. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17049.
Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual
personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and
adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and
captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his
young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly
heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the
invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her
husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child,
who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that
play over him.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and
interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at
worst, an ingenious one.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 230w.
“The author writes crisply, and with a skilful command of her chosen
medium. Decidedly a creditable venture.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.
Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.
=Bookm.= 25: 522. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“The interest of this fantastic tale is but moderate, which is chiefly
due to the fact that the author takes her subject over-seriously,
instead of frankly abandoning herself to its possibilities of comedy
and dramatic effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.
“Distinctly repulsive ending.”
− =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 90w.
“It has in fact, a hundred good qualities, which make it well worth
reading. It has one defect which, in our opinion, prevents it from
taking its place beside the ‘Village tragedy,’ or the best of modern
fiction. Our objections to Mr. Woods’s book (against so able a book we
have no scruples about urging objections) is that it falls between the
two stools of fact and fancy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 680w.
“A sufficiently readable novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 260w.
“The story can be commended as readable, and its picture of life in
Oxford is interesting. The background is very well filled in, and the
author has some humor, plenty of sentiment, and appreciable feeling
for inanimate nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“The story is disagreeable and at times offensive to good taste, if
not to good morals.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“Mrs. Woods succeeds better with her female than with her male
characters, which are rather shadowy.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 241. Ag. 24, ’07. 400w.
“It is impossible to deny that the narrative has a certain engrossing
quality, but personally we have no hesitation in expressing our regret
that so much talent should have been lavished on a theme which makes
neither for health nor happiness.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 983. Je. 22, ’07. 1390w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of
Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
W 6–298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The narrative is clogged with details and embarrassed by the
introduction of too many characters, but it is a careful study of the
types and is written with unusual fulness of information.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 130w.
=Woodworth, Joseph V.= Punches, dies and tools for manufacturing in
presses. $4. Henley.
7–8248.
“The author has aimed to give to the practical man as much useful
information as possible on the working of sheet metals, the design and
construction of punches and dies and the manufacture of repetition
parts and articles in presses. The book is a broader and more
comprehensive view of the subject than that given in the author’s
previous work.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“There is probably no other one place where so much valuable data on
this specialty can be found.” W. W. Bird.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Worcester, Dean C.= Non-Christian tribes of northern Luzon. Bureau of
ptg., Manila.
“Professor Worcester, a secretary of the interior in the Philippine
government, has charge both of the ethnological study and the
government of the wild peoples. He has made many trips, some of them
heartbreaking ‘hikes,’ on occasions also incurring serious danger in
regions previously unexplored.... He points out our lack as yet of
detailed studies of these various mountain communities, and publishes
his views only to help ‘awaken interest’ and to stimulate thus the
study needed either to verify or to correct such conclusions as he has
ventured.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 63: 631. S. 12, ’07. 960w.
“This is the latest, and to date the most authoritative, discussion of
the mountain people of Northern Luzon as a whole.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Poems; selected with introd. by Stopford A.
Brooke. *$3. McClure.
Mr. Brooke’s introduction “dwells on the poet’s life at Grasmere, the
effects of the scenery on his genius and moral being, and his
interpretation of that scenery and those effects in his verse.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“For one who has never yet come under the spell of Wordsworth no
fitter passkey could be imagined than is found in [this book].”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 630w.
“In this well-got-up volume literature and art are happily
associated.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 228. Jl. 19, ’07. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Stopford Brooke is always an agreeable literary companion, and in
his introduction to these selections from Wordsworth he is
particularly happy. Several of his touches give us a very human and
intimate knowledge of the poet.” Bliss Carman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 430w.
=Workman, Herbert B.= Persecution in the early church: a chapter in the
history of renunciation. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–26456.
A discussion of persecution in the early church based upon all the
actors both in the inner life and outer environment to which it was
due. The treatment covers the “legal, historical, ecclesiastical and
experiential aspects.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Workman’s book is a valuable contribution to the ecclesiastical
and political history of the first three centuries of Christianity,
and an authoritative study of a very interesting but partially known
subject.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 410w.
“The volume covers much the same ground as Mr. Allard’s recently
published work on Martyrdom, though with differences characteristic of
the two writers. It may be said at once, without any offence to Dr.
