The book review digest, Volume 03, 1907
book one of great value.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 80. Jl. 18, ’07. 310w.
=Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.).= Life’s shop window. $1.50. Kennerley.
7–4158.
With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the delineation of character.
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“The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 80. F. 9, ’07. 490w.
“‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Cotes, Everard.= Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–29141.
“After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea, Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the recommendations based upon them.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 252. Mr. 2. 920w.
“The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H. T. P.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 422. Je. ’07. 1300w.
“On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 757. S. 26, ’07. 550w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 114. Ap. 12, ’07. 410w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. 15, ’07. 350w.
“Full of interesting information.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 230w.
“He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up an interesting field for speculation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 654. My. 25, ’07. 1440w.
=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–35302.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles, literary criticisms and reviews.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 370w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.)= Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–30166.
“The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.” (Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the ‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides performing many another telling service.
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“A well written amusing tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 579. N. 9. 420w.
“His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and courage.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author, at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 410w.
“The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
“The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 488. O. 5, ’07. 750w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35145.
“‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.
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“A delightful collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07.
“The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 180w.
“Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory essay.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain daintiness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 150w.
“A very delightful book this.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 80w.
=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–8212.
Some sixteen chapters of this adventure story lead up thru school-boy escapades, crime, and mystery to the secret of Mortallone island in the bay of Honduras. The chart containing the plan of the island and affording the key to the spot of buried treasure after causing a deal of trouble falls into the hands of a little party who set sail from Falmouth in quest of the island and its hoard. Mr. Quiller-Couch has drawn with clever touches the spirit of unanimity which, with noticeable lack of greed, characterizes the treasure seekers.
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“Written with unusual spirit and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 405. Ap. 6. 340w.
“The author’s happy faculty for sketching eccentric types of character is exhibited at his best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company that he provides for us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 260w.
“After you have laid down the book, no character, no dramatic situation remains in the memory—nothing but a general impression of misapplied and wasted cleverness.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
“A curious and wholly impossible piece of fiction. Has many points of interest, but is very uneven on the whole.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 240w.
“Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret that ‘Poison island’ does.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w.
“In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at the credulity of romance-lovers.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times almost tedious.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his _mise-en-scene_.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w.
=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–31381.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 540w.
“It lacks the breath of the romantic life, and inspires a feeling that the writer himself has lived chiefly in books and rarely a life of his own.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 230w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene: (1221–1288) together with notes and il. from other medieval sources. *$4.20. Scribner.
6–32412.
For this second edition fresh matter from Salimbene’s chronicle has been added and the notes and appendices have been extended. “For those who wish to see the seamy side of the middle ages, this is the best book in English.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Coulton is a far-seeing man and a good writer. What is more remarkable he contrives to unite a judicial mind with strong convictions, which lend warmth and interest to his style.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 1380w.
“He has read widely in the sources of his period, and is able at every turn to illustrate Salimbene’s statements.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 244. S. 20, ’06. 1380w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 70w.
“Contains more of the famous chronicle of Fra Salimbene, a Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century, than has hitherto appeared in print in English, and for that reason it is a valuable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 602. S. 20, ’06. 250w.
“He has a great knowledge of his period, considerable attainments, and a very workmanlike gift of exposition. But unfortunately he is before all things else a controversialist.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 645. N. 24, ’06. 1350w.
“We would recommend the book, as full of curious information, to every one who cares to illustrate his Dante studies by a real contemporary picture of the thirteenth century on its darker side, with all the peculiarities of its social and religious life.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 725. N. 10, ’06. 1320w.
=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Heresy of Job; with the inventions of William Blake. *$2. Lane.
The volume contains “first, introductory matter explaining the editor’s conception of the poem’s purpose and meaning; second, the poem itself divided into three parts, Prologue, Debate, and Epilogue; third, some pages of notes elucidating certain obscurities in the text; fourth, an appendix containing the speech of Elihu the Buzite; fifth, a list of commentaries consulted; and, finally, the ‘Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake,’ and first published in 1825, by Blake himself. Job’s ‘heresy’ consisted not in a denial of God or a rejection of religion, but rather in a refusal to subscribe to the smug orthodoxy of his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.” (Dial.)
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“Mr. Coutts has succeeded in properly emphasizing one important side of the argument of Job, but his error consists in mistaking a part for the whole.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 250w.
“An attractive and useful volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Scholarly introduction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Romance of King Arthur. *$1.50. Lane.
“The romance of King Arthur is here told in four parts—the poem of ‘Uther Pendragon,’ the plays of ‘Merlin’ and ‘Lancelot du Lake,’ and the poem of ‘The death of Lancelot.’ In his preface the author states that his ‘sole important variation from the accepted legend’ is to represent Mordred as the legitimate son of Morgan le Fay, and thus supply the enchantress with a purely human, and therefore, we may add, somewhat superfluous, motive for her malevolence towards Arthur.”—Ath.
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“The whole work is undistinguished and dull. It is all padded out.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 603. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.
“There are some fairly effective ‘curtains,’ but the blank verse is generally monotonous and rich in commonplaces.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 360w.
“In this volume Mr. Coutts has surprised us. A poet he was known to be; a lyric poet of some intensity and much art; a philosophic poet whose work was unified by a coherent, if undogmatic, faith, and expressed in language as simple as it was profound. The discovery that he is also a dramatic poet comes unexpected.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 870w.
“The medium of the whole—idylls and playlets—is blank verse, whereof the quality at times is excellent. The inspiration, in spite of the form, is perhaps rather Kipling than Tennyson, and the playlets are better than the idylls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 640w.
“Mr. Coutts’s poems, while they are smooth and flowing and show now and then passages of much beauty or of poetic fervor, are weak and pale when tested beside the Tennysonian idylls.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity, and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a considerable measure of poetry.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Cowan, Samuel.= Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne, her physician. *$3. Lippincott.
Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against Elizabeth.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the domestic life of Mary’s court.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
“He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.
“A contribution of importance to the literature of its subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Cowley, Abraham.= Essays, plays and sundry verses, v. 2. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23868.
“The first volume of Cowley’s Works in the Cambridge English classics contained all the poems published in the folio which appeared the year after his death. The second volume, now issued, contains the earlier writings from the edition of 1637, together with the plays and essays. The editor, A. R. Waller, is preparing a Supplement of notes, biographical, bibliographical, and critical.”—Nation.
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“A very workmanlike edition.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It cannot be said that this edition, with its reproduction of the old spelling and its inclusion of so much that is dull, is the best for the reader who merely desires his comfort, but for the scholar it is altogether admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by William A. Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 222. Ap. 6, ’07. 1990w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Admirable and scholarly edition.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 95. Ja. 20, ’06. 2300w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cox, Kenyon.= Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters and new. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–31410.
In an introductory essay on “The education of an artist,” Mr. Cox compares the education afforded by the apprenticeship custom of the renaissance with that obtainable in the modern art schools and studios. Following this chapter are six, as follows: The Pollaiuoli, Painters of the mode, Holbein, The Rembrandt tercentenary, Rodin and Lord Leighton.
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“The appreciations, written in a charming easy style, show the author’s technical knowledge, his catholicity of taste and judgment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07.
“It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w.
“Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w.
“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge, he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w.
=Crabbe, George.= Poems. 3v. v. 3. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23869.
“This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829), which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral of the Squire.’”—Ath.
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“This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and exhaustive thoroughness.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w.
“The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal justification for much which is present. The editing of the present volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w.
“Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of confessing his affections.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w.
“For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely, Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe in the most comfortable form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Amulet. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37962.
The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new world.” (Lit. D.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
“That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and points of view.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of fiction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w.
“Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial consideration.”
− =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.
“Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long ago established her enviable reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w.
“The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their surroundings.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Windfall: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15119.
The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains, and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however, becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.
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“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by undisciplined verbosity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w.
“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w.
“She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however, only in the fact that it contains a threehanded heroine. Fortunately she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”
− =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally marred by serious lapses.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.
7–23083.
A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship. The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is illustrated with charts and portraits.
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“The book is a repository of sociological facts.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w.
=Craig, Neville B.= Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.
7–29709.
“The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.
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“This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise. Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w.
“He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the nature faker.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w.
“While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work, until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells Buel.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w.
=Craig, W. H.= Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry, personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.
7–25141.
A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well deserves careful perusal.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w.
“It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w.
“His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be a not too flattering picture of the man.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w.
“It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries, except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w.
“In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves nothing to be desired.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w.
“The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w.
“Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen, based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read his story of Lord Chesterfield.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w.
=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).= Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36053.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w.
“The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.
7–21371.
“Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in various publications, which are here brought together.... They are mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in art generally.”—Dial.
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“After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every individual or committee or congregation interested in the building of a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w.
“Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w.
=Crandall, Charles Lee.= Text-book on geodesy and least squares, prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.
6–42921.
“Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares.... The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and information given in the appendix.”—Nature.
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“The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated, it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w.
“For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be treated.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
=Crane, Robert Treat.= State in constitutional and international law. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–31399.
A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state in international law.
=Crane, Walter.= An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37525.
Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w.
“We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail, interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned, but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail would be of interest it is often lacking.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w.
“The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that of the writer is not excepted.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w.
“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared with it for self-consciousness.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w.
“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man associated for the first time. The result is attractive even picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be more satisfactory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w.
“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently successful career in over-great detail.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could write so well.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w.
=Crane, William Edward.= American stationary engineering. $2. Derry-Collard.
6–35993.
“The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer.= Practical illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17392.
“The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.
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“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination. It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.” L. B. Marks.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Arethusa. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33911.
A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w.
“More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w.
“He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be, extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his usual vivacity.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w.
“It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical implications.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w.
* =Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of hope: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Macmillan.
A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final success a possibility.
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=Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
=Crawford, J. H.= From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.
The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion. Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks, foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.
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“Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite of a somewhat affected style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w.
“Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w.
“His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some excellent accounts of wild life.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w.
=Crawford, William Henry.= Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18143.
This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of righteousness.”
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“President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr. Crawford.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w.
=Crawfurd, Oswald J. F.= Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25506.
Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer, “presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.” (Sat. R.)
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“Good detective stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
“Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and unexpected.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w.
“He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w.
“The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w.
“We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the reading public.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
=Crawshaw, William Henry.= Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.
7–16385.
“A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity 449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance, 1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.
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“In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound guide.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w.
“The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and criticism.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w.
“For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an illuminating book.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w.
“Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments, breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =School R.= 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w.
=Creighton, William Henry. P.= Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5. Wiley.
7–8522.
A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples and problems.
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“The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the publishers.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w.
“An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to train the student to think.” John J. Flather.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34687.
Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother, the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)
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“With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ... Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w.
“Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full of intrigue and wild adventures.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w.
=Croly, Herbert David.= Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.
7–28610.
In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the house in relation to out-of-doors.
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“Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”
+ =Dial.= 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w.
“The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w.
=Cromarsh, H. Ripley.= See =Angell, Bryan Mary=.
=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14594.
In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear modern vision.”
=Cross, Alfred W. S.= Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–12686.
A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the sanitarian.
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“The volume before us is a commendable one.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.
“Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every architect who is likely to design bath houses.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w.
* =Cross, Richard James=, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.
A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time. Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many others are represented.
* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.
Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable vision that has cheered the ages on.
=Crouse, Mary Elizabeth.= Algiers. **$2. Pott.
6–38897.
“A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its interpretations.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w.
“The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w.
=Crowell, Norman H.= Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22732.
Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching, base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.
=Crozier, John B.= Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution. $4.50. Longmans.
6–46262.
A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth, as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with, and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of “Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under review the English and foreign schools.
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“So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated, science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at excessive length.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w.
“Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w.
“Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer; reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would take a high place in modern economical literature.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w.
“In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’ it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr. Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’ like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w.
“Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty in appreciating.”
− =Spec.= 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w.
=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Christian Rome. (Grant Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.
7–30815.
A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.
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“In plan than which there are none better.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07.
“Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“An admirably practical guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Umbrian cities of Italy. 2v. il. $3. Page.
7–30814.
A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region, and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers will enjoy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.
7–28946.
A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds.... The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so free from printer’s errors as is the text.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w.
“One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w.
“A book of permanent value to students.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Has permanent value.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries, the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.
7–33970.
Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three galleries of Florence.
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“Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w.
=N. Y. Times=. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in another edition.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Cundall, H. M.= Birket Foster, R. W. S. il. *$6. Macmillan.
7–28516.
An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost representatives of the English school of water color painting. His landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w.
“Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact and skill.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w.
“It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w.
“In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w.
“Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us uncontent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
=Cunningham, William.= Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade imperialism. *60c. Putnam.
6–33507.
“The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St. Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take his opponents at their best.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w.
“There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w.
“Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”
− =Spec.= 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w.
=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.) *$6.75. Macmillan.
6–41011.
The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.
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“Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume one of the most charming of an excellent series.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
“On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w.
“A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”
− =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Beautiful and instructive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w.
“A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on these ... is extremely valuable.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w.
“We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w.
“A valuable volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= Time and clocks: a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–11023.
“Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally, proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours), and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various forms.”—Spec.
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“If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one actually in hand.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w.
“We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.” W. E. R.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w.
“A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly mathematical.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w.
“He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical contrivances which he describes.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Curtis, Carleton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants. *$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”
=Curtis, Natalie=, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.
7–31183.
A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians themselves.
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“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous in its symbolism, of a child race.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w.
“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w.
“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully, and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician, to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the Indian character and the Indian traditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
“A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing peoples.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w.
=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.
6–27984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual survivors.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w.
“In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its justification.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Cust, Lionel.= Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.) $1.75. Macmillan.
W 7–162.
“An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and authority.”—Acad.
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“As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a place in the library of every connoisseur.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
* =Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances, obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)
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“One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
D
=Dale, Robert W.= History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.
A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)
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“By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w.
“Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the materials which his father left.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w.
“For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life in England this history is eminently instructive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w.
“In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired for the students of church history a valuable work which might have lost much by the too early death of its author.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w.
=D’Alton, Rev. John A.= History of Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.
Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day, and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath. World.)
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“Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts, and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic, and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.)
“He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with the one he favors.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English history.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dalton, William.= Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–30000.
The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great British expert.
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“We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this help to pave the way for his arrival.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w.
“A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of thoroughness.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
=Daly, Thomas Augustine.= Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub. co.
6–38398.
“Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and noble.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w.
“Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w.
“The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
=Dampier, William.= Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–26474.
“A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w.
“The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w.
“In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find. From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w.
“A carefully annotated edition.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w.
=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
=v. 3 and 4.= These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,” by James Kirkwood.
=v. 5.= This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book cases, shelves, tables and seats.
=v. 6.= The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,” preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by Gabriel Naudé.
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
+ =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a general human interest.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ =Nation.= 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
=Dane, John Colin.= Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E. Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–15596.
The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love, adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)
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“It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit, and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance, that in the great motor-car race in France.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=Daniels, Frank T.= A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.
7–8517.
“The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.
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“Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be critical over trifles.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w.
=Danneel, Heinrich.= Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–7516.
=v 1.= Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current, and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory, electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis and the electron theory.
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“The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he leaves none of the salient facts out.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.” Arthur B. Lamb.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Dante Alighieri.= Divine comedy and The new life; ed. with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse to the study of Dante.
=Dargan, Olive Tilford.= Lords and lovers and other dramas. **$1.50. Scribner.
“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose. It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy consummation.”—Nation.
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“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w.
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w.
“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w.
“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w.
“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays, and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than from facility and sensibility.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w.
“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs. Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w.
