The book review digest, Volume 03, 1907
Part 1 of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York
as seen by a traveler from Altruria. The tall, bleak apartment houses, the social distinctions, and the greed for gain impress him so strongly that he says at the very outset,—“If I spoke with Altrurian breath of the way New Yorkers live, I should begin by saying that the New Yorkers do not live at all.” Part 2 contains an account of Altruria as seen by the American wife whom he takes home with him, and who has a difficult time adjusting her American ideas to a country which has neither money nor social gradations, and, where lord and farmer work happily for their living, side by side.
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“Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w.
“He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
=Bookm.= 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w.
“In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w.
“We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost faultless little piece of irony.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w.
“The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This, however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of Altruria.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.
“Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w.
“Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
“Somehow, it leaves the reader not half so kindly disposed toward his fellow-men, not half so eager to make this a better world, as he was after reading ‘Lemuel Barker’ or ‘Silas Lapham.’” Vernon Atwood.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“It embodies much cogent criticism of every important phase of American life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Howells is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes, and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits his distinguished talent in an unfamiliar light.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 836. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=Hoy, Mary Lavinia Thompson (Mrs. Frank L. Hoy).= Adrienne. $1.50. Neale.
6–46252.
A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary world of waiting and anxiety.
=Hoyt, William Henry.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–15929.
A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.
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“The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a history of a controversy.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 400w.
“The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation, conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse the absence of an index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 120w.
* =Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.).= Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators. (Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.
7–36125.
An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.
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“It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man, who ‘wants to know.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Hubbard, Frank McKinney.= Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il. **$1. Bobbs.
7–15475.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams” themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.
=Hubbard, George H.= Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–16710.
“Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.
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“These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree of literary skill.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 79. Jl. ’07. 20w.
“Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof.= Water-works management and maintenance. $4. Wiley.
7–21739.
“Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly the various features of management and maintenance, but also necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part 3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07.
“The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 294. S. 12, ’07. 1720w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 517. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
=Huber, John Bessnes.= Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.
6–17682.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 493. D. 15, ’06. 980w.
=Huchon, Rene.= George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5. Dutton.
W 7–149.
With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write “a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the interpretation of his works.”
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“The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing. When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted, with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the intimate side of the poet’s character.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 286. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 407. Ap. 6. 2090w.
“At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 39. Jl. 16, ’07. 1290w.
“To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance. And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English readers.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21. ’07. 1370w.
“Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 1170w.
“Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a better book.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 491. Ag. 10, ’07. 1790w.
“Is distinctly original and unconventional.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 41. S. 7, ’07. 1720w.
“Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a piece of social history the work is full of value. Our main praise, however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon has made his quotations.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 462. Ap. 13, ’07. 1020w.
* =Huck, A.= Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.
An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not blind the student to the special characteristics of the several evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the case with the older manuals.”
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“The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition, 1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and enriching it.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 190w.
“This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in existence for historical students.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 140w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.
7–13922.
The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the present and perpetual authority of conscience.
=Hudson, Charles Bradford.= Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and Peru. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–32156.
A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long and strikes us as being very dull.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Crystal age. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’ brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader free to suppose anything.”—Nation.
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=Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1060w.
“Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= England and the English: an interpretation. **$2. McClure.
7–19051.
The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.
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“The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative. The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows more trying to the reader as he advances.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w.
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w.
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its aim.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph. *75c. Dutton.
6–1911.
Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr. Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)
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“Is a model of what such a study should be.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well written.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 240w.
“A worthy addition to that attractive series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 180w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea, Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.
=Hugo, Victor.= Poems; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.
6–43525.
A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an introduction, biographical summary and notes.
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+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Victor Hugo’s intellectual autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.
7–21356.
A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.
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“Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us, was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 38: 263. S. ’07. 9000w.
“An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 238. Ag. 31. 600w.
“A graceful and scholarly translation.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 610w.
“A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only critical but to some extent biographical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 170w.
“The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of jerky phrases.”
− =Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic force and white hot rush of his burning words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1050w.
“The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 783. Ag. 2, ’07. 1470w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w.
“We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified for his task.”
− =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50. Putnam.
6–35979.
The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)
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“By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 662. Ap. ’07. 790w.
“A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the successive phases of social life on the river.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with picturesque and pungent style.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness, but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 220w.
“Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s series.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
“There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 910w.
“On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value and interest.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 2300w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic. *$1.50. McClurg.
6–41537.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 721. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history, and is well printed, as its text merits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–32372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 765. D. 15. 1720w.
“Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 43: 85. Ag. 16, ’07. 900w.
“One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26. ’07. 1440w.
“In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people, it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 620w.
=Huling, Caroline A.= Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1. Fenno.
7–508.
In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.
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“The advice is sensible, if trite.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1220w.
=Hull, Walter Henry=, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency; being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–17036.
The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since 1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in connection with studies in banking and currency.
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“The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 494. O. ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 296. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
“It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard textbook.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 480w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 150w.
“The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 642. N. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Through Portugal. **$2. McClure.
7–25498.
The author says that this volume is a self-prescribed penance for his former injustice toward the most beautiful country and the most unspoiled and courteous peasantry in Southern Europe. So he makes amends for hitherto rating the Portuguese as a Spaniard without any good qualities. His greatest interest centers in such places as “Bussaco, Thomar and Leiria, of which he gives a vivid series of impressions, picturesque, alert, and eminently good-humoured.” (Ath.)
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“His vivid description of the scenery and the people, and his observations on art, history and archaeology make up a book of more than usual interest and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“The easy, flowing style of the book takes one from one scene to another without effort, and the vivid descriptions enable the reader to ‘see without traveling.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 140w.
“The book is charmingly illustrated, and abounds in engaging, sincere enthusiasm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 190w.
“Whatever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto, Bussaco, Coimbra, Alcoboca, Cintra, Lisbon, or places of lesser note, is done with a well-considered and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually graceful style.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“It ought to be a revelation to those who know Portugal only from a guide book, or who think of it only as an unimportant strip of seashore to be neglected for royal Spain.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The fault we have to find with the clever sketches in colour is that they are somewhat faint in tint and rather too much en vignette.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=Hunt, Thomas Forsyth.= How to choose a farm. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26525.
“The chief elements considered are: First, character and topography of the soil; second, climatic conditions, including healthfulness and water supply; third, location; fourth, improvements. A complete and somewhat technical classification of the soils of the United States is given, along with the crops best adapted to them.... The subject is treated from an economic point of view, abundant statistical data being given in support of statements.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The book suffers through an attempt to cover too wide a field. The style is ordinary. Though at times involved, it is generally lucid. The subject is treated practically and dispassionately. The book is valuable to persons considering the possibility of owning or living on a farm.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’67. 310w.
“A remarkable volume for the amount of information that has been compressed without loss of enthusiasm and dryness of style.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 270w.
=Hunt, Rev. William=, ed. Irish parliament, 1775; from an official and contemporary manuscript. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–26445.
An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction describing the regime of the time.
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“The volume adds less than might be expected from a document introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w.
“As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious study.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w.
“Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”
+ =Nation.= 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w.
“The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of the state of politics or of political morality in the period immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in familiar authorities.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 368. S. 21, ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 98: 544. Ap. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“We must confess that Mr. Fisher’s portrait of Henry VII. is not satisfactory.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 159. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We leave his book convinced of its very great historical, and we might add literary value.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 247. Mr. 9, ’07. 2270w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He writes, not as an advocate pleads, but as a judge sums up. And the outcome is real history.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 722. Jl. 27, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In some respects, in a freshness and newness of viewpoint, the volume has an advantage over its predecessors. For this, however, the author must share the credit with the peculiar opportunity offered by the field assigned him. This part of English history has been somewhat neglected by English historians of the last generation.” Benjamin Terry.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.)
“One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 165. F. 10. 920w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent, and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much that is proper matter for the historian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic problems which loomed large at this period.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.)
“There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 471. O. 19. 2080w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If, however, we are hardly prepared to endorse all the opinions which are scattered through Mr. Brodrick’s pages we gladly acknowledge the clearness and accuracy of his narrative. We do not know where it is possible to find a better summary of English history during the first third of the nineteenth century.” Spencer Walpole.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 183. Ja. ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The book is written from a large and almost exhaustive study of all available sources.” James Gairdner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 364. Ap. ’07. 1980w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Oman’s clear and forcible narrative presents a review of the period which is in all its main aspects substantially sound.” C. L. Kingsford.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 576. Jl. ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [fifth] volume ... contains what is probably the best account of Henry VIII yet written.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1527. Je. 27, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)
“Able and exhaustive book. It will be an unfailing resource of the student, while it proves the despair of the captious critic; for its author can never be found nodding, and he puts forward no plausible theories to serve as a target for the enemy’s bullets.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The best history that has yet been written of the reigns of the first two Tudor princes. Whether he looks for instruction or for amusement, the reader who takes up Mr. Fisher’s book will not be disappointed.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 21. Ja. 18, ’07. 2010w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Within the limits thus prescribed for him, Mr. Montague has produced a model book, and if sometimes these limits seem irksome to the reader, they must have been more so to the writer.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 194. Je. 21, ’07. 1360w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Although the high praise bestowed on this series in earlier notices must be continued yet as the volumes accumulate certain deep seated weaknesses begin to show more conspicuously.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 720w. (Review of v. 7.)
“His present work is authoritative, and based upon the results of the most recent scholarship. It is a valuable contribution to the literature of one of the most significant periods of English history.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 880w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A little of Macaulay’s art would make his reliable history more entertaining.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Perhaps an over-zealousness for detail is manifest, here and there, as, for example, in the discussion of foreign relations, but even where detail is most abundant the sense of continuity and unity and interest is preserved. And, on occasion, Mr. Fisher shows himself capable of rising to heights of superb eloquence.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is regrettable to find economic conditions practically unnoticed.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Professor Tout has done his work well; his volume is essentially military and narrative history, accurate enough and full enough, it may be hoped, to satisfy students and general readers for many a decade.” Charles A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 700. D. ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A clear, scholarly and adequate account which will find a serviceable place in the literature of the period.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 188. Mr. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Unhappily the volume is marred in many places by vehement expressions and loose characterizations which seem unworthy of so dignified a work.” Charles A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 522. S. ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 11.)
“As a narrator ... he is admirable; his style is clear and, without striving after epigram, epigrammatic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 559. My. 4, ’07. 1430w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We must say, however, that Professor Montague’s flag is hoisted at once, and that there is scarcely an attempt to be fair to the side he does not like. We are not imputing to Mr. Montague any deliberate ‘suppressio veri.’ But his history has a particular focus. It proceeds on the assumption that one man may steal a horse while another may not look over the hedge.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In style, judgment, and exhaustive knowledge of sources it leaves little to be desired.”
+ + + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A broad, accurate, restrained and scholarly book. Admirable in its reliance on this authority and objectivity of the records, it is, however, a book which will appeal to the scholar rather than to the general reader.” Chalfant Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 10: 324. N. ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Huntington, Arria Sargent.= Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. **$2. Houghton.
6–39740.
“In a career so varied as that of Dr. Huntington’s there is much of general interest. Nourished in what might be termed evangelized Unitarianism, and educated by orthodox Congregationalists, he became pastor of a Unitarian church, and subsequently preacher to Harvard University and Plummer professor of Christian morals. On change of view he was made rector of an Episcopal church in Boston, and later, for thirty-five years bishop of central New York.”—Nation.
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“The biographer has produced a pleasing picture of one of the most conscientious and useful men of the American church.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“This book is for the few—for those who find a delight in simplicity and clarity and stability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 860w.
* =Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
A journey in central Asia illustrating the geographic relation between physical environment and man, and between changes of climate and history. Mr. Huntington gathers up the various hypotheses relating to geography, meteorology. archeology, folk-lore and history and combines them into a consistent geographic theory of history. The book is the outcome of personal adventure from which an analytical mind has deduced material which is a worthy contribution to science.
=Huntington, Helen.= Days that pass. **$1.25. Lane.
7–9785.
Some fifty little verses, slight and pleasing.
* * * * *
“All thoughtfully fashioned and delicate in expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 110w.
“A volume of slight but graceful verse.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.
=Hurll, Estelle May.= Portraits and portrait painting, being a brief survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day. il. $2.50. Page.
7–30411.
In this survey the aim has been to show what has been contributed to the art of each age and by each nationality as well as by the several most notable portrait painters. The work sketches history, temperament and types, throwing sidelights on subjects as well as painters. Some famous portraits are included among the illustrations.
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“The ability ... to hold the reader’s interest by a crisp style, and by a skilful presentation of salient points and large issues, is evident throughout the book, which is an unusually satisfactory example of its class.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“She has the valuable gift of awakening promptly the desire to examine at first hand the subject of her description.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 280w.
=Huston, Paul Griswold.= Around an old homestead; a book of memories. *$1.50. Meth. bk.
6–39445.
“This ‘book of memories,’ though it celebrates a particular house, will serve to stir home memories in the heart of anyone who has lived in the country. It has much to say of the house itself, the open fire, the orchards, the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities of farm life.”—Dial.
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“A finely-made book, whose open print and abundant pictures will especially delight old people.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a sympathetic book to handle as well as to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Hutchinson, Alfred L.= Limit of wealth. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–22404.
A narrative based upon a report made in 1944 by a committee appointed by the Eurasian conference, which represented the allied powers of Europe and Asia to investigate the system of government in the United States, by which that nation had so quickly outclassed the old nations of the world. The narrative presents the findings of this committee and shows us a United States based upon Utopian laws, the most significant being that which allows the accumulation of wealth by any individual but which limits his ultimate sale of it.
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=Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 350w.
=Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 160w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Hutchinson’s book is at least written by one who understands present conditions. From these conditions he draws logical conclusions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
“On the whole, we think these publications are more useful in giving the student of the present economic conditions a historical background than in giving to the reformer any clear light on methods for their improvement.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley.= Our country home. **$2. McClurg.
7–36734.
A delightful account of how two people—a man who had always wanted a farm, and a woman who had never wanted a country house—were captivated by a bit of Wisconsin woodland bordering upon a lake. They immediately become the owners of seventy-two acres of this wilderness and in a few year bring about a wonderful transformation, each step of which combining the artistic with the practical, is recorded in this fully illustrated volume.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, giving many suggestions to readers who are interested in having country homes of their own.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 300w.
=Hutchinson, Jonathan, jr.= Leprosy and fish eating: a statement of facts and explanations. *$3.25. Keener.
The object of this work is stated in the preface to be “to carry conviction to the reader that the fundamental cause of the malady known as true leprosy is the eating of fish in a state of commencing decomposition.”
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 580w.
“In criticising Mr. Hutchinson’s theory we do not in the least desire to belittle his work, which is of the greatest interest, and his book is a valuable contribution to the epidemiology of leprosy.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 412. Mr. 14, ’07. 740w.
“We can lay down Mr. Hutchinson’s book with a feeling of greater respect for his perseverance than for his judicial capacity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
=Hutchinson, Rollin William, jr.= Long distance electric power transmission; being a treatise on the hydro-electric generation of energy; its transformation, transmission and distribution. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–10589.
“One-third of the book is devoted to the principles and practice of hydraulics.... The electrical section of the book opens with a brief study of the electric generator and its accessories.... Following this is a long chapter on the transmission line.... Transformers, motors and rotary converters have each a separate chapter.... The book closes with a few illustrations from actual practice of transmission-plant construction.”—Engin. N.
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“As an epitome of the subject indicated in the title, the book is excellent. It is well-balanced in several parts and leaves the reader with an impression that the problem of power transmission is a large one.” Henry W. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The treatment is concise, the language clear, and the mathematics elementary. A work in which theory and reliable every-day experience are well and judiciously combined.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 270. Je. ’07. 230w.
* =Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= The halo. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–36982.
An unusual situation is handled by the author here. To free herself from drudgery and poverty as well as the retinue of ineligibles which her mother has forced upon her, an impulsive girl engages herself to a mere boy and later finds out that it is his father, the wizard of the violin, whom she loves, notwithstanding the fact that there is a wife. “The book is really a study of the artistic temperament.”
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“There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception, nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added greatly to the whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w.
“Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation. The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks, somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w.
“The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–38553.
The hero, who is something of a cad, proposes to three girls in one evening and is refused by each in turn. A fourth proposal, one which promises an acceptance, he does not make. The explanation of all this forms the story.
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“The book is a slight rollicking comedy of English life, told with much vivacity and considerable skill in the invention of incident.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
“Apart from its holiday make-up, the novelette has little to commend it.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–52.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G. Brownell.”
− =Dial.= 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w.
“A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.
7–11548.
A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)
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“As a means of arriving at this result he has invented a contemporary of his hero who shall tell the tale for him. The idea is ingenious and gives rise to some pages of interesting reflection and comment by the old humanist in the course of his narrative. Yet in this very scheme lies also the initial weakness of the book.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 920w.
“Although the memoir is a fiction the author has held loyally to historic fact and shows remarkable familiarity with the authorities as is evidenced by notes and references.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. 110w.
“Alternately we are tantalized by our author’s refusal, as historian, to go one step beyond his documents, and annoyed by his airy readiness, as novelist, to brush aside a difficulty, without making the slightest effort to clear it up.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 97. Ja. 26. 1420w.
“A product that is neither history nor romance something that historians will not read because they must regard it as fiction, while novel readers will avoid it because it advertises itself as history. In his attempt to be too clever Mr. Hutton has overreached himself.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1151. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“This is an excellent book, worthy to be read by every lover of good English, and unquestionably the finest piece of work Mr. Hutton has as yet done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 828. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Might perhaps have been as well expressed with slightly less evident straining after effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 210w.
“There is but one real blot in Mr. Hutton’s fine work of art, and that should be instantly painted out or painted over; Sanseverino describes as an eye-witness a supposed brutal murder by Sigismund of an Ultramontane lady.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 270. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“It is an artistic piece of work, with a few flaws indeed, for only a consummate artist could have kept it quite on the same level throughout.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 214. F. 9, ’07. 1500w.
=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
7–2429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Such virtues as the merely careful and temperate writer, whose gifts do not include art or style, may command, his book has.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w.
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w.
=Hyde, Henry M.= Upstart. †$1.50. Century.
6–34689.
“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally ‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized the people.”—Outlook.
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“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not without value as a document of that phase of American life that is seen in the Middle West.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.
“The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is the best thing in the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w.
“Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Hyde, Rev. James.= Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.
The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith, the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in getting back to its original foundation.
=Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45335.
“Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed, who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any schoolboy.”—Spec.
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“This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its companions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w.
“On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume. He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest pitch, and the book is well put together.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w.
* =Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of the Jordan.”—Ath.
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“Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader with something of the spirit of the past.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w.
“Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33631.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w.
+ =Arena.= 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w.
“Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
5–17300.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w.
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=Ibsen, Henrik.= Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.
6–39770.
An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings, Pretenders; Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler, Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead awaken.
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“It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 288. Mr. 23, ’07. 1390w. (Review of v. 2–4, 6 and 7.)
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1–11.)
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10, 760w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and 7.)
=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 8.)
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the first editions.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1495. D. 20, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2, 6 and 7.)
=Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative translation in English, and the series of introductions which William Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the dramas that we have in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 824. O. 3, ’07. 250w. (Review of v. 5, 9 and 10.)
“Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern dramatic technicians.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–11.)
“Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy of text.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey of Ibsen in English.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Ja. 3, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and 7.)
“Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 417. My. 2, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 7 and 9.)
=Nation.= 85: 170. Ag. 22, ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 477. N. 21, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.
5–42524.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to say ... that the translators have done their work in a most praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 477. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–36472.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 94. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of references.”
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
“It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 676. Mr. 21, ’07. 790w.
* =Inchbold, A. Cunnick.= Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.
7–29089.
Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of sunshine and warmth in both.
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“The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up for an authority.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 809. D. 22. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, *07. 20w.
“[Has] a compelling charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Indiana state teachers’ association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley. 50c. Bobbs.
6–16282.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton=, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.
6–46366.
A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and refining of lead.
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“Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication. The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats, but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Inge, William Ralph.= Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–8274.
In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)
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=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 359. D. 27, ’06. 570w.
“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42426.
“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary nature.”—Lit. D.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 295. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.
“The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
“We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us the genuine thing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 140w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.
6–18321.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country: we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good, and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our neighbors.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 201. F. 16. 90w.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 176. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 310w.
=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.
6–42943.
“The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
“In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works, where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and ostentatious irony.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott.= Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.
The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Innes, Charles Herbert.= Air compressors and blowing engines, specially adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W 7–82.
“The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers, and compressors.
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“While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 634. D. 13, ’06. 570w.
=Nation.= 84: 117. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Innis, George S.= Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18306.
This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about John Wycliffe and his work?”
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“It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain, busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing essential seems omitted.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 576. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
=Ireland, William W.= Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.
6–2311.
“The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist controversy.”—Ind.
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“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which he moved.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w.
“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained to the end.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”
+ − =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.
“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w.
“Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 1740w.
“Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 87. F. ’07. 670w.
“If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on the period.”
+ − =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.
“It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 304. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
* =Irving, Henry Brodribb.= Occasional papers, dramatic and historical. **$1.50. Small.
Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of Chief Justice Scroggs.
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“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best yet written.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these epithets in no common degree.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–41958.
“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of recent news interest.”—Outlook.
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“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of ‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.
“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more than the light amusement of a passing hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22412.
In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic; Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West Point, a reign of drill-terriers.
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“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely surrounded by dull prose.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 442. Jl. 13, ’07. 300w.
=Irwin, William Henry.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco. *50c. Huebsch.
6–23693.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart, and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual visitor never failed to feel.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 60w.
Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29584.
A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands, Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of the story-teller while sojourning in them.
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“This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with avidity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 110w.
=Ives, George Burnham.= Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5. Houghton.
7–10313.
“By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr. Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 1260w.
“This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes guilty.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 218. Ap. 6, ’07. 2150w.
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* =Jacberns, Raymond.= Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)
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=Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present. **$4. Macmillan.
6–33596.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the subject.” George Melville Bolling.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w.
“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w.
“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof. Jackson of what he actually saw.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w.
“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w.
“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w.
“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w.
=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–16754.
Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches. It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.
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+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side. *$6. Dutton.
7–13428.
“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches, dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic interest, telling something, too, about the people and their characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as well as the political and national history of the places visited. The illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans, etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
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“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful, though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w.
“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w.
“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would atone even for a lapse in grammar.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w.
“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and here we feel him thoroughly at home.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he were, indeed, a many-sided man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless, we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the color of the history described were as equally evident as its outline.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise. One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this region.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.= Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30868.
Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is taught thruout the story.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w.
“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the little readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w.
=Jackson, Henry Latimer.= Fourth gospel and some recent German criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.
“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity, criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w.
“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine problem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.
“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have spoken the last word on this important subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the theology of the fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Jackson, Holbrook.= Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.
W 7–187.
“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian, playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr. Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.” (Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama, the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy, that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr. Shaw’s personality.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w.
“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially, highly entertaining.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has performed the kind office very fairly well.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good many of them.”
+ =Nation.= 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
=Jackson. Lucie E.= Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.
7–22917.
A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced, eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and servants when the mother dies.
* =Jacob, Robert Urie.= Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean cruise. **$1.50. Winston.
7–9812.
In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean districts.
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“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–16484.
“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.
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“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and ‘Sea urchins.’”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events, where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to be, and so we welcome their appearance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w.
“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w.
“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=James, George Wharton.= Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern California). **$5. Little.
6–43916.
Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of “strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.” He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to discriminating readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w.
“A remarkable and valuable work.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w.
“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert contain as many surprises as any in the book.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w.
“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w.
“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w.
“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w.
=James, Henry.= American scene. **$3–Harper.
7–5704.
After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between these covers.
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“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added carelessness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w.
“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands for.” James F. Muirhead.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w.
“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression. They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w.
“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American scenes.’”
− =Ind.= 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w.
“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a single book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.
“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side. Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w.
“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.
=Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w.
“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the ‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their aspiration and their content.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w.
“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute intellectual pleasure.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w.
=James, William.= Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–20643.
“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good; and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)
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“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w.
Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.
=Bookm.= 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w.
“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w.
“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w.
“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w.
“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w.
Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.
=No. Am.= 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w.
“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w.
“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout, and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed. And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w.
“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w.
=James, Winifred.= Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–23302.
“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent young person who means to make the best of things, and for this purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.
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“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which renders the least important of them a personality.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development of the story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w.
“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been worse love stories—many of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.
“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.
A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton, found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American history. per. v. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)
=v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G.=, eds. Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot.
6–36882.
This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and “The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.
=v. 2. Burrage, Henry S.=, ed. Early English and French voyages, 1534–1608.
6–44365.
The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane, White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.
=v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H.=, eds. Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.
7–10607.
“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
=v. 4. Grant, William Lawson=, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604–1618.
7–22899.
This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s work as explorer and colonizer.
=v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner=, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.
7–33220.
“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard, John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved monarch.”—Dial.
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“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his interest.” P. Lee Phillips.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by G. P. W.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of source publications.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Dial.= 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5)
“There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Nation.= 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nation.= 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of explanation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points and illuminating obscure passages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The selection and editing could not, in fact have been better done for the purpose which the editors had in view.” H. Cabot Lodge.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1289. D. 21, ’06. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It seems a pity, however, that room was not found for the Ribaut, Laudonnière, and Le Moyne narratives, having to do with the early and ill-fated French settlements in Florida and South Carolina.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The reprint is well adapted to the use of both the special student and the general reader of history. From the standpoint of the latter, however, it is to be regretted that Mr. Grant has not seen fit to write a more detailed biographical introduction.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“One could wish that President Tyler had expanded his introductory comment on certain of the documents.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Janet, Pierre.= Major symptoms of hysteria: fifteen lectures given in the medical school of Harvard university. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–23068.
A summary of the psychological research work of the French in the subject of hysteria is given in this series of lectures. They treat of Monoideic somnambulisms, Double personalities, Convulsive attacks, Motor agitations, Paralysis, The troubles of vision, of speech, and other phases of the disease.
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“On the whole, one may say that this is the most readable and interesting book on clinical psychology since the days of John Abercrombie and his ‘Intellectual philosophy.’” Irving Wilson Voorhees.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 1230w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the middle ages. v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Janssen has done a service for Catholic scholarship which it would be hardly possible to overestimate.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 566. Ja. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.= Santa Fé’s partner. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29432.
Palomitas, bearing a striking resemblance to Wolfville, is the scene of the pranks played by Santa Fé Charley, a professional gambler who frequently assumes the garb and speech of a minister, and his partner, the Sage-Brush Hen, who together entertain tenderfoot easterners with mock hangings, stage holdups and shootings. “More folks in Palomitas has names that had tumbled to ’em than the kind that had come regular. And when they sounded regular they likely wasn’t.”
