The book review digest, Volume 02, 1906
Part 3, The decadence of Venice. The author is the leading historical
writer of Italy to-day, and the translator knows his Venice well. The first part, now ready in two volumes, deals with the origin of the people, aspect and form of the city, the houses and churches, questions of constitution, lands, commerce and finance, the dress, manners and customs of the people, industrial and fine arts, and culture.
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=Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope (Ascott R. Hope, pseud.).= Highlands and islands of Scotland; painted by W. Smith, jr.; described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. *$3.50. Macmillan.
A delightful book upon the remoter West Highlands which contains chapters upon Tartans, The Holy isles, The land of Lorne, Pibrochs and Coronachs, Tourists, The outer Hebrides, Children of the mist, etc., in which Mr. Moncrieff describes little trips from one place to another ... the dialects of the people, their manners, etc. The many illustrations in color add much to the charm of the text and include pictures of Glen Rosa in Arran, Loch Linnhe, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, the Hills of Jura, some castles, natives and their homes, views of rivers, falls, lakes, islands, and other places.
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“A lively, readable, rambling book of jottings, very pleasantly written.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 570. My. 11. 90w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
“Fine volume. The author has given us a great amount of mingled instruction and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 90w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“Mr. Monroe can certainly justify his selections, and, take it all in all, has given us a book that is the most useful textbook on the subject that has yet appeared. The work gives evidence of hurried preparation (in certain infelicities of style) and lack of careful proofreading.” George H. Locke.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 945. Jl. ’06. 910w.
“Very suggestive and helpful, in the reviewer’s opinion, is the treatment of education as adjustment, and an interpretation of the history of educational practice and theory from this point of view.” H. Heath Bawden.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 694. Mr. ’06. 1000w.
“The book is thoroughly practical, being divided into well-marked paragraphs and sections; and as it aims to being rather suggestive than exhaustive, it should commend itself to teachers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 240w.
“It is cause for genuine regret that a piece of work so well begun and with such great possibilities should be thus disfigured and damaged by a multitude of errors and blemishes. But with all its faults the book is probably the best thing available for college classes in the history of education.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 116. F. 16, ’06. 2760w.
=Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
=Montague, Elizabeth May.= Beside a southern sea. $1. Neale.
Lorraine, beautiful and passionate, in the absence of her husband to whom she is but a mere doll, finds her soul’s mate in her husband’s brother John. Together they talk of life and its meaning, together they strive to mend the broken lives of a woman who has sinned and a woman who was sinned against, and finally together they go hand in hand out of the story, leaving husband and society for life and love on a South sea island where John has established a Christian community among the natives.
=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in animals. Holt.
Professor Montgomery of the University of Texas regards his work as a prologue rather than an exhaustive treatment of his subject. Giving the experimental method credit for everything that it can do in the direction of interpreting phenomena he turns to the value of the comparative method of which he makes critical tests.
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“Has attained a large measure of success in presenting the general problems of evolution as they appear to-day, with the necessary technicalities succinctly and, on the whole, clearly presented.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 240w.
“A valuable contribution to the methodology of difficult problems in evolution.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 100w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.
“The author’s intimate acquaintance with the great wealth of phenomena and with the extensive literature dealt with in this book, makes it one of particular importance and value to biological students.” E. G. Conklin.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 173. Ag. 10, ’06. 2080w.
=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morss.= First view of English literature. *$1. Scribner.
=Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Certainly the work has the merit of making the study of literature seem a very easy and attractive thing; by no stretching of terms, however, can the _View_ be called thoro. Moreover, as in the _History_, the suggestiveness of the writing is expected to atone for lack of definite statement, dates, etc.” G. C. D. Odell.
+ – =Educ. R.= 32: 317. O. ’06. 410w.
=Moore, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3. Macmillan.
“An extremely clear and interesting account of a vast subject; authoritative, calm, instructive; an admirable handbook and book of reference.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, ’06. 320w.
+ – =Architectural Record.= 18: 471. D. ’05. 980w.
“A study both lucid and critical, of Renaissance architecture by one who may almost be classed as an avowed enemy, without sympathy for the aims and aspirations of the Renaissance architects.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 706. Je. 9. 770w.
“He has discounted the legitimate weight of his argument, and given to what ought to have been a work of impersonal scholarship an atmosphere of carping provinciality.” Royal Cortissoz.
– + =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 390w.
“A volume ... which for insight, scholarship and creative criticism will rank of equal value with the earlier work.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 512. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.
“In spite, therefore, of his somewhat hackneyed subject, Mr. Moore’s book will be found full of original assertions, and the untiring industry of which it is the outcome will no doubt win a certain meed of admiration. But the illustrations are mostly commonplace, and fail to bring out the salient characteristics of the buildings they represent.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 160w.
“From such a promising title we expected at least an intelligent appreciation of this great historical movement in architecture. Instead we find ourselves hurled back into middle Victorianism of the deepest dye.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 173. F. 10, ’06. 1690w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27. ’06. 960w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Jessamy bride. **$2. Duffield.
This new edition of Mr. Moore’s story of the days of Dr. Johnson and his tea-drinking companions is handsomely gotten up and includes seven illustrations in color by C. Allan Gilbert.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Frederick Moore has been the correspondent of the London Times in Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania. He has seen at close range a great deal of the people of the Balkan peninsula, and he has the knack of describing his impressions in concise and vivid language. His book is a real help to the better understanding of countries now in a particularly interesting phase of their political and religious development.”—Outlook.
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“The pictures are of remarkable interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 280w.
“Mr. Moore has succeeded in giving a very good idea of the various peoples of the Turkish part of the peninsula, of the various agencies at work among them and the general conditions of the country. He carried with him a camera, which he used effectively. The illustrations, from his photographs, are excellent, and really illustrate the text.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 264. S. 27, ’06. 1890w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.
“We have been so well supplied with the treatises of publicists on the Balkan question that we can afford to be grateful to a writer with so keen an eye and so modest an intention.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 401. S. 22, ’06. 1350w.
=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A dreamlike study of spiritual development.... The priest who in this story lives by the shore of the lake, has, in a moment of religious zeal, driven from his parish a schoolmistress who has fallen into the deadliest sin that a woman can commit in Ireland; he finds when she has gone that her personality has stamped itself upon his heart irrevocably; and the story told is the story of the gradual development of his nature through love of her, and the learning of the lesson that if he is to find the true life that exists somewhere for each of us, he must strip himself of his priestly office and find his soul in the world of men.... Finally ... it becomes inevitable that in order to leave his parish without scandal and hurt to the simple souls dwelling there, he should swim across the lake and allow it to be supposed that he is drowned.... In the moon light of a warm September night he leaves his priestly clothes and his priestly office upon one shore of the lake and swims across it to the other, where he assumes the habit and destiny of a man. This crossing of the Lake, of course, is at once the spirit and allegory of the book.”—Sat. R.
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“He has never shown himself a more finished artist in words than in this book.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1200. N. 18, ’05. 380w.
“It is such a theme as was wont to appeal to him, but it is not satisfactory; it is all too cloudy. The form of the book is also difficult; and, indeed, the natural descriptions and the sensitive and vivid style are the only things that can be praised without reserve.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 610w.
“Mr. Moore, however, has not risen to the level of his opportunities. Compare ‘The lake’ for instance, with Mr. Temple Thurston’s ‘Apple of Eden,’ of which the subject is essentially the same, and you will see at once how far Mr. Moore has fallen from his former high estate.” H. T. P.
– + =Bookm.= 23: 295. My. ’06. 830w.
“His ‘later manner’ outranks his earlier.” Carolyn Shipman Whipple.
+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 990w.
“The handling is not sensational, but it is not altogether free from the charge of unwholesomeness. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a better piece of writing.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Edinburgh R.= 203: 364. Ap. ’06. 1280w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 630w.
=Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The book has much charm, especially in the first half, and some interest, especially in the second half.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 630w.
“From the point of view of thought and style, the book is certainly on a high plane. We are charmed in the poetical presentation of the picture.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 382. N. 10, ’05. 860w.
“If I dared to suggest a novelist of whom I was vaguely reminded when reading this book, I should name Tourgeneff.” James Huneker.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1780w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Moore’s work is notable for skill of analysis and for charm of style, but it is as free from moral feeling as if there were no guides in the world save instinct and impulse; herein lies the limitation which keeps it out of the class of lasting fiction.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 380w.
“With singular personages and circumstances unhackneyed, he yet contrives a tedious in lieu of a seizing story.”
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. 06. 60w.
“It is a very subtle piece of work, this that Mr. Moore has done; very fine and elaborate, very delicate and profound.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 723. D. 2, ’05. 990w.
=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. *$1.50. Appleton.
“An astoundingly frank book.... Frank and brutal and fascinating.... There is talk about art and literature; but the bulk of the volume is given over to narration of various events in the life of Mr. Moore, events as a rule published after a man has joined his forefathers.... It will be all very shocking to our American fiction-fed public, this outspoken declaration of a man who is not afraid to declare that the love passion is a blessing, good wine a boon, art alone enduring.... There are thirteen chapters. Several of them appeared in a Neo-Celtic periodical. Some are veritable short stories. One, the last, is charged with noble images; ‘The lovers of Orelay,’ is the most attractive tale; all are cleverly executed and ring as if sincere.”—N. Y. Times.
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“He writes with freedom always, and nowadays with greater grace than he was wont to do. But we wish he would exercise his powers on a more worthy object than a too-elaborate parody; for after all we have really no interest in the sort of man and thing he portrays.”
– + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 101. Jl. 28. 690w.
“In the English edition and unexpurgated form, ‘Memoirs of my dead life’ is a shocking book, and its present reviewer delights in the statement.” James Huneker.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 1990w.
“When Mr. Moore is content to leave sexual subjects alone, he writes gracefully and effectively on art and music. Although his judgments sometimes appear hasty and superficial, and introduces into his descriptions a wealth they are always fresh and suggestive. He is particularly sensitive to the moods of nature of poetic imagery.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7, ’06. 730w.
=Moore, J. Howard.= Universal kinship. $1. Kerr.
The chief purpose of this volume “is ‘to prove and interpret the kinship of the human species with the other species of animals.’ The first eleven chapters are devoted to ‘a proof of the physical kinship,’ that is a statement of the idea of evolution leading up to man. In the second group—five chapters—the physical kinship is traced, and much that exists in modern society is but a holdover from mere primitive conditions.... Ultimately the author believes peace, justice, and solidarity will rule.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 177. Jl. ’06. 160w.
“Much of what the author says is true, but in the attempt to prove his thesis he is inclined to ignore the evil side of the brute’s nature and the noble side of human nature.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 400. Ag. 16, ’06. 110w.
– =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Moore, John Bassett.= American diplomacy: its spirit and achievements. **$2. Harper.
“Prof. Moore surveys and analyzes the field of American negotiation and treaty making, and insists upon the fair, square and direct methods in vogue from the beginning to the present time as contrasted with the European evasive and delusive art. Incidentally the book serves as a history of American expansion as well as a number of developments of usage, like the doctrine of expatriation and the falling into abeyance of the ‘right of search,’ in its extreme forms.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Moore clears up many misapprehensions and writes with a precision and clearness of judgment to which few writers can lay claim. This fact is all that redeems the book from the combined faults of brevity and comprehensiveness. Throughout the volume, Mr. Moore speaks with the authority derived from a thorough mastery of the sources, and with a refreshing disregard of views that have gained currency through mere force of repetition. His general treatment is free from conventional bias.” John Holladay Latané.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 692. Ap. ’06. 710w.
“Whatever he writes is both authoritative and interesting, and shows the most intimate knowledge.” James Wilford Garner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 253. Ja. ’06. 560w.
“One may question his assignments of space or of historical importance to one topic or another, or his judgments of men and events, though to the reviewer these seem on the whole to be admirable.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 40: 190. Mr. 16, ’06. 4440w.
“The story of the struggle for this concession is told with the same masterful command of all the material which characterizes each of the essays in this most valuable volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 420w.
“We have found the book entertaining as a non-chronological narrative, but less valuable as an exposition of principles. Indeed, as an expounder of principles, the author writes in altogether too patriotic a vein to be weighty.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 247. Mr. 22, ’06. 1050w.
“This book is stimulating to one’s patriotic ardor; it presents a fine record and it is certainly clearly set forth in sound and straightforward English. It would appear not unreasonable to suppose that such omissions as have been noted may have caused the emphasis to be improperly distributed.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 855. D. 2, ’05. 2280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 137. S. 15, ’06. 1940w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 726. D. 2, ’05. 270w.
“Professor Moore’s own reputation as a diplomat is equaled by his ability to write forceful, clear, and fascinating essays.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 200w.
=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern cotton mills. †$1.50. Winston.
Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children are given back their childhood.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Moore, Mabel.= Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.
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“The book may be commended for its simple and straightforward description of the successful labours of the Fathers of Carthage on a spot where the depredations of the natives are fast destroying the ancient remains and monuments. But we cannot follow it in the suggestions and theories which it contains.”
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 190w.
“As an account of the diggings in three principal necropolises, the book is of real value to the student of archaeology, altho it contains no great treasures.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 200w.
“When the author passes from fact to comment and conjecture her work is not so valuable. But there is very little in the book that departs from the category of facts, and for the exhaustive care which has been displayed in compiling this record from the many publications of the White fathers and from other sources there can be nothing but praise.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 500w.
“The tourist who visits northern Africa today will find this volume worth taking along. Where the author diverges from her story of the finds to matters of history or ethnology some inaccuracies appear.”
+ – – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“As an appetiser nothing could well be better than this little treatise.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
A half-dozen stories that portray fearless young heroines, some of whom are drawn from royalty of mediaeval times.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 280. Ja. ’06. 130w.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Durer. *$2. Scribner.
“The reader must go elsewhere for a full and formal narrative of Dürer’s career, but Mr. Moore will take him close to the secret of the German master’s art.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 150w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is soon apparent that Mr. More deals competently with all or nearly all of his topics; he writes on the basis of an uncommonly broad and serious general preparation, and after supplying himself specifically with the knowledge appropriate to each task.” George McLean Harper.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 561. O. ’06. 3980w. (Review of series 1–4.)
“Fully up to the standard of the two earlier books.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 690w. (Review of third series.)
More five o’clock stories in prose and verse. 75c. Benziger.
Mainly legends of saints written for the instruction of Catholic young people.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
A group of valiant and unconquerable men have their deeds exploited in these pages. They range from the daring Norsemen and Columbus to the indefatigable Peary. The author has caught the spirit of romance and adventure necessary to make these men fit subjects for our young American’s hero worship.
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“A popular work of a most acceptable type.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 210w.
“It is well suited to the needs of young readers—particularly as collateral reading in school—and some of their elders will also enjoy the compact but graphic narrative.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 80w.
“These tales are interesting and inspiring, and furnish an adequate notion of what was accomplished in the great work of discovering a continent.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 258. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“In the main his narratives are trustworthy but there are some striking exceptions.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 190w.
=Morris, Clara (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott).= Life of a star. **$1.50. McClure.
“In her new volume, ‘The life of a star’, as in her earlier ‘Life on the stage,’ Clara Morris mingles with the natural vivacity of the artist’s attitude a certain charmingly feminine intimacy and frank egotism. It is quite as if the actress clothed her memory in a bewitching, much-beribboned house gown and sat down to enjoy a cup of tea with it. Happily it is a serviceable memory, flexible, and well provided with material. Years of entrances and exits, plaudits, receptions, and train-catchings brought the actress into flashing contact with many interesting people of the passing generation.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It will bear comparison with some of the best of similar work by authors of acknowledged rank in literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 290w.
“In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly elevated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 590w.
“While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows pleasantly.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 60w.
“Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
“To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto, Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from photographs.
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“His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being laboured, and learned without being dull.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A readable book. His materials are neither abundant, nor of first rate authority. The portraits in the volume are excellent, except the one of the Mikado, which is old and hackneyed.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 205. Ag. 25. 1920w.
“Not a past master in literary composition is Mr. J. Morris. It is just the book needed, and often called for in vain at many libraries.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 326. N. 16, ’06. 510w.
“His book is invaluable because it turns from things of the spirit and gives what is virtually a biographical history of the new Japanese government and nation, laying emphasis upon the concrete and tangible.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 400w.
“Than this volume no more readable or reliable book on Japan has been produced of late years.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 661. N. 3, ’06. 390w.
=Morris, Sir Lewis.= New rambler, from desk to platform. $2. Longmans.
Twenty-eight short papers and addresses which deal “with the place of poetry in education, with provincial ‘institutes’ with a school of art, with the education of girls, with the teaching of science.” (N. Y. Times.) “Especially commendable are the remarks on ‘The place of poetry in education.’ Talleyrand’s warning to the youth who had no taste for whist,—‘Young man, you are preparing yourself for a miserable old age,’—he thinks might also be addressed to the young person insensible to the charms of poetry.” (Dial.)
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=Acad.= 69: 1172. N. 11, ’05. 1120w.
“His experience of life and acquaintance with literature make his reflections and reminiscences and counsels well worth reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 430w.
“The picture which most of the discourses conjure up is that of an elderly gentleman whose juniors have asked him his opinion, more out of politeness than curiosity, on some subject about which he really knows no more than they do, and who therefore proceeds to expound with all the pomp of platitude, and the manner of one who has discovered the obvious after years of profound reflection.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 434. D. 8, ’05. 430w.
“Many of the essays—indeed, most of them—are excellent reading; the addresses bear unmistakably the mark of the British beast. You can see in your mind’s eye as you read the solid provincials listening to the words of the distinguished speaker. And the words are dull and the matter quite lacks the whimsicality and individuality, the personal note, which lends the essays charm.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 490w.
– =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 310w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.
=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.
A book for the general reader. In approaching the interpretation of the markings of Mars the author gives a brief historical summary of what has already resulted from observation, shows in what proportion the constantly changing canals reveal evidence of life, and presents what he has been able to draw of the Martian details, with a transcript of his notes made at the time of observation, and finally has made an imaginary sketch of how the world would look from Mars.
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+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 300w.
“A fascinating question is here discussed in a plain and thorough treatment for the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 380w.
“The book is marred in one or two places by a rather savage personal attack upon a British astronomer in good standing, partly, apparently, on account of religious convictions. The book is interesting, and well worth reading to all these who wish to learn the opinions of various authorities on the most fascinating of all planets.” Wm. H. Pickering.
+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 540w.
=Morse, John Torrey, jr.= Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee. **$3. Little.
“A timely contribution to Massachusetts biography.... The memoir, which is followed by selections from the writings and speeches of Colonel Lee, is hardly a biography, but rather a biographical sketch dealing with the subject’s early life, his career in the Civil war, and his connection with Harvard.”—Am. Hist. R.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 60w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 18. Ja. 4, ’06. 1370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 888. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
“Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital importance.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 440w.
=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.
“In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by “The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
“It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in many a day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
“Is a graceful little idyll.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 50w.
“While the romance is slight, it is refined and combines strength with pathos.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.
Beginning with the Booths, the author has given a series of delightful sketches and stories of the Jeffersons, the Drews, the Barrymores, the Sotherns, the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wallacks, the Boucicaults, the Davenports and the Powers. In connection with them many other noted names are dealt with, and the whole is illustrated with 40 full page plates and provided with a valuable bibliography. The volume is both authoritative and interesting and will appeal to theatre-goers, playwrights, critics, and readers in general.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The volume has no index, but it needs one.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“Of the information contained in this book there is much that is useful, much more that is trivial, but very little that is original, and of that little it must be added none is particularly valuable.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 310w.
“The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been judiciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved, and the reader might infer that the living had often proved themselves equal to the dead.” Brander Matthews.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 540w.
“It is delightful reading in a general way, full of attractive personalities and episodes connected with the most picturesque of professions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“This is perhaps the most useful and informing single volume on the American stage, past and present, that the general reader, who is also a lover of drama and of acting, can place upon his bookshelves.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 130w.
“It is written in a spirit of reverence and appreciation for the work of the past generation, and with generosity and sympathy for the living representatives.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 160w.
=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions. His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.
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“It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset. None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 530w.
“The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical. It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 330w.
“She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to lay it down until the last word is read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 699. O. 27, ’06. 720w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 290w.
Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c. Duffield.
All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry L. Smith has designed for them.
=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
“We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23, ’05. 220w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 889. D. 30. 360w.
“Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 230w.
“It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to discourage many readers.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters; with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H. Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.
Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of incident.
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“As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.
– =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 610w.
“The subject and love of the subject make the whole story clear and its prose good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 520w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
“The chapter on ‘George Eliot’s’ life is, we think, a mistake. Mr. Mottram tells us nothing that we did not know before; but he does condescend to something like special pleading.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 150w.
=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“In the first fourteen chapters the book sets forth the methods by which the science is developed, the important features of the solar system and the mechanical principles involved in celestial dynamics.... On the firm grounding of facts set forth in the first fourteen chapters, the evolution of the solar system is discussed with a fulness and precision found in no other astronomical work of its grade.... The final chapter is devoted to stars and nebulæ in which, as before, the selection of the important things is notable.”—J. Geol.
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“The book is well brought up to date.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 830w.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 569. Jl. ’06. 160w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.
“There is sometimes a tendency to expand verbosely.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 140w.
“The work is to be heartily commended to the geologist who wishes a brief and trustworthy summary of the recent developments in astronomical science.” T. C. C.
+ =J. Geol.= 14: 458. Ag. ’06. 580w.
“Students of astronomy will find in Prof. Moulton’s volume an excellent text-book which, by its lucidity and wealth of detail, will enable them to obtain a fairly thorough grasp of their subject.” W. E. R.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 538. S. 27, ’06. 320w.
“He has arranged his material logically and convincingly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 60w.
“This book is an elementary, descriptive text, suited to those who are approaching the subject for the first time, and from this point of view the selection of material is quite satisfactory, though not always presented in logical order.” W. J. Hussey.
+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 397. S. 28, ’06. 570w.
=Moyes, Rt. Rev. James.= Aspects of Anglicanism; or, Some comments on certain incidents in the ’nineties. $2.50. Longmans.
From a Roman catholic standpoint these papers throw “many lights upon the inconsistency of the Anglican position, the historical flaws in the Anglican title, and the weakness of the arguments advanced against Rome.” (Cath. World.)
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“Monseigneur Moyes’ able articles are worthy of their present permanent form.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 270. My. ’06. 530w.
=Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.
=Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus.= Mozart, the man and the artist as revealed in his own words, comp. and annotated by Friedrich Kerst, tr. into Eng., and ed. with new introd. and additional notes, by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
“[The translation is] especially praiseworthy for its faithful and delightful reproduction of the composer’s colloquial and careless epistolary style.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
“The translations have been admirably made by Mr. Krehbiel, and his additions to the notes (indicated by brackets and his initials) are valuable.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
=Müller, (Friedrich) Max.= Life and religion; an aftermath from the writings of the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller by his wife. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A volume of extracts from the writings of the late Professor Max Müller, selected and arranged by his wife. It is not a controversial work, and should not be treated as such; rather, it is as though the veteran humanist and philologist invited the reader to sit with him by the fireside, and there confided to him the thoughts and aspirations which had guided his path during a long and successful life.”—Dial.
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“The first impression of the book is perhaps a little disappointing; because, from its necessarily disjointed nature one does not instantly perceive the uniting thread. Many of his paragraphs sound much like the empty professions of those who have learned such things by rote; but one does not read far without finding that the author speaks whereof he knows.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 40; 152. Mr. 1, ’06. 630w.
=Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 80w.
“We will say frankly that while all that we find here about ‘Life’ is admirable, some of the utterances concerning ‘Religion’ seem of less value.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 873. N. 25, ’05. 220w.
=Muller, (Friedrich) Max.= Memories: a story of German love; tr. by George P. Upton, il. new ed. $2.50. McClurg.
The memories span the way from childhood to manhood and reveal introspective fancies about the “soul that rises with us, our life’s star” as it gradually expands to meet the demands of love which in this instance is exquisite agony. The book is prettily illustrated and appears in holiday binding.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“The story lacks plot, incidents or situations truly, but it abounds in beauty, grace, and pathos that strongly appeal to those influenced by ideality and the love of nature.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 30w.
=Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.
“Dr. Munk’s style is wholly lacking in literary finish, but his account of ranch life and other matters in the southwestern corner of the United States teems with interesting facts and photographs.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 100w.
“This is a good example of a new type of book, in which the literary element is subordinate to the pictorial.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 8O. Ja. 25, ’06. 860w.
=Munn, Charles Clark.= Girl from Tim’s place; il. by Frank T. Merrill. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The author’s heroine and surroundings are not fictitious. ‘Tim’s Place’ was in the northern wilderness of Maine, to which Mr. Munn goes in the hunting season, and the girl was employed by its owner, who compelled her to work barefooted and gave her only the cast-off clothing of men to wear. The story of her escape and after life compose the book.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 60: 1376. Je. 7, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 169. Ja. ’06. 470w.
=Murray, A. H. Hallam.= High road of empire: sketches in India and elsewhere. **$5. Dutton.
With special attention to the picturesque side of travel along the “highways of a fascinating land,” the author aims “to recall pleasant memories to those who have already fallen under the spell of its potent charms,” and to awaken in the less fortunate “the determination to become better acquainted with the great empire in the East.”
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“A volume of which the text is perfect for its easy common sense.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 670w.
“The writer can make his somewhat commonplace experience alive by a reserved enthusiasm.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 540w.
“One feels, after reading it, that one has passed some pleasant hours with a gentlemanly, well-informed companion, nowhere obtrusive, nowhere tiresome, nowhere pretentious.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 470w.
“The accompanying narrative combines with many a bright picture of contemporary Anglo-Indian society just enough history to give permanent value to the book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 150w.
“The text is pleasant, gossipy talk, with a due modicum of history and archaeology.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 110w.
“His book is as refreshing as if it dealt wholly with untrodden paths and fields.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“A very pleasing book on India.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.
“The author treats of the varied features of India with an intimate and illuminative touch. Entertaining and instructive text.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“A most excellent, accurate, praiseworthy, intelligent book, written by one who invariably goes to matins when he can, and whose heart is full of sympathy for India. But he does not see India; that is the pity of it!”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1270w.
“A pleasant mixture of guide-book and history, ‘The high-road of empire’ gives both to eye and ear a vivid impression of the East.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 541. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
“The absence of the constructive method, even of ordinary coherence in the story, indicates an unaccustomed hand.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 120w.
“Mr. Myrick knows a great deal about the West and has diligently collected a lot of material of historical value, but he has spoiled it by diluting it with a trashy romance.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
“His plot is of the simplest, his language crude, and his construction awkward, but there is about the book a flavor of sincerity and intimate knowledge that holds the interest even of those who may be disposed to regard it as a dime novel in pretentious garb.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 853. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
“As a romance the merit of the publication is not conspicuous enough to invite serious comment. As a curiosity the book is quite worth looking over, both for what is in it and the elaborate arrangement of the material into forewords, prologues, parts, epilogues, and addenda.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 270w.
“A Third avenue melodrama de luxe.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
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=Nayler, James Ball.= Kentuckian. $1.50. Clark.
This “is a narrative of Ohio in the sixties, and is concerned with the operations of the Underground railroad and the exploits of a gang of horse thieves. The hero is a young man from the other side of the river, who becomes the district school teacher, and falls in love with the prettiest of his pupils. This is not exactly an original invention, but it may be allowed to serve once more.”—Dial.
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Reviewed by William M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 140w.
“A delightful old-fashioned story with many midnight turns in it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1220. My. 24, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
=Needham, Raymond, and Webster, Alexander.= Somerset house, past and present. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This exhaustive history of the Duke of Somerset’s palace, the illustrations of which include many reproductions of interesting portraits and old prints, embodies the results of much arduous research, in the course of which many new facts have been discovered. It is indeed far more than a mere account of a famous building, for its authors have made excursions into archaeological and topographical by-paths, so that it will appeal to the antiquarian as well as the student of history.” (Int. Studio.)
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“We lay down this book with admiration of its thoroughness, and a clear perception that it is a notable addition to the literature of London.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 33. Ja. 12, ’06. 1290w.
“The authors have done their work well, and produced an illustrated history of one of London’s most important palaces which is both accurate and interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1190w.
“They have interwoven into their history of Somerset house much that is new, or rather much that has never found its way into the pages of the standard English histories.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 160. Jl. 19, ’06. 500w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Our author’s vehement protestantism is somewhat too much in evidence.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 495. Je. 14, ’06. 1580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 830w.
“The student will find within their pages much to which access is difficult elsewhere.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 240w.
“A capital book, pleasantly written and remarkably accurate.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 824. Je. 30, ’06. 1290w.
=Negri, Gaetano.= Julian the apostate: an historical study; tr. by the Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese, with an introd. by Pasquale Villari. 2v. *$5. Scribner.
“The author uses the person of Julian as a lay figure on which to arrange his philosophical tenets, in the form of a trophy.” (Lond. Times.) Julian was “a man of brilliant intellect and strenuous morality in revolt from a corrupted Christianity. As such the Emperor Julian gained from the Church of his time the name of ‘Apostate,’ which has stuck to him since. As such he heads a long line of those whom the false representatives of Christianity have scandalized into rejection of the faith presented to them so deformed and smirched.... He is not, however, hindered by his admiration for the austere idealist who is his hero from seeing his faults and fallacies, and pronouncing ‘insane’ his attempt to revitalize and purify an effete and corrupted paganism.” (Outlook.)
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“May not be free from minor defects, but it has this great merit—that there is perfect sympathy between the author and his subject and for this reason it may be said to add to our knowledge of this most fascinating emperor, though it brings to light no new facts about his brief and romantic career. Though some obscurities may be due to the author, the translator shows a disposition, regrettable in what is intended to be a popular work, to employ unfamiliar and borrowed words where simpler terms might with advantage have been used.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 87. Ja. 27, ’06. 1510w.
“The work is diffuse, and even repetitious, but never tiresome. Without a knowledge of the original, one may believe the translator to have been for the most part successful.” Francis A. Christie.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 631. Ap. ’06. 1150w.
“The monograph, which is written in a delightfully interesting style, is evidently based on a careful and discriminating study of the original authorities. The translator’s accuracy is almost equal to her taste, but we may note a few trifling corrections.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 830w.
“Some slips will be found in these two large volumes, and one rather large error—the acceptance as genuine of Julian’s letters to Iamblichus.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 324. Ap. 19, ’06. 600w.
“Gaetano Negri, whose volume has been thoroughly well translated from the Italian, treats his subject with an understanding untouched by partiality.” George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 529. S. 1, ’06. 1020w.
“His study of the original sources, both pagan and Christian, has given him an intimacy with Julian’s life and Julian’s world which imparts vitality both to his work and to the interest of its readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
“Much praise is due to the Duchess Visconti-Arese for the excellent rendering of this work. It is full of boldness and originality. We are only afraid that the unwieldy presentation of his mature reflection may compromise its undeniable merit.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 143. F. 3, ’06. 1800w.
“Signor Negri’s volumes on Julian deserve a cordial welcome. His philosophy of history and his philosophy of religion are almost as vague as Julian’s, and are not very illuminating; but the crowded pictures they contain of Julian and his contemporaries will be found interesting and informing even by those who are familiar with Gibbon and Harnack.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1008. Je. 30, ’06. 1860w.
Nelson’s encyclopædia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman. 12v. $42. Nelson.
“A high class reference work for busy men. Since there is no pretence to literary merit the lack of it can scarcely be criticized.... Each distinct part on a large subject is treated as a separate article in its appropriate alphabetical order.” (Nation.) “British and American authorities have collaborated in its preparation.... Much of it appears to have been freshly written up to date.... Biographical articles are numerous, and personal estimates, when included, are generally judicious and impartial.... Copious illustrations are a strong point in this work—over fifty full-page plates, plain or colored in each volume, with a multitude of minor sort.... Maps also occur in abundance.... A vast amount of information has been compressed into the very moderate limits of a twelve-volume work.” (Outlook.)
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“To sum up—this first volume leads us to believe that ‘Nelson’s encyclopedia’ will be a compact, accurate, agreeably written presentation of the sum of human knowledge at the entrance of the twentieth century.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 560w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite many grave faults, it is, in concise treatment of topics of general and current interest, perhaps the most useful compilation yet published.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“It seems as if the ideal cyclopedia had been found for readers of English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Careful examination and impartial criticism will yield a favorable opinion of the new work.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 670w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“This is perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet made in this country to produce a low-priced encyclopedia of first-class literary quality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Topics, brought well up to date and treated with a thoroughness hardly surpassed in more pretentious works.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Gentleman ragman; Johnny Thompson’s story of the Emigger. †$1.50. Harper.
The ubiquitous office boy of the village newspaper bursts into print in these series of humorous sketches and tells in his own way all about his editor, his editor’s friends and the people of Plainville in general. The result is genuinely funny from the story of how the barefoot cure succeeded so well in Plainville that not one of the patients ever suffered from bare feet again, to the account of how a rural shopping expedition was conducted. An old feud and a tangled three-stranded love interest carry the thread of the story to a happy ending and a double wedding.
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“An ample native Americanism in man, woman, and boy is unfolded with full measure of native American humor in the language of the country, resulting in a fabric, inexpensive but entirely wholesome and clean.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 80w.
“Literally and hilariously, a ‘howling success.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The book will find favor with many readers who enjoy a good-natured, satirical view of their neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Nesbitt, Frances E.= Algeria and Tunis; painted and described by Frances E. Nesbitt. *$6. Macmillan.
Seventy colored illustrations picture scenes which the traveler meets by rail from Algiers to Constantine and Tunis. There are streets, buildings, mosques, scenes in the market, in the homes and in the deserts, and there are evening effects with “transparent purity” and “colour in crystal clear.” The accompanying text provides historic and descriptive bits of interest to the tourist.
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“The author does both pictures and print, and does both well; but her sketches are more valuable as well as more delightful than her descriptions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 278. S. 8. 820w.
“In spite of this laxity of language and of a certain amount of worked-over, guide-book information, the volume is unmistakably written by one who possesses the artistic temperament, a keen eye for color, and upon whom light and shadow exert their magic power.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 530w.
“While the work is delightful from every standpoint to the reader in a quiet library, we trust that, for the sake of the intending traveler, an edition may be published in small compass, even at the risk of omitting the charming illustrations of the present volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 100w.
“It is altogether an extremely pretty and artistic gift-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w.
“The pen descriptions, too, are very good; now and then we get an element of humour, and now and then of sentiment; but all is marked with a literary touch of unmistakable skill.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
Lady Dorothy Nevill, daughter of Horatio Walpole, now eighty years old, goes back in her reminiscences to England of the ’thirties. “During a long life—she began to keep a diary in 1840—she has known ‘everybody,’ as the phrase goes; has been on the best of terms with princes, peers, parsons, and peasants; has dabbled in literature and seen much of literary men and women; has enjoyed political meetings and race meetings almost equally; has seen every play and made friends with all the prominent players. But she has never made systematic notes, or kept a journal for long together, so that her reminiscences are what they pretend to be—stories or impressions called to mind after a long lapse of time.” (Lond. Times.)
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“At the end of the publishing season these reminiscences will probably be described as the liveliest volume that it has produced. It is crammed with good things from beginning to end.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 413. O. 27, ’06. 1160w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s recollections resemble nothing so much as drawing-room conversation in its happier moments. They are bright, charitable, rather inconsequential; and if they sometimes descend to trivialities, a pointed anecdote soon brings gaiety back again.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 574. N. 10. 1530w.
“A lively picture of the past and a not less vivacious account of some aspects of the present.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book is full of good things, scattered over its pages without much regard to order. The part of the ‘Reminiscences’ which, to be frank, disappoints us is that relating to Lord Beaconsfield.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 1520w.
“It is, then, not as a profound study of men and manners that the reader will find this volume of reminiscences valuable, but rather as a series of brilliantly coloured sketches of social life in early and mid Victorian times.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 788. N. 17, ’06. 1720w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
Mr. Nevinson traveled incognito thru the Portuguese province of Angola in west central Africa for the purpose of discovering the true facts of the tyrannical slave-trade secretly carried on by the Portuguese in spite of the Berlin treaty of 1895. The chapters of his book reveal a dark blot on the page of present-day history, and make a plea to the just and compassionate for its removal.
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“His volume deserves careful reading by all who can help in bringing to an end the abominations it pathetically describes, and it ought to be of considerable service in furthering that object. Incidentally it supplies much welcome information about the general conditions of life in this part of Africa.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 840w.
“The book is deeply interesting and gives the impression of being over-drawn in no particular. The author’s tone is moderate and he evidently relates the situation exactly as he saw it and not as he might have seen it.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 280w.
“Quite apart from its merits as a study of slavery, the book is fascinating in its descriptions of African life and scenery, and is a most admirable book of travel.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 998. O. 25, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 21. Jl. 5, ’06. 1250w.
“Mr. Nevinson describes in detail and in picturesque and weird language the wickedness and horrors that he went out to see.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 1270w.
“His narrative impresses us as the work of a careful, keen, and honest observer, and while it includes much resting on hearsay, it also presents evidence that seems imperatively demanding an answer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Compendium of spherical astronomy with its applications to the determination and reduction of positions of the fixed stars. *$3. Macmillan.
“The first of a projected series having the double purpose of developing the elements of practical and theoretical astronomy for the special student of the subject, and of serving as a handbook of convenient reference for the use of the working astronomer in applying methods and formulæ.... The volume now before us ... is for astronomers, who will find it exceedingly useful for reference in their investigations.... The whole is divided ... into three parts; the first on preliminary subjects, the second on fundamental principles of spherical astronomy, and third on the reduction and determination of positions of the fixed stars. The nine appendixes supply a number of handy tables and formulæ.”—Ath.
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“Is the most important addition to the literature of the subject since the appearance of the works of Chauvenet and Oppolzer. The volume is invaluable both to the advanced student and to the professional astronomer. The usual number of misprints, apparently inevitable in a first edition, have made their appearance, but none of those noted are likely to cause the reader any great difficulty.” F. H. Seares.
+ + – =Astrophys. J.= 24: 305. N. ’06. 840w.
“Great care has evidently been used in securing the accuracy which is especially desirable in a treatise of this kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 245. S. 1. 630w.