=Davenport, Charles Benedict.= Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
6–27702.
Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)
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“This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w.
“The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and despite the large number of details that the subject demands the matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w.
=Davenport, Frances Gardiner.= Economic development of a Norfolk manor, 1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.
6–37953.
The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the agricultural history of a great part of England.
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“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w.
“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w.
“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w.
“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly original research.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w.
“Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w.
“Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w.
“The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The material has been collected and examined with painstaking thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.” C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w.
=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
W 6–228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Davidson, Gladys.= Stories from the operas. 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.
Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and ‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.
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=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w.
“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard operas instead of merely a selected number.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
=Davidson, John.= Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.
The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds, conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material servitudes.” (Ath.)
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“It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay, which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w.
“This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily taught or tamed.”
+ − =Ath.= 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w.
“In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
“His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.
“In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness. He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.
“Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully ‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w.
=Davidson, Thomas.= Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M. Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.
6–45070.
Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their history, scope, and consequences.”
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“The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr. Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work, taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w.
“The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr. Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.
+ − =J. Philos.= 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w.
“It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which, though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his ‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w.
=Davidson, William L.= Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.
“The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with ‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title ‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.
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“On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can afford to neglect.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w.
“The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w.
“A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and interesting volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w.
=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.
6–40211.
“This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.
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“For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating audience.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s sense of probability.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.
=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.
7–27614.
Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold; it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.
“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production of the real criminal.”
− =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
=Davis, Grace T.= Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim press.
7–3702.
“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively illustrated.”—Outlook.
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+ =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
=Davis, Hayne=, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.
An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent members of this international house of representatives and of progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace which this union of lawmakers has espoused.
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“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful source of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w.
=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
6–1101.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
=Davis, Latham.= Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.
The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’ acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”
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“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in it.”
− − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w.
=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M.= Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–11208.
New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and pleasing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w.
“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w.
“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is anything but a travesty of the truth.”
− =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.
“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w.
“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which it deals and as a story.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w.
=Davis, Michael M.= Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1. Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.
6–46265.
An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too, is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W. Small.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and value.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=Davis, Norah.= World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–13951.
“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters, cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last generation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w.
“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed the plot very cleverly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w.
“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–42911.
Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.
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“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S.
“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w.
“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal soldier of fortune.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote, episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical events in which these men played important, but, for the most part, thankless rôles.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are written will certainly attract young readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a fresh interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of scouts.’”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–22818.
These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men, graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”
+ =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w.
“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Davis, William Stearns.= Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15591.
This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.
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“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of love.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his proper names.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w.
“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever frequented a circulating library.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be, for more than they are worth.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.
=Dawson, Alec J.= The message. †$1.50. Estes.
A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point. “His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs. The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy. Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers, and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)
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“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of interest, which is maintained from the first.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w.
“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as to be at times dull.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w.
“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w.
=Dawson, Coningsby William.= Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–41523.
The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)
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“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of considerable promise.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world, something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and compelling mood.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.
“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars, but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous, immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w.
“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of verse.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w.
=Dawson, Nelson.= Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–37522.
“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.
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“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical history, the artist and the craftsman.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w.
“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to face and overcome.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w.
=Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–23711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w.
=Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day).= Princess of Manoa. **$1.50. Elder.
6–45043.
Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type, and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its oddity.
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=Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w.
“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Rainy day railroad war. †$1. Barnes.
6–27347.
A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.
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“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 20. Ja. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w.
=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth, organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
6–5711.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Woman’s war. †$1.50. Harper.
7–20869.
The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem the castle and check-mate the black king.
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“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to commend the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w.
“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to treat it with a childish superficiality.”
− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w.
“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as nails.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w.
“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level of merit.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: the studies. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6800.
The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here set forth in the form of a text book for college and university classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine the best possible combination of the studies into the various curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper functions.
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“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w.
“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.” Nathaniel Butler.
+ + =School. R.= 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w.
=De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady.= A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–8229.
“Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced by the fact that they had been married less than three months.... Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.
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+ =Acad.= 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.
“The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w.
=Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w.
“Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life of her lord.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes and aims of some very true-to-life girls.
=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie. †$1.50. Harper.
6–24158.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w.
=Deland, Margaret W. C.= Encore. †$1.50. Harper.
7–32562.
A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard; but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical aid.
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“This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham).= Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50. Dutton.
7–28454.
“Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval, the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.
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“Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters say, not what they do.”
− =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life, whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w.
“It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w.
“To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50. Dutton.
6–41709.
The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.
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“The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠
“The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w.
“The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w.
“A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.
“‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies popularity as well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w.
=Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.
“A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to deal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
“Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her manner.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w.
“The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the season.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Delehaye, H.= Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography; from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20. Longmans.
A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the relation of paganism to Christianity.
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“For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M. Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w.
“Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound, conservative, scientific method.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w.
=Deming, Philander.= Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–17047.
In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.
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“His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w.
“After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which give biography its chief charm.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.
“Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle Victorian period in American fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w.
=De Montmorency, J. E. G.= Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.
7–11046.
“The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed, and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed, and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis. He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate enough.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to spend it all upon us.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w.
=Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w.
“It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and reconstructive movement.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’ which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w.
“Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book are pregnant and excellent.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w.
“Interesting and learned book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w.
=De Morgan, John.= In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.
7–24148.
An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for relaxation.
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“It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=De Morgan, William.= Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.
7–20515.
Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.
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“We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and an exquisite skill in characterisation.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w.
“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and shows exquisite skill in characterization.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠
“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his creatures.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w.
“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w.
“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w.
“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w.
“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd thing is that we have not been bored.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w.
“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his talk about them.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w.
“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence. These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but in matter.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor, fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w.
“Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w.
“The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of which he was great.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w.
“This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.
6–25695.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w.
“Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w.
“A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate, mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w.
=Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Bell foundry. 45c. Benziger.
7–21531.
Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her and becomes the bride of Gerold.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w.
=Dennett, R. E.= At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–13004.
Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of the Yoruba people.
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“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for his own sake.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w.
“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution to science might have been doubled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w.
“Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix, which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ... and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr. Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w.
“The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought out with revised and reasonable orthography.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
“All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w.
=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A. K. Parker.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of missions.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)
“All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.
+ − =Yale R.= 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A.= Billy Bounce: pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.
6–34681.
The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to youthful readers as entirely harmless.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“A whimsical and comical tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
“The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring is less crude than in his previous books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w.
=Densmore, Emmet.= Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.
7–32183.
Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin, Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource, power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into all phases of human life.
=Derby, George=, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography. $10. White.
6–38537.
“This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of American families and their descendants.”
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“There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume will be found useful for reference.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w.
=Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w.
=Derr, Louis.= Photography for students of physics and chemistry. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–471.
“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action, development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying, intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.
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“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the subject.” C. J.
+ − =Nature.= 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w.
“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on experimental investigation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w.
=De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge.= Venice. il. **$3.50; ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.
7–31989.
A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr. Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)
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“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view with a certain amount of freshness.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.
“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr. Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially to the attractiveness of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.
“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it must end, miserably.” (Acad.)
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“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble. There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w.
“It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.
“In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ... comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an added wrong.”—Acad.
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“In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness. His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries conviction.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w.
“The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed. Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain confident that he will yet write a fine story.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w.
“He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w.
“Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel. This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even be said that they are pleasant shades.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Deussen, Paul.= Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.
6–35998.
The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and emancipation.
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“The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w.
“It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics obtainable in brief compass.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w.
=Devine, E. J.= Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.
7–2759.
A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be considered than the possession of wealth.”
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“It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a thin suit of fiction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w.
=Dewar, Douglas.= Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.
Agr 6–1634.
With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on “unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)
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“The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the descriptions are in essentials correct.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w.
“The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr. Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth of the book lies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
=Dewhurst, Frederic Eli.= Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–23074.
A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people, especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.” (Ind.)
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“Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet, but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could not escape.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals strongly.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w.
=De Windt, Harry.= Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.
7–29080.
This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and the Caucasus. “He found the remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans, he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)
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“The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have had enough of them already.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w.
“The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w.
“A pleasant chatty account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w.
“A vivacious account of travel and observation.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w.
“Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w.
“A most entertaining volume.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w.
=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed.= Railway organization and working: a series of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41297.
A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and operating of the American railway.
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“An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.
“The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the management of railway traffic.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w.
“The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w.
“It will be found of great practical service to students. The treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.
=Dickins, Frederick Victor.= Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts, Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–29200–29201.
The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship. Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)
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“He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w.
“These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader, comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature. They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the indispensable companion of the serious student.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w.
“Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w.
=Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w.
=Dickinson, F. A.= Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.
“In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color, habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.
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“It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice, and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it may evoke.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w.
“Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w.
“As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing, and interesting style.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w.
“Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the clearness and precision of a military command.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
“Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when he tries.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= From king to king. **$1. McClure.
7–12876.
For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form, certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme type that we have lately seen.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w.
Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w.
“There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w.
=Dietzgen, Joseph.= Positive outcome of philosophy, tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.
6–38881.
The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,” are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist philosophy.
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=Am. J. Soc.= 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w.
=Dillon, Edward.= Glass. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.
7–15911.
“The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia, India and China together supply material for another chapter; while the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.
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“Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is ably written.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w.
“The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who is beginning to take an interest in glass.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
“It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its place as the best and most authoritative general account of the subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w.
“We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things which are being done in our time.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w.
“The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough mastery of the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.
=Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen.= Atonement in literature and life. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–45133.
“This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ... the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.
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“The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w.
“This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great masterpieces of literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
=Outlook.= 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H.= Parish clerk; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–27625.
A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the nation.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent; the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in with little regard to probability. It is little more than a scrap-book.”
− =Acad.= 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w.
“In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have exercised just a little more care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w.
“The book is a useful addition to the history of English ecclesiastical institutions.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be exhaustive.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w.
“May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse of capital anecdotes.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w.
“It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w.
“Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the holder of it.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
=Ditmars, Raymond Lee.= Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.
7–10051.
“A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
“It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet scientific.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature, but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which ‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w.
“Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron Mann.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Macmillan.
6–34081.
A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.
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“The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot than the author’s previous works.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠
+ =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w.
“A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
“This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for children or about children.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
=Dix, Edwin Asa.= Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12634.
The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.
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+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New England fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting descriptions of New England life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern business methods.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w.
=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters with which it deals.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dix, William Frederick.= Face in the girandole: a romance of old furniture. **$2. Moffat.
6–39023.
Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys, something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who collect furniture.” (Ind.)
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“It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle hour upon.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
=Dix, William Frederick.= Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26021.
“A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all concerned.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w.
=Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Traitor. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–24587.
The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with “the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage, ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief. It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.
− =Bookm.= 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w.
“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”
− =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w.
“There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w.
“From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr. Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w.
“This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost hysterically high-keyed in expression.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Dodd, Helen C.= Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
6–45718.
A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.
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“An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w.
=Dodge, Walter P.= Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.
Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond. Times.)
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“His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”
− =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.
− =Dial.= 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution is superfluous.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
6–34260.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is as far as any thinker of any age has ever reached, the final word for the present.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“Dr. Dole has handled a hard subject in a thoughtful, sympathetic fashion.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 260w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
6–26499.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.
“A most readable book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“It is specially to be commended to young men and women who have not yet learned the value, the possibilities, and the triumphs of a true democracy.” I. C. Barrows.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 461. D. 15, ’06. 2790w.
“Of course the treatment of so many subjects in one small volume must necessarily be superficial and unsatisfactory.” Max West.
− =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“It is a reasonable and thoughtful presentation of some of the most pressing problems in our contemporary political life.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 70w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 124. F. ’07. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell=, comp. and tr. Russian fairy book. †$2. Crowell.
7–24600.
Seven stories on which a child’s imagination may feed, full of adventure, humor, mystery and magic. They are Vasilisa the beauty, The Bright-Hawk’s feather, Ivan and the gray wolf, The little sister and little brother, The white duckling, Marya Morevna, and The frog-queen.
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“The stories are in the nature of folk-lore, and are all good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 40w.
“Opens a new and fascinating vista to lovers of stories that are full of original beauty and the naïve appeal of ancient folk-lore.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
“The illustrations allure on account of their novelty. However, in the tales there is little or no freshness of subject-matter or style.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 40w.
=Donaldson, James.= Woman, her position and influence in ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians. *$1.60. Longmans.
W 7–73.
“The book gives one a clear picture of the various ideals in regard to woman which prevailed through the Greek, Roman and early Christian times, and of how the women measured up to them.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Dr. Donaldson’s readable little book is perhaps quite as useful as a work of more solid erudition would be.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 121. O. ’07. 620w.
“For the most part, a lucid and excellently written summary of the salient facts which may be gathered from the scattered and often conflicting testimonies available to us. He has a wide knowledge of the German writers who have done the ‘spade-work’ of the subject, but he has also an advantage they generally lack—a clear and attractive style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 248. Mr. 2. 4360w.
“We conclude by recording the impression of sanity and clarity produced alike by the first and second reading of this modest work. Occasionally we might quarrel about a nuance of interpretation or of presentation. The essential parts are readable and instructive; the whole is valuable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 86. Ag. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“His statements were based on sound scholarship, and were made with unusual caution, so that he could publish them in book form with the addition here and there of footnotes embodying certain modern discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 1510w.
“It has the buoyancy and freshness of a spring day, a frank love of beauty, an invincible conviction that the generous and fine is the real and important side of human nature.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 201. Ap. 6, ’07. 1550w.
“For the most part, his work is rather a series of suggestive essays on comparatively well-known facts than a fresh contribution to knowledge. As such, however, it has great value, and the author exhibits exactly the learning, insight, and judgment which we need for the full investigation of a difficult but fascinating subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 500. Mr. 30, ’07. 1750w.
=Dos Passos, John R.= American lawyer as he was—as he is—as he can be. *$1.75. Banks.
7–2440.
“In this work Mr. Dos Passos discusses in broad outline what he conceives to be the real mission of the lawyer in society, his relation to the government of which he is a citizen, and his clearly defined duties in that relation.”—R. of Rs.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (Neltje Blanchan, pseud.).= Birds that every child should know: the East; 63 pages of photographs from life. (Every child should know series.) **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–7517.
While primarily for children this book interests other bird-lovers as well. “Nearly a hundred species are described and talked about in an informal, interesting way, technicalities being avoided as much as possible, perhaps too much for convenience of identification.” (Ind.)
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“A very good book for children, or to use with children, for supplementary work. Does not supplant Chapman’s ‘Birdlife’ as an identification book, and one might hesitate to choose it in preference to Olive Thorne Miller’s two books for teaching purposes, but is superior for reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“A book charmingly written and copiously illustrated.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 20w.
“Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it would be apt to resent.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w.
“One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very high.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.
“One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w.
“A pleasant, chatty little book.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w.
* =Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
Here one finds described the bravery of the guardians of modern life, their allegiance to the great machine called the Fire department, the training, the discipline of the men and horses, and for the gentler part, the devotion of the men to their pets.
=Dowson, Joseph Emerson.= Producer gas. *$3. Longmans.
7–25693.
A discussion of the theory of producer gas, the practical results obtained, best means of securing them, and the use and application of producer gas.
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“It is evident all through the book that the authors are thoroughly conversant with the actual working of apparatus for both the production and use of producer gas, and their book meets the needs of persons handling such plants better than any of the other books on the subject with which the reviewer is acquainted.” Alfred E. Forstall.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34805.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 700w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 120w.
=Doyle, J. A.= Colonies under the House of Hanover. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fifth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America.” It deals collectively with the whole body of colonies from the accession of the House of Hanover to the beginning of those disputes which ended in separation from the mother country.