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“Humorous yarns of life in a mining town forming a continuous narrative, told in the first person in the racy vernacular of the place.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“The book has charming freshness and a southwestern flavor that is delightfully amusing, and suggestive of conditions that have been rapidly passing away.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“It is all good magazine copy, though hardly more.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Janvier has latterly been playing not unskillfully with the picturesque material invented and bequeathed to literature by the late Bret Harte.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–16729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a result of incontinent use of rhetorical figures, the size of the book has been made unduly large. For this fact alone the book becomes tedious to the man whose time is limited. The lack of a critical and scientific form of presentation, of specific historical references, and of close articulation with the results of advanced researches in experimental and analytical psychology, prevents the book from having any wide sphere of usefulness in the psychological research world.” John B. Watson.
− − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 558. Ja. ’07. 1380w.
“The rich material of the much better told observation is too often hidden in the elaborate context. It is indeed difficult to say to which kind of public the book would adapt itself.” Adolf Meyer.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 79. Ja. 31, ’07. 1840w.
“In spite of a few criticisms ... the book is a strong and interesting one, displaying the extent and intent of Dr. Jastrow’s grasp on the field which it covers.” Knight Dunlap.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 24: 848. D. 28, ’06. 2090w.
“A useful, well-reasoned and careful investigation. The book is, unfortunately, much too long and diffuse.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 537. Ap. 6, ’07. 2400w.
=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.
6–14021.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The presentation of the subject is able and its spirit tolerant.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. 180w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.
“The merit of the whole volume is not in any new matter, so much as in the calm, direct way that things are stated. It is one of the most satisfying presentations of the fiery subject that one can find.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 834. Mr. ’07. 280w.
“Optimistic yet sane, of strong convictions yet conservative, M. Jaurès has not laid himself open to the familiar accusation that socialists beg the question, for he has gone to its very roots. The beauty of his diction has been well preserved by his translator.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
=Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse.= Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.
A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.) Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian, Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.
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“Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished husband.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w.
“Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition. And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w.
“These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding extensionist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 970w.
=Jefferies, Richard.= Essays. 3v. ea. 75c. Crowell.
7–26039–41.
The three volumes reprinted in this set are Nature near London, The open air, and The life of the fields. Each is furnished with an introduction by Thomas Coke Watkins which reflects the author’s passionate love for nature in all its aspects. The lover of woodland and stream will find in Jefferies a companion for all his moods.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= New crusade: occasional sermons and addresses. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–25555.
“A group of sermons whose aim is to aid in reclaiming our Holy Land—America—from the Saracen of the twentieth century—the rum-seller, the gambler, the unprincipled politician, the unscrupulous capitalist and the anarchistic wage-earner. Consecrated personality and Christian unity are the watchwords in bringing about international peace.”
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“Their tone is militant and virile; they lift up the standard and eloquently call to arms against the forces at work in the community for moral decay.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 90w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Old year and the new: the art of forgetting. **75c. Crowell.
7–28171.
A holiday sermon based upon Paul’s words “Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press toward the mark.”
* =Jenkins, Stephen.= A princess and another. $1.25. Huebsch.
7–38268.
A story which has grown out of a study of the records of French soldiers who took part in our revolution. The interest centers about the events that lead to the identification of a French child that had been kidnapped by a jealous uncle and sent to America in charge of a girl who became a colonist’s bondservant. Not until he had grown to manhood and had been courtmartialed as a British spy does he come face to face with the treachery that had kept him from his father and his birthright privileges.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. *$1.25. Holt.
6–18602.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a collection of essays that deserves the attention of public-school workers for its vital contact with the real present, its courageous but temperate idealism, and its sane counsels. It is characterized rather by a semi-proverbial style than by sustained argument, and contains numerous fresh and terse presentations of wise and weighty principles and practical conclusions.” Edward C. Hayes.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The presentation is always interesting and illuminated by a wealth of happy illustrations.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. ’07. 160w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 170w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 573. S. ’07. 80w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Political and social significance of the life and teachings of Jesus. 50c. Y. M. C. A.
6–46236.
“This is not a book to read, but a manual for study. About a series of twelve topics Professor Jenks groups references for reading, suggestive quotations, and stimulating comment.”—Bib. World.
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+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 70w.
“Among many recent works on the social teachings of Jesus this is of unsurpassed value. For all pastors and other teachers in this field, too often neglected in the churches, it is an eminently desirable help.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 190w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Electricity for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–33979.
Mr. Jenks “tells in concise and simple language the progress of electricity, showing its discovery and its practical uses. A commendable feature is the combination of biography with scientific accomplishment.”—Nation.
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“The book will please any young electrician from ten years up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
“He has made the present volume interesting as well as valuable reading not only for children but for older people interested in the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Goldsmith. **$1. Barnes.
7–10578.
“Mr. Jenks does not attempt to go into over-much detail in recounting his subject’s life. His effort is rather to give a rapid moving picture of the man’s development from childhood and of his years of struggle and final success. And this he projects against a background of the chief events of the time in England, upon the continent, and in America.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Capital reading for young people.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 60w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“The volume is a good sample of hasty bookmaking.”
− =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25. ’07. 160w.
“Approaches his subject in a spirit so intensely sympathetic that it becomes controversial. For the general reader the scheme upon which the book is laid out is excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= When America was new. †$1.25. Crowell.
7–30468.
The homes of the colonists during the seventeenth century furnish the material for Mr. Jenks’s sketch. He tells of the home making, indoor life, manners and customs, what the colonists knew and thought, their books, reading and education, the women and children, the growth of a new people to the point of independence and union.
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=Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“While the language used is simple enough for a child to grasp its meaning easily, the book is one which older people can read with pleasure and profit.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Jenks has tried to do for young people what we are sure will be appreciated by many older heads.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 110w.
=Jennings, Edward W.= Under the Pompadour. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A romance which begins with an eighteenth century smuggling adventure. “There are plots and counterplots, political and personal, and although the hero, to judge by his own narration, was the most innocent idiot that ever acted cat’s paw to a lovely woman, and played cup-and-ball with kingdoms without an inkling of it, the reader finishes the book with a distinct liking for him. The heroine is quite out of the common, and very charming.” (Acad.)
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“A story told in the first person is hampered by the restricted point of view involved, the impossibility of relating all things as they happen, and the modesty which prevents the hero from eulogising himself. Apart from these drawbacks Mr. Jennings has written a readable story of life, the simplest forms of life, the meaning both in England and France.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 130w.
“When all is said, if at times quite preposterously opulent in material it is still a very entertaining, even plausible and suitably told story.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Edward W. Jenning’s story is no worse, certainly, and perhaps a little better, than the average of its numerous predecessors in the same class.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 190w.
“If the reader does not like it we shall think him a real realist, and we shall be sorry for him accordingly.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 240. N. ’07. 340w.
=Jennings, Herbert Spencer.= Behavior of the lower organisms. **$3. Macmillan.
6–24590.
“This book is eminently worthy of the excellent series [‘Columbia university biological series’] to which it belongs, for it is the most detailed, accurate and complete description, analysis and interpretation of the behavior of lower organisms in existence. More than this, the work stands alone, the first representative of a class of books in which animal behavior is to receive thoroughly scientific treatment.”—J. Philos.
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=Current Literature.= 42: 217. F. ’07. 2090w.
“By his researches Professor Jennings has made himself the authority on the behavior of unicellular organisms. His book is admirable with respect to material, method of presentation and form. Its future influence will certainly be tremendous, for it is a work which will determine the direction of research as well as mould popular and scientific opinion. It is the most important book on animal behavior that has ever been written.” Robert M. Yerkes.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 3: 658. N. 22, ’06. 4800w.
“Professor Jennings’s admirable presentation of the results of his observations in this most attractive field of study will appeal to the professionals and laymen. The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and convincing.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 424. N. 15, ’06. 840w.
“From the standpoint of the contribution of facts, the book is exceedingly valuable. That portion of the book dealing with the analysis of behavior has a somewhat doubtful value because of its vagueness and complexity, and its constant allusions to pleasure and pain and to other physical processes in man. The final chapter dealing overtly with the relation of the behavior of lower organisms to psychic behavior should be undoubtedly greatly modified when the book comes to a second edition.” J. B. W.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 228. S. 15, ’07. 1070w.
“It would seem that Jennings in his enthusiasm for his own views had become blinded to the real strength of the tropism theory and not only was unable to accord it fair treatment, but also lacked appreciation of its real value. It is to be regretted that a book excellent in so many particulars should be marred by so considerable a defect.” G. H. P.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 548. O. 25, ’07. 610w.
=Jensen, Carl O.= Essentials of milk hygiene; tr. and amplified by Leonard Pearson. **$2. Lippincott.
7–23316.
A practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygienic production and handling of milk, for students of dairying and sanitarians.
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“A valuable contribution to the inspection of milk, and his treatise is well translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 640w.
=Jephson, Henry.= Sanitary evolution of London. *$1.80. Wessels.
A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the people of London based upon the experiences, inferences and conclusions of men in a position to observe how London people live, including the principal measures passed from time to time by the legislature and the administration of those measures by local authorities charged with their administration.
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“The book is valuable as an outline of the sanitary legislation affecting Greater London, and as an abstract of reports of health officers and others during a number of decades past. The book would have gained, both in interest and in force, if the author had put more of his information in his own language and had used smaller type for such quotations as he employed, and had grouped or classified his discussion more thoroughly.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 510w.
“It is regrettable that Jephson has overburdened his book with too many quotations, which are too tiresome for the ordinary busy layman who should read it, and which obscure the generalizations.” Charles E. Woodruff.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 1700w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 719. Je. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“A very interesting and instructive history of London sanitation.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 865. Je. 1, ’07. 1350w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tinker two: further adventures of the admirable Tinker. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34688.
A sequel to the “Admirable Tinker.” The multiform activity of the invincible young hero, is suggested in the following: “Tinker adopts people. He adopts a sister, a pretty child near his own age, and a daughter, a beautiful young woman who is quite grown, and a Russian revolutionist to boot. Tinker is a matchmaker, though as a real boy he cannot endure to be kissed. Tinker is a detective and a fugitive from justice. He drives a big motor car ... and he goes tiger hunting in the leafy coverts of Beauleigh park. Tinker is an amateur actor as well. He plays female roles to admiration in a blond wig and a pinafore.”—N. Y. Times.
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“For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on such unlikely happenings.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w.
“It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible little hero.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Jermain, Mrs. Frances D.= In the path of the alphabet: an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet. $1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.
6–46295.
A painstaking history of our alphabet which gives in popular form the results of much research, and follows the “path” from a time before the earliest hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions down to modern times with accounts of modern explorers in this field of inquiry.
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“An excellent treatise clearly epitomizing a large amount of laborious research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=Jerrold, Maud F.= Vittoria Colonna; with some account of her friends and her times. *$4. Dutton.
7–32139.
A new biography of this gifted woman whose friendship not only with Michael Angelo, but with bishops, cardinals, popes, artists and poets made her a conspicuous figure of her time. Many of her sonnets are included in this volume which also contains a complete bibliography, genealogical tables, and an index.
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“Mrs. Jerrold has not given us a final ‘life’ ... but she has produced a pleasant book treating of movements and personalities which must always be full of interest for students of the renaissance and human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 390w.
“A book to be recommended, and to be enjoyed.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Though Mrs. Jerrold’s prose is often marred by anacoluthia, her verses are almost invariably equal in charm and style to the originals which they so faithfully translate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 670w.
“[Mrs. Jerrold] has gleaned from all the sources of information with a truth-seeking hand, and in all matters of fact has produced an authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 690w.
“While this latest biography of Vittoria Colonna lacks some of the grace of Mrs. Ady’s studies, it is a book full of charm and inspiration.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“Mrs. Jerrold has marshalled her facts with industry and judgment and has produced a work which can be read with pleasure.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 530w.
“She has collected all the available information on her subject, but has hardly made the best use of it. Arranged with more skill, the picture would have been far more telling.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 676. Ap. 27, ’07. 1590w.
=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.
5–42515.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 640. D. ’06. 510w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers. *$3.25. Macmillan.
5–33567.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The only novel thing about the work is its arrangement, which suggests in many respects an improvement over the traditional arrangement of the time.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 185. Mr. ’07. 150w.
=Joachim, Harold Henry.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.
7–2578.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s argument is genuine and sincere throughout, his analysis of current theories patient and thorough-going, his criticism of them acute and searching. Moreover, the book is written in a style that befits a philosophical treatise. Philosophic reflection cannot fail to be furthered by the stimulating and helpful criticism contained in Mr. Joachim’s book. That criticism will certainly assist in clearing away much sham knowledge and in preparing the ground for the ‘construction’ that is to come.” G. Dawes Hicks.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 197. O. ’07. 5220w.
“Mr. Joachim does not discuss the view of truth commonly described by the term Pragmatism, and it is doubtful whether the reasons given for this omission are adequate. There can be no doubt that Mr. Joachim’s book is a very valuable contribution to philosophy, though it confessedly leaves some fundamental difficulties unsolved.” J. S. Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It seems to the reviewer that his main contribution to the subject lies in the various criticisms he takes up apart from the rather unsatisfactory negative result.” M. Phillips Mason.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 264. Ag. 15, ’07. 800w.
=Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.
6–40590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The stories have been softened by dropping ‘savagery, distressing details, excessive pathos’ from the old versions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Country school, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–30474.
In which the author preserves the salient features of the schools of the last century in their picturesque and poetic aspects. He writes from personal experiences of friends and acquaintances, and goes back to the year 1830.
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“Readers who have had similar experiences will find Mr. Johnson a very competent conductor back to the happy land of childhood.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“All is told in an animated and entertaining manner.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Farmer’s boy. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–29711.
A companion volume to “The country school.” It is a faithful portrait of the farmer boy of fifty years ago who was a sturdy product of sunshine and fresh air ready in all seasons to undertake the primitive tasks allotted to him.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Johnson has exercised unusual diligence and skill in the selection of material, and text and pictures alike contribute to an intensely realistic view of scenes and incidents that are fast fading into oblivion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
“We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”
− + =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2. Macmillan.
6–40988.
An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads, lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.” (N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along the way.
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“The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 290w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1496. D. 20, ’06. 190w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
“Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study of the average social life of the great valley.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Eleanor H.= Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s ser.). †75c. Crowell.
7–26621.
Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the volume, some of his letters are appended.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–20201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 467. N. ’06. 500w.
“We believe the book is a useful one for the commercial courses of study now becoming popular in our institutions of learning and that it should be included in the reference libraries of engineering schools and engineering societies. The practicing engineer who meets problems in connection with the economics of water transportation will find in it up-to-date information obtainable only with great difficulty from other sources.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 300w.
“For the general reader the book has comparatively little interest, since it is necessarily elementary in matters most likely to attract him.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 440w.
“The entire lack of general treatises upon the subject of water transportation will incline teachers and students of the subject to extend a warm welcome. The most valuable portions of the volume are the chapters devoted to ocean transportation. Far less satisfactory is his discussion of shipping subsidies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 600w.
“The book is of importance, making, with its predecessor, almost the sole complete succinct presentation of the problems which confront the transportation managers and the lawmakers of the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 414. Je. 23. ’06. 160w.
=Johnson, George Ellsworth.= Education by plays and games. *90c. Ginn.
7–26152.
“Its first part is a study of the meaning of play, its relation to work, and its application to education. The second part is a series of games chosen from a thousand or more, and judiciously graded for progressive use. The author has wisely chosen the older forms in all the games, thus giving the pupil the key to many references in literature and folklore quite unintelligible if he knew only the modern variations of the original game.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
=Johnson, Thomas Cary.= Virginia Presbyterianism and religious liberty in colonial and revolutionary times. 50c. Presbyterian com.
A sketch of the services of Presbyterians during colonial and revolutionary days to the cause of religious liberty.
=Johnson, Trench H.= Phrases and names, their origins, and meanings. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“In alphabetical order the author has gone through a great number of names and phrases heard in everyday speech, colloquialisms and expressions and references of less usual occurrence, explaining in brief statement their origin and meaning. In the preface the author says that his sole design has been to account for the origin of popular phrases and names.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This is a very curious book that teems with every possible kind of error. Had it been much elaborated and compiled by a man of learning it might have been useful; the hotch-potch before us is almost too bad to serve as a groundwork for a book of reference.”
− =Acad.= 72: 136. F. 9, ’07. 890w.
“The book is uncritical in its popular derivations, many of which have been long exploded; and extremely careless in quoting foreign languages. It is difficult to believe that the author knows Latin or Greek. If he does, he ought to have seen that some care was taken with his ‘proofs.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 223. F. 23. 140w.
“Compact and handy volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
“It is one of those books which, once you start to read, lure you on from page to page and you rise longing to trip up your friends on all sorts and kinds of catchy little points.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Many errors and defects may be found, but the book gives much out-of-the-way information.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 260. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Johnson, Willis Fletcher.= Four centuries of the Panama canal; with maps and illustrations. **$3. Holt.
6–42401.
“The design of Spanish adventures in the fifteenth century is being fulfilled by American engineers in the twentieth.” So says Mr. Johnson, and he deals with the incidents and circumstances leading from Columbus to Roosevelt. His aim is to give the “salient and essential features of the ‘story,’ with as little as possible of detailed description of the Isthmian country, of its conditions of resources, soil, climate, people, of the technical features of the canal and its auxiliary work.”
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“The book shows its newspaper origin by such glaring inaccuracies as those referred to above, by the fact that it comes quite down to the date of publication, by its newspaper English, and by its readability. It is interesting reading, and we need for easy consultation such an account of the origin and progress of the Panama republic and its relations with the United States.” J. Russell Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 684. Ap. ’07. 880w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“In dealing with the technical features the author has been led into several errors. Some result from his bias in favour of a sea-level canal, which he makes no effort to conceal. These errors, however, are not of great importance, and do not detract in great degree from the merits of the book. It is but just to say that on the whole the work is very creditable and will form a useful addition to the library of any student of Isthmian canal affairs.” Peter C. Hains.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 429. Mr. ’07. 700w.
“Exhaustive historical study.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 126. F. ’07. 190w.
“The views and information which he imparts may be regarded as authoritative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 340w.
“This is the most thorough and comprehensive work that has yet appeared on the Panama canal. The discussion of the engineering side of the question is very inadequate. For a work of such detail, covering a new field, it is—except when the author gets enthusiastic and eloquent—remarkably free from errors.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 920w.
“We should have had the assistance of a large map in detail; the clearly printed small maps in color inserted with the text are useful, but inadequate. As a whole. Dr. Johnson’s volume seems the most exhaustive contribution yet made to the popular understanding of a great subject.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 300w.
“In matters having a legal or semi-legal character, the author is not at his best.” J. B. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 139. Mr. ’07. 430w.
“Described in a satisfactory manner.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 200w.
“Is a praiseworthy contribution to our knowledge of the project.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29. ’07. 430w.
=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876. 2v. ea. *$2. Putnam.
5–36483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The exigencies governing the author in their preparation account largely no doubt for the remarkable compression that characterizes the several studies; the style is concise, the narrative compact, and the discussion penetrating and rigorous. The solid worth of the author’s contributions is shown by the infrequency of editorial corrections. The editor’s method of indicating his additions to the text leaves the reader in perplexity at times.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 480. N. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editor’s method of citation and cross reference cannot be commended either for lucidity or seviceableness. Professor Johnston’s acuteness in discerning the vital and fundamental facts in the currents of our political life, his remarkable industry, accuracy and thorough-going research constantly impress one.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 162. Jl. ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s knight comes riding. $1.50. Page.
7–33204.
The little colonel, in this ninth volume of her series, finds her own true knight and leaving her girlhood behind her, fares forth in veil and orange blossoms to begin her new life near her old home.
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“No boy or girl will be harmed, but only mildly entertained, by the chronicle.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton.= Liberia. 2v. *$12.50. Dodd.
6–44331.
Cyclopedic in treatment and, accordingly extensive in scope, the author covers a vast amount of ground in his two large volumes. The first is devoted to the history of the Liberian republic from 1847 to the present time, incidentally revealing Great Britain’s and America’s colonization policy. The second is devoted to the fauna, flora and anthropology of the country, the latter being treated in its historical, physical and social aspects.
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“Less objective than Lindsay’s book ... well written, interesting and the most comprehensive book on the subject which has yet appeared.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“Our complaint against Sir Harry Johnston is that, with all his cleverness and brilliance as a draughtsman ... he is somewhat wrong in his perspective, if not also in his facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 63. Jl. 21. 1970w.
“The interest with which the welfare of the negro race is followed in this country should secure for the book the attention to which it is entitled by virtue of the industry and learning that have been bestowed upon it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 610w.
“A vast amount of intelligent and widely diversified labor has been expended upon these volumes, which give a comprehensive view of the Republic of Liberia.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“It is a book not only of great utility to the traveller, but of genuine interest to the untravelled; and the wonderful illustrations from the author’s brush and pencil are sufficient of themselves to fire the imagination.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 201. Ag. 11, ’06. 1330w.
=Johnston, John Black.= Nervous system of vertebrates; il. *$3. Blakiston.
6–35709.
“A text-book of functional neurology. The unit of description is the functional system of neurones, that is, the aggregate of related neurones which co-operate in the performance of any given type of reflex movement.... While this work is primarily a text-book of the morphology of the nervous system, its great merit lies in the fact that its facts so far as they go also express the functions of the parts, so that comparative physiology and comparative psychology will both find in it an immediate point of departure, for their special researches.”—Science.
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“A volume of this kind has been needed in English.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The book will be of great use to all engaged in instruction or research. It would be easy to point out omissions in the text and topics which deserve more adequate treatment. Satisfaction with certain features of the author’s terminology is alloyed by his indifference to the labors of his predecessors in that regard.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 20. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w.
“The book gives the impression of having been written by an able zoologist interested in neurology, rather than by a pure neurologist, and therein lies a good deal of its value. In the present work the author presents a very readable and succinct account of his subject, which forms a valuable and welcome addition to the literature relating to it.” W. Page May.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 73. N. 28, ’07. 1040w.
“The basis of the work is sound and the leading conclusions abundantly supported by the singularly concordant results of the studies of the new school of comparative neurologists.” C. Judson Herrick.
+ =Science=, n.s. 24: 845. D. 28, ’06. 1100w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Goddess of reason [a drama]. **$2. Houghton.
7–16726.
Miss Johnston’s first drama “opens in Brittany on a summer morning in 1791, and the curtain falls at the end on the banks of the Loire at Nantes. The plot is as skillfully devised to awaken and sustain interest from the beginning to the end as any of Miss Johnston’s stories, and not until the last scene does the reader face the solution to the problem. The play has a beautiful setting of terraces and ancient homes, and the refinement, dignity, and wit of the old order, set in striking contrast to the turbulence, the passion, the intense conviction, of the revolutionary movement.”—Outlook.
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“The piece is conceived in terms of romantic situation, and for that reason it is the most readable poetic drama in the popular sense of the word, that has lately been seen.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 849. D. ’07. 530w.
“Deserves no permanent place in the library, and on the stage would, in its present shape, be soporific.”
− =Ind.= 63: 570. S. 5, ’07. 200w.
“A rather extraordinary literary performance, very uneven in character. Altho there is a certain richness of historic background and a vividness of characterization, the defects of the piece are glaring.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 140w.
“If much of the verse is simply fluent prose cut into lengths, if there are many crude and not a few broken, halt, or utterly commonplace lines, there are occasional passages of uncommon descriptive power, full of pretty imagery and verbal eloquence, and some that thrill with ardor, scorn, or vigorous passion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 460. My. 10, ’07. 850w.
“Readers of her other work will not be disappointed, for in the ‘Goddess of reason’ she gives full play to her power over romantic situations, poetical backgrounds, and sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“As romantic as her stories and as interesting. As a drama ‘The goddess of reason’ is probably too complex for successful presentation. It is lyrical rather than dramatic; but as a piece of writing, both in construction and diction, it will advance Miss Johnston’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The verse is very dainty and musical, though Miss Johnston takes strange liberties with metre, and the final tragedy is finely conceived and executed. Our one criticism would be that her talent is a little too delicate to reproduce the rude horrors of the revolution.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Johnston, Robert M.= Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.
7–24610.
The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans. Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment. “Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
* * * * *
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed, is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional opinions found in the popular histories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge, fairmindedness, and good sense.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 900w.
“In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men whose lives are described from the point of view of the American reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 240w.
“This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 240w.
“For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving the essentials.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w.
“This is an excellent book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
6–25758.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W. Garner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 482. N. ’06. 750w.
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 240w.
=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2. Van Nostrand.
6–16984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07. S.
“A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment, found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 300. F. 22, ’07. 820w.
* =Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37980.
A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”
=Jones, John William.= Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and man. $2. Neale.
6–30495.
An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained in letters and various papers and documents.
* * * * *
“The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most interesting part of the book.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 470. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 320w.
“Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the past.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
“His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 390w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= College and the man: an address to American youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.
7–13491.
A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better preparation for the duties of life.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 110w.
* =Jordan, David Starr.= Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–28174.
A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,” which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the survival of the unfit.”
=Jordan, David Starr.= Philosophy of hope; originally published under the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.
7–16384.
A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the mainspring of successful life.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
=Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L.= Evolution and animal life. **$2.50. Appleton.
7–29033.
An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life, the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)
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“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations. This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 818. O. 3, ’07. 1240w.
“Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 426. N. 7, ’07. 570w.
“The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it his fair and careful attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Joseph, Horace William B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
7–29050.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 638. My. 25. 930w.
“The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 215. Ap. 11, ’07. 980w.
“The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 680. D. 1, ’06. 1760w.
=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7. *$5. McDonough.
6–14763.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A fine historical volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 320w.
“This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 12: 283. My. 1, ’07. 1870w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 40w.
=Jowett, Benjamin.= Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1. Dutton.
W 7–97.
“The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.
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=Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
“It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 90w.
“An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.
=Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 80w.
“This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic value.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 481. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Joyce, Patrick Weston.= Smaller social history of ancient Ireland. *$1.25. Longmans.
“An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art, the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman invasion.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps less fairly urged against a popular production.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 430. Mr. ’07. 2040w.
“Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and responsibilities of scholarship.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 247. My. ’07. 440w.
“It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 197. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
* =Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
“Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1. The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.
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“While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here presented.” J. Carleton Bell.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 416. N. ’07. 2080w.
“On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all earnest students of the science.” W. B.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 540. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
=Jude, Alexander.= Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.
7–7508.
“The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines.... The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines; Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines; Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of turbines.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially to its value.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 636. D. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.= Literary history of the English people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–35185.
“M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 590w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of English literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of ‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily executed.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakable charm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble development which it traces.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 1580w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been written.” Brander Matthews.
+ + + =No. Am.= 184: 759. Ap. 5, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 457. Mr. 23, ’07. 1850w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
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=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Aboard the Hylow on Sable Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–28976.
The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of the life on the Newfoundland banks.
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“[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland banks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c. Crowell.
6–27349.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much pleasure to young readers.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w.
“A fresh, vigorous little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel.= Stolen throne; illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–14250.
“The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w.
“A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs. Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Keays, Hersilia A. M.= Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–31480.
A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w.
=Kebbel, Thomas Edward.= Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4. Kennerley.
7–37964.
A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.” With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep was the impression created, apart from all political considerations, by his unique personality.”
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“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w.