“Much of the information is set down in a readily accessible form for the first time, and all of it by a master hand. Of the value of the book to the student, especially to the beginner, we are more doubtful.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 760w.
“We do not know a more excellent book on its subject.” P. H. C.
+ =Nature.= 74: 379. Ag. 16, ’06. 820w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 40w.
“This work is too technical for review in our columns, and we need only say that, for the purpose of the astronomer, it fully comes up to the expectations raised by Professor Newcomb’s great reputation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 240w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of popular science: essays and addresses. **$2. Harper.
Twenty-one popular essays and addresses dealing with the structure, extent and duration of the universe, and with other general scientific subjects, are here gathered together under such chapter headings as: The unsolved problems of astronomy, What the astronomers are doing, Life in the universe, How the planets are weighed, The fairyland of geometry, Can we make it rain? The relation of scientific method to social progress, and The outlook for the flying machine. The volume has two dozen illustrations and a good index.
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=Current Literature.= 41: 688. D. ’06. 580w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 250w.
“There is a wide field of entertaining information in Professor Newcomb’s book. One can depend upon the accuracy of the information offered ... and one can be sure of picturesque treatment of a subject of the most absorbing interest.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It would be hard to find a serious book more entertaining, or a light book that affords better exercise in reasoning.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 544. D. 20, ’06. 840w.
“We would commend the volume to all desirous of obtaining a trustworthy idea of the present state of astronomical knowledge and of the problems which still baffle the astronomer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Newman’s groupings of principles and motives are on a broad and comprehensive scale, and are free from the ambiguity that mars so many works on musical criticism.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Newman, John Henry, cardinal.= Addresses to Cardinal Newman, with his re- Neville. *$1.50. Longmans.
“Before his death, Father Neville, Newman’s literary executor, prepared the contents of this volume for the press. Its main contents are a collection of sixty odd addresses to the Cardinal, with his replies, on the occasion of his elevation to the purple. There is also a prefatory narrative of the events relating to the conferring of that dignity. The letter of Cardinal Nina offering the hat, and Newman’s reply, as well as his letter to the pope, are given in English, while the Italian and Latin forms are found in an appendix.”—Cath. World.
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+ =Cath. World.= 82: 702. F. ’06. 190w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 540w.
“No student of Cardinal Newman should neglect this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 310w.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
The translator says: “In preparing a new translation of the Nibelungenlied, my aim has been to contribute to an expansion of the knowledge of a work that affects us more nearly than the Iliad, for it is the product of the poetic faculties of the race to which we belong. I have followed the original, phrase by phrase, without avoiding the negligencies, the obscurities, the repetitions, that it presents.... The text of the Nibelungenlied has been the subject of extended commentaries and profound study, and I have felt myself bound to render it with most respectful exactitude.”
=Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Persons who enjoy well-written mystery tales will not be disappointed in ‘The house of a thousand candles.’”
+ =Arena.= 35: 110. Ja. ’06. 290w.
“The wonder is, not that Mr. Nicholson did passably well, but that he did not do a good deal better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The story is common in type, but unusual in quality.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
“Despite its impossibilities, has won its way into the select circle of the ‘six best sellers.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 510w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Poems. *$1.25. Bobbs.
Three score lyric poems which touch the chords of memory, of hope, of love and happiness and sorrow.
“Now ’tis the violins that loudest cry, And now in saddest key the ’cellos sigh. ·········· Chords that are love and life, and even the sharp, Hard pain of death—chords of the golden harp.”
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“In these verses he reveals a delicacy of perception, a love of nature and an appreciation and reverence for the deeper and finer things of life which one would little suspect in the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 221. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“We find in these pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the earlier ones—the natural mark of a maturer experience and a widened outlook.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Despite many fine single lines in the book, it is mainly pleasurable because of its variety of reminiscent moods.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.
=Nicolay, Helen.= Boys’ life of Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Century.
Authoritative, in that it is based upon the standard life of Lincoln by his secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, well illustrated and simply told, this young people’s story of the great American citizen will appeal to all young Americans who are some day to become citizens.
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“Miss Nicolay has succeeded in presenting a thoroly human character of a wonderfully human man.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“Simple language has usually been employed, but perhaps too sparing use has been made of anecdotes.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“All in all, it is a very vivid and inspiring narrative, and is bound to take its place in the list of books that ought to be read and reread by every American boy and girl.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“This book should be in every public library. It is filled with inspiring, beautiful, pathetic, and humorous stories of the man who gave his life, daily, for his country. The pictures, by Jay Hambridge and others, are usually adequate and artistic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue closet, a volume of clever essays on life and conduct, men, books and affairs. **$1.40. Dodd.
Thirty essays stimulated largely by personal recollections include such themes as “Never chew your pills,” “Swelled heads,” “In the world of Jane Austen,” “The art of packing,” “The tragedy of first numbers,” and “The key of the blue closet.”
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“His literary gift can clothe the commonplace with attractiveness and invest familiar things with a new interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is this talent for noting immediately, and remembering the little interesting bits of information about persons and things ... that has enabled him to place before us this collection of observations against which at least the fault of dullness can never be brought.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 285. My. 5, ’06. 1170w.
“It is full of homely truths, set forth wisely and agreeably for the reading of ordinary mortals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“A book of genial wit and wisdom.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Coal catechism. **$2. Jacobs.
A little leather hand-book that answers nearly seven hundred questions grouped under twenty-six headings on the subject of coal. The questions are so arranged as to lead an uninformed inquirer thru various stages of the origin, development and uses of coal until a full knowledge of the subject has been obtained.
=Nielsen, Frederik.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century. **$7.50. Dutton.
“These volumes ... are written from a point of view which the English editor, Dr. Arthur J. Mason, of Cambridge likens to ‘that of a large-minded and statesmanlike High Churchman among ourselves.’ The first volume extends to the death of Pius VII. in 1823, the second to the death of Pius IX. in 1878. A third volume, soon to follow, covers the pontificate of Leo XIII. The historian goes back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the first fight for ‘the Pope’s infallibility, which was the pith and marrow of the whole contention,’ was won by the Jesuits against the Gallican Jansenists. The subsequent history, which he relates down to the adoption of that dogma by the Vatican council in 1870, might be summarized as the ‘Modern development of ultramontanism into papal autocracy.’”—Outlook.
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“In the execution of his task Nielsen chiefly falls short, in our judgment, by a deficient sense of proportion.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1349. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“The translation prepared under the direction of Dr. Mason, of Cambridge, England, will be received with interest by scholars.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Bishop Nielsen’s work is a magazine of facts dispassionately related, but somewhat lacking in the broad views of the course and tendency of events which make the narrative instructive to the general reader.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. **$1.25. Putnam.
“A singularly suggestive and winning little book.” Alonzo K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 191. Ja. ’06. 500w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 238. Jl. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Nordau, Max Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The translation, by Mary J. Safford, is bald and not very attractive, and the illustrations are poor—in some cases positively bad.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 480w.
=North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“The book is a delightful picture of the man and the teacher.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
=Norton, William Harmon.= Elements of geology. *$1.40. Ginn.
The present work “is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible.” The author therefore “departs from the common usage, which subdivides geology into a number of departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic and historical, and to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land forms and the rock structures which it has produced.”
=Noyes, Ella.= Casentino and its story. **$3.50. Dutton.
To the region of the upper Arno, a retreat of reminiscence associated with the names of St. Francis and Dante, the author has lent an atmosphere “rich in breadth and dignity, in warmth and simplicity.” (Ath.) “She pioneers us with praiseworthy skill and clearness through the tangled maze of feuds and crimes which make up the mediaeval history of the Casentino; and more especially, through the Chronicles of the Counts of Guidi, who were the rulers of that region.” (Lond. Times.) There are twenty-live full page illustrations in color, and many line drawings by Miss Dora Noyes.
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“Miss Noyes has carried out her undertaking with unequal success. The arrangement of the book is unfortunate. Miss Noyes writes with obvious and sincere enthusiasm and apparently, a thorough knowledge of the ground over which she has taken us. But as a writer of ‘landscapes’ she does not succeed. The chapter on the home life of the peasants, their religious observances and their work in the fields is admirable.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 86. Ja. 27, ’06. 1440w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 5. Ja. 13. 320w.
“The author’s work is worthy of its charming dress. She is full of poetic feeling and knows how to express it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“Unfortunately this enthusiasm, and the luxury of indulging a very lively historical imagination, have betrayed the author into generalizations and theories that a scientific analysis of history will not always justify.”
– + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
=Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“The writer’s part is scholarly and literary, showing both conscience and ability.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 520w.
“She has an unusual talent for making pen pictures of scenery vivid, and she seems to have overlooked none of the literary, artistic, or historical memorabilia of the valley. If at times her material is spun rather thin, that is a defect inevitable in works of this kind.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 260w.
“Miss Noyes knows the Casentino thoroughly, and imparts her knowledge graciously and attractively. Her book is thoroughly readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 1080w.
=Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 2, ’05. 60w.
“Though succinct it is never dull, and by the skilful handling of her considerable knowledge, the author has made an intricate subject plain.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 470w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
“Judge Noyes’s book is sound in principle, impartial in spirit, and clear in statement, but its value is lessened by the fact that it is in greater part an elementary presentation of what has been more fully stated by more than one previous writer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 184. Jl. ’06. 1090w.
“So central is his theme that the book easily takes high rank in our American literature of railway economics.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 370w.
“Of the two books, the broader, as the title denotes, is that of Mr. Haines, the more intensive and special is that of Judge Noyes.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 82. F. 1, ’06. 1470w.
“While there is little that is new in Judge Noyes’s exposition of the principles underlying railway practice, the material is presented with a directness and lucidity that entitle the book to a very high rank in the literature on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It may be said that it is as a whole the best balanced book on the subject that the present controversy has evoked.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 203. Mr. 8, ’06. 660w.
“We know of no book which will give the lay reader so clear and so authoritative a statement of the fundamental legal principles which must govern in the determination of the pending question concerning government regulation of railway rates as Judge Noyes’s volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 937. D. 16, ’05. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Nugent, Meredith.= New games and amusements for young and old alike. **$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Nugent creates for the boy of ten a magic world and makes of his young devotee a veritable wizard. The book contains wonderful soap-bubble tricks, with the recipe used for producing immense bubbles lasting from five to ten minutes; it tells how to engineer yacht races in the clouds, how to make sunshine engines, and how to have a circus on a kite string. There are numerous illustrations made by the author and his collaborator, Victor J. Smedley.
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“The book is distinctly novel in the suggestions offered, and is thus a pleasing departure from its type.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Between the cover boards of the ‘New games and amusements’ lies verily an enchanted land.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 460w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
“This translation, by Mrs. Bandelier, has been made with much care, and will replace that of Buckingham Smith ... as the authoritative English version of the earliest detailed account of the Gulf states.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 390w.
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=O., A. V.= “Jack” by a religious of the Society of the Holy Child. 45c. Benziger.
A true story of how Jack, in the course of a mischievous and adventurous boyhood, changed in the estimation of his friends from an addition to the family which they could not decide whether “to deplore or be proud of,” to “a Christian, a hero, and a gentleman.”
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Columbus, the discoverer. **$1. Harper.
In sketching the life of Columbus for the “Heroes of American history” series, special effort has been made to accentuate the well verified facts in the great discoverer’s career. Meagre facts only are recorded of his youth, but from his arrival at the “hospitable portal of La Rabida” the narrative proceeds on surer authority. The author shows the character of Columbus in public and private relations, and possesses him with the attributes which render him a worthy hero for sane worship.
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“A life of the great discoverer well calculated to interest young people in his personality.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Ober’s book has one great charm, however, which bursts out occasionally in a way that whets the appetite for more. He has apparently followed in the footsteps of Columbus.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 820w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of Florida. **$1. Harper.
Uniform with the “Heroes of American history” series. A vivid portrayal of the varying fortunes of De Soto and his band which lends the charm of romance to the historical facts of the memorable expedition. The book is illustrated with reproductions of old pictures and a map showing the course of De Soto’s journeys thru Mexico, Florida and Cuba.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“A capital account of the life of this particular hero, but with it there may seem to the fastidious reader to be rather too much of the fanciful.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1. Harper.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“A readable biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Pizarro and the conquest of Peru. **$1. Harper.
The latest volume in the “Heroes of American history” series. The account is a full one of the man, who with a mere handful of soldiers invaded and made conquest of the Inca’s stronghold in Peru. The volume of less than three hundred pages condenses a great deal of material which has heretofore existed only in a bulky unabridged form.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Ober has condensed, edited, and presented in attractive form the essentials of history, and, having given himself to the study of early Spanish America, seems a competent guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.
“A good deal of information hitherto only accessible in bulky histories has been condensed and made entertaining in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
In continuation of the “heroes of American history” series. Mr. Ober offers a sketch of Balboa whose valorous exploits are tinged with fascinating romance. The various stages of his career show him a penniless adventurer, self-elected governor of Darien, savior of the settlement when on the point of dissolution, subjugator of the caciques, discoverer of the Pacific, servant of the king, and builder of the first brigantines that ploughed the waters of the Southern ocean. Finally as traitor to his sovereign he is executed in the town he had unwearyingly helped to found.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“It is a charming and finely touched description of the career of a young Irishman of genius in a time of stress and storm.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 670w.
“He tells his tale modestly and sincerely, without striving to put his best foot foremost and without any trace of bitterness towards opponents.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 107. Ap. ’06. 990w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. O’Brien’s book takes rank with Mr. Justin McCarthy’s politico-autobiographical reminiscences. While its scope is narrower, its vividness is more intense. The author at times writes, as it were, with his very heart’s blood; and thus writing he cannot fail to command a reading.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 37. Ja. 16, ’06. 1910w.
“Lacks the historic value which attaches to Mr. Michael Davitt’s ‘Fall of feudalism.’”
+ =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19, ’06. 380w.
“They constitute in fact a human document wherein may be read not merely the personal characteristics of their author, but the predominating traits of his countrymen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 470w.
“Unfortunately, too. Mr. O’Brien is throughout careless about dates, and the index is little help to anybody who wishes to follow in a serious spirit a rambling and disjointed story.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 1710w.
“The book will be read with interest by all who have lived through those days and who are interested in Irish affairs.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 320w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“So long as Mr. O’Brien keeps to personal touches, and to his delightful Irish humor and sentiment, we find him a very pleasant storyteller.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 1550w.
“Both in tone and style the book is a pleasant one, and every one who wishes to form a clear idea of the Nationalist case against the British Government from 1865 to 1883 should make a point of studying it though unquestionably it requires careful checking from other sources.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 302. F. 24, ’06. 1640w.
=Ogden, Horatio Nelson.= Child in the church. 25c. Meth. bk.
The order for the administration of baptism to infants according to the discipline and usage of the Methodist Episcopal church, together with the duties of parents, the apostles’ creed, and the catechism, make up this booklet, which has as a frontispiece a blank certificate of baptism. The volume forms a dainty baptismal gift.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams: a story of love and youth. †$1.50. Century.
The practical, everyday world seems a very sordid thing to one who follows the story of this dreamer of dreams, who from nursery make-believes and childish day dreams passes into a youth of ideals and is left in his early manhood still a visionary but with many dreams come true. With a skilful touch Don is put before us; misunderstood by a commonplace father, an acknowledged failure at a practical college course, a failure in New York where he tries to make a living as a super at a second class theatre or at anything else, he suddenly blossoms into a recognized genius as a writer of plays. And through years of struggle, from earliest childhood, his love for Margaret, his ideal, burns like a white flame, and in return she loves him, marries him and makes him happy, altho like the rest of the world, she may not always understand him.
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“All the earlier part of the book is shadowy, and hardly prepares us for the vivid, admirable picture of life in New York that comes later.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 527. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is a book of fine fibre in purpose and execution, romantic, touching, amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 333. O. 18, ’06. 460w.
“‘Don-a-dreams’ is his first novel, but Mr. O’Higgins has made no mistake in his new departure.” Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 550w.
“It is all very tenderly and charmingly told, and we like it better because our dreamer is not of those who think wallowing in the mire synonymous with ‘knowing life.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
“Its consistent literary quality lifts it far above the level of ordinary fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Book of tea. **$1.50. Duffield.
These essays relate to tea, not as a beverage but as an aesthetic symbol. “Within the pages of this volume is condensed the whole philosophy of tea, together with its history, poetry, symbolism and a synopsis of its relation to religion and art as they exist in Japan. The author writes with sympathy ... and with a graceful felicity of expression.” (Ind.)
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=Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 160w.
“Charming group of essays.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 41: 105. S. 1, ’06. 1260w.
“What ‘Sartor resartus’ is to the realm of the utilitarian ‘The book of tea’ is to the realm of the esthetic.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 461. Ag. 23, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Paris. $2. Macmillan.
“The greater part of the 400–odd pages of this volume are taken up with the story of the city from its beginnings as a Gallo-Roman camp to its expansive latter days. The last pages contain generous descriptions of the landmarks, museums, galleries, churches, and theatres of the present.” (N. Y. Times.) “It is not too much praise to say that the book supplements the information contained in Baedeker, and supplies as well a background for the greater enjoyment of such volumes as Theodore Child’s ‘The praise of Paris,’ Richard Whiteing’s ‘Paris of to-day,’ of Amicis’s ‘Ricordi di Parigi.’” (Outlook.)
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=Ind.= 61: 753. S. 27, ’06. 170w.
“The guide is a curious cross between a Baedeker and a Hare, without the satisfying definiteness of the former or the charm of the latter.”
– =Nation.= 83: 167. Ag. 23, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
“The intending visitor to Paris could hardly have a more valuable vade mecum than Mr. Okey’s little volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.
“We are glad to be able to commend highly this little book which fully maintains the high standard which the volumes in this series nearly always attain.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 277. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The historical, literary, and artistic aspects of the city are worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 60w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American union. *$3.75. Putnam.
The work of an Englishman which gives an estimate of Alexander Hamilton’s character and presents a record of political and historical conditions in the United States in Hamilton’s day. “Mr. Oliver calls his work an essay on American union; but it is far more than that. At bottom it is a grave and singularly eloquent plea for the great union of a close and lofty and disinterested Imperialism. And it is an immense compliment to Mr. Oliver to say that his conclusions and his exhortations are worthy of having been directly inspired by such a figure as Alexander Hamilton.” (Lond. Times.)
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“A very thoughtful and clever essay on the life and work of Alexander Hamilton.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 470w.
“Tho the book has some marked blemishes, it is so filled with deep and original thinking that it is worthy the careful attention of every student of Hamilton and our early political history. It is written in an interesting, cultured style, which at times becomes brilliant.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 470w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“He has depicted Hamilton with force and clearness, with humour, with sympathy and charm. He has treated a big subject in a large and masterly way. No book has appeared lately which conveys a more valuable lesson or one more tactfully and skilfully unfolded.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 165. My. 11, ’06. 3340w.
“To our minds, his narrative is by far the most interesting and vivid account that has yet been published; but, being neither a publicist nor an economist ... he is positively disqualified from the task of estimating Hamilton’s work.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 1770w.
“There are some errors of fact, due perhaps to faulty proof reading, but the worst fault is the author’s bias and distortion of facts, which frequently make his conclusions valueless.” R. L. Schuyler.
– – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“As a portrait of Hamilton the work exhibits most of the defects inherent in all admittedly partisan productions, and it further suffers from the animus apparent in the treatment of those within as well as without the Federalist party who placed themselves in opposition to ‘the little lion.’ But his is a singularly fresh and in many respects a singularly charming study, distinctive alike in point of view, in method, and in style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 204. N. 3, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Oliver’s book seems to us the most brilliant piece of political biography which has appeared in England for many years. A clear and vigorous style, wit, urbanity, a high sense of the picturesque, and a remarkable power of character-drawing raise much of it to the rank of a literary masterpiece.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 58. Jl. 14, ’06. 2040w.
=Olmsted, Stanley=, Nonchalante. †$1.25. Holt.
Student life, especially the life of two American students in a German university town, is cleverly handled in this story, and the nonchalant heroine, with musical aspirations, is well suited to her surroundings. The book presents a phase, a passing episode, interesting and amusing, but superficial in that it deals with that frivolous side of things which is so typical of student days. The cafés, the theatres, the bleak boarding houses are well drawn, and poor Fraulein Mittelini’s tragic struggle for fame is really worthy of sympathy.
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“The author has succeeded ... in giving [the heroine] some genuine fascination. The style is too obviously imitative of that of Mr. James.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 50w.
“The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton—but it is entertaining even when she is off the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Inaugural lecture on the study of history delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1906. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture on the teaching and study of history the Chichele professor “perceives the great virtues of the tutorial system. He recognizes a fact which is often overlooked by zealous reformers, that no system of teaching can flourish which does not meet the wants of the learners; and this general truth is in a particular sense applicable to the universities of England.... The fact ‘that must be faced is, that Oxford is a place of education as well as a place of research,’—these words strike the real keynote of Professor Oman’s inaugural address.” (Nation.)
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“It is remarkable for several characteristics and for a good deal of courage. From start to finish it is lively; the writing, while it is occasionally of great dignity is sometimes brilliant and even humorous.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 1100w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes. **$1.50. McClurg.
The translation adopts a middle course between the versions of Omar which sacrifice the letter to the requirements of good verse and those which in order to be literal, sacrifice the spirit to the letter.
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=Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
=Omond, George William Thomson.= Bruges and West Flanders; painted by Amedee Forestier; described by G. W. T. Omond. *$3. Macmillan.
In the main Mr. Omond treats his subject historically, but even from this point of view, he catches the spirit of sentiment and romance. “Each one of these quaint, often-despoiled towns has remaining some romantic relics and picturesque buildings—belfry, market-place, Hotel de Ville—old gateways, or churches enriched with paintings.” (Outlook.) “And what Mr. Omond so successfully does for Bruge-LaMorte, he also does for the other towns of West Flanders—Ypres, Furnes, Nieuport—revivifying them with the story of a glorious past.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 160w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.
“He has been deeply touched by the ruined greatness that surrounds prosperous Ostend and would show others how they may come under the spell.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.
“While the text of the book is not remarkable in any way, it is written in clear, simple style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 120w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 320w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Maker of history. †$1.50. Little.
The plot of Mr. Oppenheim’s new story with a mystery grows out of an episode in which an English youth actually witnesses a meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany, and turns up in Paris with a loose sheet of a treaty between the two, relative to an attack upon England. How this same Englishman is hidden away in Paris by spies, and why his sister is also abducted, and what sympathies stir one Sir George Duncombe to action in their behalf furnish motive power for a lively story.
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“Is a capital story filled with mysterious and exciting happenings, but one regrets to see Mr. Oppenheim writing down to this level after he has shown that he is capable of such work as ‘A prince of sinners.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 330w.
“It is an amazing medley, highly characteristic of the author. Without trenching on politics, one may be permitted to doubt the wisdom just now of accentuating the jealousies of nations.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 190w.
“In substance, of course, it is merely a sort of exalted dime novel. But is written with such admirable restraint, such a matter-of-fact style, as though the events were being chronicled for the columns of a conservative daily newspaper, that you are cleverly led on from mild curiosity to a breathless sort of interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 560w.
“This stirring story is told with neatness and dispatch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim handles his material cleverly and makes of it a good story of adventure.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 300w.
“The story is told with the vim and dash characteristic of Mr. Oppenheim’s work, and is one of the best tales he has yet produced.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
“The story proceeds with cumulative interest to the end. The love interest of the story is secondary, but good, although the character drawing is occasionally exaggerated.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the romance is an exceptionally good specimen of sensational story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It is all nonsense, but it is not boring nonsense.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. O. 14, ’05. 420w.
+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 130w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Man and his kingdom. †$1.50. Little.
Love, intrigue and revolution in a South American state make a riotous setting for Mr. Oppenheim’s story. The man of the hour is a wealthy young Englishman who sides neither with the revolutionists nor yet with the president’s party, but is a friend to both. His Beau Desir, a fertile valley near the town, with two hundred Englishmen to till it would fain express the temper of his neutrality, but the disquieting elements of the town creep into it. There are lively quarrels, attempted murders, and thrilling escapes, all of which have local color and atmosphere.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
“Mr. Oppenheim has trodden a beaten path when, it would seem from his earlier success in invention, he might have struck out afresh for himself.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Millionaire of yesterday. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition of Mr. Oppenheim’s story that gives a vivid picture of two men, widely divergent types, one an invincible hero, the other a leaner, in the African bush making a grim fight for life and fortune.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
+ =Edinburgh R.= 203: 471. Ap. ’06. 8240w.
“The best and most important part of this system is his rule of giving his readers the law as it is, and not as it ought to be. This, combined with his natural impartiality, makes his book an extremely fair and rational one.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 460w.
“The arrangement is clear and logical, and the matter of the work is, so far as we have examined it, fully up to date, and presented with acumen and moderation.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 544. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= I will repay. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scenes of Baroness Orczy’s dramatic tale are enacted in the terrible days of the French revolution. Ten years before its reign of terror, Juliette Marny is compelled by her father to take a vow to bring about the ruin and death of Paul Déroulède, the man who, tho against his will, had killed her brother in a duel. So much for the prologue. When the story opens, the revolution is well under way. Déroulède is a popular leader. Juliette, housed with his mother for safety, loves him, yet is obedient to relentless Fate which is dragging her to the fulfillment of her vow. She denounces him to the terrorists, and in attempting to undo her treachery brings both herself and Déroulède under the Merlin suspect law. Their escape from France closes a chapter of thrilling incidents.
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“There are not so many characters to stage in this book as in a former success of the same author’s, dealing, like this with revolutionary Paris, and we find less variety of scene, less incident: but the same dramatic power is abundantly demonstrated.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 579. N. 10. 150w.
“It is, in truth, a very fair story of its semihistoric wholly respectable sort.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 390w.
“The story is full of exciting situations and thrilling moments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A brilliantly vivid story abounding in dramatic incident.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= Son of the people: a romance of the Hungarian plains. †$1.50. Putnam.
The old story of the rich and handsome peasant who wins the hand of an impoverished nobleman’s daughter against her will and later, by proving his nobility of soul, turns her scorn to love, is given a charming Hungarian setting in this romance of the plains. The peasant life and character are strongly contrasted with the traditional pride of the nobility; the lines of caste are well portrayed, the priest, the Jew, the aristocrat, and the son of the soil, the thrift of the peasant, the prodigality of the lord are all interwoven with the love story.
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“It is sentimental and of a conventional type, but the setting is new, and so it takes on a novel air.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 227. F. 24. 260w.
“It is a strong and attractive piece of work, vivid in description and characterization, dramatic in action.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is well told, and as interesting as any other thrice told tale.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 110w.
“This really interesting book is hurt by wordiness and repetitions of good effects, yet not unto destruction.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Judicious condensation and elimination would have greatly improved and strengthened ‘A son of the people,’ but it has decided merits as it is.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 490w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 160w.
“The book interests and attracts despite the poverty of the plot.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 244. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= God’s image in man and its defacement in the light of modern ideals. **$1.75. Armstrong.
Professor Orr discusses “the conflict between the Biblical and the modern view of man—his nature, origin, and primitive condition, his sinfulness and the divine redemption from it. The difference between the so-called Biblical and the modern views is that the former regards God’s image in man as aboriginal, the latter regards it as ultimate. Man’s redemption from sin, therefore, the former regards as a reconstructive work, the latter as constructive or evolutionary.”—Outlook.
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“There can be no question of Professor Orr’s deep religious interest, his courage, his marvelous grasp of the material of present-day learning, and his perception of the seriousness of the questions now pressing for solution; but I do not think that the work under review can give much help to a man who is seized of the significance of the great intellectual and religious movements of the present and feels a sympathetic interest in them.” George Cross.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 220. S. ’06. 1290w.
=Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 510w.
“What seems hardly fair in Professor Orr’s argument is the prominence given to Haeckel as the representative of the modern view.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Dr. Orr conducts his argument with a creditable moderation of language, and states the problems which he discusses fairly.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 250w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= Problem of the Old Testament considered with reference to recent criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A volume of lectures given at Lake Forest college by Dr. James Orr, of Glasgow. Dr. Orr represents the conservative view in his attitude toward modern criticism. The present volume is largely devoted to the repetition of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.”—R. of Rs.
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“The temper of the book is admirable. Dr. Orr’s disposition of his material appears to be excellent. We think it is safe to say that nowhere will the student find in so compact a form an abler arraignment of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, which is Dr. Orr’s immediate object of attack, than in the present work.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 705. O. ’06. 1720w.
“A comprehensive survey of the chief problems of the Old Testament from the conservative point of view, but considered with fairness and candor.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 374. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“There is no book in English that presents with such fulness and strength, from the conservative point of view, the problem of the Old Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
“Professor Orr is astute, a keen logician, and he has made himself a thoro master of his material.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 940w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15. ’06. 120w.
“The problem of old Testament is twofold—religious and literary. So far as the principles of the religious aspect of the problem are concerned, we agree with him; but so far as the literary aspect of the problem is concerned, we take leave to doubt.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 130. Ap. 12, ’06. 1390w.
“The multitudinous points taken by Dr. Orr against the prevailing critical opinions present to the unlearned reader a formidable array.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We may say that Dr. Orr is a strong conservative, though fifty years ago he would have been regarded as a dangerous radical, that he has stated his subject thoroughly, though not we cannot but think, with an open mind; and that he always expresses himself with courtesy and good taste.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
=Osborn, Albert.= John Fletcher Hurst: a biography. *$2. Meth. bk.
A biography which is autobiographic in nature so successfully has the compiler eliminated himself in producing what the Bishop said or what has been said about him. The sketch touches upon his boyhood, education, European experiences, ministerial work, and duties as president of the Drew theological seminary.
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Reviewed by Erl B. Hulbert.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 362. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“The task has been performed with equal loyalty and ability, and the book is every way a fitting memorial of a man of great gifts, high character, and broad influence.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Osborn’s biography, in a word, is a worthy memorial of a great Christian and a great American, and a book which should enlarge the horizon and stimulate to a higher life all into whose hands it falls.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 430w.
“The only criticism to be brought against this biography is that the index is extravagant in its dimensions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. [+]75c. Bobbs.
“Pretty little stories they are too, when we are permitted to pause and enjoy them, and the motormaniacs are always entertaining and capital company to the end of the run.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
“The dialogue is comic, and the narrative runs with a swing and zest which are valuable aids to easy reading.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 100w.
“The book is full of humour and energy.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 497. O. 6, ’06. 110w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Wild justice. †$1.50. Appleton.
Nine stories of life in the South sea islands which take their title from the first tale. The author spent a number of years among crude Pacific natives with his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. His characters are drawn from these inhabitants “well-meaning but generally inefficient missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and refugees and adventurers in search of victims. It is not an edifying life, and the manly virtues seem to be conspicuously absent.” (Outlook.)
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“They are all good, but of no one of them can it be said that it is strikingly and exceptionally good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 240w.
“The tales all have a swing in the telling and show that the author is in his own field.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The fascination of the unusual pervades its pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“There is a certain bizarre humor, however, in these tales which somewhat redeems the sordidness of their subject matter.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 60w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.
“As a whole the work is the first adequate account of the origin, character, and development of the American colonies as institutions of government and as parts of a great colonial system; and it displays, on the part of the author wide and deep knowledge of the documentary evidence for colonial history and rare powers of analysis and interpretation. In a style remarkably clear, forcible and accurate the reader will regret the presence of so many cleft infinitives.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 397. Ja. ’06. 3060w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Dynamic factors in education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“It has been the author’s object to show that in the early years of a child’s school life, ‘motor expression’ in his teaching is ‘essential to all learning.’ He has endeavored to indicate mainly in outline, ‘how the requirements of dynamic education can be provided for in all departments of school work.’ Further, he says in his preface, ‘I have sought to point out that there is a definite order in which the motor powers develop, and that in our instruction we will achieve the highest success only as we conform quite closely to this order.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is clear and, if one is not annoyed by its diffuseness, interesting.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 180w.
“The book seems poorly suited for the use of the practical teacher for whom it is announced, or the professional student. In spite of the author’s resolution to the contrary, it is burdened with methods of investigation, where results alone should be given.” Edward O. Sisson.
– – =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w.
“A fair and comprehensive book. It is sound psychology sensibly applied.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 201. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.
“The whole volume is what the subject is, dynamic, and is as important for parents as for teachers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
“It is admirably suited to be a handbook for advanced classes who desire to pursue special topics exhaustively, by first reading a guidebook and then following up the literature of the subject. The style is so clear and the treatment so concrete and inductive that the general reader will understand most of it. One of Professor O’Shea’s chief contributions is in selecting those laws and phenomena that have an educational application and clearly showing the application.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 367. N. 15, ’06. 510w.
“Is not epoch marking; it is in part what has been said before by other writers, but it has two virtues—it is reasonably complete, and it is of great importance.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 90w.
“On the whole, we know of no more satisfactory discussion of what is thus far known of the evolution of motor control, its relation to education, and of the place of the manual arts in education.”
+ + =School R.= 14: 459. Je. ’06. 510w.
“The style is not so overburdened with ‘educational jargon’ as to interfere with the enjoyment and edification of the general reader.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 240w.
=Osler, William.= Counsels and ideals; from the writings of William Osler. **$1.25. Houghton.
In culling selections from his less technical lectures and addresses, Dr. Osler aims to offer “individual influence” and “inspiration” to the student or general reader. “Wise counsels abound in this volume—counsels inspired by high ideals and wide experience. The real man whom they present is no more like the individual whose words were so travestied by the press on a recent occasion as to threaten the dictionary-makers with a new word, ‘oslerize,’ than the caricature of the political cartoonist is like its original.” (Outlook.)
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“A book which may be read with pleasure and lasting profit, not only by every member of the medical profession, but also by the general public. Dr. Camac has made his selection with judgment.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 301. Mr. 10. 730w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 190w.
“What most impresses one on examining this selection from forty-seven of the author’s fugitive pieces is not only the professional and practical wisdom displayed, and the breadth of view revealed, but also the wide reading in writers not commonly held to be a necessary part of a doctor’s library.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 390w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“They afford very interesting reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 680w.
“What he writes, however, is of household, individual interest, and it is presented in a manner which causes facts to breathe eloquence and conviction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 350w.
“To dip into these pages anywhere is to meet with a thoughtful, strong, and sagacious man.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 90w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Conversations on chemistry. Pt. 1, General chemistry; authorized tr. by Elizabeth Catherine Ramsay, $1.50; Pt. 2, Chemistry of the most important elements and compounds; authorized tr. by Stuart K. Turnbull, $2. Wiley.
The authorized translation of Ostwald’s “Die schule der chemie.” Addressed distinctly to elementary pupils, the subject is presented in dialogue, the conversations taking place between master and pupil. Such subjects are treated as substance, properties, solution, melting and freezing, density, compounds, elements, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, air, etc.
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“Miss Ramsay has done her work with much skill, and has made the dialogue not less natural and vivacious than it is in the original.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ’05. 330w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“Most points are worked out with great ingenuity and address to an entirely logical conclusion. The allusion to things and phenomena of real human interest and the suppression of pedantry are also to be warmly commended. The actual work of translation has, on the whole, been well done.” A. S.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 173. Je. 21, ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The chief value of the book, must lie, therefore, in showing something of the spirit and the methods best adapted for arousing the interest of the young pupils in elementary science.” William McPherson.
+ =Science=, n.s. 22: 829. D. 22, 05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality: the Ingersoll lectures, 1906. **75c. Houghton.
Professor Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the university of Leipzig, treats the question scientifically. “At the very outset, the lecturer calls attention to the fact that our knowledge ‘is an incomplete piece of patchwork;’” but, he adds, “each one is bound to make the best possible use of it, such as it is, never forgetting that it may at any time be superseded by new discoveries or ideas. In this truly scientific spirit, very remote from the dogmatism of the churches, Professor Ostwald proceeds to consider what immortality may be supposed to be, and what reasons we have for believing it.” (Dial.)
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“The chief value of this work is in showing the attitude which the scientifically trained mind tends to take to those problems where the clear principles and positive methods of the physical sciences do not obtain.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 560w.
“The discussion is an interesting one, both from its statement of scientific views and from the glimpse it affords of the mind of the author. It is, nevertheless, strangely incomplete, almost ignoring the deeper questions at issue.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 228. Ap. 1, ’06. 1680w.
“It is an exceedingly interesting discourse, and quite up to date, scientifically speaking; it is full of fine moral thoughts, but it contains very little Christian consolation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a readable outline of the history from a modern point of view, chiefly at second-hand.” George F. Moore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 144. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Macmillan.
“His counsel is sound, and his knowledge reaches far. The volume was well worth writing.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 560w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“He has succeeded in producing a useful piece of work, which brings together an account of all that has been accomplished in the Canadian Rockies by himself and by other kindred spirits.” G. W. L.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 362. F. 15, ’06. 720w.
“The book is written by a man who has his soul in the story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
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“=P., Q.=” How-to buy life insurance. **$1.20. Doubleday.
A book that “has been written and published in the interest of the policyholder primarily. It undertakes to free the subject from the technical obscurities that so frequently interfere with a clear understanding of its elements and to give the plain citizen straightforward advice and information as to the various types of policies in the market and the relative advantages of each.” (R. of Rs.)
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“As a practical guide to the policyholder desirous of figuring out for himself the real cost of his insurance and of choosing between rival companies, ought to be found of substantial value by the busy man, because of the comparative tables and specimen blanks given in the appendix. These could be considerably improved upon in certain respects, but they are a distinct advance over what has been furnished by most other books on the subject.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 720w.
“It is a helpful and suggestive manual.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“The selections have been made with good taste and judgment and the notes are ample and to the point.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 90w.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 158. F. 22, ’06. 170w.
“Such a book would be a great convenience for the use of a class studying American literature.”
+ =School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’06. 100w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25. Scribner.