Workman, that his writing lacks the charm of style which seems almost
inevitable in a Frenchman: where, however, critical questions are
involved the advantage rests with the English scholar, whose sound
judgment removes him as far from M. Allard’s excessive adherence to
tradition as from the scepticism of Père Delehaye.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 328. Ap. ’07. 3160w.
“This is a really valuable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 732. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Worsfold, Basil.= Lord Milner’s work in South Africa. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–15501.
An intimate view of the official labors of Lord Milner in South
Africa. “Mr. Worsfold has written a straightforward, connected account
of events that are nowhere else so compactly and coherently set forth;
he not only knows his subject thoroughly, but has evidently had
opportunities of gathering much personal information directly from
Lord Milner himself and from other leading actors in the South African
drama; his analysis of the moral and material factors at work is, in
the main, to our mind at least, just and convincing.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being
hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to
tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a
great public servant.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w.
“A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his
subject.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w.
“Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of
Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal
leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.
“His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so
strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own
despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present
volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has
compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent
interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this
present juncture.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w.
“The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord
Milner.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 800w.
=Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 180w.
“A valuable footnote to the history of the South African war and the
reconstruction period immediately following.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“What he does not know at first hand he has been at great pains to
verify by the documentary evidence of blue-books. His story is
consecutive, and the sense of perspective is not wanting. His style is
clear and occasionally dramatic if somewhat diffuse and iterative.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 710. D. 8, ’06. 1770w.
=Wright, Sir Almroth Edward.= Principles of microscopy: being a handbook
to the microscope. *$6.50. Macmillan.
7–25539.
“A scientific treatise on the optical technique of the
microscope, exclusive of actual microscopic work and study. The
theme is illustrated at every step by an exhaustive series of
experiments.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“An exhaustive index leaves the critic with nothing but praise for the
thoroughness which marks every step in the treatment of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 206. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
Reviewed by Thomas H. Blakesley.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 386. F. 21, ’07. 1420w.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi
Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
6–14781.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Colonel Wright, in this latest book, takes a historical point of view
which lends special interest to his discussion.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 190w.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 468. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“With good sense, wide learning, and ripe experience the eminent
statistician opens to young theologians that world of conflict in
which ethical and religious principles are put to severest strain.”
Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 140w.
“Especially interesting are the last two lectures, which are based
largely on the personal experience and observation of the author.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Wright, George Frederick.= Scientific confirmations of Old Testament
history. *$2. Bibliotheca sacra co., Oberlin. O.
7–2423.
“This volume embodies the results of his latest investigations besides
those found in the authors former writings. They show, what other
investigators have held that certain occurrences recorded in the Old
Testament as miracles—the deluge, the destruction of Sodom, the
Hebrews’ fording of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of
Jericho—belong to the history of the natural operation of geological
causes. These causes however, Dr. Wright holds to have been touched
off by the direct act of God to meet the occasions, as really as the
hunter fires his gun.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Is one of the most thorough books of its kind, in a popular form,
lately published. The author’s unabating enthusiasm, his obvious
sincerity, and simple and forcible manner make the book interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 170w.
“Whether in the Old Testament or in the New, Dr. Wright is
uncompromisingly opposed to the conclusions adopted by the majority of
Biblical scholars. Geology is his forte, and the value of the present
volume comes from his researches in that field.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 210w.
=Wright, Hamilton M.= Handbook of the Philippines. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–32869.
A book for the student or traveler which is the outgrowth of
investigations made in the Philippines in order to furnish a complete
report to the Manufacturers and producers association of San
Francisco. It is a practical reference book recording interesting
facts about commerce, productions, industries and prospects. The
illustrations are numerous and suggestive.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.
“Not only is it written with the roseate optimism of promotors’
literature but as a compilation of facts it has been carelessly
prepared, from inadequate study of sources and hasty observations, and
is far from being either accurate or complete.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1371. D. 5, ’07. 580w.
“In which is compactly set forth a great amount of information
concerning the islands and their peoples.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“It is, as an indication of Philippine industrial conditions that the
book has chief value. It is emphatically a reference book, not only
for the tourist but in a greater measure for the business man, the
promoter, the industrialist, the capitalist.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 541. N. 9, ’07. 1060w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 180w.