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material, drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w.
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make his strongest appeal to American readers of English political biography.” Edward Porritt.
+ =Forum.= 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w.
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w.
“His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief. We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w.
“Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an idle hour.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one, interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w.
“The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w.
“A book of rare and manysided interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
“The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s chapters.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w.
=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.
7–19063.
A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification” underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second, furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.
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“Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning observation.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.
6–34644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–33677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w.
=Kellogg, Vernon L.= Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.
7–29032.
A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to aid or replace the selection theories.
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“The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly criticism.” David Starr Jordan.
+ + + =Dial.= 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w.
“Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
4–32737.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
=Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w.
=Kelly, Edmund.= Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.
7–22709.
“After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the road to coöperation.”—Dial.
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“As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty weak as a practical program.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
=Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w.
“Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.” Eunice Follansbee.
− =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w.
“It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive reasoning.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–14256.
“The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ... and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes back.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the web of her invention.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
“While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
“Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w.
“Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written, unimportant story.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w.
* =Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas=, ed. Drink problem in its medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29117.
“Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.
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“Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem, and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w.
“For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book furnishes interesting reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w.
“The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the various problems which have to be handled.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Kempster, James Aquila.= Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–39730.
The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications galore and a much entangled love story.
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“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w.
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or special motive, but good in plot and style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall.= Pausanias: a dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
7–22893.
Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes with his own tragic death.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.= Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise. **$1. Moffat.
7–482.
As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its applications.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Kenney, Courtney Stanhope.= Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.
7–8557.
“This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w.
“A particularly well written text-book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions, and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w.
* =Kent, Charles Foster.= Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.
7–20667.
The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws, emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.
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“The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w.
“A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly interesting subject.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w.
“Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament. **$1. Scribner.
6–14527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠
“On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w.
“Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism, and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or condemn it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w.
=Kenton, Edna.= Clem. †$1. Century.
7–26020.
A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite beyond their comprehension.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w.
“The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent manner—a manner that is more than literary.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
“If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to say.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in its execution. The other characters in the book, although less prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual degree, the touch of life and actuality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Keon, Grace.= “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.
7–17046.
A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story, hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love, altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery in which hypnotism plays a part.
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“Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which caters to the prevalent taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w.
=Kephart, Horace.= Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.
6–45323.
Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye, and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w.
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.
7–29019.
“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the subject for himself.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w.
=Kern, John A.= Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities. $1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
7–25171.
A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant features.
* =Kernahan, Coulson.= The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)
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“Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”
− =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a work to public criticism.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w.
“Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Kerr, Alvah Milton.= Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–8218.
With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating English.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Kerr, Walter S.= Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts. pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of movement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
* =Kester, Vaughan.= John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36098.
History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son. His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)
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“That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author, Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of steel mill buildings and the calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.
6–37208.
The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to the part of the work on stresses.
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“The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4. Eng. news.
7–23625.
“Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls.... The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc., giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.
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“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w.
=Keys, Alice Maplesden.= Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science.... Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript material.”—Nation.
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“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a valuable study in political biography.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50. Macmillan.
7–7554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground, and performed his task excellently.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w.
“His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w.
=Kidd, Walter.= Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of touch.”—Spec.
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“It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index. It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w.
=Kildare, Owen Frawley.= My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38913.
“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.” (Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer, from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the “spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
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“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a ‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w.
* =Kimball, George Selwyn.= Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the secrets of woodcraft.
=King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr.= Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.
7–978.
The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms.... He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’ The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.
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“The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be expected under the circumstances.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in which the record has been kept.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w.
=King, Charles.= Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.
7–15592.
“An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino warfare.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=King, Gen. Charles.= Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–22113.
A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas. Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.
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“As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles ‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest for all lovers of civil-war history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
=King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H.= History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier society, N. Y.
7–10615.
“A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
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“We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w.
“The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with care and criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
“Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland Thompson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w.
=King, Most Rev. William.= Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.
“William King played a most important part in church and state.... He was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’... His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift, Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him. We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the reader against an interesting and useful book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w.
“The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and politics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and sufficient.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w.
“The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=King, William Benjamin.= Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11209.
Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success. The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme, and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
“Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of trial and trouble is admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w.
“There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his material.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w.
“Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece, which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w.
=Kingsbury, Susan Myra=, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London, 1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.
6–38015.
A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible to students for the first time history that has been shut up in carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
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“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years, to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much better edition than would have been produced earlier.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second. The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult to see on what plan it was prepared.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings of American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and critical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer, nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
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“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it can not but prove a tonic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25050.
A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.
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“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5685.
“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful, high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–13436.
“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home, finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free, generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor. There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–35734.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his accomplishment.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may pick out.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–9553.
An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one “refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent material.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.
“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its interesting psychological analysis.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.
“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.
7–18089.
An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work, health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of truth’s expression.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.
7–19460.
A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr. Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul of nature.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism, has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.
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“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more intelligible form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.
“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old misunderstandings and enmities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.
“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.
=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.
6–16496.
“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the text.”—Ind.
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=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.
=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50. Dutton.
7–28952.
Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)
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“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these qualities under severe restraint.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.
“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.
“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent his book from being accepted as a standard.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and interesting facts.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.
“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy, and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more fascinating than they were before.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.
=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.
7–38043.
“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond. Times.
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“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.
“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.
=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.
7–25078.
Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of the “quality.”
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
6–42418.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to overstate its value to serious students.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.
“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.” *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18308.
One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was original and to what degree he has been supplemented.
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“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the story of modern culture and intellectual life.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing, some important facts are left out.”
− =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
6–22869.
“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie, and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work, and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good feeling between the once hostile sections.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w.
* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
The author has collected from various sources estimates, or characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and work.
=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
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“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the poeticule of prose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and original work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not wisdom.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”
+ =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.
7–18292.
The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes, porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)
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“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be equally useful.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6732.
“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression. Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’ These three have been variously modified during the comparatively brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity, as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.
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“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.
“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the human mind.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.
“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.
“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.
“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his long residence in Japan.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
6–34855.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.
“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.
“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.
“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on the Far East.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.
“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.
=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.
“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes. Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in 1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.
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“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.
“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.
“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in itself noteworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.
“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious, and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s pamphlet.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
6–35736.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate for all tastes.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.
“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some dozen native airs.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38904.
An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital, How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal music.
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“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting, readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged, but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers, such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.
“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as well as instruction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.
7–21369.
The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers who are seen under thin disguises.
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“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its original setting.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby. *$5.25. Oxford.
7–11038.
A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.” (Nation.)
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“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.
=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
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“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
+ + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.” Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
7–11010.
The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical realization.” (R. of Rs.)
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“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
− =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another language.”
− =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–26153.
An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened “record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual life and his character.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.
=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring witnesses of the truth.”
=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.
7–12001.
The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher, misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
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“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
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=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.
7–3090.
This volume in the “International library of social science” has been translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”
=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.
6–37926.
“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a missionary interest.”—Outlook.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction and how far it is fact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.
7–23081.
Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must.”
=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of engineering. *$3 Longmans.
W 7–137.
“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of induction motors.”—Nature.
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“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.
=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an introduction and notes.
=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.
7–30461.
A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation, Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits, Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book. Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles. The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.
=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.
“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is “expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union, rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political events connected with recent Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.
“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.
“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of this book is in the remedy he proposes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.
=Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want of judgment.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.
“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish misgovernment.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.
=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.
6–39434.
Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art; Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)
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“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause. In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent index.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.
“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.
“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B. McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.
“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary skill.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.
“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from study of the old monuments.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the essentials required for popular interpretation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.
“A notable and impressive looking volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.
“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting detail.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35221.
“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over India during the last five years.... Every province in India, including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well illustrated.”—Ath.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.
“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book, include many unusual aspects of India.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions; but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of the scenes which they describe.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.
“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic features of the picture are omitted.”
− + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the Eastern wonderland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end, of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining contribution to history.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
7–29125.
A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and sufficient.” G. S. Street.
+ =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.
“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.
“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume any permanent value that attaches to it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.
“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.
“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the stamp of true genius.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his work with care and precision.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent value.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)
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“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.
“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.
“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.
“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and would fain go the whole way if we could.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.
“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.
“He has evidently written up his notes _currente calamo_, with little concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument, or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.
“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the Court of Chancery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.
7–31208.
Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France, Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.
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“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more discreet years.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits their being wholesome reading for very young children.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.
“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for that—and one and all are entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60. Longmans.
6–34647.
Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian, Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble each other?’” (Sat. R.)
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+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager hands.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.
“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some illustrations of excellent quality.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.
In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in producing the volume.
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“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only, and a more careful selection would have made this book more representative.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.
“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English country.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great pleasure.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–2430.
A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at different sittings.
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“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J. H. Pollen, S. J.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.
“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its suggestiveness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.
“An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and Melville.” Robert S. Rait.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.
“With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the arguments.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.
“The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.
“Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage of being Scottish antiquarians.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample justice.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.
=Lang, Elsie M.= Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13410.
Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.
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“Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots associated with the great English writers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.
“As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include completeness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.
=Langdon, Amelie=, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.
A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small enough to serve two people without waste.
=Langfeld, Millard.= Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases, including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.
7–17014.
A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.
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“For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p. 51) is somewhat obscure, and the terminology, although justified by numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.
7–29194.
This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise, but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the British association for the advancement of science.... The closing essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the race.”—Dial.
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“He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P. Pycraft.
+ =Acad.= 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.
Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ =Dial.= 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.
“The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature. Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the ‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.
“A work of interest and scientific insight.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.
=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.
6–34856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
“The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of Charles d’Albert.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Lapponi, Giuseppe.= Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11197.
“The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he points out the two considerations that have led some writers to confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even together.”—Cath. World.
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“The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Nature.= 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for [one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the day.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.
* =Lasance, F. X.= Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.
On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.
* =Lathers, Richard.= Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–21270.
Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which chiefly make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.
=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.
6–33547.
“Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop volume.”
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume to an edition of his works.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Latta, Marion Nisbet-.= Handbook of American gas-engineering practice. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
7–30142.
A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data, containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.
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“The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of this book and gas engineers, should be prompt to disavow it as representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.
=Lau, Robert Julius.= Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–46312.
“In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello, unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them, which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.
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“It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a university of having access to such original material for study.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.
“Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the first value for the student of the history of mankind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.
=Laughlin, Clara E.= Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–10619.
The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame. Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her profession.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.” Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.
“It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.
“It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the surface.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.
“The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual features of the theatrical novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.
“There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole, however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of varied interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.= Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of 1906. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–37187.
These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university were delivered in the German language and include the following industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking in the United States.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.
“The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand these questions.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.
“But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.
“Interesting and well-written volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.
“It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace, the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.
“There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace White.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.
“Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic missions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.
“The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.
“Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions. There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of reading.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Laurie, Simon Somerville.= Synthetica: being meditations epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–19465.
The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge, the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.
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“As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness, amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have written more simply.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Acad.= 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ − =Hibbert. J.= 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is, its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations may yet be detected.”
− =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de.= Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.
W 6–336.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect; and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.
“Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history, is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.
“Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light on the condition of provincial France during the months of the Terror.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.
=Lavis, Fred.= Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M. C.
6–34656.
A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.
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“Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.” M. P. Paret.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.
“After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room, then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which, without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire. The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to its author.” Willard Beahan.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.
=Lawrence, C. E.= Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie. There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan, where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in a lazar house.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or new thought.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from experience, and too ethereal.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.
=Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Lawrence, Sir Thomas.= Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S. Layard. *$4. Longmans.
7–28948.
Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two daughters.
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“In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“This volume does not make material additions to the known circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.
“This volume contains much new and interesting personal information about the great English painter.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.
“It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting addition to the book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the letters are however interesting enough.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material (or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
=Lawson, Thomas W.= Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–8213.
The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors, stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)
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“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results which he desires.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
− =Ind.= 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr. Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
− =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of greed.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.
=Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.
“We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely puppets—are lovely or lovable.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–13425.
A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains, Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.” (Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.” (Int. Studio.)
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“Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.
“The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.
“Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.
“Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.
* =Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.
A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.
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“The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his subject.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.
“It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37256.
Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing on.”
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“The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more correct and more accessible modern editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.
“Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will welcome their enlargement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.
“It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.
“It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object, and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among standard authorities.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will find that it is not undeserved.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–2996.
=v. 3.= The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon “‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’ ‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
=v. 4.= The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
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Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book that deserves to be compared with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as second to no other American historian.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in the general field of European history there have been some notable contributions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as concrete as possible.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired, Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as a partisan.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Leach, Henry=, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous players. **$2.50. Jacobs.
A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Well edited book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
“The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
“A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”
+ =Spec.= 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leage, Richard W.= Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–35562.
The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under Justinian.” (Nation.)
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“The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract. But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.
“The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances. Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great advance on any previous work of the same character written for the student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.
“Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition, which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.
“The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble of referring to the original Institutes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
“It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal to the bare texts, much less English students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Leblanc, Maurice.= Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with the reader eager in pursuit.
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“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding, are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most impressive.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–38563.
A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat. R.)
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“We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts, wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.
“In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate, inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.
=Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
“A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2. Macmillan.
6–46329.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
=Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre.= Nature and origin of life, in the light of new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.
W 7–76.
“The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena; decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.
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“M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the present situation as he himself appears to see it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.
“Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent science.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on the margins of many of the pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the question of _origin_, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.
− =Nature.= 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.
“The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all that could be desired.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46753.
“The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts the call to poetry.”
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“Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the blank verse, which is not successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.
“There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain pieces of Longfellow’s.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank, youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.
“In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and truth is presented simply and clearly.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Voice of the machines; an introduction to the twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.
6–46754.
Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets, The ideas behind the machines.
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“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.
=Yale R.= 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.
* =Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed, to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)
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“It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than discrimination.”
− =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lee, John.= Religious liberty in South America, with special reference to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–11041.
In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
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“The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and from either of these standpoints is scientific.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book; and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants, the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left out.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.
=Lee, Marian, pseud.= See =Comstock, Anna Botsford=.
=Lee, Sidney.= Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays. **$2. Scribner.
6–38524.
“Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who demand the public favour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.
“It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.
“Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based, as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.
“These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is an intention in which all may join.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.
“Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.
“One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of his time, but robust common sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
“In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr. Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter, lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.
=Lee, Sidney.= Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake. This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
“Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has added considerable information which historical researches since 1890 have brought to light.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.
“The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr. Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more interesting in the comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on documents.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Lees, Dorothy Neville.= Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.
Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.” (Nation.)
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“We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few errors of taste or fact.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a future experience to read this book.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.
7–8216.
The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither characters nor situation to make it realistic.
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“Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.
“It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
“It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.
“Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval. Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.
“It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is one not to be easily repeated.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with his brisk short stories.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Leffler, Burton R.= Elastic arch, with special reference to the reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.
6–45715.
A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique forces.
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“We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.
* =Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3. Neale.
7–25045.
The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of international affairs and political history and to the reader of sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their condition.
=Legge, Ronald.= Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.
“‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty. The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Legler, Henry Edward.= Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.
A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,” “Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds bibliographical notes.
=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr. *$1.25. Morris.
6–32457.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= Jesus Christ and the civilization of to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18115.
A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused life of contemporary civilization.”
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“A careful study”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.
=Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.
“Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a little to the soundness of his results.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
* =Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2. McClure.
In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to precipitate the revolution.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of a true artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–28490.
The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)
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“M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.
“He has used the historical method as severely in determining each detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told in an entertaining fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on fire.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his revival of the past.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.
“One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should neglect to read this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.
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“The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by the illustrations.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.
“He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real characters and events.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.
“Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.
=Leonard, Arthur Glyn.= Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.
7–11550.
“The book opens with a description of the physical features of the country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.
+ − =Acad.= 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.
“Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.
“Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is evidence of real sympathy and insight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.) **$1. Crowell.
7–12999.
A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the social revolution which has been threatened.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.
“Attractively and helpfully presented.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.
“His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of thought is often apparent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen: a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–19737.
Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form, its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running Thames.” (Acad.)
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“For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
“Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many years to come.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.
“The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John Hope.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.
“The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical organization of building operations.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.
“Written in a style which must win readers among all who love Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled in importance by any similar publication on either side of the channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination of qualities.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.
“It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
5–17608.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very elementary way.”
+ =Yale. R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.
=Levussove, Moses Samuel.= New art of an ancient people, the work of Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.
6–45172.
Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and larger creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.
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“The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the European masters of line-work.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.
=Nation.= 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is exemplified by Lilien’s works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
* =Lewis, Alfred Henry.= When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew Jackson. **$2. Appleton.
7–36233.
“Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor ‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the money crew.”—Outlook.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it, bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.
6–27939.
“In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the treatment of the subject.”—Dial.
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“Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of English verse-rhythms.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
“Compact and easily read volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Lewis, Elizabeth.= Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–20618.
In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.
=Lewis, Emily Westwood.= Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.
7–30990.
A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.
=Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet.= With Christ among the miners; incidents and impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904. It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.
=Lewis, Mary Elizabeth.= Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–30.
In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,” which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in the Divine Will.”
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“The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value, while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H. C. C.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 194. F. 23, ’07. 960w.
“She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leyds, Willem Johannes.= First annexation of the Transvaal. *$6.30. Wessels.
7–18148.
A work on the relations of the English and Dutch in South Africa in which the author has prepared an indictment against Britain’s South African policy during the past century. “He is not bitter about England, though he is very bitter about English colonists, and cannot mention the name of Sir Percy FitzPatrick without losing his temper.” (Spec.)
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“In this book the author displays the same combination of smart intelligence and rash blundering which was conspicuous during his European mission.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 332. S. 22. 1090w.
“The tone of the book is, however, so bitter that he damages rather than strengthens his cause.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 580w.
“The book is well-written, orderly in arrangement, adroit in argument, and extremely readable. His narrative is too much a design in snow and ink to convince even the ill-informed reader.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 492. O. 6, ’06. 1920w.
=Lidgett, Rev. John Scott.= Spiritual principle of the atonement: as a satisfaction made to God for the sins of the world. 4th ed. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
The twenty-seventh Fernley lecture. The editor in these ten chapters covers all phases of the atonement, its historical causes, the Biblical doctrine concerning it, the theology of the atonement, the satisfaction of God, the ethical perfection of our Lord, the relationship of our Lord to the human race, the atonement in relation to the spiritual life of individuals and the atonement and social progress.
* =Lighton, William Rheem.= Shadow of a great rock. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18100.
Frontier life and the types of men whom it calls are portrayed here true to the reckless abandon of “the formless western wilderness.”
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“A short story—and a very ordinary, conventional short story that might almost have appeared in any monthly magazine—and nothing more.”
− =Acad.= 73: 755. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a grandiose style, this story of American pioneering in the fifties is interesting rather than remarkable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 150. Ag. 10. 120w.
“Occasionally marred just a little by ‘fine writing,’ [it] is nevertheless, a good story of the winning of Nebraska in the early fifties.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 28, ’07. 100w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Where the trail divides; with il. in colors by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9842.
“As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.
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“A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 285. My. ’07. 540w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75. Tandy.
6–3554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any public or private library of importance on account of its completeness and reliability.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among the great editions of our statesmen.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value, not only in American political history, but to American literature.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=Lincoln, Charles Henry.= Naval records of the American revolution, 1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1. Supt. of doc.
6–35020.
“More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators to identify the ship, and from local records trace her performances.”—Nation.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 930. Jl. ’07. 310w.
“We note some obvious misprints of names.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’ co-op.
6–7387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a generation.” Roger Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 392. Ja. ’07. 2370w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Lincoln, Joseph C.= “Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.
7–21534.
Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of “amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”
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“In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 160w.
“Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 100w.
=Lindsay, Anna R. B.= Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.
7–31179.
Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform with the “What is worth while” series.
=Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.= Warrior spirit in the republic of God. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42942.
“A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.
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=Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
“Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= America’s insular possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
7–1324.
A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles, Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to the Philippines. The history, growth, political development, industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses of the former governor, William H. Taft.
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“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost voiceless.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false proportions on false relations.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= John Smith, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29850.
Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.
6–26562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. 07.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 157. Jl. ’07. 120w.
“Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index would enhance its usefulness.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 180w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Philippines under Spanish and American rules. $3. Winston.
6–44314.
In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively, historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ... Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are given.”—Dial.
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=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation. 2v. ea. *$2.50. Scribner.
6–23686.
=v. 2.= Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the Council of Trent.
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“We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker Rockwell.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 874. Jl. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances, inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert Henry Newman.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will make it for the general reader the standard English work on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 281. S. 20, ’07. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as sufficiently familiar with the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–23318.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large number of original drawings direct from nature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 120w.
“The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 633. O. 25, ’06. 160w.
“This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 233. Mr. ’07. 440w.
=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.
6–33516.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 640. F. ’07. 170w.
“The translation ... is all that could be desired.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Lithgow, William.= Totall discourse of the rare adventures and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–28951.
Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles, chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)
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“It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character, written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale for the reprint before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 430w.
“The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual sumptuous fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 760w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
“His rare adventures are well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 1540w.
=Littlehales, George W.= Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position; comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.
6–24890.
“An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles, and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.
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“The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 74. Jl. 20. 250w.
“As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 1200w.
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 1000w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 50w.
=Livingstone, Alice.= Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
7–5060.
Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero, who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the book reaches its happy ending.
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“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
− =Acad.= 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w.
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is tolerably exciting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w.
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could desire.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w.
“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w.
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w.
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the unimportant as well as important matters.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.
7–35191.
An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with unnecessary details.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 650w.
“Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 866. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and superstitions of the natives.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
6–16757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 483. N. ’06. 1090w.
“As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 569. N. ’06. 780w.
“The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 466. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
“Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague; as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole, contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should have been so wretchedly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 370w.
=Loane, M.= Next street but one. $2. Longmans.
W 7–77.
“This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
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“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of her charming and enlightening book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.
“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.
=Lock, Robert Heath.= Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.
7–12650.
“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed: Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary.... Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated in detail.”—Science.
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“The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are dealing with problems of human progress.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 640. My. ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered. Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and impartial.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 259. Ag. 23, ’07. 810w.
“The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this volume will be among senior biological students rather than among either advanced scientists or general readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.
“An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 573. Ap. 18, ’07. 1490w.
“Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 840. Mr. 1, ’07. 830w.
“The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of ‘mutation.’”
+ =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 820w.
=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
6–37606.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not altogether pleasing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 119. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and Bohemianism.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end eccentric career.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.
“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr. Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.
“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations on a Rabelaisian theme.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.
* =Lockwood, Laura Emma.= Lexicon to the English poetical works of John Milton. *$3. Macmillan.
7–37515.
“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’ Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular stress on definitions.”—Nation.
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“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the ‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 515. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–34821.
The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United States at Algeciras, etc.
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“All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner; he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge, but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive form.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 701. Ap. ’07. 440w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
“As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself gratifying.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1185. D. 7, ’06. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver.= Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.
7–9613.
Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood of criticism.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07.
“We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
− + =Dial.= 42: 341. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 470w.
=Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
=Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 60w.
“We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could make it intelligible to children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
“His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Loftie, Rev. William J.= Colour of London, historic, personal and local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist, Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.
“Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however, the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.
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“As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest, marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 501. My. 25, ’07. 1060w.
“The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 612. My. 18. 420w.
“Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ... treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear the stamp of exceptional ability.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner. These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the fortune of any book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 340w.
“Well above the colour-book average.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 626. My. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Short history of comparative literature from the earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.
7–18136.
“M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay, and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.
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“We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M. Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading. It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it bristles with misprints.”
− − =Acad.= 70: 423. My. 5, ’06. 1520w.
“As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so good as it might be.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 970w.
“Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying truth of his whole theme.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 338. My. 25, ’07. 800w.
“It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M. Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M. Ivimy. *$7. Lane.
In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined. As each passes too you learn something of her character and attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.
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“Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M. Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation is well done.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light opera at that.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important, sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about pretty faces and dresses.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 129. Jl. 27, ’07. 1490w.
=London, Jack.= Before Adam. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–7191.
Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)
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“In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity, but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 125. Jl. ’07. 1640w.
“It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 310w.
“The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w.
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it all with poignant reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w.
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably done and curiously fascinating.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w.
=London, Jack.= Love of life, and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29686.
A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the coward.
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“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of his earlier stories of this author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J. Marchand.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w.
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers, save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief achievement in arctic romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w.
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=London, Jack.= Moon-face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32351.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming into full play.”
− + =Cath. World.= 84: 833. Mr. ’07. 190w.
“These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them on the score of originality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 178. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
* =London, Jack.= The road. †$2. Macmillan.
Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land, but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the student of sociology.
=London, Jack.= Scorn of women; in three acts. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–43530.
A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)
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=Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 80w.
“In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 495. D. 6, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35449.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail given in the fight with the bull-dog.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
“His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary ‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 270w.
“The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 599. F. ’07. 950w.
“The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history of the wolf is an achievement.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 82: 111. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 547. Ap. ’07. 1020w.
“The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood, and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Done in this author’s best style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Lonergan, W. F.= Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent. Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage, talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy, and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish existence, however, he found the time to read something else than newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy, especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.” (Nation.)
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“The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its purchase to our readers.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 110. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 400w.
“While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history, does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements, thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–34265.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but equally well worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 805. D. 22. 150w.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 177. D. 20, ’06. 170w.
“When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be a little tedious.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.
* =Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of “Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them; second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and peace which the author has always found in the silent places.
Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.
5–29965.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 26. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 484. D. 15, ’06. 1180w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.
7–21370.
Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor car.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A. Graef. †75c. Barnes.
7–11578.
A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the author’s experiences in England.
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“It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with cheerful vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Lorimer, Norma Octavia.= By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.
7–4809.
“There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are unusually fine.”—Outlook.
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“The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
− =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Loti, Pierre, pseud.= Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 410w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 109. Ja. ’07. 730w.
“As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively, for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 718. Mr. ’07. 1790w.
“Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no less than irresistible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
6–13335.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Text of Shakespeare; its history from the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
6–36417.
The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of ‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
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“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope, Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything about the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w.
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w.
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w.
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere; but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the title of the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w.
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w.
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the method or order of his growth.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 330. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Another book that must take an eminent place among recent contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far the most important and the most interesting in its special field of criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 724. S. ’07. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by George H. Browne.
+ + =School R.= 15: 304. Ap. ’07. 520w.
“A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the history of English literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 979. Je. 22, ’07. 1690w.
=Louthan, Hattie Horner.= “This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.
6–45355.
The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying homage to what each man really is.”
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“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own vocabularies.”
− =Ind.= 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w.
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of human interest.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the rector is well drawn.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Lovett, Robert M.= Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12977.
The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was “winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”
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“The book ... is rich in interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w.
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
− =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has features of genuine merit.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts. Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
“The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch in spite of its real beauty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Low, Sidney James Mark.= Vision of India as seen during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.
W 7–6.
A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today. Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the present strange form of Indian government.
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“Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 1160w.
“A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book about India.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 180. My. 18, ’06. 1780w.
“Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for that.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 770w.
“Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future is clearly and impressively disclosed.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
=Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 370w.
“The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But, on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study of peoples and politics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w.
=Lowell, Percival.= Mars and its canals. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45164.
On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
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“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 577. F. ’07. 5900w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 211. F. ’07. 1790w.
“Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’ that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the subject.” Herbert A. Howe.
+ =Dial.= 42: 76. F. 1, ’07. 1170w.
“In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 290w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1510w.
“The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into a consistent whole.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities, and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman can understand it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 142. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 120w.
“While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 499. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.
5–32489.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 423. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
6–30901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 429. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.” Carl Russel Fish.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 433. Mr. ’07. 430w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Historical geography of British colonies, v. 1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.
=v. 1.= The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up to date by R. E. Stubbs.
“This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.
=v. 2.= West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.
“This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas, the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South Georgia.”—Nature.
=v. 6.= Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.
A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.
* * * * *
“Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 414. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical, and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 245. Ja. 11, ’06. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Another book of verses for children, il. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32337.
An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including it.
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“Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method of its arrangement.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will please children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 110w.
“It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household use.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 30w.
“Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and playroom anthology.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)
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“Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows, very prettily, the variety of his range.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 290w.
“A most delightful book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1317. N. 28, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour that make every reader his warm friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 820w.
“The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious papers make them delightful reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 521. O. 12, ’07. 1580w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–29018.
Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast, squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter writing.
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“His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 500w.
“This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious, with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin, good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or ‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 338. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular revival.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the public as excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Forgotten tales of long ago. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35046.
Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)
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“Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated, and attractively bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the urbane. $1.50. Holt.
6–10500.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse and prose than this.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–32334.
The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends, Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.
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“A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the year.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–32702.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
“He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
=Luce, Robert.= Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c. Clipping bureau press.
7–18088.
The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation of copy for the press.
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“The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite expressions, which it contains.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 682. Ag. ’07. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 191. Ag. 29, ’07. 70w.
“The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have ever seen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 368. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
=Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.= Electricity as applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
“Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer, colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.
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+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 290w.
=Lusk, Graham.= Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.
6–41748.
“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter. Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes, but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her castles in Spain a reality.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Lyford, James Otis.= Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography. $1.50. Estes.
6–41541.
“The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able, conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.
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“His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion. It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear, orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James F. Colby.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 906. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“This is a good example of the political biography.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 823. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, 07. 180w.
=Lyle, Eugene P., jr.= Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–25502.
A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and Austin figure in the narrative.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
“He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every other page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lynde, Francis.= Empire builders. †$1.50 Bobbs.
7–26019.
A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 270w.
“This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the interest throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lysaght, Sidney Royse.= Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35217.
“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
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“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of life itself.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w.
“Compelling story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what journalists style actuality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 270w.
“Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 440w.
“Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 295. F. 22, ’07. 1540w.
M
=Maartens, Maarten.= New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29090.
A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in disguise.” (Sat. R.)
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“There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”
− − =Acad.= 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has its charm and claim.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w.
“Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’ but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire, nevertheless has point and significance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w.
“The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens his arraignment of the medical profession.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w.
“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle irritant.”
− =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of acute observation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w.
=Maartens, Maarten.= Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w.
“Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and artistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w.
“One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w.
“The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must have taken quite as much work.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w.
“The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle character-drawing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Famous stories every child should know; ed. by Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.
7–29005.
“Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented, and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed.= Heroes every child should know. **90c Doubleday.
6–36046.
“Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland, King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling power.”—Outlook.
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=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
“Most happy in its title as in its contents.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Legends that every child should know; a selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.
6–32353.
Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf, Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir, The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
“A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
“Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w.
=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
6–18052.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his material.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w.
=McAllister, Addams Stratton.= Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw pub.
6–42400.
“This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator motors.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w.
=McArthur, Peter.= Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
7–19470.
Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from sentiment to slang.
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“Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little tame.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w.
=McCabe, Joseph.= Talleyrand: a biographical study; with 25 portraits including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.
7–35192.
The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause; who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”
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“From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness of judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w.
“His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w.
“Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure of this man of mystery.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w.
“Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe, doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to his masterly and fascinating defence.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
6–39729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w.
“Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w.
“It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination, is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of France.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.
7–18594.
The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.
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“Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a field of sheer entertainment.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w.
“The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w.
“It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will agree with his possible estimate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
4–33115.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w.
“Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is extremely useful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w.
* =MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature, the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8. Winston.
6–9611.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=MacColl, Hugh.= Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29053.
“Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b) that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false, certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting of the null or unreal members, O_{1}, O_{2}, O_{3}, &c., and considers it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.
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“There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and instructive, and the points in which it is incontrovertible are much more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.
=Philos. R.= 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w.
=McCook, Henry C.= Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.
7–12257.
A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies, wasps and ant-lions.
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“Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07. S.
“One of the most interesting and instructive entomological publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense of the term.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w.
“The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
“An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school library.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w.
“There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well written, well printed, and well illustrated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought forth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly scientific in its treatment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
“Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.) Il. $2. Page.
7–15494.
“Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores, and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)
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“Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07.
“A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
“He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own historical or artistic associations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by the wayside.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
“Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or Boniforti.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3. Technical bk. agency.
7–19430.
“After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply, concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification index.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most part, has been selected with good judgment.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w.
* =MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest.= Selection and cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.
7–21347.
The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.
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=Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Daughter of Anderson Crow. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25508.
It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position made known.
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“The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the illustrations.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w.
“Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books. Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either written or published.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w.
“In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Jane Cable. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–27704.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the action is a little jerky and uncertain.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w.
“It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely suggestive.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w.
=McDavid, Mittie Owen.= Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.
7–32383.
A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the English colonists.
* =Macdonald, Alexander.= In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s experiences. $2. Jacobs.
“True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ... and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and British New Guinea.
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“The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w.
“At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally told.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w.
“Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told them well. These are right good stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely, notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the pen.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w.
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w.
=MacDonald, Frederick W.= In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s ‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
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“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs both to literature and religion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w.
“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a long time.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that good.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w.
=Macdonald, Frederika.= Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–11002.
An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two contemporaries.
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“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner. Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of mind.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w.
“So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w.
“Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is indispensable to every Rousseau library.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w.
“Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w.
“However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w.
“The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it cannot be lightly put aside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and the goblin. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–12642.
A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit of the story.
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+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
=Macdonell, Anne.= Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6. Dutton.
W 7–36.
Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.” “Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where the shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also, that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“The book is especially strong on its historical side.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w.
“Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w.
“One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme treated.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w.
“Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than that of her predecessor.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of this district of France where every site has its story and association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care for a fascinating subject.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.
7–7187.
“Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.
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“It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with the modern scientific and historical spirit.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w.
“The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick Carl Eislen.
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
=MacFall, Haldane.= Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.
7–3098.
A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger, Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.
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“Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular insight or sense of perspective.”
− =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
“This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and sound criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
“We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.
“On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book is a good one for beginners.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w.
=McGaffey, Ernest.= Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–14649.
“Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object in itself.”—N. Y. Times.
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Reviewed by George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w.
“The advice to sportsmen which the book contains is not full enough or new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The style of the book vouches for itself.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the out-of-doors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=McGehee, Lucius Polk.= Due process of law under the federal Constitution. $3. Thompson.
6–32130.
A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which ‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.” (Nation.)
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“The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he criticises modestly, but firmly.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w.
“The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization, arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w.
=McGinley, Anna M. A.= Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–4504.
“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with principles rather than with their practical application, tho many useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of influence.”—Ind.
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“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers? This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation for it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w.
“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings. Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the book is intended.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
=McGrath, Harold.= Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–30162.
Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good fight.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–43779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w.
“There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a good machine-made novel.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w.
“A bright, entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
=Macgregor, David Hutchison.= Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–12496.
“Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts, cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author] analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used, but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w.
“The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously ‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United States.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr. Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the third division of his book and must be considered the least satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts. On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.” Maurice H. Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting, from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–30483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In small compass is given all the information that has so far been scattered through encyclopedias.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Mach, Ernst.= Space and geometry in the light of physiological, psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.
6–34085.
“The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.
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“The translation is well-nigh perfect.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w.
“There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr. Mach’s series of essays.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w.
=Machen, Arthur.= Hill of dreams; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.
“The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.
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“There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its intolerable sweetness.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w.
“His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w.
“Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should be shut up, or set at manual labor.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it isn’t true, after all.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
=Mackail, John William=, ed. Select epigrams from the Greek anthology. *75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls, lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
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“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work. The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w.
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w.
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so delightful a book were many times greater.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w.
“Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing range.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w.
“It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w.
=MacKaye, James.= Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.
6–28423.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W. S.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w.
“Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c. Little.
6–37899.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme differs from modern socialism.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w.
=Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.
6–35545.
“In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of the times.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w.
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot, and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy embodying a criticism of life.”
− =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w.
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–17376.
In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’ quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and mysticism.
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“The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w.
“The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits of the ancient Roman stage.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified, eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its emotions.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w.
“A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with knowledge.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w.
“Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
* =McKenzie, F. A.= Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.
A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and prestige are being threatened.
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“We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w.
“His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w.
“Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement, including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the conversation of certain Far East residents.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w.
=Mackenzie, John Steuart.= Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–33950.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy, politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of humanism.”—Nature.
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“Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing distance of him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w.
=Ind.= 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with the applications of these teleological principles to politics, economics, education, and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w.
“Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has substantial merits.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.
* =MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Antoinette Sterling and other celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.
These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.” (Spec.)
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.
+ =Spec.= 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w.
=McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter.= Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.
6–46772.
A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of the wrong man.
* =Mackinnon, Albert G.= Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief. It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding the truth of the gospel.
=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.
6–15083.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an important work.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Macklin, Herbert W.= The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–38576.
“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet, Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.
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“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more leisurely reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.
“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.
“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
Reviewed by Charles De Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further claim to plead for their better perservation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Maclaren, Alexander.= Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25. Armstrong.
“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository method.’”
=ser. 1.= Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.
=ser. 2.= Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.
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“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)
“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and expensive for practical use.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)
“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting fresh point into trite texts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)
=Macleane, Douglas.= Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.
7–29051.
A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)
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“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety, and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr. Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into account.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense, point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous examples.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.
“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not always convincing.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before us.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.
=Macleod, Mary.= A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35074.
Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda, The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders gray, and two score more.
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“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the change of form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 53. F. ’07.
“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction. [She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=McMahan, Mrs. Anna B.= Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess. **$1. McClurg.
7–33927.
A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
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“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious readers both in substance and mechanical features.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
6–34853.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and curtailments.”
− =Acad.= 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.
“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.
“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–31456.
A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved haunts.”
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“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments are of no special value.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.
=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives the impression of the progressive development of national powers in relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.” C. H. Levermore.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)
“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of information. All the severest demands of the new school as to scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)
=McNaugher, John=, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1. Un. Presb.
7–18116.
These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader type succeed.”
=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.
6–6931.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine complications.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=McPherson, Logan Grant.= Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43941.
“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the individual railroad departments as the general principles which they pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this book and place it in the hands of the public for educational purposes.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are explained in an interesting way.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.
“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.
“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical railroad man and a trained economist.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.
“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a careful and impartial study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain the operation of an American railway.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.
“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.
“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad situation in this country without going much into details, Mr. McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least important part of it is the list of references with which the book concludes.” Ray Morris.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.
=Macray, Rev. William Dunn.= Register of the members of St. Mary Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5. *$2.50. Oxford.
=v. 5.= “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have an interest for members of the college, and many have a general significance.”—Spec.
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=Ath.= 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Famous painters of America. **$2.50. Crowell.
7–30413.
This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and their works.
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“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 195. N. ’07.
“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from the outside.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.
“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about its method.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can be said about every writer.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes no pretense to give any information about art.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.
“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.
=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
7–7484.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression of wit.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various elements in his mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.
=MacWhirter, John.= MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of value by the student.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Macy, Arthur.= Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
5–36098.
“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
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“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of phrase.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.
=Madden, John.= Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–12644.
It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s memory.
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“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with ordinary habits.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s father.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
=Madison, James.= Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
=v. 6.= “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an important series of instructions to the American representatives in England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of the editor are judicious and accurate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).= Maid of Salem towne. †$1.25. Penn.
6–11309.
Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
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“Most happily told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste, William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath. World.)
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“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
7–15583.
Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty, literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
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“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s pondering.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type, personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.
=Maffitt, Emma Martin.= Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il. $3. Neale.
7–429.
A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman, surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst; with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from “The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted literary charm as well as historic value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.
=Magill, Edward Hicks.= Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–9847.
“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
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“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.
=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
6–35732.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–20870.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor Dill.” B. Perrin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= From sail to steam: recollections of naval life. **$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal conclusions and generalizations.
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“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day has been long and trying.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument, and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
=Maine, Sir Henry James.= Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
7–26409.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Life and letters of Leslie Stephen. *$4.50. Putnam.
7–15902.
The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
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“Will amply repay reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and literary value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
+ + + =Living Age.= 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from Independent Review.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the biographer has done of himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author, or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more historical background. Historically the letters need some interpretation.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Malet, Lucas, pseud.= See =Harrison, M. S. K.=
=Malim, Margaret F.= Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
7–29184.
“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes. Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
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=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.
“A really useful portfolio.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties, individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and the social policy of the future.
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“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
− =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at close range.
* * * * *
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh and impressive than methodical statistics.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Manly, John Matthews=, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–11577.
A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and special significance in the history of English literature have determined the choice of the poems.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.= Physics. *$1.25. Scott.
5–33989.
In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery, such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
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“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary and somewhat kindergartenish.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
=Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.
=Mann, Horace K.= Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and 3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus, 795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the ‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr. Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to support their claims.”—Spec.
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“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful conclusion.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for others, and on the social conditions of our country.
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“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear, tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.
=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
=v. 3.= Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St. Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch cousin. †60c. Page.
6–18353.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the pretext for much interesting information that an American child would most enjoy.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Automobilist abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
7–21289.
“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad. Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.
“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
6–29521.
Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is handsomely illustrated.
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“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is very annoying.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.
“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time, while author and artist bring up something from the past which may pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology, history or architectural technique.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w.
“Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w.
“This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion, repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little bewildering.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles on the Riviera: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.
6–29989.
Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.
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Reviewed by William Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w.
=Mantle, Beatrice.= Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.
7–29091.
An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when she is changed into a thoughtful woman.
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“A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w.
“With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human breathing creature as Gret.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the realm of romance into commonplace reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w.
“Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
* =Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a national literature, although their own products were often immature and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie, William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= By wit of woman. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–16736.
“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w.
“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= In the cause of freedom; with a front. in colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–16375.
“A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge, and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw, where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of excitement.”—Dial.
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w.
“The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
“If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero. But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe than to question.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up business. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–27001.
Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w.
* =Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3. Houghton.
7–36985.
A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi, Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos, Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely illustrated.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= Richard III, his life and character reviewed in the light of recent research; with a portrait and a map. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–10996.
In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.
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“He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place of original documents.”
− =Acad.= 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w.
“His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate, and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition to historical literature.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w.
“Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C. L. Kingsford.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w.
“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w.
“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w.
“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.
=Outlook.= 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w.
“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”
− − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w.
=Marks, Edward C. R.= Mechanical engineering materials: their properties and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.
“A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture, properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper, manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in machinery.”—Engin. N.
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“The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too pretentious title.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w.
* =Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.= England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
7–34222.
Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of £129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful research into the records of the period.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w.
“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty of an obscure allusion or two.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w.
“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w.
“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse of history.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w.
“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years whose history she narrates.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w.
=Marriott, John A. R.= Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland. *$2.25. Putnam.
7–25683.
“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y. Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character that bears the impress of truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w.
“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and loving study before he began his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w.
“This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar; but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w.
“The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of the richest themes in English history.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w.
“May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary scholarship of our time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.
“There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A. R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w.
“We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and martyr of the via media.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w.
“In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w.
=Marsh, Harriet B.= Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public school.
“Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs. It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical, scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.
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“Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science, of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”
+ − =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will repay the study of a teacher.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w.
=Marsh, Richard.= Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26342.
“‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words, constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.
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“Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same covers.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w.
“A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Marshall, H. E.= Island story: a child’s history of England; with col. pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.
7–35150.
A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface suggests.
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“The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but illustrated by poor colored pictures.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
“It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
“It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
* =Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester.= Cathedral cities of France. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–32829.
A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one who has covered the ground.
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“Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as artistic observers.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w.
“The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w.
“Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and discriminating.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface which is still the bane of most color printing.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in so original and unconventional a way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w.
“The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified their observation, by some study of what others have written. Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to perceive.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr. 2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
5–39509.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’ and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’” Frederick C. Hicks.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w.
=Marston, Edward.= Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–34385.
“The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’ and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.
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=Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not have his new volume any further recommended.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
=Marti, Karl.= Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25. Putnam.
7–37540.
“A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading representative.”—Bib. World.
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“An interesting and suggestive sketch.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of details.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
“It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an index.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
“It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from its pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M.= Stones of Paris in history and letters. $2. Scribner.
6–35587.
A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from photographs.
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+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w.
“An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and has been skillfully synthesized.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
“In all essential respects the work holds its own.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w.
“We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w.
“The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as we have said before, the faults in their construction may be overlooked.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.
7–29096.
Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil. Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very austere aunts.
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“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming predecessor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠
“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w.
“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls outside the story books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures adjectives.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.= Betrothal of Elypholate, and other tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.
7–30437.
The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.
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“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w.
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually interesting life.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).= His courtship; il. by Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15920.
A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of happiness.
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“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07.
“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w.
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w.
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel, and got spoiled in the process.”
− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our concert pieces.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.
=Martin, Louis Adolphe.= Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–17261.
=v. 1.= Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.
=v. 2.= Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle; curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body; Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)
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“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Martin, Martha Evans.= Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.
7–14831.
A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting, their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no preparatory instruction.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the heavens.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the author’s work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w.
“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language which baffles the unscientific mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w.
“A useful and even interesting study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in 1906. $3. Cheltenham press.
6–40260.
“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.
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“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with impartiality and accuracy.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w.
“The description is technical and highly detailed.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Through five republics (of South America); a critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.
6–18334.
The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the countries visited.”
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“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks arrangement.”
+ − =Acad.= 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w.
“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr. Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered throughout the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w.
“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w.
“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know what he means.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–41036.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of intimacy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Martin, William A. P.= Awakening of China, il. from photographs. (Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.
7–19477.
Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as “the theater of the most important events now taking place in the world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w.
“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting contribution to our knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w.
“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference purposes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w.
“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w.
“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w.
=Marx, Karl.= Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.
6–43940.
=v. 2.= This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social capital.
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Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.
+ =Arena.= 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Marx, Karl.= Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848. 50c. Kerr.
Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und oeconomie.”
=Marx, W. J.= For the admiral. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–28959.
A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.
* * * * *
“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.= Moliere. $1. Macmillan.
Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good. The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.” (Spec.)
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“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane and sober judgment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Masefield, John=, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–12996.
An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of interesting folk-lore.
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“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w.
“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w.
=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w.
“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
+ − =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
* =Mason, Alfred E. W.= Broken road. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37552.
An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with the English rule over India.
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“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr. Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w.
“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not unduly sensational.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Mason, Alfred E. W.= Running water. †$1.50. Century.
7–7196.
Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
* * * * *
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to the hopeless second grade of literature.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an unpleasant impression.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a human document.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w.
“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w.
“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w.
“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual workmanship.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”
− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w.
“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w.
“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Romantic composers. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43759.
Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt. “In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical writing.” Lawrence Gilman.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w.
“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to the average reader, and will find their best public among concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w.
“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his taste appears to us a little fastidious.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w.
− + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w.
* =Mason, Edith Huntington.= Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.
The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six” young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention woos her.
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=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Masse, Henri Jean L. J.= Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.) *$1. Scribner.
6–46316.
A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler. The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university town.
* * * * *
“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is not in a series of art monographs.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w.
“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w.
“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w.
* =Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups. **$1.60. Moffat.
7–29740.
“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what not.”—Nation.
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=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w.
“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Masson, Thomas L.=, comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.
6–45700.
A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.
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“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”
+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w.
“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once graceful and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–41275.
The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)
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“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w.
“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“A quietly humorous semi-story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.
6–28224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w.
“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w.
=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–6975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.= To colonise England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.
The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England; the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges, and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence.... The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued by the Board of agriculture.
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“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the book.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w.
“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution of the question of the labourer and the land.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Matheson, George.= Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50. Armstrong.
5–26910.
The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel, Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas, Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.
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=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Well adapted for private reading.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w.
* =Matheson, George.= Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–33919.
A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided, Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.
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“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
5–35680.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and grays.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.
7–22821.
A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
6–29094.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w.
“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call the megaphonic method.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Mathews, Shailer.= Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18117.
Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.
* * * * *
“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07. S.
“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and range rare indeed.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w.
“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal with the church and social discontent and the church and the social movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by clergy and laity alike.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= American character. **75c. Crowell.
6–17850.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w.
* =Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–29534.
“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed, ‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas, but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w.
“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w.
=Matthews, Irma B.= Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.
7–29099.
Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a little boy brought up among them.
=Mauclair, Camille.= Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–64.
“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.
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“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague blurs.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Excellent little book for the price.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize those who approach him.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w.
=Maud, Constance Elizabeth.= Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 6–392.
“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active, yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified, stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s Provence, he is to be pitied.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w.
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives enchanting glimpses of French life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author in this presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.
=Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.= Portuguese East Africa; history, scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–10990.
“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all, some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and dialects.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers in search of game.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w.
“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and description, his book will interest the casual as well as the confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast immediately south of Zambesi.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese East Africa.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w.
=Maurin, M. J.= Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.
“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who, devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever existed.”—Ath.
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“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the English rendering is idiomatic and good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w.
“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w.
=Maxey, Edwin.= International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas law bk.
6–11647.
A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’ experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially. There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.
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“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
− =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Maxse, Frederick I.= Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
War 7–22.
Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced. “The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
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“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects, such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight defect in a delightful book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w.
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical value arising from the important share which the author himself took in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w.
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the beginning of the Boer war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w.
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w.
=Maxwell, Donald.= Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
7–19483.
“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat, from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube, but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.
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“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w.
“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated by the author himself and another artist.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh water route.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Maxwell, Gerald.= Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.
7–15322.
The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns, until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution, having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a skin-grafting operation.
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“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions seems inadequate.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity and sensibility finally rebel.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.
“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are worth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.
In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
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“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w.
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w.
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by means of these pages.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w.
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here, there, everywhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w.
“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of these notes.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
=Maxwell, William Babington.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–27707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w.
“There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.= Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50. Houghton.
7–15547.
“The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.
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“For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the Graal.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w.
“Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly with reference to its earlier development.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution of value to one of the most interesting departments of English literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
“It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between, and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w.
“The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w.
=Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth.= Epistle of St. Jude and the Second epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding, with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w.
“His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w.
=Mazzotto, Domenico.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.
6–16742.
“Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it historically and technically ... and places at the service of both scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from translation.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w.
“Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
=Meade, Richard Kidder.= Portland cement; its composition, raw materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.
6–32139.
“A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on ‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely well.”—Engin. N.
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“Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort. Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w.
=Meakin, Annette M. B.= Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.
W 6–316.
“Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical, topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and value.”—Spec.
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“Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects, than the usual personal narratives of travel.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 212. N. ’06.
“This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations, put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w.
“The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in reading on we found reason to change our view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w.
“They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough and discerning.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
“The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian governments.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w.
“We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of little-known facts about Russian towns.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w.
“The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and non-controversial.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w.
=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Meakin, Walter.= Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.
7–38582.
A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the equipment of our author.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w.
“His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w.
“His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
=Meany, Edmond Stephen.= Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
7–14804.
The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map of the North American continent.
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“In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s ‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes, omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in proof-reading.” William R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w.
“It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to, comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w.
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of a new world.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w.
“This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound region of the State of Washington.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w.
“A volume which adds materially to the early history of this continent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish territorial claims.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest sense.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.
“This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a great Englishman.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w.
=Mears, Mary M.= Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–37599.
One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it, misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of “artistic temperament.”
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+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Ind.= 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w.
“There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w.
“The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Meline, Jules.= Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–19755.
Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the working populations everywhere, and that the present is the appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”
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“M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly practical.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w.
“He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting and thought-provoking.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w.
“It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w.
“Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises interesting reading for Americans.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w.
“Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis, with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w.
“It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable, for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is master of his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.
“We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w.
− =Spec.= 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w.
* =Melville, Lewis, pseud.= Farmer George: a study of the life and character of George III. 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.
“George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of America.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in the libraries.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w.
=Mendelssohn, Felix.= Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–5083.
Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight “Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso, besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w.
=Menpes, Mortimer.= Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–110.
Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)
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“It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w.
“The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of tone that are very striking.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject, hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr. Menpes’s work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w.
=Meredith, Ellis.= Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.
7–12976.
All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages of the story.
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“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w.
“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger generation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the patches are incongruous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Personal and literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
7–26424.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”
+ + + =Blackwood’s M.= 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w.
“It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w.
=Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w.
“Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model achievement.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w.
“A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton, and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.” Jeannette B. Gilder.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w.
=Merejkowski, Dmitri.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench. $1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.
− =Ind.= 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w.
=Merrill, George Perkins.= Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils; new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.
6–46275.
“There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views, and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones. The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this subject.”—Dial.
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“The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and their change into soils.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to know about the earth on which he lives.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it fail him in his classroom needs.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Merriman, Mansfield.= Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2. Wiley.
7–6418.
A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first edition.” (Engin. N.)
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“Not only a creditable production but practically the only one covering just its field.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w.
=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roofs and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50. Wiley.
7–6418.
“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment. They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.
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“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor faults also remain.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w.
“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day. Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w.
* =Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
7–37945.
This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive? Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control of rates.
=Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K.= Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33593.
The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing all to save her gains her love.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly developed and well maintained.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
5–41797.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Current Literature.= 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w.
=Meyer, Balthasar H.= History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c. Univ. of Wis.
6–37905.
“The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case], including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.
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“It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H. Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w.
“A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.
+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w.
=Meyer, Ernst von.= History of chemistry from the earliest times to the present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr. with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the 3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the work down to date.
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“The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w.
“The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w.
“An unbiased historical research study.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870, from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy; and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service industries.”
=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50. Macmillan.
6–10877.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting, presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special pleader.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w.
“The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w.
“A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H. Gray.
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from original documents, of the efforts of the British government to administer the telephone service in England.
=Michael, Mrs. Helen C.= Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.
7–17319.
“The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most attractive woman.”—Dial.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.
“The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs. Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Michel, Emile.= Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color and photogravure. *$5. Lane.
7–28517.
This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the great master.
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+ + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is complete with the special plate that is to be presented to subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the time.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w.
“The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w.
“The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the present season.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w.
=Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30440.
Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love and fearlessness.
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“A first-class boy’s story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
* =Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Royal tragedy; being the story of the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50. Dodd.
A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered into the plot and its execution.
* * * * *
“He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w.
“M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w.
=Miles, George H.= Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.
7–18559.
“Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)
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+ =Cath. World.= 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w.
“Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w.
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’ shows any trace of original talent.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–10925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36043.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid and absorbing narrative.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w.
“As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often flags.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.
7–22861.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= For the best things, pa. bds. **65c. Crowell.
7– 26992.
“A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the best impulse in the human heart.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20953.
Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible reveals.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.
7–21332.
Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Miller, John Henderson.= Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1. Funk.
6–44370.
A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the “submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and simples, and homely philosophy abound.
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“We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and the lessons of practical value.”
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w.
“The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the jaded novel-reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= Harry’s runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–32035.
A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs. Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the suppliant state.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= What happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–15599.
A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)
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− + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the schoolgirl stage.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w.
=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely another so-called ‘art book.’”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.
6–31644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the ‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and specialization from the university into the high school, where they have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a _completed_ and _tried_ course.” F. R. Watson.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and Israel. *$4. Open ct.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.
=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.
6–38905.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. S.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w.
“It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Milton, John.= Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives and intention of each of the poems individually.
=Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B.= Mathematical drawing. *$2.10. Longmans.
An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.
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“This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is too brief to be of greatest service to either.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.
6–38893.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O. Jones.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.” Madeleine Z. Doty.
− − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w.
=Mitchell, William.= Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60. Macmillan.
W 7–111.
“A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts: The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct explanation and the direct explanation.”
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“It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern literature of psychology.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w.
“The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G. Smith.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w.
“It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w.
“The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition, were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical index.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w.
“Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best philosophical books of recent years.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.
“A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are not in a hurry to run while reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
6–2322.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.
7–28500.
Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the “national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects treated.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people. Congress, president, and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.
A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.
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“To the average American student, the book is a primer of the simplest type. To the foreign lawyer who wishes to become familiar with the theoretical side of our government the book will be of considerable assistance, but to a foreign business man or a foreigner studying modern institutions, the book is of little value, for it lives in the dim, forgetful past, not in the pulsing present.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 320w.
“While there are some imperfections in the style, and while for the general reader the book would be more valuable if it had undergone revision by an English scholar, it is a remarkably clear and comprehensive statement of the fundamental principles of our American constitution and might well be commended to the lay reader who desires to obtain a nonpartisan impression and scholarly view of the nature of our government and the functions of its various departments.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 50w.
Modern pilgrim’s progress; with introd. by the Very Rev. H. S. Bowden. *$1.60. Benziger.
A description of the “phases of thought through which an educated and thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to the Roman faith. The arguments in favor of the Roman faith are as old as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical originality.” (Spec.)
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=Cath. World.= 84: 264. N. ’06. 840w.
“The book is a striking one.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 462. O. 13, ’06. 630w.
“The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be completely transformed and forever pacified by drugs of sacredotal anaesthetics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
* =Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.= Pocket-book of aeronautics, by H. W. L. Moedebeck in collaboration with O. Chanute and others; authorized Eng. ed.; tr. by W. Mansergh Varley. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–29118.
The present work aims to review the history of aerial navigation and its present development and to give scientific information on the physics of the atmosphere.
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“In this handy little volume we have an excellent comprehensive summary of the whole subject of aeronautics, and the English reading public have to thank Major Moedebeck for producing such a work which has been so capably translated by Mr. Varley.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 100. My. 30, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“Useful and timely hand-book. No reference is made to the large amount of data collected with kites in the United States by our Weather bureau and at the Blue Hill observatory, nor to the more recent observations with balloons at great heights, which were instituted by this observatory.” A. Lawrence Rotch.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 25: 936. Je. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia: *$3. Dutton.
6–43228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A sympathetic and admiring portrayal of Queen Louisa, and a clear and interesting picture of her times. While it throws no new light on Prussian history, it never degenerates into a court calendar, but is dignified and worthy of its subject throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“Well-written, well arranged, and always interesting memoir.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 493. O. ’07. 400w.
“If not taken as a balanced history of the period it will do no harm, and may serve to interest casual readers to a period of German history of crucial importance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 180w.
“A good deal of new matter not found in Horn or even Lonke. There is, too, a good index and a fair bibliography, though it lacks any mention of Martin’s German biography (1887), and is wholly deficient in American references.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 940w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 220w.
=Moffat, Rev. James=, ed. Literary illustrations of the Bible, ea. *40c. Armstrong.
Six volumes of commentaries entitled; The book of Ecclesiastes, The book of Daniel, The gospel according to Saint Mark, The epistle to the Romans, The gospel according to Saint Luke, and The book of Revelation.
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“The treatment is novel and interesting, and we think might be followed with educational effect by every reader of the Scriptures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 210w.
“A small but choice assortment of gleanings from a fruitful field.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 80w.
=Moller, Muriel.= Wood-carving designs. *$2.50. Lane.
“Six sheets of excellent working drawings of panels, frames, etc., with examples of furniture suitable for them, as to which Mr. Walter Crane writes an appreciative foreword.”—Int. Studio.
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“Should prove of great utility to the carver in wood.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w.
=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 86. My. ’07. 350w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 70w.
=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Sir Joshua and his circle. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–13429.
Less of a sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ life and character than a portrayal of his relations to the group of men and women prominent in the literature and art of his day.
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“Mr. Molloy has re-told the old stories fairly well, and produced the sort of book that very many people like to read.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The book certainly cannot be said to have been necessary; but it is written with such infectious good humour and apparent zest, the touch is so spirited and flowing, the local colour thrown on with so light and lavish a hand, that it may be skimmed with amusement and pleasure.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful eyes’ and the like.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements, schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions, entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.
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“Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters, which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Among those who have made a serious study of the Venetian past, perhaps none is more eminent than the Italian historian Pompeo Molmenti.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 38. Jl. 16, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“In the main, we find Molmenti’s verdicts sound, and his attitude judicial. We must praise the very readable translation of Mr. Horatio Brown, himself a recognized authority on matters Venetian.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1435. D 12, ’07. 820w.
“Admirably translated by a scholar whose erudition is equal to that of their author.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 331. Je. ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has what many who attempt works of this kind lack—charm, the gift of presenting a great body of material so that it not only conveys information, but gives pleasure.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 1170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The material which enables the author to describe these subjects in the most minute detail has been collected with the greatest care, patience and industry from original sources. So complete, indeed, are the descriptions that in many cases we have pages of sheer enumeration—of estimable value to specialists, but of doubtful attractiveness to the lovers of the romantic phases of Venetian history.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a careful student.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers. About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w.
=Moncrieff, A. R. Hope.= Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer, with 75 il. in col. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–171.
Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the “enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
“As a rule the neat and simple method of the artist suits the process fairly well.” Charles de Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Altogether, the book is one of the most agreeable of this series.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
=Monroe, Will Seymour.= Turkey and the Turks: an account of the lands, the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman empire. $3. Page.
7–26348.
A brief but unified picture, gained thru study and travel, of the incoherent Ottoman empire and its complex civilization. A chapter is devoted to the rise, another to the decline of the empire one is given to the significant events in Turkish history during the past thirty years, but the most of the book is devoted to matters of purely human interest, including eight chapters upon Constantinople, its monuments, characteristic quarters, street scenes, bazaars, baths, kahns, fountains, mosques and dervishes.
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=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a whole, the book is to be commended for the useful information which it gives, but in some points it merits criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Sowing of Alderson Cree; with a front. by W. T. Benda. †$1.50. Baker.
7–12272.
Alderson Cree is shot by an enemy and upon his death-bed exacts from his young son the promise to avenge the deed. “His ‘sowing’ is the spirit of revenge and hatred which is thus implanted in the child’s heart, and the reaping comes ten years later, when the boy must choose between revenge and love. The story has in it all the rough strength of the mountain valley where the scene is laid and of the rough mountain people who figure in its pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A book of extraordinary sweetness and strength, for in reading one is led along by the sure touch of the writer, who, born and living all her days among the mountain people, knows their lives and touches them with truth and tenderness.” Harriet Prescott Spofford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1770w.
=Montgomery, Edmund.= Philosophical problems in the light of vital organization. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–5071.
“This work is divided into two parts: 1, Philosophical survey; 2, Biological solutions. Some of the problems discussed in the first part are substance, identity, causation, the problem of the external world, universals and particulars, innate faculties, subject and object, etc.... The problems of substantiality, causation, mechanical necessity, living substance as sensorimotor agent, sentiency and purpose in movements, teleology in nature, etc., are discussed in the second part, in conjunction, with the author’s own views.”—Psychol. Bull.
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“Futile as is all such philosophizing, there are valuable practical applications of biology, in ethics, education, and sociology, and these Mr. Montgomery has instructively presented, though disadvantaged by a heavy and otherwise somewhat defective literary style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 390w.
“A somewhat peculiar setting forth of a familiar view, relating to what is here termed the psychophysical puzzle. What is peculiar is the mystical, or mystifying phraseology in which these views are presented.” E. A. Norris.
− =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 243. Ap. 25, ’07. 670w.
=Montgomery, Hugh, and Cambray, Philip G.= Dictionary of political phrases and allusions with a short bibliography. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–84.
A novel book of reference in which “foreign political phrases, terms, and catch-words of international significance, but with particular reference to Great Britain, are defined in simple language.” (N. Y. Times.) “This book will help a hasty journalist to write in such a fashion as to pass muster with a hasty sub-editor.” (Ath.)
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“Numerous catch phrases of recent political campaigns are discussed which surely do not deserve a place in a one-volume work of this character, and even the allusions to strictly English politics are not treated with comprehension of their relative importance. The worst fault of the book is the lack of judicial attitude. Almost every page is tinged with a national prejudice which warps the discussion so as largely to destroy its value.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 150w.
“Most of the entries fall a little short of the exactness to be desired in such a dictionary.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 769. D. 15. 1090w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
“To any one having occasion to refer to British acts of legislation or to catchwords of British politics the usefulness of this volume is obvious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 97: 991. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
=Montgomery, James Alan.= Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect. **$2. Winston.
7–15492.
An exhaustive study of the Samaritans which treats of their history, theology, and philology, with a closing chapter devoted to the literary history of the sect.
* * * * *
“It is a mine of information. The author has apparently overlooked nothing. The method and style are clear and simple, and the book deserves a place in any library.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 40w.
“A large amount of diligent research is evident.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 130w.
“Its account of the romantic story of this curious sect will be an authoritative work upon the subject, for it presents an amount and variety of material which can be found nowhere else.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“The book is a contribution to the literature of an obscure subject. It makes no pretense to popularity. But it will interest scholars who will be especially thankful for the careful ‘Samaritan bibliography.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“We commend to our readers his volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.
=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in animals. *$2.50. Holt.
6–16987.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our author undertakes the herculean task, we venture to think successfully, of setting the study of phylogeny on a surer foundation.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 530. Ap. 4, ’07. 990w.
“Every teacher and advanced student of biology should become acquainted with the views of an author who has studied so many and widely separated biological phenomena.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 167. F. ’07. 320w.
=Montresor, Frances Frederica.= Burning torch. †$1.50. Dutton.
The story of an orphan child endowed with second sight which has descended to her from a Highland ancestor. “The heroine not only does not marry, she is killed in a railway collision. This, being a kind of domestic Cassandra, she has foreseen, as, helpless to prevent or to convince, she has foreseen all the other catastrophes which have befallen her circle—the suicide of her father, the almost patricide of her favorite cousin, the violent death in the desert of the man she loves.” (Nation.)
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“It is only just to state that in spite of a considerable lack of sympathy with its philosophy we read ‘The burning torch’ with an interest that surprised us.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 731. Jl. 27, ’07. 400w.
“One does not realize it (there are so many diverse interests touched by a sympathetic and exceedingly observant perception) till nearly the end; but the tale is compounded of elements which do not coalesce quite happily.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 212. Jl. 5, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 85: 268. S. 26. ’07. 200w.
“Parts of the story are pretty dull, and the style tends to be tedious, but for all that there is really good stuff in the rather nondescript and futile whole called ‘The burning torch.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 380w.
“While there are many grim and not altogether pleasant traits distributed among the actors, there is also a decided hopefulness for humanity and faith in God pervading the story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 270w.
“A book heavier with fate and fatalities we have never seen. It is not an easy book to read.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 239. N. ’07. 760w.
“Miss Montresor can always be relied upon for a straightforward story without ellipse or obscurity; she tells it fluently and at some length, as though she could not help telling it. She has delicacy and enough observation to make every one of her numerous characters distinct.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 59. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
=Moody, Winfield Scott.= Pickwick ladle and other collector’s stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–35226.
Sketches of “two hardened bric-a-brac hunters.... Each story breathes an agreeable leisure, and the thread of the Wyckoffs’ adventures among the antique dealers is enriched by a shrewd characterization of the dealers themselves, from Dirck Amstell, the honest Dutchman, to a proud representative of Du Val upon Fifth avenue.”—Nation.
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“Unusually well told stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 130w.
“Dainty in touch, with humor that is real and pervaded by an atmosphere of good society.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The pleasant surprise of the stories as a whole is that treating of the infinitely small, they constantly broaden into a larger perspective.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 220w.
“Altogether delightful little stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
“After reading much of the fiction of the day, one feels as if in this modest volume he is really once more in good society.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
=Moore, Edward A.= Story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the army of northern Virginia; with introds. by Robert E. Lee, jr., and Hon. Henry St. George Tucker: il. $2. Neale.
7–21269.
“In which is told the part taken during the civil war by the Rockbridge artillery in the operations of the army of northern Virginia.... It is history and romance in one, and at the same time a chronicle and a picture gallery. To read it is to know intimately the brave and noble young fellows who formed the company, a command that proved its mettle in twenty-three engagements.”—N. Y. Times.
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“We heartily commend the volume as a truthful picture of real war.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 151. Ag. 10. 110w.
“The book possesses genuine value despite occasional eccentricities of style which careful editing would have avoided.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.
“He tells the story of the four years’ struggle in a clear, direct, soldier like way, always with a sense of the humorous, and always sympathetically, like a man to whom life is larger than any one man’s experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The story is well told, and gives a real insight into the every-day life and typical privations of the confederate soldier-boy. Mr. Moore’s sympathetic narrative is full of ‘human interest’ of a very genuine kind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 140w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
6–41820.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story throughout is as straightforward and as thoroughly to the point as could be desired. There is no pretension, the facts are told in simple style, readable and interesting from beginning to end. The book as a whole gives a better idea of the life in the Balkan region than any other similar volume yet published.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 190w.
“He has the capacity to see the really interesting things and record his impressions so as to convey them to the reader. And this he does without the tall writing which as a rule disfigures the work of a newspaper correspondent. He possesses also the gift of humor.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 730w.
=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.
5–37156.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is Irish to the core, but with a quiet and contemplative melancholy. Of the few events none is cheap or trite.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–42372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The collection is a rather sickening blend of Henry Harland at his fluffiest and of Goncourt at his feeblest.” H. T. P.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 479. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 398. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“It probably contains more of himself than is to be found in the sum of his other works, which would be equivalent to saying that it surpasses them in interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 54: 218. F. 9. ’07. 260w.
=Nation.= 84: 62. Ja. 17, ’07. 730w.
“‘The memoirs of my dead life’ is even more dead than Mr. Moore is wont to be. It is worse than dead—it is defunct.”
− =Putnam’s.= 1: 767. Mr. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 130w.
=Moore, John Bassett.= Digest of international law. 8v. per set, $10. Supt. of doc.
6–35196.
Eight large volumes in the preparation of which Prof. Moore, “analyzed, digested and epitomized diplomatic discussions, treaties, and other international agreements, international awards, the decisions of municipal courts, the writings of jurists, the documents—published and unpublished—of presidents and secretaries of state of the United States, the opinions of attorneys-general, and the decisions of state and federal courts.” (R. of Rs.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 466. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w.
“By far the best feature of these volumes is their admirable analysis of the subject-matter with which they deal.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 783. Je. 22, ’07. 1550w.
=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown. †$1.50. Winston.
6–17871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story has so much that is excellent in it, and the author’s spirit is so fine and fair, and his humanity so broad, that it is a source of sincere regret that the book is so diffuse.”
+ − =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 390w.
=Moore, Joseph Augustus.= School house; its heating and ventilation. $2. Joseph A. Moore, 28 Conway st., Roslendale, Bost.
5–39873.
“The author has here embodied in convenient form a large amount of useful information based on his experience during the past eighteen years in inspecting public buildings in Massachusetts and ‘in supervising the construction of and testing the various methods of heating and ventilation, especially in school houses.’ He has also included further useful matter in the way of quotations from state laws and regulations on the construction and state supervision of public buildings.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is written in an easily understood, direct manner. It would constitute a good beginning of a library for a school janitor’s library.”
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 182. Ag. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Collector’s manual; with 336 page engravings and with borders by Amy Richards. **$5. Stokes.
6–43921.
A guide for the collector of antiques in which the author gives helpful information about old furniture, old glass, brass and copper articles, English pottery and porcelain, old clocks, pewter, etc.
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“Pleasant reading but not particularly valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“Mrs. Moore writes definitely and concisely.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 380w.
“These chapters are all full of information, given in a popular, chatty way from the collector’s standpoint, giving account of shrewd bargains and the money value of things, rather than of their artistic merit.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 310w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“The book is evidently the work of a practised and ardent pursuer of this peculiar game, one, moreover, who can point to what exists in old books about this favorite sport. And yet the space occupied by rather useless borders might well be filled with careful footnotes.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
“Not only the collector, but the home builder, will find much in the book that is of value to him. The illustrations are very good and clearly show the different articles presented.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 118. F. 23, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–40212.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is to be regretted that these stories, which are based on acts of heroism and are inspiring to girls, should be so poor in workmanship.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Correggio. *$2. Scribner.
7–35193.
“The originality of the book lies largely in the asides, though the author does good service in challenging previous vague attempts to define the peculiar sort of ecstacy wherein Correggio’s Corregiosity must surely consist. Mr. Moore’s own view is that the master fully realized himself only a handful of the classical pictures, notably the Io, the Ganymede, and perhaps the Antiope. As the favored decorator of the provincial and by no means highly cultured court of Parma. Correggio lacked the sustaining forces behind a Titian or a Michaelangelo, frequently availing himself too readily of his own formulas, seldom realizing the full dignity of his position as artist.”—Nation.
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“Not so readable as Brinton’s book in the ‘Great masters’ series, nor does it contain so much about the life of Correggio, but is much more exhaustive as to technique.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
“Rarely have we read a book more bewildering in general plan, and this in spite of not a little classification into divisions and subdivisions. It is moreover, written in a style of liquid and wandering reverie.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2:624. N. 17. 1150w.
“He again devotes rather too much space to the exploitation of his own critical creed; and he is unnecessarily hard on Mr. Berenson and Signor Conrado Ricci.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1126. N. 14, ’07. 290w.
“When Mr. Sturge Moore shakes himself free of the other critics and deals with his professed subject, Correggio, he reveals himself as admirably qualified for the task. He brings to his work that rare combination, a practical training in art and a wide knowledge of literature, with a power of philosophical analysis to which very few writers on the history of art can pretend. The catalogue ‘raisonné,’ in which Mr. Moore has been helped by his friend. Mr. C. S. Ricketts, is fairly complete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 399. N. 30, ’06. 1030w.
“The style is occasionally crabbed, its discursiveness extreme, but as the sincere effort of a poet’s mind to interpret a most poetical painter it abounds in wisdom even in the byways of the theme.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 230. Mr. 7, ’07. 620w.
“The result [of defining the temper, address, inspiration and quality of works], though somewhat spun out in generalizations, is interesting, suggestive, and important, especially as coming from one who questions the value of the aims and methods of modern historical art criticism.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.
“There is much in this volume with which it is possible to disagree; there is, I think, too much controversy in it, and Mr. Moore is not at his happiest in controversy. Nor is the design of the book quite satisfactory. But, whatever the faults, I believe that it is on the main lines of such work as this that aesthetic criticism, if it is to have any vital hold on the intelligent interests of the world, must proceed.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 799. D. 29, ’06. 1900w.
=Moore, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.”
=Moore, William Harrison.= Act of state in English law. *$3. Dutton.
7–18175.
“A systematic treatment of ‘Matters of state.’ with numerous citations of important cases. ‘The type of “matter of state” is the matter between states, which, whether it be regulated by international law or not, and whether the acts in question are or are not in accord with international law, is not a subject of municipal jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on this borderland of international and municipal law.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
=More, Mrs. Louise Bolard.= Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H. Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50. Holt.
7–30623.
A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful, verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.
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“As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w.
“The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–45344.
=ser. 4.= This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains, “informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.
* * * * *
“Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4)
“Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.)
“By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Never here shall we find anything more than comfort and instruction. The one thing more that we should desire to find is inspiration.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He makes no cheap bid for favor. He dispenses altogether with smartness, and almost altogether with humor. He is never audacious, like Mr. Lang, nor ironical, like Mr. Saintsbury. He possesses no gift of style, but writes in clear, unembarrassed sentences, making a legitimate demand upon the intelligence of his readers.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 840w. (Review of v. 4.) (Reprinted from Philadelphia public register.)
“By the soundness of his critical method, and by virtue of the range, depth, and precision of knowledge, combined with literary charm and human interest, which these essays evince, Mr. More, takes a secure place in the forefront of American criticism.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 752. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The essays are appreciative, and it is saying little for them to assert that no one, however familiar he may be with the men into whose characters and works they probe so tenderly and searchingly, can fail to receive instruction from the book. Moreover, the style is limpid and easy; the author is never ‘clever’ or paradoxical, according to the new fashion; he is never startlingly witty, but always sane and apt; and a spirit of sweet reasonableness prevades all.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 91. Jl. 20, ’07. 1460w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Morgan, Conway Lloyd.= Interpretation of nature. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42351.
“This little book is an extension of an article which appeared in the ‘Contemporary review’ of May, 1905. It deals with the scientific and teleological aspects of the interpretation of nature, the aim of the book being, in the author’s words, to show that a belief in purpose as the casual reality of which nature is an expression is not inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the explanations of naturalism within their appropriate sphere.” (Int. J. Ethics.)
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“The book is enriched with extremely well selected examples, which serve to make clear and precise the author’s meaning and to make the book intelligible and interesting to the general reader.” C. T. Preece.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 517. Jl. ’06. 670w.
“This little book deals with big questions, and many who have pondered over them will be grateful to the author for the lucidity of his argument, which is an expression of his own clear vision.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 265. Ja. 18, ’06. 1410w.
=Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
An intimately analytical biography of Patrick Henry thruout which the white light is turned upon him. He lives again in the atmosphere of the revolution, becomes the center of situations and scenes which he dominated, is lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and executive, and is seen surrounded by his contemporaries and friends. The historical value of the study is apparent, while it is as fascinating as any romance.
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“The rapid narrative style, plentifully seasoned with personal details quite upholds the claim of the publishers that the book is ‘as readable as a spirited romance.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 280w.
=Morgan, James.= Theodore Roosevelt: the boy and the man. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–31182.
A simple, straightforward, withal complete sketch of our president, showing the rounds by which he did ascend to the present heights from which he defends and promulgates America’s sturdiest democratic principles. “Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the varied dramatic scenes in the career of a Man who still has the enthusiasm of a Boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated before the world the spirit of Young America.”
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“Written in a mechanical style and without originality but will be useful until replaced by a better work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
“The book is one that will appeal to the ‘plain people.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
“He has accomplished a difficult task accurately and impartially.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Rarely is a living man so adequately celebrated. Mr. Morgan’s appreciation of his subject is hearty; his selection of material out of the enormous mass of Rooseveltiana available is so admirably calculated to his purpose that the reviewer can do no better than quote from the text. An almost ideal biography.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 610. O. 12, ’07. 1250w.
“Altogether, this new biography is one of the indispensable books of its class so far as contemporary literature is concerned.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 300w.
=Morgan, Lewis H.= Ancient society; or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization. $1.50. Holt.
Mr. Morgan classifies his study under four general heads as follows: Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries, Growth of the idea of government, Growth of the idea of the family and Growth of the idea of property. His presentation is logical and suggestive.
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=Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 280w.
“It is gratifying to see a reprint of a work which may be called one of the minor classics among American archeological monographs.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 120w.
“We are glad to see so valuable, scholarly, and interesting a work again made accessible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 350w.
“Really epoch-marking work in the history of thought.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Morgan, Thomas Hunt.= Experimental zoology. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–3114.
“A work of 450 pages, based on thirty-five lectures; a treatment that does not pretend to be entirely exhaustive, but for which ‘the plan has been to select the most typical and instructive cases.’ Divided into main sections on the Experimental study of evolution; Growth; Grafting; Influence of environment on the life cycle; Determination of sex, and Secondary sexual characters.”
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“The novelty of the field covered in this work and the very fundamental bearings of the data and hypotheses here gathered in a critical summary combine to make Professor Morgan’s work indispensable to anyone who wishes critical information of recent movements in the biological world.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 400w.
“Professor Morgan’s book is the best, indeed the only up-to-the-moment abstract of the results and the various phases of this experimental investigation of the life and make-up of animals. It is not primarily a book for the general reader, but there is no other for him on the same subject. And he can better afford not to understand a few of Professor Morgan’s references and yet be able to rely on what he does understand as being true, than to look for a more popular and less reliable account.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 218. Jl. 25, ’07. 820w.
“There is much original matter, in spite of the space necessarily given to compilation. The most serious defect is in the index, which is all too scant for such a mass of diverse subject matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 343. Ap. 11, ’07. 490w.
“We may be allowed to compliment the author on his highly successful execution of an arduous task; his workmanship is marked by carelessness, lucidity and impartiality, by the salt of good-tempered criticism.” J. A. T.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 313. Ag. 1, ’07. 1160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.
“The book treats primarily of those subjects and problems of experimental zoology which have not been considered in other books. The material which is presented is not always fully digested. Style and method of presentation present certain features which can be due only to haste or lack of care.” C. M. Child.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 824. D. 13, ’07. 3920w.
=Morgan, William Conger.= Qualitative analysis as a laboratory basis for the study of general inorganic chemistry. *$1.90. Macmillan.
6–42922.
“Less a work for the beginner than for the student who has already acquired a certain familiarity with experimental chemistry. It is in fact, a comprehensive study of analysis from the theoretical side.... The book is divided into sections, the first of which deals with general principles, such as mass action, equilibrium, reversible changes, and dissociation; the second section is devoted to reactions of the common elements, arranged according to the periodic system, and the third deals with systematic analysis.”—Nature.
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“To those who want a textbook with ionic notation, and do not mind having the names of certain elements and compounds written in the American spelling, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 300w.
“A course of general educational value.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 360w.
“It is simply and clearly written, although the American spelling and the alternate use of names and symbols in the text are a little confusing to the English reader. Nevertheless, the book has a distinct character of its own; it is interesting and suggestive, and will fill a gap in chemical philosophic literature.” J. B. C.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“The press work of the book is excellent and typographical errors are very few. There is a complete index.” Jas. Lewis Howe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 535. Ap. 5, ’07. 1120w.
=Morley, Margaret Warner.= Grasshopper land. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–17914.