“These essays are characterized by a sanity of spirit and a painstaking thoroughness.” C: A. Elwood.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 698. Mr. ’06. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 88. My. 12, ’06. 510w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
“In the story we meet ... the Southern life of an earlier day: hot-tempered men and gracious women, trusty slaves, negro-hunting whites, the grocery-store-town-meeting, and the open-air court of justice. The love-story, however, is the thing and is young, Arcadian, rough-running, happily arriving. Mr. Page explains that it is a story enlarged; explicitly not a novel, but ‘a love story, pure and simple,’ and such it will be found.”—Nation.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“A delicate, finished specimen of its author’s art.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 170w.
“It is a story pure and sweet amid the poisonous blossoms of fiction that nowadays spring thick, an idyll of loyalty and of love, thrilled through and through with ‘the tender grace of a day that is dead.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“The most appreciative comment that can be made on this story is that he has not spoiled it; the old charm still lingers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls. $1. Altemus.
“This is one of the best children’s books in recent years. It is bright and entertaining and while holding the interest of the young in the story that is told, it imparts a vast fund of information which every child should know.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 320w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Lucky piece: a story of the North woods. $1.50. Outing pub.
A tale of the Adirondacks whose hero is an idle young man of more wealth than ambition, and whose heroine undertakes to teach him the definite purpose in life. A Spanish luck piece brings friends, wealth and happiness in its train of talismanic bestowals.
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“This is a pleasant story, with some well-drawn characters and just enough plot to carry the reader comfortably along to the last chapter.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Sailor of fortune; memoirs of Capt. B. S. Osbon. **$1.20. McClure.
“Captain Osbon, whose memoirs are given practically as he detailed them to the writer, Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, lived among some of the most stirring scenes of the past century, and his narrative presents with extraordinary vividness events of which he was an actor or an eye-witness.” (Lit. D.) “This lively record covers whaling, buccaneering, the Civil war, journalism, and almost everything but love.” (World To-Day.)
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“Mr. Paine, the redactor of these stories of sea life, has succeeded admirably in preserving the personal quality of the actor-narrator, and we easily accept the ‘yarns’ as a long succession of fireside talks face to face with the man who lived them.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Cannot fail to be a joy to old and young.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 190w.
“His reminiscences of famous men are numerous and characteristic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Paine has done well what must have been a difficult task. The book will amuse and enchain the reader who has a love for the unusual and picturesque.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 110w.
“Every chapter reads like a condensed historical novel.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.
=Paine, Dorothy C.= Maid of the mountains. †$1. Jacobs.
To Carol, a mountain maid of North Carolina, comes a good fairy in the guise of Beth, a happy tender-hearted little girl, who brings real aid to the sufferings of the mountain family. Among other things, she gives a benefit entertainment in which it is discovered that Carol has a beautiful voice, and a wealthy but childless woman in the audience decides to take her north. The movement of the book is rapid, ranging from train wrecks to doll dressing, and is certain to delight the heart of adventure-loving children.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50. Outing pub.
“The fact that not one of this collection of seven stories is a love story, in the ordinary sense of that saccharine term, is a point in its favor. In making sentiment secondary to action the author has heightened the effect of both.” (N. Y. Times.) The stories following the title story are: A victory unforeseen, The last pilot schooner, The jade teapot, Corporal Sweeney, deserter, and two other thrilling sea tales which have the merit of not being told in dialog by an old salt.
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+ =Ind.= 60: 1375. Je. 7, ’06. 300w.
“Vigorous, straightforward yarns, and as satisfactory as they are exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 440w.
“There are pathos and humor in the book, and both the pathos and the humor grip the reader tightly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“These are stories of the kind men like—told with considerable vigor and dealing with active life.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 80w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Story of Martin Coe; il. by Howard Giles. $1.50. Outing pub.
Martin Coe, gunner’s mate, deserts from the American navy to lead a revolution in a South American state. By a strange chance he comes at length to a little Maine village where his regeneration begins. It is love that clarifies his nature, and brings to the surface the broken oath, neglected duty, general culpableness. His honor demands atonement, and his obedience to the call sends him back to the navy to serve out his term.
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“The best thing about the book, however, is the fact that, though Martin is regenerated, he remains he same Martin Coe to the end—a typical sailor hero—than whom there is not any better either in real life or in fiction.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“The character is well enough conceived, but a touch of caricature throughout weakens the personality and decidedly impairs the love story. The book as a character-study is lacking in close interpretation.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton=, ed. Great pedagogical essays; Plato to Spencer. *$1.25. Am. bk.
“This anthology of selections from writers ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, upon educational topics has the merit of bringing together from the most diverse sources the best thoughts that have been entertained of the educational ideal which is still the object of pursuit. It is a source-book of the history of this pursuit, embodying its major documents—a history not always marked by progress.”—Outlook.
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“The chief objection to these selections is that there is no unified basis of selection.”
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 240w.
=Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.
“The book will meet the demand among students of educational history for an acquaintance with the original sources of information, and will form an acceptable and useful volume supplementary to any standard history of education.”
+ =El. School T.= 6: 438. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
“He has failed signally in his purpose, and not wholly or mainly because of space limitations, but rather because of manifest lack of broad historic scholarship and clear pedagogic insight. His selections are in the main inconsequential fragments, and the translations are often poor.” Will S. Monroe.
– – =J. Philos.= 3: 79. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
“An excellent companion book is this to any of the current histories of education.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
“The student of education who is without access to a large library will be grateful for what the editor has provided, and will profit greatly by a careful study of these pages.” W. B. O.
+ =School R.= 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 250w.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E. Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
Professor Pais, connected with the University of Naples, brings together here a number of lectures on the early Roman legends which form the substratum of later political and social development.
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“The translation is marred by some constantly recurring errors. Very few of the radical views advanced in these lectures will ever be generally accepted, but they cannot fail to arouse opposition and to stimulate fruitful discussion. The erudition and acumen of the author are truly remarkable.” Samuel Ball Platner.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 872. Jl. ’06. 1180w.
“The book is a scholarly one, essentially for the scholar.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“While in the main satisfactory, [the English version] frequently lacks in point of clearness, the involved parenthetical structure of the sentences making it difficult at times to follow the author’s arguments.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.
“Professor Pais has sifted the origins of Rome without fear or pity. The style is not smooth. The lack of an index can only be excused by the consideration that such an index would have added materially to the bulk of the book. The maps are good.”
+ + – =Ind.= 59: 1481. D. 21. ’05. 630w.
“The translation is very well done, although the paragraphing is often bad. The index, which is indispensable in a work of this kind, has been omitted.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 1410w.
“Although technical and teeming with data of detail, Prof. Pais’s work ... should form the means of valuable supplementary reading for students of Roman history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 840w.
“The book should challenge the attention of all who care for archaeology and early Roman history.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ’05. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= Lucy of the stars: il. by Alonzo Kimball. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Frederick Palmer combines in admirable balance the functions of war-correspondent and novelist. When the piping times of peace are at hand, he will sit down to his desk and write you as pretty a story as you could wish to read in an idle hour, and when the war-trumpet sounds, he will sally forth until he is in the thick of the scrimmage collecting observations for a graphic portrayal of the scene of carnage. It is this dual activity that now gives us ‘Lucy of the stars’ as a successor to ‘With Kuroki in Manchuria.’ We like Mr. Palmer’s portrait of the imaginary Lucy, as we liked his portrait of the real Kuroki, but we object most strenuously to the fate that he has bestowed upon her.”—Dial.
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“It is a pity that such good material should be used on so persistently pessimistic a theme. The characters are clearly and consistently drawn, the story is well, and in places wittily told, and ‘Lucy of the stars’ is a charming heroine.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The merit of the book lies in the presentation, under an unusually attractive aspect, of public life across the Atlantic in certain latter-day phases; yet it can scarcely be said to fulfil the conditions requisite for that difficult achievement, a successful political novel.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 160w.
“In order to write a great novel, it is necessary to sympathize with all your characters. Mr. Palmer has not done this; nevertheless, ‘Lucy of the stars’ is worth reading.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 120. Ag. ’06. 270w.
+ – =Critic.= 49: 192. Ag. ’06. 80w.
“The story is more than worth reading for [Lucy’s] sake, even if its outcome does rudely shock our romantic sensibilities.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 368. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Sensible, normal people will not care for a romance in which sorrows and griefs are the only heroes and heroines.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 80w.
“Although written with spirit, and though the author has brought a keen observation to bear upon a wide range of experience, the story has been a disappointment.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 490w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 30w.
=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.
“We fail, in this volume, to find many of the interesting stories of adventure and sport on the fells, or glimpses of the dalesman’s life, such as made its predecessors readable in spite of a somewhat unchastened style. The style, indeed, is all there. Strange words abound.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 1180w.
“His bright and chatty narrative, in spite of its want of style, is eminently readable.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Pancake, Edmund Blair.= Miss New York. $1.50. Fenno.
A story with a college setting. The heroine is a “discovery” made one day by a student who comes upon a rude hut in the mountains near the town. She and her mother are evidently in hiding. For what purpose remains a mystery thruout the course of a tale that defies the reader in the matter of making even a guess at the probation accompanied by sunbonnet and calico.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 220w.
=Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We cannot conclude without congratulating him upon the research he has displayed and upon the readable style which makes an abstruse subject easily grasped by the general reader.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 970w.
“His method of composition is peculiar and his literary graces are not very great. On the whole, it is cool, clear, impartial.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 477. Je. 7, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Parker is a profound Chinese scholar, and is possibly the highest living authority upon the subject with which he deals in the volume under notice.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 53. Ja. 13, ’06. 1550w.
“His excellent book should be regarded as the best and simplest English authority on this important subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 340w.
=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume treats only of the elements of the subject and it is to be amplified later or possibly followed by a second volume, the new material to comprise electrical machinery and its applications.... There are three chapters dealing with the fundamental facts and laws regarding magnetism and statical and current electricity. Then follow three chapters dealing with the interrelated subjects, resistance, electro-magnetism and induction. The remainder of the work is of a more practical nature and covers measuring instruments, incandescent lamps, and the thermal and chemical production of electro-motive force.”—Engin. N.
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“The work as a whole differs somewhat from other books on the market. In general its field may be said to be similar to that with the same title by Slingo and Brooker, which is also an English book. It will be read with profit by practical engineers desiring a broad general view of the principles of electrical engineering practice.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 55. Jl. 12, ’06. 870w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
The Sioux uprising in 1876 furnishes the main incidents for this story of Wyoming and Montana, and of Bob Hampton, a gambler and disgraced army officer, who saves the life of Naida, old Gillis’s girl, at the risk of his own, only to discover that she is his own daughter. He does not reveal himself to her however, but gives her up for the sake of her future, then quietly renounces his old life and keeps watch over her from afar. In the end he dies a brave death, leaving her an untarnished name and a gallant soldier lover. It is a stirring tale of frontier life and Indian warfare culminating in a description of the Custer massacre.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Its theme, indeed, is so like that of Harte’s ‘Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s’ as to make it seem rather more reminiscent than original. A certain racy quality of its own, however, it preserves.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Is one of the good Western stories—not especially literary, but thoroughly interesting, and excellent in plot and characters.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days. **$2. McClurg.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 755. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The book will interest the general student of our national history as well as the people of Illinois.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 90w.
“Altogether the book is highly attractive, and will be found particularly useful in the schools, every one of which should be provided with a copy.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
“It would be difficult to find a picture of pioneer days at once so true to the spirit of the time and so accurate in detail.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
“Altogether he gives a very tolerable idea of Illinois history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 89. F. 10, ’06. 400w.
“His book, in a word, is encyclopaedic in scope. No pretense is made to original research, but the authorities followed are sound, and there is little to criticise.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
“An entertaining volume of historic romance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier; a tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Parrish writes with colour and spirit, and his ingenuity in devising new variations in adventure is admirable.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 280w.
“One thing to be said in favor of Randall Parrish’s books is that the melodrama does not appear in streaks; it is part of their very essence; you recognize it at once from a certain trick of style that sounds like an echo of Ouida at her worst.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 632. F. ’06. 580w.
“The story is strictly conventional in type, but the type is one that has justified its right to exist.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6. ’06. 200w.
=Parry, David Maclean.= Scarlet empire. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A book to make the socialist satisfied with things as they are. A young socialist weary of life plunges into the sea. He wakens in a lost Atlantis, known as the Scarlet Empire. Here is a social democracy in which people dwell in slavery; the state owes every man a living which it grants in a grudging sense, food, conversation, education and marriage, all being limited. The hero sickens of his satiety of scholastic practices, and after gruesome experiences escapes with three companions to his own New York world.
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“‘The scarlet empire’ is not a discussion of socialism. It is rather a developed misconception of socialism. It is a house built on the illusive sands of fundamental error or false premises.” Ellis O. Jones.
– =Arena.= 36: 330. S. ’06. 2050w.
=Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 80w.
“Crudely written as it is, it sets forth a skilfully constructed plot and shows a certain enthusiasm for his subject on the part of the author, but throughout the book the great aim seems to be not only to satirize all the doctrines that Socialists hold dear, but even, where possible, to burlesque them.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 604. Ap. 21, ’06. 1420w.
“The satire is light but cleverly aimed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“As a story the book is fairly readable, but as a contribution to the discussion of the social problem it has no slightest claim to consideration.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Parry has missed a splendid chance and has missed it so widely that he almost obscures the chance.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 120w.
=Parsons, Mrs. Clement.= David Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75. Putnam.
“Mrs. Parsons’s book is first of all a life of the greatest of English actors, a record of his triumphs and a study of his methods. It is also a broad picture of the social life of the day. Garrick is followed into all the circles he frequented, and we make the acquaintance of the great company of his friends and associates.”—Outlook.
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“She has written a very charming and entertaining book, which clothes wide learning in graceful though transparent chiffon. The pity is that she has not always—or not often—distinguished between lightness of the right and the wrong kinds.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Among stage records the present volume will take an agreeable place. It is written with abundant verve, and shows a wide range of reading.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 703. D. 1. 840w.
“The chief fault in Mrs. Parsons’s book is its diffuseness. The author has done her work thoroughly, however, and carefully; such research commands respect, because of what it exacts in the gathering. Students will find her volume a mine of information, and an available reference-book, with its commendable bibliography and appropriate illustrations.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“This is a work of vastly superior quality to the great majority of books, especially those of recent date, relating to the stage and its associations.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 377. N. 1, ’06. 1010w.
“It has the easy cleverness of a clever woman’s letter, but it is perhaps a little too vivacious, too allusive, too up-to-date and too on-the-spot for a stately tome of 400 pages.” Brander Matthews.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“This book, besides being an admirable study of Garrick, is a gallery of admirably executed eighteenth-century portraits, a repertory of most delectable anecdotes that strike with perfect truth the keynote of the period, and a mine of curious and out-of-the-way information in regard to eighteenth-century theaters, the physical conditions of the stage, the tumultuous behavior of the audiences, the costumes of the actors and actresses, and no end of other matters of a kind that will be keenly relished.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“She has humor, has this admirer of the great English actor, and a clever way of expressing it; she also has the knack of recreating the whole from a fragment. And, at the same time, she is a capable serious historian of stage and drama.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 180w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He has found here an admirable chronicler.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
“The author has managed to pack in a surprising amount of concrete and stirring story.” L. Call Barnes.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 199. Ja. ’06. 160w.
=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.
Twenty years of study and observation have been brought into Dr. Parsons’ treatment of this subject. “The study reveals the facts in reference to railway favoritism—or unjust discrimination from the beginning of our railway history to the present time, discloses the motives and causes of discrimination, discusses various remedies that have been proposed, and gathers hints from the railway systems of other countries to clarify and develop the conclusions indicated by our railroad history.”
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“It is by far the most important, authoritative and comprehensive popular discussion of the rate question that has appeared, and no intelligent American should fail to read it.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 658. Je. ’06. 3700w.
“An exhaustive and authoritative work that is extremely clear and interesting, while affording the most complete and satisfactory view of the railway question and the true relation of the railways to commercial enterprises, to the government and to the people, that has ever been published in any land.”
+ + + =Arena.= 36: 557. N. ’06. 9730w.
“The merits of Mr. Parsons’s book are in its thorough and compendious presentation of the various evils that have come to pass in the making of railway rates. If the treatment is open to criticism, it is along the line of the genesis of these conditions.” John J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 35. Jl. 16, ’06. 1350w.
“As a critic of existing conditions, the author has done his work well.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 250w.
“The book is a readable collection of single instances of railroad enormities. In the hands of one acquainted with the essentials of transportation, it may prove of service; in the hands of a novice, it is likely to engender prejudice and disseminate error.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 850w.
“The book is a useful one and brings the subject down to date, but it casts only the scantiest light ahead.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
=Parsons, Henry de Berkeley.= Disposal of municipal refuse. $2. Wiley.
“The book is mainly devoted to the characteristics of the material collected in New York, the uses to which it may be put, and the principles underlying its sanitary and economic handling.”—Nation.
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“We take pleasure in commending Mr. Parsons’ book, within the limits covered by it, as a fair and able presentation of the main points involved in the disposal of municipal refuse, more particularly by cremation.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 1130w.
=Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
+ =Nature.= 74: 630. O. 25, ’06. 580w.
=Partridge, William Ordway.= Czar’s gift. **40c. Funk.
A pretty little tale of how Paul, the wood carver, made for the czar a statue of his lost daughter so beautiful that it won for Paul’s brother, the nihilist, release from the mines in Siberia, and brought them both the czar’s forgiveness and protection.
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+ =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 360w.
=Passmore, Rev. T. H.= In further Ardenne: a story of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. **$2.50. Dutton.
This little section tucked away between Belgium, Prussia, France and Lorraine has not been much written about owing to its not being among the “Beaten track itineraries.” The author very generously offers to “pay your fare for you, so to speak, and take you there, and present you to its beauties and interests and simple kindly folk, without troubling you to move out of your chair.”
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“The charm of this book is that the author has the power of communicating his ‘etat d’âme.’”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1236. N. 25, ’05. 260w.
“If the author had restricted himself to what he knew and saw, or was told on good authority, he would have made a noteworthy addition to the very limited number of works on his subject.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 250w.
“Enthusiasm, spontaneity, kindly humor, and a sprightly style characterize the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 180w.
“It is a real book, not a made book, that he has given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 430w.
“Would that Mr. Passmore had put all of his experience in simpler phrase. His command of verbal wealth and imagery too often leads him from standards safe astray.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 350w.
“This is no guide-book; it is far better—a book to read, and read again, and then to follow, not like the blind Baedekerite, but as one follows Walton.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 360w.
“A very entertaining volume, in which history, legend, folk-lore, and description are linked together by a mind attuned to the picturesque, the romantic, and—the humorous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
“We think a style less wanton than Mr. Passmore’s and more sweet than Baedeker’s would serve the purpose better.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Passmore is both historical and descriptive, and in both characters shows much energy.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.
=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Social caricature in the eighteenth century. *$15. Dutton.
“George Paston’s book deals textually and pictorially with the various phases of social caricature and of the social groups, the places, the fashions which inspired the pens of the artists, who were ever on the alert for abnormal tendencies—‘Le Beau Monde,’ the Pantheon, Carlisle House, the Mall, Hyde Park, Dramatic and musical, Literary and artistic, and, finally, Popular delusions and impostures.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is perhaps inevitable that the text of the book itself, being obviously ‘written up’ to the illustration, should be less interesting as a whole, though abounding in isolated good things.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 240. F. 24. 1400w.
“What is really the first complete work on the subject of English eighteenth century caricature that has yet appeared.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 86. Mr. ’06. 330w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 160w.
“George Paston’s text is a splendid achievement of thoroughly sympathetic work, whether seen from the point of view of history or criticism.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 367. Je. 9, ’06. 890w.
“The volume is full of the entertaining and curious from cover to cover.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Cruise of the Conqueror: being the further adventures of the motor pirate; with a front. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Page.
A sequel to “The motor pirate,” whose hero, it will be remembered, after bringing repeated terror to England shot over the edge of a precipice to certain death. How he comes to life and is in the present story the “same truculent hero in an eight-foot, gold-coated motor boat, capable of something over forty knots an hour at sea.” (Ath.) suggests exciting possibilities for the present tale of adventure. Nor does Mr. Paternoster make sure of his elusive hero at the end of the present story, the evasion suggests another reappearance.
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“It is not strong in characterization or literary style; but it has go and vigour.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 200w.
“Aside from the glamourless love interest, the further adventures of the motor pirate form, as they should, exciting reading.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author contrives that his melodrama shall be to a certain extent convincing.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.
=Paterson, Arthur, and Allingham, Helen (Mrs. W. Allingham).= Homes of Tennyson. **$2. Macmillan.
The homes of Tennyson have been painted by Mrs. Allingham, and Mr. Paterson has furnished the descriptive portions which are written “from a personal rather than a biographical standpoint.” “The book pleasantly deals with Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, where Tennyson usually spent the winter, and with Aldworth, on the borders of Surrey, and Sussex, the summer home of Tennyson’s declining years.” (Ind.)
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+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“There is not one word in his book that could have wounded the susceptibilities of Tennyson, yet the record is full of interest and charm.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 110w.
+ – =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Mr. Paterson’s share in this book, whose value is quite unaffected by his defects—sentimentality and exaggerated adoration of Tennyson—would call for no remark had he not loaded his pages with a construction that must give pain to the sensitive reader.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ’05. 210w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ’05. 60w.
“The descriptive letterpress, by Mr. Arthur Paterson, is worthy even of the work of Mrs. Allingham. He commands a style that is graphic in the best sense.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
“All the poems, with the latest changes in them (whether improvements or otherwise) are brought together in a single volume of clear and stately print. A remarkably faithful portrait is included in the six-shillings’ worth, and Mr. Basil Champneys adds an introductory discourse in which a sufficiency of biographical detail has place.”—Acad.
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+ =Acad.= 71: 366. O. 13, ’06. 1640w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 702. O. 27, ’06. 1250w.
=Putnam’s= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.
=Patrick, William.= James, the Lord’s brother. **$2. Scribner.
The author stands on debatable ground in his monolog which aims to show that the author of the Epistle of James is the James whom St. Paul refers to as “the Lord’s brother” in Galatians i, 19. “His conclusion is the one that Christian men would naturally wish to be true but it must be confessed that serious difficulties are in the way. These Dr. Patrick combats with great ability, but with a success that seems somewhat contingent on the predilection of his readers.” (Outlook.)
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“We welcome his volume as a scholarly and reasonable contribution to a clearer understanding of the forces at work during the apostolic age.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 138. Ap. 20, ’06. 930w.
– =Nation.= 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 430w.
“With ample learning makes a very plausible argument.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Patten, Helen Philbrook.= Music lovers’ treasury. **$1.20. Estes.
An anthology of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to music and musicians.
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“A volume that certainly merits its title.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 70w.
=Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ’05. 80w.
“The compiler has generally succeeded in avoiding the merely commonplace or distinctly bad, and the anthology is pleasing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 275. Ap. 28, ’06. 300w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The value of Mr. Paul’s history lies in its being a convenient record of events or, as we have said, above, an enlarged Annual register. It will be excellent material for the historian of the future, when he comes to deal with the time of which he treats.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1309. D. 16, ’05. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“By judicious omission and emphasis, the author’s strong grasp of the subject as a whole and his sense of dramatic unity he has produced a sort of journalistic prose epic of the British Empire, centering about the two protagonists Beaconsfield and Gladstone. This volume seems in many ways the best of the four which have thus far appeared.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 898. Jl. ’06. 1930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Fair-mindedness continues to be a marked feature of this able and lively work.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 560w. (Review of v. 4.)
“On the whole, Mr. Paul deserves warm congratulations on the last volume of his attractive history.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 860w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Paul writes entertainingly and satisfactorily, and as this information can be found nowhere else, except with great trouble in scattered special treatises or in voluminous biographies, his book will unquestionably be heartily welcomed by a large number of readers.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work is everywhere compact, but his terse and vigorous style gives emphasis to what might otherwise easily read like a mere summary of political events.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work on ‘Contemporary France.’”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of great importance in it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.” Christian Gauss.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)
“For him who wishes a brilliant account of English politics and the working of that great governmental machine, the English constitution, there is no better book.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 80w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It need hardly be added that his pages are distinguished by the ease, candor, honesty and incisiveness that gave such a charm to the earlier installments.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Mr. Paul is a clever journalist whose fascinating style of writing and peculiar type of humour succeed in making the dullest subjects entertaining.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 215. Ag. 12, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This volume may be recommended as a work of reference and at the same time a very entertaining reading, for it is full of shrewd and philosophic sayings about political parties, is suffused with dry humor, and contains occasional flashes of wit.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 303. Mr. 10, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In many of the transactions described by him, Mr. Paul, as an active politician must have taken some part. During most of the period covered by this volume, Mr. Paul’s opponents were in power. Yet the story is told with scrupulous impartiality: nought is set down in malice: and though in so concise a work there must necessarily be much suppression, the perspective is admirably caught and maintained. An absence of picturesque detail is the price we have to pay for sober style, relieved by touches of caustic but not ill-natured humor.” Arthur A. Baumann.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 477. O. 20, ’06. 1920w. (Review of v. 5.)
“He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Life of Froude. **$4. Scribner.
Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s character and career. “He was one of England’s really great historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)
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“A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.
“His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 164. F. 10. 1470w.
“In Froude he has a spicy subject. He was sure to produce a lively book.” Goldwin Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 680. My. ’06. 5050w.
“Mr. Herbert Paul is well fitted to write a sympathetic life of Froude, both because, of his own historical studies and because, like Froude himself, he possesses imagination and a sense of style.” H. T. P.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 529. Jl. ’06. 2420w.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ =Critic.= 49: 180. Ag. ’06. 1990w.
“Whether it be that sympathy with his subject has imparted to him something of Froude’s own consummate art as a literary craftsman, certain it is that he has produced a very readable account.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 80. F. 1, ’06. 2630w.
“The biography ... which has something of an ‘official’ character, is made subordinate to the description and estimate of his writings.” A.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 397. Ap. ’06. 1800w.
“No reader can finish Mr. Paul’s volume on Froude without a vivid impression of the life which it is written to commemorate. Had he contented himself with narration, and omitted the discussion of his hero’s merits as an historian, the volume would have been more useful and permanent.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 683. Mr. 22, ’06. 1610w.
“A work whose biographical and critical sides are, however, very uneven.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“If Mr. Paul has failed to produce a masterpiece, he has written what will be accepted as an adequate life, and perhaps it may prove to be the final one. It is an excellent piece of work, considering the limitations imposed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 490w.
“Perhaps the most exact title for this interesting book would have been ‘Froude: a sketch.’ It is alive from the first page to the last. It is full of Froude and full of his biographer.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 417. D. 1, ’05. 2270w.
“Marked by his usual force, point, and vivacity.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 452. My. 31, ’06. 2510w.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 875. D. 9, ’05. 1670w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“His admiration lends a charm to his volume, but also imparts to it its two chief defects: it could be lessened in bulk with advantage ... and its tone is throughout too much that of one who is retained to defend an accused from attack. But in the main we agree with Mr. Paul’s interpretation.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
“There is, perhaps, nothing really new in the volume, but there is certainly a great deal of vigorous, pungent, and intellectually brilliant comment on the views and accomplishments of the late historian.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 190w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 52. Ja. 13, ’06. 1530w.
“This is a very delightful and refreshing book. Is one of the best and happiest portraits we have seen painted with that most graphic of instruments, the pen, for a long time.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 148. Ja. 27, ’06. 1870w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Stray leaves. **$1.50. Lane.
“Ten brilliant papers by Herbert Paul the accomplished critic and historian.... As characterizations the essays on Bishop Creighton and George Eliot are most stimulating.... In his book reviews Mr. Paul ... defends his point of view with nimble wit and careless confidence. He differs with Leslie Stephen in his estimate of George Eliot. He analyzes the essays and addresses of Mr. Balfour, touching upon the political position of the ex-leader with caustic irony.... The review of Lucas’s ‘Life of Charles Lamb’ is favorable and highly appreciative.... ‘The study of Greek’ and ‘The religion of the Greeks’ show the cleverness of the author from another point.”—Outlook.
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“The main reason why Mr. Herbert Paul is not a great critic is that he is not fundamental. An agreeable, witty and learned writer, he still lacks the patient analytical power and penetration required for any true illumination of his subject.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 278. S. 22, 06. 1470w.
“The articles reprinted by Mr. Herbert Paul under the title of ‘Stray leaves’ are pretty sure to repeat the success of his similar collection ‘Men and letters.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 580w.
“Apart from this absurd notion as to the uselessness of a little Greek, Mr. Paul has written a good book.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 480w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Is as rich in pleasure-giving quality as its predecessor, ‘Men and letters.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 1070w.
“They are unfailingly pleasant reading. ‘Pleasant’ is exactly the adjective.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 814. D. 1, ’06. 108Ow.
“Altogether, one could not read a more entertaining and enlivening book than this collection of papers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 290w.
“The ‘Stray leaves’ were worth gathering together and preserving.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 60w.
=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study; authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
Here “the German university is surveyed from every side—compared with the universities of other countries, with its old self in former ages, its relation to German national life, the instructors and their instruction, the students and their studying, and lastly the separate faculties as they prepare students for four professions. Altho his exposition of present conditions leaves no feature neglected, what interests one most in the present book is the practical aspect, the bearings of each feature of the university.”—Ind.
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 609. N. 17. 1780w.
“While useful and authoritative, the volume is not wholly suited to English readers.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.
“A volume might be written in praise of this admirable book. A second volume might be written on the thoughts concerning American higher education which it suggests. It will at once be accepted as the authoritative book on its subject. Fortunately the translation effectively preserves some of the best qualities of Paulsen’s very readable style.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 32: 315. O. ’06. 1040w.
“An all-round presentation of the most satisfying completeness—historical, descriptive, practical.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“Fresh in the clear, forcible English of Professor Thilly.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 208. S. 6, ’06. 1250w.
“Such a volume as this, so rich both in information, and in suggestion, cannot be too strongly commended to the attention of American faculties and students.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 560w.
“This translation of the elaborate work of Professor Paulsen, the leading authority on the subject, will therefore be welcomed by all who are interested in the question of university education, for its historical retrospects throw light upon the causes which have given to the German universities their exceptional position.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 577. O. 20, ’06. 1700w.
=Payne, John.= Selections from the poetry of John Payne made by Tracy and Lucy Robinson; with an introduction by Lucy Robinson. *$2.50. Lane.
Mrs. Robinson says in her introduction that this volume of poems is published as “an appeal to all lovers of poetry on behalf of one of its uncrowned kings—widely known, it is true, as a translator, but as a poet receiving less than insular recognition.” The selections include ballads, blank verse and sonnets, “they are exquisitely graceful, and yet profoundly impressive, pervaded by a moving undertone of sadness, which perhaps reaches its full expression in the beautiful poem ‘The grave of my songs.’ How the poet could have remained in comparative obscurity so long can only be explained by the pre-eminence of his translations, and his own exceeding modesty as to his original writings.” (Outlook.)
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“These ‘Selections’ have been made with excellent taste and judgment by Tracy and Lucy Robinson, the latter furnishing the Introduction which is done with sympathetic insight and with fine appreciation of the subject.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 141. Ag. ’06. 550w.
“Is supplied as an extremely interesting study of his work as a whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 930w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 696. S. 20, ’06. 340w.
“The first impression made by the selection is that of a marvelous virtuosity, an amazing metrical and verbal ingenuity. Of the poeticalness, so to say, of Mr. Payne’s literary impulse there can be no doubt.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 750w.
“His inventive genius and remarkable use of melodious English give an unusual pleasure to the appreciative reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Jesus Christ and the Christian character. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a companion volume to “Jesus Christ and the social question.” It examines the teaching of Jesus concerning personal life, and the applicability of the Christian type to the conditions of the modern world.”—Bib. World.
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“It is a most valuable addition to the literature of Christian ethics. It is an immensely fruitful book for all; but it has peculiar eye-opening value for the student afflicted with academic theological myopia.” Herbert A. Youtz.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 765. O. ’06. 700w.
“Here is learning and wisdom and perception of human need, and the word spoken in season, made attractive and convincing and vital by association with the Supreme Person.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 250w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The book embodies a clear insight into the fundamentals of the method and of the subject-matter of Christian ethics. And when to this high scholarly value one adds its extraordinary practical suggestiveness in the concrete problems of modern life, it is evident that the book is one which every pastor and teacher should read.” G. B. S.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 28: 428. D. ’06. 460w.
“The thinking is strong and clear, but somewhat conservative.” W. Jones Davies.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 219. O. ’06. 840w.
“The lectures are full of power and present a study of Christian ethics which is truly inspiring.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 222. Ja. 25, ’06. 220w.
“The foot notes show a wide reading in modern studies upon the character of Jesus Christ. The body of the book shows large familiarity with the character and teaching of Jesus Christ.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ’05. 190w.
“Scholarly and yet simply phrased treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Pearse, Mark Guy.= Pretty ways o’ Providence. *$1. Meth. bk.
A group of thirteen stories, simple possible tales, all bearing testimony to the kindly rift that lets the light of heaven thru. How definite good guided Henry Craze in his love-making, saved shy Man’el Hodge from his baneful love-coaching, and touched the heart of a hardened drunkard to transform his dreary cottage into a place fit for the home-coming of his little maid, are among the “pretty ways o’ Providence.”
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+ =Outlook.= 83: 225. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“These are pretty little stories of excellent moral tone, a little over-sentimental and pious in a Methodist fashion, but pleasantly and simply written with appreciation of country atmosphere and rustic ways.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 150. Ag. 4, ’06. 30w.
=Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
“Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, which are just the qualities needed for this sort of reminiscent verse.” Wm. M. Payne
+ =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
=Peck, Rev. George Clarke.= Vision and task. $1. Meth. bk.
Fifteen sermons in which the task of Christian living is expressed in terms of life to-day, and is brought home with the force of current comparison. The titles include: The passing of mystery; The plain heroic breed; A vision for the wilderness; A lesson for the street; The biography of a back-slider; Doing good by proxy; The hindering God; The thorn as an asset; The paramount duty; and The divine dependence.
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“These are strenuous sermons, clearly conceived, and delivered in clear and forcible English.” Edward Braislin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 573. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“This is a collection of sermons eminently good. Their vision is clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
“If this were the only existing life of Prescott it would leave much to be desired; taken in connection with the lives by Ticknor and Mr. Rollo Ogden it will serve a genuinely useful purpose.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 640w.
=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps, social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book of the Peckhams is valuable as a whole because it gives us an accurate description of the types of behavior of many different genera and species of wasps.” J. B. W.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 172. My. 15, ’06. 1160w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas; il. by the author. **$2.50. Scribner.
“The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title, liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian influences.”—Ind.
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“Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we shall know more about it than many who have been there.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.
“In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a word-picture or an etching.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“The book is really good reading, a capital record of travel for the stay-at-home, observant of the picturesque, appreciative of historical associations as of artistic beauties, and as for the illustrations, Mr. Peixotto long since passed the stage in his career where praise of his work was necessary.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s descriptions of his wanderings through Italy and across the Adriatic have the fascination of a novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 50w.
=Pemberton, Max.= My sword for Lafayette; being the story of a great friendship; and of certain episodes in the wars waged for liberty, both in France and America, by one who took no mean part therein. †$1.50. Dodd.
Zaida Kay is a young American who after the battle of Yorktown follows Lafayette to France. “There is mutiny on the high seas; there is a miraculous escape; there is an idyllic sojourn in a quaint little village on the coast of England, and a romantic marriage with a young French girl in hiding there from enemies at home.” (N. Y. Times.) And before a return to America is accomplished the two are led thru a maze of happenings precipitated by Frenchmen fighting for liberty.
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“The author has a certain facility of invention, but his style is without flexibility, and his figures are rarely anything more than puppets.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
“For the most part the episodes are trite, and without exception the characters are lifeless puppets. But it is perhaps in dialogue that Mr. Pemberton fails most signally.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 561. My. 5, ’06. 230w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
“All who knew Charles Godfrey Leland knew that the man was stronger than his work. It is this man that Mrs. Pennell draws for us. From her pages radiates a personality that refreshes and rejoices, a vitality that heartens, and invigorates the reader. Not but that the biographer, proud of her brilliant uncle, does her best to give some account of what he achieved. And here she serves him truly.... The biography is mainly the work of Leland’s own pen. It consists almost entirely in transcripts from his memoranda, notes, and other papers, and of letters written to his family and to celebrities, American and English, with some of their replies. Mrs. Pennell furnishes the necessary links, transitions, and explanations, drawing upon her knowledge of the man and his ways, acquired during the period of her intimate companionship with him.... The illustrations consist of two frontispiece portraits of ‘the Rye,’ and facsimile reproductions of letters written to him by Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson, Browning, Bulwer-Lytton and many others.”—Nation.
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“She has done ample justice to the fine traits in her uncle’s character, and has produced a biography which will be read with pleasure by all to whom his talents and achievements were known.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 686. D. 1. 1410w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 648. D. ’06. 1220w.
“As a companion and supplement to the ‘Memoirs’ of 1839, it helps to furnish a full-length portrait of an unusually interesting man.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 198. O. 1, ’06. 1850w.
“A life absorbed in interests of so romantic a nature cannot fail to furnish a rich find to the biographer, and Mrs. Pennell has acquitted herself admirably of the task.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20. ’06. 370w.
“Is one of the really important books of the kind that have appeared this season.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“This readable biography, permeated with the strong personality of its subject has the shortcomings that Leland’s versatility made practically avoidable.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 1430w.
“This and other failings of his, Mrs. Pennell does not see; it is perhaps, not a part of her chosen task to see them. That she gives great charm to her record goes without saying; and that her estimate of her uncle as a person of importance is just, no reader will be disposed to deny.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 625. O. 6, ’06. 1580w.
“If the tone is rather more admiring than would be the case if it were not all in the family, is nevertheless an exceedingly readable book, full of letters and anecdotes of real intrinsic interest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The life and character of Charles Geoffrey Leland [are] sympathetically interpreted by his niece.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.
“Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book, and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee, dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the spread of commerce and industry.
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“There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to the ordinary traveller or reader.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.
“The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps and illustrations.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 322. My. 16, ’06. 1160w.
“The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 250w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 327. S. 28, ’06. 730w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 291. My. 5, ’06. 270w.
“It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 3900w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 390w.
=Perez, Isaac Loeb.= Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.