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+ + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Doyle’s work compares favourably with the new French volume of Prof. Schefer in which are discussed many of the same ‘Colonial problems.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 730w.
“A work as unique as it is valuable, for a one-volume history of the colonies under the House of Hanover has, we believe, no mate.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
“It is evident that Mr. Doyle’s last volumes are no better than those that preceded them, and will do nothing to re-establish the reputation of his earlier work.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“His final volume is far more fragmentary and inadequate than any of its predecessors.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
“Mr. Doyle seems quite content to accept, without further investigation on his own part, what he finds ready to his hand in the books of American writers on colonial history, and has neglected much first-hand authority (or its equivalent) of which he should most certainly have known.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 813. Je. 29, ’07. 2430w.
“Far more important than Mr. Doyle’s misapprehensions as to the social condition of Virginia is his bland acceptance of the ‘Yankee convention’ regarding education in the colony.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 18. Jl. 6, ’07. 2370w.
“The book swarms with misprints and errors in citation. Mr. Doyle’s style is pleasing in the main and often spirited and graphic—far more so than that of the usual chronicler of colonial annals.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 50. Jl. 13, ’07. 2620w.
=Doyle, J. A.= Middle colonies. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fourth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America” deals with the history of the Middle colonies down to the accession of the House of Hanover, coincident with the disappearance of Penn from the field of colonial politics.
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+ + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
“There is no fairer view of American colonial development than that contained in the five bulky volumes of Mr. Doyle.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
“It is safe to say that no one can hereafter write about or study the colonial period of American history without reckoning with, and constantly referring to, Mr. Doyle’s work.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
“In organizing and distributing his data Mr. Doyle followed very conventional models, and in the work before us has neglected some of the most essential portions of our history.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
“But although specialists will find fault with him for inaccuracies, the great value of the work is unquestionable. It is regrettable that the indexes have not been better made.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“In the volume upon the middle colonies the treatment is to a degree systematic and in some parts quite detailed. Much the same method is followed as was apparent in the earlier instalments of the work. But the writer’s chief fault lies in his failure to grasp, or at least to set forth, the significance of our colonial history as a whole.” Herbert L. Osgood.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail, its outlines are large.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w.
Draught of the blue, together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–6406.
A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)
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“There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w.
“The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and graceful.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w.
“They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that charms with its pure music.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w.
“It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes the English of a scholar and an artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w.
=Dreiser, Theodore.= Sister Carrie. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped to sink him.” (Bookm.)
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“Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w.
“It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story, one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900 somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move. He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.” Harrison Rhodes.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 298. My. ’07. 1260w.
“There are two reasons why ‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be recommended in spite of its boldness of theme. First of all for the sake of its truthfulness, the frankness of its portrayal of a widespread type. Secondly it is a pitiless, unsparing portrayal of a man’s ruin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 117. Jl. ’07. 550w.
“We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who clings to ‘old-fashioned ideas.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
“‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be reckoned with, just as the social conditions—or defects—on which it rests must be reckoned with.” Joseph Hornor Coates.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 288. O. ’07. 1500w.
=Dresslar, Fletcher B.= Superstition and education. pa. $2.50. Univ. of Cal.
7–29553.
An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The results are classified and presented statistically.
=Dial.= 43: 172. S. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Dressler, Friedrich August.= Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.
7–29134.
A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck, Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)
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“Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 139. F. 9, ’07. 320w.
“The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 60w.
“Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles Edward Barrett-Lennard.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 480w.
“The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose glory he sunned himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 670w.
=Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 259. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
=Drew, Gilman A.= Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25. Saunders.
7–21555.
A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed directions are given for the study of each division. Following this, come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)
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“This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual answers all requirements.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 258. S. 19, ’07. 240w.
“A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 250. Ag. 23, ’07. 410w.
=Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles.= Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–15938.
“The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified, accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 668. O. ’07. 180w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The reader with an ordinary education may read the book intelligently.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w.
“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master mind.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w.
=Druce, George C.= Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence, notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.
“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof. Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”
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“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science, and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine themselves to single and restricted fields.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w.
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B. D. J.
+ =Nature.= 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w.
=Drummond, Henry.= Natural law in the spiritual world. 35c. Crowell.
A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Dry, Wakeling.= Giacomo Puccini. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
7–14600.
The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles of his musical autographs.
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“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of Puccini.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w.
“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.
=DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman.= Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–30472.
Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work “consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with copious quotations.” (Acad.)
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“We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service incidentally.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 560w.
“We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 265. N. ’06. 1530w.
=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement, careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to mere summarizing of the views of others.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 110w.
“All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the average Latinist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 260w.
=DuBois, Patterson.= Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and social reform. **75c. Dodd.
7–16993.
“Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral life—_the_, rather than, as the Greek and Roman philosophy esteemed it, _a_ cardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr. Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of practice is to _think justice_—to do this as an acquired _habit of mind_.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.
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“If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly commended.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 30w.
=Du Bose, Horace M.= Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles; with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–22109.
A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.
=DuBose, William P.= Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–11043.
“Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion, and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.
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“We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful reader.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 390w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.
* =Duckworth, Lawrence.= Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.
An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.
=Duer, Elizabeth.= Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–35453.
“The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
“The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put together, and not without a pretty wit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 530w.
“The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly managed.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
=Duff, Edward G.= Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–7493.
“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia; foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon. The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old books, and old bindings.”—Nation.
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“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed) for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this important addition to their library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 225. F. 23. 610w.
“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 461. N. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 470w.
=Duff, Mildred.= Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29717.
Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old. Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of animals to furniture.
=Duke, Basil W.= Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.
6–18975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 310w.
=Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
=Duley, G. Wilson.= Dream of hell. $1. Badger.
6–46743.
“The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self justification.”
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau, Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an introduction and frontispiece.
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+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= My memoirs; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.
The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in various campaigns.
=v. 2.= The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature and the drama.” (Outlook.)
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“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the last sentence of the book reads oddly.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the present English form.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to our biographical literature.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to be effaced.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 637. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.
6–37888.
“‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of negro life.”—Outlook.
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“Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 732. Mr. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
* =Dunbar, William.= Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.
A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish poet.
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“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary. Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w.
“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary reader or student.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w.
“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary, and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w.
“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr. Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Cruise of the “Shining Light.” †$1.50. Harper.
7–15117.
The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’ money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.” “A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”
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“The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a quaint and delightful humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes irritating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 170w.
“An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid, so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr. Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 610w.
“A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern fiction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative literary tradition.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 25, ’07. 360w.
“If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 930w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 328. Je. 7, ’07. 1440w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.
7–31986.
A work which directs the attention of educated lay-folk to science in its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows, among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a series of operations to which they are applied.
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“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get elsewhere in such convenient form.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w.
“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing processes so clearly and accurately explained.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w.
“To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”
− =Nature.= 77: 49. N. 21, ’07. 2250w.
“A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of affairs alike.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 470w.
=Dunham, Edith.= Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.
7–17393.
Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.
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“The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had escaped their attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 90w.
* =Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and economic interests of the United States; and also what is best, considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books and articles consulted.
=Dunn, Robert.= Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–21274.
Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished tale.”—Dial.
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“The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote northwest.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and there a bit of effective description.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 590w.
=Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).= Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
6–38400.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.
“As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of polished and admirably concealed artistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.
“Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 340w.
“The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology, and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 93. Ja. 19, ’07. 990w.
=Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of.= Outlook in Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.
“Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by the committee known by his name.”—Ath.
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 110w.
“Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due time.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 230w.
“The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle, and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1410w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 742. Ag. 3, ’07. 1680w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at least regard them through some distorting medium of national prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm consideration to the Irish problem.”
− − + =Spec.= 98: 290. F. 23, ’07. 2020w.
=During, Stella M.= Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M. Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–20512.
Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive, unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, begins a long series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself, require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool, drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.
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“The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 220w.
* =Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and authoritative observations on the social, economic and political conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.
7–6771.
“Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 139. My. ’07. ✠
=Dye, Eva Emery.= McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–33578.
A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such international consequence.” (Outlook.)
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“Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical publication.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 479. Ja. ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 230w.
“There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere, color and life.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 90w.
E
=Earle, Mrs. C. W.= Letters to young and old. *$2.50. Dutton.
Letters such as Mrs. Earle has been accustomed to write to her friends and family are here collected into a volume which covers a wide field of interest. The seven sections include letters from Germany, letters upon gardening, health, diet, children, art, and life in general.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 39. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w.
“Altogether, it is a delightful, gossiping olla podrida.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 260w.
“Here is a novel and clever idea in bookmaking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 197. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.
“Those who liked her three books of potpourri will find it interesting, but no one to whom the three former volumes did not appeal should even try to read this one.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 780w.
=East, Alfred.= Art of landscape painting in oil color. *$3. Lippincott.
“Mr. East has not attempted in this book to write of landscape painting in its elementary stages. His aim has been rather to give the already qualified student an insight into certain truths which have been revealed to him in his own practice of the art. To correct a false attitude towards nature, and to help the reader to understand the importance of technique, has been the aim of this book. It is illustrated by eight landscapes and a page of studies of effects in colour, and many halftone pictures, chiefly from the painter’s works; also an admirable selection from those pencil sketches in which he excels.”—Int. Studio.
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“The letterpress is somewhat elementary. The book is redeemed, however, by a genuine love for the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 390w.
“We cannot think of any painter who could be a better guide than Mr. East. He is not contemptuous of the beginner, and he has a literary faculty which enables him to explain his meaning very clearly.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 520w.
“This work should be of great use to many a student, amateur and artist. Mr. East writes with distinctness, and has the power of making his reader understand clearly the various processes, mental and technical, which he uses for the construction of a landscape.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 290w.
* =Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
The chivalry of the Indian warrior and the womanliness of the Indian woman are subjects which Mr. Eastman sets forth with authority and sentiment. In an idealized sense his tales become more “than mere narrations of savage exploits and records of the legends and traditions, beliefs and practices, of a primitive people.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“We feel personally grateful for the refreshment afforded by more than one exquisitely idyllic tale among the dozen, or so in his volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
* =Eckstorm, Mrs. Fannie (Hardy).= David Libbey, Penobscot woodsman and river-driver. *60c. Am. Unitar.
7–23501.
Another figure for the galaxy of “true American types.” David Libbey is a Maine woodsman who “met all the demands of son, husband, father, brother, friend, citizen and soldier, and yet had time for self-education, for æsthetic culture, and for the exercise of a talent by no means meagre.”
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Tales of a small town by one who lived there. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30989.
The small town element is here in the fact that every one knows the business of everyone else be it the lawyer who connives to secure the drunkard’s farm through his wife before she has actually determined on a divorce suit, or the adventurous young minx with the peroxide hair who flirts with her uncle and her staid next door neighbor to the distress of their wives. The stories are interesting although not wholly pleasing for the admirable traits of the villagers are subordinated to their unlovely ones.
=Edwardes, Marian=, comp. Summary of the literatures of modern Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain); from the origins to 1400. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–20970.
“The work is essentially an annotated and classified bibliography, with references to the most authoritative scholarly discussions of the writings included. It presents an immense mass of historical and critical information in a form that is both compact and convenient for use.”—Dial.
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“In spite of these ... defects ... the compilation is distinctly serviceable. With careful revision it might be made indispensable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 870w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Enough has been said, we believe, to show how defective this work is, notwithstanding its occasionally useful citations of recent literature.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 469. O. 21, ’07. 460w.
“A very careful and painstaking work, and should be found useful by students.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Edwards, A. Herbage.= Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.
7–29123.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A complete view of Japan, the book does not give; the unpleasant features are left for others to portray. But that omission makes it the more agreeable to read.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
“A series of slight sketches, more ambitious than successful.”
− =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
=Edwards, Matilda Betham-.= Literary rambles in France. il. *$2.50 McClurg.
7–36931.
Miss Betham-Edwards, who gave us a few years ago “Home-life in France,” now gives equally intimate glimpses of the personality of some of the French men and women of letters. Some of the suggestive chapter headings are: Flaubert’s literary workshop, On the track of Balzac—Limoges. The genesis of Eugènie Grandet, In the footsteps of George Sand, Brantôme and The story of the Marseillaise.
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“She gives with perfect success the atmosphere of the places and people that she writes about. That is, we imagine, all that she set out to do, and in any case all that was needed.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.
“Is in our opinion one of the best of her long series of monographs on French life and scenery. Her tendency to facile literary allusion takes her readers far from the scene she is describing. This is destructive of the French atmosphere which ought to characterize her books of travel.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 780w.
“It is a pleasure to discover that [it] belongs, not to the appalling multitude of ‘popular guides,’ but to the small and delightful company of artistic and illuminating travellers’ sketches. They have, in the first place, the note of spontaneity.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 370w.
“There never was a more staunch champion of Protestantism than Miss Betham-Edwards; and we take leave to think that a writer who hardly acknowledges any other religion in France cannot be said to know France thoroughly.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 266. Ag. 24, ’07. 1200w.
=Edwards, Owen.= Short history of Wales. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A brief history of only a little over a hundred pages for those who have never read any Welsh history.
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“The pages on Wales at the present time are unquestionably the most interesting. The style is simple, lucid, and picturesque. Those for whom the book is primarily intended—readers ignorant of Welsh and Latin—will be led to knowledge of pleasant paths.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“His attitude is still that of the North Walian. Despite such trifling blemishes the book is excellent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 500w.
=Edwards, William Seymour.= Through Scandinavia to Moscow. **$1.50. Clarke.
6–37647.
Entertaining observations made by Mr. Edwards as he and his bride traveled in five weeks thru Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, to St. Petersburg and back to London by way of Berlin, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. The account is given in the form of letters written by the author to his father and is illustrated with snap shots taken en route.
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“The personal touches and impressions—interesting incidents well told—make an unusually attractive account of a traveler’s experiences. Here and there an occasional careless statement threatens to shatter the reader’s faith in the accuracy of the book as a whole. On the whole the book is worth reading. Its story is pleasantly told, with many interesting items well worth remembering.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 230w.
“Commonplace in many respects.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 390w.
“A simple, straightforward account.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 810w.
=Eeden, Frederik van.= Quest. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
7–15321.
The symbolism which abounds in this book reminds one of Ibsen. A little boy seeks diligently from fairy guides a solution to the riddle of the universe and its manifold manifestations. As he grows older his desire for understanding is no less keen but for the fairy thoughts of imagination are substituted the troll-ideas of grotesque human realities. Finally among the sordid commonplaces he falls in with a companion who is a “modern reincarnation of the Christ.” There is a very human love tale, the romance of the imaginative Johannes and Marjon, a little circus girl.
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“A remarkable work of sustained fancy, the book presents no new ‘Weltanschauung,’ it brings no new message. Dr. van Eeden has dreamt a dream, he has not seen a vision. The translation is on the whole, admirable.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 296. My. ’07. 1540w.
“‘The quest’ as a romance is, by reason of its loose construction and its generally feeble character drawing, a negligible quantity. As a work of philosophy it is suggestive, but tautological and obscure. As a social study on the other hand, it possesses exceptional value; is, in fact, one of the most comprehensive arraignments of the hypocrisy and corruption of the age that has yet been written.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 99. Jl. 11, ’07. 480w.
“There is much jog-trot indeterminate narrative as well as much didacticism, in the third part.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.
