Volume six of this history covers the years from 1830 to 1842. Dr.

McMaster discusses affairs under the following headings: Our federal union, State rights maintained, Social conditions, The election of 1832, Nullification put down. The deposits and the panic of 1834, Politics at home and abroad, Activity of the abolitionists, Proceedings of Congress, Speculation and surplus, The end of Jackson’s term, The panic of 1837, Along our borders, A free press and the right of petition, Buckshot, Aroostook, and anti-rent war, The log-cabin, hard-cider campaign and The quarrel with Tyler.

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=Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 6.)

“This author has made to general United States history the most notable original contribution his generation has seen.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 6.)

“With all its faults this history is undoubtedly the best that has been written of the twelve years. It is a storehouse of fact, and brings to light a mass of material which will be as useful to the historian as interesting to the general reader.”

+ + – =Nation.= 83: 483. D. 6, ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 6.)

“Two objections to this method of treatment naturally arise. The first is the lack of definiteness, of finality which every great work of reference ought, in a measure to possess. The second objection, which may not necessarily inhere in the method of the author is the preponderant reliance on the debates in congress and the leading newspaper discussions.” William E. Dodd.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 818. D. 1, ’06. 2870w. (Review of v. 6.)

“His industry in accumulation is greater than his skill in arrangement. His work lacks in wise adjustment and true perspective. He is embarrassed by the enormous amount of his material and has not the courage to omit the non-essential.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 6.)

+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 755. D. ’06. 280w.

=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Course of study in the eight grades. 2v. ea. *75c. Macmillan.

“Our educational machinery has to be made more compact and efficient, and ... [these two little volumes] tell how it is being accomplished. The author gives in detail just what ought and can be done in each grade by a judicious combination of the policies of enriching and pruning. He is not a man of one idea, but is open-minded and progressive in all lines. The very full and carefully selected list of textbooks and side reading for each grade are especially valuable, and would be a safe guide for school-room libraries.”—Ind.

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“[In] chapters devoted to the theory and practice of education ... the author is so overpoweringly verbose that his meaning is frequently lost in a cloud of words.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 575. My. 11. 500w.

“It appears to me that the greatest objection to Dr. McMurry’s course of study lies against the conception that it tends to dissipate the energies of the pupil, rather than concentrate his mind on a definite portion of knowledge that constitutes a part of a subject.” James M. Greenwood.

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+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

“A very valuable volume.” Frederick E. Bolton.

+ + =School R.= 14: 540. S. ’06. 750w.

=McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, and Gale, Mrs. Agnes Spofford (Cook)=, comps. Songs of mother and child. $1.25. Silver.

A collection of about a hundred and fifty poems grouped under the following divisions: “The mother’s heart,” “Evening songs,” “The father’s love,” “The child world” “Child pictures,” “Ministry,” “The empty nest,” “Ideals,” and “The long ago.” The songs are contributed by about a hundred well-known authors.

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+ =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 60w.

“The book is so conscientiously edited and so well-arranged that the gems are easy to find and re-find.”

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=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The writer is supposed to be an officer, lamed for life in the Boer war, who settles down in his own village to get what comfort may be found in a humdrum existence. After a few pages we are at ease in the village of Stowel ... and find the match-making and tea-parties positively exciting.” (Sat. R.) “There are the two Miss Traceys, models of appropriate deportment; there is Mrs. Lovekin, self-appointed and embarrassing co-hostess at every tea-table; there is sweet, faded Miss Lydia Blind, and her sister Belinda, ... there are Anthony Crawshay, frank and free, and Ellicomb, the ‘artistic;’ there are the Darcey-Jacobs, ... and last, but not least, there are the Jamiesons, four spectacled young ladies, and Maud, ‘the pretty one,’ all upon matrimony and good works intent. But all these are after all, but a screen under cover of which Hugo, our diarist, may weave a half-unconscious day-dream unobserved.” (Lond. Times.)

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“The ‘lame dog’ has worked up his diary into a delightful book.”

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“One must read the companionable, pleasant book, warm at the heart with neighbor feeling and radiant with gentle humor.”

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“The romance glowing beneath the light tone of the diary is delightful and novel enough to insure the reader’s attention to the end. The author has a good sense of humor.”

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=Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

“Is refreshing and individual.”

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“One of the shortest and most attractive novels we have read of late years.”

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=MacPhail, Andrew.= Vine of Sibmah: a relation of the Puritans. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The heroine is a beautiful Quakeress, the hero a brave captain in Cromwell’s disbanded army, and about the two central figures are grouped King’s men and Roundheads, Puritans and pirates, Quakers and Jesuits, Indians and soldiers as the scene shifts from old to New England. To save the reader a tiresome search for the title, ‘The vine of Sibmah,’ is found in Isaiah, xvi, 8, and is the text of a sermon preached by Mr. Increase Mayhew as the little fleet led by the ‘Covenant’ started on its voyage to Salem: ‘O, vine of Sibmah, thy plants are gone over the sea.’”—Ind.

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“The story is something more than readable, although it is long-winded throughout and drags not a little toward the end. A critic of the more microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his narrative.” Wm. M. Payne.

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“Here is a good historical novel, one of the best since ‘Hugh Wynne,’ by Dr. Mitchell.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 160w.

“The lover of historical romance will be glad to illuminate the years around 1662 by passing through them with Mr. MacPhail’s well-imagined characters.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.

=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. 4v. per pt., *$2.50. per v., *$15. Putnam.

“Mr. Macquoid’s work is accomplished with great skill and knowledge. His chief defect is that he has no apparent philosophy as a setting for his studies, which would link up the craft of furniture-making with organic history.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 271. Mr. 3. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Mr. Macquoid’s book, when complete, will find a place in every library that devotes itself to costly and well-informed monographs.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

“In fullness of textual descriptions as well as in beauty, variety, and correctness of plates, Percy Macquoid’s ‘History of English furniture’ may be considered a variorum edition.”

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(Review of v. 2, pt. 9 and 10.)

=Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 60w. (Review

of v. 2.)

=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Dickens. 60c. Crowell.

A group of Dickens’ children separated from the crowded thorofares of their story habitat and viewed alone. Oliver Twist, Smike, Little Nell, Paul and Florence Dombey, Pip, Little Dorrit and David Copperfield constitute the group.

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=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

“An admirable and very welcome addition to the literature of the nursery and schoolroom.”

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=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.

“The first chapter of the book sets forth the importance of dogma; in the second, the establishment of dogma is considered at length. The third and fourth treat of human immortality and pre-existence.... The conclusion is reached, that the arguments which may lead us to believe in immortality also make it probable that we have pre-existed....