The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish” but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide sympathies.
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“The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 180w.
“Ought to be of interest to any one, regardless of creed, to whom a sympathetic study in human nature is always precious.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 330w.
“They are short in form, depending in the main upon a dramatic perception of character, having no narrative interest, or very little. The various difficulties confronting the translator have not been entirely overcome; but to reproduce a local dialect is almost as impossible as to reproduce the subtle qualities of style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch).= Goose girl: a mother’s lap book of rhymes and pictures. †$1.25. McClurg.
A book of verse and pictures for little people.
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“The simple little rhymes are quaint and pleasing, and the full page and smaller pictures, in black and white, are done with cleverness and charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
“A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.
=Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene.= Machine shop construction, equipment and management. $5. Henley.
The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this implement. They are just as separate and independent as are construction and operation in the case of railways: though inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)
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“The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine shop and controlling its operation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.
=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr. Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)
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Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 853. D. ’06. 1530w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 640. D. ’06. 950w.
“Mr. Perry’s critical judgment is calm, sane and discriminating. His attitude is friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although never that of an enthusiast: he never slips his moorings, critically.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 317. N. 16. ’06. 2060w.
“It is unusually well written. The materials for anything like a satisfactory estimate are wanting.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1231. N. 22. ’06. 660w.
“Altogether the volume will probably take its place as the sane and authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1210w.
“His book throughout is a striking instance of the value of poise. No significant details are slurred over, no difficult passages are omitted, no grotesque features are softened, no preliminary effort has been considered superfluous, respect for ‘nature as she is’ reigns in the picture: yet the work complete is saved from any suspicion of the meticulous by a fusing glow of imaginative insight.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 1850w.
“Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.
“Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.
=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.
Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during 1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger, especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.” (Dial.)
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+ =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
“A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.
=Perry, Ralph Barton.= Approach to philosophy. **$1.50. Scribner.
To make the reader “more solicitously aware of the philosophy that is in him, or to provoke him to philosophy in his own interests” is the author’s aim in the present work. In the first part of the work the author establishes his approach to philosophy thru practical life, poetry, religion and science; the second part furnishes “‘the reader with a map of the country to which he has been led,’ to provide ‘a brief survey of the entire programme of philosophy.’” The third part “emphasizes the point of view, or the internal consistency that makes a system of philosophy out of certain answers to the special problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)
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“Dr. Perry has compressed a wonderful amount of information into a short space. Nevertheless we are sorry for the beginner who approaches philosophy by way of such a wilderness of -isms.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 169. F. 10. 440w.
“One closes the book with the conviction of having enjoyed and profited by a gracefully written, a skillfully planned, and well-sustained discussion of the vital relationship of philosophy to practical interests, its inevitableness, its characteristic problems, and its representative systems. The non-technical will doubtless find this approach well designed to lead to intimacy.” Albert Lefevre.
+ =Philos. R.= 15: 204. Mr. ’06. 1810w.
“Dr Perry possesses the power of writing English that is lucid and distinguished—a rare gift in a philosopher—and this fact, combined with an extremely wide range of reading, enables him to display the historic field of philosophy in a manner that, so far as we are aware, has no precedent other than the famous work of Dean Mansel. This admirable work should be in the hands of every thinker.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012. Je. 30, ’06. 760w.
=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.
A late “Beacon biography” which presents the life of this worthy historian in summary form, comprehensively viewing the man’s life and labors, “and because the theme was a man of letters rather than affairs, the qualities of an extended essay are more conspicuous than those of biographical narrative.” (Atlan.)
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“This brief biography cannot be commended for accuracy, abundance of information, discriminating judgment, or literary merit.” F. G. D.
– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 717. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“One feels in the spirit and outlook which form the background of the little book the peculiar qualifications of Mr. Perry for undertaking what he has performed so well.”
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 360w.
“One turns from it with the feeling that the picture is drawn in bold, strong lines, regretting only that fuller detail was not attempted.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 250w.
=Ind.= 60: 1548. Je. 28, ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the best, if not the best in the series.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 150w.
“This little biographical essay would make an excellent preface to the collected works of John Fiske. There is a great deal in it.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10. ’06. 840w.
“He is, indeed inclined to be over-eulogistic, and his portrayal suffers from awkward phraseology. But in spite of this he contrives to convey a good idea of Mr. Fiske both as man and as writer.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
“A very excellent biography of John Fiske.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 60w.
=Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“The results are so interesting that one cannot but wish that the work had been more thoroughly done.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1590w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“It is rather a series of citations from original sources than a history in the modern sense of the term.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“May be said to be almost a model of a presentative history as distinguished from a philosophical one.” L. H. Gray.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 358. D. ’05. 350w.
“It is not history in the popular sense of that term, but it is rather a chronological arrangement of the materials out of which a running narrative could be constructed. As a compendium, it is invaluable to the scholar.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 16. Jl. 1, ’06. 260w.
“He has made a book for students and for specialists, a book which enables us to say that the best and most inclusive history of Egypt is in English; but it is not one that can be read with ease or possesses literary merit.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. **$6. Dutton.
Dr. Petrie’s researches in the desert region to which Sinai belongs offer large returns to the student of archaeology. “On the way he picked up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of ancient remains; but his main work lay at Maghareh, where the turquois had been mined, and at neighboring Serabít, where was erected the temple to Hathor, the Lady of the Turquois. This temple Mr. Petrie’s party planned and excavated, with the results that, considering the remoteness of the region from Nilotic civilization and the frequency with which the spot has been researched, are truly amazing.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Its ingredients are excellent, stamped with the hall-mark of the author’s original and independent mind. We only sigh for a little more art in the concoction of them, a little more sense of the difference between a book and the rough notes for several books.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 231. Je. 29, ’06. 1250w.
=Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 1620w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 870w.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 660w.
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 81. Jl. 21, ’06. 1640w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 986. Je. 23, ’06. 1580w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.75. Huebsch.
This book has grown out of a series of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Berlin, during the past winter. The viewpoint from which he treats the origin of Christianity is historical, and a complete interpretation of the meaning of his method with its relation to other methods is furnished in the introduction. The two main divisions of his study are Preparation and foundation of Christianity, and The evolution of early Christianity into the church.
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“This volume is in our judgment the most important religious work that has appeared during the past year.”
+ + + =Arena.= 36: 97. Jl. ’06. 3100w.
“Brilliant though it is, needs to be corrected and restrained in its most important positions before it can be taken as a scientifically reliable narrative of the origins of the Christian faith.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 554. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“The work is condensed and devoid of technicalities, and has been rendered into excellent English.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 323. My. 16, ’06. 980w.
=Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“The work of this great scholar will be widely accepted as conclusive. It presents a serious challenge to the Church. To answer it effectively will require, besides equal genius, preparedness to make some concessions.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 380w.
=Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. *$1.10. Houghton.
“The book as a whole, shows careful study of the sources, and its accuracy is commendable. There are, however, some errors, due partly to a failure to examine recently discovered documents and partly to other causes.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 408. Ja. ’06. 980w.
“The volume is among the most scholarly of the extensive literature called forth by the recent centennial anniversary of the acquisition of this vast territory.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The work bears the stamp of originality, not that it offers any fresh facts to the student, but rather because of the appreciations which it gives of many events and movements.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 119. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“The account of the Reconstruction, though brief, is the first satisfactory treatment of that tumultuous epoch in Louisiana history.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In accurate scholarship and depth of research it ranks well also, but the last third of the book,—concerning the Civil war, its cause and results—is unfortunately written in a controversial vein with strong Southern sympathies.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 630. Mr. 15, ’06. 440w.
“A narrative exhibiting unity and coherence, and dealing with large events in a large way. One of the best of the ‘Commonwealths’ histories.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Phelps, Idelle.= Your health. **75c. Jacobs.
The colored drawings by Helen Alden Knipe which illustrate this little volume of toasts add much to its attractions. The toasts themselves are not wholly new but cover a broad field extending from “the world” to “babies,” and from “the Garden of Eden” to “a bird, a bottle and an open-work stocking.”
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“Something of the champagne flavor belongs to the collection of toasts.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 40w.
=Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.
“This is an excellent compendium of the art and, on the whole, of the history of Florence. Misprints are, unfortunately, rather numerous.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 520w.
=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
“This interesting volume is a triumph of impressions.” (Ath.) “It is concerned with two unrelated topics; the French scheme of colonization in Algiers, and the influence of the Sahara desert on Arab life, architecture, religion, poetry, and philosophy.... In his thesis that the Arab character is the outcome of the influence of the desert, Mr. Phillipps gives us a sketch of the effect of the desert life on himself, and applies his experience to that of the Arab.” (Dial.)
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“A vivid, plausible, and spirited piece of word-painting, which may safely be commended to all save the real student and the practised traveller in Africa.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 480w.
“The author has made an entertaining contribution to our knowledge of Arab life and art.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 470w.
“Would that Mr. Phillipps had never thought it his mission to simplify history! That omitted, he had written a very charming book.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 368. N. 3, ’05. 1110w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, though the style is at times somewhat discursive and it is a little difficult to follow the author’s train of thought.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“It must rank as a conservative under-statement of conditions as they are now known to exist. As a romance this novel compares favorably with ‘The cost’ in human and love interest while as a section taken from present-day public life it is equal to ‘The plum-tree.’”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 97. Ja. ’06. 2690w.
“His strongest piece of work up to the present time.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 372. D. ’05. 520w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Fortune hunter; il. by E. M. Ashe. †$1.25. Bobbs.
The fortune hunter of the title of Mr. Phillips’ latest story is an actor who spends his days in making love to girls of wealthy parents. In ever choosing, in going out of his way, in fact, for the course of least resistance he comes to well deserved grief. And the hearts that are broken do mend.
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“The story ... has little plot, but is deeply interesting from cover to cover; and the closing half of the volume is especially admirable.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillips tantalizes us with the richness of his material and provokes us by the comparatively meagre use that he has made of it.” H. T. P.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 380w.
“Rather clever is this sketch of this type of social nuisance.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 130w.
“The author of ‘The fortune hunter’ has added too much realism to his romantic compound.”
– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 80w.
“Is but a slight tale, and one rather grudges its author’s very real powers to such ephemeral productions as are coming from his pen.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Story, in a sense, there is none; style, in a literary sense, there is none; merely a serviceable prose, straightforward and energetic.” Mary Moss.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 470w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“An entertaining, breezy story.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mr. Scraggs: introduced by “Red Saunders.” †$1.25. Grafton press.
Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand, and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)
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“The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.” Mary K. Ford.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.
“There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man who tells them, and his way of telling them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a high degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17. ’06. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.
In this latest play of Mr. Phillips “the world is a picture, not a stage, and all the men and women not players, but talkers.” (Lond. Times.) “It is a play, because it shows a will conflict—the struggle between Nero and Agrippina, between natural affection and lust for power—but it is even more a spectacle, illustrating polychromatically the successive stages of Nero’s madness. It has fine poetic passages—appropriately ‘purple’—as we shall see; it has vivid studies of bed-rock character and fierce elemental passions. It blends the fragrance of rose-leaves with the scent of blood. It sates the eye with splendid pictures and the ear with voluptuous music of both verse and orchestra. At the end of it all one gasps and is a little dizzy, in short, it is a tremendous production.” (Lond. Times.)
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“It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”
– =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 720w.
“The action of the play does little but show us the different phases of character, but that it does with ingenuity and sufficiency.” Edward Everett Hale.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 291. My. ’06. 640w.
“It is a poor descent of the talents, from which one can only wish the author a speedy return upon himself to the promise of six years ago.” Arthur Waugh.
– =Critic.= 49: 20. Jl. ’06. 1050w.
“Artifice and rhetoric seem to be the chief ingredients of the work. The decline from ‘Paolo and Francesca,’ and ‘Ulysses’ is discouragingly marked.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 360w.
“It contains a number of fine passages. But as a vision of life in action, it is feeble and ineffective. And the failing is not merely executive, it is fundamental; the piece is not conceived dramatically, but pictorially and emotionally.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 439. Mr. 24. ’06. 1440w.
“The defect of ‘Nero’ is the defect of all its author’s plays. Throughout it we are on the surface of things, never inside them.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1260w.
“It proves him more conclusively than his previous plays did a talented writer of elegiac verse, and expert composer of cycloramic spectacle, who thinks habitually rather in terms of poetic phrase than, as has been the way of the true dramatist, in terms of character, of concerted situation, of human destiny as it is shaped from the clashing, fatal actions of men.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 710w.
“‘Nero.’ one judges, will not add to the author’s claims as a regenerator of the contemporary English-speaking stage. But it will not deprive him of his laurels as one of the very few contemporary English-writing poets.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 300w.
“The whole play has the air of being written for the stage with the effect of the stage accompaniments always before the writer’s mind. The versification has the grave fault of a lack of organic strength.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 310w.
=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
“The writer has little conception of the inwardness of religion, or the historic continuity and development of Judaism and Christianity. The book ‘fails to convince’ largely because the real issues are not touched.” Elbert Russell.
– =Bib. World.= 28: 77. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of salvation.”
+ – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity, fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs; she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)
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“When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full, wise and glowing piece of work.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.
“‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 430w.
“It lacks the grim tensity of ‘The secret woman,’ the lyric enthusiasm of ‘Children of the mist;’ but on the other hand, it has a more even strength, a greater dignity that comes from reserve force.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 760w.
“One lays down ‘The portreeve’ in astonishment at the inventiveness and ability that can use the same scenes and the same class of people so often, yet with increasing interest.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Phillpotts comes nearer than anyone else to being the legitimate successor of Mr. Hardy as a rustic realist, and he has a considerable measure of the imaginative power which can invest a simple passionate complication with the severe attributes of high tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“For all the strain it may put upon our belief, has in it much of its author’s sense of natural beauty and fine sense of sincerity of purpose, and a sympathy with the poor and the oppressed that is not exceeded by any living novelist.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 580w.
“‘The portreeve,’ far nearer the Hardy level than he has ever reached before, is undoubtedly the best work Mr. Phillpotts has done so far.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never sketched the loveliness and majesty of the Dartmoor country with a surer hand. The motive is one of the most repellent within reach of the novelist, and is worked out with unsparing boldness.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w.
“It is a grim, hopeless tragedy woven out of the hard lives and plain, simple speech of the Dartmoor people.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 130w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Phin, John.= Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them, to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.
The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the universal medicine and the elixir of life.
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+ =Engin. N.= 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w.
=Ind.= 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.
“He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w.
=Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
“An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious field of enquiry.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.
=Phythian, J. Ernest.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.
The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)
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“Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ =Acad.= 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w.
=Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w.
=Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
=Pickthall, Marmaduke.= House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.
“An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical, unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.
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“Mr. Pickthall rouses our interest and respect; he is as yet without that last touch of inspiration, which rouses enthusiastic conviction.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 220w.
“Our only objections are that Mr. Pickthall is at times too resolutely Oriental for the ordinary reader to follow him easily, and that he would gain occasionally by straightforward narrative where facts are conveyed by brief allusion only.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.
“He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“‘Saïd the fisherman,’ it is true remains his masterpiece, but ‘The house of Islam’ has very great merits.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 290w.
“The geography, architecture, and figures are in admirable proportion: the characters stand out and live; the style is swift, pictorial, and amiably cynical, fitting its theme.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.
“The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.
“The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon the mind.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta. $1.50. Dodge.
A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress, marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being Cromillian, the moral bandit.
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“Is amusing (in its way).”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Sarah Bernhardt Brown and what she did in a country town. $1.50. Waters.
The heroine of Mr. Pidgin’s new story is a poor girl of obscure family who achieves by sure and steady progress the lady bountiful plane. There are arrayed in the background no less than well to the fore a variety of characters drawn from rural New Hampshire. The plot itself, which travels from Dolby City, Montana, to Snickersville, New Hampshire, must of necessity lose force in transit. The story may be called a companion volume to “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”
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“If Mr. Pidgin’s humor is very primitive his supply of talk and narrative (such as it is) is apparently limitless.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
“Combines a rather sensational plot with somewhat too extended and thinly drawn out descriptions of country character and rustic pranks.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“While lacking the swing and vitality to animate large issues, he possesses, perhaps unknown to himself, a fine personal gift. This is a delicate sensitiveness to the feelings of very young people.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It is a pleasure, occasionally, to take up a book written with the ability, the intelligent sympathy, the serious purpose that stamp the new volume by Arthur Stanwood Pier.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for having read.”
+ =Reader.= 71: 453. Mr. ’06. 220w.
=Pierce, Rev. Charles Campbell.= Hunger of the heart for faith, and other sermons. *$1. Young ch.
A series of sermons delivered at the Cathedral open-air services in Washington, D. C. There is an introduction by Bishop Satterlee.
=Pierce, James O.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
Beginning with the spirit of ’76, these studies treat of American constitutional history in a clear concise manner which will appeal to both the student and the man of affairs. Such subjects as The United States a nation from the Declaration of independence, The beginnings of American institutions, The ethics of secession, The American and French revolutions compared, The beneficiaries of the federal constitution, Slavery in its constitutional relations, A century of the American constitution, Our unwritten constitution, America’s leadership, The American empire, Righteousness exalteth a nation, and America’s place in history are treated in the light of eighteen years of active lecture work upon kindred subjects.
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“The lectures or addresses are pitched in a somewhat exalted key, and are calculated to stimulate patriotism and extol the progress of America. Judge Pierce has not always been careful in the use of authorities. On the whole we must conclude that the volume has no peculiar interest and makes no special appeal to the specialist, the student, or the general reader. The reviews and addresses on the whole well adapted for their purpose, do not make an indispensable volume for the library.”
+ – – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.
“A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book. It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious, conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there is very suggestive.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we feel that where the views are sound (as they usually are) Mr. Pierce has failed to support them by the strongest arguments. But on the whole, there is remarkably little to criticise in his pages which convey in small compass a large amount of information useful alike to the student of constitutional history and the general reader anxious to improve his acquaintance with the circumstances attending the political, social, intellectual, and religious growth of the United States.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Pierson, Arthur Tappan.= Bible and spiritual criticism; being the second series of the Exeter Hall lectures on the Bible delivered in London, England, February, March, and April, 1904. **$1. Baker.
A companion volume to “God’s living oracles.” There are twelve lectures treating spiritual faculties, methods, organism, structure, progress, symmetry, types, wisdom, verdicts and verities. They are a defence of the inspiration and integrity of the Holy Scriptures—the discussion of which theme is “a solemn business,” says the author.
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“Under the blinding influence of a false theory of inspiration this book presents a strange jumble of gold, silver, and precious stones with wood, hay, and stubble.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 220w.
=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders: from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. **$1. Funk.
The taming and Christianizing of cannibal tribes make a record of remarkable conquests for the churches. This narrative extols the fearless initiative of missionaries in entering these fields and arousing its people from a state of man-eating savagery. It records the history of missionary work, the resources of the islands, and future possibilities of the natives.
=Pigafetta, Antonio.= Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original text of the Ambrosian ms., with Eng. translation, notes, bibliography and index, by James Alexander Robertson; with portrait, and facsimiles of the original maps and plates. 2v. *$7.50. Clark, A. H.
An accurate transcription from the sixteenth-century Ambrosian manuscript of Milan appears in these volumes with a page-for-page translation into English. “Pigafetta is the best and fullest authority for Magellan’s voyage which is here completely presented in English for the first time.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“The most complete and accurate presentation of the Pigafetta manuscript and the data appertaining to it that has ever been made in any language. In the introduction and his excellent bibliography, Mr. Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 125. O. ’06. 880w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 751. N. ’05. 60w.
“A work of laborious and admirable scholarship which should prove of interest both to professional students of history and ethnology and to the curious reader of travellers’ tales.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.
“We have nothing but praise for this interesting and learned work.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 400. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.
“Mr. Pigou has given us a study that will command admiration for the closeness of his reasoning no less than for the power with which a vast mass of material has been used.” C. J. Hamilton.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 247. Ja. ’06. 850w.
=Pittman, Captain Philip.= Present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical description of that river illustrated by plans and draughts; ed. by Frank H. Hodder. *$3. Clark, A. H.
An exact reprint of the original edition, London, 1770, with facsimiles of the original maps and plans. An introduction, notes, and index have been furnished by the editor, making the volume valuable to historical students. “It is a comprehensive account of the Illinois country and its inhabitants, with sketches in detail of the several French posts and villages situated therein, as personally viewed by him in 1766–67.... It contains, in a compact form, much useful and reliable information (nowhere else to be found) concerning the Mississippi valley and its people at that transition period.”
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“The notes made for this edition while not voluminous are of decided value.” Edwin E. Sparks.
– – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 150. O. ’06. 260w.
=Dial.= 39: 315. N. 16, ’05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.
=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
With the aim of assisting in bringing Christian ideals into the domain of our social and industrial life, this discussion presents the present situation of social reconstruction, considers whether the church has a special mission to society as well as to the individual, and brings forward some things the church can and ought to do in order to meet the obligations which the problems of the hour impose upon her.
=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“This book is likely to prove more stirring, and more lasting, in its appeal, than many a piece of scholar’s work, no less learned, perhaps. but with less of the whole man in it.” R. R. Marett.
+ =Hibbert J.= 3: 839. Jl. ’05. 1700w.
“The whole book is certainly full of suggestion: even if we must add—as I think we must—that the view of Plato’s attitude here taken is a little unhistorical, and that the metaphysical doctrines here suggested are a little crude.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 242. Ja. ’06. 1370w.
“A useful book. The translation is excellently executed in the pseudo-archaic Biblical ‘Morte d’Arthur’ style, which is distasteful to many critics, but which on the whole is better suited to the myths than is the easy colloquialism of Jowett. It is substantially correct.” Paul Shorey.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 495. Ag. 30, ’06. 1790w.
+ – =Quarterly R.= 204: 68. Ja. ’06. 480w.
=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Bacon cryptograms in Shakespeare and other studies. **$1. Small.
The author says: “I wish distinctly to deny that what I am about to present proves Bacon’s authorship of the plays. What I do claim, and I think in reason, is that they seem to constitute grounds for a very strong suspicion that he was in some manner concerned in their production or associated with them.” “The book consists of eight more or less connected papers, the most important of which are The Bacon cryptograms in Love’s labour’s lost, which deals with the Latin of Act. V., Scene I., The Bacon cryptograms in the Shakespeare quartos, and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)
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“Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.” Charles H. A. Wager.
– – =Dial.= 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.
=Plummer, Alfred.= English church history from the death of King Henry VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.
“These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies, naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)
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“We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.
– =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 340w.
“Many will dissent from Professor Plummer’s judgments, and regret the scant courtesy shown to all opponents of the Establishment. But for all that, he has given in these lectures a suggestive and thorough-going treatment of the period under review.” J. F. Vichert.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 76. Jl. 28, ’06. 530w.
“He knows how to be severe to both sides when they deserve it, is unfavorable in his estimation of Wolsey, and not too hard on Henry VIII.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
“A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 95. My. ’06. 490w.
=Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon.= Ireland in the new century. *60c. Dutton.
“The appreciative student of social and economic problems will welcome this very readable and inciting book.” J. Dorum.
+ + =Westminster R.= 164: 525. N. ’05. 3250w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.
The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the relative who had grudgingly housed the two.
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+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.50. Little.
“The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes its potential influence for harm all the greater.”
– + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.
=Poincare (Jules) Henri.= Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J. Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have more value and precision than the experiments which served to demonstrate them.”—Ind.
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“It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is likely to be.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.
“We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.
“There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless, and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the French original.” Arthur Schuster.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.
“Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Henry VIII. *$2.60. Longmans.
The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King Henry.
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“The new edition, which is neat, serviceable and well printed, will enable the ordinary reader to make acquaintance with a most valuable contribution to the historical study of a vexed time and a disputed character.”
+ =Acad.= 09: 1111. O. 21, ’05. 70w.
“There can be no doubt that the present compact volume will prove far more useful for purposes of historical study than its bulkier and far more expensive predecessor. As far as the present reviewer is able to discover the volume is entirely free from misprints and minor errors.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 506. O. 14. 60w.
“A model biography of its kind. It is well proportioned throughout, and its literary style is excellent.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 370w.
“Perhaps the strangest part of Professor Pollard’s work is his account of the origin and progress of the movement that separated England from Rome. It seems that the author’s view of Henry’s character as man and monarch is entirely too favorable.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 291. My. 1, ’06. 1590w.
“For the use of the student the present form is decidedly preferable, and it does better justice to the author himself, as we know now exactly the evidences on which each particular statement rests. The book certainly is the result of great industry and very high ability.” James Gairdner.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.
“The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly plane.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.
“Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of English history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
“Has been reissued in a less expensive and more convenient form and with revisions and additions that greatly increase its value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82. 135. Ja. 20, ’06. 2360w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489–1556. *$1.35. Putnam.
“Pollard’s biography is fuller than that of Canon Mason, and it is very fortunately, for the ordinary reader, free from the high church prejudices of Jenkyns and Dixon.” John McLaughlan.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 260w.
=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
An exciting narrative of the efforts of two rival search parties to locate certain gold bullion stolen from a Boer government and stored in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique channel. It is a tale of chance, of daring, with adventure no whit below the spirit of its eager gold hunters.
=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street; a story of temptation. †$1.50. Barnes.
“The story of a young street Arab, Jim, possessed of a splendid voice, who emancipates himself from all those deteriorating influences which Mr. Poole calls the ‘street,’ and finally becomes a great singer. At the same time it is the story of self-sacrificing love on the part of a young girl who in order to support ‘Lucky Jim’ and her father turns thief. The book is not intended for mere entertainment. It is the portrayal of the better and the lower influences at work among the poor of the East End of New York. Mr. Poole knows these people well and he has spoken for them as their interpreter.”—World To-Day.
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“While admitting the book’s uncommon quality, one may question whether the ending is, in the truest sense, a happy one.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.
“Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“In short, the thing which pleases and satisfies the critical sense in this book is the approach it makes toward interpretation and presentation of the life of the poor according to the modern conscience, while at the same time giving it the form and dignity of real literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.
“Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story to endure.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Here the situations depicted are so poignant and yet natural, the characters are so lifelike that we almost forget the crudities in the manner of telling and the general commonplaceness in the make-up of this very human little story.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.
“Though there is never relief from movement, there is often a drag in the process of the tale. Vigor, directness, and the absence of mock sentimentality, however, weigh heavily on the other side.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
“He has dramatic insight, an unsensational realism and a downright sympathy for those who struggle for the better.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Pope, Jesse Eliphalet.= Clothing industry in New York. $1.25. Univ. of Mo.
“This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems. The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures, passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great value.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume and its results are summed up with great clearness.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.
“Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w.
=Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.” Florence Kelley.
– =Yale R.= 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.
=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
An intimate record of Grant’s movements during the Civil war, made up from General Porter’s careful and elaborate notes taken on the scene of action. The aim has been to “recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the language employed by him at the time they took place.” There are numerous illustrations, maps and a facsimile of the letter containing the oft quoted “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
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“The book is undeniably entertaining, and in its present attractive dress should have a new lease of life.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 30, ’06. 150w.
“Will long maintain its place as one of the best books about the Civil war, not only because it is authoritative, but more especially because it is full of human and personal interest, and it is written with animation and with compelling descriptive power.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.
“As a literary production the story deserves high praise. It is realistic in the best sense of that much-abused term, and the depressing effect of the story is at times counteracted by an underlying vein of humor which permeates much of the dialogue. Yet it is a book that we cannot find it in our heart to recommend, as it does not solve the problem and the general effect upon the reader’s mind is decidedly depressing.” Amy C. Rich.
+ – =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.
“Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and significance of the story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.
“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
“The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course, are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years, beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.
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“Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in the ten biographies is quoted.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 190w.
“The net result of the book is to prove that ecclesiastics are like other men, in having a saving sense of humor, in regard for substance rather than for form in religion, and in emphasis upon character rather than on possessions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.
“The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining reminiscences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, 06. 170w.
“Bishop Potter has an enviable reputation as a talker, and these pages will not diminish that reputation.” Cameron Mann.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.
“This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Margaret Horton (Mrs. J. D. Black).= Genius. †$1.50. Harper.
This story is the first of the author’s proposed “Trilogy of destiny,” three stories of Russian life. It follows the career of a famous Russian composer who was destined by a cruel unscrupulous, iron-handed father for the army and intrigue. How he slips thru the clutches of what seemed inevitable fate and is saved to a life which develops the artist’s temperament in him is presented with a free stroke in keeping with the rapid action.
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“The book is not without some strong pages. But as a picture of Russian life it is not to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 360w.
“This is the best written and the sanest of any of Miss Potter’s books. It is impossible, however, to approve such liberties as she has taken with the lives of men so lately dead.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.
“A book in certain qualities rather above the average, but its ambitiously cultivated style is a fair example of the way in which English should not be written.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.
“The parts are greater than the whole.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 177. Mr. 24, ’06. 460w.
“There is an irresistible fascination about the great grey land which captivates the imagination and proves an endless treasure to both writer and reader alike.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 80w.
=Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.
=Int. Studio.= 29: 183. Ag. ’06. 110w.
“The work is appreciatively and sympathetically written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest: a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.
“We note some repetition and overlapping of matter, but all things considered, the tales are well told, if occasionally with some pardonable complacency.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 280w.
“Though we could have spared some digressions from his portly volumes, we have not found a page too long.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 740w.
“But there is little in Sir Henry’s two volumes to make them worth printing. We hardly think that even professionally inclined outdoor people will find much amusement in these books.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 73. F. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Every lover of Norwegian sport will be grateful to an author who can revive for him a host of pleasant memories.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ’05. 410w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.
“This book should be possessed by every farmer in the Republic and by all persons who have land for a few trees and berry bushes.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 180w.
=Powell, Frances.= Prisoner of Ornith farm. †$1.50. Scribner.
“The startling abduction of Hope Carmichael from her own wealthy family and luxurious surroundings to the mysterious farm in Connecticut where she is held a prisoner in a barred room on the plea of insanity, her numberless wild and futile attempts at escape and the power over every one with whom he comes in contact of the villainous counterfeiter Lannion—these things combine to make a more than thrilling narrative.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is melodrama of the baldest sort.”
– =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”
+ – =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 160w.
“There is no doubt this is sensationalism of a successful sort. It is exciting enough to make one forget even the toothache.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 185. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.
“[Has] vividness and suspense and [shows] considerable ingenuity in sustaining the reader’s attention in the main situation by the dramatic way in which the successive incidents are managed ... weak as to the motive for action.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.
=Powell, Mary Elizabeth.= Dying musician. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A poem filled with pathos and longing which is the anguish of unrealized happiness. For the musician has loved and suffered:
“Then should thy judgment move To censure harsh, for having dared to love (E’en as great Tasso) one above me far And hopeless of attainment as a star— My one defense,—even as his—must be Because I loved, what not to love and see Was more or less than mortal and than me.”
=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
In his suggestions to young orators. Mr. Power emphasizes the value of individuality. While obeying certain structural principles he advises the student to encourage his natural freedom of speech and to learn that rhetoric “was designed as an aid to speakers and writers, and not as a means of bettering their natural ability.”
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“The book has many valuable suggestions, and will repay all who are ambitious to excel in any branch of oratory.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 416. D. ’06. 140w.
“It contains a number of excellent hints and suggestions to the public speaker of any sort, conceived and presented in a simple and unpretentious fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“This book is undoubtedly interesting and valuable; yet it is not entirely obvious who will most appreciate its interest and value.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.
“A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 413. Je. 23, ’06. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 767. Jl. 28, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 990. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
=Powers, Harry Huntington.= Art of travel: the laboratory study of civilization. 2d ed. 50c. Bureau of University travel, Trinity place, Boston.
Some of the topics discussed by way of valuable suggestion to the prospective traveller are the art, purpose, method and means of travel, university travel, outfit and travel in different countries.
=Powers, Harry Huntington, and Powe, Louise M.= Outlines for the study of art. v. 2. $1.50. Bureau of university travel, Trinity place, Boston.
An outline for the later period of Italian art beginning with Leonardo and ending with the decadence. The text furnishes a guide for the laboratory study of the period and is written to accompany a collection of reproductions.
=Powles, H. H. P.= Steam boilers, their history and development. *$6.50. Lippincott.
About one-third of the work is devoted to the work of old-time engineers in boiler design beginning with the spherical boiler made by Hero of Alexandria in 150 B. C. Then follow chapters in plain, cylindrical, Cornish and Lancashire boilers, water-tube boilers, and motor-car boilers. His closing chapters compare various types of boilers, and discuss boiler development in general.
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“We do not see that the book will be of any particular use to an engineer familiar with boiler design and construction; but it may possibly find a useful place on the shelves of public libraries, where there is a constant demand for popular information on technical subjects. Its chief value is as a history, but it is far from complete.”
– + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 330w.
=Pratt, Agnes Louise.= Aunt Sarah, a mother of New England. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Sarah Marsh, dubbed Aunt Sarah by her friends, is a typical example of an undemonstrative, stoical, but, withal, motherly New England woman of the Civil war times. She has two sons. Francis, the younger, leaves home to study. While away he discovers that his pledge of love to Hope Hamilton was a mistake. Hope, with true heroism, releases the student, to the relief of Philip, the elder son, a serious-minded manly young fellow who silently cherished a love for Hope. When the war summons comes the mother bravely speeds her sons on their way to the front, both of whom return; one to die, the other to find his happiness.
=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea; with notes and observations by his son, Henry Pratt, and appendices on the scientific results of the expedition. *$4. Lippincott.
The title would suggest that the explorer of the volume went armed for such frays as Rider Haggard’s “She” depicts. On the contrary he is occupied with the inoffensive pursuit of birds and plants, butterflies and moths. The bower bird, the blue bird of paradise, a new variety of orchid, a magnificent scarlet creeper, spider’s webs and wonderful butterflies are of vastly more interest to Mr. Pratt and hence to his readers than the surrounding cannibals. “The scientific results of the expedition were a new reptile, a new fish, and a number of new lepidoptera.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The reader who cares for chronicles of forest life will find many pleasant pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 76. Jl. 21. 930w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His anthropological notes are meagre, and if he had observed the natives more closely he would not have called them ‘cannibals’ even to provide himself with a grim and awe-inspiring title.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 660w.
“Mr. Pratt is, however, a naturalist, and it is in this capacity he should be mainly judged. But on the whole the book is somewhat disappointing from this point of view as well.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 660. My. 26, ’06. 1130w.
“We cannot here follow Mr. Pratt’s wanderings in search of his prey, but we can assure our readers that he makes a very entertaining narrative out of them.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 720w.
“Mr. Pratt’s book is not exactly light literature, but his style commends itself to serious readers. Especially we commend his serenity of temper. We commend Mr. Pratt’s book to those who prefer to follow their judgments rather than their feelings in a complex situation.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 589. S. 22, ’06. 1610w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
“A series of notes on the history of the countries of the old world from the earliest times, supplemented by notes on their institutions, religions, literature, art, and geographical features, and by a number of maps.”—Outlook.
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“A text book of rather unusual scope which promises to be of considerable value.”
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.
“A convenient students’ manual of general history.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so convenient.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 237. Ag. 2, ’06. 16w.
“As there is little promise of a short cut in this portly octavo we fear it will be avoided by the retarded freshman or sophomore. Unfortunately it is not well adapted for the use of other readers.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 280w.
“For advanced study the work is of little value, but it is distinctly meritorious as a compact presentation of salient facts, dates, etc., and should prove popular both as an aid to the beginner and as a handy reference work for the library, the study, and the newspaper office. For purposes of consultation, however, it would have been improved by more exhaustive indexing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“A useful historical treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=Prescott, William Hickling.= Complete works. Lib. ed. 12v. $12. Crowell.
A complete library edition of Prescott’s works and in addition the authorized “Life of Prescott” by George Ticknor. It represents the best workmanship of the times, and contains illustrations which are the result of special research including reproductions of portraits, maps and paintings. Each volume is supplied with an index as well as a synoptical list of contents.
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“In general the edition is a desirable one.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 460w.
“The present edition has been carefully edited as to text, is printed from new type, and has many well chosen illustrations. May be commended to all those who wish to have a complete library edition.”
+ + =Outlook=. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Preston, Sydney Herman.= On common ground. †$1.50. Holt.
The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding “without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging, is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.
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“A very ordinary sort of book, and highbrowed intellectuals have no right to find the slightest enjoyment in reading it. There is therefore a lurking sense of shame in the necessity I feel for confessing to a genuine enjoyment in its perusal.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 56. S. ’06. 1010w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 347. My. 26, ’06. 390w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“This sort of writing is becoming too easy for the author, and too tedious for the long-suffering reader.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 50w.
=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh (E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Don Q. has abstracted the qualities of his birthright chivalry and has employed them strangely enough in his fearless bandit adventures. Relentless and merciless with the unworthy wayfarer who happened to fall into his clutches, he was equally remarkable for “the splendour, of his generosities, his almost diabolic courage, his spirit of chivalry, and, perhaps most of all, his unswerving fidelity to the poorest who served him.” Here are more tales to delight the admirers of the invincible Don Q.
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“In spite of the sameness, they are eminently readable. You sit down with the book and find yourself unable to put it aside until you have finished it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 500w.
=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
The subject described in this study is Miss Christina L. Beauchamp, a patient of Dr. Morton’s whose three personalities struggled with each other for the control of the body and brain. They were “the saint, the woman, and the devil. The Saint, the typical saint of literature ... may fairly be said, without exaggeration to personify those traits which expounders of various religions ... have held up as the ideals to be attained by human nature.... The Woman personifies the frailties of temper ... ambition.... Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil ... but rather a mischievous imp.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is not easy for the amateur to estimate the value of this work to the members of the healing profession, but every one must recognize that it is most conscientiously done.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.
“Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the student of psychology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 549. My. 5. 550w.
“If ‘The dissociation of a personality’ were a work of the imagination, it would be a noteworthy production. That it is, instead, the latest work of science concerning the human soul shows how far we have traveled from the invisible Ego of our fathers.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 910w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.
“A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the vicissitudes of personality.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 430w.
“This humorous, pathetic and tragic story is written with the vivacity of a romance and apparently without sacrificing scientific accuracy.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 165. Ja. 18, ’06. 890w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 1260w.