=Wright, Harold Bell.= Shepherd of the hills. $1.50. Book supply co.
7–26339.
The crude mountaineers of the Ozarks are the people of this story, and
those of them who were not really born to this wild life have come to
it satiated with the ways of men in the world outside and have here
been born anew. It is a strange tale of love, of hate, of deception
and retribution but, although it deals with tough folk and their rough
ways, about it is cast the glamour of the everlasting hills. These men
are men of action and their brawn and muscle when exerted in a good
cause, have all the force of oratory.
* * * * *
“There are many bits of excellent description, in the course of the
story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime
as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 250w.
“Both in the more melodramatic and the more sentimental parts of his
tale he is apt to overdo the thing. With all its crudeness, however,
the story does appeal to one’s admiration of pluck and honesty.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Birdcraft. 7th ed. **$2. Macmillan.
A new edition of a book whose “especial value lies in the way in which
the principal facts concerning a bird—length, color, song, season,
distribution, nest and eggs—are set off in distinct paragraphs, making
reference easy and direct. The only change from the old editions is
the absence of the badly colored plates of minute figures of birds and
the substitution of eighty uncolored plates by Fuertes, including some
of this artist’s best work.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.
“The bird is, so to speak, a guide to the realm of bird-land, well
composed and arranged.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 70w.
* =Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird
year for home and school, il. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–38237.
Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author
does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record
“of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with
a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of
some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead
both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity
offers.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–25136.
“In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition,
criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in
the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet
and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and
intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived
from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with
questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and
character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to
patronise him?”
− − =Acad.= 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w.
“The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the
account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde.
Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s
friends than is the present venture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w.
“This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us
hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.
− − =Bookm.= 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w.
“If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers
who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference
is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative
and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes
very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and
tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w.
“It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of
the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his
work.” Edward Clark Marsh.
− − =Forum.= 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w.
“This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought
not to be.”
− − =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and
culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright
can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the
interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in
style.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w.
“It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography
when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a
Johnson.”
− =Nation.= 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w.
“Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers,
a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little,
and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the
multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w.
“The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect
of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see
Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a
sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to
many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.
− =No. Am.= 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
“Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much
harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want
him out of the way.”
− − =Sat. R.= 103: 590. My. 11, ’07. 1610w.
=Wright, Wilmer Cave.= Short history of Greek literature from Homer to
Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.
7–32173.
A book for the reader who believes that he cannot appreciate
literature unless he can relate the masterpieces to the types set,
once for all, by the Greeks; and also for the student who in the
second or third year at college desires a rapid survey of the whole
field of Greek literature.
=Wrixon, Sir Henry John.= Pattern nation. *$1. Macmillan.
7–11013.
The factors in the problem which Sir Henry Wrixon discusses are stated
in the following: “The problem [of the day] is, What will the poor do
with the rich? It arises when on the political side of life, lawful
government of the majority of the people becomes an established fact
in vindication of the principle that men are equal; while the
industrial and social side of life is still left to be controlled by
methods that have for their foundation the fact that men are unequal
and that their rewards in life are to be unequal also.” His book
answers the question raised in this statement.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 170. Jl. ’07. 400w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 280w.
“The facts and arguments adduced by Sir Henry Wrixon are weighty. They
are presented with an earnestness which commands attention.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 680w.
“The true merit of a volume which in its 172 pages contains more
thought and more wisdom than is often to be found in books of tenfold
its size, is that it suggests ideas which ought to arrest the
attention of the whole English people, whether living in the United
Kingdom, or in the United States.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 223. Mr. 7, ’07. 1950w.
“The essay is valuable as a reflection of a phase of opinion in
England, if not very convincing as an argument.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 180w.
“Is a little book of great merit.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 15, ’06. 1540w.
=Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy.= Historical study of the mother tongue: an
introduction to philological method. *$2. Dutton.
7–15482.
A purely technical work designed as a textbook for students of
philology. “It contains a large amount of information on the history
of the language, the facts of comparative grammar bearing on its
external relations, and the nature of the causes that operate in the
development of language in general.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“To many teachers of the classics it will be a matter of great regret
that an introduction as clear, accurate, scientific, and complete as
this has not yet been written for the young student of the classical
languages.” A. L. Mayhew.