The foreword to this careful inquiry into the affairs of the denizens of grasshopperland explains that the book is not for children but for their “grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in the country and who may be in danger after all these years, of forgetting about grasshoppers.” But the little volume will not only refresh the memories of those who have forgotten, but will also tell those, who never knew, much that is interesting about the ways of the grasshopper folk. There are many illustrations from drawings.
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“She evidently knows a great deal about such insects, and what she knows she has set forth in very entertaining and lucid form.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“The book is a well executed piece of sugar-coated science, intended for children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in literary rather than scientific form.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 90w.
“This information will be convenient for teachers by giving them something more to talk about.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Useful in the children’s room as well as in the general library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07. S.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of progress in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43546.
Short chapters deal with forty-five men who have taken the initiative along the highroads of statesmanship, invention, scientific research, benevolent activity and moral earnestness from the days of Roger Williams to the present.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. 07. S.
“The language is simple and easily understood by the younger readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 70w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the army in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43547.
America’s fighters by land and sea, “striking for liberty and union and sowing the land with memories of valiant deeds” furnish many a narrative for the youthful patriot of to-day. There are thirty-six men in Mr. Morris’ group including men from George Washington to Nelson A. Miles.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 13. Ja. ’07. S.
“Should be a valuable form of supplementary reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the navy in America. *$1.25. Lippincott.
7–15488.
Accounts of conflicts on the high seas which do honor to both our navy and the heroes who fought in it. There are chapters upon: John Paul Jones, William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, David Porter, Oliver Perry, Farragut, Dewey, Hobson, and a score of others as brave if not as well known.
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“Is exceedingly well adapted to the needs of young readers. Treating chiefly, although not entirely, of our naval successes, it presents a rather one-sided and flattering picture of our naval history as a whole.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 410w.
=Dial.= 43: 21. Jl. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Morris knows how to tell a story, and his compendium ought to attract many who do not see their way to attacking the minute Mahan, the much-questioned Maclay, the entirely discredited Buell, or the laborious Spears.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 100. O. ’07. 150w.
=Morris, Charles.= Home life in all lands. **$1. Lippincott.
7–28638.
A book that might be used as a supplementary reader for geography classes. It tells of the people of far-away quarters of the world, their queer food, strange clothing, curious habits, customs and methods of securing a living.
=Morris, Charles.= Old South and the new. **$2.25. Winston.
7–36220.
A complete illustrated history of the southern states, their resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of their wonderful growth in industry and riches from the earliest times to the Jamestown exposition.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Morris, George Van Derveer.= Polly. $1.50. Neale.
6–46773.
A fairy tale of love in which it is shown that men love not so much the reality, the substance, as they do the ideal.
=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
W 6–266.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Morris, has given us in his volume a most entertaining and valuable review of the work of the great statesmen of our rising Far Eastern neighbor.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 233. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“Convenient for newspaper reference, and for all those who do not seek more than the current notions about distinguished men.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
=Morris, William.= Stories from Morris, by Madalen Edgar. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22916.
Stories from “The earthly paradise.” The author has held close to Morris’ rehabilitation of the spirit of the middle ages with its superstitious belief in magic, and its love of mystery and romance.
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“To strip his work of all its poetic beauty, its meaning, and its intellectual distinction is unfair both to him and his childish readers.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Chronicles of Martin Hewett, detective. $1.50. Page.
7–12979.
A new illustrated edition of the earlier adventures of Hewett whose “‘well known powers’ are nothing but common sense assiduously applied and made quick by habit.”
=Morrison, Arthur.= Martin Hewitt investigator. †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of Mr. Morrison’s detective stories. Martin Hewitt, master of both the science and art of detective study, is an interesting personality. In addition to the usual keen perception, shrewd observation, and deft logic required of sleuths, he operates the law of human kindness.
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=Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The stories present many varied phases of crime, and they are very well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 50w.
=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.
6–31643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Charmingly written, well worth reading, but deals with perhaps too much assurance about matters concerning which there are wide differences of opinion among astronomers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“His book is carelessly put together, repetitious, decidedly partisan—and always lively.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 40w.
“The present author takes the viewpoint, rather, of the special pleader, marshals the evidence that bolsters up the theory he is advancing, ridicules opinions divergent from his own, and leaves the reader in a state of wonder as to what arguments might be advanced on the other side of the question.” Herbert A. Howe.
− + =Dial.= 42: 75. F. 1, ’07. 950w.
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 160w.
“One cannot but admire the ingenuity of his argument, even if unable to accept his conclusion.”
+ − =Nation.= 34: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 490w.
“The book is a useful guide to further study of the subject, as it gives full references to the original sources of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’07. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 60w.
* =Moryson, Fynes.= Itinerary of Fynes Moryson. 4v. ea. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England Scotland and Ireland.” This reprint is the first in full since the original was published in 1617.
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+ =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is worthy of a place on the shelf which contains that delightful work of ancient travel and whimsical humor, ‘Coryat’s crudities.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Mosenthal, Philip J.=, and =Horne, Charles F.=, eds. City college; memories of sixty years; ed. for the Associate alumni of the college of the city of New York. *$5. Putnam.
A memorial volume recording the life and history of the college of the city of New York, prior to its removal to its new home on St. Nicholas Heights.
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“The work has been done and notably well done.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
“It is a mosaic of admirable arrangement whose separate stones have been polished for the setting by a number of distinguished alumni.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 721. S. ’07. 250w.
=Moses, Bernard.= Government of the United States. *$1.05. Appleton.
6–12152.
“This is a sketch of the organization and general methods of working of the United States government. The subject matter rather outruns the title, as all grades of government, and not the national alone, are covered.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “Especially noteworthy is an inclusion among the topics of that new phase of American government—the dependencies. Roosevelt’s letter instructions to the Philippine board and an act of Congress bearing upon it are appended.” (Ind.)
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“The style of the work is pleasing and there is no unnecessary padding.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“The discussion of the various topics are very lucid and followed by the fullest topical references, perhaps a little too advanced for the average student.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
=Moses, Josiah.= Pathological aspects of religions. *$1.50. Stechert.
6–32848.
“A dissertation for the doctorate at Clark university, made by a diligent collection of more or less important instances of the perversion of the religious instinct, such as mysticism, fetichism, ritualism, emotionalism, etc.”—Ind.
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“There is very little originality perceptible either in his methods or conclusions.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 50w.
“Its value is impaired by a number of misstatements of fact, and by the author’s lack of training in historical research. The proofreading, also, is very bad. As Dr. Moses’s general points of view are good, we feel confident that he will be able to revise his book in such a way as to bring out more clearly its fundamental idea.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w.
* =Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50. Kennerley.
7–38221.
A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters covering the history of children’s books from early times to the present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged and classified.
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+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2. Crowell.
6–34709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in America.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34369.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w.
=Mother Goose.= Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum. †75c. Houghton.
7–30443.
Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking way of speaking for themselves.
=Mott, Lawrence.= To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17361.
Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.
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“Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w.
“The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at current popular sentiment.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= White darkness and other stories of the great Northwest. $1.50. Outing.
7–4162.
Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear, Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them. Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps, in two cases.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w.
“What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr. London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters, that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures he draws.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal horror) really ‘bookable.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w.
“They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic appreciation of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a genuine production nevertheless.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–14049.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular hypothesis of Laplace.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W. Whitney.
+ + − =Astrophys. J.= 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed. with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.
7–34574.
A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller separate editions.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in ‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.
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“The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w.
=Mozart, Johann.= Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke. (Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–1326.
The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.
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“There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano student’s interest in Mozart.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w.
=Mudd, Samuel A.= Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter, Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.
7–3.
Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A. Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also “diary” of John Wilkes Booth.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Mudge, James.= Fenelon: the mystic. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14595.
An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom” series.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.
7–23640.
“Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20 outfit.”—Nation.
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“Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20 invariably worsts its enemies.”
− =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w.
“A rattling good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w.
* =Mumby, Frank Arthur=, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1. Dutton.
7–18132.
Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.
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“Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in literary annals.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been spared.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals most to the reader.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w.
* =Munn, Charles Clark.= Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–38603.
In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been prominent in the nation’s development.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Munro, Neil.= Bud. †$1.50. Harper.
7–20870.
Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.
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“We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst. But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w.
“Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a freshness about it that many will find charming.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w.
“A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions counterfeited.’”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w.
=Munro, William Bennett.= Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.
7–11561.
“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.
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“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard both of historical insight and of scholarship.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w.
“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It will be long before the work has to be done again.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w.
“It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w.
“The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters, Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w.
“It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w.
“We congratulate the author on the success with which he has accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w.
=Munson, John William.= Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2. Moffat.
6–40255.
Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)
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“Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable humor.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w.
“Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s guerrillas.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w.
“This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring incident.”
+ =Outlook.= 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
5–11083.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument, though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however, essentially metaphysical.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.
6–15720.
“This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers of the books and articles which he has published during the last few years.”—Philos. R.
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“This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w.
“The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct. Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the man on the street.” J. E. C.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w.
=Murray, A. M.= Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–38236.
“Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean, Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining direct.”—Sat. R.
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“If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of the most careful consideration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w.
“He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w.
“The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of much value.” George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w.
“Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military strategist of whatever country.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w.
“It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w.
“This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w.
“The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of the author.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
=Murray, David.= Japan; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35. Putnam.
6–37650.
Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.
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“Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w.
“The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the beginning of the empire down to the present time.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w.
=Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
=Murray, James Erskine-.= Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
7–37604.
A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who are familiar with the technical terms.
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“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the latest knowledge and theories.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.
“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell).= What Marjorie saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.
6–43797.
A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”
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“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as to be tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.
A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)
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“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the last.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.
“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the past, but also to the future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.
“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.
“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment, excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.
“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.
“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method (which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now and then hits on a very apt comparison.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.
“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the unique value of this work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read Prof. Muther’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.
“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books. Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.
7–11026.
An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A valuable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07.
“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B. McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.
“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume ‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so pleasant to read.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.
“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they strike him as particularly clever.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.
“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner consciousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.
“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy, custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying results.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.
“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible, their author approaches every great movement and every great man from a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.
“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.
=Myers, Frederic William H.= Human personality and its survival of bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3. Longmans.
7–1302.
An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality, Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead, Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 144. My. ’07.
“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the literature of psychic science.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor has compressed the original into this one volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.
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=Naish, Ethel M.= Browning and dogma; seven lectures on Browning’s attitude towards dogmatic religion. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–6792.
In this volume the author “takes half a dozen poems—‘Caliban upon Setebos,’ ‘Cleon,’ ‘Bishop Blougram’s apology,’ ‘Christmas eve and Easter day,’ and ‘La Saisaz’—and subjects them to minute running analysis.”—Acad.
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“In all her two hundred pages there is no note of freshness or originality, and she has nothing of importance to contribute to our knowledge either of the special works selected or of Browning’s poetry in general.”
− − + =Acad.= 70: 328. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.
“The style is clear and workmanlike, the matter often thoughtful, and the plan most patiently elaborated. The reader whose concern is with poetry, the reader, that is to say, who can hop with catholic delight from Milton to Shakespeare and from Keats to Wordsworth, will not get through this book. It is too conscientious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 398. Mr. 31, ’06. 1090w.
=Naylor, James Ball.= Scalawags. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11210.
This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.
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“Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 200w.
=Neame, L. E.= Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.
7–32192.
Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)
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=Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Neame’s book is one of very great value to anybody desirous of understanding this question, not only in South Africa, but also in Australia and Canada.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 450w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 413. Je. 29, ’07. 1480w.
* Near East: the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia. il. *$3. Doubleday.
W 7–173.
An anonymous publication which reveals the author in close touch with European rulers and prime ministers. “He sipped coffee, smoked cigarettes, and talked with the ‘various kings and princes of the Balkan states,’ the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members of the various cabinets, as well as with people of the middle class and with peasants, in order to form some conclusion as to the real situation—political, economical, social, and financial—in this European hotbed of discord.” (Dial.)
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“The author is animated by strong, though obviously unconscious, bias against the Hellenic element in the Balkans, as well as against Germany and Austria.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 661. Je. 1. 550w.
“Every page reveals the author as one who investigates his subject thoroughly, discriminates his information carefully, and writes convincingly.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The book is specially valuable in the light it throws upon Servia.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A trenchantly written volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“That he has been told the whole truth and nothing but the truth on all occasions he does not himself contend. But by separating the grain from the chaff of official information and relating it to his own private investigations he claims to have obtained a uniquely accurate insight into Balkan affairs.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 320w.
=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= South America, a mission field. *35c. West. Meth. bk.
6–42354.
A compact presentation of South American missions intended to awaken interest in the field and its evangelical possibilities.
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+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 20w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Lonesome trail. †$1.50. Lane.
7–19597.
Twenty short stories which are concerned with the Indians of the Omaha and Ponca tribes, with French and Indian half-breeds, with gamblers and trappers and ranchmen and [various] types of the frontier.
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“One or two of the stories, regarded from the point of view of art, pure and simple, are excellent specimens of their class. We should be reluctant to pass judgment on Mr. Neihardt on the strength of this collection of stories, and we are inclined to think that he will do better work when he has learnt restraint.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
“Despite their undeniable charm and the vivid manner in which they picture the life of the Indian and the half-breed trapper of the west, they leave a distinctly depressing effect on the mind.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 222. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“[The stories] have good workmanship in them; strength of incident and feeling, and no padding. The author has more feeling for style than usually falls to the man who knows the extreme limits of civilization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29, 60w.
“Mr. Neihardt overdoes his effects very frequently, and he is much given to allowing his people to talk in grandiloquent style.... It will be a pity if he continues to allow his excellent endowment of strength and vividness of imagination to be marred by such obvious faults of taste and style.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“He gives us an over-accumulation of vivid detail which defeats its own ends. He is original, he is frequently haunting and inspiring, but somehow he just ‘misses.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 80w.
Nelson’s encyclopaedia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman. 12v. $48. Nelson.
7–7496.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole, we think highly of this encyclopedia, which fairly realizes the German ideal of a konversation-lexicon, and which is published at a price moderate enough to place it within the means of a large number of readers.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 338. Ag. 8, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“The blurred and badly printed illustrations, the poor maps, and the comparatively large proportion of space given up to subjects of ‘current interest’ are still the points that most seriously detract from the permanent value of the books.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 5–10.)
“In general, the most obvious faults appear to be (1) too great a condensation resulting sometimes in vagueness, but oftener in a failure to bring out properly the comparative importance of real significance of facts and events, (2) a lack of proportion from which no encyclopedia is ever free, but which is here possibly more marked as a result of its bi-national origin, and (3) too great emphasis on matters of current or contemporary interest, both as to text and illustration. No great reliance should be placed on the atlas feature of the work.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Searching through this book at random we are pleased with the articles, however on the whole.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–10.)
“Some of the longer articles are comprehensive and as nearly exhaustive as encyclopedia articles can well be made. The minor subjects are treated in a terse and condensed manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Nernst, Walter.= Experimental and theoretical applications of thermodynamics to chemistry; with diagrams. **$1.25. Scribner.
Ten lectures delivered on the Silliman foundation at Yale university in 1906.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the work is its suggestiveness and stimulus to thought and research. It will be of that value to every one who will ‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ its contents.” J. W. Richards.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 180. Ag. 15, ’07. 790w.
=Nation.= 85: 256. S. 19, ’07. 480w.
“Whether the reader is interested in the fundamental theoretical speculations or the practical application of the derived formulae, Prof. Nernst’s series of lectures cannot be too warmly recommended.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 52. N. 21, ’07. 230w.
“Nernst has here produced a thoroughly interesting and readable book on a very abstruse and difficult subject. As a résumé of the question of chemical equilibria at high temperatures it will have a distinct value.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 579. D. ’07. 540w.
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Land of make-believe, and other Christmas poems. **$1.40. Harper.
7–36127.
Mr. Nesbit weaves in rime the fancies of make-believe land that every child loves to cherish. His poems are all about Christmas and the unrealities and impossibilities that make a veritable stalk to meet the sky
“And Jack goes up and down it—we have seen him, you and I.”
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“Children will like them, but grown people will like them even better.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“Taking it as a whole the book is a trifle tiresome.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Nettleship, Richard Lewis.= Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, late fellow of Balliol college, Oxford, and Whyte’s professor of moral philosophy in the university of Oxford; with a short preface specially written for this edition by Mrs. T. H. Green. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–15903.
“The writings of Thomas Hill Green lie in the three fields of philosophy, religion and politics. Mr. Nettleship in this memoir ... brings out the development of the author’s thought in each of these three fields.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The estimate of the thought and personality of the statesman-philosopher is sympathetic. and appreciative.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 90w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
“I do not know where one could look for a worthier portrayal of the philosopher’s life and mind nor for a simpler statement of the central position of idealism, than in this short biography.” B. Bosanquet.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 117. O. ’07. 1600w.
“So admirable an account of a great man well deserves the wider circulation which one hopes it may obtain in this independent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“It is indeed a singularly frank and faithful, and yet loving account.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 986. D. 15, ’06. 1420w.
* =Nevill, Lady Dorothy.= Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$3 75. Macmillan.
Mr. Ralph Nevill, aided by the note books and the good memory of Lady Nevill, has produced a book of reminiscences which reflects the current thought of the period and pictures its prominent men. It is a supplement to the “History of the Victorian era.”
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“There are only slight blemishes on some very bright recollections.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1150w.
“Full of sidelights on many great characters affording with its cheerful gossip a picture of the times such as the more formal historian seldom attempts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Ralph Nevill would have discovered a more tactful care of his mother’s literary reputation if he had resisted the temptation to publish these notes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 580. N. 9, ’07. 680w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s memory yields a valuable picture of her times.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 777. N. 16. 1800w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–9818.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 280w.
“She chats pleasantly through the pages of this book—always in good humor and always bright and entertaining.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 506. Ja. ’07. 360w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Dawn in Russia; or, Scenes in the Russian revolution. *$2.25. Harper.
6–35593.
The author has included in this volume “a diary of the revolutionary acts which have followed in all parts of Russia the disasters of the war with Japan.... A catalogue of well-known horrors ... and much personal evidence of his own, drawn from visits, necessarily short, to widely separated parts of European Russia.” (Ath.) The volume is illustrated with cartoons and photographs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
“We should prefer a treatment of the subject in which the record of the writer’s own observations was distinct from his chronological account of events which passed during his journeys, but of which he was not a witness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 280w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1290w.
“The all-pervading melancholy of Russian life as it manifests itself in the music and the literature of the nation—all this is treated with the sympathetic insight and the charming sincerity of true art, yet with a conversational informality, liberally interspersed with humor, which gives the reader a pleasing sense of intimacy with the writer, as well as with an irresistible subject.” Abraham Cahan.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 668. O. 5, ’06. 1520w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
6–18826.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Mr. Nevinson’s account is very interesting, the illustrations are good and the total impression is that it is an account of a truthful eye-witness.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
4–21092.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Opinions may differ as to some of the author’s conclusions, but they give in concise form material which is practically unobtainable elsewhere in so small a compass, and the book will be found useful. A defect which might be remedied in future editions is the absence of a bibliography.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Newbolt, Henry John.= The old country: a romance. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The story begins at the present time, and suddenly shifts to the year in which the battle of Poictiers was fought, The characters for the most part remain the same, nor does the scene change. Stephen Bulmer, in the early chapters, is a young Englishman, of Colonial upbringing, who ‘speaks of things to come as if he saw them.’ In the later chapters, he is the same Englishman, modified by an Italian education. But the sense of time has vanished from his brain.” (Acad.) “He is taken into ‘the backwoods of time,’ where ‘the real work of men was going forward, with sweat of the brow and blistering of hands, with action and agony and endurance in place of talk and speculation.’ He sees that all his doubts are long descended, that Ralph Tremur, the eternal dissident, is an image of himself, and that the future must lie with the constructive minds, who serve under discipline and keep close to the earth in their toil.” (Spec.)
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“Ingenious as is Mr. Newbolt’s thesis, it is not for that that we would most highly praise his book. The story is told with a tact and delicacy rarely found in the modern novel.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 810w.
“In his dedicatory epistle he frankly acknowledges that he has a purpose and we as frankly state our conviction that that purpose is wrong. Nor can we commend the machinery of the novel.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 240w.
“Beautiful romance.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1770w.
“The end far more than atones for the stiffness of the beginning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12. 548. S. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Very clear indeed is the picture of rural mediaeval England set before us in the unfolding of the tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
“An uncommonly thoughtful and interesting novel. The style is distinguished, and there is no lack of good images. It is an admirable expression of the genuine Tory spirit.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Mr. Newbolt reads his countrymen an eloquent lesson, none the less profound because it is decked with all the graces of romance.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of popular science. **$2. Harper.
6–34834.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.
“Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the ‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.
“A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical world.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 440w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
5–40985.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Done in a clear terse style, avoiding technical jargon.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 130w.
=Newman, George.= Infant mortality: a social problem. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–32191.
Dr. Newman studies the distribution and extent as well as the causes of infant mortality, and directs attention to the best means of prevention.
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“His familiarity with his theme is unquestionable, and the volume of the facts and statistics that he has arranged and co-ordinated is a proof of painstaking effort.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“It is written well and clearly, and should be read by every one who is interested in preventing the waste of child life which is occurring not only in England, but also throughout every civilized country.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Newman has gotten together an immense amount of statistical data bearing upon infant mortality-rates, of which data he makes most effective use.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 247. Ap. ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 230w.
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 1280w.
“These thoughtful and intelligent studies cannot fail to interest all who apply themselves to sociology, political economy and philanthropy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 310w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 951. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Poetry and progress in Russia. *$3.50. Lane.
W 7–152.
“In five chapters Miss Newmarch considers the literary development of Russia from Pushkin to the present. In the empire of the Czar,—as, indeed, throughout the rest of the civilized world, the poets have been the pioneers of liberty and enlightenment. This phase of Russian culture is represented by the poets Pushkin, Koltsov, Nikitin, Nekrassov, Khomiakasov, and Nadson. Translations of a number of the representative poems from these masters supplement the essays.”—R. of Rs.
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“Her book is practically a re-writing of what is generally known about Pouschkin, his life and works. Of the translations ... by Mrs. Newmarch and others perhaps the less said the better.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We wish all success to this book: we know of none which will give the reader more just ideas of what is good in Russian poetry.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 850w.
“The translations by the author and Prof. Morfill are, for the most part, without much distinction; those of Miss Helena Frank are somewhat better. The value of the book lies in its clairvoyant and interpretive criticisms, which should do much toward creating a deserved interest in Russian poetry.” Anne Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 566. S. 21, ’07. 2400w.
=R. of Rs.= 36:. 512. O. ’07. 110w.
“Candidly speaking, the reviewer must allow that the fault is more with the title than with the actual scope of the book. But when all is said and done, Mrs. Newmarch deserves to win readers for the poets to whose humour she has devoted so much scholarly pains and ingenuity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Songs to a singer and other verses. *$1.25. Lane.
“A small collection of verse, mainly concerned, as its title indicates, with the emotions evolved by another’s singing, and suffers somewhat from the consequent lack of variety.”—N. Y. Times.
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“These songs might pass muster, as being well up to the average, if read between staves of music. Considered as poetry, or even verse, they are weak.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 430w.
=Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 100w.
“Miss Rosa Newmarch’s lyrics are very slight and quite unambitious; they flow pleasantly and are free from solecisms and self-conscious oddities. Just why any one of them was written would perhaps be difficult to say, for none show much individuality or depth of feeling.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 389. S. 29, ’06. 120w.
=Newton, Samuel Donald.= Dolorous blade: being a brief account of the adventures of that good knight of the Round Table, Sir Balin, called “Le Savage,” done into rhyme by Samuel Donald Newton. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10041.
A new poetic version of the tragic story of Sir Balin, Le Savage, and his fateful dolorous blade.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
6–37588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The form is a rhymed four-line stanza in iambic octometer, the rhymes being in couplets. It is a jog-trot movement, and grows very monotonous after a few pages. But a great poem in the higher sense, this epic is not, and a fair sense of its historical importance is obtainable from the present version.”
− =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 70w.
“All in all, this effort seems praiseworthy; but a comparison of the average of the verse with the Lachmann text shows more than one radical departure from the sense of the original, departures that other versions seem not to have required.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
“A fine swinging translation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 40w.
=Nicholson, Frank C.= Old German love songs; translated from the Minnesingers of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the main lines of its development.
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“On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr. Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w.
=Dial.= 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his subject.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Port of missing men. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–5062.
A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness, who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure. The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to “House of a thousand candles.”
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”
− =Arena.= 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w.
“Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model, but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w.
“The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.
“Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description, written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual entertainment except its exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 131. Mr. 2, ’07. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 110w.
=Nicholson, Watson.= Struggle for a free stage in London. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–38899.
“Dr. Nicholson, who is instructor in English at Yale, traces the history of nearly two centuries in which London tried to free herself from the theatrical monopoly. The triumph was reached when the passage (on August 22, 1843) of the parliamentary act known as the Theater regulation bill deprived the two patent theaters, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, of their monopoly of playing Shakespeare and the national drama.”—R. of Rs.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 503. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
“A record so satisfactory is a welcome addition to the libraries of all who are interested in the drama and its varying fortunes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 586. My. 11. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Evidence is scrupulously weighed, original documents are carefully collated and minutely examined, the whole thing is done with scientific precision: the artistic aspects of the matter are severely let alone.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1080w.
“This book although not likely to prove very attractive to the ordinary reader of theatrical biography or gossip, will be valuable to the genuine student of dramatic history.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 830w.
“Mr. Nicholson, who has approached his subject in a thorough and scholarly manner, has drawn his material from a multitude of sources including many old documents.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29. ’06. 600w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Nicholson has given a carefully constructed narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue closet. *$1.40. Dodd.
W 7–54.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So wholesome and enjoyable a book as this little volume of essays should find many readers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16. ’07. 280w.
“It ought to be a compliment to say that this book is thoroughly sound, genial and interesting, without being in the least clever, and without any of the little tricks of paradox and epigram that appeal to our decade.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Lamp of sacrifice; sermons preached on special occasions. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“The keynote of Dr. Nicoll’s sermons is religious optimism.... The preacher does not reckon without the sorrows of life ... but the book, as a whole, and each chapter in particular, impresses upon the reader the conviction of the writer that they are none of them incurable, and are in some sense discounted by religious faith.”—Spec.
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“The pen of a ready and vigorous writer is easily recognizable in his pages. Equally so is an intensely evangelical spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
=Nielsen, Fredrik Kristian.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–2580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The weakness of the book is to be found ... in its narrowness of treatment and in its lack of precision of detail. The book sins most of all by its lack of breadth and of historical proportion.” R. M. Johnston.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 377. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“The reader is never pulled up by the difficulty of understanding some obviously foreign construction, and is not often repelled by ugly English. The work of a learned Lutheran bishop of broad sympathies and massive erudition.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 460w.