“Well written, and, despite its length and some little repetition, of absorbing interest, even to such as usually confine their reading to lighter literature.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.
“The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.” A. D. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 102. N. 29, ’06. 430w.
“The specific value of the present work lies in the exhaustive circumstantial, and reliable account of the physical, social, moral, and intellectual habits, attainments, etc., of the various personalities assumed by the patient, in relation to her own proper selfhood and to the external society in which she moved.” Edgar C. Beall, M. D.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 680w.
“As a scientific study in an obscure field of research now being actively explored, Dr. Prince’s work is one of interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 230. Ja. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Prior, Edward S.= Cathedral builders in England. *$2. Dutton.
Mr. Prior tells the story of mediaeval churches, monastic, secular, collegiate and parochial, whether built for monks, canons, or parish use, whether they were designed as cathedrals, or have now come to have a bishop’s chair. The author begins with the year 1066 and covers the time to the present century. Each of the nine periods into which the book is divided opens with a list of cathedrals discussed in the chapter devoted to that time. There are ample illustrations in black and white.
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“It is satisfactory to find the subject approached after a masterly and in many respects an original fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 143. F. 3. 1430w.
“The book is full of vital interest, and should be put into the hands of all young students of the history of their native land.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 150w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 1510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
“A good account, with interesting illustration.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 423. Mr. 17, ’06. 1390w.
=Pritchett, Henry Smith.= What is religion? and other student questions: talks to college students. **$1. Houghton.
President Pritchett’s sound advice to young men is along the lines of the science of religion, the significance of prayer, joining a church, etc. He answers the question “What is truth?” and “What is religion?” “in a practical manner far more likely to influence young men in the right direction than more eloquent addresses which depart more from the vital questions to be discussed.” (Critic.)
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“Many persons more than students will find food for thought in the little volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.
“He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free, outspoken and brotherly manner.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 210w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 180w.
=Proctor, Edna Dean.= Songs of America and other poems. **$1.25. Houghton.
Aside from her patriotic numbers including poems for Flag day and Columbus day, and her Indian legends, Miss Proctor offers a group of memorial verses the best of which are those on Emerson and Whittier.
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“Patriotic pieces conceived with an admirable seriousness of mood, and elaborated with a good command of poetic materials, but without any very fresh distinctions of inspiration.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.
“Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy. 50c. Ginn.
“The book has a certain ephemeral value, although the views of all four of the participants may be found more adequately expressed elsewhere.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 174. Mr. ’06. 140w.
=Prudden, Theodore Philander.= Congregationalists: who they are and what they do. 40c. Pilgrim press.
“A little book whose aim is to make known the wide influence of the Congregational churches and their relation to national development and institutions.”
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“He has made a comprehensive and convenient book of reference and instruction.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.
Pryings among private papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby.” *$2.50. Longmans.
The compiler has gleaned from the Reports of the Royal historical commission “anecdotes and odds and ends, carefully eschewing everything biographical, historical, political, or instructive.” The result is a pot-pourri which illustrates the social life of English ancestors from the “cradle to the grave.”
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“Altogether this is a good book for an unoccupied hour, especially as it contains interesting allusions to famous individuals.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 862. D. 23. 100w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 396. Je. ’06. 150w.
“There is almost nothing new in the book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 530w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 240w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
“The truth is, there is a prime defect in Miss Puffer’s theory—a somewhat zealous unwillingness to allow for ideal significance in beauty. Yet the book is not one with which the critic can dispense. The psycho-physical factors are justly apportioned, the main theory is at least a right account of important elements; and the concrete applications are a distinct advance on the road towards an efficient science.” H. B. Alexander.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 215. Ap. ’06. 910w.
=Lit. D.= 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.
=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)
“Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most of us as new.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and 18.)
“The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents, and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Putnam, James Jackson.= Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry. **$2.50. Houghton.
Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices. The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson “for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)
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“Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“The book will interest other than medical men.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“Is in many respects an ideal biography, not only because it presents a most attractive character satisfactorily, but because it makes the background of people and places, from which that character emerged, just clear enough.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Putnam’s memoir is prepared with great good taste and modesty.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 124. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ’05. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 130w.
=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.
“The fullness and accuracy of Mr. Hartshorne’s dates and the excellent index add immensely to the value of this volume ... incidentally the letters throw considerable light on English manners and mode of life, and on the condition of medicine during the reign of George II.” A. G. Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 381. Ja. ’06. 790w.
“Every mention of a celebrity produces a small biography. Not content with this, he digresses, on the smallest provocation, into all sorts of matters which have no connection whatever with the text. But with all its faults students of the eighteenth century must feel grateful to Mr. Hartshorne for the publication of this volume.” H. M’N. Rushforth.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 172. Ja. ’06. 910w.
“These letters are not pleasant reading. As part of the history of the Church of England in what were perhaps its most degenerate days these letters have an obvious value.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 158. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.
=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Pyle, Katharine.= Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.
All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker school.
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=R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 20w.
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=Quayle, William Alfred.= Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.
“This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful, at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large number of altogether charming photographs and marginal drawings.”—Outlook.
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“His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 240w.
“It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and text.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 650w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 60w.
=Quick, Herbert.= Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness. The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story, and introduces a series of novel situations.
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“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction, and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 670w.
=Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.
“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 380w.
“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of plausibility over the situation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a subject.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.
“Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more readable.” Lester W. Zartman.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 442. Mr. ’06. 930w.
“In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 56. Ja. ’06. 1340w.
=Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this without adding an index.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and, in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way for her happiness and that of her benefactor.
=Ramanathan, Ponnambalam.= Culture of the soul among western nations. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love in the soul.”—Lit. D.
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=Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.
“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally untenable.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
=Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.
+ =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Randall, Edward C.= Life’s progression: research in metaphysics. *$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.
A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death, that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.
=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.
“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room so as to give their mother something which she could not give away, how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course of the story.
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“The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles without being priggish.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 50w.
“The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless and diluted amusement to young readers.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 40w.
=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ... as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold aspects.”
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“It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description, where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range of facts, the work is not strong.”
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 341. S. ’06. 490w.
“A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands. Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written throughout in a simple and easy style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 402. O. 6. 1390w.
“By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the science.”
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 521. O. ’06. 310w.
“The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally sound.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 120w.
=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction, general and special. **$2. Revell.
“An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.
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“The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good scholarly foundation.”
– =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L. W. Batten.
– =Bib. World.= 28: 73. Jl. ’06. 510w.
“A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.
=Rawling, C. G.= Great plateau. $5. Longmans.
“An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance.... His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.
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“The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of interest and variety.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 19. Ja. 6. 1540w.
“To those who are interested in the development and the geography of Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 300w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 1080w.
“The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1420w.
“To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of the highest.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.
=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.= Months at the lakes. $1.75. Macmillan.
“Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’” (Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward English.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 595. Je. 23, ’06. 800w.
“If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of which the Canon is evidently a master.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 637. My. 26. 110w.
“The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 216. Je. 15, 06. 270w.
=Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 570w.
“Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be content with using them to call back the past.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= Hearts and creeds. †$1.50. Little.
There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed, altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many interesting characters.
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+ =Cath. World.= 83: 558. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has apparently deserted her.”
– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 130w.
“For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 194. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.
“An unusually good story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
“An attractive love story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball. Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and Ronald become self-supporting.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond).= Sunny little lass. †$1. Jacobs.
Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs, until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to “Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls. But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.
=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C. Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 150w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“The work, may be classed with the most important works published in this generation.” David Phillips.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 393. Ap. ’06. 1130w.
“No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be ranked with the most important of recent years.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 290. Ja. 25, ’06. 910w.
“I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 324. My. ’06, 4240w.
Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.
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“The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name, and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman, the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge their understanding of any subject.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 500w.
“We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the new volume absolutely discounts the older as a book of reference.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 470w.
“The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 220w.
=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs with special reference to secession and the Civil war. $3. Neale.
By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the cause of the late Confederate states.
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=R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.
=Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.).= Wit and humor of the physician, a collection from various sources classified under appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.
Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine. Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.
=Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron.= Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.
In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)
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“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has lost none of its cunning.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.
“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.
“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals, under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.
“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport, travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a garden of delights.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 755. N. 17, ’06. 1420w.
“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 440w.
“Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to compare the new Japan with the old.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1170w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.
“The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their conversation is often full of interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 70w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.
Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.
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“A readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 927. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“This book should have a large place in the thought of the future historian.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 280w.
“A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat desultory.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 833. Mr. ’06. 340w.
“Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly impressionistic and first-hand.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 490w.
“The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly agree with some of the conclusions presented.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
“Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience in the North.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 340. F. 8. ’06. 600w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 348. Ap. 26, ’06. 1840w.
“Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a whole.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 1070w.
“Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the war.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
“Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive presentation of the southern attitude.”
+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 27. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize the other’s point of view.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors” (Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a “whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom, who pipes love notes in the wood.
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– =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere present.”
– =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1. ’06. 150w.
“We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever beasts.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
=Reeve, Sidney Armor.= Cost of competition: an effort at the understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.
The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism, upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 730w.
“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 370w.
“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a long and somewhat technical discussion.”
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 564. My. 17, ’06. 610w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 359. Mr. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a contribution toward their amendment.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 710w.
“The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 350w.
=Reich, Emil.= Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1. Meth. bk.
Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of comprehending the Bible.”
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“He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than to ignorance and prejudice.”
– – =Acad.= 69: 1221. N. 25, ’05. 720w.
“Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 4: 403. N. 24, ’05. 1500w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 180w.
+ – – =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 300w.
“We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”
+ – =Spec.= 93: 62. Ja. 12, ’06. 1260w.
=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
“Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found of great value to all students of human progress and social problems. The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
“Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book, this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.
+ + – =Fortnightly R.= 84: 604. O. ’05. 5430w.
“If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general knowledge.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 345. Ap. 26, ’06. 250w.
“It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific thinker.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
=Reid, George Winston.= Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.
“Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called ‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy, or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.
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“The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics, epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse sources.”
– =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss.= Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed. with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.
“This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds ‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)
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“Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”
– – =Acad.= 69: 1145. N. 4, ’05. 1050w
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N 4. 470w.
“The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than a score of pages.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 230w.
“There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on, which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book is interesting.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ’05. 840w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 56. Ja. 18, ’06. 870w.
“The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 847. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.
“Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class ranker.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 400w.
“Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 819. N. 18, ’05. 1510w.
=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 577. Ja. ’06. 270w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 178. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain, France, Germany, and even Java.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 511. Mr. 1, ’06. 960w.
“A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 562. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial governments the world over.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 38. S. 1, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21:135. Mr. ’06. 720w.
“It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 149. Ja. 27, ’06. 230w.
“It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor [‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 446. F. ’06. 150w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.
“Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment, and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 930. Jl. ’06. 590w.
=Remington, Frederick.= Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.
“In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants, and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.
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“A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 90w.
“As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a wonderfully effective piece of work.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid, picturesque, and truthful.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of historical painters?”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Remsburg, John E.= Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.
To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic figures of the first century of national existence the author adds that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.
=Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.
“Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading, but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 240w.
“Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live again.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 560. Ja ’06. 760w.
“Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to ‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the sentimental or the banal.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“A book of charming autobiographical tales.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 341. F. ’06. 230w.
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 60w.
“The essays are most excellently chosen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle and she that of Jane Eyre.
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“Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their story.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 125. Ag. 4. 90w.
“We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 430w.
=Reynolds, John Schreiner.= Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77. $2. State co., Columbia, S. C.
“Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott, of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’ and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the ‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.
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“Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 180. O. ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes, he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students the sources from which he drew his information.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable, and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not always maintained.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not entirely.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. Ag. 18, ’06. 1330w.
“This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but is sparing of references to sources.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.” (Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most frequently cited.
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“Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 2060w.
“To the serious student it is rendered of great value by the critical introductions which it contains.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 330w.
“There is much good reading in this celebrated book, for the student who knows how to make the proper deductions for himself or can use caution in taking advantage of Mr. Fry’s guidance.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 200w.
Reviewed by Charles Henry Hart.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 227. Ap. 1, ’06. 580w.
“A good edition.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w.
“Injustice, however, is very rare in Mr. Fry, and this one example of it is the only fault to be found with an excellent book.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 1150w.
“Mr. Fry’s contributions, whether in the shape of contradiction, reinforcement, or explanation, are always able and intelligent.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 240w.
“Mr. Roger Fry, the most recent editor of the literary Reynolds ... has presented an interpretation which is full of interest for the student of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
“A most interesting edition of ‘Reynolds’s Discourses.’”
+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
=Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).= Polly’s predicament: a story; il. by C: Copeland. †$1.50. Wilde.
Polly, young, bright and just out of school, accepts the invitation of a shallow-minded woman to spend three months in Europe. While at Carlsbad Polly is bound to a foolish promise which results in continuing the separation of a father from his little girl whom he supposes dead.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is full, exact and impartial. Controversial questions are weighed judicially with an unfailing and laborious effort to get all the best evidence available. If Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of such subjects is at times somewhat prolix, that proceeds from his extreme desire to lay the whole case for each side before the reader.” J. A. Doyle.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 183. Ja. ’06. 260w.
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 113. Ja. 11, ’06. 170w.
“Although Mr. Rhodes’s discussion of the treatment of prisoners leaves something to be desired, we welcome it as one of his most important contributions to correct understanding and sane judgment on a topic concerning which a dispassionate view is still difficult.” C. H. Smith.
+ + – =Yale R.= 14: 427. F. ’06. 650w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Plays and lyrics. $2. McClure.
“A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse, ‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.
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“To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 310w.
“His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 260w.
“If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’, but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long and twice as good.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 470w.
“Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 680w.
“Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 1970w.
=Richards, John Morgan.= With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.
The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of “John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in both countries.”
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=Acad.= 69: 1170. N. 11, ’05. 690w.
“He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication with the more solid portions of his narrative.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 721. N. 25. 400w.
“An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book at all.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 1470w.
“A more attractive topic in his recollections is the contrast between London as it was when he first came over to this country in 1867 and as it is now, and generally between England and America. Now and then Mr. Richards’s memory is a little at fault.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 350w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of fables for old and young. †$1.25. Little.
Patience, obedience, hospitality, duty promptness, and selflessness are among the lessons taught in these forty or more short fables. The keynote is the universality of good without time and space limitations.
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“Forty-five simply written little fables, each one with its own delightful conception, and bearing its own little moral, fragrant with aspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Richards, Thomas Cole.= Samuel J. Mills, missionary pathfinder, pioneer and promoter. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
The life of Samuel J. Mills follows closely the founding and promulgating of American foreign missions. The influences brought to bear upon his awakening to the subject of missionary work, his education, and contemporary plans for the beginning of definite work in heathen lands, and later his own untiring efforts at home and on the Dark continent which was his passion, furnished material for a full and thoroly subjective study of the man and his work.
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+ =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 160w.
=Richards, William Rogers.= God’s choice of men; a study of Scripture. **$1.50. Scribner.
This book “is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have another characteristic—very clear-cut portraiture of modern characters typified by Scriptural characters.”—Outlook.
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“Full of sound, practical argument and exhortation to Christian faith and duty.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 110w.
“This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a quiet courage of conviction. These sermons are worth reading by laymen for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive models.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ’05. 370w.
=Richardson, Charles Francis.= Choice of books. **$1.25. Putnam.
A revised edition of Professor Richardson’s practical book which among other additions contains a lengthy appendix on “Suggestions for household libraries.”
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“After the passage of a full quarter-century, Professor Richardson’s treatise on the choice and use of books remains the most complete, the most reasonable, and one of the most readable of books hitherto written on that head.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ’05. 70w.
“A valuable and practical book on reading.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 60w.
=Richardson, John.= Wacousta: a tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy. Illustrated ed. $1.50. McClurg.
To the reissue of the text of Richardson’s thrilling old romance have been added some spirited illustrations, the work of C. W. Jeffreys. Pontiac’s treachery to gain possession of the English posts in the West, foiled by a beautiful Indian girl who forewarned the commandant at Detroit, makes possible a tale of adventure full of dramatic situations.
=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.
“The most enjoyable of the books on Rhode Island. It will not displace the solid history by Arnold, but the changes of a half-century will give it a place of its own.” Wm. B. Weeden.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 410. Ja. ’06. 380w.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“A compact and useful summary.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 705. Ap. ’06. 580w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 1060w.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 168. Mr. ’06. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.
Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation, gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a “complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school days.
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+ – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is repulsive.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 260w.
“The book is interesting as being the product of a vigorous but undisciplined talent.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 191. Ap. ’06. 830w.
“This is one of those books that deliberately enlist our sympathies on the side of wrong-doing, yet maintain throughout a hypocritical pose in defence of morality.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A more revolting denouement can only be imagined by Bernard Shaw.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
– =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Except for a certain artificiality in the handling of some of the situations and the resulting dialogue, the story is a good one, and well told.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The difficult theme is worked out with reserve and discrimination.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
– =Sat. R.= 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
=Rickett, Arthur.= Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25. Dutton.
Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature ... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet; Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.
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“Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens to deny that it is profound.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 757. Je. 23. 1180w.
“Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of ‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of fact.”
– =Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.
“It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or just.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“As a whole, however, they are a good piece of work.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
=Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.
“Some failings notwithstanding, no one who takes an interest, scientific or otherwise, in the origin and descent of the horse should fail to read this brilliant book on these subjects.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 8. Ja. 6, ’06. 1490w.
“It is the simple truth that no such addition has been made in biology to the study of a domesticated animal since Darwin wrote.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 255. Mr. 3. 2030w.
“This long argument would gain greatly if the book were divided up into shorter chapters, each with its due table of contents.” G. Le Strange.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 402. Ap. ’06. 680w.
“Recommending him to make a better study of that portion of his subject which relates to Arabia, if he would establish his theory on really solid ground.” W. S. Blunt.
+ – =Nineteenth Century.= 59: 58. Ja. ’06. 7610w.
=Riedl, Frederick.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
A volume uniform with “Literatures of the world” series. “In no country in the world is literature so much a part of history, of its patriotic feelings, and of the struggle to preserve the liberties as in Hungary.... It mirrors throughout the simple, unsophisticated feelings and thoughts of men who loved their country wholly, sincerely, faithfully, and were ready to lay down their lives to preserve its freedom. Here if ever, the soul of the people is revealed in its literature.”
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=R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 90w.
=Ries, Heinrich.= Economic geology of the United States. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The aim of the author ... is to give the reader in an encyclopaedic way an account of the economic geology of the United States, including Alaska, but excluding our insular possessions. As the main object is to set forth the facts of occurrence and the production of minerals he has to assume that those who follow his work have some general knowledge concerning the origin, structure and accidents of rocks.... Dr. Ries begins his presentation with a study of American coals.... After coal, petroleum and natural gas are briefly and well-treated, then building materials, clays, limes and cements. Next in succession, salines, gypsums, fertilizers, and abrasives, followed by the usual amount of minor minerals, and of mineral waters, closing with a singularly insufficient account of soils and road materials.... The second part of the book is devoted to ore deposits.... The book is amply illustrated.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“As a whole the book is excellent as it now is; with the revisions of later editions which its goodness should ensure it, it is likely to become a standard work.” N. S. Shaler.
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 75. Ja. 18, ’06. 1440w.
=J. Geol.= 14: 660. O. ’06. 100w.
“The book has many well selected maps and plates and an excellent bibliography.” Robert Morris.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the work is an admirable one, and we strongly commend it to teachers in this country as a source of concise, accurate, and recent information regarding the mineral deposits of the United States.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 340w.
“On the whole, the book may be pronounced excellent—one that every broadminded business man should have, and that deserves the wide acceptance in the colleges that it is finding.” A. C. Lane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 23: 225. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Riordon, William L.= Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.
=Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ripley, William Zebina=, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80. Ginn.
“These selected readings and cases admirably supplement the usual text-books, and put the essence of the most suggestive collateral material in the hands of every student. As labor-saving devices alone, they will amply repay their cost.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 849. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Most of the contributions attain, each in its own way, a high standard of merit.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 220w.
“Some chapters are of high individual merit, and all as individual bricks contribute to the making of a solid and useful whole.” H. C. E.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 333. N. ’06. 480w.
=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
Thoroly modern matrimonial problems are illustrated seriously, humorously and realistically in this group of stories. Tact, loyalty, man’s and woman’s philosophy all enter into the illustrated give-and-take process necessary to the harmonious adjustment of wedded lives along understood lines of liberty.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Its limitation is a lack of humor, which results in a self-conscious style from time to time, and leads one to suspect that the characters are not quite average—as they are intended to be—but ultra-introspective, thinking their way through difficulties that over and over should dissolve in fun.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
=Roads, Charles.= Bible studies for teacher training: analytical, synthetic side lights; a normal class text book. *60c. Meth. bk.
Suggestive outlines to be followed in both analytical and synthetic study of the Bible.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
When Jim Calder is made mate of the good ship G. G. Goodridge he does not marry Luella Warden as he has promised, but, stinging under the evil insinuations of a forged letter which a designing woman has shown him, he sails out of the Bay of Fundy and away leaving Luella to her shame. How he fares on the high seas, and how Luella brings up her son alone and undefended, and how this son after twenty years finds the father who wronged his mother and himself, loves him and brings him home, is the story of the book.
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+ =Acad.= 71: 552. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a bold, compelling piece of work, intimately realistic, except where the author has occasion to transport two of the leading characters to eastern seas.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 650. N. 24. 100w.
“We forget the improbability in the joy of the workmanship.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 420w.
“Mr. Roberts’s new novel has all the characteristics of his previous work, with some additional distinction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 200w.
“We have a right to expect better things than this from Mr. Roberts or nothing at all.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
“We find it less satisfactory in plot than in its delightful scenery and delineation of character.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.
“It is not so much a story, however, as a series of cameo-like character studies of a small town.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 100w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind. †$2. Page.
“Among the many writers of nature-books none is more satisfactory than Mr. Roberts.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 220w.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 300w.
“It isn’t a sincere piece of work. There isn’t enough to a fox; his psychology, his interests, his daily round is too limited to sustain him throughout a volume. The author has tried to meet the lack of substance with style.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 250w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 660w.
“It is a good specimen of the work of a well-known author.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Idlers. †$1.50. Page.
“A very modern tale, dealing very modestly with British society—with true love, unsanctified passion, stark madness, and many vanities and pretences of this wicked world.... The hero is intellectually a fool ... a fine strapping young chap of true English meat, dull, but sound. Being the only son and heir of a baronet, his mother, who believes firmly in mustard plasters, has kept him out of the army and the university. Therefore going up to London, he promptly falls a victim to the wiles of a certain charmer of the town ... very beautiful and very, very wicked.... The book is full of malign caricatures of British types, the malignity lying largely in the closeness of the caricature to the living original.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This tale of intrigue is well handled, and sometimes well told. It is always told with power; and it has the merit of being essentially interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 340w.
“The book would be melodrama, if not for the atmosphere of reality it exhales, and the fine sanity of the lesson it teaches.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 300w.
“There is nothing to redeem ‘The idlers’ from being the worst of fungus fiction except this element of masculine health in closing the situation.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 450w.
“It is a good story for people who like their romance spiced with wit and anchored to a sense of things as they are.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible, because it is cynical and too realistic in its presentation of viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
=Robertson, Florence H.= Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her “mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”
=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and modern. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.
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“Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two volumes are no exception.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 160w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 40w.
“He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 880w.
“It might be termed the history of unbelief. It is comprehensive. But it is not marked by any notable philosophical insight or dramatic power.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Robertson, Morgan.= Land ho! †$1.25. Harper.
Angus McPherson, otherwise known as Scotty, “a man with a face like a harvest moon and the soul of a Scotsman” is the principal figure in several of the adventures narrated in Mr. Robertson’s new book of sea tales. “The sea, as Scotty and the rest of Mr. Robertson’s heroes know it, is a hard mistress, exacting a heavy toll of labor and sorrow and making little return; and as a whole Mr. Robertson’s book does not make cheerful reading.” (Dial.)
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“His style is powerful, but his insight is always exercised on gruesome situations.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“As a whole the stories are very readable.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The book is always interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ’05. 270w.
“The tales are remarkable rather for ingenuity than for any convincing quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
“A rattling, rousing, salty story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 20w.
=Robie, Virginia.= Historic styles in Furniture. *$1.60. Stone.
“The title indicates the special point of view of this new ‘furniture book.’ Sometimes the century made the style, as in the fifteenth century; sometimes the period, as with the Italian Renaissance; sometimes the monarch, as with Louis XV. Taking each style as a chapter division, the author writes clearly of its development, highest type, and merger into other styles. The illustrations are admirably chosen and well printed.”—Outlook.
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“For a convenient and well-balanced account of the general trend and development of styles this book is to be commended.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 114. O. ’06. 450w.
“Mistakes, however, are discoverable, and some of them seem as if caused by a lack or knowledge of the actual pieces.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 610w.
“The book which is popularly written, adequately serves two purposes—an introduction to those elaborate monographs by specialists already mentioned: a text-book by the means of which the modest house holder may be inspired to beautify his home in many artistic ways.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 233. Ap. 7, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
“It is designed for popular reading, a somewhat slight work but at the same time unpretentious. While by no means a scientific military biography, it yet gives the main facts in the life of Sherman correctly, and in as much detail as the ordinary reader requires.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 928. Jl. ’06. 690w.
“Quite up to the creditable standard of its predecessors.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“He has made an excellent portrait of the great soldier, giving the shadows as well as the lights.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 190w.
“His is distinctly not a biography, but a military memoir.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 510w.
“There is a pleasant atmosphere of fairness about his book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 520w.
“It presents a truthful and striking portrait, and is very acceptable as a military memoir. It is to be wished that in his presentation he had attained a higher level of literary quality.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 170w.
“The book is written attractively and with due regard to the official and standard authorities.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 120w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 270w.
=Robinson, Edward Kay.= Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.
“A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.
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“He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”
– =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 1970w.
“This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this interesting book.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1520w.
“The essay is an interesting one, but to many persons it will not seem that it is possible to follow the author in all his deductions.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 170w.
“A book that is sure to interest a large number of readers. In the opinion of the present writer, though, Mr. Robinson fails to prove his thesis.”
+ – =Nature.= 74: 513. S. 20, ’06. 550w.
“The motive and spirit of the writer are more commendable than his reasoning.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 96: 978. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.
=Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night. **$1. Scribner.
“Shows real poetic insight and a fine touch.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Robinson, Emma Amelia, and Morgan, Charles Herbert.= Short studies of Old Testament heroes. *50c. Meth. bk.
Bible heroes are treated in text book manner for any who wish a short and simple Bible course.
=Robinson, Frederick S.= English furniture. *$6.75. Putnam.
A late addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The subject is treated historically from the collector’s point of view, covering the entire period of furniture-making in England down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. “After the different styles of furniture have been dealt with and their characteristics compared and their particular points shown, Mr. Robinson provides a few notes on the materials, manufacture, and care of furniture made of oak, walnut and mahogany, giving instructions for polishing, the retaining of the color of the wood, etc.” (N. Y. Times.) There are 160 collotype plates and one photogravure all appearing at the end of the work.
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“On a subject crowded with sociological interest and aesthetic pleasure, Mr. Robinson has given us a book that should form the type and pattern for future volumes in the ‘Connoisseur’s library,’ and at the same time, be the last word on English furniture for at least a generation.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Mr. Robinson’s book is indispensable to a connoisseur.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 730w.
“Furniture collectors and dealers will find helpful and valuable information in this book.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 628. Mr. 15, ’06. 840w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Robinson’s may be described as a very useful general survey of the history of this branch of art, and as a worthy successor to Mr. Dillon’s book on porcelain, published in the same series.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 80w.
“It may be stated as a general truth that the book is written throughout with a strong personal character impressed upon it, as being the work of one who has collected or at least studied and gathered material on his own account.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 220w.
“Altogether the book is a valuable and attractive addition to the series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 260w.
=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.
A high school text which is a collection of extracts from the sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in Western Europe since the German invasions. Each chapter is accompanied by a carefully chosen bibliography.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“The book is so admirably adapted to its purpose of aiding the imagination and rendering more vivid the history of Europe from the period of the German invasions that it is gratifying to have it in a form in which it will find its way into the hands of many pupils who would not otherwise have known it.”—F. G. B.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 168. O. ’06. 240w.
“Selected with a wide knowledge of the field, and nice judgment of the needs of youthful learners.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.
=Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Good judgment has been used in the abridgment, but the omission of so many important and interesting extracts is a cause for regret. The book fills a long-felt want.” M. W. Jernegan.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 619. O. ’06. 130w.
=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The period of this poem is fixed sometime prior to the Trojan war and the action extends thru eighteen days and part of the miraculous three days and nights of continued darkness over the land of Egypt. The fable which deals with the oppression of the Israelites by the Egyptians assumes that liberty—inseparable from the redemption and happiness of mankind—looks to the Exodus from Egypt as the true turning point in its triumph over the ills of slavery and despotism.
=Roden, Robert F.= Cambridge press, 1638–1692: a history of the first printing press established in English America, together with a biographical list of the issues of the press. *$5. Dodd.
The second volume in a series on “Famous presses.” The author deals historically and bibliographically with the history of the first printing press established in English North America. “The treatment of the subject comprehends a list of the publications of the Cambridge press; sketches of the several printers whose names are connected with its history; and matters of interest connected with the rare volumes published at this early date, the history being given in many instances of their transmission from purchaser to purchaser and of the constant appreciation of the market value of these much-sought-after treasures. This method of treatment brings the reader in contact with many collectors of Americana during the last century whose names are as familiar as household words to librarians and students.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The book has a meagre index, but on the whole is a satisfactory piece of work, the only serious blemish being the unnecessary attack on the Boston collectors.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 906. Jl. ’06. 730w.
“He certainly has made a valuable and useful book, and if it is in parts rather barren reading, it is because the history of the first press established in English America is not a very fruitful theme. It is to the historian of early presses in America and to the bibliographer and the collector of early American imprints that this book must of necessity appeal.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 430w.
“It will prove itself a necessity in the library of any collector.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 420w.
=Rogers, Bessie Story.= As it may be: a story of the future. *$1. Badger, R. G.
“As it may be” jumps to the year 2905 and shows how sickness and consequently doctors have been eliminated not thru spiritual freedom but thru liberty that results from nourishing the body according to a set of Utopian principles.
=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
=Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.
“One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.) Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.
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“The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 358. Je. 1. ’06. 1040w.
“The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most practical.” Mabel O. Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 1410w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.
“His pages are alive with healthy incident and an observant criticism of birds and beasts, together with an admirably expressed appreciation of the wild and beautiful districts he visited in search of sport. From a British point of view this work is enhanced by being written in good readable English.” P.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 89. Ja. 27, ’06. 1540w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 260w.
“Mr. Roosevelt’s style is, as usual, practical and prosaic, almost unimaginative. But the volume is well-nigh cyclopaedic upon the ground that it covers. The author gathers large stores of information, and does not jump at conclusions. He is scrupulous as to the accuracy of the smallest details.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 420w.
“It would be hard to put one’s finger on another writer on sport who is so keen an observer as President Roosevelt, or who gives us in his chapters on hunting so many interesting and good observations on natural history.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1535. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 10w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 70. Ja. 13, ’06. 1400w.
“It is written by a man who is a delightful ‘raconteur,’ and who has an intense conviction of the virile reality of his own life and of the deep integrity of the life around him.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
“The volume that records his adventures is straightforward, vigorous and pithy, with no wasted words and no ineffective ones.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 339. F. ’06. 310w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure portrait appears on the frontispiece.
=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that honestly seeks Him.
=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.
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“A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of the history and literature of the apostolic age.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 30w.
“Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed. The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and impartial.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 370w.
“The poetical element in the character of the man of Tarsus has rarely found more sympathetic and forceful exposition.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Examination of the work reveals not only a thorough and painstaking scholar, but also a writer of no little skill in holding material well in hand, in suppressing overplus of detail and bringing salient points into the clear, and also in presenting critical results with a minimum of offence to the traditionalist. There are occasional blunders in proofreading.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 360w.
“Professor Ropes gives an admirable survey of Jewish Christianity, an admirable character sketch of the Apostle Paul, and an admirable summary of the modern view respecting the date, origin, and form of composition of the four Gospels. His interpretation of Paul’s theology is, unfortunately, couched too much in modern theological phraseology, and he seems to us to fail to bring out the most fundamental characteristic of Paul’s teaching, namely, its subjective character.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 427. O. 20, ’06. 500w.
=Roscoe, Henry Enfield.= Life and experience of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe written by himself. *$4. Macmillan.
“There is a refreshing old-time atmosphere about the volume of reminiscences recently written by the famous English chemist.... There is much ... in the way of illuminating recollections of later giants of the nineteenth century—the illustrious Bunsen, who pointed him the path to success in chemical research; Faraday, Pasteur, Huxley, Tyndall, Lister, Kirchoff, Helmholtz, Dalton, Jevons, and, outside the realm of science, Gladstone, Martineau, Francis Newman, Richard Hutton, John Bright, and Sir Leslie Stephen. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this volume lies in the light it throws on the progress of scientific investigation in Great Britain.”—Outlook.
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“It should also be available at all public libraries as the story of one who has made use of his life and health to do work which has benefited his fellow-citizens, his fellow-countrymen, and the world at large.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 680w.
“Not for a long time has there come from England an autobiography of more all-around interest.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 515. Ag. 30, ’06. 760w.
“It contains pleasant references to numerous men of mark, but it is as a valuable contribution to the history of education that it claims lasting recognition.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 278. Ag. 10, ’06. 1090w.
“The index is so meagre as to be almost worthless.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 610w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 289. Jl. 26, ’06. 1750w.
“An unassuming and leisurely narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 407. Je. 23, 06. 1740w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 600w.
=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
Mr. Rose, a practical business man, proves that hell fire is an absolute absurdity, and then reveals the reasonable, logical, sane and adequate hell which awaits each person who dies in his sins.
=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
A two-volume work by the historian of the Napoleonic period. The author says: “After working at my subject for some time, I found it desirable to limit it to events which had a distinctly formative influence on the development of European states.” The two great impulses of the world—Democracy and Nationality as developed in the nations of Europe during the past four decades—are fully discussed and criticised from the vantage point of a twentieth century observer.
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+ =Acad.= 70: 474. My. 19, ’06. 1500w.
“Though Mr. Rose’s essays have considerable value, they are very far from justifying his title or constituting a history of the period.” Victor Coffin.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 895. Jl. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Rose has a sound judgment and a clear lucid style. Our only doubt is whether in every case he can have obtained certain data on which to found his conclusions.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 723. Je. 16. 1910w.
“It must be said that the second volume is of a distinctly lower grade than the first. There is in it a note of weariness of the task. It is correct and up to date, but the language is less vivid. But both volumes are always and everywhere absolutely simple and clear, so that concise and correct information on whatever of importance pertains to modern European history, within the period covered, is available to anyone.” E. D. Adams.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 1670w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Combining wide reading, sound judgment, and an absence of party spirit not often found together.” W. Miller.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 396. Ap. ’06. 560w.
“The title-page of Dr. Rose’s latest book is full of promise. The book itself, however, disappoints the hopes thus invoked. It is an eminently readable book. Dr. Rose is a craftsman of experience, who, on the whole, does his work well.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 816. O. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“The substantial merits of this volume, which contains a large amount of useful information laboriously compiled, are obscured by a slipshod, sometimes almost illiterate style.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 34. F. 2, ’06. 1470w.
“Mr. Rose is somewhat uneven in style. Yet the period he deals with is so important and so interesting, and reliable works upon it are so few, that his volumes deserve a warm welcome.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 515. Je. 21, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As a pioneer work this must rank very high. The author shows great independence of thought as well as judgment and discretion.” R. L. Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 857. D. 2, ’05. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Taken as a whole, the volume offers an interesting if not valuable insight into the attempts of old régimes to adjust their policies to the irrepressible growth of internal liberty of thought and action.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 632. O. 6, ’06. 2360w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Until the private papers of great personages and state documents now locked up shall come to light, the sources of history used by Dr. Rose can hardly be enlarged. The reader cannot fail to see in his work the hand of a careful and sympathetic student of the struggle of nations toward the realization of their ideals.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 43. Ja. 6, ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His work is singularly valuable for an understanding of the international relations of contemporary Europe.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A period of European history as yet only cursorily treated ... has been graphically summed up in a scholarly manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Rose has the faculty of writing history in an entertaining way and making the essential facts stick in the memory.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is skilfully planned, carefully executed, and exhibits on every page a sincere desire to master the problem and present it fairly and accurately.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 782. D. 16, ’05. 1900w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 183. F. 3, ’06. 1600w.
=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell, and others.
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“The best literary work, in our opinion, which he has produced.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 395. O. 6. 1370w.
“In literary quality and in the human interest of its pages, this book will bear comparison with the former monographs of the distinguished author.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“The book is small, but every page attracts, instructs, and inspires.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 960w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 240w.
“One cannot but wonder, on closing this fascinating yet disagreeable volume, why its author wrote it. At the end, you are conscious, more than anything else, of a bad taste in the mouth.” Edward Cary.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 736. N. 10, ’06. 1120w.
“What this monograph lacks in care and polish is more than made up for by its spontaneity, and by the vital interest of Lord Rosebery’s comments on the political parties of his own day, and on a career which has some striking points of resemblance to his own.” Arthur A. Baumann.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 422. O. 6, ’06. 1840w.
=Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 280w.
“Powerful and admirably translated story.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1077. D. 23, ’05. 2030w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Like Professor Ross’s previous studies of the influence of social control upon human society, his work of analysis and criticism of the foundations of sociology deserves universal recognition as a contribution of the first order to both sociological literature and sociological science.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 541. S. ’06. 1720w.
=Ross, Henry M.= Her blind folly. $1.25. Benziger.
The story of a girl’s unhappy marriage and its attending trials relieved by the Roman Catholic faith.
=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Florentine palaces; with 30 il. by Adelaide Marchrist. **$1.50. Dutton.
“It is with the historic and literary associations of the Florentine palaces—the bold, massive, rusticated buildings, so characteristic, Fergusson says, of the manly energy of the republic in the Medicean era—that Mrs. Ross is chiefly concerned.” (Ath.) “She gives to us suprisingly scant information concerning architecture, but a great deal about the important events which happened within the buildings she describes or in connection with them.” (Outlook.)