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 134. F. 9, ’07. 1050w.
“One great merit of the work consists in the fullness and lucidity
with which it explains the reasons for conclusions that are too often
presented dogmatically. Although on some points we consider Prof.
Wyld’s views rather one-sided, we have no hesitation in cordially
recommending his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 504. Ap. 27. 1130w.
“A book such as has long been needed by teachers both in Great Britain
and in America. The indexes, prepared by Miss Irene Williams, are
admirably thorough and full.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 400w.
“It is full of specific fact and observation, drawn from the stores of
a wide and sound scholarship. It is, however, in the theories and
principles set forth in the book ... that its main interest lies. The
reader will not always agree with the author, but his own opinions are
pretty certain to undergo some modifications before he has heard him
thru.” George Philip Krapp.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 525. D. ’07. 2200w.
“This is an excellent work for post-graduate students in the Germanic
languages—especially, of course, English—to supplement the usual
courses in historical grammar.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w.
“Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good
index.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w.
=Wyllarde, Dolf.= As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.
The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been
bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are
gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in
scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and
loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great
middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia
Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where
she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an
ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the
members of the British aristocracy.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English
suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and
colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one,
admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with
fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w.
“We must confess to a doubt concerning the open indecency of the talk
at the dinner tables in ‘As ye have sown.’”
− =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 380w.
“The intention of the novel is no doubt good, but why does the author
forget this wholesome tenet, and insist that her reader shall ‘know of
the bad?’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
=Wyllie, M. A.= Norway and its fjords. *$2. Pott.
A “thirty-day scheduled, beaten-track survey of the Norwegian coast”
described by Mrs. Wyllie and pictured by W. L. Wyllie.
* * * * *
“As a monthly tourists’ log, the book is good enough to make the
reader disappointed that it is not better.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 967. O. 5, ’07. 950w.
“It is a pity that the book has not been revised—and abridged—by a
competent hand; for when its author steps down from the lecturer’s
chair, she relates the incidents of travel with spirit, and shows
excellent taste in her description of scenery.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 400w.
“This is one of the literary guide-books which in recent years have
been prepared by persons of culture and observative powers to
supplement the mechanical information contained in the Baedeker series
and their like.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
“What with the chatty intimate style, the excellent descriptions, and
the numerous illustrations of this book, one feels on reading it
almost as though he had been to Norway.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 210w.
=Wymore, Mary Isabel.= Adrienne, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–7474.
“Adrienne,” a tale of the sea, is the first of a group of poems which
are arranged in the order in which they were written, “thus making,”
the author says, “an unbroken chain in the development of an idea.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Wyndham, George.= Ronsard and La Pleiade: with selections from their
poetry and some translations in original metres. $2. Macmillan.
An introductory essay tells the story of Ronsard and the Pleiad and
shows how French and English literature were influenced by the school;
then come the “selections,” which contain the best of Ronsard, Du
Bellay and lesser folk; the volume concludes with sixty pages of
translations of lyric poetry and sonnets in original metres.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wyndham is well fitted for the task. He has caught the spirit of
Elizabethan England, and written admirably and with insight of its
greatest poetry. The necessary compression of treatment leaves us in
some hesitation as to whether the author has not assumed a great many
things on very questionable authority.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1500w.
“Mr. Wyndham has felt, not only the importance but especially the
grace of Ronsard and his school; and he shows, with delicacy of
sentiment, how that grace pervaded their lives no less than their
works.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 381. D. 16, ’06. 2470w.
“His translations are faithful.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 280w.
“He shows us the astonishing fact that it is possible to be a
politician and yet to have the instinct, much even of the craft, of
the poet. Mr. Wyndham writes sharply and emphatically, not lingering
by the way, and often flashing a rapid illumination as he goes. Here
and there his lines creak or cloud.” Arthur Symons.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 543. N. 3, ’06. 1870w.
“The selection is admirably done; the introduction is adequate, though
we are always a little uneasy in reading Mr. Wyndham’s prose. He is
apt to be too luscious for human nature’s daily food, and he has a
wearing habit of using no substantive without several epithets
attached.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 510w.
Y
=Yardley, Maud H.= Sinless. *$1. Fenno.