“The things that hold and charm are the glimpses of the quaint mind of ‘de kleine Johannes’—little John—the scenes from Dutch life, the pictures of the mountebanks’ way, the hints of things good and bad that stirred our little John; the flights of fancy, now gracious and now horribly gruesome; the homely simplicity of the narrative of the hero’s love affairs. Almost equally pleasing is much of the homelier satire. But there is other satire that falls dully on the mind like the rhapsodies of Markus the prophet.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.
“Weary wastes of long-drawn-out commonplace separate the brilliant and beautiful passages. Pages of puerile, pottering pedantic dialogue that might have stepped out of a Rollo book discourage the interest. The result is a work diffuse and discursive—not to say sprawling—and obscure.” Alvan F. Sanborn.
− =No. Am.= 185: 79. My. 3, 07. 1510w.
“The writer’s intentions are obviously excellent and his philosophy sound. To Dutch readers his performance is doubtless excellent as well, but to us it is so involved, prolix and tiresome as to be absolutely impossible. The barriers between our minds and his book are quite impassable.”
− + =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 240w.
“Delicately fanciful, and deeply spiritual besides, ‘The quest’ merits wide attention.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 30w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Jack Shelby; a story of the Indiana back-woods. †$1.50. Lothrop.
6–20455.
An exciting tale of the adventurous pioneer days of 1836.
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“Not well written, but gives an interesting, and probably accurate picture of pioneer life.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.
“Is of a good kind and well done.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Love is the sum of it all: a plantation romance. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–32710.
A plantation romance whose scene is laid in Virginia following the reconstruction period. “Warren Rhett, the hero, is a young Virginian, enlightened, enfranchised, energized by education in the north and a cosmopolitan experience as a bridge builder, not solely as the lover of the good and beautiful heroine.” (N. Y. Times.) The heroine is the daughter of a sculptor; the love-making is uninterrupted in Warren’s step-mother’s home where he is recuperating and incidentally rescuing the plantation from decay and bankruptcy.
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“On the whole, the book is wholesome as well as pretty. If there is not a deal of excitement in it, there is plenty of suggestive observation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“As a social critic, Mr. Eggleston has nothing new or important to say. He does not even say what he has to say well. As a novel it is impossible to praise it.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Elbe, Louis.= Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern science. **$1.20. McClurg.
6–9285.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Hilma; il. by Harrison Fisher and Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9545.
“This book belongs in that class of which Anthony Hope’s ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ is the prototype. A brave and resourceful American is thrown into the dynastic plots of a petty imaginary nation in eastern Europe, and plots and counterplots develop in rapid and thrilling succession. One does not need to guess that the American foils the political villains who try to keep Princess Hilma from her throne, nor that he loves the beautiful young queen, and that both sacrifice love to duty.”—Outlook.
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“The author has studied the ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ carefully, and has tried to produce another one; even the ‘Dolly dialogue’ form of conversation is attempted. The result written in American language is terrible.”
− =Acad.= 73: 996. O. 5, ’07. 120w.
“Perhaps above the average of its kind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07.
“Nobody needs quarrel with the story merely because it is an imitation. The important thing is that it is a good one.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 150w.
“The story is told in nervous and sometimes ungrammatical English, and its nomenclature rivals that of ‘Graustark’ for weirdness.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“A particular trouble is that the dialogue ... is tremendously labored and disconcertingly pointless. The author, with all the industry and good will in the world, lacks both the necessary invention and the highly desirable knowledge of the hearts of men and women.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The tale is built up in a workmanlike way, and has a reasonable number of thrills and sudden turns.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton E.= Letters from the Far East. *$2.40. Longmans.
7–30811.
“This volume consists of letters originally published in the Westminster gazette during a recent visit to China and Japan, undertaken with the special object of studying the languages and creeds of those countries and the development which Buddhism has undergone.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The volume is one of singular interest, but displays a fanciful and slightly paradoxical intellect. The author’s reflections upon Mohammedanism and his panegyric on Hinduism will startle readers, but provoke reflection to a higher degree than do most works of travel.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 408. Ap. 6. 1010w.
“Among the chapters on China those descriptive of Canton, Peking, and Chinese literature will be found particularly entertaining. The value of the book would have much increased by an index. There are sixteen illustrations, very good reproductions of photographs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 540w.
“A studious and thoughtful examination of many sides of Far Eastern thought and life, written by a thoroughly competent observer. The book has not yet been written about Far Eastern matters that does not challenge criticism or controversy on points; but it is rare to find one so little provocative in that respect and so greatly instructive as this collection of letters.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 561. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.
“Among the numerous works that have been devoted of recent years to the problems of the Far East, his unpretentious little book takes a very high place.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 1400w.
=Eliot, Charles W.= Four American leaders. *80c. Am. Unitar.
6–42960.
Commemorative addresses on Franklin, Washington, Channing and Emerson, which present the four Americans from the point of view of their intellectual contributions in shaping the political, moral, and intellectual trend of the Republic.
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“Inspiring addresses.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07.
“While the book contains suggestions apt to stir up antagonism in certain minds, and while we are made to feel that the author’s sympathies are at times misplaced and that he lacks something of the spirit of the true prophet, we must confess to the beauty of his style, his true sense of proportion and his fine analytical powers within certain limitations.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“We have rarely read a book which could inspire a more profound respect for what is lastingly noble in humanity than this.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. O. 1, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
“These papers are written—all of them—in the lucid, direct and vigorous style which we have come to associate with their author, and will be sure of the careful and respectful attention to which everything that comes from his strong, well-disciplined, well-stored and independent mind is entitled.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 111. Ap. ’07. 1010w.
=Eliot, Charles W.= Great riches. **75c. Crowell.
6–34713.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“President Eliot may be a great executive officer, but we cannot count him among great and true thinkers.”
− =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 180w.
=Cath. World.= 85: 401. Je. ’07. 420w.
“It treats a topic of unmistakable importance and large public interest in a spirit of sane and hopeful Americanism.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 99. Ja. ’07. 430w.
“The economic analysis seems to be faulty. The writer assumes that the riches of to-day are of a new kind, which carry with them no visible responsibility.”
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 637. D. ’06. 320w.
=Eliot, George.= Romola; historically il. and ed., with introd. and notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–42367.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The illustrations, 160 in all, are well reproduced. Furthermore, they are for the most part adequately described, and in every case are, for their own sakes, worth possessing; but many of them are wholly irrelevant, or are made so by being recklessly misplaced.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 390w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 660w.
=Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
“The letter-press is excellent, and the whole work has a scholarly character.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 100w.
=Elkington, Ernest Way.= Savage South seas; painted by N. H. Hardy, described by E. Way Elkington. *$6. Macmillan.
A volume whose text and illustrations are devoted to the native peoples of British New Guinea, the Solomon islands and the New Hebrides. The text “describes the appearance, customs, habits, characteristics and prospects of the savage natives, with some account of their past history, shows how little real impression the missionaries have made upon them, tells what the islands offer to the white man who is willing to work, and succeeds fairly well in giving an idea of the subtle charm which the South Sea islands can exercise over the Anglo-Saxon.” (N. Y. Times.) The illustrations “representing every phase of native life, industries, amusements, and religious ceremonies, as well as the pile houses and the scenery, enable one very vividly to realize it.” (Nation.)
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“It is the most beautiful of the ‘colour books’ that we have seen, and excels the majority of them by far in the excellence of its letter press.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 861. S. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a good book of a bad kind—the usual kind; there are hundreds of the sort, but few, we may add, so well executed, for the author has avoided many faults into which he might have fallen—the enthusiasms, the prolixities, and the vulgarities which are common to the kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 202. Ag. 24. 720w.
“The authoritative tone and the evidently intimate knowledge of native customs are proof positive of something beyond a cursory observation of life among the islanders.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 390w.
“In this book the illustrations so far exceed the text in importance and quality that little need to be said concerning the latter, which contains many inaccuracies and misprints, is written in poor English, and generally falls far below the level of other volumes contained in this series.” C. G. S.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 541. S. 26, ’07. 470w.
“It is written entertainingly, with plenty of anecdote interspersed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“The artist has given us many accurate drawings of the genuine native in his appropriate setting. Nor does he sacrifice accuracy of detail for mere pictorial effect; thus the student may feel confident in trusting his details of ornament, dress, house-structure and the like, indeed in some instances new facts are incidentally given to the student in the plates. The letterpress is a chatty compilation of no value to the serious student, as it is full of mistakes of various kinds and there is no evidence that Mr. Elkington has visited the places of which he writes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
* =Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural features, products, commerce, and present condition; with an introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
A history of Chile with full description of existing conditions. “Mr. Scott Elliot deals principally with the romantic history of his favourite republic. The adventures of President O’Higgins and of Cochrane have formed the theme of many well-told tales. O’Higgins was the natural son of Ambrose Higgins, Marquis de Osorno, Viceroy of Peru.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The illustrations are selected with but slight regard for the text, and in several cases are put where they mar the author’s work. Those who wish to know the natural features and economic conditions of the country will be able to learn more than they can carry away in their minds, for Mr. Elliot is a naturalist as well as an observer of industrial and political phenomena. Of the historical portion of the work we must be content with saying that the author does not seem to us to do justice to the work of the church in Chile.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 639. N. 23, ’07. 720w.
=Elliott, Delia Buford.= Adele Hamilton. $1.25. Neale.
7–14586.
A story of a little more than a hundred pages which tells of the bravery of a southern woman who at her husband’s death finds herself penniless, and takes her five children to California hoping that in a new country away from surroundings that would remind her of her former abundance she may fight her financial battle and win.
=Elliott, Emilia.= Joan of Juniper inn. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–27610.
A cheerful, wholesome story peopled with true-to-life boys and girls who have real experiences and who are bubbling over with innocent fun.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 90w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.
5–28020.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“This series of adventures ... will convince his admirers that his vitality is undiminished.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt of the white elephant. †$1. Winston.
6–26188.
A sequel to “River and jungle,” in which the hero of the latter sets out with a native guide to capture a white elephant. Before the quest is successfully terminated thrilling adventure is furnished by an exciting tiger hunt, an encounter with a wild buffalo, and interference from thieving natives. From the first page to the last it is full of exciting situations.
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“Is one of Ellis’ very best tales, being written in a spirited manner and replete with exciting adventures so dear to the vivid and hungry imagination of the child.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 270w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Lost in the forbidden land. †$1. Winston.
6–26192.
One of three volumes in the “Foreign adventure series.” It is a thrilling account of the dangers that two Americans encountered while attempting to trace the Pilcomayo river in South America to the Paraguay. Even Yankee ingenuity fails at times when set to baffle so formidable an enemy as the Tobas Indians.
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Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 38: 320. Ag. ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Queen of the clouds. †$1. Winston.
7–23712.
The last in the three-volume “Paddle your own canoe” series. There is in this story plenty to whet the appetite of an adventure-loving lad—mystery, a brave sailor boy as hero, a shipwreck, the discovery of pirates’ gold, treachery, a search extending to India, wild beasts of the jungle, the Sepoy rebellion, the escape and return.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= River and jungle. †$1. Winston.
6–26479.
Indo-China is the scene of Dudley Mason’s experiences which befall him on his way thru the jungle to his father, a missionary in the interior of Siam. Tigers, crocodiles, snakes, wild Indians and elephants make the way one of perils and hair-breadth escapes.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Seward D. Lisle, pseud.).= Seth Jones of New Hampshire. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6405.
A reprint of a dime-novel published nearly 50 years ago, which supports the claim made by the author in his introduction that dime novel literature not only was not immoral but was good reading for the young. Seth Jones is a border hero and his story is one of scalpings and bloodshed, of rescued maidens and daring escapades.
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“It is such a story as the most fastidious of telegraph boys would not hesitate to put his _imprimatur_ upon.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20. ’07. 340w.
“We cheerfully testify that it is innocuous, simple, free from moral taint, as little sensational as is humanly possible for a book with Indians, a kidnapped maiden, and a hunter with a coonskin cap to be. Is a very mild case of Fenimore Cooper and water.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23. ’07. 240w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester, and Chipman, William Pendleton.= Cruise of the Firefly, †75c. Winston.
6–21383.
An adventurous tale in which a boat race between the clubs of two rival institutions secures for the winners a two months’ camping trip north from the Maine coast. The exciting experiences of the race in which plots are foiled, and the later cruise fairly bristling with thrilling experiences, furnish rare entertainment for a wide-awake boy.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Ellis, Edwin J.= Real Blake. **$3.50. McClure.
“Mr. Ellis gives us an immense amount of information, heaped in bewildering fashion, and ticketed with labels and comments which can hardly fail to increase that bewilderment.” (Ath.) “Readers will naturally want to know what new material Mr. Ellis presents them with, not already in Gilchrist. He prints in full for the first time ‘The island in the moon,’ Blake’s squib upon the literary folk he met at the Mathews’s house.... All Blake’s comments on Lavater are given, instead of the selection printed by Gilchrist. But of course the main difference between the two lives is Mr. Ellis’s insistence on the mystical side of Blake.”—Acad.
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“There is a great deal that is interesting and valuable in Mr. Ellis’s book: but it is not well composed, the writing is slovenly, and it has other serious faults which will assuredly prevent it from superseding Gilchrist, in spite of a much completer understanding of Blake’s mind and ideas.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1360w.
“It is written to do honour to Blake and to explain him, but it requires both correction and explanation before it can do either.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 598. My. 18. 2130w.
“If Mr. Symons writes from the point of view of ultra-romanticism, Mr. Ellis speaks from the region of spirit-rapping and table-turning. He has produced a book that is almost a model of what a biography ought not to be.”
− − =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 750w.
“Mr. Ellis worships Blake, and he seems to have attracted to himself several of his idol’s less amiable qualities, his arrogance, his carelessness in writing and his intolerance; these characteristics are obvious, not only in the preface, but more or less throughout the book.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 8. F. 23, ’07. 320w.
=Ellis, George.= Modern practical carpentry for the use of workmen, builders, architects, and engineers. *$5. Industrial.
“A practical discussion of the methods and practices connected with the heavier kinds of carpentry work. It treats of the subject as seen in England, where wood work is used to a much greater extent than in this country. However, the discussions on shoring, scaffolding, tunnel and bridge centering and coffer dams are of universal interest.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.
=Ellis, George William, and Morris, John Emery.= King Philip’s war; based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts with biographical and topographical notes. **$2. Grafton press.
6–43914.
To this account of King Philip’s war “Mr. Ellis has contributed the narrative with the references, and Mr. Morris has supplied the biographical foot-notes, the local descriptions, and the illustrations.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“A history of King Philip’s war, which should be both readable and trustworthy, has long been desired by students of early New England. The volume under review meets these requirements, being based upon careful research and written in clear narrative style. The volume is singularly free from errors or misquotations from authorities.” Clarence S. Brigham.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 400w.
“A scholarly history of the last struggle of an expiring race, rather than a successful study of an important episode in the conquest of the continent.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 655. My. ’07. 250w.
“The genealogical interest of Mr. Morris has resulted in a collection of biographical details that must make the book valuable to all tracers of New England ancestry. Indeed, one criticism of the book as a book lies in its multiplicity of names and explanatory notes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 390w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Frederick York Powell: a life and selection from his letters and occasional writings. 2v. *$6.75. Oxford.
7–18309.
Two interesting volumes upon a man of large personality and profound knowledge, who for years, as tutor and professor, exercised great influence over the young men of Oxford and London. The first volume is devoted to memoirs and letters, and the second to writings.
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“Mr. Elton has failed partly because failure was inevitable, partly because of a certain lack of sympathy with his subject; but he has one quality which is also his main defect—a fine impartiality.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1280w.