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“The style is somewhat dry, but the book is none the less a delightful one to dip into here and there.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Her book is a mine of valuable information, gathered not only from the standard works of Villari and other writers, but also from little-known contemporary records inaccessible to the English reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 887. D. 30. 560w.
“Mrs. Ross has every qualification for writing a book of this kind.”
– + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.
“The volume will be found more interesting for reference than for consecutive perusal.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 331. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“A solid study, a reference book for any one who may purpose spending intelligently a winter in Florence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 27. Ja. 13, ’06. 480w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 100w.
“She writes history admirably well, having a due consideration for the general reader, and not shrinking from recounting, in a fresh and pleasant way, old stories which the superior person may sniff at as stale. The work is not free from small inaccuracies.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
Interesting recollections and anecdotes concerning founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement that bring the reader in touch with a procession of famous artists and men of letters. “Of course, we want, too, illuminating gossip about our remarkable figures. That is why we welcome Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences. We need to know all we can about humanity—not because humanity is Pre-Raphaelite, but because it is interesting.” (Acad.)
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“It would be difficult to find a commentary more useful to those interested in the men and movements of the last sixty years.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 466. N. 10, ’06. 1590w.
“Next to the outspokenness with which we have dealt ... the most striking attribute of the confessions is common sense.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 541. N. 3. 1800w.
“The general tone of these memoirs is a little disappointing. Mr. Rossetti is so afraid of saying something that he has said already, as well as seeming either to blow his own trumpet or to cast undue blame on someone else, that his chapters decidedly lack color and movement as compared with much of his previous writing.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 444. D. 16, ’06. 2270w.
“Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would have been enough and, possibly, too much.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 480w.
“It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is left for this garnering.”
– =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 890w.
“Delightfully written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.
Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’ gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love, war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is General McClellan.” (Dial.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr. Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 166. O. ’06. 940w.
“The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably terse.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 254. Ap. 16, ’06. 1180w.
“All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and convinces.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 550w.
“It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary, intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his achievement.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 760w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 102. Ag. 2, ’06. 1060w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 340w.
“I believe that Mr. Rothschild’s book is the best of all for the Lincoln student to begin with, to keep to hand during his course, and to rely on as help in reviewing at the end. The faults are but few. The greatest is the disrespect shown Douglas, one of the ablest men of his day.” John C. Reed.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 2720w.
“He is open to criticism in his delineation of the men whose policies and purposes at times crossed with Lincoln.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 623. Jl. 14, ’06. 1390w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 508. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.
“Mr. Alonzo Rothschild premises an acquaintance with American political history which is beyond the equipment of the ordinary English reader; he is unduly redundant. But he has a definite theme and he keeps to it.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 130. Jl. 28, ’06. 1870w.
=Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Trail of the dragon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty and more short stories by such writers as Marion Ames Taggart, Anna T. Sadlier, Jerome Harte and others.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
The following subjects are treated in an interestingly informing manner: Climbing the Alps, The great wall of China, Nature study and photography, The making of a newspaper, Rookwood pottery, The magic kettle, Some wonderful birds, Ostriches, Skis and ski racing, The marvel of the New World, Triumphal arches, and Venders in different lands.
=Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The author of ‘The fall of Tollan’ displays considerable aptitude in his wielding of blank verse, and a fair degree of the ability to ‘visualize’ the scene.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 184. F. ’06. 210w.
=Rowe, James W.= Hand-book on the newly-born. *75c. J. W. Rowe. (For sale by U. P. James, 127 W. 7th st., Cincinnati.)
A book for young physicians and nurses.
=Rowe, Stuart Henry.= Physical nature of the child, and how to study it. *90c. Macmillan.
The fifth edition of a useful book on “child study.” The author acquaints a child’s sponsors with everything they should know for the best possible development of the child. “The treatise is based upon the principle that activity is the cause of growth, that individuals vary enormously in their capacity for different kinds of mental and physical action, and that physical conditions affect fundamentally that power of action in most various ways in different children. Therefore, the teacher, and the parent as well, should know and pay constant attention to the physical condition of their children.” (Bookm.)
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“The revised edition ... is justified by its serviceableness to teachers in general.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“We heartily agree with Superintendent Maxwell’s praise, cited in the preface to the second edition, and wish that every teacher and parent might read the book.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.
“Is an admirable guide in this line of work both for teachers and parents.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
=Rowell, George Presbury.= Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905. Printers’ ink pub.
“This is a most engaging volume—this breezy gossipy story of the life and observations of an advertising man.... You will find mentioned among Mr. Rowell’s acquaintances most of the names that you have ever seen associated with pills, lotions, hair restorers, and panaceas generally. Mr. Rowell speaks quite familiarly of these great men and supplies much curious inside information—all in the friendliest spirit. His anecdotes are not, however, confined to patent medicine people; he tells stories of famous newspaper publishers all over the country, beginning with Boston of forty years ago and ending with New York of last year; he reveals a number of prison-house secrets and supplies gossip about many statesmen and men of affairs.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Truth is, Mr. Rowell is the Horace Walpole of the world of ‘business’ during the past four decades.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 1120w.
“The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers, and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting charm.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 560w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.” (N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti. Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.” (Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out to a logical conclusion in the story.
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“A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing study it is.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 414. Je. ’06. 860w.
“We simply refuse to admit that the magnificent specimen of cultivated manhood who appears in the opening chapters can be one and the same person with the cowering wretch who makes his exit from the stage at the close of the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the story-with-a-moral sort, its characters are by no means therefore puppets.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 450w.
“There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and, although it is told with vividness, one doubts whether such a psycho-physiological analysis is really desirable.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 100w.
“The story as a whole impresses the reader with a sense of futility.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 50w.
“This is a remarkable novel in every way. It possess unusual grip and vital human interest. Written in terse, nervous language it is the work of a man who has made an intimate study of psychology.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 270w.
“For all these artistic blemishes, the book shows originality and power; its interest heightens as the narrative advances, and the terrible scenes in Hayti and the cypress swamp, gruesome as they are, yet lift the romance from the level of melodrama to that of real tragedy.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 988. Je. 23, ’06. 1230w.
=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.
“In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of the few writers who can tell a tale ‘just so’ when he wants to do so.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 492. Ja. ’06. 690w.
“Is an unusual book, albeit morbid, as tales of the uncanny need must be.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“There is plenty of go to the stories, which afford a pleasant couple of hours’ entertainment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
“Remind one very strongly of the work of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells ... though they fall perceptibly short of the very close approach to technical perfection of both those writers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 620w.
=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“There is probably no more useful work on the whole subject of betting and gambling than the present volume.” W. R. Sorley.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 380. Ap. ’06. 1190w.
=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade, v. 1. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume is concerned with public-houses, hotels, restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs as they are managed in Great Britain. It also includes two chapters on the subject of license taxation in the United States, giving the varied experiences of such states as Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The chief purpose of the writers in this volume is to show the inadequacy of the existing scale of taxation in Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
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+ Ind. 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Though written with a distinct purpose and to support a precise programme, it is a careful study of a highly complex question, a well stored armoury for the friends of temperance, and also a careful aid to the fiscal reformer.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 262. Jl. 27, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Our authors are concerned chiefly with the fiscal aspects of the license problem, and it is from this point of view that their performance must be judged. Tested by such a criterion, they have done their work well and they have left few loopholes for the shafts of the severest critic.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 312. O. 11, ’06. 980w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Timely and valuable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 498. Mr. 31, ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
=Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Halsey has given his edition a very thorough equipment of historical and bibliographical matter.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Rumbold, Sir Horace.= Final recollections of a diplomatist. $5. Longmans.
The fourth volume of Sir Horace Rumbold’s reminiscences covers the period from 1885 to his retirement from diplomatic service in 1900. During these years he was sent to three courts—to Athens, The Hague, and Vienna.
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+ =Acad.= 69: 1194. N. 18, ’05. 880w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 40w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 700w.
“It is characterized by the same lightness of touch as its predecessors, and also, perhaps by the same preference for matters of superficial and personal interest over the graver side of public affairs.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 2130w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“The reader’s one regret is apt to be that the man who had the chance to see so much saw so little.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.
“Garrulous Sir Horace Rumbold is in the sense that he repeats a fact simply because it is a fact, and he happens to remember it, without ever stopping to consider whether it is an interesting fact.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 561. O. 25, ’05. 810w.
“The merits of this book, if viewed not only as the story of a long diplomatic life, but as literature, are visible in every chapter.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.
=Runkle, Bertha.= Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.
Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be, gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality. The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot, but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is his, but not his to renounce.
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“There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.
“This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken seriously from any point of view.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 200w.
– =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill both in tangling and untangling its threads.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“There are a dash and vigor about the handling of this novel of modern New York life that will carry it perhaps beyond its real merits.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 100w.
“It can hardly be counted a successful piece of fiction.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.
“From the ‘Helmet of Navarre’ to ‘The truth about Tolna’ is a long leap, but Miss Runkle has taken it with no signs of effort.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
=Ruskin, John.= Works; edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 37v. ea. $9. Longmans.
The thirty-seven volumes which make up this library edition contain the complete written life-work of Ruskin, illustrated with woodcuts, plates, and facsimile manuscripts. “The introductions ... are consecutive chapters of what will always remain a far more authoritative biography of Ruskin than any that exists. The reprints of the published books and lectures contain the best possible text, with annotations as careful and minute as if the editors were dealing with a Greek classic; they give us a remark on every various reading, hundreds of cross references, and many references also to many passages in other writers who have been influenced by them or controverted them. Moreover ... a great number of the lectures and letters are here published for the first time.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The editors have striven with the most praiseworthy diligence to make their edition complete and definitive. They have done a great work.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 137. Ap. 20, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–22.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 8.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 235. Ap. 7, ’06. 820w. (Review of v. 20.)
=Russell, George William Erskine.= Social silhouettes. **$3. Dutton.
“An essay in ‘character’ writing, the author passing in review most of the types that a clubman and Londoner meets with in the narrow confines of his life—the eldest son, the journalist, the Bishop, the don, the carpet-bagger, the invalid, the buck, and so forth.” (Lond. Times.) “They catch those fleeting aspects of things which, once let slip, are recovered with the utmost difficulty; and they establish suggestive standards of comparison between the present and a comparatively recent past. Mr. Russell knows Dickens, Thackeray, and Disraeli by heart, nor has he neglected that most faithful of writers Anthony Trollope.” (Ath.)
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“‘Social silhouettes,’ it is not unfair to remark, are a little lacking in balance. Still, without attaining omniscience, Mr. Russell has succeeded in hitting off the polite and professional world in nearly every instance, and his stories are so cleverly handled that he avoids wounding the feelings even of the most susceptible.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 800w.
“We lay the book aside with the conviction that Mr. Russell has not observed enough, has not lived enough, for this kind of work. He has met many men and heard many stories, but he lacks alike the seeing eye and the searching phrase. Also the sense of the moment for he seems to have stood still for many years.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 500w.
“The political portraits are drawn with a peculiarly expert hand.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 330w.
“The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and enlivening touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.
=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.
The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated; dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple thing.
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“Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of scientific probability.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.
“So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many interesting suggestions.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.
“Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 150w.
=Russell, W. Clark.= Yarn of Old Harbour town. *$1.50. Jacobs.
Harbor life, and life on the high seas one hundred years ago is vividly pictured in this story of Lucy Acton who was kidnapped by her lover and feigned madness for her own protection. The search made for her by her father in his “Aurora,” the appearance of Admiral Nelson, the rescue of Lucy, all making stirring reading, but after all is done, instead of bringing her abductor to justice Lucy nurses him thru an illness, forgets, forgives, and marries him.
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“Although the plot and construction of the tale leave little to be desired yet there is much superficial description, and many trifling details are here introduced.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“As a love story the book is not very successful, but as a picture of sea and harbor life a hundred years ago it cannot fail to interest its readers.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radio-activity. 2d ed. with much additional matter. *$4. Macmillan.
“The fact that the second edition is almost a new work, although the first edition was everywhere hailed as most remarkable, simply evidences the wonderful advance of the science in which Professor Rutherford is himself so large and active a factor.” (Nation.) “It is not a popular work. It is not easy reading to the layman: it is not intended for him. It has a spaciousness of active scientific thought which reaches far into the unknown. Authentic, it is rich in suggestions to the investigator, be he chemist, physicist, engineer, or physiologist.” (Engin. N.)
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“It seems likely, therefore, that for some years to come successive editions of Professor Rutherford’s work will remain the best source of information for the reader in whom may be assumed a certain modicum of technical information.”
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 418. S. ’06. 40w.
“No words are wasted. The terse diction of the masterpiece gives it a literary charm that carries the competent reader on almost precipitously, yet with discriminating caution.” Charles Baskerville.
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 77. Ja. 18. ’06. 1290w.
“For the student. Professor Rutherford’s book is of the greatest value.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Is the most complete and authoritative account of the recent remarkable discoveries in this field by one who has made many of them.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 1240w.
“We must once more congratulate Prof. Rutherford on the admirable manner in which he has brought his book up to date.” R. J. Strutt.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 289. Ja. 25, ’06. 1100w.
“The new treatise gives evidence of the same skilful presentation and arrangement as the old.” C. Barus.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 262. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
=Ryan, Coletta.= Songs in a sun garden. **$1. Turner, H. B.
In Miss Ryan’s poems dreams seem so possible of realization that one credits her with having found a demonstrable principle of life. Head, heart and imagination are all active. “She is a young woman of strong emotion, a child of the imagination, and if no conventional or reactionary power curbs or holds in check her higher and finer impulses, she will do much fine and vital work.” (Arena.)
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“There is much imagination displayed in some of the lines—something all too rare in present day verse. Many of the poems are also rich in rhythmic and musical qualities that tend to sing the lines into the mind of the reader.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 556. My. ’06. 1040w.
“‘A lover’s song’ is one of the few things afforded by this volume that are reasonably acceptable.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 170w.
“They are in the main, bright and sweet, with individuality in their tenderness and with a buoyant spirit of trust and good-will.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 180w.
=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects. *$1. Macmillan.
The work of a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in St. Paul’s seminary. “It is perhaps the first attempt in the English language to elaborate what may be called a Roman Catholic system of political economy.... Professor Ryan combines in this work economic and ethical arguments with those derived from authority, and while Professor Ely admits [in the introduction] that members of other religious bodies, both Christian and Jewish, may reject this particular system of wages because it is assumed to rest on the approved teachings of the Roman Catholic church, he bespeaks for it an examination of the question: Does or does not this doctrine of wages rest upon broad Christian, religious, and ethical foundations?” (R. of Rs.)
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“The credit due to him for the conception of his task is doubled by the manner in which he has executed it. Thoroughly acquainted with all authorities on political economy, economics and ethics, he has done his work in scientific fashion.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 83: 688. Ag. ’06. 1560w.
“Mr. Ryan’s economics are stronger than his ethics.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 517. Ag. 30, ’06. 550w.
“As an alternative to socialism, as an antidote to anarchism. as a stimulator of thought the book seems to us well described in Dr. Ely’s words—‘a meritorious performance.’” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 2290w.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Many modern writers have dealt with the subject from the same point of view. Few of them have had the courage of their opinions to the same extent as Professor Ryan.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 233. Ag. 18, ’06. 2260w.
=Ryan, Marah Ellis (Martin) (Mrs. S. E. Ryan).= For the soul of Rafael: a romance of old California. †$1.50. McClurg.
The heights of San Jacinto stand guard over the valley which furnishes the picturesque setting of this tale. The ruined dome of an old mission gleams among the clustered adobes of the Mexicans which are “like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother: and beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley.” The characters are all the fine, aristocratic Spanish type, looking upon Americans as “godless invaders.” Dramatic intensity marks each development in a story of strong passions and a splendid renunciation.
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“A picturesque and romantic story, which stands out vividly against the careful and realistic brushwork of the background.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 320w.
“Mrs. Ryan’s new novel has so confused a way of introducing its characters and setting forth their relationships that we are midway in the volume before we have fairly straightened them out. Aside from this defect of constructive technique, we may say that the work is one of vivid dramatic quality and appealing romantic charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.
“A somewhat crudely told melodrama.”
– =Ind.= 60: 1374. Je. 7, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26. ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A dramatic story of California.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 110w.
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=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France; with preface by the translator Robert Dell, and the French-English text of the Separation law, with notes. *$1.25. Scribner.
This work “is partly an examination of the deep-seated causes (as distinguished from the accidental circumstances) which led to the denunciation of the Concordat, and partly an attempt to forecast the religious consequences of that extreme anti-clerical measure. In his treatment of the first half of his subject ... the author seems to us both lucid and just.... The second half of his volume is of a more speculative character. He fancies that he foresees ‘the advent of a new Catholicism’ and ‘the rising of new sap in the old religious trunk.’”—Lond. Times.
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=Acad.= 71: 56. Jl. 21, ’06. 1820w.
“Not an important contribution to the literature of the ecclesiastical controversy in France. The tone of the author is as polemical as the style of the translator is journalistic.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 512. Ap. 28. 1180w.
“The translation of the pamphlet is well done by Mr. Robert Dell, who also contributes an interesting explanatory preface.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’06. 740w.
“Its chief defect, for those who are not among the admirers of the writer’s earliest work is, as might be anticipated, its complete failure to attain an historical point of view.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Walter Littlefield.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 8, ’06. 1350w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 813. Ag. 4. ’06. 320w.
=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 130w.
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904–1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Mystery of Hornby hall. 85c. Benziger.
A book for young people which contains the chivalric unearthing of a mystery guarded by a human tigress and one involving the happiness of a long wronged child.
=Sage, William.= District attorney. †$1.50 Little.
A son who dares to array his intellect, his honor and his ideals against his father, a trust magnate with an iron hand, fights a creditable battle for political, financial and domestic liberty. Impersonal right is his might even tho it make useless the tools without which his father is helpless. It is an interesting character study backed by sound principle.
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“Not since Robert Herrick’s ‘The common lot’ has there appeared a finer study of present-day American life than ‘The district attorney.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 570. N. ’06. 390w.
“A book that not only shows careful workmanship, but is apt to set the reader thinking rather seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 460w.
=Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“We are inclined to think that the note of didacticism is at times a little too effusively sounded: but to the book as a whole sincere praise may be accorded.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
=Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“Barring a touch of ‘preciousness,’ a proneness to euphuistic smartness not quite foreign to more sincere artists, the style of Mr. Sage would lend itself well enough to building up a story that might touch the reader as a page out of life. But instead of this, it has been employed to provide verisimilitude for a conventionally sensational tale about conventionally unreal people.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The author tells his story in a straightforward, manly fashion. His book deserves a wide reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Self-supporting home. **$1.75. Macmillan.
An interesting book which records an experiment made by an ambitious, energetic woman. From city flat life she transplants her family to the country, and shows how she makes a farm of twelve acres pay for itself and provide comfortably for all needs. She gives the stages in her farm development, with specific directions for each point gained, so that the book is of value to every amateur farmer and gardener.
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+ =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 80w.
“She writes with that tempered enthusiasm that is apt to be convincing; and although she takes her subject seriously, she allows herself occasional touches of humor.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Full of sound sense and practical advice.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 350w.
“The style of the author is simple and unaffected.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 460w.
“The book is no theoretical treatise or dream, but the earnest work of a woman of charming personality, which she modestly strives to conceal, who in sharing the fruits of her success with a public that has need of the information given, does it a greater service than a score of learned writers on social and political economy.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ’05. 800w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“It has particular value for the beginner in that the author was a city woman who had to learn by experience, so that she knows how to help others to avoid the mistakes which she made.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
“The author convinces us that she is intelligently at home in her environment, and that what she says is the result of discrimination and practical sense.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 140w.
“A simple, straightforward, delightfully written account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“There is much instruction to be found in the book.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 229. F. 10, ’06. 140w.
=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the eighteenth century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley, with a critical introd. by Edmond Scherer. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
Miss Wormeley has not only translated but edited these Sainte-Beuve essays in a manner to insure their popularity. There are portraits of such historic and literary personages as the Duchess du Maine, Le Sage, Montesquieu, Voltaire, the Earl of Chesterfield, Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, Frederic the Great, Necker, Mme. de Lambert, Grimm, Rousseau, Goethe, Prevost, Beaumarchais, Adrienne Lecouvreur and others.
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“It would certainly be impossible to mistake them for anything but translations, and translations of a rather literal order.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ’05. 60w.
=Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 90w.
“For delicacy, good taste, profundity of research, and brilliancy of finish, his work remains unique, and well deserves the tribute of adequate translation and sumptuous publication now being rendered it.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.
“For the most part accurately rendered, and disposed in such fashion as to convey a general impression of the interesting pre-Revolutionary epoch.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ’05. 220w.
“The translation by Katharine P. Wormeley is all that could be asked in sympathy, exactness and choice of phrase.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 449. Mr. ’06. 510w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 130w.
– =Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 948. Je. 16, ’06. 2240w.
=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of English prosody, from the twelfth century to the present day. v. 1, From the origins to Spenser. *$2.50. Macmillan.
The first of a three volume work whose aim is to examine “through at least 700 years of verse what the prosodic characteristics of English have actually been, and what goodness or badness of poetry has accompanied the expression of these characteristics.” Mr. Saintsbury’s examination is based upon facts which he presents chronologically, showing the simultaneous development of language and versification. He says “In this book we do not rope-dance, but keep to the solid paths, and where the paths are not solid we do not care to walk.”
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“When the three volumes of which the work is to consist are published, a blank in the history of our literature will have been filled. Few people more competent than Professor Saintsbury could have been found for the task.”
+ + + =Acad.= 70: 522. Je. 2, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One of the main qualities of Prof. Saintsbury’s book is what may be called its practicalness. The main value of the book is that it is a firm denial and, as it seems to us, complete disproof, of ‘the error that the prosody of English is a fixed syllabic prosody.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 629. My. 26. 2910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What saves him from pedantry is his fund of humor, of a peculiarly literary quality, which is so closely allied, as all humor is, with common sense.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 394. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There are many passages in Professor Saintsbury’s book which only experts will be able to understand. He calls it a history, and he has tried to make it one; but no one ever had a style less suited to the telling of a plain story. Yet, anyone interested in the subject will make a great mistake if he refuses to read the book because of the way in which it is written; for it has one merit great enough to atone for a thousand minor faults.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 229. Je. 29, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that, unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse composition.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He writes in a breezy, somewhat pugnacious, frequently erratic style, ... and he manages to make even the dryer linguistic parts of his subject interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Freshness of style and illustration makes It much more delightful than most technical works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Needless to say, the great erudition we have come to expect from all Professor Saintsbury’s work is apparent on every page.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Saintsbury, George=, ed. Minor poets of the Caroline period. 2v. v. 1, *$3.40. Oxford.
“The volume possesses so many points of interest that it is easy to forget the portentous mediocrity which is really its dominant feature.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 115. Ja. 27, ’06. 1780w.
=Sakolski, A. M.= Finances of American trades unions. 75c. Johns Hopkins press.
Under the divisions, Revenue, Expenditure, and Administration, this volume in the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science,” gives the results of much careful investigation of the financial phase of the leading American, national and international trade unions.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Evolution the master key. *$2. Harper.
Instead of reducing “the many and ponderous volumes of the synthetic philosophy to brief and popular form,” the author attempts to justify his conviction “that the philosophy of universal and ordered change is far more easily demonstratable to-day than ever before,” and he proceeds with his demonstration “in the light of human knowledge in the first lustrum of the twentieth century.” His discussion falls into seven parts: General, Inorganic evolution, Organic evolution, Suborganic evolution, Evolution and optimism, Dissolution, and Evolution and the religion of the future.
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“The work it is true exhibits certain defects perhaps unavoidable in so comprehensive a scheme. Some of the chapters are too brief to do anything like justice to the vast topics of which they treat.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 304. Mr. 31, ’06. 860w.
+ =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 519. Ap. 7, ’06. 1090w.
“The grand range and sweep of his reasoning is remarkable. He deals, and generally very ably though very briefly, with most of the profoundest problems of science and philosophy.” F. W. H.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 122. Je. 7, ’06. 750w.
“Dr. Saleeby has mastered his subject and knows what he wants to explain. He has a style lucid, incisive, exact, and boldly individual, and, considering his scientific enthusiasm, a sense of humor remarkably sane.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.
“Beyond his exposition of his great master, ‘an immortal,’ it does not appear that Dr. Saleeby has contributed anything of importance upon the subject of evolution.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 240w.
“Latest masterpiece of philosophy. Such recognition [of predecessors] does not grate, but rather makes an agreeable impression—and this, together with the use of the highest scientific ability and the purest English, makes this work invaluable in every way.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 790w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.
“A very valuable manual.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 350w.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 847. Mr. ’06. 210w.
“Pictures of the saint began to be made as early as the thirteenth century, and are usually to be found in rather out-of-the-way places, such as Greccio, Subiaco, Pescia, etc. Not the least valuable portions of Miss Salter’s book are the few pages of ‘Practical hints’ for the traveler, showing him how to reach these places.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The author does not suffer from the modern disease—the fussiness of expert knowledge; and the little book disarms criticism because it is so unpretending.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
“An entirely sound, useful, practical, much-needed work, which it would be difficult adequately to praise, and impossible almost to overestimate.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 849. D. 30, ’05. 1010w.
=Salter, William.= Iowa: the first free state in the Louisiana purchase. **$1.20. McClurg.
“The little book seems quite free from errors.” E. E. Sparks.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 442. Ja. ’06. 510w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident. †$1.25. Wessels.
“The book’s superficial smartnesses fail to conceal its lack of serious intention.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 30w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Vanity Square. †$1.25. Lippincott.
This “story of Fifth avenue life” written in the author’s clever vein is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the joys that wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including his charming wife and child. A woman of rare beauty comes into his home to nurse his little girl, and then developes a most heinous plot in which this beautiful viper tries to murder the wife by means of a subtle poison, so that she may win the husband and his wealth. In the excitement of this discovery and the events which follow, in their selfish joy at their re-union and their re-found happiness, they allow her to go unchallenged, and discover too late that she has made another woman and another home her prey.
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“Mr. Saltus has a strange taste in adjectives, and invents words that are new to our dictionaries.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 220w.
“Is a smart and interesting story; no better, ethically, perhaps than the ordinary ‘society novel’ but immeasurably better than most of that kind in its literary graces.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 365. Je. 9, ’06. 860w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
=Sanborn, Katherine Abbott (Kate Sanborn).= Old time wall papers. $5. Literary collector press, Greenwich, Conn.
An account of the pictorial papers of our forefathers’ walls, which includes, also, a study of the historical development of wall-paper making and decoration. Her treatment covers the following subjects: From mud walls and canvas tents to decorative papers, Progress and improvement in the art, Earliest wall papers in America, Wall papers in historic homes, Notes from here and there, and Revival and restoration of old wall papers.
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“Should make a strong appeal to collectors of antiques as well as those interested in primitive house decoration.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 177. O. ’06. 330w.
“Miss Sanborn has had a most interesting subject in old time wall papers and she has treated it in a delightful manner.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“Her book is likely to become a standard, and people who care for antiques will wish to own it.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 740w.
=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. †$1.50. Little.
“Just a love story—and a particularly nice one.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Criticism of the fourth Gospel. **$1.75. Scribner.
Eight lectures on the Morse foundation delivered in the Union seminary, New York, in October and November, 1904. Stress is laid upon the internal argument for the authenticity of the fourth Gospel.
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“The present volume bears the familiar marks that are characteristic of all Canon Sanday’s work: learning, clearness, fairness to opponents, judiciousness in judgment, conservatism.” Ernest D. Burton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 115. Ja. ’06. 840w.
Reviewed by James Lindsay.
+ + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 372. Ap. ’06. 630w.
Reviewed by James Drummond.
=Hibbert J.= 4: 442. Ja. ’06. 1880w.
“It seems a little strange that one so openminded as Professor Sanday should be unable to distinguish between intentional fraud and innocent pseudonymity, yet it is this inability which holds him to the traditional opinion on the question under discussion.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ’05. 720w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ’05. 40w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ’05. 1690w.
=Spec.= 96: 306, F. 24, ’06. 160w.
=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ **$1.25. Scribner.
“The work is done with all the author’s painstaking care, scholarly balance and fairness of mind; a mind ever open to new light, but instinctively leaning to conservative positions.” W. Jones-Davies.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 933. Jl. ’06. 1260w.
=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches. **$1.75. Macmillan.
+ =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“As a sample of the better class of sporting literature Mr. Sandys’s work would be difficult to beat.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 149. D. 14, ’05. 390w.
=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.” P. S. A.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Fairest girlhood. **$1.50. Revell.
With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts, Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades, Christian service, and kindred subjects.
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“Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs. Sangster’s literary work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“It deals with almost every phase of the life of girls, and is full of helpful suggestions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood. **$1. Bobbs.
“The book as a whole is rich in matter of vital interest and worth to home-builders.”
+ + – =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Story Bible. **$2. Moffat.
A group of sixty-two stories, forty-eight of which are from the Old Testament, and fourteen, from the New. They are intended for children as an introduction to the Bible itself.
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“Like all of Mrs. Sangster’s writings, this book for children is pervaded with the beautiful and gentle spirit of her personality. To the more modern students of the Bible the book may seem inadequate. The author has revealed no unusual insight in finding the central theme of the stories told. Also from the point of view of present educational thought the book is faulty.” Sophia Lyon Fahs.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 349. N. ’06. 300w.
=Critic.= 47: 577. D. ’05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
=Sankey, Ira David.= Sankey’s story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos. *75c. S. S. times co.
The life story of Mr. Sankey followed by the words and music of four of his most popular hymns forms the first part of the little volume while the larger portion “is devoted to brief narratives of the circumstances occasioning the compositions and the incidents connected with the use of the very many of the ‘Gospel hymns’ so effective in Mr. Sankey’s ‘singing the Gospel’ which Mr. Moody preached.” (Outlook.)
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+ =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 20w.
“The book is of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 140w.
“The book is packed full of human interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 150w.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress. 5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Those who seek an abode for an abundant and varied life will find in his five volumes plans and elevations, together with many admirable suggestions for beautiful features or details very suitable for such a necessarily palatial residence as a developed modern mind requires.” T. Sturge Moore.
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1313. D. 16, ’05. 650w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“One cannot take leave of Professor Santayana without grateful recognition of the excellencies of his style and marvelous lucidity and untechnical character of his language.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 161. Ja. ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 1230w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volumes on Art and Society are excellent. But his discussion of Religion calls to mind the theory that no heretic has ever been condemned for heresy.” George Hodges.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Few readers will turn from its pages without consciousness of some mental renovation, without a whetting of some blunted perception.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 527. Ja. ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Current Literature.= 40: 411. Ap. ’06. 1450w.
Reviewed by A. K. Rogers.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 87. F. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“For the combination of fertility, sanity, and keenness of insight in the criticism of life and human ideals, with a high degree of literary charm, it would be difficult to point its equal in modern philosophical literature.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by F. C. S. Schiller.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 462. Ja. ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has well earned, therefore, the sustained interest which his readers continue to take in his ideas and in his style from first to last. And he has succeeded also in conveying a distinct impression of his individual soul which cannot but charm and instruct even those who differ widely from his views and dissent from the philosophic solutions which he favors.” F. C. S. Schiller.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 936. Jl. ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 3–5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Brilliantly written and stimulating exposition of his philosophy of life.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“It was to be expected that Professor Santayana’s volume on art would be authoritative; and in the main this expectation is not disappointed.” A. W. Moore.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 211. Ap. 12, ’06. 6300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite the discordant note of finalism, it still remains that nowhere has the essentially _vital_ character of reason been more clearly, forcefully and gracefully stated than in these volumes. Moreover, the distinctive thing in Professor Santayana’s important contribution is that this character of reason has been exhibited, not in formal and dialectic fashion, but by scholarly appeal to the various continual ‘fields’ of experience.” A. W. Moore.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 469. Ag. 16, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Lit. D.= 32: 362. Mr. 10, 06. 950w.
“Its philosophy may be admirable, but it is unintelligible to one not a trained metaphysician, and its style seems constantly on the verge of a lucidity which as constantly proves elusive.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
“His work remains of high interest as a human document, and abounds in memorable sayings and incitements to quotations.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If it fails wholly to please us it must be because we are too weak to care for the truth, or too lazy to follow it. One can hardly fancy a work on natural science more clear or more logical.” Bliss Carman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 3870w.
“The fundamental misconceptions that have been noticed in the former volumes stand out in this. Professor Santayana’s skeptical criticism of scientific method and progress has the advantage of a charming literary style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is a work nobly conceived and adequately executed.” John Dewey.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 223. F. 9, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
Believing that the training of the body should be placed upon the same educational basis as the training of the intellect, Dr. Sargent has published these papers as pioneer efforts toward the realization of his ideals. The earlier physical condition of the American people is described, and the urgent necessity for some form of physical training is shown, then follow chapters which contain “the principle theories which the author has employed in evolving a comprehensive system of physical training.” The table of contents includes; Physical education in colleges, The individual system of physical training, Athletes in secondary schools, Military drill in the public schools, and Physical training in the school and college curriculum.
=Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Owes its undeniable charm partly to the skill with which the author has utilised an unfamiliar and impressive background, and partly to qualities of sympathy and humour together with breadth and freshness of view.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
=Saunders, Margaret Baillie-.=Saints in society. †$1.50. Putnam.
The author’s first work accepted by Mr. Fisher Unwin for his “First novel library.” “A poor young couple become suddenly rich and experience all the debilitating effects of great wealth and a high social position in consequence. The husband forsakes the noble ideas of his younger days and finally dies unhappily. The widow founds a baby farm, where she lives quietly until it is decent for her to receive the lover whom she acquired, but held virtuously at bay, during her husband’s lifetime.” (Ind.)
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“Her story is interesting, and it is written with a kind of rough power, but it does not come within a thousand miles of being literature, while considered as a picture of modern English life it appears to us to be frankly farcical.”
– + =Acad.= 69: 1105. O. 21, ’05. 550w.
“Mrs. Baillie-Saunders’s style is much the best thing about her novel. It is picturesque and clear, and has vivacity.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 320w.
“The author may be a little arbitrary—but the book interests and half convinces.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 330w.
“Was intended to be a good book.... But it is simply another case of people being led into temptation instead of out of it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A well conceived, but far too cursorily executed book.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 450w.
“Here we have one more thesis novel, but despite the numbers of such this bears itself with a distinction quite its own.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“The author writes with superficial smartness, but fails to impress her readers with the reality of her convictions or the artistic command of her material.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 300w.
“Her work is an odd mixture of cleverness and absurdity, of improbability and realism, or knowledge and ignorance.”
– + =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ’05. 160w.
“It is to be hoped that if Mrs. Baillie-Saunders continues to write she will acquire her experience at first hand, and will take rather more pains in the construction of her story.”
– =Spec.= 96: 63. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Sauter, Edwin.= Faithless favorite, a mixed tragedy. Edwin Sauter, 1331 N. 7th St., St. Louis.
A play founded on old Saxon chronicles in which such historical personages as King Edgar, Athelstane, Athelwold, Elfrida and Dunstan figure. “It contains a deal of frank language and some bitterness.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 70w.
=Savage, Charles Woodcock.= Lady in waiting; being extracts from the diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady in waiting to her majesty Queen Marie Antoinette. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The romance of a little French countess in the court of Marie Antoinette.... Escaping ‘paying the debt’ that all her family paid with their lives, the lady fled to America, where she won the republican court at Washington as she had the aristocratic court of France. We are gratified to know that her sweetness and beauty were rewarded by happy love and a home in her own country at last.”—Outlook.
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“Much familiar historical material is worked into the plot, but the style is good.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 322. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Is interesting, though not novel either in plot or style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35. Putnam.
“There are some notably good poems in the new volume.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 260w.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems; or, Is this a good world? **$1.35 Putnam.
“A distinct and powerful spiritual impulse is inevitable to the Christian who will read these luminous pages.” Edward Braislin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 230w.
“The title of his book and the subjects considered suggest help and comfort to the sorrowful and perplexed: but if that be the author’s purpose, he has marred his work by slashing doctrinal controversy.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28. ’05. 190w.
=Scarritt, Winthrop Eugene.= Three men in a motor car. **$1.25. Dutton.
Mr. Scarritt, a former president of the Automobile club of America, tells the story of a tour which three enthusiastic automobilists made first thru England, thence to Paris, next to Lucerne by way of Basle, Switzerland, to Geneva, and back to Paris thru Aix-les-Bains. The illustrations show roads that an American only dreams of—the too-good-to-be-true variety.
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“The intrinsic value of the book lies in the specific information that he gives to other automobilists as to how to ‘do’ Europe in a motor car.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.
“Will be most thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by traveled Americans.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 90w.
=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Except for this neglect of the national point of view, Professor Schafer’s book could scarcely be improved.” F. H. Hodder.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 949. Jl. ’06. 480w.
“The author’s tone and treatment are admirable, and we can highly commend this most lucid history of the Pacific North-West.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.
=Schauffler, Robert Haven.= Where speech ends. $1.50. Moffat.
In this music makers’ romance “all the persons concerned are members of the great Herr Wolfgang’s symphony orchestra.... Franz, who is introduced as a boy violinist, sick with desire to be a real boy instead of a musical prodigy, grows up to be a very noble and serious sort of a genius. The other boy, who had the passion for the flute, also grows up, to play Jonathan to Franz’s David. And there is a girl. The girl plays the harp and writes poems, and she is very lovely and very good.... The other leading characters are a first violin, who is a villain, and the conductor, the famous Herr Wolfgang. The remainder of the orchestra is cast for comic parts.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Nor can it honestly be said that Mr. Schauffler has given us a very satisfactory analysis of the musical temperament.”
– =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“The story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung together, charming in their freshness, and intimate in their revelation of the musician’s everyday life. It makes reading of an altogether wholesome and delightful sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 6, ’06. 480w.
“It has an unhackneyed theme ... worked out in a convincing, if unskilful, way, and it tells an exceedingly pretty love story.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 138. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.