“In all this Dr. Nielson gives evidence of wide reading and a sane historical judgment. The book is a mine of interesting matter collected from innumerable scattered memoirs, collections of documents, and other works. But though these are presented with a sufficient impartiality, little attempt is made to interpret their deeper significance. His narrative is overloaded with detail and obscured by digressions, which, however interesting in themselves, would have been better relegated to notes or appendices. Certain criticisms in detail remain to be made which may prove useful in the event of a new edition of the book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 9. Ja. 11, ’07. 2230w.
“Timely in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 470w.
“His two volumes make not only an interesting and careful narrative, they are also a significant and important contribution to the history of the past hundred years.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 390. Je. 15, ’07. 2870w.
“We have to thank the Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge for his excellent editorship of the English translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 176. F. 9, ’07. 1410w.
“Readers who are acquainted with the language of Holberg, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brandes of to-day, with its delightful post-articles, passive verbs, and amusing numerals, will be well satisfied with the present version of the Danish text.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 2100w.
=Noble, Edward.= The issue: a story of the river Thames (or Fisherman’s Gat). †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5686.
(2d ed. with title. Fisherman’s Gat.
7–13441.)
“A story of the Thames estuary, a drama of London’s great river, a romance of lives of those who come and go in the lesser crafts in which deep-sea certificates are not required of a man.... Love, treachery, passion, crime, the stress and strain of dangers afloat and labour complications ashore; owners, sailors, good simple folk and smug hypocrites, evil livers and honest dealers—all figure in this story.”—Ath.
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“Horror is piled upon horror a little clumsily, so that strength gives way at times to brute force, and brute force is never convincing. But the book is essentially one to read. It grips, and its grip is rough as a sailor’s grip may be.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 170w.
“A drama of real interest, strong in atmosphere, characterization, and first-hand observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 350w.
“A strong and unusual story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 430w.
“He has the rare gift of verbal dry-point which fixes a picture indelibly upon both memory and imagination.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“His drawings, which illustrate the book, give their messages better than his words. But the whole is rich, vivid, comprehensive, and like his picture of the lives and characters of his sailors, it has the sharp realization that comes of knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 390w.
“His chief character, ‘Windbag’ Saunderson, just misses being a remarkable achievement. But only a few telling artistic touches, a little more here, and a little less there, would have made it a much more striking figure and the book much more significant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 135. Mr. 2. ’07. 510w.
“It needs compression and it lacks brightness, but it is ambitious in its dissection of motives and character.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 50w.
=Noble, W. Arthur.= Ewa; a tale of Korea.
$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–36433.
“Mr. Noble shows two Korean heroes with their Asiatic prejudices and beliefs crumbling away under the influence of western ideas. Both Sung-Yo, a son of rank, whose chief duty had hitherto been idleness and incapacity, and his friend, Tong-Siki, of a lower class but. greater ability, devote their lives to their country and their hopes of seeing it free.... This little story, with its love interest woven about a slave girl who becomes a convert to Christianity and suffers for her faith, may be relied on to find many eager readers.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The book is fairly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. S, ’06. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Nolhac, Pierre de.= Versailles and the Trianons; with 60 full-page il. in col. by Rene Binet. *$3.50. Dodd.
6–40558.
M. de Nolhac is the keeper of the Versailles museum and writes out of the fulness of his historical information. “He has recorded in connexion with various portions of the palace the remarkable events they have witnessed, and in the course of this volume manages to tell the whole story of the locality.” (Sat. R.) “M. de Nolhac indicates, in a large and poetic description, how much artistic stimulus the place contains and will increasingly disengage as ‘the art of Versailles’ recedes into a softened perspective.” (Nation.)
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“There is ample guaranty of the historical correctness of the information he imparts. He writes also with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“It is a pity that no credit is given to the painstaking and able translator.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 565. D. 27, ’06. 310w.
“An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for this kind of book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
* =Nordau, Max Simon.= On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2. Jacobs.
7–28523.
A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors: Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier, Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga, Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan, and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.
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“There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible for artistic success,”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Nordau has not made up his mind, which seems to vary with the state of the weather, and he contradicts himself again and again. Yet there is in the book a great deal of wisdom and not a little acute criticism.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 69. Mr. 1, ’07. 900w.
“We may note also that Dr. Nordau has a keen nose for indecency, and finds it both where it is and where no one else perceives it. There are many bits of shrewd criticism and many remarks the soundness of which leads one, temporarily, to think of the author as of a person really equipped with some judgment and knowledge of his subject, until the next incredible caprice upsets the notion and leaves one wondering what Nordau would be at and what is the real basis of his confidently pronounced opinions. The translator is to be congratulated on his success in avoiding foreign idiom and in making his translation read like a piece of original and only too vigorous English.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 502. N. 28, ’07. 2730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 210w.
=Nordau, Max Simon.= Question of honor; authorized translation by Mary J. Safford. *$1. Luce, J: W.
7–18817.
A tragedy of present-day Germany in four acts, which deals with the strong anti-Semite feeling of the Germans by presenting the case of a young Jewish mathematician, and by showing the odds against which he fights in his efforts to win a professorship, and finally the insults to which he is subjected when he asks for the hand of the German fräulein who loves him. It is a dramatic plea for the man who is denied position, love, and even life itself because he is a Jew.
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“Though the translator has done well, in a few places she might have done better. The play is excellent reading, and offers food for thought.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 360w.
“It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a study of one of the problems in European politics it is both illuminating and interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 42. Jl. 11. ’07. 300w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.
7–21537.
A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college. The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist, is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming worthy of her.
=Norton, Charles Eliot.= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c. Houghton.
7–1293.
Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader. The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)
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=Current Literature.= 42: 285. Mr. ’07. 1900w.
“He has honored other friends in a more elaborate and impressive fashion, but none, I think, with more true sympathy and reverent poise ... than he has displayed in this brief memoir of Longfellow. The essential facts are given, the right note of praise is struck, there is no meaningless and confusing parade of literary references and allusions.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 555. Ap. ’07. 770w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 57. F. 22, ’07. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Norton’s centenary memorial of Longfellow is perfect in its kind.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 106. O. ’07. 700w.
“This is a most pleading little book, and worthy of its author,—an author whom we may fitly describe as one of the most cultivated men who speak and write the English language, whether on his or our own side of the Atlantic.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 240w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Flower of old Japan, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–21391.
Poems in which “the feet of children are set dancing.” They deal with the Kingdom of dreams in which a journey is made to old Japan. Back of the fantasy are serious lessons and vivid pictures of Japan with kaleidoscopic glimpses of pirates, mandarins, bonzes, priests, jugglers, merchants, ghastroi, etc.
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“There is a proficiency in the workmanship that, coupled with Mr. Noyes’s humorous tenderness in approaching his theme, all but disarms criticism. Yet if we look at the matter in a cool objective light, it must be said that the attempt is only partially successful.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 843. D. ’07. 620w.
“In ‘The flower of old Japan’ ... it is possible to see little but futile ingenuity in the misdirection of poetic energy.” Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 1420w.
“Mr. Noyes has the instrument, the lute, in tune, but has not met the revealing hour which shall give him a message for its strings.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 260w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Poems: with an introd. by Hamilton Wright Mabie. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–38994.
The poems of an Oxford man, only twenty-six years of age, who is looked upon in England as destined to “be of the greatest service in the re-establishment of the great traditions of English song.” “Mr. Noyes has ‘drawn inspiration from a rather exceptional range of literature—classic poets, Celtic legends, travellers’ tales, English ballads, Holy Writ, tales of the road, and Lord Rosebery on Napoleon; but he has digested this heterogeneous beebread with the eupepsy of vigorous poetic youth.” (Nation.)
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“Acquaints us with a singer whose note is both fresh and vital.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 390w.
“There is a gusto in his work, a savor of opulence, variety and ease that is full of hope. As yet Mr. Noyes is a little too adventurous in his quest of the striking subject, too proud of the mere muscles of his verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Noyes does not show the faults usual in a young poet. You will never be in any doubt about his meaning, but neither will you be carried out of yourself by any exaltation of words, any intensity of passion, any abandon of beauty.” Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
“I am sure that [the reader] will not need me to point out their spontaneous power and freshness, their imaginative vision, their lyrical magic.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1179. D. 7, ’06. 1050w.
“He is ... a singer and not a thinly disguised philosopher or a reformer who has possessed himself of a musical instrument. He has a voice of compass and sweetness, and his tones flow clear and sweet, with the courage of a real talent and the richness of a full nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 372. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 60w.
=Noyes, Carleton Eldredge.= Gate of appreciation: studies in the relation of art to life. **$2. Houghton.
7–15336.
A personal record of the author’s “adventures with the problem of art.” He wishes “to suggest the possible meaning of art to the ordinary man, to indicate methods of approach to art, and to trace the way of appreciation.” He believes that the final meaning of art to the appreciator lies in his sense of its relation to his own experience.
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“The book is not a mere summary of art history and criticism, but the outcome of original study and possesses real value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
=Nugent, Maria, lady. (Mrs. George Nugent).= Lady Nugent’s journal: Jamaica one hundred years ago; ed. by Frank Cundall. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–122.
Lady Nugent was the wife of the Governor of Jamaica a hundred years ago and this journal was intended only for her children and friends. “A great part of the journal is devoted to things personal and domestic; hence the propriety of its private circulation when, five years after the writer’s death, it first saw the light in a modest way.... Historical, biographical, and bibliographical matter is furnished in abundance.”—Dial.
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“All that editorial skill could do to render attractive her sometimes monotonous chronicling of unimportant details—for she had few others to record—has been done.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“The intrinsic interest of what she has to tell us is not a little enhanced by the skilful and scholarly editing of Mr. Cundall.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
“This journal [contains] ... pictures of social life drawn by a close and delicate observer; shrewd comments upon the usages of a civilization quite alien to everything in the writer’s former experience; an elaborate account of the process of making sugar; amusing stories of the ups and downs of diplomatic life; suggestive sketches of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. My. 25, ’07. 500w.
“We think [Mr. Cundall] might have omitted far more than he has done. But there are a good many passages ... which are informing and of value.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20. ’07. 240w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
5–18321.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 140w.
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=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Amerigo Vespucci (Heroes of American history.) *$1. Harper.
7–7447.
His early life amid Florentine surroundings, the avidity with which he absorbed accounts of Marco Polo’s wonderful journeys, his study of charts, globes, nautical instruments for the sake of acquiring skill in cosmography lead up to a very informing narrative of his four voyages. His relations with Columbus, and the diverging characteristics of the two explorers are interestingly sketched.
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“Scholars will object to his interesting but irrelevant digressions. It is a real contribution to popular history.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Within very moderate limits, and in a clear, attractive way, Mr. Ober succeeds in presenting an interesting portrait of the man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“For several reasons it is less satisfactory than its predecessors. Far too much prominence is given to secondary figures. There is also too liberal a piecing-out of the narrative by quotations. Mr. Ober has paid scanty attention to the results of recent investigations.”
− + =Outlook.= 80: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The story is told in an entertaining way from original, authentic documents, and is illustrated with portraits and maps.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of Florida. **$1. Harper.
6–32459.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This little volume is neither dry nor dull, and in its pages is recreated a good story of the adventures, dangers and thirst for gold of De Soto and his sturdy band.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 550w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand Magellan. *$1. Harper.
7–15946.
Magellan is the subject of this volume in the “Heroes of American history” series. The story of the life and voyages and tragic death of the great Portuguese explorer, his discovery of the Straits of Magellan, Guam, and the Philippines in the first transpacific voyage, is told in compact detail.
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“Worth buying for the small library because of the brevity of material found in the general works that most small libraries can afford.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07. S.
“The book is an instructive and interesting one to add to a boy’s library.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 100w.
“In clear and convincing style, and with candor as well as sympathy, Mr. Ober traces the short and stormy career of Magellan.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 420w.
“Is even more interesting than the excellent life of Vespuccius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Ober’s volume is not the least interesting of an interesting series.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
6–37625.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a book for young readers and will undoubtedly hold their attention. Its chief value is that it presents in rapid story form facts affording a correct general idea of early Spanish exploration and settlement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 110w.
“Young and old readers alike should be interested in the present volume, especially in its chief dramatic episode, the discovery of the Pacific.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v. **$7.50. Jacobs.
7–33957.
A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war without the help of so great and loyal a financier.
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“The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr. Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this honest man and patriot is called for.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a work that is otherwise of real value.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 450w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer has made a valuable contribution to the history of the civil war period.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 350w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams. †$1.50. Century.
6–29530.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 125. Ja. ’07. 210w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Susan. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–22115.
“Susan, a beautiful and impossible maid, receives a letter proposing marriage to her from a young and imaginative peer, who has presumably fallen in love with her pretty face without ever having spoken to her. Susan, greatly embarrassed ... consults her mistress, who ends by conducting her correspondence for her, eventually falling in love with her correspondent. The climax comes when the young lord—his love fanned by the beauty of his lady’s letters—discovers that there has been a mistake, and that the girl whom he saw and loved is the mistress and not the maid.”—Sat. R.
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“Mr. Oldmeadow knows how to write, and should entertain a wide circle of readers this spring. His book has a sense of character, too, which is the more effective for not being lost in a cloud of verbiage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 90w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“The sprightly tale of ‘Susan’ is delicately, and at times humorously feminine, in its grasp of that only constant theme, love, to which it is a delightfully clever variant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 330. My. 25, ’07. 470w.
“It has a unique and daring plot, and is written with an airiness and humor that make its pages most entertaining and attractive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is a dainty trifle, pleasantly written, but it has, in spite of its modern setting, no relation to the life and action of to-day. The story is developed with considerable skill and humour, and although it is written in the literary diary form, it is never tedious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
“[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point, is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American union. *$3.75. Putnam.
6–16717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John Spencer Bassett.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w.
“It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= Redcoat captain: a story of that country, il. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29092.
A story fraught with tender symbolism which “contains the key to the right of entry into ‘that country’—the country of those who have learned to remain young in heart and to look out upon life with the frank serenity of little children.” (Bookm.)
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“The form of nonsense that finds expression in ‘Redcoat captain’ does not please us at all.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
“Curious, alluring and altogether unique volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 271. N. ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Those who bring the heart and mind of a boy will discover that it is a striking piece of work, and also that it is a very beautiful parable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 473. N. 2, ’07. 690w.
* =Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Journey in the back country in the year 1854. 2v. *$5. Putnam.
“This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life, not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system. His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’ whites.”—Spec.
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+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute, and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 826. N. 23, ’07. 640w.
=Olney, Oliver, pseud.= Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29151.
How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus performances for the benefit of their town library provides material for a capital story.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.
6–42914.
“The late André Reville had projected a work on this movement, and had got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests, petitions, and escheators’ rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how the poorer classes in England conspired to defeat its operation, and how the counterstroke made by this government provoked the rebellion.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Oman has written his account without prejudice, and its value, we imagine, lies less in any thesis it may be thought to establish, than in the picture it gives of England in 1831.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 57. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
“It is because Prof. Oman’s book, as we have said, supplies a want for teachers and students, that we have drawn attention to certain points which will require revision if he should undertake a fresh edition.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 124. Ag. 4. 1810w.
“We have dwelt at what may appear disproportionate length upon his treatment of the poll tax returns because it is here that he specially lays claim to originality. What is valuable in his suggestions is not materially affected by the inaccuracies pointed out above, but we rise from the examination with a somewhat shaken confidence in the scientific exactitude of his methods of research. The narrative of the rebellion itself can be more unreservedly commended. It is full, well digested, and spirited. But even here we must not look for pedantic accuracy in details.” James Tait.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 161. Ja. ’07. 2300w.
“Alike from its summing up of recent results, and from the new material it contains and the freshness and suggestiveness of its style, this book will be indispensable to the student of the fourteenth century. It will also find readers beyond the ranks of professional historians, for it narrates a dramatic story, and Professor Oman has told it well.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 930w.
“The most interesting, if not the most valuable feature of Prof. Oman’s book, is the diversity of material which it contains. The whole episode assumes new meaning under his skilful analysis of the causes which prompted such a widespread and spontaneous uprising.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 557. D. 27, ’06. 940w.
“Brilliant narrative.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 429. O. 6, ’06. 1240w.
“A valuable historical study, picturesque and compact.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 464. O. 6, ’06. 2190w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Problem of faith and freedom in the last two centuries. *$2.75. Armstrong.
7–29073.
“A critical review of two centuries of debate upon the problem of faith and freedom, which arose in the Protestant reformation.... Jesuitism and Pascal’s ‘Pensées,’ English deism and Butler’s Analogy, Rationalism and Kant on Pure reason, Romanticism and Schleiermacher’s Discourses on religion, The French revolution, and Newman’s ‘Apologia,’ the Development theory, and Baur’s Church history, the Theory of experience and Ritschlianism ... make up a conspectus of a highly diversified field.”—Outlook.
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“He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w.
“His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of humanity.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor Oman exhibits marked ability.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w.
=Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes. **$1.50. McClurg.
6–41520.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur, should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to FitzGerald’s.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
“Workmanlike little book.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w.
=Omond, Thomas Stewart.= English metrists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.
7–37517.
A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.” Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new prosody.
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“In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism. We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly disagree with Mr. Omond.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w.
“The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his own ideas.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 465. Ap. 20. 1790w.
“Is one of the most important books on versification that have appeared since Sidney Lanier’s ‘Science of English verse.’” Edward Payson Morton.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 33. Jl. 16, ’07. 2210w.
“But neither these strictures nor some omissions and slips and even misjudgments, which are inevitable in such a work, can change the fact that the work is carefully done, and is to be received with gratitude.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1020w.
“Has no competitor in this history of prosody save Prof. Saintsbury. It is eminently scholarly and conscientious, and a noteworthy and valuable contribution to this much-debated and still debatable subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 660w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Enoch Strone. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition. Enoch Strone, mechanic and inventor, in a moment of humiliation caused by a rejected suit, marries an impossible factory girl. His struggle between relinquishing his career as member of parliament and saving his wife from herself ends in his facing his duty and in finding definite reward.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Lost leader. †$1.50. Little.
6–18998.
“The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.” (Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues of both love and politics.
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=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is expecting some one to be shot on every page.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
“This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w.
“There is at least one person in the book—Mrs. Phillimore—which is a well conceived and convincing character. This is the best thing in the way of character study that Mr. Oppenheim has done. His hero is a weak man, and most of the other characters are far from taking the flesh and bone of reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The story is readable enough, but not of great importance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Malefactor. †$1.50. Little.
7–984.
One finds In the malefactor of Mr. Oppenheim’s story a companion study to the hero of his “Prince of sinners.” Grown ascetic and bitter during a period of unjust imprisonment, Sir Wingrave Seaton, at the end of his confinement, slips into the world incognito for purposes of revenge. His nature is too generous to permit him to carry out his scheme of injury. Under the mask of indifference, even cruelty, he is a philanthropist. After numerous logical digressions the love interest shapes itself into a typical bachelor’s romance.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07.
“Had Mr. Oppenheim been content to make the outcome of the story a little less obvious from the beginning, the novel would have gained in strength.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim’s latest venture will bring no discredit upon his reputation as a storyteller.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. Je. ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“This is a typical example of the modern realistic novel which, without any pretence to literary art, contrives to hold the interest of the reader.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“An amusing yarn, and not without a moral.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 340w.
“It is the most enticing excuse for suspended mental activity that has yet come from Mr. Oppenheim’s gifted pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 47. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
“Is a frankly sensational story with little pretence to literary art but constructed with all that skill in development of power and exciting interest of which the author is an acknowledged master.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Sleeping memory. †$1.50. Little.
A new edition with frontispiece. The story records a physician’s experiment of performing an operation upon a willing patient which results in a loss of memory. With the memory disappears also the soul of the girl leaving only a superficial, pleasure-loving, heartless coquette. A second operation restores her to her former self, and eliminates any memory of her seven months of changed identity.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The part of the book dealing with the development and present state of the law of neutrality is perhaps the most valuable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The general arrangement is admirable; the style is careful, though sometimes a little cumbrous. Solid merit is the distinguishing characteristic of these volumes.” T. Raleigh.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 388. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Orczy, baroness.= Beau Brocade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28961.
The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled rival.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 320w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–21538.
“In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs, embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.
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“There is no question that ‘The gates of Kamt’ ranks high in its own class as a piece of pure imaginative audacity.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 601. Ag. ’07. 520w.
“Granted her situation, the author has made the human heart terribly convincingly true to it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.
“Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and no end of exciting adventures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.
6–35520.
The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world: the method of external observation ... and the method of inner reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.
“It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.
“We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.
“Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work throughout.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
“Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment; but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.
“To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.
“The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.
* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.
7–31231.
“The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections, and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of living scholars.
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=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
“He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth. His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the traditional view that can be made at the present time.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an historical critic or a seeker after light.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.
=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.
7–28457.
The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr. Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil, Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)
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=Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Both author and publisher have begun promisingly and expressively their intended Series of ‘Little novels of famous cities.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Adventurer. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31207.
Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South American pampas.
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“In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian and Stevensonian kindred.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by the irresponsible and exacting reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly worth while even as a plot-story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.
7–21226.
Schmidt is a stolid East-Side German shopkeeper. “The inner Schmidt was as much a butter-slicer and ham-shaver as the outer article. He was consistently Schmidt all the way through.” Yet when he loved Ella, his colorless life changed, he became a man of feeling, capable of joy and grief. It is the human note in the story that holds the reader.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Three speeds forward: an automobile love story with one reverse. †$1. Appleton.
6–31657.
The motor mad hero and heroine of this story meet unconventionally by the roadside when the heroine’s car breaks down opportunely and all goes well save for the sorry fact that her parents cannot bring themselves to approve of a young man who made his fortune thru the invention of a popular puzzle. The hero, undaunted, sets about winning them to his cause, despite the puzzle, and finally succeeds by cleverly mending a break in their car, a break which he had with equal cleverness previously arranged for.
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“While it has its amusing moments, its humour is for the most part distinctly thin and rather forced.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 160w.
“It is a bright and sprightly little story, very strongly flavored with gasoline, but quite readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 440w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Tin diskers; the story of an invasion that all but failed. †50c. Altemus.
6–25690.
“An amusing although entirely trivial short story about an American girl who has curious adventures in England, growing out of the recent newspaper sensation known as ‘treasure-hunting.’”—Outlook.
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“This is a bright, breezy love story written with no other object than to entertain. One of Mr. Osbourne’s best short stories”
+ =Arena.= 36: 574. N. ’06. 260w.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 30w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. *$3. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The present volume contains a history of British colonial administration during the period under review, together with treatment in some detail of the external development of Virginia and of domestic relations in the other royal provinces. The author attempts in this volume, to trace the history of the British systems of control as a distinct and separate feature of colonization.”—R. of Rs.
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“Mr. Osgood combines in a remarkable degree the quality of patient research and a mastery of numerous details with the power of philosophic generalization.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 804. O. ’07. 1490w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This work marks an epoch in the writing of colonial history.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 444. N. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Admirable work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is distinctly a product of real scholarship, distinguished by a constant and conscientious weighing of authorities and a keen discrimination between the trustworthy and the unreliable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 968. Ag. 3, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality. 1906. **75c. Houghton.
6–4176.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. A. Hammond.
=Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Letters to a painter on the theory and practice of painting; authorized tr. by H. W. Morse. *90c. Ginn.
7–3698.
The technique of painting is dealt with in these letters which advocate the “empirical experimental” method. The artist’s explanation of the rise of his “tools,” of pastel painting, pigments, fresco oils and tempera is given, also a discussion of academies, etc.
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“The art student will find in these letters much food for reflection, particularly in the treatment of media, their optical characteristics and results.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The placing of the book in the hands of every art student would do more for the cause of sound education than any number of lectures on aesthetics.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“Will be found attractive to the lay reader interested in painting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 110w.
“Professor Ostwald’s scientific explanations ... may at least stir up a more vital interest among professional artists and lead them toward independent investigations useful to themselves and others.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 358. D. ’07. 290w.
=Otto, Rudolf.= Naturalism and religion; tr. by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–18190.
“The present volume by a Göttingen professor gives in a compact form to the general reader the main points in the great controversy that now seems to have been fought almost through.... He points out that it is not in the proper domain of science, but ‘in the teacup of logic and epistemology that the storm in regard to the theories of the universe has arisen.’ And he acutely concludes that the theory of naturalism, that there is no such thing as free creative mind, is refuted by its own existence as the actual progeny of such a mind.”—Outlook.
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“He pursues [his argument] with enthusiasm as well as with logical force.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, 07. 330w.
“Presented here in eleven chapters by a discriminating thinker, as hostile to exaggerated assertions in a religious as in a scientific interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 22, ’07. 230w.
=Oudin, Maurice A.= Standard polyphase apparatus and systems. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–27156.
The fifth edition revised and enlarged to keep pace with the notable increase in the size of apparatus units and in the development of appliances for their control and protection.
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“As a whole the book is readable, interesting and stimulating. Will be intelligible to any one who is reasonably familiar with electrical machines.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 670w.
=Outcault, Richard Felton.= My resolutions: Buster Brown. †750. Stokes.
6–35950.
Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow virtuous beyond their years.
=Oxenham, John.= Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–10620.
The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in hearts and homes.
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“But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative, capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of the story is inspiring, not depressing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w.
“The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w.
“A charming story, charmingly told.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Oxenham, John.= Man of Sark. il. †$1.50. Baker.
7–29685.
A story which tells “in the first person, of the adventures of a sturdy youth who seeks his fortune as a privateer during the Napoleonic wars. Although loyal to England, he is mistaken for a Frenchman after an exciting engagement, and his English captors take him to a prison stockade by the North sea. When he escapes and finds his way back to Sark, he is welcomed as one from the dead. He is also just in time to rescue the maiden whom he has loved all his life from the hands of certain villainous persons who have abducted her.” (Dial.)
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“The vivid account of island life and customs, of landscapes and sea-scapes relieves the obsession produced by this competent villain.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 180w.
“The author has evidently steeped himself in the history, the folk-lore, and the customs of the island folk whom he describes, and tells a tale that is deeply appealing and full of varied interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 150w.
“To sum up, ‘A man of Sark’ shows a brisk imagination and capable workmanlike treatment of wholesome, legitimate material.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“The novel is very well written, with much poetic feeling and with a certain distinction of style, which, with its vigorous manner and its hardy and manly characters, makes it a very pleasing romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“It is a stirring story, but one likely to please the young rather than the experienced reader.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Oxley, James Macdonald.= North overland with Franklin. †75c. Crowell.
7–22915.
This volume in the “Crowell’s young people series” tells the story of the boy Denis who went with Franklin and his party from York factory overland to the farther north and whose flute cheered the men in time of despair and danger. It is a tale of hunting and adventure, of hardship and of peril.
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=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Coast of Bohemia. **$1. Scribner.
Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see. It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the lesser poet his only reward.”
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“So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w.
“Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w.
“The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Novels, stories, sketches and poems. “Plantation ed.” 12v. $18. Scribner.
Twelve illustrated volumes make up this “plantation edition,” so called because all the stories, novels, verses and essays present phases of plantation life.
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+ + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.
“What one might almost call definitive edition.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1351. D. 6, ’06. 480w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 27. Ja. 19, ’07. 780w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–35938.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Under the crust. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37269.