“The many-sidedness of the man has been well brought out; the attractive nature of his personality is excellently displayed; the facts of his career are correctly noted; his fugitive work has been tastefully brought together; and all the friends of York Powell—and he had a genius for friendship—will be grateful to Mr. Elton for placing this memorial of their departed friend in their hands.” H. Morse Stephens.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 648. Ap. ’07. 2100w.
“An appreciation which is rich on every page with a just and sympathetic understanding of the man’s nature.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 821. D. 29. 2400w.
“The book brings out with fine judgment and skill Powell’s love for literature, folklore and art, but is less successful in showing that history was his special province.”
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 204. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Elton’s book would have been much improved by the compression necessary to bring it into a narrower compass.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 424. D. 21, ’06. 2440w.
“The present memoir is clever and interesting, but somewhat too diffuse. A valuable, vivid record of a life which deserves to be held in memory and honor.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 311. Ap. 4, ’07. 2440w.
“The book is a master tonic.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 775. D. 22, ’06. 1340w.
“The life of York Powell was bound to be written, and it could scarcely have fallen into better hands.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 55. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
=Emanuel, Walter.= Dogs of war. †$1.25. Scribner.
7–15118.
One thoroughbred and a number of mongrels constitute a group pledged to “attack at sight all thoroughbreds who give themselves airs or offer insult to plebeian canines.” “Ears,” the aristocratic spaniel tells the story, which is accompanied by Mr. Cecil Aldin’s humorous drawings.
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“The episodes enshrined in these pages bear and repay intimate study.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 731. D. 8. 70w.
“His greatest failing as a raconteur is his lack of humor.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The collaboration is quite perfect, and it is always impossible to consider the story apart from the pictures. Possibly the drawings are a bit cleverer than the text, although there is much amusing matter in the dog biography.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50 Harper.
7–33591.
About the slim figure of a young widowed duchess of an old estate in Brittany, the author has woven a strong and dramatic plot using as a background the sturdy peasant life of the Argoät. The estate, in the event of the remarriage of the duchess, reverts to her husband’s degenerate cousin, and he to gain it, conspires to trap her into matrimony. His villainy succeeds, but she finds true love and happiness and he receives the coveted revenues only to find them poor comfort and devoid of joy.
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“A tale steeped in the color and fragrance of woodland Brittany, characterized by a mysterious plot and rare charm of atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Emerson, Edward Waldo.= Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts cavalry, brigadier-general, United States volunteers. **$2. Houghton.
7–15315.
“This volume consists of a brief but adequate biography of the young soldier; of judicious selections from his correspondence, and of very full, discriminating notes upon both the life and the letters.”—N. Y. Times.
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“While Mr. Emerson’s intense admiration for his hero is very plain he writes always with restraint, good taste, and the best judgment.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 161. O. ’07. 580w.
“Doubly excellent in its admiration and its restraint.” Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 278. Ag. ’07. 2470w.
“Abundant notes supplement both the lifestudy and the letters; to these notes are confided many of the most intimate revelations of the young soldier’s personality. The student of American history and literature may well be grateful for this record, so directly and fully told, of a life which is as inspiring in memory as it was in companionship.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 10. Jl. 1, ’07. 1800w.
=Ind.= 63: 883. O. 10, ’07. 420w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Emerson has created a distinct impression of General Lowell’s superb endowment of character, justifying that attitude of reverend adoration he inspired in his own immediate circle.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 70w.
“The letters are especially valuable for their portrayal of a beautiful and dignified character, and they also give many suggestive sketches of prominent statesmen and soldiers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 400w.
“An admirably typical American life, worthily told in the narrative, not less worthily when the letters of its subject are left to tell the story.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 450w.
Engineering index annual for 1906; comp. by J. B. Johnson. *$2. Eng. Mag.
An inclusive guide to engineering literature which does away with the alphabetical arrangement of its former volumes. “In the present annual volume all items have been grouped according to eight grand divisions: Civil engineering; Electrical engineering; Industrial economy; Marine and naval engineering; Mechanical engineering; Mining and metallurgy; Railway engineering; and Street and electric railways. Each of these is subdivided into a number of heads.” (Engin. N.)
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+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 556. My. 16, ’07. 710w.
English music. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–38907.
These seventeen lectures were delivered by well-known artists and musical writers at the time of the tercentenary of the existence of the “Worshipful company of musicians” during June, 1904. They illustrate the historical significance of the ancient instruments and books then on exhibition. “The lectures are brief and attractive essays; several are more than a résumé of what the historians have written, and offer some interesting points more or less novel.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“We close the book with but one regret; that it possessed so kindly and lenient an editor as Mr. Crowest seems to have been. A little more severity might have turned out a work better fitted to bear the hardships of an unsympathetic world.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 281. S. 22, ’06. 1760w.
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.
“An exceptionally valuable contribution to musical literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 500w.
“They are necessarily rather disjointed as musical history, but are likely to fulfill a good purpose in clearing up ideas, generally vague, which many people hold concerning ancient instruments and some of the ancient music and its composers.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 700w.
=Erskine, John.= Actæon, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46756.
A book of verses, songs and sonnets which show a lyric gift and true poetic feeling.
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“A series of poetical exercises, wholly derivative in merit, and of slight significance.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 110w.
“His work is more notable for form than for substance; the most vital note in it is its fine sense of the apostolic tradition in poetry, its sentiment of poetic scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Erskine has written much that is good since ‘Actaeon,’ but he seems for the most part to have fallen upon a more personal and minor strain.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 500w.
=Escott, Thomas H. S.= Society in the country house, *$4. Jacobs.
“In sixteen lengthy chapters Mr. Escott conducts his readers to as many groups of country houses, tracing the rise of each great family, characterizing its most interesting representatives and most famous visitors, drawing upon a store of racy anecdote and curious legend, and fully substantiating his claim that the country house has associations with the spiritual, literary, and social movements of the nation, which are even stronger than those more picturesque and popularly recognized bonds which unite it with the chase, the turf, and the stage.”—Dial.
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“We prefer to take the book as a cheerful jumble of interesting side-lights on people and events, the value of which consists in its mirroring the passing phases of thought in the fashion and speech of the time. It is left to the reader to supply his own perspective, and to select the grain from the inevitable chaff of anecdote and genealogy.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 720w.
“We hope that Mr. Escott’s future volumes of pleasant reminiscences may have the advantage of a ‘checker’ who will do the drudgery and the index, and leave the writer free to please us without calling down the cantankerous critic.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 960w.
“Mr. Escott pursues his subject with a leisurely thoroughness that is characteristically British, but his style is crisp and nervous enough to hold the reader’s interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 410w.
“It is so cumbersome as to make us long once again for the old days of two and three volumes. A book of gossip that cannot be held in the hands as one leans back in a chair is a publisher’s mistake. Wherever the book is opened some eminent name meets the eye, with an anecdote attached to it; and what more can be said?”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 15. Ja. 11, ’07. 280w.
=Espy, Ella Gray.= What will the answer be? $1.50. Neale.
7–20705.
The question concerns the future of Jo, the child of the orphanage who has felt the influence of Miss Jane, who gave her life to charity and who has also lived in an adopted home and seen something of love and its possibilities. The reader is left to draw his own conclusions as to Jo’s decision for public service or matrimony.
=Evans, Edward Payson.= Criminal prosecution and capital punishment of animals. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–28640.
A study of the curious methods of mediaeval and modern penology relating to the prosecution and punishment of animals.
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=Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 330w.
“The author has succeeded in making an extremely readable and in a sense a learned volume, one which is a welcome addition to the curiosities of literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
=Evans, Edwin.= Tchaikovsky. (Master musicians.) $1.25. Dutton.
7–10577.
The part of this work is devoted to the composer as a man is based upon the biography of the Tchaikovsky published with his letters by his brother Modest. The greater portion of the study is devoted to a critical survey of the musician and his works including an estimate of the relative values of his operas. “A valuable feature of Mr. Evans’s book is a chronological table of Tchaikovsky’s compositions.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 240w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 250w.
“Of the man and his work the book presents a useful summary treatment, though it rarely rises to a very high order of criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 600w.
=Evelyn, John.= Diary of John Evelyn; ed. with notes by Austin Dobson. 3v. *$8. Macmillan.
The bicentenary of John Evelyn’s death has served to produce some good reprints of his diary. This one edited by Mr. Dobson contains an informing biographical introduction and helpful notes. “Its long chronicle extends over an unbroken period of more than sixty years, dating from the stormy days which preceded the Commonwealth to the early time of Queen Anne. During all this age—‘an age,’ as his epitaph puts it, ‘of extraordinary events and revolutions’—Evelyn was quietly, briefly, methodically noting what seemed to him worthy of remembrance. His desire for knowledge was insatiable, his sympathies wide, and his tastes catholic.”
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“Such a book as his ‘Diary,’ then, cannot be too often reprinted, nor do we know a better edition than this, skilfully edited by Mr. Austin Dobson.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 567. D. 8, ’06. 1730w.
“The reader of the ‘Diary’ is supplied with an ample commentary as he goes along, which will be of infinite service in elucidation of biographical and historical points. Indeed, we cannot imagine the work better done.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 765. D. 15. 980w.
“But what gives Mr. Dobson’s edition its importance is less its text than its ‘editorial equipment.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 500w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 389. N. 23, ’06. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 852. D. 8, ’06. 1780w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Among various editions of Evelyn none surpasses in convenience, editorial thoroughness, and beauty of form this edition, in three volumes, presented with a combination of simplicity and elegance that mark only the best book-making.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 430w.
“A fine edition ... for which we cannot thank Mr. Dobson too much.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 526. Ap. 27, ’07. 1790w.
“The introduction which he has prefixed to this edition of the Diary, is an admirable summary of Evelyn’s life, and supplies as careful an appreciation of the diarist’s character and work as could be desired.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 60 Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.
=Ewald, Carl.= Spider and other tales; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. †$1. Scribner.
7–15116.
“Pleasant, readable little stories about animals and plants, in which insects and flowers and birds, and even clouds and dewdrops are made to talk as if they were human beings.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This little book of fables deserves to be added to the permanent library of childhood.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“He has a simple, naive style, which makes his work very suitable for supplementary reading on nature subjects for young children, while older people can read his stories with pleasure because of the purity and perfection of his literary method.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
=Ewell, Alice Maude.= Long time ago; in Virginia and Maryland with a glimpse of old England. il. $1.50. Neale.
7–26957.
Nine good stories of revolutionary and colonial times told by a lady and dame of long ago.
F
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Mythology of Greece and Rome, presented with special reference to its influence on literature. *$1.50. Appleton.
7–6167.
The purpose of this book is “to illustrate the wide-reaching influence of Greek myths first on the Latin poets, and, mainly through the Latin poets, on later writers.” There are numerous illustrations taken from ancient works of art.
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“The author is progressive, yet conservative and judicious, and has produced a useful book.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 170w.
=Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 80w.
“A scholarly and complete presentation for school and college use.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.
“The distinct merit of the book is not that which is emphasized on the title-page; it is, rather, the fact that the ancient stories are told by a professional student of mythology who is familiar with the results of recent investigation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 230w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and villages. *$1.25. Century.
6–23708.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A handy and valuable compendium. The volume is, however, subject to serious criticism because of the mode or style of presentation.” F. I. Herriott.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 650w.
“He has compacted into comparatively few pages a wealth of information on his subject. Teachers and students of civil government in all parts of the country should find considerable use for the volume.” James A. Woodburn.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 153. Mr. ’07. 610w.
=Fallow, Lance.= Silverleaf and oak. $1.25. Macmillan.
The poems inspired by South Africa, the poems of the imperialistic voyager, are perhaps the best in this volume, which includes among others; The Southern cross; Spirit of hidden places, Day and night up-country, A Cape homestead, and a poem on the churchyard at Durban.
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 250w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
“He is apt to fall into banal cadences, and he is much under the influence of Mr. Kipling. The last verse of the poem on the churchyard at Durban seems to us to be the highest point reached by Mr. Fallow’s muse, and is no mean elevation.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
7–29552.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* =Fanshawe, Anne, lady.= Memoirs of Ann Lady Fanshawe, wife of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600–’72; reprinted from the original manuscript in the possession of Mr. Evelyn J. Fanshawe of Parsloes. il. *$5. Lane.
Of special interest as a family history rather than of value as a side light on social or political history of the time. “The most noteworthy part of the present edition is the elaborate notes, occupying far the larger part of the volume and giving full information about every thing and every person in any way alluded to by Lady Fanshawe.” (Nation.)
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“The editing of memoirs is a difficult task at best, but we have no hesitation in saying that these ‘Memoirs’ have been edited as they deserve. and they deserve well.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 943. S. 28, ’07. 1680w.
“These small blemishes count for nothing in comparison with the sterling merits of the book, which we feel confident will long maintain its place as the standard edition of the ‘Memoirs.’”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 1230w.
“The book remains curious, delightful as far as Lady Fanshawe is concerned, elaborate and admirable so far as we can absorb her editor.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1260w.
“The book must remain a standard work of reference for students of the period.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 610w.
“We are bound to say that most of Lady Fanshawe’s matter is dry stuff. But to all connected with the family this book, admirably printed, and illustrated ought to appeal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“The ‘Memoirs’ can make no claim to be a work of great literary merit, but though Lady Fanshawe was not a stylist, there is a directness about her writing that saves it from being wearisome.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Farnol, Jeffery.= My lady Caprice. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31282.
“A love idyl of the summertime. A healthy and active young boy plays a very important part in bringing together a couple of lovers in spite of a very worldly peeress.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The Imp is decidedly the most ingenious and interesting person in the book.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Should anyone read the book they will find it like rock candy—a thread to which sugar adheres.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 320w.
“Gay romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Farnsworth, Charles Hubert=, comp. Songs for schools; with accompaniments written by Harvey Worthington Loomis and B. D. Allen. *60c. Macmillan.
“Mr. Farnsworth has performed a much-needed service to public school music by collecting in one volume, well printed and bound and sold at a moderate price, the best of the traditional songs suitable for children’s voices. One finds here the more important national tunes, beautiful melodies of Stephen C. Foster ... fine old English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs, a few college songs, and a good selection of hymn tunes.”—Outlook.
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“One of the best books of school music ever issued, and occupies a place of its own.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 161. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Loomis’s accompaniments show imagination and much technical skill, though in some instances one might question whether he has not elaborated his treatment more than is in keeping with the ruggedly simple nature of the melodies. On the whole, this book is a long step in advance in the literature of school music.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
=Farrer, James Anson.= Literary forgeries; with an introd. by Andrew Lang. $2.25. Longmans.
7–26421.
With the avowed purpose of giving some idea of the large space which literary forgery occupies in the history and development of the race the author discusses forgeries of ancient books like the “Letters of Phalaris” and the “Consolatio” of Cicero, the works of C. J. Bertram, Psalmanazar, the Eikon Basiliké, Chatterton’s Rowley poems, Launder’s attempts to discredit the originality of Milton, the Shakespeareana of Ireland, and other forgeries.
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“Mr. Farrer has written an excellent book on a most interesting subject. It is Mr. Farrer’s worst fault that he has included some ingenious persons in his book, who are grievously out of place. Forgery is far too strong a word, for instance, to apply to Chatterton.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 234. Mr. 9, ’07. 1540w.
“Mr. J. A. Farrer has given us a curious and entertaining book, distinguished generally for the lucidity of its reasoning. It clearly is not intended to be a contribution to learning, since it lacks an index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 289. Mr. 9. 630w.
“If we are to judge the book by this grandiose purpose, it cannot be called a complete success. The reader who will decline to gauge the book by its author’s professed purpose will find it a very enjoyable ramble through an attractive by-way of literature.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 256. My. ’07. 470w.
“A quaint, lively, discursive book, a sort of Newgate calendar in the sphere of letters. Mr. Lang’s artistic introduction is full of himself, and therefore delightful.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1850w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 389. Je. 15, ’07. 1380w.
“Mr. Farrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public in his best style, has written a very readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.
=Faversham, Mrs. Julie (Opp).= Squaw man; a novel adapted from the play by Edward Milton Royle. †$1.50. Harper.
6–45695.
The characters in this story, adapted from the play, are a degenerate head of the house of Kerhill, the mother whose whole aim in life is to preserve intact the honor and dignity of her house, Jim Wynnegate, cousin to the Earl of Kerhill, and Diana, the latter’s wife. The scenes shift from London to the plains of western America, whither Jim goes to serve out a term of self-imposed exile, having assumed his cousin’s guilt of theft to save the Kerhill honor. The dramatic element predominates in love scenes, wild-west quarrels, and in the tragedy of devotion.
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“A pretty story, rapid in action, with some bright dialogue, but crudely written.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.
“The story is here told with spirit, and the narrative is full of variety and interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 120w.
“People who have been unable to see the play may find the book not devoid of the appeal which kept the drama on Broadway for almost an entire season.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.
Favorite fairy tales; the childhood choice of representative men and women, illustrated by Peter Newell. **$3. Harper.
7–34176.
An especially attractive volume of such old favorites as Cinderella, Beauty and the beast, The sleeping beauty, Jack and the bean stalk, Jack the giant killer, etc. Marginal decorations, sixteen full-page illustrations and a white fiber binding lettered in gold make the book a beautiful holiday gift.
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+ =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 1340w.
“The sixteen included are certainly among the best. Mr. Newell’s illustrations are, of course, delightful.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Fea, Allan.= Some beauties of the seventeenth century; with 82 il. **$4. Brentano’s.
Seventeen chapters, each of which is devoted to the personal history of some famous beauty or group of beauties most of whom belong to Whitehall in the days of the Restoration. “The facts about the various women—and the author has evidently been at some pains to obtain real facts to the best of his ability—are set forth in a simple narrative vein, making no injudicious pleas in defense of their actions and no superfluous attacks on the evident immorality of many characters.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ − =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 210w.
“Though not to be classed among strictly literary works, has the interest of a clever compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall, pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.
6–37204.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 489. Ja. ’07. 760w.
“The characters of the romance belong to screens or fans; it is the Japan of the popular imagination, and the scenes are effective in a sense, but there is nothing fine or interpretative about the writer’s touch.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 50w.
=Fernald, Chester B.= John Kendry’s idea. $1.50. Outing.
7–24157.
John Kendry’s idea embodied in such sentiments as “one’s aim should be to live as a conscious part of the whole continuous performance,” and “the one thing true of all life in motion, and the prime instinct of a live man is to go somewhere and do something” is best fostered in the wild free mountain-side surroundings which form much of this story’s setting. At times his idea is submerged in the deadly atmosphere of Chinatown. The pendulum swings between these two environments. On the heights he knows the companionship of a finely-wrought woman, at the foot of the mountain he confronts conventionality, inanities, nay more, plot and villainy.
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“It is a story of many startling surprises; in fact, there is an ambush upon nearly every page; that anything like it ever happened, or could happen, we greatly doubt, but that does not prevent its being a highly readable melodrama with a style that comes near to exhibiting distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“This is a lively novel of adventure without any of the sacrifices usually considered necessary in stories of this type. Also his characters, if a trifle heavily emphasized at times, still talk and behave as real human beings might conceivably comport themselves under such startling circumstances.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 510w.
“His new book has some new interesting glimpses of Chinatown in San Francisco but it is too involved in plot and too improbable in incident to be altogether satisfying.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 50w.
=Ferrero, Guglielmo.= Greatness and decline of Rome; tr. by Alfred E. Zimmern. 2v. *$5.25. Putnam.
7–25134.
Two volumes which contain “a history of the age of Caesar, from the death of Sulla to the Ides of March.” “To the author of these volumes history is drama, with its characters, its passions, its plot and its setting—above all with its exquisite irony, the analytical foreknowledge of a Greek tragedy-chorus of which he is the leader. Roman history is no longer a weary catalogue of wars and laws, of risings and assassinations, sprinkled with names which by their very schoolday familiarity have become meaningless. Still less is it the blind hero-worship of a single personality to whom is ascribed a purpose and ambition beyond all human likelihood.” (Acad.)
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“Signor Ferrero is a looker-on at this game of cross-purposes, who can use the eyes of his mind. He overlooks all the hands at once, and his book is the result of his observation, not of the platitudes of result, but of the human elements of process. In reading this book of his, we must feel that it is not the game that matters, but the players. If he completes his scheme as worthily as he has begun it, he will have written a more living, a more actual, history of Rome than any we have encountered up to now, and we can only hope for him and for ourselves that the task of translation may remain in Mr. Zimmern’s hands.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 479. My. 18, ’07. 1350w.
“A fresh and vigorous treatment of a great subject, with a new handling of the evidence, which is not indeed increased, but estimated afresh. The whole book, though on a trite subject, is very stimulating even in its vagaries.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 720. Je. 15. 1240w.
“Signor Ferrero is no safe guide in matters where sober historical criticism is needed. It must be added that in its English dress his work has many blemishes for which we must hold the translator responsible.” H. Stuart Jones.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 763. O. ’07. 1220w.
“The chief defect of the book is the inclination to disparage the deeds of Cæsar.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 830w.
“The reader ... cannot help being struck by the force with which Signor Ferrero puts his argument, and the admirable way in which he supports it from authorities. Other merits in the work can only be named, the insight into the social life and psychology of the Roman people, the full justice done to Lucullus and Cicero, and the excellent appendices. Mr. Zimmern has done his work most admirably, and has succeeded in reproducing, in a great measure, the vivacity of the original.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 1940w.
“His work is generously planned; it rests upon a familiarity with the ancient sources of information. It has literary quality and at times brilliancy.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 305. O. 3, ’07. 6000w.
“Dr. Ferrero argues his points with learning, ability, and entire familiarity with his facts. His thoughtful work is an important contribution to the literature of Roman history, and not less so because it is by an old Italian and based extensively upon the results of Italian scholarship.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 415. Je. 29, ’07. 940w.
“However familiar with Roman history one may be, he will find an attractive freshness throughout these volumes.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.
“One of the most noteworthy works of classical analytical history of recent years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 110w.
“The work of Signor Ferrero, to-day the foremost of Italian historians, is in a large measure justified. For he has something to say, though it is often hard to dig it out. He belongs to the newer school of historians, who trace not the conscious purpose of the hero, but the inevitable march of circumstances and tendencies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 718. Je. 8, ’07. 1590w.
=Fiala, Anthony.= Fighting the polar ice. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–44309.
In recording a two years’ fight with polar opposition north of the 81st parallel there are bound to be sensationally dramatic adventures. “It is a record of disaster and defeat. The expedition which was sent out by William H. Ziegler in 1903 to reach the pole from a land base in Franz Josef Land, lost its ship, made three attempts to cross the polar pack by sledge, none of which lasted more than two or three days, and returned home. The main achievements of the expedition were a reconnoissance by Mr. Porter in Zichy Land, and a series of meteorological observations conducted by Sergeant Long.” (Bookm.)
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“Although it does not contribute materially to the fund of Arctic knowledge, nor offer much in the way of adventure, it will be found popular with readers of exploration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.
“Defects notwithstanding, the volume is a valuable record of a singularly luckless expedition.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 1050w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 60w.
“The passages in the narrative which are likely to inspire popular interest are the leader’s description of a fall into a crevasse and Mr. Porter’s lively account of a tough sledge-journey.” Albert White Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 480. Ja. ’07. 1190w.
“Is doubtless the most interesting story of polar exploration yet written in this country.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 185. Mr. 16, ’07. 1500w.
=Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 420w.
“This is the most elaborate and richly illustrated record of polar explorations since Nansen’s books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Fiala’s volume is admirably illustrated and his maps are clear and fairly accurate; but he is too much oppressed with his troubles and with a strong sense of his responsibilities to be an entertaining writer.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Mr. Fiala’s book, while not contributing materially to the fund of Arctic knowledge, and while not supplying much in the way of adventure, may yet be found enjoyable by those who find in Arctic literature perennial charm. The proof revision is not perfect.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 44. Ja. 10, ’07. 780w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The volume is well-written. The glow of imagination is diffused through the narrative and the facts worth telling are well told. Few descriptions of arctic work, conditions, and experience have been more permeated with readable quality. Some of these experiences are of the first order of interest.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 1890w.
“Although unsuccessful in his quest of the Pole, the brilliant young leader of this expedition is to be congratulated on his distinct addition to the general fund of knowledge concerning the Arctic regions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“We cannot approve of some of the word pictures. They are obviously not scientific.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Ficke, Arthur Davison.= Happy princess and other poems. †$1. Small.
7–14629.
The title poem which is a poetical romance occupies the first part of this volume, it is followed by seven poems upon Fancy in the later days, The return to Avon, To sleep and other subjects. Fifteen poems grouped under the head of Pilgrim verses, and evidently inspired by Oriental wanderings complete the contents.
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“Mr. Ficke has to learn what to leave out, and to recognize that even in poetic style the happy phrase is that which flies like an arrow to the goal, not that which plays about the mark like a garden-hose, however charming the rainbow tints that sparkle in its spray.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“The title poem, written from a mind saturated with Tennyson, Browning, and Keats, contains many good lines and some fine images and premises better things to some in spite of such rhymes as ‘dawn’ and ‘on,’ and ‘love’ and ‘of.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 190w.
“There is an engaging wistfulness about it and often a rare sense of beauty. The verse does not in all cases show fulfillment, but promise always.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
=Fidler, Henry.= Notes on construction in mild steel; arr. for the use of junior draughtsmen in the architectural and engineering professions; with il. from working drawings, diagrams, and tables. (Longmans’ civil engineering ser.) *$5. Longmans.
7–26472.
A book for the junior draughtsman which is intended to aid him in “bridging the gap between the stress sheet and a working drawing that shall successfully pass the ordeal of criticism in the shops during construction and in the field during the erection of the structure. His plan definitely excludes any computations arising out of the application of mechanics to design, although hints are occasionally given as to theoretic considerations.” (Engin. N.)
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“While many useful hints are given to the designer regarding various details as influenced by practical conditions, some are very general and indefinite in character. The range of illustrative examples seems to be too narrow to accomplish the author’s purpose. A comparative discussion of different details used for similar structures would materially enhance its value to the young designer or draftsman. In this respect the latter part of the chapter on columns is decidedly the most valuable.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 730w.
=Field, Walter Taylor.= Fingerposts to children’s reading. **$1. McClurg.
7–11993.
These essays aim to interest parents, teachers, librarians, Sunday-school workers and all who are concerned with the education of children. The problem met is that of introducing a child to eminent writers through their simpler works.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07. S.
“One criticism of a general nature: the child in the author’s mind’s eye would seem to be rather precocious or priggish or both.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.
“Is admirably planned to awaken parents to the crying need of the best books in the home, and to give practical guidance in their selection.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 140. My. 25, ’07. 150w.
“An unusually useful book for parents who have children just beginning their education.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–32359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.
“She knows her story well, and she knows her people, and draws the vulgar, convention-ridden, lower middle class with their dull and sordid lives, made up so exclusively of raiment and food, with a certain truthful if incisive cruelty.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 200w.
=Finn, Frank.= Ornithological and other oddities. **$5. Lane.
“A collection of thirty-eight short articles, which have appeared in various English publications. All but six deal with birds, and some of the subjects are of unusual interest.” (Nation.) “The author’s aim has been to bring together all the out-of-the-way facts about the creatures he writes about, and his choice of instances has been a very happy one. The chapter on the ‘Toilet of birds’ may serve as a sample. Herein he discusses the uses of the birds’ oil-gland, or as he calls it, ‘pomatum-pot,’ and the still more curious ‘powder-puff’ and ‘comb.’” (Acad.)
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“There is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations are remarkably good.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 508. My. 25, ’07. 410w.
“Few of the separate sketches, touching as they do merely the fringe of the subject under discussion, run any risk of exhausting either it or the reader. Being drawn mainly from the aviculturist’s point of view rather than from that of the field naturalist, they should appeal specially to frequenters of zoological gardens and museums.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 900w.
“The width of his knowledge gives some of his essays unusual distinction.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 380w.
“The most valuable portion is that dealing with the birds of India, a country where Mr. Finn has spent many years.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
“Despite its title, which we cannot regard as other than cheap, Mr. Finn’s book is not to be passed over by anyone interested in observation and fond of birds. Distinguished by a note of individuality in the observations that are recorded and the speculations they give rise to.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 20. Jl. 6, ’07. 580w.
“It is to be wished that Mr. Finn would embody in fuller and more connected form the observations and experience which this book communicates in a series of more or less closely related reminiscences.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 457. O. 5, ’07. 1560w.
=Finnemore, John.= Jack Haydon’s quest. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A blood curdling tale “about a mining engineer, an expert on rubies, who, with a magnificent ruby in his pocket, was on his way home from India when he suddenly dropped out of sight in Brindisi. Thereupon his son and two adventurous friends, believing him to have been kidnapped and carried back ... to a remote part of India by a wicked native ... started out to rescue him. And if there is any sort of danger, by wind, or waves, or wild beasts, or wicked men, through which they did not wade up to their chins, it is merely because there was not room in the book’s 300 pages for another incident.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Experiences in Burma, which Mr. Finnemore recounts with skill.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Barring a marked tendency to verbosity, it is a well-told tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 210w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
=Finot, Jean.= Race prejudice, tr. by Florence Wade-Evans. $3. Dutton.
7–13005.
“M. Finot argues for national peace and fraternity and endeavors to find argument and reason for universal brotherhood in the underlying principles and traits of our common humanity.”—R. of Rs.
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“For larger libraries only.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 163. O. ’07.
“The general thesis of the writer is sound. Some of the individual illustrations and bits of evidence are probably overdrawn or not understood. His discussion of the situation of the negro in the United States is scarcely fair.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 155. Jl. ’07. 320w.
“On the whole M. Finot’s work reads smoothly in its English version. His employment of the destructive method to wreck the conclusions of anthropologists must be pronounced more entertaining than convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 770. D. 15. 220w.
“The net impression of the volume is that of an able but somewhat too zealous special pleading for a cause that certainly makes a philanthropic appeal.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 310w.
“The book is from first to last uncritical; there is no careful weighing or discrimination of authorities.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 910w.
“M. Finot’s volume, while it does not escape the exaggeration natural to an enthusiastic advocate, contains much matter that is of interest to students of international relations and racial history.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 592. Je. 27, ’07. 910w.
“We observe a few instances of the entire misapprehension of things in this country. The only ground for adverse criticism [of the translation] is in the fact that in some cases French words are retained for which there are fairly adequate equivalents in English. The work is one which urgently demands an index, the absence of which is much to be regretted.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 750w.
“Upon some questions of fact, with which the writer of this paragraph is familiar, the author has certainly failed to tell the whole truth with impartiality. While recognizing these drawbacks, we commend this book to the thoughtful consideration of all students of the race problem. It is far from furnishing a solution of that problem, but it throws no inconsiderable amount of light upon it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 452. O. 26, ’07. 840w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 140w.
=Fischer, George Alexander.= This labyrinthine life: a tale of the Arizona desert. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11590.
The aim of this book which portrays the struggles of a tuberculosis colony in Arizona is to present camp-life as it is, so that the invalid can judge as to whether he is in a position to undertake it; to show to the humanitarian and the sociologist that really great results in saving life and in relieving suffering can be achieved by a very moderate outlay; to indicate that it is the duty of the United States government to take the subject in hand following private initiative.
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=Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
“Although any effort to arouse interest in the care of consumption is entitled to respect, when a treatise of this kind masquerades as fiction, it is as fiction that it must be judged. From this point of view ‘This labyrinthine life’ lacks the vitality of the dime novel without greatly surpassing it in probability or workmanship.”
− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Fischer has managed to make out of his material a readable tale that is half novel, half a series of sketches, and wholly a disquisition upon consumption and its treatment in the desert region.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.
=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Fisher, George Park.= The reformation. Rev. ed. *$2.50. Scribner.
6–11660.
“The book has been reset in clearer type; the notes and the excellent bibliography show keen interest in the publications of the past ten years; tho it must be confessed that the literature of the previous twenty find a scantier recognition. The text shows many minor changes, but as the title-page states, it is simply a revision.”—Ind.
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“[The opinion of the reader of it] will necessarily be favorable, for it has long held a high place, in spite of a certain timidity in dealing with controverted points, an apologetic tone, which might suggest, though erroneously, that the convictions of the author are wavering and weak.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20. ’07. 100w.
=Fisher, Gertrude Adams.= Woman alone in the heart of Japan. $2.50. Page.
6–39433.
The author with only her camera for company ventured into the remotest corners of Japan and tells in an entertaining fashion of her experiences in the smaller villages and towns where western civilization has not yet penetrated.
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“We can only conclude that the authoress was employed by a yellow editor to paint the boldest of yellow races in her lividest colours. Her pages are lively, graphic, good-tempered—but never beautiful.”
− =Acad.= 73: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 180. Ag. 17. 340w.
“Her book is more frank and outspoken than the books of most men regarding this much visited land, and impressions may be obtained from it that are hardly to be gained from any other recent work.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 50w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Nature of capital and income. *$3. Macmillan.
6–32431.
“In five divisions Prof. Fisher treats of the fundamental concepts of capital and income, capital and income separately, then together, and, finally, there are summaries of the different divisions in the last two chapters. Like other books on the subject, such topics as wealth, property, utility, earnings, etc., are dealt with.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It must be said that while Professor Fisher presents his arguments in defense of his conceptions of capital and income with force as well as with confidence, it is doubtful whether they will carry conviction to any mind not already prejudiced in their favor.” Henry R. Seager.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 175. Jl. ’07. 2350w.
“Of little interest to the average citizen. We believe this work of Professor Fisher’s will tend only to add to the general confusion in political science.” Robert E. Bisbee.
− − =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.
“In point of thorough workmanship and nice finish, the volume stands in refreshing contrast to much—we had almost said most—of the economic writing in these days of unlimited license to produce undigested and undigestible literature. So workmanlike is his performance that it is with regret that we are unable to rate the work more highly as a contribution to economic theory. Highest praise should be given to the author’s discussion of capital and income accounts and of capital and income summation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 280w.
“The ‘dreary science’ has seldom received a breezier contribution, or one of more original treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 1370w.
“Has not only a scientific interest for the theoretical student of economics, but also a human and vital interest for the accountant and the business man.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
* =Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
A thorogoing hand-book which provides in a form available for students of economics and general readers a systematic treatment of the politics of international commerce. The author discusses the development of modern commercial politics, including free trade, protection, customs in all their phases, commercial treaties, public trade promoting institutions and navigation politics.
=Fisk, May Isabel.= Talking woman. Il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–20962.
Quite as tho he had in reality met this procession of chatterers and been “talked to death” does the reader lay down Mrs. Fisk’s book of monologues. It isn’t the woman with the forgivable little foible, but the voluble one who parades her own selfish interests to the exclusion of all others. The invalid, At the theatre, The new baby, A woman inquiring about trains, An afternoon call, The boardinghouse keeper and Her first trip abroad are suggestive of humorous as well as true-to-life possibilities for hits.
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“Amusing but trivial.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 20w.
=Fitch, Michael Hendrick.= Physical basis of mind and morals. $1. Kerr.
6–38885.
“A primer of socialism ... which makes an effective appeal to untrained thinkers, and for that reason deserves consideration by every one interested in exerting counter influence.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“On the whole, it must be said that, though the book abounds with sensible remarks and just criticisms of present social conditions, it is an example of that pseudo-science which has brought disrepute upon the social sciences among men of scientific training; and that the less of such books with scientific pretensions we have published, the better it will be for the social sciences.” A. W. S.
− + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 565. Ja. ’07. 200w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Fitch, William Clyde.= Her own way: a play in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.
7–17031.
The clever four act comedy which Maxine Elliott made famous is now brought out in book form, dedicated to the actress who created Georgiana Carley and endeared her wilful personality to all who watched her romping with her brother’s children, or successfully directing her own love affairs despite the intervention of fate and family.
=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= The truth; a play in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.
7–21331.
Becky Warder, in whom has been born and bred the habit of petty falsehood, learns in the course of these four acts to speak the truth. She fibs to her husband, whom she adores, about hats, about her gambler father’s needs, and finally about her meetings with Jack Lindon, the man from whom her best friend has separated. The net of white lies closes about her, her much enduring husband ceases to believe in her, and in her trouble she comes to realize the truth is essential to happiness.
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“A good play to ‘read ’round’ in a literary club.”
+ =Ind.= 63. 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w.
* =Fitzpatrick, Sir James Percy.= Jock of the Bushveld. **$1.60. Longmans.
The story of a brindled bull-terrier’s life and death, in which the development of dog-intelligence goes hand in hand with realistic dogfights and terrifying brutality. Many passages show the distinction between a real love of nature and a mere sportman’s interest in game. “Among the more exciting episodes are the killing of the ‘old crocodile’, the adventure with the leopard and the baboons, and that of the koodoo cow, in which Jock received the kick that nearly killed him, and left him stone-deaf for the rest of his days.” (Ath.)
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“The narrative has all the freshness and charm of a transcript of real life. Though it is strong meat for the little ones, boys of a larger growth and adults will find it difficult to lay the book aside till the last page has been reached.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 460w.
“To children it can be whole-heartedly recommended. By that select audience of older people who have been long waiting for a South African classic it will be welcomed with surprise and delight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1080w.
“Here is one of the really worth while books, one of the books which have the truth of life and nature in them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
=Fleming, Walter Lynwood.= Documentary history of reconstruction, political, military, social, educational, and industrial, 1865 to the present time. 2v. $10. Clark, A. H.
6–39739.
=v. 1.= The first of two volumes whose purpose is to make some of the sources relating to the political, military, social, religious, educational, and industrial history of the reconstruction period more easily accessible to the student and the general reader. “The six chapters of this first volume deal with the South after the war, theories of reconstruction, reconstruction by the president, race and labor problems, the Freedman’s bureau and bank, and Congressional reconstruction. It covers the years 1865–1868. Every chapter has a brief historical introduction, a topical bibliography and a collection of extracts grouped in analytical array.” (Ind.)
=v. 2.= The second volume of this documentary history “gives ample material to illuminate actual conditions under the Reconstruction governments, with special reference to race relations, political morality, and economic, educational, and religious matters during the carpet-bag régime, and the final undoing of Reconstruction.”—Dial.
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“The work has the limitations which are inseparable from all source-books of limited size, but it also has what many source books have not, namely, interest.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The material throughout is interesting and valuable.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 166. O. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Little can be said in the way of criticism upon the text of the book.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The verdict is that Dr. Fleming has produced a very fair and candid work which will be of great help to all who wish to get a first hand idea of the great and enduring problems arising out of the civil war and subsequent conditions.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 156. Jl. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, the work is very creditable to both publisher and editor. However, one can regret that there were not a few more editor’s notes. In several cases, these were really necessary to throw light on the documents used.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 10. Ja. 1, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To any one who wishes to make a thorough study of reconstruction, these volumes will be invaluable.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Professor Fleming’s collection will be invaluable to him when he comes to write his own great history of reconstruction. It can never be of fundamental value to another scholar.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 96. Ja. 10, ’07. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a massing together of illustrative material for future historical work it is of extreme value.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Like so many others, he succeeds better as a delver for historical material than as a writer of history. Not unlikely, his true vocation is to such work as went to the making of these volumes.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The most serious defect, as it seems to me, appears in the author’s readiness to accept current popular account of certain important facts without that thorough investigation of them, which he might have given.” Guy Stevens Callendar.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 205. Ag. ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Fletcher, Charles R. L.= Introductory history of England, v. 2, From Henry VII. to the restoration. *$2. Dutton.
A history for boys. “With remarkable skill Mr. Fletcher contrives to illustrate with the minimum of dry material those clear and balanced generalizations which form the main value of history as a school study. Problems and situations are summed up with the necessary concentration which the older text-books lacked, yet for the most part with scholarly precision.” (Acad.)
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“In spite of these unconventional views, on the whole Mr. Fletcher’s book is a valuable addition to our school literature, it is the outcome of the new historical school and puts the different personages before us in a way not to be found in any other school history.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 940w.
“The only blot on his book is the colloquialism, not to say the ‘slang,’ which mars many passages.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 490w.
“To Mr. Goldwin Smith alone, in his history of England, can we compare Mr. Fletcher for his gift of luminous succinctness. He has also the invaluable power of keeping the thread—the artist’s eye for what is salient. He gives us the bones that we ask for, but he does not forget to clothe them with life.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 256. Ag. 23, ’07. 1990w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s work has but two defects. He hates therefore to waste words, but he must sedulously avoid the temptation to make use of allusive compression. In the next place, there exists a possibility that our author may fail, as most of us do, to see exactly where his own strength lies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 210. S. 5, ’07. 1680w.
“The book is full of independent yet well-reasoned and generally reasonable opinion, and is illuminated by many excellent phrases.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 902. Je. 8, ’07. 1850w.
=Fletcher, Stevenson W.= Soils, how to handle and improve them. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–6647.
The author says, “This book is an attempt to set forth the important facts about the soil in a plain and untechnical manner. It is not a contribution to agricultural science, but an interpretation of it.” A popular treatment dealing with the nature and management of soils, soil water, soil builders, benefits of tillage, objects and methods of plowing, harrowing and cultivating, rolling, planking, hoeing, drainage, irrigation, fertilizers, etc.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“It is to be regretted, however, that the author has in many cases sacrificed accuracy to happiness of statement; that in the avoidance of technical terms and the use of everyday ones, he has not always succeeded in choosing such as were truly synonymous. Had his manuscripts been overhauled at certain points by a chemist, and at others by a biologist, it would have been the better.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
“A simple, direct, and comprehensive statement, serviceable for class use, but offered mainly for the better instruction of the vast American multitude of men, engaged in different branches of farming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“It is not altogether with equanimity that we view the recent habit of publishers to push American text-books of agriculture in this country. This preliminary grumble over, we can honestly recommend Professor Fletcher’s book as containing a well-reasoned practical account of the nature and benefit of such operations as ploughing, subsoiling, and cultivating.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 500w.
“A book which, by reason of its excellent illustrations as well as its facts is a useful addition to current agricultural literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 294. Ag. 31, ’07. 1860w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Source book of Greek history. *$1. Heath.
7–15133.
The author has aimed “to make a collection of sources that would reflect the life and thought of the Greek people, and, to some degree the evolution of that life and thought.” The extracts from Greek literature and the full page photographs of objects of Greek art chosen will be of use to the teacher as a means of introducing the pupil to Greek literature and art, and will also prove valuable as illustrative material when supplemented by narrative history.
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“Altogether, it is a work of a helpful and needed sort, particularly well edited.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 232. S. 12, ’07. 450w.
=Flint, Robert.= Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a keen, scholarly, comprehensive work, and presents arguments which no socialist can afford to pass by unchallenged. It contains however, one rather serious fault as a present-day document: more than half of it was written fifteen years ago, when the conservative socialists were less important in their class than they now are.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Patriot; tr. from the Italian with an introd. by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–444.
“The patriot” is a “vivid portrayal of social life in Italy in 1848, the year of the tidal wave of revolution. This was the period when Italian patriotism burned fiercest, the period when the idea of a united Italy was born in the national consciousness. It is the epoch of his country’s martyrdom which the novelist describes in these throbbing pages—the ten years of ‘deadly, cold, and awful silence stretching from the disastrous field of Novara to the glorious days of Magenta, Solferino, and San Martino (1849–59).’”—Lit. D.
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“The translation is excellent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21. ’07. 120w.
“It is the epoch of storm and stress when the iron hand of Austria prest most heavily upon Italian aspirations. It is no figure of speech to say that Fogazzaro’s characters are real. They are reality itself, palpitating with life, and are perfect types of that Italian patriotism which in our time founded a great nation.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The translation is admirably vigorous and idiomatic, a true conveyance, one surmises, of a forthright and undecorated original.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“The movement of the story is uneven, but the foreigner will hardly perceive that this unevenness is due to reality, but will deem it an artistic blemish.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 670w.
“As to the English edition of the ‘Antico,’ though the vigorous translation may tally with the dictionary, it does not always preserve the novelist’s originality of expression and atmosphere.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 460w.
“The story [is] rather diffuse and ill-balanced, however affecting.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The saint (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd. by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–30924.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though, to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.
+ + − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 310w.
“‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 121. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18183.
The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and religious life of today.
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“It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible, at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many minor characters of the book.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 890w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“Allowing for the inevitable loss that must result thru even a good translation from the delicate, impassioned Italian into the sterner, less flexible English, Fogazzaro’s novel is still a masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 300w.
“The title is rather misleading, since the author has apparently intended to represent not so much the moral life of an individual as the working forces distinctive of a period.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 351. Je. 1, ’07. 970w.
“As far as general interest as opposed to Italian interest in concerned, ‘The sinner’ far surpasses its predecessor, ‘The patriot’—‘Piccolo Mondo Antico.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“A work of art both high and clean. It is the first half of a two-volume novel, a work of power, which needs to be read entire.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 360w.
“The work is veritably great.” Vernon Atwood.
+ + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 490w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Woman; translated from the Italian by F. Thorold Dickson. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–32327.
The action of this novel, filled with a strange mixture of spiritual discernment, theories of reincarnation, and the idea of the vendetta, takes place at a castle hermitage owned by the count Caesar d’Ormengo. There falls to the count the care of a beautiful niece Mariana, morbid in fancies and self-analysis. She learns from a secret compartment in her escritoire that she is the reincarnation of an ancestor who went mad in those very walls because of inhuman treatment, and who commands that the one whose eyes shall fall upon the memorandum of her agony find the way for revenge. Involved in the scheme of vendetta are the count, Corrodo Silla, a young secretary whose life is linked to Mariana’s as the reincarnated lover, a German secretary and his daughter. The story waxes horrible as Mariana executes her mission of vengeance: she causes the death of the count, kills Silla and drowns herself. But through all is inexorable fate, to which, not conscious of her own power to baffle it, she yields.
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“In bare outline the story would appear merely a morbid tragedy. It is the treatment of Fogoazzaro that redeems and gives to it distinction.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 338. Ap. 6, ’07. 1400w.
“An experiment in mystic melodrama which is only saved at times from sinking to the level of pure sensationalism by the author’s fine delineation of certain personages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 370w.
“The translation is in excellent, idiomatic English.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 90w.
“The translation by Mr. F. Thorold Dickson is unusually good; but ‘The woman’ will hardly have the popularity of ‘The saint,’ even at this second attempt.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.
=Follows, George Herbert.= Universal dictionary of mechanical drawing. *$1. Eng. news.
6–42948.
“Mr. Follows bases his dictionary on the fundamental proposition that ‘Mechanical drawing is a language,’ with analogies to the English language, ‘for the positive conveying of exact information,’ and he defines its alphabet or lines, its words or views, and its books, or complete drawings. Numerous good examples are given of the uses and customs of the language (to continue the analogy) which are shown in 22 full page reproductions of standard drawings.”—Engin. N.
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“Taken as a whole the book is a distinct step towards standardizing the usages and practice of mechanical drawing.” George O. Oriok.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
Foolish almanak for anuther year. 75c. Luce, J: W.
6–43522.
This almanac is “the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov our languig by Theodor Rosyfelt.”
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“Shows no falling off from the excellent standard of foolishness set by its predecessor last year.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 40w.
=Foord, J.= Decorative plant and flower studies for the use of artists, designers, students, and others, containing 40 col. plates; with prefatory note by Lewis F. Day. *$12. Scribner.
Miss Foord’s “second series of full plates and analytical details, showing the pictorial elements in forty plants. The whole plant, the striking features of the branches, the details of inflorescence, the structure of the bud and flowers, and so on, are presented faithfully.” (Nation.) “Each subject is illustrated by a full-page coloured plate and numerous drawings of details in black and white, the former reproduced by a French stencil process as was the case with the first series.” (Int. Studio.)
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 350w.
“Though intended primarily for artists and designers, the beauty of the plates makes the volume one to be enjoyed for its aesthetic quality alone.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 229. Ap. 1, ’07. 320w.
“We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the plants he sees.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 490w.
=Forbush, William Byron.= Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25. Funk.
To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes, an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the teacher’s use.
=Forbush, William Byron.= Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–28480.
“It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written, made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.
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“The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.
“It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George F. Genung.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 477. Je. ’07. 650w.
“But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of Omar’s quatrain.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 200w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 68. Mr. 1. ’07. 210w.
“Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic insight as well as in its technical ability.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 290w.
“Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems odd and irreverent.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Ford, James L.= Wooing of Folly. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–34804.
“Folly is the daughter of a miner, who, having ‘struck it rich,’ comes to New York with the money and the ambition to ‘move’ among the Four Hundred. It is not a pleasant story, altho the heroine escapes into the arms of the right man. The purpose of the book is to expose the methods by which social sharks of New York live at the expense of their victims.”—Ind.
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“He writes well and venomously.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The book is neatly named, and the slight plot is well handled, but the whole would have gained in general interest as well as humor had it been based on a more sympathetic observation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Ford, Jeremiah D. M., and Ford, Mary A.=, eds. Romances of chivalry in Italian verse: selections with introduction and notes. *$2. Holt.
6–23070.
“From these specimens one can trace (1) the development of the romantic epic as a literary genre; (2) the growth of the Orlando story; (3) the characteristic qualities of Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto and Tasso. There are also fragments of the early ‘Orlando’ and of the ‘Libro volgar.’”—Nation.
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“The selections have been made with excellent judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 220w.
“Have well realized their aim to furnish appropriate reading material relating to this period.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 140w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Truegate of Mogador, and other Cedarton folks. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–35042.
Twelve amusing tales including besides the title-story; Of such as spin not, The king gander of sea-dog shoal, Captain’s folly, Across a picket fence, “Shiner” Liddel’s revel, The impressing of Looney Fipps, Seed to the sower, Julius, The romance of Windy Bill, The ride for his life, and Through the Needle’s eye. There are eight illustrations.
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“Vary greatly as to subject and value, but all are written with humor and occasional pathos.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Ford produces his artistic effects and wins the reader’s interest more by his portrayal of character, which is all done in sharp, vigorous outlines, and by his swift, vivid touch in setting forth backgrounds and surroundings than by the stories he has to tell.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. 3d ed. *$6. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Like the rest of the book, the new part has scarcely a page free from important errors (not to mention vital omissions). The bad arrangement and lack of revision involves much duplication, which the index but poorly remedies. The orthography is sometimes freakish, and Spanish terms are sometimes mistranslated. The statistical tables are very inaccurate in places; the chronological table also, as well is incomplete.” James A. LeRoy.
− − − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 388. Ja. ’07. 1660w.
“The volume is both lucid and impartial. It is, indeed, written in a spirit too purely academic to be altogether interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 560w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Stumbling block. †$1.50. Harper.
7–24156.
David Rivers is wrested from his young love-making by old Robert Henley, a self-constituted guardian, and is sent away to develop a promising literary talent. The success and failure of an impersonally detached ambition become the keynote of the story. Rosemary Crewe whom David left behind is the embodiment of the strong love motif of the tale while Violet Winter, the fascinating New York woman whom he marries, is the stumbling block. Violet contemplates full reparation to David in allowing a threatening disease to go unoperated upon. How complete may have been her sacrifice is left entirely to the reader’s imagination.
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“The style is distinguished, and the undercurrent of passion delicately handled. The hero, perhaps, is hardly worthy of the devotion he inspires; but the work should be successful as a study character.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 280w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Forman’s practise in writing novels is shown in his easy management of technical construction. His ideas have become mature; and his way of expressing them remains quite the most curious that is seen in any fictionist addressing the American reader. Rosemary is a dream heroine, faultless in all points. If only Mr. Forman applied the taste that chose her to his manner of writing, he would have written naturally, not corruptly, in a London patois, which is neither the King’s English nor that of William Dean Howells.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 520w.
“This novel belongs to that class turned out in quantity every year, to which no possible objection should be made, if—merely this—if any one can discover the smallest reason for reading them.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“The story has some idyllic and romantic passages which are pleasant enough reading in their way—though it is all very artificial—but two-thirds of the book is distressingly dreary and futile.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
“Original, but not really jolly.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 90w.
=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An exceedingly able treatment of an all-important theme.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 157. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value to the scholarly world.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 154. F. ’07. 1080w.
=Forrest, J. Dorsey.= Development of western civilization: a study in ethical, economic, and political evolution. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–20984.
A history in which the course of social evolution is traced. The analysis of the conditioning facts of European social history is made on the basis of their ethical, economic and political values. The work is the outgrowth of a demand for a fit setting of present-day development and conditions, and has entailed a vast amount of careful selection of materials.
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“The author’s method and treatment offer little ground for objection. What there is of it must be a matter of difference of emphasis rather than attack upon fundamentals. The thing of real moment is that he has given a new and important elucidation of the continuity of history.” John H. Coney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 117. O. ’07. 990w.
“If he had not stated its purpose in the preface no one would have ever discovered it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 290w.
“He fails to develop clearly the origins of modern states, the specific contributions of the renaissance and the reformation and the continuing activity of the religious and ethical impulse after the breakdown in the authority of the church. This last, indeed, is the most serious blemish in his scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 473. Je. 29, ’07. 510w.
“It is unfortunate that the author’s style falls below the dignity of his conception, the careful marshalling of his authorities and the breadth of his learning.”
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 548. S. ’07. 250w.
“The book is of value, not because it makes any substantial contributions to our knowledge of the past, but because it does reiterate the reasonable demand that our knowledge of the past should be put in such form that it can be used to explain the processes of social development, and to illuminate the problems of the present.” C. D.
+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 323. N. ’07. 660w.
=Forster, H. O. Arnold.= Army in 1906: a policy and a vindication. *$4. Dutton.
War 7–45.
A two-part survey dealing first with the problems and measures brought before Parliament by the author from October 1903, to December, 1906, as representation of the War department in the House of Commons; second with the impressions which the writer has been led to form of some of the more important of the British military problems.
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+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 683. D. 1. 3350w.
“Will no doubt be serviceable to American students of military economy who are desirous of knowing just how the British army stood before Mr. Haldane brought out his latest scheme of reform.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 180w.
“It is much to be regretted that a clever man who has enjoyed such exceptional opportunities for studying the administration of the army as a Minister of the Crown should not have been able to clear his mind of the dust and heat of contemporary politics and past controversies, and should not have treated his whole subject in the same spirit as that in which he has approached the question of the artillery.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 1870w.
“Those civilians and military men who are endeavoring to study the various schemes should not fail to add Mr. Arnold-Forster’s book to their libraries—special pleading though it be for a régime and policy of the past.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 110w.
“Whatever the views we may hold on the desirability of Mr. Arnold-Forster’s venture, there can be no question that an exceedingly interesting volume is the outcome. The book is unfortunately marred by the expression of some of the unduly arrogant sentiments to which Mr. Arnold-Forster is prone.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 740. D. 15, ’06. 1970w.
“Whether we agree with his view or no, his attack on the linked-battalion system is extremely well argued, while his impartial examination of arguments for and against an experiment with a Second line field artillery is of first rate importance.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 254. F. 16, ’07. 2260w.
=Foss, Sam Walter.= Songs of the average man. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–28179.
Plain poems for plain people. They strike the popular note, need no interpretation, and are written for the people who do the world’s work. Librarians who assembled at Narragansett Pier will remember “The song of the library staff” included in the group.
=Foster, Agness Greene.= You, and some others. **60c. Elder.
7–29536.
A little booklet of verse which sings of truth triumphant, of love the way and God the light.
=Foster, Frank Hugh.= Genetic history of the New England theology. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–8502.
A genetic history and not a mere record of opinion, in which are traced the rise, course and culmination of New England theology as a distinct school of thought. The concluding chapter discloses the secret of its collapse which began in 1880.
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“He has achieved a notable success. His analysis of the contributions of the several leaders of the movement is keen, his judgments are fair, and his grasp of the stream of thought as a whole and in its relation to the life of the nation is clearly evident.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Prof. Foster has appreciated his subject, and bestowed upon it the labor and pains which its importance deserves. His criticism of the work and writings of the successive theologians is clear and penetrating.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 670w.
“We miss, perhaps, the eager insight into certain meritorious aspects of the abandoned theology which characterized, for instance, Phillips Brooks’s book on Jonathan Edwards, but we are impressed by the conscientiousness of the trained historian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
“Some unguarded expressions ... raise doubt whether he has yet fully freed himself from the pull of the system whose collapse he records.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 120. My. 18, ’07. 440w.
=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–5947.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Every serious thinker ... may not accept all the solutions offered here, but at least he can form no judgment which is worthy of the respect of intelligent men unless he has weighed these in relation to his other beliefs.” C. A. Beckwith.
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 315. Ap. ’07. 1010w.
“In the volume under consideration one finds a combination of a genuinely philosophical and scientific temper with a warmth of religious feeling that makes the problems discussed living issues, and that gives a reasonable ground for the hope that in his constructive treatment the author will find a satisfactory solution of the problem which he has set himself.” Amy E. Tanner.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 253. Ja. ’07. 1670w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
6–39718.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a whole, it must be said that the book is a very successful presentation of the field the author sets out to discuss.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 610w.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 186. Mr. ’07. 170w.
“This is a pleasing, sensible, and useful book. If one were to pick flaws at all, it would be in regard to some of the references to European practices and personalities.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.
“A commendable feature of the work under review is that it clearly states not only general diplomatic questions but indicates some that are liable to become acute or perilous and that its author suggests solutions that seem eminently reasonable.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 318. My. 18, ’07. 3210w.
“Historically valuable, as well as interesting to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 280w.
“There is little to criticise in the book either as regards the point of view or the content.” J. W. Garner.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 137. Mr. ’07. 790w.
“It cannot fail to be of much interest to every American who takes an active interest in the affairs of the world.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 110w.
=Foster, William.= English factories in India, 1618–1621: a calendar of documents in the India office, British museum and Public record office; published under the patronage of His Majesty’s secretary of state for India in council. *$4.15. Oxford.
A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East.” “International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers, East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr. Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 879. Jl. ’07. 750w.
=Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 420w.
=Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward.= Electron theory: a popular introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11034.
A book which attempts in an elementary manner the consistent application of the all-embracing electron theory to the whole range of electro-magnetic phenomena. “A plea for the recognition of electricity as a fundamental natural quantity, and the addition of its unit, the electron, to the three fundamental units of length, mass, and time, of which all dimensional formulas are composed.” (Ath.)
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“On the whole the book may be heartily commended as a well-executed attempt to grapple with a new and difficult subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 585. N. 10. 1590w.
“Fournier d’Albe writes perfect English, agreeably and lucidly: and his book could be mastered by an intelligent boy. It would be easier to read, however, if the author would not interrupt his train of thought with paragraphs and even pages whose substance, however essential to the whole theory, forms no part of the matter he is endeavoring to communicate in the particular context.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 680w.
“A glance at the table of contents of this book is sufficient to show that it fills an acute want at the present time. In making this attempt, the author is to be congratulated both on the choice of his subject and the skill and originality he has displayed in accomplishing it. It is a relief to find that the treatment, though popular, is to the point, and little or nothing is said of these vague and vast speculations as to the ultimate constitution of matter which have unfortunately become identified with the words ‘the electronic theory.’” F. S.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 292. Ja. 24, ’07. 660w.
“A lucid popular account of the main outlines of the electron theory as it exists at the present day.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50. Little.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In view of the excellent purpose of the book, and of the general success with which that purpose is carried out, it may be unimportant to point out the slight defects of arrangement which we find in it.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=Fowler, William H.= Steam boilers and supplementary appliances: a practical treatise on their construction, equipment and working. $5. Scientific pub.
“The book does not differ materially from others of its class, but it is largely devoted to English types of boilers which are but little known in this country.”—Engin. N.
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“On the whole, the book may be considered a useful work of reference for those interested in the subject, but it will not take the place of any of the standard American works.”—William Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 910w.
=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. *75c. Meth. bk.
6–13696.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Too scanty to be of much value to a student, but accurate so far as it goes, and interesting to the ordinary reader of travel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S.
=Fox, John, jr.= Knight of the Cumberland, il. by F. C. Yohn. †$1. Scribner.
6–37963.
Mr. Fox has created “the very model of a story” (Nation) out of ingredients a little old and a little new. His knight is a “quaint, picturesque conception, a moonshiner’s son who seems to have been born out of his class or out of his century.” (N. Y. Times.) His heroine is known as “The Blight” because “nor man nor woman nor sixteen-hand-high mule could resist her.” (Nation.) There is an unusual commingling of tournament, duel, and very American stump-speaking. “And it is this very incongruity which renders the tale fascinating.” (Acad.)
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“Attractive and original tale.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 170w.
“Light, delightful little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 246. D. ’06. ✠
“The whole story makes glad the sense of symmetry, compact as it is of fun, manners, and motives, as they flourish in the land that we almost think of as created by Mr. Fox.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 180w.
“The story is a delight both in conception and literary execution.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 480w.
“It bears the mark of Mr. Fox’s charming talent, the fresh feeling, the naïve directness, the sympathy with everything that it touches.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“Is but a pretty sketch that takes an hour in reading and leaves the fiction-hunger quite unappeased.” Vernon Atwood.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The work is of the slightest possible texture.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Little flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars; tr. by W. Heywood; with an introd. by A. G. F. Howell. 35c. Crowell.
This translation of a succession of incidents in the great work of St. Francis and his friars is uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
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“Mr. Heywood’s rendering is far and away the best and most complete of those before the public, and he omits nothing that can make it useful or easy of reference.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.
“Mr. Heywood’s translation strikes us as admirably done upon the whole, and it takes strength from the fact that he is, so far as we are aware, the first translator to keep before him and to use the Latin original of the ‘Fioretti.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
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