An emotional story growing out of the almost inconceivable situation
of an unconscious exchange of wives. Two men return to England and
their wives after ten years residence in India. That the wife of one
should greet the husband of the other, be accepted in turn as his wife
and neither find out the mistake for sometime seems a little short of
impossible. The confusion is aided by the fact that both women
responded to “Nell,” and both men were named “Kenyon.”
* * * * *
“Miss Yardley nurses her material with such skill and keeps her secret
so well that the close of the chapter, where she allows the truth to
burst on us, is a triumph of dramatic effect.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The improbability is redeemed by the very delicate way in which the
consequent tragedy is handled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 498. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.
“After [the first twenty-five pages] the story flows languidly in a
stream of verbosity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 434. O. 6. ’06. 150w.
=Yeats, William Butler.= Poetical works. 2v. v. 1. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43534.
This is a volume of Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poems, and will be followed in
the spring by a second containing his dramas. Here are to be found
“Ballads and lyrics,” “The wanderings of Oisin,” “The rose,” “The wind
among the reeds,” “In seven woods,” “The old age of Queen Meave,” and
“Baile and Aillinn.”
* * * * *
“Not all Mr. Yeats’s gifts of music and Celtic magic avail to make the
volume other than a little tedious.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 350w.
“It seems doubtful whether in the mass Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poetry can
be appreciated save by a cult or will be remembered save by the
curious. Yet there are fine things in the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fact that he is occasionally carried away by his love for the old
fairy legends of his native land must not be held against him. It is
only occasionally that he transcends common sense and loses sight of
reason in a fog of mysticism.” Bliss Carman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 1770w.
“Foremost—indeed, as far as permanent value goes, entirely alone—in
this year’s output stands the volume of Mr. Yeats’s collected dramas.”
Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 92. S. ’07. 840w.
=Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For Mr. Yeats’s poetry I have more respectful sympathy than liking. I
wish I liked it better. I feel quite sure that it deserves affection.
Often in phrases and occasionally in whole lyrics it is exquisite. And
it is always admirable in intention, but, somehow, it lacks something.
It does not give the thrill. It is wanting in the pull on the heart.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 118. Ap. ’07. 770w.
“Here the intangible, the illusive and elusive weave their shadowy
world, and one knows not when he returns from it what shapes he has
met; but he knows that he has been in an enchanted place and that his
spirit was stirred.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 590w.
=Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful husband: letters of a happily
married man to his son. **$1. Dillingham.
7–24184.
“The book is in the form of letters from a father who has found
marriage a success to his son. They begin with the young man’s
announcement of his engagement, and are carried on through indefinite
intervals of time as the young husband makes known one and other
problems of married life. The letters consider the questions of
boarding or keeping house, the wife’s allowance, the bride’s
relations, should women work, and other practical and sentimental
matters.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“They are all written in an easy, natural style, enlivened with
anecdotes, and show much common sense of an up-to-date variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24. ’07. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
* =Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful wife. **$1. Dillingham.
7–36141.
The letters of a father to his daughter give some interesting advice,
plenty of humor and a good deal of marital philosophy. “In the first
letter John Sneed gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter,
and in those ensuing he advises her on his problems of married life.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The tenth [letter] deals with [the problem] of raising a family, and
presents homely truths in a pleasant fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9. ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Christopher Columbus and the New world
of his discovery. 2v. *$6.50. Lippincott.
7–3929.
“The central object of Mr. Young’s work is to reveal to the reader
what he conceives to be the personality of Columbus. He has tried to
discover, from a reverent examination of monographs, histories,
essays, memoirs, and controversies, what Columbus did and what he was.
In order that his portrait might not lack reality, he has endeavored
to bring out even his hero’s defects.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It is picturesquely, vivaciously and vigorously written, with here
and there a touch reminiscent of Carlyle. He does not, however, strike
us as an infallible witness, and ‘modern historical research,’ which
may dispose of Washington Irving, is not perhaps always on the side of
Mr. Filson Young.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 627. D. 22, ’06. 1150w.
“The most serious deficiency in Mr. Young’s work is not its occasional
errors, but its great lack of the true historical spirit of
interpretation. It is the work of a clear and versatile writer, but
not of a historical scholar. It will amuse and interest the general
reader and not seriously mislead him as to the career of Columbus, but
from it he will gain little instruction in historical interpretation.”
E. G. B.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 656. Ap. ’07. 630w.
“Is deserving of high praise, and upon the whole it is trustworthy,
notwithstanding the conjectural details which are introduced in order
to impart life and colour to the little that is known of the early
days of Columbus.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w.
“The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the
spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.
− + =Dial.= 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w.
“The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which
Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is
enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he
chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to
listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance
of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his
deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young
and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w.
“The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of
history written by one who has not saturated himself with its
materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in
[the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things
left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s
writings.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a
deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than
the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12:26. Ja. 19, ’07. 360w.
“It is our opinion that he has pressed the theories of the picturesque
school to a dangerous extreme, and he could have attained his purpose
with even greater surety, and without any sacrifice of the dramatic
elements of the story, by writing with more restraint.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 855. Ap. 13, ’07. 1330w.
“The book, take it for all in all, is interesting although badly
written, and its unflinching, almost infernal honesty of purpose
places it far above the too-abundant crop of ‘Memoirs,’ ‘Lifes’ and
‘Notes’ about the doings of quite unimportant men, which literally
stuff the libraries.” R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 576. N. 10, ’06. 1750w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Mastersingers. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“A republication, with some additions, of a series of essays on
musical subjects which appeared several years ago and which has
therefore won something more than ephemeral recognition in England and
America.... Some of the essays are ‘programme’ interpretations of
great symphonies like Beethoven’s Pastoral and Tschaikowsky’s
Pathetic; ‘Tristan and and Isolde’ is a more objective description of
Wagner’s great drama of love and death; and ‘The spirit of the piano’
is a very just appreciation of Chopin’s genius.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As the work of so youthful a writer ... these papers display a
remarkable maturity of thought and even world wisdom; and the fervid
intensity of many passages is intelligible and excusable.” Josiah
Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 170w.
“They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the
‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.
The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal”
are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera
without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music
is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this
handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a
very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea,
in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of
that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical
and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Both useful and attractive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a
manner that older people will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best
when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional
atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to
produce.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Battle of the bears. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–27029.
Mr. Young’s stories of life in the northland all aim to catch and hold
aspects of life which are fast disappearing as civilization penetrates
the wilderness haunts of wolves and bears. “His pictures of nature as
he saw it in that frozen world are remarkable, while the makeshifts to
which he was forced to resort, the privations which he had to endure,
give to the reader an insight into life in this north country such as
has never been before portrayed.”
=Young, Rida Johnson, and Coleman, Gilbert P.= Brown of Harvard. †$1.50.
Putnam.
7–18595.
“The quite simple story of Brown, who is wrongfully suspected by his
sweetheart and her mother, suffers in silence to shield the quite
stereotyped villain, who would have been much more wisely dealt with
if his weakness had had the tonic of publicity, and who inevitably
wins the boat race.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The lively plot, full of ingenious and surprising incidents, and the
very striking dénouement make the reader unwilling to lay down the
book until he has finished it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
Z
=Zangwill, Israel.= Ghetto comedies. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15120.
Fourteen stories of the Jew. Some are little comedies but in some the
comedy element is pathetically lacking. The model of sorrows,
Anglicization, The Jewish Trinity, The Sabbath question in Sudminster,
The red mark, The bearer of burdens. The Luftmensch, The tug of love,
The Yiddish Hamlet, The converts, Holy wedlock, Elijah’s goblet, The
hirelings, and Samooborona.
* * * * *
“Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“We are grateful to him for a book of interesting stories, which give
his readers problems to ponder—and some, maybe, also reason for
despair.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 390w.
“Never has he proved more plainly that a special theme in no way
hampers an artist, if only the artist be sufficiently strong and
fecund to resist over-specialization and to remain alive and sentient
within his chosen field.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w.
“The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of
grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best
tales.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter
to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of
oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in
understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that
fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very
infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w.
“In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to
feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained
greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened,
and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national
as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or
even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which
would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w.
“They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their
predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“They have the compelling force of reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
“When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of
religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware
of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an
enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his
‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w.
“What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is
the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value
but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead
somewhere.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w.
“Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing
interest.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w.
=Zartman, Lester William.= Investments of life insurance companies.
**$1.25. Holt.
7–451.
A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation
attending the recent official investigation of life insurance
companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the
beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have
exercised upon the economic development of the country and the
relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”
* * * * *
“Will interest readers of thoughtful mind, although it is somewhat
restricted in scope, and does not consider many of the most
interesting aspects of insurance. Extremely well done.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.
“The author’s conclusions appeal to the reader as thoroughly sane and
the recommendations as wise and salutary.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 184. Mr. ’07. 220w.
“His method is rigorously scientific, and the result is a most useful
contribution to the subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 164. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 180. Mr. 23, ’07. 2020w.
“There is much information in his book concerning the character and
cost of insurance investments.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w.
“This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those
who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or
other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance
problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J.
M. Gaines.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w.
=Zimmern, Helen.= Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–6779.
“Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual
conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing,
she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about
the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors.
dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems
equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an
archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing
agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions
should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.
“Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her
knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with
the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which
the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed
over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a
hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This
indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of
an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation
must be given to the unusually complete index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w.
“Her equipment as a scholar and writer on many subjects, artistic,
philosophic, and literary, has given her a power of condensed
generalization.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
“The least successful chapters are those on art and literature. Where
facts are concerned. Miss Zimmern is instructive; where personal bias
filters through, her position is radical, anti-church.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 412. D. 13, ’06. 290w.
“An interesting and valuable book on Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
“The whole volume is one of remarkable interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–674.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
=Charities.= 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones.= Court life in the Dutch
republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.
7–11547.
A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in
the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society
and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and
anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch
system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the
complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject
and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and
the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would
make a less dramatic period interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w.
“The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is
excellently written. It should be widely read.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 379. Mr. 30. 700w.
“On the whole this is an admirable historical study.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 580w.
“The real value of this excellent book, illustrated and indexed as it
is, consists in its descriptions, rich in coloring, of the social life
of the period, the Dutch golden era.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 540w.
“Though the Baroness van Nyevelt writes in strained and dignified
style, the picturesqueness of her subject matter gives vividness to
every page of her interesting narrative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 844. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The baroness’ book is a painstaking and readable contribution to the
understanding of the great age of the Dutch republic. If we compare
Mr. Barker and the Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt when they cover the
same ground, it seems fairly clear not merely that the baroness is
better acquainted with the best literature of the subject, but is more
accurate, more fair and more critical in the proper sense of that
term.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 750w.
=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Wherry, Elwood Morris, and Barton, James Levi=,
eds. Mohammedan world of to-day: being papers read at the first
missionary conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo,
April 4th–9th, 1906. **$1.50. Revell.
6–41773.
“These papers exhibit the actual state of things both for better and
for worse, as seen by eye-witnesses long conversant with the facts.
They report both the difficulties in the way of betterment and the
encouraging successes here and there achieved. For an understanding
merely of the problems in world-politics which grow out of
Mohammedanism these papers are valuable, much more for those which
appeal to humanitarian and Christian sympathy. They effectually
dissipate the allusion that Mohammedanism is on the whole, a
beneficent religion, suited to the character of its adherents.
Statistics, maps, and illustrations enrich the volume.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“As in all books of this character the essays vary greatly in merit.
Especial mention should be made of those treating Arabia and India,
which are excellent.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 631. My. ’07. 610w.
“The book has many serious blemishes: it omits North Africa from the
field of view; its index is of little use; and its illustrations, good
enough in their way, are hastily collected from the stock in general
circulation. But its defects do not destroy its interest nor its
profound importance as a careful exhibit of the practical results of
Islam upon the races that have committed themselves to its guidance.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 801. Ap. 4, ’07. 830w.
“They correct some widely current misinformation.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 86, changed “who made of his Seamen’s Bethel” to “who made use of
his Seamen’s Bethel”.
2. P. 459, “insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-” was the incomplete
end of a line.
3. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated surnames. The
portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The
portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a
hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.=
4. Added Table of Contents.
5. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This
is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the
publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup—usually only
the first word but sometimes the entire title.
6. Included “and” in the authors bold markup to be consistent with
majority practice in this book.
7. Added missing “A” heading on p. 1.
8. Silently corrected typographical errors.
9. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
10. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version.
11. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
12. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.
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