“There is no story except in a mechanical sense. The author is like his own young flutist—more absorbed than inspired.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 430w.
“A book not to be read very critically; its shortcomings are too obvious.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
=Scherer, James Augustine Brown.= Holy Grail. **$1.25. Lippincott.
“The Holy Grail” is the “binding theme that unites this sheaf of essays and addresses.” The first bears the title subject; the two following sketch the work of Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier respectively, than whom “no men since the days of Galahad and Percivale have more utterly lost themselves in the knightly quest;” and the last three essays are “The crusaders,” “Liberty and law” and “The century in literature.”
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 2, ’06. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 110w.
=Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio.= Astronomy in the Old Testament. *$1.15. Oxford.
A scientific treatment of the scattered astronomical data of the Old Testament by the director of the Brere observatory in Milan. “The introduction discusses Israel’s learned men and its so-called scientific knowledge; and its general view of the physical world as seen in the book of Job. The firmament, the earth, and the abysses are sketched in a figure, which seems to represent as nearly as can be done, the Hebrew idea of the world. Indeed, it greatly aids the reader in understanding many hitherto obscure passages regarding the abyss, the depths of sheol, etc. With a master’s skill he treats stars and constellations—dependent, however, in many places on the results of Hebrew scholars for his word-meanings. The days, months, and the year of the Jewish calendar are particularly instructive after his discussion. While he recognizes some value in the Babylonian astronomical data, he is distinctly conservative in his use of them.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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“We are disappointed to find that the Clarendon press should allow a book of such intrinsic value to leave its presses without an index of subjects and scripture texts. Such omission discounts its value in these times.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 210w.
“It is impossible to read this interesting little work without admiring the wealth of learning with which the author has discussed astronomical and chronological allusions in the Old Testament; and. for the reasons given above, the English edition will be of value even to those who have read the Italian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 650. N. 11. 260w.
“Has been turned into very good English. The book with all its discursiveness or rather by reason of it, is quite entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 246. Mr. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“All is most interestingly expressed, and the archæological and historical references are most valuable.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 410. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Dr. Schiaparelli’s little book has been excellently translated, and is likely to be accepted as the final authority on questions relating to Hebrew astronomy.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.
=Schillings, C. G.= Flashlights in the jungle; tr. by F: Whyte from the Germ. with co-operation of the author. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Same; with title With flashlight and rifle; photographing by flashlight at night the wild animal world of equatorial Africa; tr. and abridged from the Germ. by Henry Zick. **$2. Harper.
A naturalist’s reproduction of the intimate life of animals “which no human eye had ever before witnessed.” “The lion, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, and hyena, monkeys, antelope, jackals, leopards, and many kinds of birds are the subjects. All of them Mr. Schillings has hunted, photographed, studied, and killed, often at the greatest risk.” (Outlook.)
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 476. Ap. 21. 460w.
“His pluck, endurance, sincerity and enthusiasm are as real as his pictures.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“It is probably no exaggeration to say that this is the most remarkable book of wild animal photography that has ever been printed, but there our praise is inclined to stop. We can commend the laborious efforts of Mr. Schillings in gathering his elaborate scientific data, but we can hardly praise his narrative or descriptive skill.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 232. Ap. 1, ’06. 780w.
“The translation [by F: Whyte] is a good one and appears to follow the text closely. It is a portrait gallery of wild life for Africa, such as is Wallihan’s ‘Camera shots at big game’ for the Rocky mountains.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 221. Ja. 25, ’06. 720w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 16w.
“The book ... is not a unified whole so much as a series of detached monographs in which a great deal too much is taken for granted. The work has obviously suffered in translation.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 760w.
“His observations of their habits, full of careful insight as they are, add a large number of substantial stones to the cairn of human knowledge.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 36. F. 2, ’06. 520w.
“The finest series of reproduction of photographs from life of the various animals encountered which have ever been produced.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 1660w.
“Neither he nor his translator, Frederick Whyte, excels in narrative or descriptive skill. The work ... is packed with information and suggestion.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 31. Ja. 20, ’06. 1300w.
“The volume contains what is probably the most remarkable series of photographs ever made of wild animals in their native haunts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ’05. 80w.
“Aside from his photographs, Herr Schillings’s book is a valuable account of exploration and of hunting big game; it is a sturdy narrative, the dramatic value of which one does not have to be a hunter to appreciate.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ’05. 140w.
“The translation seems to be well done, and the text is extremely interesting from end to end.” Francis H. Herrick.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 540. Ap. 6, ’06. 2480w.
“His book is a real contribution to our knowledge of wild beasts.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 343. Mr. 3, ’06. 900w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudran, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people” series, this old German epic, which traces its origin to the thirteenth century, is put into a simple prose form which brings the romance of Gudran the courageous maiden of long ago, within the reach of the less venturesome little maids of today.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Nibelungs, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
The translator has used the old form of English expression in this version of the Nibelungen Lied which gives it a quaintness in keeping with the story of Siedfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Hagen and the rest. The story has been slightly softened and some parts have been omitted to make it conform in both size and style to the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people” series.
=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth, that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills, that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J. Ethics.
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“Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard His word.” R. T. Herford.
+ – =Hibbert J.= 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.
“No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.
+ – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.
=Schnabel, Clark.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“It is the best book of its kind, and that is the best that can be said of it.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 11. Ja. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The translation, as well as the original, bears the impress of authority and direct knowledge.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a whole, the book is reliable. The material is sufficiently comprehensive to give a thorough review of present metallurgical practices and the history of their development from early times.” Joseph Struthers.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 66. Ja. 12, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxons: a drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.
“‘The Saxons’ is one of the best reading dramas that has appeared in years. The thought is elevated and it is presented with the dignity that such a theme requires.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 555. My. ’06. 580w.
=Schouler, James.= Americans of 1776. **$2. Dodd.
“‘An original study of life and manners, social, industrial, and political, for the revolutionary period.’ It comprises in substance occasional lectures given at Johns Hopkins university during the years 1901–1905.”—Am. Hist. R.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 746. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“The author of a standard history of the United States has here supplemented his larger canvases with what one might be tempted to call literary picture postals of colonial scenes.” Woodbridge Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 627. Ag. ’06. 1260w.
“Other writers have in recent times attempted with varying success to give us glimpses of the environment of our forefathers,—their homes, their furniture, and their customs; but no one has approached the task with the scholarly experience of Mr. Schouler.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 500w.
“Not deterred by the ‘dignity of history,’ the author has seized the straws floating upon the currents of colonial life and arranged them in an entertaining way.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 221. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.
“A most entertaining and distinctly valuable volume. Hardly a detail escapes his eager scrutiny.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 720w.
“The author, indeed, makes no claim to originality of treatment, and if there is from first to last no observations of a profound or illuminating character, we have observed few misleading or erroneous statements.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26. ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 110w.
“A novel monograph which should find a place in the working library of every student of American history and a wide circulation among the educated public generally.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 904. Ag. 16, ’06. 1040w.
=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young women; ed. by Rev. Edmund J. Werth. *$2. Benziger.
“Building materials,” “simple sketches,” “outlines,” are the author’s words for a series of chapters which he hopes will help the preacher to build finished addresses for young men and women in Roman Catholic leagues and sodalities. The young man’s aim, and amusements, the path of iniquity, drunkenness, impurity, The Christian young woman’s crown, the virtue of modesty, wolves in sheep’s clothing and kindred subjects are treated.
=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75. Macmillan.
=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 372. Ap. ’06. 280w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 640w.
=Schupp, Ottokar.= William of Orange, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
This volume in the “Life stories for young people” series, furnishes an elevating study for youth in the life of William the Silent and the noble part he played in the history of the Netherlands. The whole story of cruelty and bloodshed is given in a such way that the moral is not lost.
=Schuyler, Livingston Rowe.= Liberty of the press in American colonies before the revolutionary war; with particular reference to conditions in the royal colony of New York. **$1. Whittaker.
“The very first amendment adopted for the Constitution of the United States was that which forbids congress making any law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. What existed in this country before that time in regard to the freedom of the press is told in a most interesting and curious way in this monograph. The several chapters take up the question as it existed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the Southern colonies, while the conclusions reached in the final chapter show that at the close of the period under discussion there was really no liberty of the press as we now understand the term.”—Outlook.
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“Authorities in print have mainly been consulted; dates are lacking in places where they ought to appear, and where they could have been given with a little further research; and the index is inadequate.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
=Schuyler, William.= Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
With a setting true to historical fact, and in the spirit of reverence the author has traced the important events of the closing years of Jesus’ mission. The story is in the form of letters written by a nephew of Pontius Pilate to a friend in Athens. There are near-by views of the disciples, of Mary Magdalene, of people whom Jesus healed, of the Roman officials and of the mob. The book has the atmosphere of dramatic intensity thruout.
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“Aside from the intrinsic value of the narrative ... the interest of the book lies in its unusual point of view and in the vraisemblance which the author has contrived to impart to a contemporary account of the momentous epoch.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 300w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Elinor’s college career. †$1.50. Little.
The girl who came to college for fun, the one who was sent, the daughter of wealth who came for the sake of atmosphere, and the “shabby girl” whom the other three call a genius are roommates and chums during their four years at college—presumably Vassar. Their frolics and study make anything but tame pastime for the young reader bent upon wholesome entertainment.
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+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“There is very little of the story element in the book, but the author is skillful and vivid in her portrayal of student life and of the characters of the young women, and the young girls who are looking forward to a college career will find the book very readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 760. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
“His rhythms are raised above mediocrity only by their almost unvaried pomp. His style is in keeping; it is lacking in precision as much as in restraint.”
– =Acad.= 70: 59. Ja. 20, ’06. 480w.
=Scott, Duncan Campbell.= New world lyrics and ballads. 60c. Morang.
“Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown, history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from poetry.”—Nation.
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“Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.
=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.
“A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The mythical kingdom of Valeria becomes very real to the reader who follows the fortunes of the young American army officer who becomes a grand duke and a suitor for the hand of his new found cousin, the beautiful princess royal. The story is full of love and intrigue, of court life, masques and duels and one meets a king, a villain, an adventuress, a dashing prince, a very human princess and many other people both brave and clever in the course of the well devised plot.
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“While the book is not without exaggeration and incongruity it at least keeps above the level of the ‘opera bouffe.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 51. S. ’06. 510w.
“The story is a capital one of its kind.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Those with a taste for love, sword, and mystery in liberal mixture will find this volume a pleasant toothful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.
“Captain Scott’s account of the voyage of the ‘Discovery’ is the most important narrative of adventure and investigation in the Antarctic regions that has been produced in the last half century.” Albert White Vorse.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 292. My. ’06. 1780w.
“Despite blemishes, this story of effort will long endure as a standard of high endeavor and heroic accomplishment.” General A. W. Greely.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 33. Ja. 4, ’06. 2590w.
“An intensely interesting story of the adventures of his party.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 140. Ja. 27, ’06. 1110w.
“The narrative of Captain Scott easily takes rank among the foremost books of travel and discovery which a half-century has brought out, and it will be read with the same pleasure that both old and young like to associate with the reading of Livingstone and Kane.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 13. Ja. 4, ’06. 1710w.
“Is a most valuable contribution to the knowledge of what will probably always be one of the most interesting parts of the Antarctic continent. It is written in a charmingly easy and fluent style; the narrative is modest and frank: and the story is always pleasant reading.” J. W. Gregory.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 297. Ja. 25, ’06. 2610w.
“Probably the most complete account of the antarctic regions ever published in English.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Complete poetical works; with introd. by Charles Eliot Norton. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” this pocket edition of Scott contains besides the complete text full editorial helps.
=Seaman, Louis Livingston.= Real triumph of Japan; conquest of the silent foe. **$1.50. Appleton.
“Major Seaman expatiates further in this volume upon the same theme exploited by him in his former account of his experiences with the Japanese army—the success of the Japanese officials in preventing and curing disease. The reasons for this remarkable record are the simple, non-irritating food of the Japanese soldier, the obedience to orders of the surgeons invariably displayed, and the thorough preparation and constant vigilance of those in charge of the health of the army. Major Seaman considers this a greater victory than that won on the field of battle, and makes an earnest plea for similar measures in the American army.”—Critic.
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+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 360w.
“The book is deserving of more careful consideration than ‘From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ as it enlarges upon the reasons for the statements made in that readable volume.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 140w.
“The American patriot, the soldier in the ranks and his relative at home, as well as the book-critic, can gladly commend this well-written work and be thankful for it. It is a trumpet-blast of prophecy.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 1130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 650w.
“Is perhaps a rather more seasoned and mature judgment than the other books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 150w.
“Dr. Seaman’s book is worth reading from end to end.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 330w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Chateau of Montplaisir: 4 full-page il. by Gordon Grant. †$1.25. Appleton.
A poor Frenchman, Louis Victor de Latour inherits with no income the dilapidated Chateau of Montplaisir. He is the object of interest to one Victor Louis de Latour, a soap-boiler who offers 300,000 francs for the privilege of sharing the glory of the name and placing the family crest on his carriage. Among the gay group who are responsible for a series of surprising situations is “the antique Comtesse de Beauregard, with a predilection for youthful habiliments and abhorrence for piety in men.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“This trivial tale is quite unworthy of the author of ‘Children of destiny.’”
– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“It is sparkling with humor and is full of amusing situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
“Pure merriment, absurd combinations, delicious impertinence, sparkle throughout these pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 90w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Loves of the Lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A midshipman upon one of his English majesty’s ships of the line who takes part in a successful engagement with the French and thereby wins promotion, tells the story of the beautiful Lady Arabella, ward of his uncle Sir Philip Hawkshaw, whom he at first loves and then comes to despise. A joy to the eye, Lady Arabella is a menace to the morals. A lover of cards and a trifler with men, she throws her heart at the feet of a man who will not have it, and all but swears away the life of an impetuous youth whose love she has spurned and who tried to elope with her, then later, to spite them both, she marries the head of their house and thru her first-born succeeds in cutting them both off from a fortune. Other characters, however, share the honors with Arabella and there is a truly true love story which is not hers.
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= The victory. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The scenes of the story are laid at the time of the Civil war. The adopted daughter of a Virginia family is married to a son of the house, who goes over to the union lines. She is very young and does not know what real love is, although her husband adores her. While he is away fighting, a French family moves into the neighborhood, and their son and the girl learn to love each other. Both, however, respect her marriage vows, and neither tells the other of the attachment. The girl’s husband is killed in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
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“While there is nothing particularly original in theme or style, the story is well told and the characters are lifelike and interesting.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs. Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.
“The book is full of humorous touches.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
Secret life: being the book of a heretic. **$1.50. Lane.
“In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’ Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul etc.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Ostensibly, it is a diary in which a married woman, of middle age, moving in a cultivated circle of American society, sets down the wild, original, heretical ideas which she has elaborated during her travels in Europe. Actually, it is a story of the spiritual adventures of a commonplace mind of a chameleon nature vagrant among unrealised worlds of thought.”
– =Acad.= 71: 394. O. 20, ’06. 1020w.
“However much we may differ from her expressions of opinion, their frankness and sincerity combined with the author’s genuine culture and love for literature and art in all forms make them worth reading.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Banks.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 1630w.
“The excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy certainly deserve to have their author known.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Shadow of life. †$1.50. Century.
If indeed it is in the shadow of things that this story pursues its way, it is such a shadow as Ruskin attributes to disappointment, the Titian twilight in which one sees the “real color of things with deeper truth than in the most dazzling sunshine.” Gavin and Eppie are two lonely children, hungering for happiness, who during a brief summer in a Scottish country home exchange their weird confidences. During sixteen years, Gavin is absent, then returns to find Eppie a splendid young woman of such strength, sweetness and daring that she seemed a “Flying victory” done by Velasquez. The romance that is quickened to the point of vows is blighted by temperamental differences. Gavin forces Eppie who loved life and battle to see that he would suffocate her, that he was the negation of everything that she believed in. The tragedy is one of helplessness.
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“The book is an achievement, and an achievement on a high and unusual plane.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
“Even more compelling in its hold over the imagination of the reader and in its searching analysis of the hidden springs of human action than her previous work.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 200w.
“Withal, the thing has been done really well.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7, 260w.
“Has written ‘an impossible love-story’ with immense skill, delicacy and grace.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 464. My. ’06. 550w.
“The story is interesting, the scenery is charming, and the author leads her characters thru it according to her despair, a despair which she spreads over the reader’s mind with astonishing wisdom of words.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 650w.
“The author has employed a seductive, pseudo-mystical manner of expression and made a deliberate effort to destroy every reason for the hopes and affections which fill life with interest.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Mrs. Sedgwick works on a high plane, and many who care little for the metaphysics of the book will value it for its graces of style and grasp of character.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 420w.
“It is a book of great power and significance. The author’s grasp of her material and her instinct for what is vital have kept her characters thoroughly alive—even Gavin, in spite of himself—but the novel would have gained in every way had not the drama been so often obscured under the study of a soul.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 1490w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 929. Je. ’06. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 460w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 390w.
“Is unreal and unconvincing”
– =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 280w.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, jr.= Short history of Italy. **$2. Houghton.
A short history of Italy which covers a wide range of years—from 476 to the end of the nineteenth century. It “makes no pretense to original investigation,” but aims to give a bird’s-eye view of Italian history as a whole.
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“Mere differences of view as to relative emphasis will keep no fair-minded person from doing full justice to the author’s grasp, his sober judgment, and his charm of manner.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 877. Jl. ’06. 740w.
“He shows good judgment in selecting the points of greatest interest, and putting the emphasis there.” J. W. Moncrief.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 348. Ap. ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has done an exceedingly difficult thing better than it was ever done—in English, at least—before, and about as well, one may venture to affirm, as it ever can be done.”
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 554. Ap. ’06. 490w.
“For the reading public rather than the scholarly world, the volume combines brevity, conciseness and a grasp of essentials with accuracy of fact and a pleasing narrative style.”
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 645. F. ’06. 240w.
“It is hard to determine for what class of readers this book was written.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“It is not childish enough for children, it does not show sufficient research to give it value to the student, and is far too casual in its descriptions of many events ... to be useful to persons of little knowledge, but much desire to learn history.”
– =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 70w.
“He has a good sense of proportion, and good ideas of historical perspective; he writes in a vivid style, and possesses a keen sense of humor which contributes not a little to the entertaining quality of his book.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Nevertheless, after making all necessary deductions, we conclude by recommending the book to the public for which it was written. It has no competitors in English.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 166. Ja. 18, ’06. 820w.
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“It is a mine of condensed information, imparted brilliantly and trenchantly, and abounds in philosophic generalizations which at once visualize and explain.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Sedgwick has little to fear from the abstract of Sismond’s ‘Italian republics’ (1832). good but antiquated, or from the Rev. William Hunt’s ‘History of Italy’ (1875), a dry textbook.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 391. My. 10, ’06. 740w.
“It is a lively and interesting narrative that he has written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ’05. 780w.
“The present volume has suffered from the necessity of over-condensation.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ’05. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 110w.
=Seeley, Levi.= Elementary pedagogy. *$1.25. Hinds.
“The main purpose of the school is to furnish instruction,” says Dr. Seeley, and he gives valuable information and advice to young teachers along the lines of elementary processes.
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“Adds one more to the list of educational works, already too numerous, which are chiefly compendiums of the ideas of others with a modicum of the writer’s own thought. In plan of organisation and continuity of development, the book is distinctly weak.”
– – + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 160w.
“Dr. Seeley’s ideas are always sane and practical, and no one need hesitate to follow him, always of course with intelligent choice and adaptation.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.
“Dr. Seeley writes for young teachers what every parent may read with profit. It is a well-digested manual of practical wisdom, well assorted and packed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 180w.
=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special reference to American conditions. *$2.25. Longmans.
Professor Seligman’s work is divided into four parts: Introduction; Elements of economic life; Structure and process of economic life; Conclusion.
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“The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which enables him in many cases to present more than one view and explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.
“The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.
“So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C. V.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly, effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.
“With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’ has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any other recent work.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.
“His style is remarkably clear, easy, logical, and candid.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
“We commend this volume heartily to any thoughtful layman who desires to get from a responsible authority some grounding in the essential principles of industrial laws.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 300w.
“There are passages in Professor Seligman’s book where either the reasoning is at fault or else the exposition so brief that it is impossible to make out just what the reasoning is. Sometimes, too, there is positive carelessness. The book is an encyclopedic plan, and, as a textbook, suffers from covering so much ground.” Frank W: Taussig.
+ – =Quarterly Journal of Economics.= 20: 622. Ag. ’06. 4100w.
“This book is interesting both as a restatement of economic theory, and particularly as an exposition of actual conditions in this country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“A thorough, well-balanced treatment of the subject which he handles.” G. W. Flux.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 93. My. ’06. 840w.
=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.
“Surveys the painter’s works with thoroughgoing system, and it is rational in criticism.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 70w.
“His arguments are not always the soundest, nor is his criticism as discriminating as it might be. Moreover, his treatment of the whole subject lacks thoroughness. Should prove of much value to beginners in the study of art, and may serve them better than would many a more scientific but less enthusiastic work.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.
=Selkirk, Emily.= Stigma. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
A Southern girl teaching in Arkansas and the Southern principal of the school appear on the stage of this drama as champions of the negro race. One of the chief actors is a mulatto girl whose “stigma” of blood makes life unbearable, so she ends it. “Equal educational and political advantages for black and white are urged, and from the text furnished in ‘a crimson-backed novel by a Baptist preacher’ the unequal standards obtaining in the South and all over the country are strongly arraigned. There is unquestioned truth in the representation, and it may be well to meet an appeal to public opinion in fiction by fiction.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 290w.
“The story is extremely painful, and as a story is simple almost to baldness.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.
=Selous, Edmund.= Bird watcher in the Shetlands. **$3.50. Dutton.
A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his “tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr. Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious, though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and luxuriant.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 113. F. 3, ’06. 840w.
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.
“The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.
“It deserves its place alongside with the investigations and vaticinations of Thoreau. In fact, it is one of the best books of its class that we have happened upon these many months.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 600w.
“Altogether, the book commends itself for unusual suggestiveness and interest.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 310w.
“He discourses, with digressions, delightfully upon his experiences.”
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 414. Mr. 1, ’06. 730w.
“You read his notes as he writes them, and begin presently to catch his enthusiasm, and sharing in imagination his physical point of view to share his mental attitude also—in part, at least.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 720w.
“With this somewhat whimsical humor the book abounds—but more substantial and certainly of great value to the student are the detailed records of observations, both birds and seals having been minutely and most patiently studied.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 300w.
“A sadly disappointing book.”
– =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 270w.
=Semple, Rev. H. C.= Anglican ordinations; theology of Rome and of Canterbury in a nutshell. 35c. Benziger.
A little book which addresses Catholics directly.
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“A short, clear, temperately written essay from which anybody, in an hour, may get up the facts and arguments of the case.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 399. D. ’06. 180w.
=Serao, Mathilde.= In the country of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Richard Davey. **$2. Dutton.
“As the translator says in his brief note, Signora Serao writes from the point of view of a very orthodox and fervent Catholic, who unhesitatingly accepts not only the Gospels, but also the ancient traditions of her church. She sails along the Nile, goes through Cairo, sees the Pyramids, and goes on to Syria. She then takes in Jerusalem, visiting all the places of interest, Galilee, and other places visited by Christ or connected with his life and works.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens the whole story.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“It is not quite perfect. There are florid passages which we regret, chiefly, perhaps, because the translator has not exercised a wise discretion. There are also slight mistakes.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1750w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Davey’s translation is admirable for Anglo-Saxon readers, for he admits that in his work he has lopped off certain extravagant expressions. Extravagant or not, Mathilde Serao is seldom uninteresting.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 100w.
“There is much in this book to charm the reader. But it is impossible not to be struck by her curious ignorance of what one would suppose every visitor to the Holy Land would be sure to know.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 390w.
=Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Burlesque Napoleon: being the story of the life and the kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. *$3. Brentano’s.
“An account of the flashy Jerome Bonaparte in court and camp and at home. It is one of many books on members of the Bonaparte family published of late years which are chiefly read with interest for the sidelights that they may throw on Napoleon, and a good specimen of its class.”—Sat. R.
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“The book adds nothing to the sum of our knowledge of the period.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1183. N. 11, ’05. 310w.
“The narrative is well put together, and the style is not without merit, though occasionally it is disfigured by slipshod expressions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 740w.
“There is no lack of incident ... but it is poorly and thinly written, and throughout the author seems to be in an attitude of apology for having written it at all.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 330w.
“His literary powers are not sufficient to impart freshness or interest to such a personage.”
– =Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Sergeant is a lively raconteur.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 337. My. 26, ’06. 1450w.
=Sat. R.= 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
=Bookm.= 23: 90. Mr. ’06. 450w.
“Except for the reindeer story, Mr. Seton has made certain advances here even over his first work. He shows greater variety of treatment, more flexibility of style, and less strain.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 140w.
“Read with a mind closed to doubt, however, they are hugely entertaining and no better book could be asked for an evening’s diversion.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“His methods are not sensational, his literary art is excellent, his knowledge is wide.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 230w.
“Alike to young and old the book may be heartily commended as an excellent example of the best style of animal biography.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 295. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
=Spec.= 97: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 1770w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Admirers of Sir Conan Doyle will find this detective story replete with the inductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes, while missing the highest artistic finish of their favorite.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
=Sewell, Cornelius V. V.= Common-sense gardens. **$2. Grafton press.
A veritable spur to people who neglect the garden possibilities of their bit of earth. “Two points in this excellent and amply illustrated book are worthy of special notice,—the author’s praises of box, and his pictures of enclosed gardens.” (Dial.) “The instructive volume is illustrated by good reproductions of photographs, and decorated in excellent taste at the beginnings of the chapters.” (Nation.)
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Reviewed by Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 435. My. 24, ’06. 1020w.
“The hints are such as may be followed, as a rule, by people of ordinary means, and it is to the credit of the work that it always prefers the sensible and practical thing to that which is a fad of the day or which leans toward ostentation.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
=Shadwell, Arthur.= Industrial efficiency: a comparative study of industrial life in England, Germany and America. 2 v. *$7. Longmans.
Dr. Shadwell’s investigations are the result “of laborious inquiries to which the authors of comparisons between the industrial conditions of different countries rarely condescend—inquiries conducted in England, Germany and the United States, and with ‘the help of hundreds of people, from the British ambassadors in Berlin and Washington to ordinary workmen,’ inquiries not merely in books and documents, but in many factories and workshops.... Rarely do chief conclusions emerge in such distinctness and due proportion from a crowd of individual facts. Some of the chapters ... are models of economical investigation.”
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“The style is excellent for its subject: even lucid, simple, carrying the reader insensibly forward through nearly a thousand pages without any sense of fatigue.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 660. Je. 2. 1450w.
“Two volumes of clear, interesting, forcible writing that are worthy to stand on our shelves alongside the classical works of Bryce and De Tocqueville.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 751. S. 27, ’06. 1180w.
“To have written an original book upon a somewhat trite subject; to have set in a new light many facts which have been treated recently by a score of writers, some of them of no mean ability; to have made a narrative of dry facts readable as well as instructive, is a considerable achievement. It is not too much to say that Dr. Shadwell has accomplished all this.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 69. Mr. 2, ’06. 1750w.
“A shrewd observer of men and affairs, who has cared more to gather facts than to spin theories about them.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 840w.
“These volumes discuss [the topics] instructively and with scientific love of truth and lack of prejudice. The author is no faddist or theorist.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 272. Ap. 28, ’06. 2270w.
“Throughout, these chapters are full of acute criticism and while it is a personal view which is put forward it is a view based not only on reading and travel but on countless interviews with all sorts and conditions of men.” Henry W. Macrosty.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 550. S. ’06. 1360w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 493. O. 6, ’06. 1610w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. **75c; limp. lea. **$1. Crowell.
“The editors are exceptionally well fitted for their work. Indeed, we doubt whether there are in America two persons better fitted for the task. Far and away the best popular set of Shakespeare that has appeared in America.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 340w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Poems and Pericles: being reproductions in facsimile of the original editions; with introds. and bibliographies by Sidney Lee. 5v. *$30. Oxford.
This work supplements the Clarendon press edition of the facsimile reproduction of the Shakespeare first folio, and contains besides, “Pericles” the four volumes of poems, “Venus and Adonis,” “Lucrece,” the “Sonnets,” and “The passionate pilgrim.” A great wealth of critical and historical matter is provided for each volume.
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“We have met with few books more thoroughly satisfactory than this Shakespeare facsimile. The book, as it stands, is a treasure that ought to be in every library.”
+ + + =Acad.= 69: 1282. D. 9, ’05. 1470w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 838. D. 16. 2040w.
“The five introductions transcend in interest even Mr. Lee’s introduction of 1902.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 437. D. 15, ’05. 2050W.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 264. Mr. 29, ’06. 3020w.
“The Introductions and Bibliographies ... leave little or nothing to be desired. All that unwearied industry and research can acquire he has made his own.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 80. Ja. 20, ’06. 1290w.
=Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 140w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
“For the general reader who is interested in the history of the texts, it is a cheap and satisfactory substitute for the costly facsimiles of the Folio of 1623.”
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+ =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 70w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Twelfe night, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.
The famous first folio text of 1623 with its original Shakespearean spelling and punctuation is here reproduced in handy form and at a popular price, with notes which indicate the editorial changes of three centuries, an introduction, glossary, lists of variorum readings, and selected criticism.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 700. S. 20, ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 1007. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Duffield.
“He has written an interesting little book, which will repay reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 315. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“It would be difficult to match this little book with another so simple, so strong, so informed with material knowledge and so inspired with loving reverence for our common mother, the young old Earth.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1283. My. 31, ’06, 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 285. Ap. 5, ’06. 1670w.
“Written by an eminent geologist who has command of a fascinating English style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.
=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will. **$1.50. Duffield.
Self-mastery over various kinds of disadvantages of life is the keynote of Mrs. Shaler’s study. In it are recorded “the achievements of noted persons who, under the stress of grave difficulties, have shown skill in marshalling their physical and spiritual forces to play the part of men.”
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“Mrs. Shaler’s book should give chronic invalids renewed courage, and should help them to resist the disheartening down-pull of bodily weakness and decay.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 270w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 70w.
“A heroic spirit pulsates thru this book. It is an inspiring story, or rather a series of such stories, briefly told, and told for a purpose.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 200w.
“Mrs. Shaler has chosen her examples happily. The book breathes precisely that spirit of high endeavor that is most bracing, and its admonition is for the sound as well as the feeble, for if the sorely hampered can do these works, what ought not to be done by the whole?”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 317. D. ’06. 220w.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Days of the past: a medley of memories. **$3. Dutton.
“Not a mere bookman, but also a general amateur of life—a sportsman, a gastronomer, even a taker of ‘fliers,’ or, as he calls them, ‘flutters,’ on the stock exchange.” (N. Y. Times.) Mr. Shand records with a sure and steady touch the interesting phases of sixty-five years of memories. “Mr. Shand’s recollections of old Edinburg and the almost forgotten ecclesiastical Scotland in which Guthrie and Tulloch played their not unimportant parts shows him at his best. Next to these are his portraits of hosts of men of letters and journalists whom he has come across in his time, such as Blackwood, Delane, Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Lockhart, Kinglake, Hayward, and even Mr. George Meredith.” (Spec.)
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“Mr. Shand’s memories, however, might with advantage have been less of a ‘medley.’ His tendency to hop from topic to topic produces a blurred impression, and he is provokingly chary of dates.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 460w.
“Written in vivacious and free-and-easy style not unmixed with slang.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“The author writes in a rapid, readable style and draws on an ample store of personal experience in many lands, although his adventures never approach the thrilling, or even the extraordinary.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Is not merely an amusing book, but also something far more valuable. It is an account unconscious, perhaps, but none the worse for that, of the philosophy of a happy life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Mr. Shand’s peculiar weakness is gastronomic. He delights to record his various experiences in eating and drinking. On the other hand, his chapters on the changes in London and on Old Edinburgh, and his literary recollections, are both interesting and valuable.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 230w.
“If he knows how to write, how can he help writing a delightful book out of his reminiscences of such an enjoying and enjoyed life? At any rate, Mr. Shand has not been able to help writing such a book.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 101. F. 17, ’06. 1160w.
“The book is discursive and agreeable rather than important.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 60w.
“This is one of the most delightful books of the reminiscences’ order that has been published for a long time.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ’05. 540w.
=Sharp, Evelyn.= Micky. $1.50. Macmillan.
An entertaining story of a sturdy little English boy and his brother who are left at home with their father and the servants while their mother is absent in Australia. “The book is designed to inculcate manners and morals in the young, and if it accomplishes this end there is little doubt that it will be worth while.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author has both an excellent grasp of the childish mind, and a capital way of putting on paper its humors, limitations, and sincerity.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 50w.
“Reminds us of that clever and charming story, ‘Helen’s babies.’”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 70w.
“An engaging little story, with an improbable plot, but very probable characters.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ’05. 110w.
“Is designed for older as well as young readers. The result is that it is hardly likely to absolutely hold the attention of either.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 915. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“It seems, however, more likely to interest older people who like to read about children than the children themselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 30w.
“Miss Evelyn Sharp’s picture of a sensitive, imaginative child is most delicately and tenderly drawn.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 40w.
=Sharpless, Isaac.= Quakerism and politics: essays. $1.25. Ferris.
In his collection of essays and addresses, President Sharpless of Haverford college treats chiefly the political conditions of Pennsylvania, past and present, and the part played by members of the Society of Friends in the state politics.
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“There are a few instances of careless proofreading in this volume.” Herman V. Ames.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 148. O. ’06. 570w.
=Ind.= 61: 220. Jl. 26, ’06. 270w.
“A book which in general gives wholesome and needful counsel to Pennsylvania Quakerism as to its political duties and responsibilities.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 300w.
“Written from the Quaker point of view, they are valuable to non-Quakers as an exposition of the principles underlying Quaker conduct, and to Quakers as a stimulus to definite action in the direction of insuring political reforms.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 250w.
=Shattuck, George Burbank=, ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.
“It is the most complete and authoritative work that has ever been published on these islands.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 220w.
=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.
Selections collected from the dramatic criticisms of Bernard Shaw during 1895–1898 when he sat with the “critical mighty and filled his eyes and ears with bad, mad, and mediocre plays.” So says Mr. James Huneker in his prefatory “Word.” Also, “Here is a plethora of riches. Remember, too, that when Shaw wrote the criticisms in this volume he was virginal to fame. It is his best work, the very best of the man. It contains his most buoyant prose, the quintessence of Shaw. His valedictory is incomparable. He found that after taking laughing gas he had many sub-conscious selves. He describes them.”
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“The drama in America is about ten years behind that of England, and we are passing thru a transition period similar to that when these ‘Opinions’ were written, so they are especially pertinent.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 470w.
“Contains a large amount of entertaining matter. It is doubtful, however, whether the collection will prove beneficial to his reputation.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 490. D. 6, ’06. 460w.
“A more or less patent examination of these essays has convinced at least one reader that they show flippancy, verbosity, unbounded egotism, and that they fail to rise above the pretentious mediocrity.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 898. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.
“In brief, it is the raw, inexperienced venture of an immensely witty person, formless in a way, full of pith, full of promise.” Mary Moss.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 440w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“He leaves us just where he finds us, as far as any serious discussion of the question goes. The display of pyrotechnics in the story is not bad, though of course these be but pale and ineffectual fires beside the author’s later work.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 560w.
“Its cleverness is beyond question; so too is the frigidity of its characterisation. We can cordially recommend the first twenty-five out of the four hundred odd pages which the book contains.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Plays: pleasant and unpleasant. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
The first of the two volumes contains the “unpleasant plays,” “Widowers’ houses,” “The philanderer,” and “Mrs. Warren’s profession.” They are so called because “their dramatic power is used to force the spectator to face unpleasant facts,” and in “dealing with economics social and moral relations, Shaw has delivered the most direct blow yet levelled by the stage against the cowardice of social compromise.” The “pleasant plays” are “Arms and the man,” “Candida,” “The man of destiny,” and “You never can tell.” They “deal less with the crime of society and more with its romantic follies.”
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=Ind.= 61: 396. Ag. 16, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Shaw is not only entertaining in his plays, as are some other men, but he is also immensely entertaining in his prefaces.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. ’06. 80w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Three plays for Puritans; being the third volume of his collected plays. **$1.25. Brentano’s.
A reprint of the 1900 edition of the three plays, The devil’s disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound’s conversion. The volume contains the author’s characteristic preface to the 1900 edition and a note—the only new matter included in the issue—in which the following statement appears: “Now that the turmoil has abated, the platformer, ever ready to seize upon the public’s passing whim, has told all he does not know about Shaw, the dust settled, one gets a clear perspective, and finds him standing pretty firmly after all.”
=Shaw, Judson Wade.= Uncle Sam and his children. **$1.20. Barnes.
“In prosecuting the work of his organization Mr. Shaw found everywhere a demand for a book that should not simply outline the machinery of the government, but should emphasize its special advantages and the duty of citizens in the use of their privileges. He has accordingly, embodied in the present volume an account of the struggles through which the founders of the country passed, a statement of the principles that actuated them, an outline of our territory and its resources, and some discussion of the perils that threaten us and how to meet and escape them.”—R. of Rs.
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+ =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 110w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ’05. 170w.
“His book is a sort of elementary manual of American good-citizenship.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ’05. 150w.
=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 570w.
=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. *$1. Whittaker.
Some three dozen brief but strong pleas for Christian living under such headings as: The value of self control, The duty of service, Socialism true and false, Money mad, Choosing a life work, Begin at home, The gospel of wealth, The gospel of pain, “The house of mirth.”
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“Mr. Sheedy seems to be a fearless, straightforward preacher, with a turn for the moral and practical, and with ability to couch his thought in vigorous English.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Sheldon, Anna R.= Pistoja [a guide book]. *$1.25. Brentano’s.
A “few pages of collated facts” gleaned from a variety of sources which throw light on “one of the most interesting cities in Tuscany, because of its charming situation, its long and varied history, its people—a hardy, vivacious, and well-favored race; as the birthplace of many illustrious men, patriots, jurists, and churchmen, scholars, poets, and artists, and finally, because of its valuable monuments of art.”
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“If only a few more pages were devoted to the history of the town—half a dozen written in the proper spirit would suffice—this little volume would be as welcome in the study as it undoubtedly will be in the pocket of the tourist.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
“Supplies the lack of a convenient guide-book in English, handsomely illustrated. It was a happy thought and is well worked out.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
=Sheldon, Walter Lorenzo.= Divine comedy of Dante: four lectures. 50c. S. Burns Weston, 1415 Locust St., Phil.
Four lectures “intended especially for those who have never read the poem but would like to know something about it.”
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=Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The class of people for whom it is written may read it with both interest and profit.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
It is over the English footpaths that the reader is invited to journey in meditative mood with eye and ear eager for sights and sounds unfamiliar to the more frequented highway. The haunts of Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Penn, Burns, Keats, Carlyle are all visited, also the birthplace of Gray’s “Elegy” and Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.” The volume is generously illustrated with reprints from photographs.
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“The novelty of the work does not consist so much in new discoveries, for there are none of consequence, as in presenting his subjects in a light not usual.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Shelley’s book is sympathetically written and gives evidence of individual research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
“The author has not failed to make researches that were worth while, and he has an agreeable style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 230w.
“The book should revive in many minds a longing to reread the English classics in the light thus shed in picture and text on some personalities which still inspire the finer things in letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Rarely does one come upon so charming a literary sketch-book as this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 140w.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Poems; with introduction and notes by Edward Dowden. $1.25. Crowell.
A valuable feature of this “Shelley” which appears uniform with the “Thin paper poets” is the comprehensive sketch of the poet’s life by Edward Dowden.
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahan. **$1.40. McClurg.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 557. Ap. ’06. 320w.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 67. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of instruction and information for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
A manual arranged as a calendar “giving detailed instructions as to what to plant in each month of the open season, with many useful hints of a miscellaneous character.” (R. of Rs.)
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“The directions are clearly worded, well grouped, and reasonable. For a small garden and a young gardener, the book will render the real service for which it was written.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
“A very practical manual for the amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 40w.
“The book supplements, but cannot replace, the formal garden handbooks.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 846. Je. 7, ’06. 160w.
“She does not realize that the brevity of her descriptions may be confusing and not carry to the novice the very idea that she is seeking to implant.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 500w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Life of Oscar Wilde. $4.50. Kennerley.
“The life-story of the brilliant but erratic genius, Oscar Wilde, whose sun of promise rose so bright and had so dire a setting, is presented to us in a handsome and dignified volume.... Although the book is confessedly an apology or defense, and promises at the outset to refute many calumnies and to effect noteworthy results in clearing from the foul aspersions of malignity a name still dear to hundreds of faithful disciples, yet there is fortunately, a wise avoidance of unsavory details regarding the events that clouded Wilde’s closing years and led to his tragic end.... The volume ... is supplied with a good index; while the bibliography, showing a surprising number of titles in prose and verse, with translations into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, and Polish, gives a new sense of the brilliancy of Wilde’s talents as a writer, mingled with regret and pity for his downfall as a man.”—Dial.
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“One cannot deny that it is interesting, even though parts of it be painful.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 365. D. ’06. 1860w.
“Mr. Sherard’s account of this strange and broken life is full and interesting, although it suffers from the extravagant tone of eulogy and admiration which colors it throughout. It is to be taken as we have said, at the outset, as a defense and an apology; and taken thus, it well repays perusal.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 156. S. 16, ’06. 2960w.
“This author has had access to abundant material, and writing with a full appreciation of the limitations of Wilde’s genius he has produced what may be called the most intimate biography that has yet appeared.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Sherard’s tones are not quite clear; his moral philosophy is not quite robust and direct enough for the terrible problem of human responsibility and error with which he has to deal.”
+ – – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1000w.
“Little excuse for its existence. As for Mr. Sherard he certainly possesses qualities we like to see in a biographer. He can draw distinctions and take note of both sides of his subject. He writes fluently and well. But he has chosen a hopeless, pitiful subject.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 545. S. 8, ’06. 820w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some recollections of a literary life; 2nd ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
Interesting are the different ranges at which Mr. Sherard, an Englishman in Paris, views a group of men prominent in French affairs. Motives of friendship, of admiration for statemanship and for literary genius operate in his reminiscences. Zola, Renan, Daudet, de Lesseps, Guy de Maupassant, Madame Adam, Victor Hugo, and Jules Verne are among the notables who figure in Mr. Sherard’s recollections.
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“The volume is full of good anecdotes which strike us as new.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9. 970w.
“The whole narrative moves so briskly, the dialogue is carried on by so many and so interesting actors, the stage is so crowded, and the scenes succeed one another so quickly, that it would be unhandsome to feel otherwise than friendly toward the purveyor of so much varied entertainment.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 316. N. 16, ’06. 1640w.
=Sherman, Frank Dempster.= Southern flight [poems by] Frank Dempster Sherman and Clinton Scollard. *$1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
A volume of verse containing fifty-odd pieces with Southern themes.
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+ =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.
“A small volume of tender and graceful lyrics.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Contains no piece quite at the highest level of either of its authors. There is somewhat too much sweet in it, but it is full of melody and pretty imagery.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w.
“They are perilously slight in subject and treatment. Though the verses in ‘A Southern flight’ are metrically simple they demand more careful pruning than they have received.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.
=Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c. Macmillan.
=Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 60w.
“On the whole, the book would prove an unreliable text in the hands of students. It should be of some value to teachers by reason of the suggestions in the second part in regard to the method of study and the teaching of civics.” A. R. Hatton.
– + =School R.= 14: 466. Je. ’06. 220w.
“It is to be regretted that this new book on civil government was not written in a better style with more literary form and flavor, as to the average reader it is bound to be dull.” George L. Fox.
+ – =Yale R.= 14: 426. F. ’06. 370w.
=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6. Longmans.
Mr. Sherring’s book has grown out of a political mission for the Indian government upon which he was sent for the purpose of looking up this country and estimating its resources and commercial possibilities. “Unlike the many volumes dealing with Tibet and Lhassa that have been appearing the past two or three years, since the British expedition reached and entered the ‘heaven’ of Hindus and Buddhists, the present one treats popularly of the ‘holy lore’ most sacred to Tibetans, the legends and myths of Western Tibet, and the customs and manners of the people. The author writes from personal experience and study.” (N. Y. Times.) Numerous illustrations add to the interest of the book.
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 542. N. 3. 1890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“The qualification of the author for his task is a long and close acquaintance with the tribes of British India upon the Tibetan borderland; but he labours under the double disadvantage of having no previous knowledge of Tibet, save that derived from books, and no acquaintance with the language. Moreover, Mr. Sherring is apt to be led astray by his own learning.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 690w.
=Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Coming of the tide. †$1.50. Houghton.
Miss Sherwood “tells the story of a summer on the Maine coast whither the heroine, a Southern girl, goes to forget a great sorrow. The plot, which is very simple, involves a study in heredity. The hero, a dreamy philosopher, is morbidly conscious of his inheritance of ancestral traits and ancestral quarrels. But the girl from Virginia makes him feel the joy of living, and understand the song of the tides.”—Dial.
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“There is, however, enough merit in the book to justify the belief that the author may write a much better novel when she has acquired more restraint.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 72. Ja. 20. 150w.
“The charm of the book lies largely in Miss Sherwood’s delicate humor, delightful fancy, and carefully finished, but never coldly classic, style.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It is not quite so taking as her earlier romances probably because there is an intrusion of real things; and it is a little overloaded with description; but it is done with ... delicacy and refinement.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ’05. 140w.
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 110w.
=Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khayyámi. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Mr. Shirazi has made an interesting book out of a subject that at first sight seems to have been done to death.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 810w.
“The biography is interestingly written, and is at variance in some minor points of western interpretation of the conditions under which Omar wrote. It cannot be regarded as a contribution of permanent value to the literature on this subject, but it is profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 230w.
=Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. **$1. Scribner.
+ =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 170w.
“It is disappointing to read a Brontë life that, however accurate and complete, is of cyclopediac aloofness and reserve.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Altogether, Mr. Shorter has produced such an excellently concise handbook of “Brontëism” that it is hardly possible to conceive of a better taking its place in popular favour.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 443. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement King Shorter).= Story and song of Black Roderick. †$1. Harper.
The Black Earl Roderick for policy’s sake weds the Little Bride, and she dies because of her failure to win his love. Such is the burden of the first part of a quaint story told in verse and prose in whose second part the Little Bride’s soul, by self-sacrifice, saves that of Roderick.
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“The whole story is mediaeval in tone, very daintily told, and full of tender grace.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A specimen of that somewhat difficult style of narrative, not altogether satisfactory.”
– =Ath.= 1906. 1: 577. My. 11. 310w.
“It is inspired by recollection and study, not by genuine faith and feeling; and whether we are right or wrong as to the model which Mrs. Shorter had in mind, the praise of her story must be limited to the praise of the clever imitation.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 360w.
“It is like her former books, and like most books of poetry, tenuous.” Percy Vincent Donovan.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 832. D. 1, ’06. 2340w.
=Shroy, John L.= Be a good boy; good bye. J: L. Shroy, 1738 Diamond st., Phil. [Lippincott.]
A book of poems dedicated to “Mother” whose charge, “Be a good boy; good-bye” has been the author’s motto thru life. The poems are mostly reminiscent with such themes as Fourth of July, the country circus, apple-blossom time, sugared bread and running barefoot.
=Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley.= Greece from the coming of the Hellenes to A. D. 14. **$1.35. Putnam.
The first of the two volumes on Grecian history which Dr. Shuckburgh has been asked to contribute to the “Story of the nations” series. “In accordance with better ideas of relative importance, the emphasis is thrown upon political, intellectual, and artistic development rather than the vicissitudes of military operations.” (Nation.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“A work of some literary merit, but one pregnant with mischief through restating old misconceptions in graceful language. And yet there is an urgent need for somebody ... to animate a scholarly summary of recent work with the breath of a genial personality.” W. S. Ferguson.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 870. Jl. ’06. 1020w.
“The author’s learning is successfully devoted to enabling the reader to obtain a firm grasp of the events narrated rather than to perplexing him with discussion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 220w.
“The narrative is well written and in this respect is superior to several of the recent volumes of this series.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 456. Je. ’06. 200w.
“The remarkable feature of the book is its comprehensive brevity.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“While no more scholarly than Bury or Bristol, is more readable. There are several other minor slips which detract from the pleasant impression made by the book as a whole.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 330w.
“The sketch of the history of Greek literature seems inaptly tacked on at the end of the book of which it is the least satisfactory part.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The narrative reads easily, and has the merits of a consecutive and well-proportioned story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Shuckburgh’s volume was needed to supplement Professor Harrison’s ‘Greece’ in the ‘Story of the nations’ series, because the latter volume covered so much ground that not any of it could be covered thoroughly.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
“The book deserves a welcome on its own merits. It is an able and scholarly production, and provides us with a very interesting sketch of one of the most important periods of the world’s history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 337. Mr. 17, ’06. 900w.
=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3. Dutton.
“The gifted writer ... presents, here, the results of much research in out-of-the-way paths, and much plodding through old memoirs, documents and books, which have received but little recognition from the historians who have aimed at a comprehensive narrative of the times. She has made good use of her materials.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 846. Mr. ’06. 380w.
“A book which will give great pleasure to a wide circle of readers.” E. Armstrong.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 375. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Life and letters of Alfred Ainger. *$3.50. Dutton.
The chief interest of this work is derived from the correspondence of Canon Ainger with such men as Horace Smith, Du Maurier, Edmund Gosse, Sidney Lee, Swinburne and others. There are chapters on the different periods of his life, his literary work, his work as lecturer, preacher, critic, his canonical duties, his humor, and his friendships in literature.
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“A charming biography of one of the few wits of our time.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 469. My. 19, ’06. 1670w.
“Miss Sichel has done her work well on the whole; in dealing with the correspondence, however she has not always shown discretion. The volume is furnished with a four-page ‘Index;’ from which the more important topics and names appear to have been carefully excluded.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 325. S. 22. 1760w.
“Miss Sichel has given a vivid delineation of a winsome personality. In evident sympathy with her subject, she writes in a way to enlist the reader’s sympathy also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 83. Ag. 16, ’06. 1280w.
Reviewed by Henry C. Beeching.
+ + + =Living Age.= 250: 242. Jl. 28, ’06. 2730w.
“Miss Sichel has armed herself with so many documents, she has printed such masses of correspondence, and quotations, and confirmatory opinions, as almost to obscure the image she would evoke before us.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 178. My. 18, ’06. 2000w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.
“She might, too, have left a clearer-cut impression by more rigid exercise of her editorial prerogatives in the matter of the correspondence, not all of which seems worthy of preservation. Taken as a whole, her volume is not an unworthy memorial.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 835. D. 1, ’06. 2810w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 370w.
=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
“Henry Sidgwick represented the most modern type of University teacher, the type which is closely in touch with all sides of national life and exercises an influence far beyond the lecture-room. He was a distinguished professor, a successful administrator, a writer of good books, but above all things he was a personality from whom radiated a subtle attraction which many felt and few could wholly describe.... It is almost impossible to reproduce for those who did not know him the charm of his character and the peculiar distinction of his mind. His books do not show it, and the tributes of friends are mere evidence for what cannot be glibly summarized. On the whole, the editors of this Memoir seem to have chosen the wisest path, and made their books a series of extracts from his letters and journals, connected with the bare minimum of narrative.”—Spec.
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“This is a long and baffling life of an extremely interesting man. The impression produced by the whole [is] one of commonplace.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 198. Mr. 3, ’06. 1370w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 383. Mr. 31. 2860w.
Reviewed by Wm. Everett.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 93. Jl. ’06. 2330w.
“Is of deep interest and value both to those who had the great privilege of knowing him, and to others. It is perhaps not too much to say that the book does not contain a page, or even a paragraph which is not interesting.” E. E. C. Jones.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 208. O. ’06. 2360w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 78. Mr. 9, ’06. 2020w.
“Many of [the letters] are not greatly above the level of ordinary epistolary communications, and may disclose little of what was actually going on in their author’s life.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 471. Je. 7, ’06. 2130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 188. Mr. 24, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 332. O. 6, ’06. 2200w.
“Our only complaint is that in the earlier chapters there are too many quotations so scrappy as to have little value, and too many examples of what is a common stage of development in young men at college. Throughout the book also there is a little too much University politics. But, taken as a whole, the book is one of high value, and absorbing interest.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 459. My. 24, ’06. 1930w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullman) (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Professor’s legacy. †$1.50. Holt.
“It is better than most of its kind, in being rather carefully done, the characters being drawn with a care that makes them seem real.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“An agreeable composition of nicely-adjusted parts.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“A very German story.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 350w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by E. A. Taylor.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 91. Ja. ’06. 480w.
“In fact so admirable is the form of these ‘Essays and addresses’ that it is scarcely too much to say that they merited republication as models of style quite apart from the undoubted timeliness of nearly every one of the discussions which they contain.” Henry R. Seager.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 720. D. ’06. 970w.
=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.
=Acad.= 70: 202. Mr. 3, ’06. 850w.
“The lectures on Kant, Green and Spencer contain an unusually clear account of the most striking metaphysical doctrines of these philosophers.” G. E. Moore.
+ + =Hibbert, J.= 4: 686. Ap. ’06. 2460w.
“He appears to be too apt to emphasize apparent contradictions, without considering how far the changes in expression are due to the development of the writer’s thought. Notwithstanding this defect, however, there can be no doubt that the criticisms are extremely valuable.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 261. Ja. ’06. 270w.
“Personally, I should, I think, be inclined to regard the lectures which deal with the ‘analytic’ as the best, and those which discuss the ‘antinomies’ as the weakest part of the course.” A. E. Taylor.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 214. Mr. ’06. 470w.
“From beginning to end his attitude is critical and destructive.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 848. D. 30, ’05. 990w.
=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= On the field of glory: a historical novel of the time of King John Sobieski; tr. from the Polish original by Jeremiah Curtin. †$1.50. Little.
The scenes of Mr. Sienkiewicz’s latest story are laid in Poland during the reign of King John Sobieski, just before the Turkish invasion in 1682 to 1683. It concerns the romance of Panna Anulka and Pan Yotsek, an impecunious scion of a noble house. The guardian of the heroine, a strong-headed Polish nobleman determines to marry his ward, but dies on the eve of their betrothal. The fibre of the story is woven amid brawls and duels, lawlessness, riot and drunkenness: yet on the plane of this early barbarity are expressed fine notions of honor, loyalty and patriotism which are elements in Poland’s spiritual harvest.
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Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
=Arena.= 35: 558. My. ’06. 290w.
“The translation lacks ease, and must be called indifferent.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 240w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 263. My. ’06. 150w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 240w.
“Although the story has this background of patriotic expectancy, it is in reality a story of private interest, a love-story of freshness and charm, a story of strange manners and exciting adventures.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 250w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 590w.
“Whoever has read and liked Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical romance is advised to read ‘On the field of glory.’ There is the family likeness of authorship. The translation is made with Mr. Curtin’s accustomed brilliancy, flecked by an occasional blur.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 600w.
“M. Sienkiewicz, unlike some lesser writers, does not find his great powers trammeled by the telling of a thoroughly pure, healthful tale.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has translated the book with his usual faithfulness and sympathy with the author’s genius.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 30w.
“The action is rapid and the pictures veracious.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
“We cannot altogether concur in the eulogy of this historical novel offered in the ‘Publisher’s preface.’ The translation runs easily.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 200w.
“The book is full of adventures related with all the author’s picturesqueness of detail and vigour of outline; but the plot has no very great coherence, and the story cannot be called very pleasant reading.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 336. S. 8, ’06. 20w.
=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Curayl. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Beatrice Curayl has married Sir William Goyte for his money and her father’s convenience. She longs to break the bargain between herself and her despised and despicable husband, but is restrained by the advice of a stranger, Anthony Luttrell, who reminds her that ‘it is not gentlemanly for either party to cry off.’ Then comes the epidemic, and Sir William’s refusal to help the tenants drives Beatrice to offer her personal assistance to the little band of volunteers who are fighting the fever. She finds Luttrell in command, adored and obeyed by all.... The developments of the finer side of Beatrice’s nature, from the moment she realises that sordid motives alone prompted her to marry Sir William to the end of her purgation show that Miss Silberrad is capable of doing strong and skillful work, as wholesome as it is clever.”—Acad.
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“Here, as in former novels, the author gives us pleasant proof of her duality as a storyteller; but construction is not one of her strong points.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w.
“This cannot, in the common acceptation of the term, be called a ‘good story,’ because it has not the requirements—plentiful incident and growing excitement.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 180w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 417. Je. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault lies in the excess of brutality—as far as artistic effect is concerned—with which the unspeakable Sir William Goyt and the equally detestable Delmar are endowed.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Were the character drawing more subtle we should not so much resent the book’s stuffiness but it is for the most part superficial and conventional.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 93. Mr. 16, ’06. 240w.
“Is a very good little novel of the minor order, and throughout holds the interest.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 320w.
“‘Curayl’ the reader is inclined to believe, is a very superior novel, but one which requires the most careful and thoughtful reading to be appreciated fully.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 294. My. 5, ’06. 400w.
“An ill-constructed plot.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 433. Ap. 7, ’06. 110w.
“The story is successful in as far as it engages the attention of the reader, though, perhaps, a doubt may be permitted as to whether it is quite up to the literary standard which Miss Silberrad has set for herself in her previous work.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 230w.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
This complete edition of Mr. Sill’s poems, chronologically arranged, makes its appearance in the “Household series” of standard English and American poets.
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=Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“An edition of Edward Rowland Sill’s poems in a single inexpensive volume has long been a desideratum. There may be some question about the additions, for in case of a minor poet the half is commonly better than the whole; there certainly can be no intelligent question about the illustrations which were far better omitted.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18, ’06. 370w.
“In his desire to give us much of the as yet unpublished work the editor has doubtless had in mind an edition for the student rather than the lover of Sill. This is perhaps a mistake, for Sill will have many lovers, but few students. His brief introductory note is a model of sane criticism, written with becoming sympathy and regard.” Christian Gauss.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 820. D. 1, ’06. 2070w.
=Sill, Louise Morgan.= In sun or shade. **$1.50. Harper.
The thought of infinite and invincible energy gives character to Mrs. Sill’s poetry, whether it be the buoyancy of responsibility, the faith of hero worship, the lessons of bird and flower, or the perfection of love in its great limitless reaches. Whether in “sun or shade” she urges mankind to live, to act.
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“There is not a morally unwholesome line in her whole work. The book, therefore, is one which the author may well feel proud of having produced and the reader thankful to possess.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 266. My. ’06. 730w.
“We are indebted to her for much that is lovely, tender, and charming,—and, often, for a wise note of womanly wisdom.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 218. S. ’06. 240w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Although there is much in her book that is rather dull, occasionally ... she strikes a fairly searching chord.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than Louise Morgan Sill, and the poems are well arranged.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre.= Robert Louis Stevenson. *75c. Luce, J: W.
“A ten minute life of the novelist,” the second volume in the “Spirit of the age series.” The illustrations are four portraits of Stevenson, including the one painted by Count Nerli in Samoa.
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=Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 20w.
“There is little new in Miss Simpson’s book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
=Simpson, Frederick Moore.= History of architectural development. 3v. *$4. Longmans.
“Professor Simpson’s book ... is the first of three volumes destined to treat of all the historic styles from Egyptian to the Renaissance, and they are intended to form part of a new series of books on architecture.... He deals exclusively with the great historic styles, wisely leaving aside the mazes of Hindoo, Chinese, and other exotic art. His work is an excellent example of the modern method of regarding architectural history as a continuous whole.”—Spec.
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“Having studied all the authorities and weighed all the evidence, he gives a well-reasoned and balanced opinion on each disputed point. The book is therefore pre-eminently a safe guide for the beginner.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 930w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the most part we have sound criticism, forcibly set forth. Slips are rare.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For reasonably mature beginners, who intend to make a serious study of architecture, we know of no work which seems so well fitted to give them a general view of the development of the subject without undue time being spent on the aesthetical phases which can readily be supplied by teachers or more fanciful books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 83. F. 10, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His writing is lucid and concise.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Simpson, W. J.= Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.
“He has not the pen of a vigorous and interesting writer, but, on the whole, he has performed the task with judgment and skill; and his book may be taken as a compendious statement of all that is known or reasonably surmised about plague up to the present time.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 660w.
=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
“The story of the moral havoc wrought in the lives of men by a woman without a heart.... An early novel in a new edition.” (Lit. D.) “Audrey herself is a distinct creation, dominating the story even more than is the wont of heroines. Beside her, her lovers are shadowy.... Having yielded her heart in rapid succession to the child of nature, to the painter, to the writer, to the austere divine, she ends as the wife of the dullard.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author is not without the defects of her qualities; and while these do not seriously mar the beauty of her work as a whole, they are not unapparent to critical admirers of an author whose novels may be said to make waste paper of most of the fiction of a season.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 200w.
“While remarkable in quality, is immature. The interest of the story never flags, but it has its thin places. The writer’s powers are well in evidence, but not yet held firmly in hand.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 543. S. 1, ’06. 580w.
“While ‘Audrey Craven’ is not well rounded out and lacks breadth of treatment and firm grasp on the reader’s attention, it shows very clearly the intelligent quality and the subtle knowledge of character that are applied in ‘The divine fire’ to a more complex play of motive and action, and to a far more striking situation.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 120w.
“Lacks dramatic power and real human interest.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.
=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 72. Ja. ’06. 610w.
=Living Age.= 248: 730. Mr. 24, ’06. 610w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
=Sinclair, May.= Superseded. $1.25. Holt.
Little Miss Quincey, the pathetic old-maid teacher of mathematics, who has withered away under her daily drudgery and has never known youth or life, is the real heroine of this sad little story altho the personality of Rhoda, beautiful and brilliant, overshadows and eclipses her, and altho happiness, love and her beloved Mr. Cautley all pass her by. For “Nature has made up for any little extra outlay in one direction by cruel pinching in another.... Nature had indulged in Rhoda Vivian and she was making Miss Quincey pay.”
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“Is one of the books which ought not to be missed.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 53. S. ’06. 290w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 207. S. ’06. 230w.
“There are real pathos in the book and considerable underlying humor.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4. ’06. 190w.
“She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and human.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range, substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale told with the most delicate feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
=Sinclair, May.= Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.). $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
“There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature. For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity, and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s death in Africa.”—Bookm.
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“It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.
“The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite its faults.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 80w.
“The story, powerful as it is, is too ‘unpleasant’ to commend itself to the wider reading public.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 600w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Chicago in its worst industrial phases is the scene of Mr. Sinclair’s story. His hero is a sturdy Lithuanian who, with a little colony of fellow countrymen, including the frail Ona whom he would wed, settles in the Packingtown district. It is first as a wage-earner—the victim of foremen’s immoral practices and of real estate sharks’ trickery—that Jurgis Rudkus struggles; worsted in his battle, and yielding to exhaustion and hopelessness, he becomes a tramp, a common thief, a highwayman, a beggar. Temporary respite comes with the protection offered by a corrupt political machine whose bosses secure him work. He looked out on “a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.” Finally the “saving grace” of socialism is balm for his industrial grievances, and here the author expatiates upon the salutary virtues of socialism.
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“Is one of the strongest and most powerful voices of protest against a great wrong that has appeared in America.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 651. Je. ’06. 5780w.
“It is a book that holds the attention by its vividness, earnestness, and simplicity.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 240w.
“It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm; and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted, that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w.
– =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.
– – =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.
“Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w.
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.
“We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’ his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems to write not from the heart but from the head.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.
“Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque that we have in English fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 925. Je. ’06. 230w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s indictment of the employing classes would have been more convincing if it were less hysterical.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s bias ... has led him to indiscretions of the head rather than of the heart.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 870w.
“When a story reveals so much of artistic penetration and power as does ‘The jungle’ one keenly regrets what seems like unfairness in point of view. The very brutality of the book is likely to cause it to be talked about.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 700w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“We are inclined to believe that more enlightenment is to be gained from ‘The jungle’ than from Mr. Lawson’s ‘Frenzied finance.’”
+ =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 950w.
=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson. **$1.50. Small.
“The over-zealous critic might point out many faults in the work. It is not well-digested, there are some overstatements, and much padding in the way of poetry and quotations from easily-accessible sources. And yet the book is of great value. It is alive. It is throbbing.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 520w.
“To the student of social problems the book is of great value, not as a repository of facts, for the facts in it are badly warped, but simply as a ‘human document.’ As voicing the sentiments, then, of the class of influential negro radicals that book has a distinct value.” Walter L. Fleming.
– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 344. Je. ’06. 540w.
=Singer, Hans W.= Dante Gabriel Rossetti. *$1. Scribner.
The life and art of Rossetti receive enthusiastic treatment in this volume which also contains an account of Pre-Raphaelitism and a list of Rossetti’s principal works in both public and private collections. Reproductions of a dozen of his best pictures are given with a portrait of the artist-poet.
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“The sketch, in the main, contains several interesting observations and some facts, but little that is new. It merely attempts to popularize knowledge.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ – =Forum.= 38: 104. Jl. ’06. 330w.
“In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w.
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.
“The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”
– =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Singer, Hans W.= James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.
“This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin, Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs, etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of praise is to be said.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
Miss Singleton’s “Holland” is a book of extracts compiled upon the plan of her books on London, Paris, etc.—excerpts being taken from prominent writers’ works. The book is divided into six parts, as follows: The country and race, History, Descriptions, Manners and customs, Painting and statistics.
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“It gives us expert description and criticism.... is therefore an admirable supplement to all the guide-books.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
=Skae, Hilda T.= Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“So many and so elaborately controversial have been most of the numerous works recently published upon Mary Stuart, that it is hardly possible not to welcome as a relief a little volume like this, which takes a very great deal—including Mary’s essential goodness—for granted, and tells the familiar old story in the spirit and language of romance.”—Spec.
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=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 40w.
– =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A narrative bringing out into strong relief the sentimental and pathetic features is what she provides.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ’05. 390w.
“She has constructed a pleasant readable book which even Mariolaters may find useful for reference purposes.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ’05. 200w.
=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton.= Sicilian marriage. †$1.50. Pott.
“Mr. Sladen says: ‘To make my story exciting I have crowded it with melodramatic events which really only come like angels’ visits.’ This quotation is an adequate description of ‘A Sicilian marriage’ and a characteristic example of Mr. Sladen’s style. His book is a fair specimen of the guide-book novel, which sandwiches history with love-scenes, and art-criticism with adventure.”—Sat. R.
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“The characters are like the incidents, stereotyped and familiar.”
– =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“A love story of much interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Sladen evidently knows a great deal about Sicily, but has not a very fortunate manner of imparting his information.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
“The story proper is not interesting, and the descriptions of the antiquities of Sicily would be really much more readable without the personages who move, rather stiffly, among the temples and museums.”
– =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.
“This volume will be found to contain a feast of good things for every book collector.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 30w.
=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A monograph which discusses the circumstances under which Tyndale gained his knowledge of Hebrew, the sources he used in his version of the Pentateuch and to what extent his work was original, and the influence his version exerted upon later translations and upon English literature.
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=Dial.= 11: 169. S. 16, ’06. 80w.
=Slattery, Margaret.= Talks with the training class; with introd. by Patterson Du Bois. 60c. Pilgrim press.
These talks designed for the teacher-training department in the Sunday-school are based upon the study of what the great teachers of the ages have given us, upon personal influence in actual teaching, and upon careful observation of the work for others.
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“It contains nothing novel in interpretation, or even in statement, but is brief, concise, and suggestive.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 74. S. ’06. 50w.
“The best manual for a training class we have seen.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, ’06. 190w.
“The best modern psychology is brought to bear on religious instruction, with as much thoroness, coupled with good sense, as characterizes the best text-books on pedagogy.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
Both the theoretical and experimental phases of the subject are here presented making the work elementary enough for the use of students of a junior grade in technical and engineering schools.
=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
Following a chapter in the “Development of the fern leaf” the author treats of eighteen individual fern species, and devotes a double-page illustration to each. The papers deal chiefly with the subject of cell-growth and kindred phenomena. “They scarcely touch upon the development of the form and venation of the leaf in each species, and in its individual aspects only, without reference to its relation to such development in other fern species.”
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“We may confidently recommend the book to fern students.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 480w.
“The book is more of a contribution than its elaborate form would suggest.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 496. D. ’06. 160w.
“Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed her subject, and some of her discoveries no doubt throw light upon the phytology of the group.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 230w.
“While valuable particularly to technical botanists, the work will be helpful to others.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.
“It is to be regretted that through no fault of her own the nomenclature is open to criticism, but aside from the matter of names, the book can be heartily recommended.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 86. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“This volume does not come within the popular scope but should have a place on the shelves of the botanist’s working library.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 320w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology: an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
“He has no system of his own to project, and therefore does not assail the work of other men with a devastating criticism. The book may be recommended to all who are not afraid to trust their today’s thinking as against their yesterday’s thought.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 382. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“Viewed by individual sections or chapters, the volume contains much of great value, particularly to the advanced student. Viewed as the whole, the volume is less satisfactory. It will be of little service to the beginner, for the style is involved and at times confusing.” Carl Kelsey.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.
– =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.
“As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W. Blackmar.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.
“His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared thinker on sociological problems.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.
Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.
=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.
“The new matter alone is nearly equal in volume to everything heretofore published. [Major Chittenden’s] research work has been thoro and fruitful.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 513. Mr. 1. ’06. 590w.
=Smiles, Samuel.= Autobiography. *$4. Dutton.
“This last word from one whose writings have had a world-wide influence contains the features that gained instant popularity for its predecessors and invested them with such weight—the homely and sound philosophy, the appreciation of the possibilities of human nature, the unfailing sympathy for all seeking to better their condition by honest means, and the thorough readability.”—Outlook.
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“Judiciously edited.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“He tells it very well, with a practised pen guided by a sane and balanced judgment. It is an excellent autobiography, characteristically vigorous, cheerful, encouraging and wholesome.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 28. Ja. 26, ’06. 1270w.
“His autobiography is a decidedly dull book. As an account of the man Smiles, except in this matter of vanity, the book is quite valueless.”
– =Nation.= 82: 83. Ja. 25, ’06. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 250w.
“His autobiography is, in fine, a delightful and significant human document.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 330w.
=Sat. R.= 100: 551. O. 28, ’05. 1360w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25. Century.
The work of one who understands the psychology of teaching. The first four chapters deal in an introductory manner with the general characteristics of chemical phenomena. The remainder of the text treats elements and their compounds. “These chapters deal largely with the simpler physical properties of matter and include a brief and clear exposition of the utility of scientific method; following closely are the usual methods of determining equivalents, use of symbols and various simple calculations.”—Bookm.
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“He has certainly earned the gratitude of all teachers of chemistry in the clear and masterly manner in which he has presented his subject.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 580w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The book is doubtless the very best of its kind and will be found to be particularly strong on explanations in connection with the hypothesis of ions.” W. O. Walker.
+ + =School R.= 14: 612. O. ’06. 650w.
“Is certainly a good book for good students, and as such is to be heartily welcomed.” H. L. Wells.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 398. S. 28, ’06. 230w.
=Smith, Anna Harris=, ed. Longfellow calendar. **50c. Crowell.
A quotation from Longfellow for every day of the year.
=Smith, Charlotte Curtis.= Girls of Pineridge. †$1.50. Little.
All about an active band of girls, fast friends and loyal. Their flower hunts, patch-work parties, cooking bees, etc. show what child energy wholesomely directed can accomplish.
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“The parrot ... that dovetails his remarks into the conversation so that they are perfectly relevant spoils an otherwise natural story of four wholesome little girls who are fond of nature and appreciate life in the woods.”
– + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
=Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.
“This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned digression.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Tides of Barnegat. †$1.50. Harper.
A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr. Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal, fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.
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“A painstaking study of feminine character.”
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.
“The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.
“Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for. The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the narrative.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.
“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in most of his other novels.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most ripe of the novels.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 507. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
=Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 290w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
“It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a creditable manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 270w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 90w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 170w.
“Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic, always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of the heart.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 410w.
“A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those who care to seek for them.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a meditative hour.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
“A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic view.
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“Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his Parisian sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“A book notable for sprightliness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”
– =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books either in smartness or in verity.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 627. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.
=Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.
“It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof. Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 890w.
“Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and loosely written.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 720w.
“Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it in a more than usually interesting way.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1080. D. 30, ’05. 1090w.
=Smith, Gertrude.= Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.
Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.
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“Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.
Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’ contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)
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=Cath. World.= 84: 105. O. ’06. 400w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 85. Ag. 16, ’06. 60w.
=Nation.= 82: 494. Je. 14, ’06. 1480w.
=Outlook.= 83: 264. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 633. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 898. Je. 9, ’06. 1940w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= Irish history and the Irish question. **$1.50. McClure.
“An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from the earliest times, politically and historically of England and Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day conditions.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent. It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books, but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.
“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w.
=Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.
“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish question.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.
“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist newspapers.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.
“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.
“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been written.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’08. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1014. Je. 30. ’06. 400w.
=Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith).= Living in the sunshine. **$1. Revell.
Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.” And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”
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“This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
=Smith, Lewis Worthington.= In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut st., Des Moines, la.
A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying, Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white czar, The violin.
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“Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 350w.
=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.
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“There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 440w.
=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
“The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.” (Putnam’s.)
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 574. S. 15, ’06. 430w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 100w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking. $1.50. Page.
A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their “Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 90w.
=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 645. Ap. ’06. 1710w.
=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.
“Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.” E. J. Rapson.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 136. Ja. ’06. 590w.
=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.
“To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the continuance of the social separation between the races in the South, and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.
“To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.
=Smyth, H. Warington.= Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.
An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)
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“Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will linger, comparing and contrasting.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.
“‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the initiated.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 393. My. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully illustrated.” W. H. White.
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 536. Ap. 5, ’06. 1030w.
“In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest unsurpassed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 1520w.
“This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 30Ow.
+ =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added outlining the progress made during the five years since the book appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second, some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the movement which has led to the intervention of the United States government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.
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“The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical makeup.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 316. Mr. 15, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to last.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 259. F. 17, ’06. 100w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 453. My. 31, ’06. 1740w.
“As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past few years.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 280w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 110w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the prison cell.
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“It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to exert it.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 420w.
“Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor key.” Charlotte Caxton.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 272. N. ’06. 1600w.
“The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, ’06. 660w.
“However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due to a thing of crude force.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 680w.
“A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with a shuddering protest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
“It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be ranked with the author’s earlier book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 40w.
=Snell, Frederick John.= Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1. Macmillan.
The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.
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“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can take no harm from accepting his opinions.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact historians.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.
“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.
“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a guide for the period that it treats.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.
“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always fortunate.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or reader.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30. ’05. 350w.
=Snyder, Harry.= Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is, ‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.
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“There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue form.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 540w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 180w.
Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.
“It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 668. N. ’06. 590w.
Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 143. Mr. ’06. 940w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
“Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on ‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.
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=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 426. N. 06. 280w.
=Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 131. O. ’06. 1850w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.
+ =Nature.= 74: 29. My. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any rate, is always practical.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 210. Ag. 18, ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of the early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
“As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.
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“There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive, but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 720. O. ’06. 910w.
“Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 120w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful to the average Bible student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 150w.
=Sollas, William Johnson.= Age of the earth, and other geological studies. *$3. Dutton.
A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.” (Outlook.)
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“The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 473. O. 7. 1220w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 390w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 250w.
“The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial is foreign to the subject of geology.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 513. Mr. 29, ’06. 1060w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 424. Mr. 17, ’06. 1130w.
=Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks).= Under the arch. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums, strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her canvas.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.
“An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.
“Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
“It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is also well done.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.
=Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.= Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.
“A very important contribution to the history of American music and will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.” Louis C. Elson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 419. Ja. ’06. 550w.
=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 180w.
“It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into the Southern United States.” E. H.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 825. O. ’05. 690w.
=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 849. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing, respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child, remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children. The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on ‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter; it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children....