“In the seven stories which make up the volume of short tales, ‘Under the crust,’ the discerning reader will find the characteristic idealism of Mr. Page expressing itself in delicate and sympathetic studies of men and women to whom commercialism exists only to be resisted, and who live in the world as if life were still a matter of the spirit and not a matter of physical luxury.”—Outlook.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The lack of distinction is made up for by a healthy, cheerful tone, and there is reality to the men and women the author depicts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 826. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The stories in this volume are not of equal excellence, but it contains work which Mr. Page has never surpassed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 742. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= From van dweller to commuter. †$1.50. Harper.
A breezy account of the trials that overtook a man, his wife and the “Precious Ones” while moving from flat to flat in New York in quest of a really comfortable and livable place that they might call home. Comparative peace falls to their lot only when they enter upon the commuter’s life in a near-by suburb. The entire story is a “sort of general unburdening” of the troubles that haunt one during an attempted solution of the problem of living, with a view to “relief of spirit which is said to follow confession.”
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“Though the narrative for the most part runs too familiarly along well-worn grooves, its facile humor and abundant sentiment may well afford some innocent diversion—especially to readers whose memory turns backward to adventures of kindred nature.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 270w.
“It will find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner’s ‘My summer in a garden.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“There is much humor of a popular kind, and many clever character sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 70w.
* =Paine, John K.= History of music to the death of Schubert. $2.75. Ginn.
The posthumous work of Professor Paine which includes his lectures on the history of music to the death of Schubert. The lectures are arranged under the headings Ancient and mediaeval music and Origin of dramatic music, opera and oratorio.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Greater America. *$1.50. Outing.
7–14803.
A series of glimpses of the splendid activities of the American west of to-day. The author introduces the reader to numerous activities along the line of extension movement which show great creative and pioneering forces at work. Some of his chapters are as follows: Past and present of the “Soo,” The story of a copper mine, The magnet of the wheat, The cow puncher versus irrigation, The heart of the big timber country, A breath from Alaska, and Gold camps of the desert.
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“To read the book is to get a new appreciation of the greatness of America, the greatness of her present and the possibilities of her future.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 200w.
“Belongs to a class of books which may be called rare even in this age of print. It bears the same relation to the ordinary volume of travel and description that the realistic novel of actual events bears to the novel of romantic cast.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 430w.
“Mr. Paine has felt and has put into his book the very spirit of energy and enthusiasm and confidence and ambition and kindliness which fills the vast miles to the west of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–11303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Uncommonly good tales of the straight-ahead sort.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye=, ed. Romance of an old time shipmaster. *$1.25. Outing pub.
A collection of letters and Journals written by an American sea captain during the early part of the nineteenth century. “It reveals a most charming and lovable personality, a sort of Lord Chesterfield of the quarter-deck, and throws a curious light on life at sea at that time.”
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E. Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.
5–33942.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Indeed every page of the book is full of illuminating and original ideas. For the most part the translation reads well, and a certain number of un-English expressions do not detract from its value, nor can we say that much is added by the greater part of the illustrations.” G. McN. Rushforth.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 556. Jl. ’07. 610w.
“Professor Pais is a difficult writer. There is much to be learned from his book. His notes cite the sources with considerable fulness, occasionally ... possessing an interest for students outside the narrower limits of the subject.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 366. Mr. 23, ’07. 1510w.
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= Treasury of sacred songs; selected from the English lyrical poetry of four centuries: with explanatory and biographical notes. *$1.15. Oxford.
3–25607.
A well chosen collection of sacred songs which includes many of our best sacred poems and such of our hymns as can be termed poetry.
* * * * *
“On the whole it is a good selection and gives a just idea of the quality of our sacred poetry.”
+ − =Acad.= 71:325. O. 6, ’06. 2290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07. S.
=Palmer, Frederick William=, ed. With the sorrowing: a handbook of suggestions for the use of pastors, missionaries, and other visitors in the homes of sorrow. **75c. Revell.
5–41616.
“Appropriate prayers, hymns, and passages of Scripture for use at funerals.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 10w.
“Most profitable for the avoidance of monotony and formalism in the effort to discharge a sacred duty.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 278. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Pardo Bazan, Emilia.= Midsummer madness; tr. from the Spanish by Amparo Loring. $1.50. Clark.
7–11214.
“The story tells of a gentle flirtation, occasionally verging on the dangerous, and always inclining to the superficial. The book is readable, however, while not elevating. The best feature is the minute detail with which the story describes the everyday life of the characters, both nobility and peasantry.”—Ind.
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“The English translation ... is well rendered, and follows the Spanish form of conversation with great conscientiousness. Of plot and counterplot there is very little.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 150w.
“The little tale is conceived in a spirit of tender gayety which marks it for that rare thing, a work of true humor.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
“The pages ... are full of the deplorable effects of rapid production, clever, vivid, and interesting picture of Spanish life though it is.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 500w.
“Besides, the translation, by Amparo Loring, fulfills the difficult task of conveying the original writer’s sprightly, animated style in a manner quite spontaneous and natural.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 250w.
=Pares, Bernard.= Russia and reform. *$3. Dutton.
“Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable sketch of the rise and advance of Russia from the earliest times, Mr. Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently knows his Russia thoroughly, and his Russian in every walk of life. The geographical and economic aspects of the country, the governmental system, the educational facilities, the home life of the noble and the peasant, the literature that has been produced and the men who have produced it—all this and much more is expounded by him in a way that is equally interesting and authoritative.”—Outlook.
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“We have many faults to find, but they do not affect the value of the work.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 500w.
“In our opinion, Mr. Pares would have added to the value of his work by more concentration and by resolutely leaving on one side those matters which have already been adequately dealt with by other authorities.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 131. Ap. 26, ’07. 1360w.
“On the whole, it may be said that he has succeeded in gaining a place close to Wallace and to Leroy-Beaulieu’s ‘Empire des Tsars.’ In its range, method, and adequacy of knowledge and insight, it is certainly the best account that the Russian liberation movement which began in 1904, has brought forth.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“For all who wish to broaden their knowledge of a highly complex question Mr. Pares’s volume may be recommended as a safe guide.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The work is in reality encyclopedic. We feel that in some matters, particularly with respect to prison methods, Mr. Pares takes an over-roseate view.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“If Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we are all the more ready to believe his word ... and if he tells us nothing exactly new, he at all events presents his points with a lucidity of the first order. Altogether, this book is valuable because it contains the comments and judgments of a competent and wise observer.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 674. Ap. 27, ’07. 1960w.
=Paret, William, bp.= Place and function of the Sunday school in the church. *50c. Whittaker.
6–34266.
A discussion of the place and function of the Sunday school in relation to the greater subject on which it rests, namely, the duty and relation of the Church to children.
=Park, James.= Text book of mining geology, for the use of mining students and miners. *$2. Lippincott.
GS 7–1129.
“The author deals with the subject in nine chapters. The first contains a brief summary of geological principles, and the following chapters are devoted respectively to the classification of mineral deposits, ore veins, the dynamics of lodes and beds, ore deposits considered genetically, the theories of vein formation, ores and minerals considered economically, mine sampling, and the examination and valuation of mines.”—Nature.
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“The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded are judicially dealt with.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Parker, Gilbert.= Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.
7–30167.
A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock. David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.
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“Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David Claridge.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w.
“Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“He spoils his material by wilfully romanticizing it; nevertheless he produces an interesting tale, set forth with such a serious air that we are bound to take it seriously.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 190w.
“The truth is that Sir Gilbert has tried to write a story without first thinking it out clearly to the end; he has tried to make his readers realise characters which he has never successfully projected in his own imagination; and the result, with all allowance made for good intention and a certain amount of good workmanship, cannot be called a success.” Ward Clark.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 169. O. ’07. 1000w.
“A work that, despite certain quite obvious faults, is nevertheless endowed with unity of design and fine idealism.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 400w.
“The whole conception is as dead as any mummy in Egypt, the chief difference being that it is embalmed in an excellent literary style.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
“Sir Gilbert Parker’s book is not lacking in well-drawn, dramatic scenes growing out of the conflict between Oriental subtlety and the straightforward Quakerism of David; and the picture of Egypt, although possibly not an altogether accurate one, emerging from its centuries of political darkness, is an interesting contribution to the romance of history.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 650w.
“Deserves and has achieved a place among the leading novels of the year.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Ungrateful though it may seem it is not easy to follow this long drama with any keen interest or to feel that the people in it are any more sensitive than the props that sustain old-fashioned cumbersome draperies. It is ungrateful because the purpose of the book is earnest, and Sir Gilbert evidently writes with knowledge and from his own observation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
“Although Sir Gilbert Parker uses a civilized if somewhat heavy English, and puts his book together in practised fashion, his treatment of Egyptian troubles ... on the whole lacks the brilliancy given to the same event by the late Archibald Clavering Gunter. It is hard to believe that ‘The weavers’ comes from the same hand which once gave so thoughtful and sincere a study of character as Charley in ‘The right of way.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 806. O. 3, ’07. 140w.
“The idea has obtained very generally of late that the good old three-volume novel of the mid-Victorian age was forever extinct, like the dodo or the drama in blank verse. There were to be no more wronged or missing heirs, no more ‘papers’ turning up in old cabinets, no more ‘heavy’ old men telling their stories in quavering voices with the lights burning low and the violins going soft, no more benevolent low-comedy gents coming in slapdash at the critical moments, no more singularly fatuous villains getting caught in their own toils. It is a mistake; read ‘The weavers’ and be convinced. All, all are here, the old familiar faces. The book is written with the author’s usual facility and command of English.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is full of brilliant and striking passages, but the parts of the story do not perfectly cohere, and the tale is a series of dramatic episodes rather than a well-knit narrative of action.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 368. D. ’07. 1460w.
“Much practice has made Sir Gilbert Parker a skilful weaver of a kind of plot which has no relation to reality, or even to probability, but which always fascinates a large novel-reading public. Sir Gilbert Parker writes about society and politics as if he were an outsider.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. O. 19, ’07. 450w.
“Whatever fault may be found with the novel, it certainly shows no sign of scamped work or perfunctory handling. In every sense in which the phrase is applicable to a novel, the author has given us full measure,—length, wealth of colour and exciting incident, careful portraiture, minute character analysis. It may not be unfairly urged that Sir Gilbert Parker has been too lavish of his materials, and that his book loses in directness of appeal from the complexity of his theme, the kaleidoscopic nature of the narrative, and the widely divergent phases of life which he essays to depict. Yet of its picturesqueness, its eloquence, and its exciting quality there can be no doubt.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 1140w.
=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36474.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Although the book is generally quite readable, the English is by no means perfect throughout. The reasoning is here and there unsatisfactory, loose language creeps in, or the style becomes diffuse. The descriptive portion of the work is throughout very carefully written and illustrated.” D. K. M.
+ − =Nation.= 74: 581. O. 11, ’06. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Beth Norvell. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–30865.
Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.
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“It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but absorbing as to incident and plot.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3. 203. N. ’07.
“Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose and hope, will never die out.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w.
“The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w.
“It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort, and the hero’s conversation is a little more preposterous than anything else in the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 570. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
“He wallows in adjectives, his conversations are stilted, and the actions and motives of his characters are unconvincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Some striking situations are evolved, but the high-flown language of the hero and heroine when in peril of their lives on various occasions seems unnatural and detracts from the effect of several strong scenes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–34646.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One would like to see the same quality of narration expended upon a simpler and more natural plot.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Randall Parrish has mastered the trick of popular narrative after a comparatively brief apprenticeship to the trade, and is to-day one of the most effective of our story-tellers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Great plains. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–29851.
To write accurate history so clothed as to appeal to the imagination has been Mr. Parrish’s aim. He tells how the stretch of country between the valley of the Missouri and the foothills of the Rockies was discovered and settled, emphasizes its possibilities and picturesque wonders, and dwells upon the characteristics of men and customs of the frontier towns.
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“The choice of material is commendable, the weaving skilful, and the interest well sustained.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 283. N. 1, ’07. 780w.
“He shows care and judgment in the balancing of contradictory accounts. And he has told the story well and in interesting style. But he has missed not a little of the high spirit, the valiant courage, the dauntless expectations of the men who conquered the plains.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w.
“Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident, adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army camps, and frontier scouts.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w.
=Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Electric railway engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.
W 7–100.
“This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great store of collected data regarding the results obtained in representative examples of its application.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation of the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 385. Mr. 30. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive book on electric railway practice which has yet appeared.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 1130w.
“The present volume endeavors, not unsuccessfully, to combine [the practical and technical phases] and to give the reader a clear knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie the application of electricity to haulage.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 531. Ap. 4. ’07. 1080w.
=Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.= Family. **$3. Putnam.
6–42901.
An ethnographical and historical outline, with descriptive notes, planned as a text-book for the use of college lectures and directors of home-reading clubs.
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“The best book yet prepared for the student, whether in school or at home.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method, and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w.
“A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w.
“Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the book more useful to the elementary student.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w.
“It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
“The attempt of the author to subject the family to careful scientific examination is exceedingly praiseworthy and altogether helpful. And there will be no question in the mind of the reader that the work has been courageously and honestly done. As a broad-minded piece of inductive research it is worthy of imitation in other fields. The book will probably stand as one of the many single and helpful pieces of inductive sociological study.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 744. D. ’07. 1750w.
“Is essentially a work for students of sociology, teachers, and men of temperate and studious minds, and takes its place, for instance, with such books as Stanley Hall’s ‘Adolescence,’ which, by the way, it surpasses in original research.” Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 557. F. ’07. 1850w.
“Judging from the scope of the book and the method of instruction recommended, the author imposes no bounds to the subject to be studied by these young people, and it is on this point that she is most open to adverse criticism. Whatever may be the criticism to which her conclusions are subjected, no one can object to the tone of the book or doubt the courage and transparent honesty of the writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 689. Je. 1, ’07. 1310w.
=Parsons, Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons).= Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75. Putnam.
6–45350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
“Not only does she appear to have read—and to have mastered—everything the most exacting could require; but she has shown excellent judgment as to fact and fable, essentials and non-essentials.” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 290w.
“Her portraits have that fulness and unity which impart a conclusive notion of personality, set with a due sense of perspective against a well-balanced background.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 390w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.
6–13090.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid, concrete, interesting; covers with great detail one problem only, that of discrimination and its remedy.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Emory R. Johnson.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 560w.
“While he occasionally disturbs the reader’s confidence by basing his charges upon rumors and hearsay evidence, after the manner of the newspaper reporter, he relies principally upon official investigations, hearings and reports, and in his handling of this material he shows a thorough familiarity with his subject.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 270w.
=Parsons, Frank.= Railways, the trusts, and the people. 25c. Taylor, C. F.
6–46268.
“A comprehensive work on the political, industrial, and social effects of different systems of railway control.... The work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the relations of the railways to the public, ... and the second analyzing the railway problems.”—R. of Rs.
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“As a source of information Professor Parsons’s volume is a rich mine. It is unfortunate that so valuable a work should suffer so from the author’s lack of literary discretion.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 360w.
“As far as bulk and comprehensiveness are concerned, all previous contributions are outdone. Despite the many facts and figures presented by Professor Parsons, there is still wanting a comprehensive and scientific study of the railroad problem.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 387. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 210w.
* =Pasteur, Violet M.= Gods and heroes of old Japan; decorated by Ada Galton. *$3.50 Lippincott.
7–18124.
Faint gray drawings of Japanese plants and flowers furnish marginal decoration while the text consists of “short stories taken from the sacred writings and ancient histories of Japan. Some are legendary and miraculous; others correspond to the tales of our own age of chivalry.” (Dial.)
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“Interesting, to those especially who have a real sympathy with old Japan.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 838. D. 29. 170w.
“Simply and gracefully told, with a quaintness that suits the primitive type of the stories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends, but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most confusing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.
“This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She became a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied. Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them.... In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.
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“There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing, and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w.
“It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have the best of her.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader of her letters feel, today.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence, for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w.
“We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract of time.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w.
“When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2380w.
“The true significance of Lady Mary’s life story, that which gives it value to readers of to-day, is the light it throws on the period in which it was lived, and the fact that ... Lady Mary herself was par excellence a product of her times.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 80. S. 14, ’07. 3700w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 235. N. ’07. 1030w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 901. Je. 8, ’07. 2140w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Lady of the blue motor. $1.50. Page.
7–16942.
An automobile story which does not content itself with the gentle excitements incident to motoring, but which involves a young Englishman, who undertakes to champion a mysterious lady who drives a blue car, in a series of strange complications which do not stop short of murder. The villain, also equipped with a car, is as diabolical as any of his class and the whole story moves at third speed along a highway bristling with dangers to a conventionally happy ending.
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“The misprints are sometimes serious. Apart from this, the story is a well-constructed melodrama, interesting in its own way, and with less hysteria and more character-study than one usually finds in books of this type.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w.
“While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be courageous and loving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.
=Paterson, Arthur Henry.= John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50. Holt.
7–14252.
John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course, furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.
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“The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 414. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w.
“The characters are well drawn and, on the whole, convincing. What is lacking in literary merit is overlooked in the swift succession of incidents.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 156. My. ’07.
“The characterization is stereotyped, each figure being plainly labelled, good or evil, and painted in bold colours. Plot and general treatment are in keeping with this class of work; but the book is not without its instructive side, and despite occasional tendencies to claptrap, and frequent exaggeration, has here and there touches of genuine human wisdom, and indications of sincere thought regarding some of the problems which face the worker among the poor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 130w.
“The book holds more entertainment—if only you can forget that first chapter—than many a better one.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 520. Jl. ’07. 930w.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 130w.
“The pictures of the seamy side of London life are said to be true without being unwholesomely realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The author evidently knows thoroughly the region he describes. He is less happy, however, in his allusions to the western United States, whence his hero has just come with a fortune made in the cattle business.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20. ’07. 340w.
“The tone throughout is frankly and conventionally sentimental and emotional, and though ‘John Glynn’ is a well-intentioned and even entertaining story, it can hardly be considered as a serious attempt to add to our knowledge of criminology or of the best methods of social reform.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 290w.
“Like many stories with a purpose. ‘John Glynn’ would be very much better without the love interest which Mr. Paterson has thought it necessary to introduce, and perhaps it would be truer to life but for a certain melodramatic tendency which he has not been able to keep out of its pages.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, 07. 270w.
=Paterson, William Romaine.= Nemesis of nations: studies in history: the ancient world, Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, Rome. *$3. Dutton.
W 7–123.
“The first of a series of studies analyzing the causes why civilizations—ancient, mediaeval, modern—have broken down, and the manner in which national sins ... have avenged themselves by bringing retribution on the sinners.” (Ath.) “In each of these studies the method pursued is substantially the same: There is an examination of the origin of the race in question: an effort to trace its affiliations with other races; a sketch of the salient features of the land. The religion, laws, politics, and social customs of the people are then considered; and, finally, we are given a comprehensive account of that slavery which was at the base of all these civilizations.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Throughout this learned book, covering an immense range, and parading a large bibliography, there are hardly any citations to verify the assertions of the text; yet these are often, to our knowledge, loose or inaccurate.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 346. Mr. 23. 1440w.
“It is no common piece of work dreamed out without labor—but betrays on every page an intimate acquaintance with the best modern literature on antiquity and also with the original sources themselves.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Paterson’s book is on the whole too audacious. He admits the complexity of the subject, and yet practically he writes as though the fall of his four great empires could be explained by the same simple causes acting in the same simple way.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 121. O. ’07. 600w.
“Thoughtful and scholarly essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 490w.
“Viewed not as a philosophical interpretation of the downfall of ancient civilizations, but as a history of their slavery systems, it is clearly a product of thoughtful and painstaking research, and contains much that is informing to a high degree. The reader, however, cannot be too strongly warned against unreserved acceptance of the sweeping conclusions Mr. Paterson would draw from his investigations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 472. Je. 29, ’07. 580w.
“Remarkable book.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 834. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.
=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–2591.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 407. Je. ’07. 350w.
“It is fitting that there should be a definitive edition of his poetical work, and nothing could be in better taste than the volume ‘Poems.’”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 180w.
=Spec.= 98: 17. Ja. 5, ’07. 1420w.
=Patten, Gilbert (Burt L. Standish, pseud.).= Frank Merriwell at Yale. 75c. McKay.
Little that fills the life of a college youth of to-day is missing from this spirited tale. Frank Merriwell is made of true stuff, and with manly courage dominates every situation unexpected and prearranged that confronts him during his four years.
=Patten, Helen Philbrook=, comp. Intimations of immortality: significant thoughts on the future life. **$1.50. Small.
7–2422.
An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the ages.
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“This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every well-ordered library.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 213. Ag. ’07. 680w.
=Patten, Simon Nelson.= New basis of civilization. (American social progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.
7–18589.
A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which “interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning and significance of recent social changes with which the practical social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and social control.
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“Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 347. Je. 1, ’07. 2000w.
=Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E. Vincent.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.
=Patterson, Annie W.= Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.
Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following: How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.
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“It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries weight.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.
“Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Pattison, James William.= World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4. Duffield.
“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.
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“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than theories.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.
=Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J.= University of Virginia: glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.
5–39859.
“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators, participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.
“Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
4–2649.
Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.
=v. 4 and 5.= Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and closes with the defeat of the Gladstone government in 1885. The closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.
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“The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive: his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read for enjoyment as well as for information.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise, sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition, and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political information.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly not hold its own either as history or as literature.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent participant.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)
“No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.” George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Paullin, Charles O.= Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.
6–42974.
“A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies. Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.
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“It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.
“This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.” Herbert C. Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student of this epoch.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.
“Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.
=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study; authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.
6–12846.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited, idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.
+ + + =Nature.= 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.
“I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these same problems.” J. H. Finley.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.
* =Paulus Diaconus.= History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr. by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography of the author, and an account of the sources of the history. (Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ. of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)
7–20902.
The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.
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“The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’ does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.
“This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.
=Payne, Will.= When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–40589.
A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward “big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted these standards respectively is further complicated by their close domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other. “The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited convictions.” (Bookm.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
“It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.
“Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a menace.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and is in close touch with human nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.
=Payne, William Morton.= Greater English poets of the nineteenth century. **$2. Holt.
7–32172.
A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude toward the political and social conditions of their time.
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“They deserve wide reading.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.
“His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.
* =Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Mornings in the college chapel: short addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–37984.
Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25. Appleton.
6–34050.
“A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
“The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.
=Pearson, Elizabeth Ware=, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.
6–46220.
These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.
=Atlan.= 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.
“The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.
=Pearson, Norman.= Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.
7–32165.
“This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as ‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question of the mind.”—Philos. R.
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“If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the age.”
+ − =Nation.= 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.
“More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.
=Peary, Robert Edwin.= Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35225.
A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S. S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well illustrated.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.
“Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.
“A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.
“For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic exploration that we have had for many years.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.
“Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.
+ + =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.
“He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm, too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.
“He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is the scientific spirit.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.
“The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.
* =Peck, Harry Thurston.= Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.
7–36100.
The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother gave her the power to make.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to find in writing of a very different style.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–39787.
A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.
“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.
“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted; instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words. Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright blundering.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and unattained ideals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one important way it is soundly informative.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
“Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.
“For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter of narration his book contains many points which the more stately writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–23717.
A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago, illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters. The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.
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“There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic days.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–37648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves much to be desired.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.
“The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures by the author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
“The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and superficial.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.
“The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling, and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Peloubet, Francis N.= Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.
6–32405.
For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual use.
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“The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less than that of any other Old Testament writing.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M. Cobern.
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.
“A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of the Old Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–28763.
“Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.
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“It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.
“Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.
“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course, cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
− =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.
=Pendexter, Hugh.= Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11207.
A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman, who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions do not daunt him.
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“For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”
− =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.
“The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.
* =Penfield, Edward.= Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–36404.
Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)
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“It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is published.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.
7–8551.
“The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing rapidity.”
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“He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a little truth.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.
“It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.
“The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.
“Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.
“Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are timely and deserving of general attention.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
“Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh interest.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.
“It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.
“The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.
“An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.
“This is an eminently readable book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
6–31406.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Only for the larger library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
=Atlan.= 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.
“In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.
“A graceful writer of unerring taste.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.
“Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.
“It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26347.
A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed. Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph, are vividly described.” (Outlook.)
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“Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.
“Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of prose without its flexibility.”
− =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
6–10671.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the enlightening of American public opinion.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.
=Pepys, Samuel.= Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.
7–29045.
Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the navy of this period are included.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Periam, Annina.= Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style. *$1. Macmillan.
6–24558.
“In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel, Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and mystical.”—N. Y. Times.
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=Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.
* =Perkins, Lucy Fitch.= Book of joys: the story of a New England summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–34806.
A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets, with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”
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“Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its whimsicalities and oddities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
“A book of special interest to feminine readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch)=, comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–32850.
The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their original form.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections, but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.= Modern American lathe practice. $2.50. Henley.
7–4843.
“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments, turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
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“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35721.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions as well as for his information.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life. This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than any that has come from the Whitman cult.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.
“In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.
=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75. Little.
6–24566.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.
5–40797.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Peters, Edward Dyer.= Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–12991.
“This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting, Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting, Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags, Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper, Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry, Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.
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“The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.
=Peterson, Henry.= Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle. †$1.50. Winston.
7–12980.
A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft, with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips lends her assistance.
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“The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest well sustained until the very end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50. Lane.
“The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and 1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide, 1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.
“This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.
7–25140.
A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)
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“If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class, the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these respects.”
− =Acad.= 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.
“The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806, there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.
“The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling. In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.
“The most instructive passage of the book is the description of Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.
“If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to follow.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.
“This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.
“The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to become the definitive authority upon the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.
“We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
5–26752.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Solidly packed with facts.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Janus in modern life. (Questions of the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.
7–37957.
A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the bettering of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”
− =Acad.= 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.
“Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think, Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.
6–40918.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–9289.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.
“The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing to this growth.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.
7–16364.
=v. 1.= “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.
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“A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting way, the author’s well-known views.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St. Paul.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.
7–29077.
A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of Israel down to Christianity.
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“The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
“His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.
=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.= (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.
6–45018.
A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The volume is illustrated by five drawings.
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“She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle her material critically.”
− =Ind.= 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
=Phelps, William Lyon.= Pure gold of nineteenth century literature. **75c. Crowell.
7–25233.
A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth. Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin, Eliot and Hardy.
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“There is no alloy in his criticism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Philipson, David.= Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.
7–15617.
A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair, The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England, Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments in Europe.
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“The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and his book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.
“The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.
=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.
W 5–5.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr. Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant analysis carries conviction.”
+ + − =Spec.= 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30833.
A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world. The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his divorced wife.
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“Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.
“Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power. But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star reporter on the daily newspaper.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal brush.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–4160.
Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money, and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of Mr. Phillips’ preachment.
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“Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful, absorbing, and timely.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠
“‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
“On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen system of finance wearisome to read about.”
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“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous American life.”
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“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”
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“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon Atwood.
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=Phillips, Le Roy.= Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3. Houghton.
6–43541.
“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books, giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part 2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed....