The book review digest, Volume 03, 1907
part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and
endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
=Sigerson, George.= Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.
A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than, that of the Greeks.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w.
“A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w.
=Silberrad, Una L.= Good comrade. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–30840.
An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for “shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb, sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.
* * * * *
“She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both vivid and true.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and has produced an exceptionally good novel.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.
“In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of the hero the book is not a silly one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w.
“The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor gentle and pleasing.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w.
“Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.
6–35717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. 07.
=Simpson, M. W. Hilton-.= Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.
The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate. He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a useful and practical sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w.
“What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very agreeably set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w.
=Sinclair, May.= Helpmate. †$1.50. Holt.
7–25509.
While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one, and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.
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“It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
“Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse for the small library putting money into it, first because it has appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore, accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the small library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.
“This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w.
“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w.
“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w.
“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the year comes from May Sinclair.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and admirably distinguished in expression.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w.
“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British convention.” Eleanor Cecil.
− + =Living Age.= 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w.
“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w.
“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of understanding.” H. I. Brock.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w.
“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a great story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a powerful study of temperament.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w.
=Sinclair, May.= Tysons. $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the relations of an ill-assorted pair.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Industrial republic: a study of the America ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–18298.
It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the presidential election of that year, that after that will be established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.
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“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which deal with the present and not the future.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w.
“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer. His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of his own judgment.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w.
“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the worst together, and makes the most of it.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w.
“His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the social and political conditions of the moment.”
− − =Spec.= 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–6264.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
“If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w.
Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Overman. 50c. Doubleday.
7–30837.
A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr. Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural. And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and convincing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Dutch and Flemish furniture. **$7.50. McClure.
A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and its material adjuncts in the low countries.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w.
“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w.
“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it. Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared for.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–38380.
“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is persistent enough in search.”—Ind.
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“Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.
“Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w.
* =Singleton, Esther=, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
7–35639.
“The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.” (Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, and others.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a place in a collection of this character.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
=Singleton, Esther.= Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–40554.
“The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week, the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr. Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to the librarian in reference work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S.
“The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive information, well distributed between topography, history, architecture, and manners and customs.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w.
“Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too, is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or publisher.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to authors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w.
* =Singleton, Esther.= White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.
Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.
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=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de.= History of the Italian republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by William Boulting. $2. Dutton.
Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.
* * * * *
“The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things Italian can do without it.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w.
“The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto.= Pagan races of the Malay peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.
7–11553.
The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr. Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved by our authors.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w.
“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs with which they are illustrated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w.
“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w.
“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more graphic by reproductions of photographs.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w.
“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature of much that has been written as well as by the length of the bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w.
=Skinner, Robert P.= Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of Kings. *$3. Longmans.
7–7544.
The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces, elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization and equipment of a caravan.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’ which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that needs one.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w.
“Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his lively, entertaining account of his travels.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w.
“The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and contains some profitable suggestions.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5. Lippincott.
7–37968.
The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is “guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w.
=Sladen, Douglas.= Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–145.
“It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle, sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments, curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the country.”—Ind.
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“So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w.
“_The_ book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good advice.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Very practical book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.
=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–29757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis.= Master of the world: a study of Christ. **$1.50. Longmans.
6–45051.
“The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have grown up around his person.”—Nation.
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“Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”
− =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w.
“The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w.
“Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.
=Slicer, Thomas R.= Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6629.
The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book. The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship: happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home; The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.
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“Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w.
“Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than to the flesh.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w.
“His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w.
“The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the wall.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.
6–35989.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w.
“It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in engineering design.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w.
=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.
6–23320.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Nature.= 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Small, Albion W.= Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–32182.
A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
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“Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w.
“In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious and severe criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w.
=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–32452.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w.
“In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with imperfect appreciation of real issues.”
− =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w.
=Smalley, Harrison Standish.= Railroad rate control in its legal aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.
6–26074.
“This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.
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“He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–9556.
“The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book, apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w.
“Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she does not obtrude it.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w.
“The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had something genuine to say.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w.
“The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by the first few chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, A. Croxton.= British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.
“A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments. Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms criticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w.
“The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very readable, but not very thorough or practical.”
+ − =Spec.= 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-.= Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.
7–16502.
A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”
=Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo.= Machine design. $3. Wiley.
5–39881.
“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up.... Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine frames are discussed.”—Nature.
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“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country, with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.
A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in 1863.
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“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as worth buying and reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w.
=Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w.
=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25. Century.
6–7325.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w.
“Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill, and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w.
=Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.= Montlivet. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33573.
“The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.
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“The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting, it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 217. N. ’06.
“An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The book has unusual merit.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s rest from the dread of horrors to come.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= China and America to-day: a study of conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.
7–26625.
In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)
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“We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly changing conditions and relations.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w.
=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s missionary movement.
7–38590.
A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the world.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.
“One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to be found in the same compass.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Smith, Bertram.= Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.
“England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written is pleasantly humorous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
* =Smith, Bertram T. K.= How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.
A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other matters included in the field of philately.
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+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w.
“Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w.
“For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29156.
The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Hill top girl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)
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“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w.
“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in the ‘Hill-top girl.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
− =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Little school mothers: a story for girls. 75c. McKay.
7–21231.
A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the school-mother of a motherless child.
* =Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Three girls from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end of complication and humiliation.
=Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.
6–42437.
Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)
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“Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the new volume.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
“The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury than a necessity.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w.
“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text is apparently historically correct.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Francis Asbury.= Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the defendant. Knickerbocker press.
7–8252.
A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.
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“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w.
“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the conditions under which they are probably produced.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading, but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w.
=Smith, Francis Henry.= Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.
6–32410.
“That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt university maintain.”—Outlook.
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“We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 356. Ap. ’07. 570w.
“The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close debate.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 9, ’06. 160w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E. Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.
7–17373.
“A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity, written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.” (N. T. Times.)
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=Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 200w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–31210.
“In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome, noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past, though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.
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“A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠
=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr. Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds its magic to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 410w.
“‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and true.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Veiled lady, and other men and women, il. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12697.
Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. 70w. ✠
“There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in ‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1102. Jl. 11. ’07. 180w.
“For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 130w.
“It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 300w.
“The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in them.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 620w.
“A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but every one will repay the time spent in reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.
5–34173.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they seem to be—charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 504. Ag. 11. ’06. 240w.
=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.
6–35588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 419. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Smith, George Armitage.= Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25. Dutton.
7–6425.
An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on which it is based.
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“Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be commended for educational purposes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 607. My. 19. 510w.
=Smith, Gertrude.= Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.
7–36981.
Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their plays and their pleasant surprises.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Smith, Goldwin.= Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend. **50c. Macmillan.
7–7165.
A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression. “Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no leaping into the millenium.”
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 647. My. ’07. 60w.
“The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 80w.
“A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.
“Written in a characteristically clear style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.
=Spec.= 98: 985. Je. 22, ’07. 820w.
=Smith, Rev. Haskett.= Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.
7–10989.
“The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.
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“Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 061. D. 29, ’06. 120w.
“The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9. ’07. 130w.
“Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 147. F. 2, ’07. 1120w.
=Smith, James Allen.= Spirit of American government: a study of the constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–16497.
In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way of majority rule.
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“Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 620. N. ’07. 620w.
“It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 560w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
“The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty of the individual as also of the masses.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 1540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Smith, Captain John.= Generall historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer isles. 2v. *$6. Macmillan.
7–18581.
An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in convenient form for the first time since their original publication in 1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)
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+ =Acad.= 72: 310. Mr. 30, ’07. 1070w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 163. S. ’07. 2290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 26. My. 9, ’07. 1060w.
“These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.
“Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For this there can be no excuse.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.
“It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 460. Mr. 23, ’07. 1860w.
=Smith, Justin Harvey.= Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.
7–26025.
The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part of his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 970w.
“What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7. ’07. 390w.
“Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while, on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves the heartiest of welcomes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be interesting.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable industry.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 150w.
=Smith, Margaret Bayard.= First forty years of Washington society: a portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith; ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
6–40262.
Letters which until recently have been kept well guarded make available an authentic record of Washington society during its first forty years. Manners and customs, no less than notable political characters, appear in a new and intimate light.
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“The editor has furnished a satisfactory index and the notes necessary to explain the text.” Montgomery Blair.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 669. Ap. ’07. 760w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“The editor’s notes are always to the point.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 494 O. ’07. 480w.
“Upon the deeper character and influence of the many notable men about her, Mrs. Smith’s comments are of no great value. But a clever woman is often able to see and portray the peculiar characteristics of an individual or an event in a way that is illuminating and valuable. It is this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayard Smith that makes their publication well worth while.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 139. Mr. 1, ’07. 1620w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book is too long ... but when we lay it down we feel as if we had been at a pleasant gathering, where no evil was spoken, and every one had a moderate old-fashioned enjoyment of life.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 83. Mr. 15, ’07. 1220w.
“Possessing no special charm in themselves, they will be often resorted to for color by other writers. The editorial work is competently done by Gaillard Hunt. His candor in preserving the simplified spelling of the writer, and certain even more simplified grammatical constructions, contributes to the impressions of essential veracity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 600w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“This collection of letters ... is a distinct and valuable contribution to the completeness of the historical pictures of life in the highest political circles in the first half century of the American republic.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 870. D. 15. ’06. 1740w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25. Badger. R. G.
6–25984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and unusual feeling for rhythm.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.
=Smith, Mary P. Wells.= Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.
7–31225.
Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships, their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal to young readers.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending chapter.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w.
=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.
6–32121.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness. Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too, calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray, was it not strictly alphabetical?”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
=Smith, Rodney.= Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1. Revell.
“This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.
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“An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by unmistakable sincerity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.
7–5061.
A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757, after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety animate the pages.
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“A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old age,” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy him.”
− =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
=Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w.
“In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w.
“All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill. $1.50. Page.
7–30991.
This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill, in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.
7–20333.
A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours, increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control, state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty, freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
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=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w.
=Smyser, William Emory.= Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.
7–6733.
This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.
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“The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w.
=Smyth, Eleanor C.= Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform: told by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.
The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous detail concerning the originator’s home life.
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“This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake to apply to the past the standards of the present.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
5–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the conquest of arid America.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–14547.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the ultra-cynical scene at the end.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w.
“Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of mediocrity.” Mary Moss.
+ + − =Atlan.= 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w.
“Is a book to be reckoned with.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
“The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr. Snaith.”
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w.
=Snaith, John Collis.= Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd. by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
6–37964.
A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.” (Nation.)
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“The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the mind of the man involved.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
“A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due admixture of fire.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
=Snider, Denton Jaques.= American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.
6–34283.
The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.” (Outlook.)
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“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”
− + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.
“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read these illuminative and instructive chapters.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w.
“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is negligible.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Snider, Guy Edward.= Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.
6–46362.
A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w.
=Snyder, Carl.= World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism. *$2.50. Longmans.
W 7–93.
When complete there will be three volumes under the general title, “The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection, into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w.
“It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the general reader more information on the history of science than he can find anywhere else in a readable form.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w.
“He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash prophecy.”
− =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w.
“The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.
− =Nature.= 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w.
“Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of assured facts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
“The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w.
“A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout, and, at times, picturesque.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w.
“We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing character.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w.
=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their meaning very obscure.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of early Christian literature: the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.
6–11299.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w.
“A good English translation.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w.
=Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of.= Correspondence of two brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.
“This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.
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“Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a competent and conscientious piece of work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w.
“The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for the characters revealed by it.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in a very high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w.
“If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w.
“These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students of the Waterloo period.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w.
“The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the modern Athens.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w.
=Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).= Some Irish yesterdays: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ. Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–35223.
“A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.
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“These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish R. M.’ have ever done.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07.
“The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w.
“One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle expression in the brogue.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w.
“The book is seldom interesting, often dull, and sometimes almost unintelligible.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17. ’06. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 624. O. 27, ’06. 1420w.
=Soothill, W. E.= Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.
“A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author tells of the difficulties of establishing a mission, of its daily work, of the travels of the missionary about the country and the multitude of varied things his hands find to do, of the Chinese converts to Christianity and the aid they give, of the work that is done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese education.”—N. Y. Times.
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“His book is vigorously informative, shot thru and thru with human interest, and made attractive with wit and humor.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w.
“It is an entertaining volume, brimful of information about the life and work of the missionary, and vivid with pictures of the daily life of the Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.
“With many interesting descriptions and touches of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Sorrel, Moxley.= Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2. Neale.
Not so much of a narrative as a series of pictures of “camp and field and of the more striking personalities of the Southern armies.” (Ind.) The reminiscences begin with the battle of Manassas, and continue thru Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w.
Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29580.
A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times, The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.
=Souttar, Robinson.= Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.
7–25500.
“Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress of the Roman empire from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that, notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of little use even to the historian.’”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 312. Mr. 30, ’07. 2140w.
“The reader appears to be in safe hands, however, for the current modern opinion is not departed from, unless the author takes occasion to differ with some one as to the causes of the decline and fall of the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 175. O. ’07. 470w.
“He has used in his book what may be regarded as respectable authorities but he shows no knowledge of the special literature concerning the topics which he treats. The author is seen at his best in his chapters on the early emperors, whom he treats with both fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w.
“Granting Mr. Souttar’s method, he has chosen his material with skill and knowledge and described it with as much vividness as his method will allow.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“The whole thing is certainly not the work of a thorough scholar, or of a literary man with any cultivated skill in his craft.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 114. Jl. 27, ’07. 1370w.
“The truth of the matter is that Dr. Souttar is not sufficiently armed with authorities to reverse the judgment of history. Dr. Souttar’s inability to deal with the more obscure problems of history is shown by his treatment of the subject of Roman persecution of the Christians.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 399. S. 21, ’07. 1340w.
=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–5679.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work is a masterly volume marked by a firm and comprehensive grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the hour.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 205. F. ’07. 5540w.
Reviewed by Mary Willcox Glenn.
=Charities.= 17: 497. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
=Spargo, John.= Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.) 50c. Kerr.
7–23082.
The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor Goldwin Smith’s attacks on socialism in his book “Capital and labor;” the second, a lecture on “Modern socialism,” delivered to the students of the school of philanthropy, New York City.
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Reviewed by Albion W. Small.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 272. S. ’07. 110w.
“The paper will be especially valuable to the average reader whose acquaintance with socialism consists chiefly of a bundle of misapprehensions.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 150w.
=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–22326.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.
“Mr. Spargo’s views, which if not authoritative are representative, have the merit of being those of a socialist who is an educated man commanding a clear and temperate style, accustomed to dealing with actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene Balch.
+ =Charities.= 17: 464. D. 15, ’06. 2030w.
“In spite of the brevity of his work—the result of conciseness rather than of superficiality—Mr. Spargo gives a satisfactory general view of his subject, and his book is to be recommended especially as a foundation for a more detailed knowledge to be afterwards acquired.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 300w.
“As an elementary presentation Mr. Spargo’s work is distinctly meritorious, in spite of undoubted faults of style, exposition, and reasoning. Economically it need mislead no one. Sociologically it will prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing, though it adds nothing to the specialist’s knowledge of socialist history or theory.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 122. F. ’07. 540w.
“It is to be regretted that in preparing such an able hand-book for the propagation of socialistic ideas, the author did not give more serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought and thus bring the ‘economics of socialism’ into closer harmony with the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 166. Mr. ’07. 960w.
=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples ser.) †75c. Crowell.
7–26624.
Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the little boy in the lonely woods into Lincoln the patriot, the lover and friend of his whole country. The sketch has been prepared especially for boys and furnishes the keynote to a successful life in any place or station.
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“Adapted to the understanding of the young. At the same time, it is not written in a tone of condescension, an attitude which boys are sure to resent. Adults might well read it and be instructed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Sparling, Samuel Edwin.= Introduction to business organization. (Citizen’s lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) $1.25. Macmillan.
6–43943.
“This book is another indication of the growing interest in the systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work definitions and analysis of business organization are given with considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization. After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization, Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and collections.”
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“The only book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07.
“So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.” Charles Lee Raper.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w.
“The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own business.” Wm. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Short history of the American navy. **50c. Scribner.
7–12867.
Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of America’s history.
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“This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
“Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim consideration as a serious historical study.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so labeled.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w.
=Speed, Capt. Thomas.= Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–14671.
A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active participant.
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“The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the best available source of information about the Union cause in Kentucky.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and events, sometimes only locally interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w.
“It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=Speer, Robert E.= Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–16361.
The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects, Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.
=Speicher, Jacob.= Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.
7–20641.
A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in southern China.
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“Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training the missionary needs.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
* =Spinners’ club.= Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.
7–32566.
A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb. Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the earth-quake is the first beneficiary.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Spinney, William Anthony.= Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–2729.
An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.
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“There is much ... nonsense in the book.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Spitta, Edmund J.= Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the microscope. *$6. Dutton.
This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates the most recent types.”—Ind.
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“We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w.
“Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume extremely helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w.
“In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w.
“The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w.
=Squires, Grace.= Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50. Dutton.
6–39753.
The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.
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“It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would suggest.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do any girl good to read it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
=Stael-Holstein, Mme. de.= Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr. from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–29169.
“These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.
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“These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest, but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too obviously a translation.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this publication of new letters.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.
6–37191.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07.
“It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.) *$1.25. Scribner.
“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173 pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity, daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real quality of the work praised.”
− =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.
“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his pictures inserted as marginal notes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.
“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.
=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
6–16206.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton.= Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.
7–20751.
Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been carefully sought out.
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“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.
“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified with study of the original records and documents, has written a thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.
“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case, there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Standage, H. C.= Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.
=Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron.= Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–28487.
Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and policies.” (Outlook.)
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“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and opinions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.
“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no books which are more valuable from this point of view than the biography of Sidney Herbert.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.
“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.
“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the space.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work formidable and rather dreary reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.
“Very interesting memoir.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.
=Stanton, Coralie.= Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.
7–11588.
The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the adventuress.
=Starbuck, Robert Macy.= Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly by the author for this work. $4. Henley.
7–2755.
A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.
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“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably fulfilled.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.
=Starke, Dr. J.= Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the German. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–12259.
A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms, especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that “There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes, exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.
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“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in order to influence public opinion more effectively.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.
“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in circulation.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.
“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are somewhat obscure.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.
“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.
=Starr, Frederick.= Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles. $1. Forbes.
7–20882.
An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well illustrated by photographs of the natives.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.
=Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on his Congo trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy over alleged atrocities there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
6–7716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.” F. Lavis.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.
* =Stead, Richard.= Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St. Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.
“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to run through the 328 pages.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45336.
An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to Klondyke.” (Nation.)
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=Ath.= 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.
“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure and wilder beasts.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think, the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine stories of adventure and exploration.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
* =Stead, William Thomas.= Peers or people? the House of lords weighed in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.
A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has done, and What must be done with the House of lords.
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“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of the problem.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2. Lippincott.
6–37623.
A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it “contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)
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“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.
“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the distinctive feature of his work.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his surroundings.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.
“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne should not be.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.
* =Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and public services of George Luther Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.
7–38430.
A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting sidelights on the civil war and its issues.
=Steel, Flora Annie.= Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–26482.
“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her, and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but, being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on his lips.”—Spec.
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+ − =Acad.= 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.
“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.
“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that, out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.
“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian life.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and noble outlook upon life.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.
“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.
“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”
− =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.
“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.
“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.
“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps. Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.
“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.
=Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.).= Naomi’s transgression. †$1.50. Warne.
A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its untangling is deftly accomplished.
=Stein, Evaleen.= Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.
6–25686.
“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Maryland during the English civil wars. pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–11189.
=pt. 2.= Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of 1649.
=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
6–39003.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon personal experience and investigation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.
“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.
Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.
=Charities.= 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.
“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific interest.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.
* =Stejneger, Leonhard Hess.= Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. $1. Supt. of doc.
7–35282.
With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to geographical distribution.
* * * * *
“A valuable systematic monograph.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.
“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits, produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.
6–20202.
A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment. The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.
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“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.
“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity, and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
=Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
=v. 6.= English literature and society in the eighteenth century.
The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903, which deal more with the literature of the period than with society. “Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y. Times).
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“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the work of his prime.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining style than that in which the average professor delivers the average lecture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.
* =Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.
W 7–196.
Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”
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=Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert.= Clementina’s highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.
7–27613.
The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century beau.
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“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of George II.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25. Lippincott.
7–31224.
The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.
* =Sterns, Justin.= Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.
The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing, climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the poem.” (Nation.)
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“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.
“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an admirable promise.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.
5–32666.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and belief.” W. H. Drummond.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.
=Stevens, Horace J.= Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.
“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history, biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.
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“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.
“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful in making the contents accessible.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34368.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.
“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the attention.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr. Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of continental politics convincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.
7–34779.
A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and mystery to the last page.
=Stevenson, Richard Taylor.= John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14592.
A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R. Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.
7–33227.
The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful picture all done in silver-gray.
=Stewart, Charles D.= Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.
7–12003.
In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone, happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance, sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever cheerful philosophers.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as long as his river, and as crooked.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.
“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough, the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.
“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive one.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.
“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in critical prose.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.
=Stickney, Albert.= Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.
6–37188.
“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.
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“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.
“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of their value or lack of it.”
− =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.
“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make his book not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Still, Alfred.= Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.
W 7–56.
“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the rotary converter.”—Engin. N.
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“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.
“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a field.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.
=Stockton, Francis Richard.= Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales. $2.50. Scribner.
6–39760.
The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine, Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The accomodating circumstance.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.
“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it is almost in a class by itself.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Stockwell, Chester Twitchell.= Evolution of immortality: suggestions on an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.
6–37617.
That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions either suggested or demonstrated.
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“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.
+ =Arena.= 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.
“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=Stoddart, Anna M.= Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.
7–25137.
A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and philanthropist.
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“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its usual fine steadiness.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.
“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird, and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is that she has written an excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.
“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of her travels.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.
“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.
“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer; suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.
“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of her accomplishments.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.
“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of ignorance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.
“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration which it deserves.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.
=Stoddart, Jane T.= Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
7–26628.
After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents, descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.
“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is espoused.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.
“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view, however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very unsatisfactory.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.
=Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.
“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil, irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.
=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving. **$7.50. Macmillan.
6–36011.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Stone, Christopher.= Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.
7–12668.
“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’ ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days, ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’ and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty, the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships. We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive form of the volume.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07. S.
“All that is given here deserves preservation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.
“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
=Sat. R.= 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Stone, Melville E., jr.=, comp. Book of American prose humor. lea. $1.25. Duffield.
7–25552.
A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes written by the best known American writers.
Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29585.
Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.
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“A most attractive series of tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *$65c. Century.
7–29582.
Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of war, and their vast commercial importance.
=Storm, Theodor W.= Immensee; translated from the German by George P. Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–33212.
Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of “Immensee.”
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“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm and his work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Strachan, James.= Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part 2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c. Scribner.
“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib. World.
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+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Strang, Herbert.= Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–41714.
A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and cruelty.
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“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of the triteness of its characterisation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.
“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all Mr. Strang’s books.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Strang, Herbert.= In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–32681.
Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)
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“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to historical setting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.
“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.
“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.
“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any normal, healthy boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.
“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and romantic in acceptable proportion.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much when we remember how good his previous work has been.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.
“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.
* =Strang, Herbert.= On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–29572.
Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”
* =Strang, Herbert.= Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31414.
A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec. It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of the story.
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=Ath.= 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.
=Strang, William.= Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.
It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style, without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.
“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of this kind.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.
“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Strange, Edward Fairbrother.= Hokusai; the old man mad with painting. (Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.), *$1. Scribner.
6–46317.
Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and ten times more pretentious.”
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“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an entertaining and stimulating fashion.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.
“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.
Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.
7–17360.
Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan Stevens and others.
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“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.
Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.
7–18099.
Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of the Constitution.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.
Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.
7–18097.
The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman, a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe and others.
Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.
7–15588.
This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown. They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis, and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival Redsdale and others.
=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
7–4810.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.
6–45303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
“All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w.
=Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.
=Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney.= Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ: a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
“The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.
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“Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further, the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w.
“The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”
− + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w.
* =Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the straightening of the tangle.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Street, George Slythe.= Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.
With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton, Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.
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“On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about the Town.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w.
“Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a medium of imaginative talk.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w.
“Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but in installments.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w.
“Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
=Stringer, Arthur.= Phantom wires. †$1.50. Little.
7–12004.
A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to turn against them and once more Durkin turns his electrical engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite as novel as they are thrilling.
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“We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”
− =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than ordinary ability.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with restraint.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w.
“There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of this intricate and highly sensational novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
6–16649.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.
− + =Forum.= 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w.
* =Stringer, Arthur John A.= Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25. Little.
7–37033.
In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the “huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in Leucadia.”
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“Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers).= Roman sculpture: from Augustus to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.
7–35388.
Based upon a series of lectures delivered at intervals during the past seven years Mrs. Strong’s work is “an exposition of the distinctive character and the evolutionary process of Roman art from the inception of the empire to the official triumph of Christianity.” (Lond. Times.)
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“We have criticised this book somewhat closely because it has interested us deeply. Mrs. Strong is a vigorous critic and will not shun criticism. The book is more than a valuable addition to the literature of Roman art. It is practically the first book in this language to give a wide conspectus of the scope and aims of Roman sculpture.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 530. Je. 1, ’07. 2620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“Inasmuch as her ability and attainments are so well known that unfavorable criticism cannot be regarded as unfriendly, we must record the unhesitating opinion that she could have written a much better book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 168. S. 16, ’07. 470w.
“It is no flattery to say that she is foremost among the excellent women now working in the classics. She is, however, hardly justified in saying that it is ‘evidently absurd to talk of a realistic as opposed to an idealistic art.’”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 40w.
“Mrs. Strong has thrown down a gauntlet which will doubtless be taken up; but he will be a bold man who does it. Her knowledge is immense, her observation most accurate, her criticism penetrative and fine. There is no one now writing on ancient art with greater insight than Mrs. Strong. The points to which we have demurred are not among the essentials of her book.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 171. My. 31, ’07. 1670w.
“A volume like this should be welcomed. It should not be concealed that Mrs. Strong hurts her case very often by claiming too much for her works that are cold and clumsy, poorly disposed, and lacking in true distinction.” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 1570w.
“Small blemishes should not prevent us from expressing our deep gratitude to Mrs. Strong for a book produced at the right time and in the right way.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 56. Jl. 13, ’07. 1740w.
* =Strong, Rev. Josiah.= Challenge of the city. **$1. Baker.
“The president of the American institute of social service here adds to his widely read and stimulating books one for younger readers.” (Outlook.) He “treats the problem of those churches and parishes which are being crowded out of many city districts by the oncoming of business houses. Eighty-five churches below Fourteenth street have gone out of existence during the last twenty years. The author finds a remedy in the direction of federation. Four chapters of the book appeared previously in a periodical.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Strong, Very Rev. Thomas Banks=, ed. Lectures on the methods of science. *$2.50. Oxford.
6–37941.
Nine lectures by as many eminent lecturers upon such subjects as Scientific method as a mental operation, Physiology, Inheritance in animals and plants, Psychophysical method, The evolution of double stars, Anthropology, Archaeological evidence, and Scientific method as applied to history.
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+ =Acad.= 71: 59. Jl. 21, ’06. 1840w.
“The present volume, however, depends too much upon its title and its preface. Uninspired by their suggestions, the reader would not suspect that he was following a course on scientific method. He would rather suppose that he was receiving an amount of very interesting and very miscellaneous information.” Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
− + =J. Philos.= 3: 692. D. 6, ’06. 1820w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 238. Jl. 6, ’06. 2230w.
“The first two lectures ... which treat explicitly of the subject designated in the title of the book, are in reality the least valuable chapters. The real contributions to the study of method are tacit and incidental features of the other papers, which make the least overt reference to the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 400w.
− =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 200w.
“In this handy form they should do much to teach the ordinary reader what science claims to be and how its operations are conducted.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Woman’s exchange of Simpkinsville. †$1.25. Harper.
Two spinster sisters, “upon whose frail maiden shoulders had devolved responsibilities hitherto unknown to the women of the name of Simpkins” lose the fortune of their Arkansas forebears and have to face the question of earning a livelihood. They hit upon the idea of a Woman’s exchange, establish it and manage it with credit to the name of Simpkins. Their rather tame existence is broken by bits of town gossip, echoes of sentiment of long ago, and chiefly by a proposition of ten thousand dollars for the collection of birds in the extending of which an only brother had lost his life.
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“Mrs. Stuart’s touch is broader than Mrs. Deland’s, and she is more open to the charge of sentimentalism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 110w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: by former students of Charles Edward Garman, in commemoration of twenty-five years of service as teacher of philosophy in Amherst college. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–22901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Dewey.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 312. My. ’07. 4220w.
Reviewed by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 18. Ja. 15, ’07. 2840w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Charles H. Judd.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 24. Ja. 15, ’07. 1960w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Sturdy, William A. (Isaac Didwin, pseud.).= Degeneracy of the aristocracy. $1. Pub. by the author; For sale by the Rhode Island news co., Providence, R. I.
7–15554.
“The purpose of this book is to show, by the retrospect of history, that democracy is destined to assert itself in such a positive manner as to overthrow the commonly accepted theories of the past, that are so tenaciously held to, for the apparent purpose of trying to maintain a declining aristocracy.”
=Sturgis, Russell.= History of architecture. 3v. v. 1. per set. **$15. Baker.
6–45368.
“Mr. Sturgis’s book belongs to the monumental class. It belongs also to the encyclopedic class, except that the arrangement is chronological and by countries instead of by topics arranged in alphabetical order.” (Lit. D.) “An important feature of this work will be the careful study of the climatic influences on architecture and of the relation of the domestic to the monumental architecture in various countries—a field which has been somewhat neglected by architectural writers. The first volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt, Western Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.” (Dial.)
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“Masterly work. Beautifully printed and illustrated, but the paper is so heavy and brittle as to be unsatisfactory for library use.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Much of it is brilliantly written, and the whole is evidently the result of wide reading, travel, and study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 187. Ag. 17. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a record of architectural events, this history, as evidenced by the volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. The task of collating and arranging the great mass of detail has been heavy, and the outcome is a work of great value and a matter of congratulation to both author and publisher.” Irving K. Pond.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 137. Mr. 1, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The nomenclature of places is occasionally open to criticism. A book full of information and suggestion, the fruits of a ripe scholarship, and far more readable than most works of this kind are apt to be.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 271. Ja. 31, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work must at once be accepted as a standard treatise.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Despite these minor blemishes, the work is plainly the fruit of careful scholarship, accurate in all its specific information, and usually sound in all its analysis and criticism. It ought to be of real service in the stimulation of public interest and the training of public taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One need have no hesitation in commending the work as by far the best on its subject and of its scope in the English language. It takes its place at once as an authority.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Half the volume’s value ... is represented by the illustrations.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sturt, Henry Cecil.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36468.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Sturt has produced a book of vigorous and suggestive criticism of current thought and especially of the logical and metaphysical doctrine of Mr. Bradley, who has to bear the brunt of the attack upon ‘Anglo-Hegelianism.’ One could wish, however, that the standpoint of personal idealism had been more fully indicated.” A. Mackie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 403. Ap. ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by John Watson.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
=Sue, Eugene.= Wandering Jew. 2v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
A reissue of, uniform with the limp leather “Thin papers sets.”
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$7.75. Oxford.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Students of Professor Suess’s masterpieces hardly know whether to admire most his encyclopedic knowledge of the earth’s surface, his familiarity with the literature of his subject, his grasp of detail, his reach of speculation, or his fine poetical feeling and gifts of expression.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 77. Ja. 19. 770w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Sumner, William Graham.= Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners; customs, mores, and morals. *$3. Ginn.
7–21403.
An analytical definition of the folkways and a description of their functions in the formation and integration of society. Folkways are the ways of satisfying needs which become habitual and customary by the uncoördinated coöperation of individuals. The author shows how these uncoördinated acts grow into habits, thence into traditional customs related to social welfare, later have a philosophy and become rules of the life policy.
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“Professor Sumner has written a very valuable and timely book, and one involving years of patient research as well as the possession of a ripe and fearless mind. The two most serious defects of ‘Folkways’ are a lack of psychological standpoint and a lack of systematic and complete presentation.” Wm. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 116. O. ’07. 730w.
“The data from anthropology and ethnology seem at times to overweigh the book by their sheer bulk and multiplicity, but for the most part they deepen the impression of the main thesis.” George E. Vincent.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 414. N. ’07. 2000w.
“A distinct gap is filled by this dissertation. From the student’s point of view it is not an easy text-book to read or digest. From the standpoint of those of larger growth it appears congested and scrappy, and suffers the penalty of brevity in drifting occasionally into overstatement and uncritical acceptance of evidence. Throughout the book the author hits hard and does not stay to bandy words with his adversary; but, although the reader may not always agree with him, he will find Professor Sumner suggestive and stimulating.” C. H. Hawes.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 666. N. 21, ’07. 640w.
=Sweeney, Mildred I. McNeal-.= When yesterday was young; poems. $1.50. Cooke.
7–1960.
Poems descriptive of nature or of places, with a few of legendary, historical or personal character.
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“Nearly every one of the poems in the book seems a ‘tour de force.’ A phrase, a line, or, at the most, a stanza speaks: the rest is deliberate verse-making—elaboration.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Sweeney’s verse in both conception and phrase is the product more of fancy than of imagination, and a book of the size of this can scarcely be energized save by the latter.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 260w.
“One will not read far in Mrs. Sweeney’s poems without noting both their delicacy of vision and their reflective mood. Though now and again of blither note, they have, in the main, a thoughtful quality, wistful, but never melancholy.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.
=Sweet, J. M.= Birth and infancy of Jesus Christ. *$1.50. Presbyterian bd.
6–43773.
An exposition of the arguments that tend to prove the historical authenticity of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
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“His reasoning is not always cogent, but his research has been patient, his consideration of the subject on all sides thoro, and he has preserved thruout the convincing spirit of inquiry”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“His critical skill and appreciation are not sufficient to allow him to do full justice to his theme, this being especially noticeable in his treatment of Old Testament passages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 80w.
“If there is a more thorough and scholarly defense of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ than this monograph of Mr. Sweet, we are not acquainted with it. It is not and does not pretend to be impartial; it is a defense of the orthodox doctrine. But it is fair-minded, erudite, thorough.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 400w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.
=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from Thackeray, il. †$2. Duffield.
7–28978.
A companion volume to “Boys and girls from Dickens” and “Boys and girls from George Eliot.” A volume warranted by the emphasis which Thackeray has placed upon his juvenile sketches, They are reprinted without the adult intrigue and plot surrounding them in the novels from which they are taken.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Swete, Henry Barclay.= Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introd., notes and indices. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Preceding the text and occupying about half the book such introductory subjects are discussed as Prophecy in the apostolic church, Jewish and Christian apocalypses, Contemporary scholarship and thought in western Asia, Origin of the apocalypse of St. John, including a discussion of its grammatical, rhetorical and literary style and an interpretation of the text from the religious, symbolical, mystical, historical and biographical point of view.
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“Dr. Swete’s work is marked by all the care, thoroughness, and precision of scholarship in linguistic and grammatical interpretation which distinguished all his work and secure to him his place as a member of the famous ‘Cambridge’ school. But to the present writer he appears, by the complete rejection of the methods applied, e. g., by Boussett, to exclude the only possible means of arriving at an interpretation of the book which is at once consistent and primary; i.e., an interpretation of what was in the mind of the author.” C. Anderson Scott.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 540. Jl. ’07. 1140w.
“We must be content with adding an emphatic commendation of Dr. Swete’s volume to the attention of our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
=Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane.= British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya. *$4.50. Lane.
7–7542.
Essentially historical. “Of the fourteen chapters, the first deals with the milieu, the next with the early history according to native and European sources; then follow two chapters on the dawn of British influence; they are not always pleasant reading, for our treatment of the Sultan of Kedah was anything but creditable. The next two chapters cover the middle fifty years of the last century. This was a period of anarchy, brought to an end, though not at once, by the appointment of British residents.... Not the least attractive portions of the work are of the author’s testimony to the virtues of the Chinese and his condemnation of the ordinary system of building railways in British colonies.... The final chapter gives us the author’s views on the future of the British colony with some more criticism of irrational methods.”—Acad.
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+ + =Acad.= 71: 651. D. 29, ’06. 400w.
“The volume is one which should appeal in an extraordinary degree to American readers, for there is scarcely a page which does not present some problem or recount some incident which throws light upon the peculiar character of the Peninsular Malay who is the first cousin of the Filipino.” Alleyne Ireland.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 154. O. ’07. 970w.
“If ever we should reach the conclusion that instead of trying to fit people to institutions, institutions should be fitted to the nature and capacities of the people as they develop under the influence of industrial opportunity, our administrators may derive valuable suggestions as to sensible procedure from such books as this one by Sir Francis Swettenham.” Henry Jones Ford.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 663. My. ’07. 1170w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 330w.
“May well rank as a masterpiece among the host of similar books written by the servants of the British government.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 480w.
“Will appeal not only to those interested in the geographical and political questions discussed, but also to the comparatively restricted public who delight in Oriental art work unmodified by western influence.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 160w.
“It is [a story] that has never been told before with any historic continuity or in any detail; he tells it with full knowledge, with great literary skill and with infinite sympathy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 351. O. 19, ’06. 2200w.
“Were the applicants for positions in our Philippine civil service obliged to pass an examination to prove their fitness, ‘British Malaya’ would be an invaluable text-book.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 249. Mr. 14, ’07. 1030w.
“Sir Frank Swettenham writes always with force, sometimes with humour, very often with charm, with delicacy, and with finish, in spite of an occasional tendency to split a hapless infinitive. It should be read by every Englishman who loves his country, for from Sir Frank Swettenham’s eloquent pages all who read will carry away many beautiful and striking pictures, many facts of great value, and a number of imperial lessons very well worth learning and remembering.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 1730w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
6–34710.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This admirable little volume brings the cream of Swinburne’s poetry within easy reach of all lovers of poetry, and in a handy-sized volume.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 635. D. ’06. 100w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= William Blake; a critical essay. 3d ed. *$2. Dutton.
7–35152.
Along with the revival of Blake literature appears a reprint of Swinburne’s essay published forty years ago. “Where Mr. Swinburne’s book is invaluable is in his interpretation of poetry, of symbolism as poetry, of pictorial design as poetry.... In this huge book of criticism, in which the main incidents of the life of Blake are told, and a detailed account is given of nearly the whole of his literary and much of his painted and engraved work, there is not a page—not even in those flaming foot-notes which spire from page to page after the dwindling body of the text—which is not essentially poetry rather than prose.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 86. Mr. ’07.
“It is difficult to think of another book, written by a poet on a poet, which is so generous and so illuminating.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 149. Ag. 11. 1920w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07 1100w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Allowing for some extravagance of expression, the criticism of the book is both just and profound; and the commentary, whether it be right or wrong on particular points, provides a clear and probably accurate statement of Blake’s ideas and beliefs. It is all written with the confidence and prolixity of youth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.
“There is never likely to be a work on Blake which will supersede that just, eloquent, generous, and illuminating ‘critical’ essay which Mr. Swinburne wrote forty years ago and has only now reprinted. It is a book marvellous for sanity and insight; it was a defence of Blake at a time when he needed to be defended, and it repeats his praise now, when the praise is no longer startling.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 231. Ag. 25, ’06. 1840w.
* =Swing, Albert Temple.= James Harris Fairchild; or, Sixty-eight years with a Christian college. **$2. Revell.
7–15571.
An intimate sketch of the life of President Fairchild who was associated with Oberlin college in the capacity of student, teacher, president and professor emeritus from 1834 to 1902.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Instead of a real book [this is] a volume that makes its chief appeal to the alumni of Oberlin, by whom it will doubtless be appreciated, in oblivion of the larger public.” Montgomery Schuyler.
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 120w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Essays, speculative and suggestive; new ed. *$2. Scribner.
A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.
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“On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is certainly full of ideas.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w.
“Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman, are in his best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Wine, women, and song; being an essay on the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il. *$1.50. McClure.
Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)
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“Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A. Symonds’s translations and comments.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 837. Ag. 31, ’07. 1070w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities. *$2.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Symons’s note is his own.... Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville, Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople are traversed and exposed for us by a temperament at once subtle and impressionistic.”—No. Am.
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“Mr. Symons is quite at his best. It is witchery of fine sensations that characterizes Rome or Seville or Prague or whatever city Mr. Symons visits.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
“He is the Whistler of critics.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 205. Ap. 7, ’06. 550w.
“The book is of a rare charm.” James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 160w.
“Some of these [cities] he loves; some he hates. In both cases he tells us why and with frank thoroughness.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Fool of the world and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
7–18138.
“The title poem of the volume, a brief Morality play, called ‘The fool of the world,’ employs a style which admirably suits the theme, infusing into the simple colloquy between Man and Death all the dread, the fear, the mystery of mortality as they pervade ‘Everyman’ and other of the old Morality plays. Following this ... Mr. Symons has a group of ‘Meditations,’ poised and passionless as a Buddhistic reverie, fatalistic, ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.’... Contrary to the mood of his prose, the prevailing note of Mr. Symons’ poetry is negative and over his pages futility, and ever futility, is written.”—N. Y. Times.
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“[‘The fool of the world’] shows, for all its slenderness, strong dramatic power. It asks a question; it leads you on, as you fancy, ever nearer to the answer, working up your eagerness in every line; and suddenly at the close, in the very last word, it flashes upon you the piteous truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 640w.
“Although Mr. Symons has not mastered poetic forms, his poetry is full of sensitive beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 380w.
“There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational, and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w.
=Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w.
“It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w.
“He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very thing he would escape.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w.
“His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w.
“An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and life and death.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w.
“He has developed a theory of poetry and the arts; he has found a locality other than London; he has even touched Keltic dreams in Cornwall; in the lyric rather than in the drama lies the value of his new, as his older, tone.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Introduction to the study of Browning. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–18128.
A reissue, revised and enlarged. “Mr. Symons discusses Browning’s ‘general characteristics’ and those of each of his poems. In the appendix will be found a bibliography of the poet and a reprint of discarded prefaces to the first issues of some of his works. There is also an index to poems referred to in the text. Like other books of this type, there are innumerable quotations from the writings of the poet. In addition to all these, the footnotes are full and clear.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“In this second edition ... Mr. Symons has been able to add materially to the interest of the book through the publication of comments upon it by three no less authoritative critics than Walter Pater, George Meredith, to whom the book is dedicated, and Robert Browning himself.” A. G.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Notwithstanding the appearance of numerous studies of Browning, his introduction remains the best commentary upon that poet’s works.” James Huneker.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 75. My. 3, ’07. 390w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 77. My. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Studies in seven arts. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–6390.
Containing the following studies: Rodin, The painting of the nineteenth century, Gustave Moreau, Watts, Whistler, Cathedrals, The decay of craftsmanship in England, Beethoven, The ideas of Richard Wagner, The problem of Richard Strauss, Eleanor Dusé, A new art of the stage, A symbolistic farce [Ubo roi, by A. Jarry], Pantomime and the poetic drama, The world as ballet.
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“In his last book Mr. Symons has adventured in search of new sensations and new moods into unfamiliar fields of art, where he has occasionally lost confidence in himself and followed the advice of every person of authority he chanced to encounter. When he confides in his own faculty of insight he is still an admirable interpreter of the eternal miracles of beauty: when he mistrusts his own powers he becomes merely a conscientious student of the opinions of other men. Criticism distilled from criticism is wanting in life and personality: it is a branch of the dead sciences.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 770w.
“It is agreeable to read this cunning prose, but we must not be forbidden to challenge some of its pontificial assumptions. The charm, however, of these essays lies not in their critical or technical exactitude, but in their incomparably delicate impressionism.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 1250w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 297. Mr. ’07. 400w.
“In at least five cases out of the seven (the exceptions being the articles on architecture and handicraft, the first of which is merely descriptive and the second merely a pointed and forcible repetition of standing truths) he has something good, often something profound to say, not merely on points of detail, but on what he conceives to be the principles of the art in question. And after reading his charming, illuminating, often exquisitely written book, we reach instinctively for an antidote—‘The Republic,’ or ‘What is art?’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1000w.
“Seven essays ... belong to the best of our time. They are indeed discriminating.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Symons preserves order throughout his book and reproduces for the reader much of his own original aesthetic enjoyment.” Percy Vincent Donovan.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20, ’07. 1610w.
“He has personality, charm, erudition.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 78. My. 3, ’07. 600w.
“Each paper is distinguished by a general excellence in the selection of material and by an extreme finish in the manner of its exposition.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 420w.
“Here is subjective impressionism in the finest flower. As a matter of record few Frenchmen, even, can excel Mr. Symons in subtlety or penetration. A poet first and last, his attitude is always imperiously personal.” Christian Brinton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 180w.
“Why, then, when we think thus highly of the book, have we spent nearly our whole space in criticising rather than in praising it? On his own terms he comes to us, and on his own terms right glad are we to welcome him. But, to quote the old saying, though Plato is dear to us, Truth is dearer. This too daintily allusive, too artificially picturesque, too laboriously, extravagantly illustrative method of art criticism ... is dangerous: in the hands of the commoner critic it becomes absurd.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 1. F. 23, ’07. 1930w.
=Symons, Arthur.= William Blake. *$3. Dutton.
7–37535.
“An enthusiastic interpretation and impassioned defense of the poet and painter whose art still puzzles and fascinates.... Mr. Symons begins by narrating every fact of importance in Blake’s life and achievements, giving his own interpretation of Blake’s intentions. Then comes a verbatim reprint of all available documents, containing every personal account of Blake printed during his life, to which are added references to him in the diary and letters of Crabb Robinson.”—Outlook.
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“It will be seen that any new book on Blake must justify its appearance by extraordinary merit, and it cannot be said that Mr. Symons’s work quite stands the test.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 286. S. 26, ’07. 1480w.
“Mr. Symons has written a book of unusual interest. Absorbed and in accord with his subject, he employs a style elevated and somewhat mystical at times, yet well sustained and peculiarly fitted for the narrative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 307. O. 12, ’07. 1610w.
“We did not expect from him the divine energy and insight of Mr. Swinburne; but we did expect scholarship, research, grace and order, and we have them here in a book which we cannot do without.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 1230w.
=Synge, M. B.= Short history of social life in England. **$1.50. Barnes.
7–11534.
“A decidedly entertaining account of the growth of social institutions and modern customs in England. The absurdities of bygone fashion, the changes made by scientific inventions, domestic conveniences and inconveniences, old-time gambling, the abolition of dueling, the improvement of table manners, and a hundred other little land-marks of advancing civilization are discussed in an unconventional, amusing way.”—Outlook.
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“He has thrown together a mass of details, apparently without being able to determine which facts were worth being told, which were not, nor yet which were actually facts and which were only supposed to be such. He seems to have no well-ordered plan for presenting his material. Finally, he devotes too much space to political history, though he gives notice in his introduction that he will avoid doing so.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 194. O. ’07. 550w.
“The author treats the entire subject as one of development, advance, and betterment, and does it very successfully. The work is evidently based on wide reading and research.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 289. My. 1, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Synge’s book is exceptionally helpful in giving an idea of the occupations, the pleasures, the manners and customs of the English people of all ranks from the days of the early Britons to the present.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“He tells his story well. It is not a work of original research. The records are all easily accessible. It is not the first work of its kind. But it is one of the most readable books of the year thus far.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 160. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.
“A series of shifting society pictures not without significance and with a strong interest to all who like to delve into the quaint, queer, and curious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30. ’07. 80w.
“This book is pleasant to read, full of sprightly humour, and as far as we have been able to test it, historically accurate.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 212. F. 9, ’07. 2170w.
=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
6–33579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is brilliantly told, and is a study of ‘temperaments,’ artistic and otherwise, of an unusually readable sort.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 410w.
=Szold, Henrietta=, ed. American Jewish year book 5668, September 9, 1907, to September 25, 1908. $3. Jewish pub.
Two directories are included in this year book: The directory of Jewish national organizations, and The directory of Jewish local organizations.
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=Tabb, John Banister.= Selection from the verses of the Rev. John Tabb, made by Alice Meynell. **$1. Small.
“The deliciously tender songs of childhood, of flowers, of lament, the delicate fancies and symbols ... and the sacred poems, which in their union of individuality and universality remind us often of the best of Herbert, are the work of one who is none the less a poet, because four lines often contain his thought.”—Acad.
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“One of Mr. Tabb’s leading characteristics is his power of suggesting by the lightest of touches, the most delicate of hints, some mighty truth.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“His tiny poems like the psychologist’s pinpricks, are very perfect tests of poetic sensibility.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 846. D, ’07. 280w.
“Mrs. Meynell’s selection, which is not free from misprints nor immaculately edited, should at least prove a valuable introduction to the four little volumes of ‘Poems,’ ‘Lyrics,’ ‘Child verse,’ and ‘Later lyrics.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1940w.
“Is a fairly satisfactory exhibition of the quality of that keenly individual poet.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 360w.
“His pearls here have been beautifully strung, and they show him at his best.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mrs. Meynell has made a good selection from Mr. Tabb’s poems, and we miss nothing we should desire to see reprinted. At his best he has the quaintness and poignancy of Crashaw, but he is not always at his best; and when his conceits master him he is guilty of doubtful taste. Sometimes, as in the sonnet ‘Unmoored,’ he attains a fine dignity of rhythm; but his strength lies usually in simple catches, in which a thought or an emotion is delicately wedded to a metaphor.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Taft, Lorado.= Talks on sculpture. pa. 15c. Caproni.
7–16504.
A pamphlet reprint of papers written by the sculptor-author in response to the movement instigated by Miss Brinkhaus to beautify school rooms with casts of sculpture masterpieces. These brief talks will awaken in both children and grown ups a desire for and an appreciation of good art.
=Taft, William Howard.= Four aspects of civic duty. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
6–46256.
The duties of citizens viewed from the standpoint of a recent graduate of a university, of a judge on the bench of colonial administration and of the national executive constitute the four aspects of civic duty considered by Secretary Taft.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’97. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 420. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 190w.
“As a talker to young men on civic duty Dr. Hadley can hardly have failed to see in him the supreme fitness of a man who has done a great deal of that duty in an especially effectual fashion.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 290w.
“There is no rhetorical attempt at all, but a rhetorical success all the same, in which the lecturers, can quite unmistakably say what they mean and in which they always mean something.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“The manner in which the character of the speaker, who has been so effective an actor in the various public offices to which he has been called, impresses itself upon the reader is not the least of the many valuable features which the lectures contain.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 130w.
* =Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daughters of the little grey house. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33202.
A sequel to “The little grey house.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Doctor’s little girl. $1.50. Page.
7–30163.
Other little girls will enjoy reading of this sunny child of ten whose father is the kindly village doctor. They will delight with her in her games and her playmates, sorrow at her troubles and her illness, and with the others drink her health in the closing toast to “Everybody’s little girl.”
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and the tea room. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26963.
A companion volume to “Six girls and Bob,” in which the cheerful Scollard family make light of their poverty and force their little tea room to yield them pleasure as well as financial profit. Their lighthearted optimism carries them and their friends thru many troubles and brings to them happiness and, in the end, prosperity.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Takekoshi, Yosaburo.= Japanese rule in Formosa; with preface by Baron Shimpei Goto; tr. by George Braithwaite. *$3. Longmans.
7–25501.
A “narrative of all salient facts of historical interest since the date of the annexation of Formosa to Japan.... [It is] typical of the Japanese administrative system, which is the enthronement of bureaucratic principles of collective effort to the rigid exclusion of individualism. The book deserves study by all who wish to acquaint themselves with the methods by which Japan has raised herself to her present high position in the world, and which her statesmen will continue to use in pursuing their further plans of Imperial expansion.”—Lond. Times.
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“Where the author is not concerned to emphasize the success of his countrymen the volume is one of undoubted value, since it contains a great deal of information as to the administrative mechanism of the government, which is not available in other works on the island.” Alleyne Ireland.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 156. O. ’07. 840w.
“An interesting, informing account of present conditions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07.
“His ability to see the contrasts and similarities in the peoples and the economic and geographical conditions make the book not only informing but entertaining.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 622. N. ’07. 690w.
“Throughout ... the book which has been admirably translated by Mr. George Braithwaite, there is not a single touch of imagination; but in its place a succession of useful statistical tables elaborated with the methodical accuracy which delights the Japanese mind, and illustrative of every conceivable subject, connected with the government of the island.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 1410w.
“It is obvious that he is bent on making as favorable a showing as possible for his beloved country, his conclusions must be accepted with some reserve. Faithful and intelligent translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 320w.
“This book ... is neither as lucid in style nor as felicitous in diction as his previous works, but it is none the less readable, containing as it does many bright passages and charming expressions.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1670w.
“Graphic attempt to describe the conditions and possibilities of Japanese rule in Formosa.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20, ’07. 230w.
=Talbot, Arthur Newell.= Tests of concrete and reinforced concrete columns. gratis. Engineering experiment station, Urbana, Ill.
7–19783.
“This pamphlet summarizes tests of (1) the shearing strength of concrete and (2) the bond or adhesion between concrete and straight, plain bars embedded in it; the tests were made in 1905 and 1906.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.
=Talbot, Ellen Bliss.= Fundamental principle of Fichte’s philosophy. *$1. Macmillan.
7–21441.
This monograph “contains a critical interpretation of Fichte’s teaching concerning the Ego, Being, and Existence. Incidentally Dr. Talbot sets forth ... the relation of Fichte to Kant, the nature of ‘intellectual perception’ in both the critical and the absolute philosophy, and adds an important appendix to show that Kant’s ‘I think’ is a purely formal principle.” (Nation.)
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“As under the category of ‘Fichte-studien,’ the book deserves the highest praise, not only for careful scholarship, but also for clearness and articulation of argument. It is a characteristic product of the thoroughness of training which is shown in the ‘Cornell studies.’” W. H. Sheldon.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 471. Ag. 15, ’07. 1190w.
“[The author] expresses herself with simplicity and great clearness; her temper is judicial; and in her interpretation she is faithful to the philosopher’s writings undistorted by her own preconceptions, or by deductions as to what he ‘ought to have thought.’”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 210w.
“The work as a whole is an admirable discussion of the main principles of Fichte’s philosophy, and one could not ask, for one entering upon the study of Fichte, a much better guide. Such monographs as the present one are not mere pieces of philosophical archaeology. They set the contributions of great thinkers in a clearer light, and so furnish points of departure for the systematic investigations of the present.” J. A. Leighton.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 437. Jl. ’07. 1710w.
=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
6–39742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.
“Bishop Talbot writes in a popular literary style, and for the entertainment of the general reader.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 17, ’07. 130w.
“It is a vivacious and veracious transcript of a fascinating stage in the evolution of the West, a life that is fast becoming a memory, and Bishop Talbot has rendered a service in preserving some of its more picturesque features and characters in his story.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1036. My. 2, ’07. 180w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 40. Ja. 5, ’07. 570w.
“We feel that we cannot too warmly recommend ‘My people of the plains’ to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 864. Je. 1, ’07. 1420w.
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
6–31411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Cath. World.= 84: 554. Ja. ’07. 120w.
=Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Friends of Voltaire. *$2.30. Putnam.
W 7–118.
Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has worked her material into “an anecdotal history,” thru the pages of which is easily discernible pre-Revolutionary thought. The ten men whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot, Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and Condorcet.
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“Her book is an agreeable contexture of anecdotes, epigrams and light biographical sketches.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 56. Ja. 19, ’07. 1360w.
“Taste of a sort and talent of a sort are certainly exhibited in its composition: taste to select amusing stories, witty sayings, and lively traits of character; talent to frame out of this material a light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 440w.
“The book, throughout, is entertaining and helpful to a clear understanding of a momentous and often misunderstood epoch in both history and literature.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 58. Ag. 1, ’07. 1180w.
“Apart from petty vices and the constant effort to awaken the momentary interest of uninformed readers, the book has a certain journalistic merit. It can be read rapidly, and many of its judgments strike one as sound, while still more of them are no doubt sincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“S. G. Tallentyre, knows the France of the eighteenth century rather better, one may say, than she knows the art of English composition. But for all that, her book throbs with life, and an exceeding interesting, if often deplorable, phase of life it portrays.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 364. Je. 8, ’07. 1550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“Even in the least successful of the studies ... apart from an occasional and sometimes pardonable lapse into extravagance of statement, there is little to criticise.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.
“Her sallies are saddening, and no vivid picture is given of the brilliant circles through which she leads her readers. But none the less her book is worth reading and forms an adequate sequel to her ‘Life of Voltaire.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 208. F. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“This new work was well worth doing, for the subjects cannot fail to be found interesting, especially by readers of the former book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 803. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
* =Tappan, Eva March.= American hero stories. †$1. Houghton.
6–13065.
Designed for young readers this volume gives “accounts of the most important of American explorers, from Columbus to Lewis and Clark, tales of life in five of the early colonies, north and south; lives of our most famous pioneers, and some stories of war times.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Children will find here no end of things that will interest them in the lives of Magellan, Drake, Stuyvesant, Dolly Madison, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, and many others.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.
5–8088.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by John Maxwell Crowe.
+ + =School R.= 14: 698. N. ’06. 230w.
=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= He knew Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
7–12636.
A brief sketch which Billy Brown, one time druggist at Springfield, Illinois, gives of the Abraham Lincoln whom he knew, the Lincoln who used to sit swapping stories with his cronies in Billy’s little store. It is a vivid picture of the man; pathetic, humorous, but above all human.
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“Although short, and expensive for the number of its pages, it is worth buying because of its excellence and the universality of its appeal.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“It is sure to take its place among the permanent and valued tributes to the memory of its hero.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 135. Jl. ’07. 180w.
“A little masterpiece sure to have a place in future collections of such.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4. ’07. 40w.
“Throughout the recital Miss Tarbell has shown a restraint which is the finest art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 560w.
“As a piece of art this story belongs with the best of recent American writing; as a piece of fiction it is so faithful in its interpretation of the spirit of its subject that it is more veracious than a great deal of history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Once in a while a modern writer with enough journalism to be vivid and vital, and sufficient dignity and scholarship to keep the idea of a book in mind, gives us a picture of contemporary or bygone character which is more than mere writing. It is life itself. Miss Ida Tarbell, it may fairly be said, has done this.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 110w.
=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the International Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
5–40811.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of equal value.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“The teacher who has not access to large library facilities, or time and training for wide personal study will find in Miss Tarbell’s ‘Guide’ a veritable treasure house.” Henry T. Fowler.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 70. Ja. ’07. 810w.
=Tarkington, Booth.= His own people. il. **90c. Doubleday.
7–30869.
An Indiana hero in realizing his dream of a European tour succumbs to the wiles of a bogus countess who shows him a good deal of Europe and then cheats him out of his last dollar at cards.
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“One may criticise it with downright hostility, rail at its staleness, and deplore its triviality. But always it is impossible to ignore the fact that it is the work of a writer who, ever and always, at his worst as at his best, possesses the rare and absolutely indescribable gift of charm.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 279. N. ’07. 390w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 380w.
“In this latest novelette of Mr. Tarkington’s there is a little more intention and a little less brilliancy than we are accustomed to associate with his work.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 380w.
“Is real comedy and is decidedly interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–30926.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Taylor’s touch is everywhere light and pleasing: he has the gift of gentle social satire and the trick of clever dialogue.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
“As fiction the book stands on a par with many of the stories its author has satirized so freely in the past. It is woefully lacking in literary distinction, and even in literary promise.”
− =Ind.= 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 270w.
=Taylor, Edward Robeson.= Selected poems. *$2. Robertson.
7–18557.
This selection includes pieces from the author’s two volumes “Visions and other verse” and “Into the light and other verse,” whose unsold copies were destroyed in San Francisco’s fire, and also some poems written since.
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 180w.
“The whole book shows everywhere the stamp of the thinker and the student. A great poet he is not; a true poet, in his degree, he is.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1310w.
=Taylor, Emerson Gifford.= Upper hand. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–24575.
A story of mystery in which the rich man of a New England village, the pretty girl who in a strange fashion becomes his ward, a pirate, a fanatical labor leader and others are involved in many exciting complications which include labor troubles and narrow escapes from death. There is also a love interest.
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“A story which, despite its fantastic character, sustains our interest to the end.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 320w.
“Told with some vigor in the writing but with little charm or literary grace.”
− + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 20w.
“The construction of the book is somewhat loose and episodic.”
− =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“When Mr. Taylor learns to take more pains with his work he will find that it is much better.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 585. S. 22, ’06. 440w.
=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–32900.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 421. Mr. ’07. 220w.
“As a text, however, Professor Taylor’s work fills a need of the time. Whether we agree with the author’s rather tenuous theories and laborious mathematical demonstrations or not, we feel that he is following the right track, in applying economic theory to practical agriculture in a special treatise. The reader is constantly made aware that Professor Taylor has wrought with rare patience, industry and intelligence.” Royal Meeker.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 157. Mr. ’07. 700w.
=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Moliere: a biography; with an introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
6–34857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Except in the account of the death-scene, which (based on Grimarest) is related with passion, good sense and good feeling, it lacks inspiration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 644. My. 25. 540w.
“One may challenge Mr. Chatfield-Taylor’s presentation of his materials in these and other points, and still assert that his book is the best that we have so far in English for the general reader who wishes to know the life and work of the master of comedy.” A. G. Canfield.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 2130w.
=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783–1837. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
A fair-minded study of the life of Napoleon’s step-daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais. The author says “Hortense has not been permitted to make her defense to the public. Her confessions, perhaps her justifications, remain as she left them, unprinted, and it is upon the data supplied by contemporaries that posterity must form its conclusions.”
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“There was need of a book in English on Queen Hortense. Miss Taylor has fairly supplied it and incidentally has furnished the best complete account of her in any language.” George M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 137. O. ’07. 790w.
“It is a creditable piece of popular biography, founded on a careful study of the best authorities, and making no concessions to readers whose sole appetite is for scandal relieved by domestic sentiment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 6. Jl. 6. 1490w.
“Although Miss Taylor affects the pose of the historian, let not the unwary be taken in; she clearly has done little else than get together enough picturesque materials for her purpose.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 210w.
“The chief events of Hortense’s life are traced at length in these two-volumes by a biographer almost too discreet and conscientious for a task which leads her through such worlds of gossip, back-stair politics, of queer people and gimcrack pretenders.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 434. S. 28, ’07. 1540w.
=Taylor, J. A.= Robert Southwell, S. J., priest and poet. *70c. Herder.
“A truthful and forcible sketch of the most widely known and most interesting of the heroic band that gave their lives for the faith under Elizabeth.”—Cath. World.
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“Notwithstanding its aloofness from sympathy with Southwell’s cause, this short biography does full justice to the holiness of the man, to his remarkable and winning character; and does not slur over the baseness of the creatures who hunted him to death. The simple style of the narrative sets forth, more adequately than would florid periods, the grandeur of the man and his deeds.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 832. Mr. ’07. 500w.
− + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
=Taylor, John W.= Coming of the saints: imaginations and studies in early church history and tradition. *$3. Dutton.
7–29078.
The story of the journeyings of saints from Palestine to the West in the early days of the Christian era. Mr. Taylor writes of the comings of both the Hebrew and the later Greek missionaries, and in his account he has mingled both history and legend.
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“It may not satisfy the technical critics of the writings of the sub-Apostolic age; but all will admit that it is a well-written, interesting and discriminating narrative.” J. Charles Cox.
+ =Acad.= 71: 328. O. 6, ’06. 1200w.
“This is no ordinary book. With much patient learning, and careful, sympathetic study of all the reputed resting-places of the early saints, Mr. Taylor weaves together the frail but fine threads that link the Christianity of tradition with the Christianity of the Bible, and both of these with the histories of Gaul and Britain.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 435. O. 13. 2060w.
“An uncritical use of medieval miracle stories in the attempt to write history.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 60w.
“If, instead of constructing imaginary histories, he had endeavored to account for the rise of these legends, he might have added a chapter to the history of the early English church; as it is, his volume is a collection of fanciful stories, and nothing more.”
− =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 320w.
“These studies ... are marked by ample learning and good judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.
=Taylor, Sedley.= Indebtedness of Handel to works by other composers. *$4. Putnam.
7–27021.
Two centuries of accumulated evidence go to show that Handel was a plagiarist. Mr. Taylor brings together the results of the careful investigation on the part of capable authorities. “The main object of this book appears to be the presentation, by a simplified process, of the materials necessary to enable every intelligent person to compare passages in Handel’s music with the sources from which they have been derived.” (Sat. R.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 430w.
“His reasoning is close and exceedingly clever; but he will hardly get the acquittal for which he seeks in the face of his masterly presentment of the evidence against the master. The author has turned out an excellent piece of work, and one with which no student of Handel can afford to dispense.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 427 D. 21, ’06. 460w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 183. F. 21, ’07. 970w.
Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 960w.
Reviewed by Harold E. Gorst.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 167. F. 9, ’07. 1880w.
=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
6–20689.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.
=Taylor, Walter Herron.= General Lee, his campaigns in Virginia, 1861–1865, with personal reminiscences. *$2. Nusbaum bk.
7–1480.
The author, who served on General Lee’s staff, thruout the war, has written a clear account of the great battles in which Lee’s army took part, and has added an appreciative memoir.
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“The present writer has undertaken his task in a spirit of fairness and without a trace of bitterness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 130w.
=Teasdale, Sara.= Sonnets to Duse, and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Nine sonnets which pay exquisite tribute to Eleonora Duse and two score other poems and sonnets some breathing of love, some singing of little children and some chanting a hymn of joy with an undernote of sadness.
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“The book is a small, delightful thing, which one is not tempted to say much about, but to welcome.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 426. O. 5, ’07. 260w.
=Tegner, Esias.= Frithiof saga; tr. from the German of Ferdinand Schmidt, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–31176.
The Frithiof saga which narrates the stirring adventures of Frithiof, a hero of the Northland and viking of its seas, is “noble, heroic, and free from exaggerated description or overwrought sentiment.... The central motives of the saga are his love for King Bele’s daughter, Ingeborg; the refusal of her brothers to sanction their marriage because the hero is not of royal birth; her unwilling marriage to the old King Ring; Frithiof’s exile and final union with Ingeborg.”
=Teller, Charlotte.= The cage. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–9551.
A novel built up along the lines of socialism, with its setting in the lumber-yard districts of Chicago. A preacher of the gospel whose point of view is “We must teach these working people to respect the laws of the land,” a young Austrian socialist whose opinion is, “We must change the laws so that they can be respected,” an “egotistical philanthropic employer” and a group of women, subordinating their ideas to the men whose opinions they respect, occupy the stage of the drama.
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“Aside from [one] rather irritating feature, which savours of trick-work, the book is a good piece of work, painting in certain aspects of labour troubles with broad, comprehensive brush strokes.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 300w.
“The unaffected style, the ease and strength with which she has put together the varying phases of a difficult situation so as to produce a perfect illusion, indicates that she may win high rank among the writers of the new fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 559. Mr. 7, ’07. 710w.
“It is a readable book rather than a conclusive one; interesting rather than valuable; a ramble, by turns painful and pleasant, rather than an arrival.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 390w.
“Unlike most American novels the book has in its fibre something more—indeed, a good deal more—than its bare story. It is evidently the fruit of a mind and heart that have studied and questioned life in its nakedness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 143. Mr. 9, ’07. 640w.
* =Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
Lady Tennant permits the figures in the pictures of the Tennant collection to come to life, step down from their canvases, and tell her children tales of the life and times which they helped to make. “Thus the real children who have been taught to love them in their frames play with Beppo, Dolores, the Leslie boy, and Charlotte and Harry Spencer, who tell the story of their kidnapping by the gipsies.... Lady Crosbie flits by, looking ‘permanently mischievous;’ and Peg Woffington rustles about the passages, sometimes finding the children a nuisance.” (Ath.)
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“It is a charming and original idea, which Lady Tennant has carried out very gracefully.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 240w.
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Tenney, Rev. Edward P.= Contrasts in social progress. **$2.50. Longmans.
7–14562.
The method used in this comparative study of religion “consists, briefly, in applying the principles of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the great religions of the world, with a view to ascertaining which may justifiably claim pre-eminence on a basis of concrete services rendered to mankind.” (Outlook.) Social betterment is used as the basis for the test of conditions which appear in countries under the sway of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Mohammedanism and Christianity. “In each case his examination comprises distinct sociological departments—as, the condition of women and children, the individual situation, philanthropic and charitable measures, educational facilities.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The author manifestly aims to be fair: he uncovers the errors and evils of Christendom, and praises the virtues and truths of alien civilizations, and everywhere are the evidences of painstaking industry in the collection of facts and of expert judgments.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 300w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Jl. 1, ’07. 410w.
“As developed, Mr. Tenney’s book becomes in some important respects a mine of valuable information relating to present-day conditions in various countries; and although it is open to a certain degree of criticism on the score of imperfect appreciation of the Oriental point of view, there can be no question that he has satisfactorily made out his case. A book which the Christian reader will find unusually hopeful and inspiring.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.
* =Terhune, Albert Payson.= Caleb Conover, railroader, il. 50c. Authors & newspapers assn.
7–11205.
“Vastly more obscure and poor than the Corsican, and in addition illiterate, Caleb Conover has become by the masterful force of his natural endowment a ‘Napoleon of finance.’... And it is with his career as an imperious, despotic and unspeakably corrupt political boss that Mr. Terhune chiefly concerns himself—tho the militant railway as a basis and bulwark of Conover’s empire is kept constantly in sight.”—Ind.
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=Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 160w.
“This book is one of the strongest studies ever made of the American ‘Big boss,’ and from beginning to end is increasingly clever and interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 230w.
* =Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Ballads and songs. $1.50. Putnam.
Containing “Ballad of Bouillabaisse,” the “Mahogany tree,” the “Sorrows of Werther,” “At the church gate,” the “Lyra hibernica,” the “Old friends with new faces.”
* * * * *
“This is one of the ready choice illustrated books of the year.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“In make-up the book lacks distinction, and seems moreover, peculiarly out of harmony with the subject matter.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.
“All illustrated by Mr. H. M. Brock with that friendly, graceful pencil of his. A welcome, simple, neat volume, great riches stored in a little room.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 70w.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Lion’s share. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31229.
The ingredients out of which Miss French compounds her “Lion’s share” are many and varied: high finance with accompanying intrigue, kidnapping and consequent detective work, and love and adventure to suit the most satiated appetite. The hero is a United States army officer who occupies the centre of the stage and is champion-in-general. “When the time comes for him either to uphold the laws and constitution of his country as he has sworn to do, or protect and aid his relatives in a criminal proceeding, he decides on the latter course, easing his conscience by resigning his commission.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Miss French’s book, however, is certainly built on lines calculated to please the multitude. The book is not a particularly valuable one and hardly up to Miss French’s standard. Its characters are not admirable when they are good, and not bad enough to be fascinating when they are bad.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 570w.
“Although quite convincingly sensational, and, apart from its entertainment as fiction, it touches suggestively some of the graver industrial problems of the day.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 100w.
=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.
5–26124.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
=Thomas, Edward.= Heart of England. *$6. Dutton.
7–25143.
“Rambling descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry and philosophy, and an occasional backward glance at the ‘old-fashioned times,’ serve to string some forty-eight colored pictures together.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The fault of the book is that it is written in a style that is much too affected.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 417. O. 27, ’06. 540w.
“Mr. Thomas suffers from an over-excitation of the colour-sense, and he indulges in a great deal of fine writing. The process of reproduction is not kind to Mr. H. L. Richardson’s illustrations, some of which are pretty; but they bear singularly little relation to the text.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 735. D. 8. 510w.
=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 80w.
“Imperceptibly the reader is impressed by the writer who carries him here and there in and about England and shows him new and old things with equal charm.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1396. D. 13, ’06. 110w.
“Such a book as Mr. Thomas’s makes one take root in England.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Thomas possesses in an uncommon degree the primary quality of a good writer, imagination.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 53. Ja. 12, ’07. 710w.
=Thomas, Henry Wilton.= Sword of wealth. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42369.
A story of industrial slavery which is set in Northern Italy. “The capitalist is a Sicilian rogue, the hero is a socialist, and the rioters are Italian peasants.” (Ind.) Such dramatic incidents are included as the insurrection of Milan, the assassination of King Humbert and the radical democratic movement in Italy.
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− =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 220w.
“It takes a more practiced hand than Mr. Thomas seems to possess to combine romance and economics in the same novel.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 380w.
=Thomas, J. M. Lloyd.= Free Catholic church. *80c. Am. Unitar.
Under the essay titles: The catholicity of religion, The fulfilling of Christianity, An undogmatic church, The importance of doctrine, The need of symbolism, and The higher churchmanship, the author advocates a church based on union of spirit which shall meet the demands of our critical age, and he urges ecclesiastical bodies to “abandon the treacherous dogmatic principle on which they are now organized and seek another and firmer foundation.”
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“In his brief essay on the establishment of what he calls ‘A free Catholic church,’ Mr. Lloyd Thomas shows himself if not a fanatic, at any rate a wholly unpracticed visionary.” A. E. M. F.
− =Acad.= 72: 289. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.
=Nation.= 85: 164. Ag. 22, ’07. 190w.
=Thomas, Northcote W.= Kinship organizations and group marriage in Australia. *$2. Putnam.
7–28949.
“This interesting monograph belongs to the Cambridge archaeological and ethnological series. It is an endeavor to summarize what is actually known and understood as to the Australian systems and to point out the obscure points which need further investigation. It will be of assistance to all who are studying the history of the development of the family.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Mr. Thomas’s book is a severely critical and much-needed essay in restraint of the making of hasty theories.” Andrew Lang.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 87. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 70: 168. Jl. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Thomas ... both is, and seems, sound. No one, indeed, is more competent than Mr. Thomas to give the world an accurate digest of the information at present available in regard to the status regulations affecting marriage amongst the Australians.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 257. Mr. 2. 1180w.
“The author seems to be at his best in the discussion of such a vexed question as group marriage; the argument is closely reasoned, and brings out several new points.” A. E. Crawley.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 221. Jl. 4, ’07. 170w.
=Thomas, William I.= Sex and society; studies in the social psychology of sex. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–7162.
The author says in his preface: “While each study is complete in itself, the general thesis running through all of them [eight in number] is the same—that the differences in bodily habit between men and women particularly the greater strength, restlessness, the motor aptitude of man, and the more stationary condition of woman, have had an important influence on social forms and activities, and on the character and mind of the two sexes.”
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“Valuable and stimulating contribution to sociological literature.” Alfred C. Haddon.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 113. Jl. ’07. 2220w.
“A strong, scholarly, well-balanced, and well arranged book.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
=Current Literature.= 42: 445. Ap. ’07. 1770w.
“Professor Thomas moves with an expert discernment, discloses many a short-coming in prevalent doctrine, and builds up a consistent objective picture of woman’s sociological status.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 370w.
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 561. Mr. 7, ’07. 900w.
“The book has genuine interest for the general reader and makes a direct appeal to the student of sociology.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The data upon which the conclusions rest though drawn from a wide area of social observation, are admittedly incomplete; but Professor Thomas is commendably cautious in his inferences, and does not hesitate to point out the weak spots in the chain of evidence. We do not imagine that Professor Thomas holds any brief for the so-called ‘rights’ of woman, but he has certainly put the case in an interesting light.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 320w.
“The book is extremely interesting. It is written with clearness and charm, and in spite of its scientific character, it moves with the speed and life of a narrative. Prof. Thomas is a sincere and intelligent man, and his book is a fair and useful addition to the literature on the subject. Women had better read it with sympathy rather than hysteria; it will do us good.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 89. F. 16, ’07. 1040w.
=Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 870w.
“In scientific circles the essays will be accepted as presenting many novel and weighty conclusions on society as seen from a single, but extremely important, view point.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 655. N. ’07. 750w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 320w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 622. Ag. ’07. 270w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 174. Ag. 10, ’07. 1250w.
=Thomas, William S.= Hunting big game with gun and with kodak; a record of personal experiences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; with 70 il. from original photographs by the author. *$2. Putnam.
7–4834.
In which “Mr. Thomas gives his readers ample variety, hunting the bighorn and grizzly in British Columbia, the caribou and moose in New Brunswick and Quebec, and deer in Virginia and Mexico.”—Nation.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.
“His camera was apparently unsuited to the work. In comparison with the recent achievements of Schillings and Hornaday and others in this field they make a very poor showing.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.
“It is hard to make a flat failure out of an outdoor book, but still harder to make it a distinguished success. ‘Hunting big game with gun and kodak,’ comes some distance from either extreme.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.
“This charming book, excellently printed and illustrated, has the value of convincing and picturesque simplicity. By adhering strictly to an account of personal experiences the author, while limiting the scope of his narrative has shown himself to be a discriminating and appreciative observer of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 300w.
“His book is very readable without being remarkable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20350.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author gives evidence of thorough familiarity with social and industrial conditions in the southern states, and his study is a valuable contribution to the literature descriptive of our industrial development.” J. C.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 57. Ja. ’07. 230w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 80w.
=Thompson, Mrs. Jeanette May.= Water wonders every child should know. **$1.10. Doubleday.
7–35227.
“This is an interesting book, because it deals in a very simple and entertaining way with frost, ice, snow, dew, and running water; and because it is enriched by many reproductions of beautiful photographs of crystals taken by Mr. Bentley.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07. ✠
“This book happily combines adequate knowledge of the subject with a graphic and entertaining style.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6. ’07. 50w.
=Thompson, R. F. Meysey-.= Hunting catechism. $1.25. Longmans.
Colonel Meysey-Thompson has lived with hounds and horses and hunting men the greater portion of his life. So he is on familiar ground in everything pertaining to the etiquette of the hunting field, hunters and hounds, as also pertaining to habits of the hunted,—of stags, foxes, and hares.
* * * * *
“A man who does not know most of it before he dreams of riding ‘cross country’ cannot learn it here, and the work has the aridity of a schoolbook to one who has had its contents knocked into him years ago.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 470w.
“A most amusing little volume. Although it is nominally intended for the use of beginners, many who have had some experience of the hunting-field can learn from it; and if they are above learning, they cannot fail to be entertained by the anecdotes, recollections, and reflections which many seasons’ hunting has enabled the author to sprinkle through the pages.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 480w.
* =Thompson, Ralph Wardlaw.= Griffith John, the story of fifty years in China. *$2. Armstrong.
7–15464.
“While the book sets forth the enthusiasm and optimism of a gifted missionary working under nineteenth-century conditions, its real value lies in the fact that it gives the evolution of mission methods under exterritorialty.”—Ind.
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“The book is one of the best ever written for its frank portrayal of the ups and downs of a great missionary’s aggressive work and his boundless hope for China.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 260w.
=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–34653.
A symposium embracing opinions as to the future life whose contributors include scientists, psychical researchers, philosophers, and spiritualists.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 717. O. ’07. 20w.
“In spite of the fact that in a few instances the thinkers who wrote for the symposium or whose opinions are here cited, have advanced to more positive grounds since the book was compiled, it is a volume of real merit, not the least interesting part being the writings of Mr. Thompson introducing the subject and the different groups of thinkers.”
+ =Arena.= 86: 671. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
W 6–274.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 102. Ja. ’07. 1340w.
=Thomson, W. G.= History of tapestry, from the earliest times until the present day; with 4 plates in color and numerous il. in black and white. *$12. Putnam.
7–25516.
A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the present volume we find many more instances than are generally known where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.
* * * * *
“We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is faultless.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 217. Ag: 24. 1020w.
“It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 36. Jl. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“Full of interest, full of surprises and always spiced with romance, and Mr. Thomson has not spoiled the story in its telling.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1471. Je. 20, ’07. 900w.
“We take leave of the author, then, with admiration of his power as a faithful draughtsman, and with respect for his diligent search among original sources of information.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 63. Jl. 18, ’07. 710w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13. ’07. 190w.
“It is impossible not to grumble especially at the information withheld by Mr. Thomson.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 52. Jl. 13, ’07. 1240w.
=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–6262.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
“The book is printed in the United States, the illustrations are poor, and there is no Index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 470w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Works. Bijou, ed. 5v. $2.50. Crowell.
These five volumes of the selected works of Thoreau are furnished with introductions by Nathan H. Dole, Annie Russell Marble, and Charles C. D. Roberts, while Emerson’s biographical sketch prefaces “Excursions.”
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Writings of Henry David Thoreau. (Walden ed.) 20v. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
A monumental undertaking which becomes an atonement to a mighty soul for lack of appreciation during the most of life. The first six volumes include Thoreau’s miscellaneous writings and the remaining fourteen are devoted to his journal which is published for the first time. The edition furnishes “a record of the life-work of one whose observations of the phenomena of nature were most thorough and untiring and whose descriptions are among the best in literature.”
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“On the whole this ‘Walden edition’ is every way satisfactory in its different forms for different purchasers and prices.” F. B. Sanborn.
+ + − =Dial.= 41: 232. O. 16, ’06. 2880w.
“Have the interest of an autobiography, and will be read for more light upon one of the most piquant and romantic careers among American scholars and reformers. For the full understanding of this part of the copious work, many more notes and explanations are needed than the editors had room to afford even had they the needful knowledge.” F. B. Sanborn.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 107. F. 16, ’07. 2140w. (Review of v. 8–20.)
“If we should quarrel with it for anything it would be for its too great abundance. Much is trivial, yet much also is of extraordinary interest.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 11–20.)
“Mr. Torrey is an accomplished writer as well as a well-known naturalist. His introductions are of a quality rare in such performances. They are free from the spirit of hero-worship or of hero-manufacture; now and then they perhaps approach the other extreme.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 681. O. 20, ’06. (Review of v. 1–10.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 990w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with an introd. by Annie R. Marble. 35c. Crowell.
7–37720.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.
6–4648.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is based on independent study and ... it abundantly proves its point.” A. G.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 396. Ap. ’07. 350w.
=Thorp, Frank Hall.= Outlines of industrial chemistry: a text-book for students. 2d ed. *$3.75. Macmillan.
The second edition, revised and enlarged, and including a chapter on metallurgy. “This work has been prepared for the purpose of comprising in a single volume of moderate dimensions an outline treatment of the more important industrial chemical processes.... It is divided into three parts: Inorganic industries, Organic industries, and Metallurgy.” (Technical Literature.)
* * * * *
“Gives in one volume a comprehensive and clearly written description of all branches of chemical industry.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“The work is well suited to the instruction of students in engineering and will be found of value to engineers in all branches, who are often confronted with problems requiring a knowledge of industrial chemistry for their solution.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 30. Jl. ’07. 370w.
=Thorpe, William Henry.= Anatomy of bridgework. $2.50. Spon.
7–28955.
A book which treats “of the behavior of bridges under traffic so as to show the weak points in their design and their effect upon the cost of maintenance.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book will be of relatively small service to American engineers.” Henry S. Jacoby.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 890w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 280w.
=Throckmorton, Josephine Holt.= Donald MacDonald. $1.25. Murdock McPhee & Co., 221 Pennsylvania av., Washington, D. C.
7–20710.
In this story which begins at West Point and later depicts army scenes during the civil war, the characters of two men are brought into sharp contrast. Red Tracy, the selfish boy who becomes a false lover, a thief, and an officer untrue to his friends and ashamed of his old father, is a fitting foil for MacDonald, the best type of gentleman and soldier.
=Thrum, Thomas G.= Hawaiian folk tales: a collection of native legends; il. from photographs. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–9782.
In this group are twenty-five folk lore tales contributed by recognized authorities including Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson, J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, Dr. C. M. Hyde and others. The volume rescues from oblivion tales of mythology, religious functions, tradition and cosmology, and preserves their native poetic quality.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 250w.
“Of this collection some [of the legends] are obviously sophisticated and treated in a literary manner, others are crude and dry.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Thruston, Mrs. Lucy (Meacham).= Jenifer. †$1.50. Little.
7–16941.
The Carolina mountains form the setting for this story of the development of the character of Jenifer, a poor country lad, who discovers kaolin upon some land which he promptly buys from the needy owner, who does not suspect its value. This makes him rich and he goes to the city to see life and there marries Alice the frivolous clerk of a glove counter. This is but the beginning. How he comes back to his land, awakes to the responsibility of his position and re-orders his life, forms the story.
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“Is a firm, smooth piece of work, without those early marks of the amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 190w.
“The plot itself is not very original, but the literary handling of it is worthy of all praise. Spontaneity and genuine imagination mark the book, and the descriptions of mountain scenery are admirable.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 130w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 514. Ag. 24, ’07. 210w.
“As charming and as open to criticism as the vivacious yet irregular features of a pretty girl.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=Thureau-Dangin, Paul.= Saint Bernardine of Siena; tr. by Baroness G. von Hugel. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–28.
“Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and, finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.
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“Admirable life.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 90w.
“Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of these imperfections, merits special commendation.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 838. S. ’07. 260w.
“By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely recognizable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 750w.
“The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to students and to the devout,”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
“A delightful book. It is characterized by a limpid felicity of style, a quiet power of objective presentment, complete sympathy with its subject, and a serene impartiality which, however—a great gift this—takes none of the fire and life out of the book. Of the Baroness von Hugel’s translation we can say that it is eminently readable and writ in passable English. But it bristles in inaccuracies, and the translator’s fear of being fettered by the original causes her at times to take undue liberties with the text.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Katherine. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11213.
Katherine Crichton marries a big-hearted, broad-minded man whose work principles she does not understand, and therefore nurses unhappiness as a result of fancied neglect. An accident results in a physical state that promises her only two years of life, and she determines to give herself up to happiness and the romance which had been denied her. How her husband spares her the ignominy of dishonor and restores her to her home is handled with keen perception and an understanding of genuine nobility of heart.
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“Men and women do not speak and think as Mr. Thurston writes. Of the evolution of Katherine we see nothing; what we see of the evolution of Mr. Thurston does not inspire us with any confidence as to his future. His characters bear much the same relation to life as do the emerald woods in a penny shooting-gallery.”
− =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Thurston continues to display a familiarity with feminine psychology which is unusual in English fiction. Will no doubt soon shed his Meredithian manner. At present he has a bad attack.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 300w.
“‘Katherine’ differs from his earlier books in portraying Protestant England rather than Catholic Ireland; but it conveys the same impression of being the outcome of direct, keen observation of flesh-and-blood men and women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 283. My. ’07. 510w.
“This story, weighted with much futile philosophizing, is not exactly edifying, and its dulness is relieved by few flashes of brilliancy.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Thurston takes it out of the class to which it apparently belonged, and cloaks it with the dignity of a grave psychological problem.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 116. Jl. ’07. 350w.
“It is characteristic of the horror-minded present that a writer like Mr. Thurston should dramatize the diagnosis of cancer and call it a romance.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 210w.
“The most striking and most interesting thing about Mr. Thurston’s book is the manner in which it is written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6, ’07. 930w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–29093.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 420w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–14253.
A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though logical dénouement.
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“The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”
− =Acad.= 72: 416. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.
“She has taken her public too cheaply.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 1. 190w.
“The story is not only short, but jejune and projected on a low level; though it may be granted, freely, that the presentation is powerful, the few characters well marked, and the plot simple and logically worked out.”
− + =Cath. World.= 85: 550. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“The wild improbability of the plot and the essentially childish nature of the whole story make it barren as a subject for criticism.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.
“Mrs. Thurston possesses imagination and a laudable desire to skip the dull parts; explanations, for instance.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 280w.
“Is rather a disappointment to those who have read ‘The gambler’ and ‘The masquerader.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“A piece of manufacture and not particularly interesting at that.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 220w.
“It might have been written by an incompetent understudy so far as interest is concerned, and no amount of oxygen in the reader’s blood can make it seem to him other than hopelessly wooden.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“The contents are so vapid and drearily profitless that it seems unfair to seek a type for them in any semblance to humanity.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 529. Ap. 27, ’07. 410w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed.= Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
4–6902.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These volumes, as is usual in the series, are well edited. The reviewer suspects—only suspects because he has not been able to compare the reprint with the original edition—that there are a few errors in proof-reading; but these would not be worth mentioning were it not for the high standard already set for the workmanship of the series.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 430. Ja. ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 18 and 19.)
“Continue to reach the standard of value and interest found in the earlier issues.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 878. O. 11, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 18–24.)
“Is the most valuable of the five or six volumes published in the series this year.” Webster Cook.
+ + =School R.= 15: 712. D. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 25.)
=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.
6–35963.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.
“One cannot but regret that the author has not seen fit to describe the highest type of university as it exists today in this country, and to present a view of higher education in its latest and finest aspects with the particularity and appreciation which he devotes to its beginnings in the early colonial days.” J. B. P.
+ − =Educ. R.= 33: 87. Ja. ’07. 700w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“An eminently readable and human account of the history of higher education with especial attention to the story of the older colleges.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.= François Rabelais. (French men of letters, v. 3.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29040.
A biographical and critical study of Rabelais written for the “French men of letters” series. The author’s familiarity with his subject and his comprehensive study of sources, have resulted in an authoritative narrative which assumes less knowledge on the part of readers than as tho it had been written for Frenchmen.
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“Let it be said at once, and with all frankness, that it is the very work to be consulted by anyone who wants to be well instructed in the known facts concerning Rabelais. It is when we cease to consider facts and dates and such matters that Mr. Tilley becomes tiresome and quite ineffectual.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 133. N. 16, ’07. 1870w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 390w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 260w.
=Tillson, Benjamin Richards.= Complete automobile instructor. $1.50. Wiley.
7–1971.
A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.
* * * * *
“The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset, and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his machine as necessity demands it.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Nation.= 84: 152. F. 14, ’07. 30w.
“Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Tinney, W. H.= Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5. Van Nostrand.
The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts, compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.
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Reviewed by Walter R. Crane.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Tinney’s production fails in its purpose, for it is out of date and superficial.”
− =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 130w.
=Titsworth, Alfred Alexander.= Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–35444.
“This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, for beginners, the various drawing instruments in common use are described, and a series of exercises is given to illustrate the use of each of the instruments. The rest of this section is devoted to examples in simple projection, to intersections, of solids, and development of surfaces. Part 2, for more advanced students, comprises problems in descriptive geometry, isometric projection, oblique projection, shadows, and perspective work, and concludes with a series of problems.”—Nature.
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“Its mechanical make-up is unusually neat.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 120w.
* =Tittle, Walter.= First Nantucket tea party, il. **$2. Doubleday.
7–38632.
“This is a letter written in 1754 by Ruth Starbuck Wentworth to her mother. Besides relating the amusing story of the first teabrewing that ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance of Ruth Wentworth and Captain Morris, which began and ended while the letter was being written in those delightful daily portions that our grandmothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did their other daily stints.”—Dial.
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“A curious little document.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The illuminated illustrations and decorations by Walter Tittle, reproducing the style of some medieval manuscript, form an admirably appropriate setting to the pretty little colonial romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Toch, Maximilian.= Chemistry and technology of mixed paints. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–2131.
“Intended for the student in chemistry who desires to familiarize himself with paint, or the inquirer who desires a better knowledge of the subject, or for the paint manufacturer and paint chemist as a work of reference.” “The whole effect of the book will be towards improvement of manufacture and in the mutual relations between makers and users.... The microphotographs are excellent, and inserted on calendered paper, the print is large and clear, paper good, binding attractive.” (Technical Literature.)
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“Authoritative. Contains much useful information. Only book on the subject.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07.
“Taken as a whole, the book will be found instructive and useful. Naturally, it does not give away trade secrets, but on the other hand, it contains much that is very little known by the general public, and it will well repay careful study.” Robert Job.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 552. My. 16, ’07. 1570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79 F. 9. ’07. 60w.
“Altogether, a credit and an ornament to American technological literature.” Joseph W. Richards.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 520w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Massachusetts. **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–23474.
In these sketches of old times and places during the early days of the commonwealth are included descriptions of Cambridge in midsummer, a day in Lexington, autumn days in Quincy, Marblehead scenes, Martha’s Vineyard, and tales of Nantucket’s first tea-party, wrecks and wrecking, historic Deerfield, Pittsfield, the Hoosac tunnel, Lenox, and other historic places, many of which are pictured by photographs.
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=Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 290w.
“An entertaining volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 60w.
=Todd, Margaret Georgina (Graham Travers, pseud.).= Growth. †$1.50. Holt.
7–17048.
The growth, not only of Dugald Dalgleish, the hero, the son of an obscure nonconformist minister, who from a student at the University of Edinburgh develops into a popular preacher, but also the growth, mental and spiritual, of his friend Thatcher, who becomes a priest of Rome, is chronicled in the course of this tale of inward struggle. Judith Lemaistre, the big doctor, the woman Dugald marries, and many other characters worth knowing, take their leisurely way thru the story, which with its religious background and earnest Scotch atmosphere is very different from the usual novel of today.
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“We honestly admire the author’s thoroughness and all-round fairness of view. The tone is dignified and sincere, the story gravely interesting; it is also, though we say it with regret, many pages too long.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 160w.
“There is little plot in the story, but it is written with care, and bears the signs of good workmanship on every page.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 120w.
“Out of all this diverse material we get a picture of human life that grows fairly absorbing in its interest as we proceed, a dramatic structure in which the claims of both spirit and sense are allowed, a residual philosophy that is shaped to fine intellectual issues, yet which keeps all the time in close contact with the world of practical affairs.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 320w.
“The characters all stand out very vividly, each one strongly individualized. And they are interesting people to meet in the pages of a story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 590w.
“The picture of student life is particularly appealing in respect of certain characteristic natural qualities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“The story is too serious to attract the regular novel reader, and perhaps too much occupied with past questions to absorb the lovers of problems, but it is a well-constructed, interesting bit of work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
“It is a relief, after the slight and sketchy specimens of fiction which are published as complete novels, to come across a piece of conscientious and detailed work, even if that work is not completely successful.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 300w.
=Toffteen, Olaf A.= Ancient chronology. Pt. 1. Published for the Oriental society of the Western Theological seminary. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36124.
A volume which covers the ancient chronology of Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, and Egypt down to 1050 B. C. The first chapter treats biblical chronology solely on the basis of the dates furnished by the Bible, taking them at their face value, and without any inquiry, either into the age of the documents, or into their historicity; the second chapter contains a full treatment of the ancient history of these countries; and the third is devoted to Egyptian chronology.
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“An interesting work designed to defend traditional views. It presents a wealth of material, many new interpretations of fact, and original conclusions. The work is marred by many inexcusable errors in spelling.”
+ + − =Bib. World.= 30: 479. D. ’07. 30w.
“The treatment of monumental sources is careful, and the general conclusions do not contradict the more sane and conservative scholars, to whose investigations he has added much that is of value.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 250w.
=Tolstoy, Leo.= Tolstoy on Shakespeare: a critical essay on Shakespeare; tr. by V. Tchertkoff; followed by Shakespeare’s attitude to the working classes, by Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G. Bernard Shaw. *75c. Funk.
7–14638.
Full of disagreement with the “universal adulation,” in fact, iconoclastic thruout, Tolstoy argues, among other things, that Shakespeare is lacking in the very point of excellence that by general consensus of the world’s opinion earned for him the right to be called an imperial genius, namely, delineation of character.
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“The orthodox must consign this book to perdition, and anathematize its author as a literary iconoclast steeped in guilt inexpressible.”
− =Cath. World.= 84: 836. Mr. ’97. 630w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 46. Ja. ’07. 2460w.
“No doubt such critical onslaughts upon our accepted standards of literary achievement, as those contained in this little volume, serve a useful purpose, if only by arousing us from a conventional and lazy acquiescence in fundamental matters of literary taste, which receive from us all too little consideration.”
− =Ind.= 62: 441. F. 21, ’07. 970w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 1160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 80w.
* =Tolstoy, Leo.= Twenty-three tales from Tolstoy; selected and tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude. *75c. Funk.
These twenty-three stories are arranged under seven heads: Tales for children, published about 1872 when Tolstoy was interested in the education of peasant children; Popular stories, including What men live by; A fairy tale, which contains Tolstoy’s indictment of militarism and commercialism; Stories written to pictures, intended to help the sale of cheap reproductions of good drawings; Folk-tales retold; Adaptations from the French; and Stories given to aid the persecuted Jews.
=Tomalin, H. F.= Three vagabonds in Friesland with a yacht and camera. *$3. Dutton.
“A book which is frankly described in its introduction as a ‘book of photographs, with letterpress obligato,’ records a vagabond trip through Friesland, a little frequented part of North Holland.”—Outlook.
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“It will take rank amongst the best illustrated volumes of travel that have recently appeared.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 251. S. ’07. 430w.
“Charming account of a June outing in northern Holland.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The photographs are remarkable both from an artistic and a technical point of view, and illustrate the life and people of one of the most picturesque districts in Europe. The ‘obligato,’ too, is rather well played.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 60w.
“They are cheery fellows and capital company, and Mr. Marshall’s numerous photographs of the scenes, and especially of the natives, are deserving of praise.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.
=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Marching against the Iroquois. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–37600.
A tale based upon General Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois in the Mohawk valley in the year 1779.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.
“It is a combination of history and fiction that the young people will find both instructive and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Tompkins, Herbert W.= In Constable’s country; with many reproductions from his paintings. *$4. Dutton.
More a transcript of impressions, penned, in the first instance, by the wayside than an essay on Constable and his art.
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“A gossipy chronicle of unimportant wanderings, readable because the author has written of what interested himself.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 13, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Tompkins gives us no formal essay on Constable, but instead, the more instructive, informal illumination contained in a transcript of impressions written, in the first instance, by the wayside.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 390w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Tonge, James.= Principles and practice of coal mining. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A compact, comprehensive, and not too technical treatise covering the entire field of coal production.... The illustrations, both photographic and diagrammatic, are comprehensive, and serve well to illuminate the descriptive matter. At the end of each chapter is a series of questions bearing upon it, as on aid to fixing the subject matter thereof in the memory of the student.”—Engin. N.
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“It is adapted to use as a lighter text-book for students intending to specialize in mining engineering, and is so written as to be equally well adapted to the needs of the practical miner who may wish to qualify for higher and more responsible positions in the coal-mining industry.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 297. S. 12, ’07. 330w.
“These varied subjects are dealt with in a thoroughly practical manner, and although necessarily brief, the descriptions are well up to date.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 364. F. 14, ’07. 530w.
=Toothaker, Charles Robinson.= Commercial raw materials. $1.25. Ginn.
A comprehensive and conveniently arranged handbook describing briefly the important materials which enter into the commerce of the world—such as cotton, sugar, woods, rubber, silk, iron and coal.
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“The book is distinctly a book of facts, with no attempt to bring out the causal side of production or trade. Hence the volume can only be a supplementary reference text, a present help in trouble; and it is not intended as a class book.” Richard Elwood Dodge.
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 534. D. ’07. 170w.
=Topliff, Samuel.= Topliff’s travels: letters from abroad in the years 1828 and 1829; ed. with a memoir and notes by Ethel Stanwood Bolton. $2. Boston Athenaeum.
7–6782.
The letters of a “typical hard-working American” written during his travels in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain and Italy during 1828–29, including a visit to Lafayette at his chateau Lagrange. “His travels are of interest because few Americans in his day indulged in such pleasures.” (Ath.)
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 724. Ap. ’07. 70w.
“He was an accurate observer, writing in the formal and stately style of the age, though he often condescended to waggishness on such subjects as leapyear and matrimony, and had clearly a liberal spice of the Old Adam in his composition.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 165. F. 9. 440w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 226. Mr. 7, ’07. 580w.
=Torrence, Frederic Ridgely.= Abelard and Heloise. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–8253.
In this poetic drama “there are four acts, the first two being separated from the others by a score of years. The first half of the work gives us the Paris school and Fulbert’s villa, the second half of Paraclete and Chalons. The dramatic handling of the story is spirited and rapid.”—Dial.
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“To his close study of the sources we owe the thousand vivid historical details that are woven into the vigorous give and take of the dialogue with fine, dramatic and poetic effect. In the matter of structure, however, there is a question whether Mr. Torrence’s play has not lost its effectiveness through his endeavor to give the whole story as it is in the books.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 847. D. ’07. 620w.
“It is not without infelicities, verbal and rhythmical, but its movement is, on the whole, stately and impressive.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 17, ’07. 640w.
“Nor can it be said that the poet’s style has changed for the better. There is a general air of strain; his metaphors frequently pall before he has done with them, and his metre has a way of being so free as to be crabbed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =No. Am.= 185: 86. My. 3, ’07. 1440w.
“Is disappointing when one reflects upon what one demands of so high a theme. The ejaculatory method of speech in the first twenty pages is nothing less than exasperating, and one wonders if no one will ever stand still long enough to utter a finished sentence. The character of Abelard is so weak and vacillating as to make the love of Heloise seem unworthy.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 120w.
“The difficulties presented by this famous love story are so great as to be almost insuperable. Mr. Torrence has met them with courage and with tact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.
“The character of Heloise seems illogical and there are certain points in the conception of the plot which might be challenged, as poetry it is full of exquisite passages and has the choice, uncommon beauty, the distinction, of Mr. Torrence’s art.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 230w.
=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–36033.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Endowed with sound taste, and a fine literary touch, he pronounces, in a desultory review of the man’s life or work, much sound common-sense judgment upon his methods or his productions.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 638. Mr. ’07. 480w.
“Some little matters to quarrel over might easily be singled out.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 470w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 637. F. ’07. 670w.
=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Tosi, like most of the men of his day, is witty and garrulous even when he is most earnest about his subject, and in the very racy contemporary translation he makes capital reading.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.
=Tout, Thomas Frederick.= Advanced history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria. *$1.50. Longmans.
W 7–13.
A book which “serves a double purpose. It belongs to a series designed for school use.... But it is also a most convenient volume of easy reference.... The maps are abundant and simple, and there are a number of genealogical and other tables, including a list of ministers and governments since 1689.”—Nation.
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“He weighs and sifts his evidence with the aim of writing history, not a pleasant mixture of facts and fancies; and he never lets his enthusiasm get the better of his judgment. As a history for students who are within a year or so of leaving school we do not hesitate to say that Professor Tout’s is the best obtainable at the present day.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The maps are the best for their purpose which the writer has ever encountered in a text-book. The scholarship displayed in the book must be heartily commended. The information is drawn from the best primary and secondary sources and is used with great discrimination. In only two points has the present reviewer found anything to criticize.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 193. O. ’07. 950w.
“The bibliographies given are altogether too short and unsatisfactory for an advanced history. In this respect the book leaves much to be desired. As a chronicle of events the work is well done.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 130w.
“It is abundantly provided with maps and genealogical tables, and has all the well-known merits of his scholastic work.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 70w.
“The narrative is pointed and succinct, but broad enough to include a clear account of political and constitutional changes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 90w.
“The complicated politics of Charles II.’s reign are set forth with special clearness.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 302. S. 1, ’06. 280w.
* =Tower, Walter S.= History of the American whale fishery. (Publications of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Series of political economy and public law, no. 20.) $1.50. Winston.
7–19443.
This work which appeals to both historians and economists gives a “comprehensive review of the origin and development of the whaling industry from colonial times to the present. The volume has its particular value in the fact that it is the only complete history of its kind both as regards time and treatment. As the author pointed out, the latest work on the subject in question appeared in 1876 but the discussion was superficial, especially of the whole period after 1815.” (Yale R.)
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“An exceedingly valuable work. Every library will desire to own this book, and economists and historians will wish to have the volume upon the shelves of their private collections.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 603. N. ’07. 170w.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 226. Ag. ’07. 140w.
=Tower, William Lawrence.= Investigation of evolution in chrysomelid beetles of the genus leptinotarsa. (Carnegie institution of Washington publications, no. 48. Station for experimental evolution. Paper no. 4.) $3.25. Carnegie inst.
7–9833.
“This genus embraces forty-three species, of which the best known is the common potato beetle. Starting with the distribution of the group, Professor Tower passes to individual variation in color pattern, size, and shape: he discusses the structure, ontogeny, and phylogeny of coloration in these and other insects; experimental modification of the colors and the significance of the various hues and patterns, both in the larvae and adults; the normal habits and instincts of these beetles; details of interesting selection experiments in breeding and the production of new races; and a final chapter on the relation of all the results obtained to the problem of the origin of species.”—Nation.
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“Not only does it extend our knowledge of evolution along the old lines of research, but now for the first time do we have clear cases of the modification of the germ plasm by external conditions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 398. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w.
“The thoroughness of the work and clearness of exposition inspire confidence in the results and conclusions. It is a valuable contribution to the literature of evolution.”
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 250w.
“It is of the first importance to every biologist.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 71. Jl. 19, ’07. 2170w.
=Townsend, Charles Wendell.= Along the Labrador coast. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20631.
“The journey which this book records was undertaken chiefly for the study of birds, but the author became greatly interested in the scenery, the geology, the flowers and trees, the fish and fishermen, the Eskimos and Eskimo dogs, the Hudson bay company’s posts, the Moravians, and Dr. Grenfell’s mission.” (R. of Rs.) The author writes of Labrador “merely as an interested visitor and amateur ornithologist.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“The simple narrative makes enjoyable reading and admirably supplements the more technical ‘Birds of Labrador,’ which Dr. Townsend has published.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 270w.
“A straightforward and pleasant narrative of a summer vacation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 510w.
“Both text and pictures form a distinct contribution to our knowledge of Labrador life and scenery.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 120w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Beaver Creek farm. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–29726.
A city lad’s experiences while rusticating at his grandfather’s farm, where he meets a country boy who teaches him the wholesome wonders of country life.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 371. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Our constitution: why and how it was made, who made it, and what it is. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38915.
“A popular review of our great instrument of government.... After a brief review of the previous experiences of the colonies with self-government, the various movements toward union are described, and the familiar struggles and compromises which finally ended in our present constitution. A discussion of the amendments concludes the text proper. A last chapter and an appendix include the chief documents, English and colonial, which form the background of the history of our present constitution.”—Acad.
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“In the light of its object it should be said that on the whole the work is entertainingly written and will furnish an easy introduction to the study of the constitution to a class of readers who would be repelled by a work of greater scholastic pretensions.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 225. Ja. ’07. 300w.
“As a whole ... the book should be of service, as it is clear, compact and expressed in a fairly interesting manner.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 230w.
=Townsend, John Wilson.= Kentuckians in history and literature. $2. Neale.
7–29721.
A love for Kentucky’s history, traditions and literature has prompted the researches which have resulted in this volume of side-lights. The galaxy includes poets, novelists, lawyers, warriors and statesmen.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 508. S. 28, ’07. 110w.
* =Tozier, Josephine.= Spring fortnight in France. **$2. Dodd.
7–31243.
The journeys which Angela Victoria, thirty-six and alone, makes thru central France are strung upon a thread of romance and are only the more captivating for that reason. “In her own charming fashion, she visits Le Mans, Poitiers, Carcassonne, Arles, Tarascon, and half a dozen other cities of southern France, and many excellent illustrations from photographs show characteristic views of them.” (Dial.)
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“A sprightly combination of romantic fiction and traveller’s impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“Josephine Tozier, besides knowing her France, is gifted with vivacity, and imparts all the information we want in most engaging style.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Tozier, Josephine=, comp. Travelers’ handbook; new and rev. ed. **$1. Funk.
7–17665.
This manual for transatlantic tourists “is not concerned with descriptions of sights and tours, but is full of practical advice as to the customs of the various countries, their coinage, tramways, railroad guides, fees, food, etc. Much of the information is intended for American women.” (Ind.)
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+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 30w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 30w.
* =Tracy, John Clayton.= Plane surveying: a text-book and pocket manual. $3. Wiley.
7–33942.
A complete manual for students. “In plan it is a text-book and pocket manual combined, while in scope its aim is not to cover the whole field of surveying, but to treat with thoroughness fundamental principles and methods. As a text-book, it deals with the theory of surveying, while as a manual it gives many practical suggestions and directions which are usually left for oral instruction.” (Tech. Lit.)
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“Prof. Tracy has written a book of great value to the surveyor, both in his student days and in the first years of his practice.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 569. D. 12, ’07. 730w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 458. N. ’07. 760w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Captain of the Kansas. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–6181.
Mr. Tracy uses his well-tested ingredients again,—the sea, shipwreck, fights with cannibals, hairbreadth escapes, etc. “He has valiantly succeeded in making the primary colours once more effective. Even in Chile the black angel whose disciple puts sticks of dynamite among the coals of a seagoing steamer is not ill-served. The voyage of that steamer is a triumph of pyrotechnical narrative, assisted by a map.... Peril from cannibals obliges a physician to reserve a bullet for the heroine, but Ossa on Pelion could not have flattened the good cherub who looked after her and her lover.” (Ath.)
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“If heartiness can freshen a stale phrase, Mr. Tracy’s romance may be described as a thrilling novel of adventure.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 120w.
“Everybody in the book is a live human being, and they are all carried along by the skillful story teller who has a very neat and effective style and a happy knack of characterization.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16. ’07. 770w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“As a sea-story the book is capital, as a novel it is nothing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.
* =Train, Arthur Cheney.= Mortmain. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33597.
Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies; but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’” (Nation.)
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“Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick, lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class, more competently worked out, less childish.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 160w.
“[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most indifferent reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
=Train, Arthur Cheney.= Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the administration of criminal justice. **$2. Scribner.
6–43223.
“The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual observation and experience, the author having been associated for some years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal courts of New York city.”
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 235. Ja. ’07. 590w.
“He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 484. Ja. ’07. 840w.
“Although thoroughly serious in purpose, he lightens his chapters with amusing anecdote and thus gives us an entertaining as well as a strikingly suggestive book.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Let no one think that because Mr. Train has written a book lightly readable and brimming with humor that it has no significance.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30. ’07. 360w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
“An instructive and interesting account of the actual administration of criminal law in the largest of American cities.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 202. Je. 28, ’07. 1010w.
“A set of most interesting sidelights on the actual administration of criminal justice in our large cities. The voice is the voice of the expert, though the hand is rather that of the journalist.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.
“The book as a whole belongs to the same class as Mr. Francis Wellman’s ‘Art of cross-examination.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Train’s greatest service, perhaps, lies in his showing partly intentionally but partly unconsciously, the extent to which we tolerate mediaeval methods ill-adapted to modern conditions, and the extent to which, in practice at least, we hold the mediaeval theory that vengeance is the object of punishment.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 160w.
“We hope that Mr. Train’s book will meet the reception in this country which it deserves.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 128. Jl. 27, ’07. 1980w.
=Trask, Kate Nichols.= In my lady’s garden; pages from the diary of Sir John Elwynne. **$1. Lane.
7–6766.
A love idyl whose background is a tangle of fragrance. The capricious Mary is wooed by the staid Sir John and is simply waiting for him to conquer her caprice. When the conquest is made the feminine question comes, “O, Jack, why did you let us waste so much time?”
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“The fragrance and beauty of the English garden in May are in the book. There is wisdom in it, too.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. My. 9, ’07. 130w.
=Trask, Kate Nichols.= Night and morning. **$1.25. Lane.
A side-light on the divorce problem. It upholds the “higher inner law of love itself which in itself is the highest freedom,” and which is “a Beatitude rather than a law.” It “is the story of the woman taken in adultery retold in picturesquely colored blank verse, with the imaginative addition of the personality of her lover, a ‘subtle Greek’ Leonidas.” (Nation.)
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“Its development and constructive power indicate a mind of very uncommon order. There is a continuous upbuilding of interest until the last words are spoken. The poem is didactic, but its artistic form is preserved, in spite of the extreme difficulty of the situation which might easily have resulted in the art being, at all events, obscured by theological discussion.” D. Frangcon-Davies.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 556. My. ’07. 2730w.
“The story is told with picturesque beauty and adorned with happy imagery. Avowedly a didactic composition, the poem is nevertheless deeply moving, and its spiritual message is high and clear.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The mood of the poem is admirable throughout, and the workmanship respectable.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 150w.
“Here and there an occasional false quantity is found, but the poem, as a whole, is of surpassing beauty and Miltonic dignity. This quality of its verse and the high quality of its philosophy should destine ‘Night and morning’ to become immortal.” U. W.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6, ’06. 800w.
=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28–July 14, 1888). **$3. Small.
6–6242.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is as revealing in character as it is unconventional in its literary make-up.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 325. Mr. ’07. 1860w.
=Treffry, Elford Eveleigh=, comp. Stokes’ encyclopedia of familiar quotations. **$2.25. Stokes.
6–46744.
“A work that can be easily consulted for phrases and sentiments, as the quotations are arranged under subjects. A general index gives the usual reference for every important word in every quotation, making it available for fugitive line or passage. The author index, with its long list of mere page references to authors, is of little value. An effort has been made to include quotations by modern authors, Kipling, Hay, Roosevelt, Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
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“The work will supplement but not replace Hoyt’s ‘Cyclopaedia of practical quotations’ and Bartlett’s ‘Familiar quotations.’”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 170w.
=Trent, William P., and Henneman, John B.=, comps. Best American tales. 35c. Crowell.
7–25511.
Tales from Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fitz-James O’Brien, and Edward Everett Hale have been selected for this addition to the “Handy volume classics.”
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Garibaldi’s defence of the Roman republic. *$2, Longmans.
7–21750.
“This volume has to do with Mazzini’s short-lived Roman republic in 1849.... The volume is divided into three parts, the first ... tells the story of Garibaldi’s childhood at Nice, of his adventurous life in South America, and his romantic marriage ... of the condition of the Roman states from 1815 to 1846, and of the reform movements and democratic protests. This prepares the way for part second, which describes the defense of Rome, and part third, which treats of Garibaldi’s retreat and escape.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is at once illuminated by enthusiasm and clarified by faithful scholarship. It is a worthy English monument to one of the noblest periods in the life of a noble nation.” H. S.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 455. My. 11, ’07. 1260w.
“He deserves the warmest thanks for his picture of a period which suits excellently his vivid style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 780w.
“Mr. Trevelyan does not display much knowledge of Italy as she is to-day.” W. Miller.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 816. O. ’07. 390w.
“A book of literary distinction and genuine utility.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 420w.
“It is to be hoped that a serious historical work, at once so authoritative, so well written, and so romantic, will do much to dispel the popular illusion that history must needs be ‘dull.’”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2300w.
“It is when he enters into communion with the soul of his hero that Mr. Trevelyan is at his best, and that is to say that he excells at a point where even the greatest historians have failed.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 569. Je. 20, ’07. 830w.
“The author’s attitude is that of sympathetic admiration, but he does not permit enthusiasm to blind him to the mistakes and errors of his hero.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 308. My. 11, ’07. 450w.
“We wish that Mr. Trevelyan would write another volume like this, of exceptional merit, recounting Garibaldi’s later triumphs.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“An interesting and scholarly—a rare juxtaposition of adjectives—account of this strenuous patriot’s heroic defence of the short-lived Roman republic.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Trevelyan has walked over every inch of the ground; he has described the country and the military problem in a clear and picturesque narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 619. Ap. 20, ’07. 2350w.
=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= In the fire of the heart. **$1. McClure.
7–4378.
The author “has collected a vast quantity of statistics and quotable facts upon social conditions in America and woven them together in the web of his own enthusiasm for humanity.” (Outlook.) The subjects are as follows: With the people: a revelation; The conditions that hold among us; As time deals with nations; As to government; A great people’s movement; Public utilities for the public good; Labor and its uniting power; Agencies whereby we shall secure the people’s greatest good; The great nation; and The life of the higher beauty and power.
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“With strong moral undertone, the book presents rather strikingly a number of the vital facts of our modern industrial system and the problems resulting from it.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 169. Jl. ’07. 230w.
“This work is a very important addition to the rapidly growing literature of social progress that is emanating from our younger men of clear mental vision, of heart and of conscience.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 328. Mr. ’07. 1310w.
“The simple reassertion of opinions is not proof of their soundness, and the reader can easily discover that the arguments on one side are here urged without much consideration of those on the other side. With the ethical ideals of the author it would be difficult to take issue.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
− + =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 130w.
“A deep and fervent sympathy with the toilers characterizes the book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“Abounds in suggestive ideas bearing upon present-day life.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= This mystical life of ours; a book of suggestive thoughts for each week through the year. **$1. Crowell.
7–29412.
An even fifty-two helpful thoughts selected from the works of Dr. Trine. They exhort the one striving for success to come into harmony with the higher laws and forces, to come into league and to work in conjunction with them, for only then is the wayfarer in a position to test and to be benefited by the “ever present Help.”
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+ =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=Trobridge, George.= Emanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and influence. 25c. Warne.
A reliable life of Swedenborg which “is not only a mine of original information, but provides the means of correcting many current misconceptions concerning this remarkable man.”
=Trow, Cora Welles.= Parliamentarian. 75c. Wessels.
6–16228.
A manual of parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous speaking and informal debate.
=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2574.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Merely a superfluous piece of book making, badly done. Its style is journalese of a poor type”
− =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Trumbull, William.= Evolution and religion: a parent’s talk with his children concerning the moral side of evolution. **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–17356.
In these brief religious talks on evolution the author touches upon all the great facts of life, in a simple, wholesome way that will prepare the child mind for larger and more scientific works upon prolonged infancy, race survival, government, human beliefs, animal worship, selection, and the hundred other topics here suggested.
=Tucker, T. G.= Life in ancient Athens: the social and public life of a classical Athenian from day to day. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–4807.
Athens during the hey-day of its classical period is portrayed, the time when Athenian life stood for vigorous vitality and unblemished character. It is mainly of the things that have been too well preserved in antiquities for time to efface that Mr. Tucker writes; actual events, actual buildings; knowledge of manners, customs, ideals; of Attic virtues, vices, weaknesses, humors, drolleries; and knowledge of what law and society allowed.
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“If we must criticise, we would cast a doubt upon the statement that the Athenians were a mixed race. We can find no evidence of an Achaean strain in their ancestry. Nor do we hold that the Greek tongue was a Homeric importation. And to speak of the Propylæa as a ‘triumphal arch’ is surely misleading to the novice in these matters. Apart from these points, our only quarrel with Professor Tucker is the complete absence of all references.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 560w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 40w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.
“On the whole, the volume achieves its modest aim, which at once disarms criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable comparison with some of the other members of the same series.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 210w.
“Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which leaves a pleasant taste?”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1414. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.
“It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style, dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1420w.
“Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the subject here treated as does this book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w.
“A most instructive and illuminating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.
=Tuker, M. A. R.= Cambridge; painted by William Matthison. *$6. Macmillan.
A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Miss Tuker has put a quart of solid information into her pint pot, but her text is as a whole much above the standard hitherto reached in these ‘colour’ books.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 400w.
“If Mr. Tuker chose to write a reference book instead of evoking a spirit, perhaps there is nothing to say except that he has performed his task well.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 450w.
“Contains nearly a hundred colored illustrations, as to the excellence of which tastes will doubtless differ. The text, however, may be commended as an intelligent and careful exposition of the mysteries of an English university, sound, discriminating, and readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The pity is that this middle portion has not been expanded to shut out both the beginning and end of the book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
“Topics that have been handled not once or twice only before become fresh under the author’s vigorous treatment. And a new topic, which has hitherto been but casually referred to, receives the full attention which it requires. The pictures themselves are very attractive, finely finished, and always pleasant to look at. One might say that the imaginative element is wanting. We see the places to the very best advantage, but there is no hint of anything more. There is nothing Turneresque about them.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’07. 340w.
=Tunison, Joseph Salathiel.= Dramatic traditions of the dark ages. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18809.
Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned, cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in etymology.” John Matthews Manly.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 124. O. ’07. 1200w.
“The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire, but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of being widely misinformed.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 1100w.
“Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
=Turgenieff, Ivan Sergieevitch.= Novels and stories of Ivan Turgenieff; tr. from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 14v. English ed. in 16v. ea. $1.25. Scribner.
A complete translation of Turgénieff’s works, “The present version by Miss Hapgood is more extended [than Mrs. Garnett’s] as it includes all the well-known works, with the addition of a few writings of minor importance which had not been before translated.” (Ath.) Mr. Henry James has furnished the set with an introduction which is “a sympathetic study of the great author as a man.” (Spec.)
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“On the whole, the translation is distinctly good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 70. Ja. 20. 1000w. (Review of v. 1–16)
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 60w. (Review of “Smoke.”)
“In any proper sense of the word, Turgénieff is one of the most real of writers. We feel, though we cannot test the feeling as we could in the case of a story of English life, that the characters are truly drawn, that their creator knows a great deal more about them than they know about themselves, and that they are at once individuals and types.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 285. Ag. 24, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
Reviewed by S. Strunsky.
=Nation.= 85: 488. N. 28, ’07. 2690w. (Review of v. 1–14.)
“A great service to the younger generation of readers.” Florence Finch Kelley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 339. My. 25, ’07. 1400w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 9–14.)
“Miss Hapgood knows Turgénieff as thoroughly as she knows the language in which he has written.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“The translator, an accomplished Russian scholar, appears to have done her work as well as possible”
+ =Spec.= 96: 222. F. 10, ’06. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
=Turner, George Frederic.= Frost and friendship. †$1.50. Little.
At the court of his friend, King Karl of Grimland, a rich young Englishman, a draper’s son encounters an amazing series of adventures and in the end, of course, wins a wife. Winter sports, tobogganing, and curling furnish amusement and also play their part in the drama in which frost and friendship melt beneath the warmth of love.
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“Comes dangerously near the superfluous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 651. N. 24. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“There are exciting incidents, but improbabilities end by becoming absurdities.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 779. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
6–28227.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author records his experiences with no word of complaint for the hardships he was called upon to endure, and his book cannot fail to be an inspiration to the younger members of the ministry of his church, to whom he gives useful advice upon a variety of topics.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 247. Ap. 17, ’07. 720w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
6–16716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The style is clear and entertaining, and, though the numerous byways through which the author leads us, destroy the logical arrangement and proportion of the book, still she tells us much that is welcome concerning Mexico which it would have been necessary to omit had she confined herself more strictly to her subject.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 423. Mr. ’07. 500w.
=Twelvetrees, W. Noble.= Concrete-steel buildings; being a companion volume to the treatise on Concrete-steel. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“In this book, detailed accounts are given of various buildings in reinforced concrete which have been built in Europe and America, the original data for which have for the most part appeared in the technical press. The descriptions are very complete, entering into all the details of design and construction, and are very well illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs.”—Engin N.
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“The book presents a very satisfactory compilation. Great care has been taken to acknowledge all indebtedness to British publications; to French, German and American authors small consideration is shown.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58. 182. Ag. 15, ’07. 340w.
“An excellent index adds much to the value of this book for reference purposes, which will prove a welcome addition to the library of every architect and civil engineer.” T. H. B.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 330w.
=Tybout, Ella Middleton.= The smuggler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31227.
Three American girls seek refuge from hayfever on a Canadian island and instead of passing an uneventful summer they find themselves involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever smugglers who pose as their friends and use them as a blind to pass their ill-gotten goods over the border. The story is told in a sprightly fashion and there is a pretty love tale and two not so pretty but more dramatic. All in all, it is an interesting novel with a pleasing mixture of love, mystery, adventure, tragedy and humor.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Tylee, Edward Sydney.= Trumpet and flag, and other poems of war and peace. *$1.25. Putnam.
These poems are largely upon present day topics and include among others “After Vereeniging,” studies of “Bismarck” and “Rhodes,” an elegy on Queen Victoria, “The drummer,” The salute, Balliol college chapel, Somersetshire dialect poems, and Sculling at midnight.
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“The verse is smooth and pleasing, although its themes are often grim.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Tylee’s more ambitious pieces have a certain careful timeliness, a skilful obviousness that gives them rather the attraction of an eloquent leading article than of poetry.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Tylee’s chief fault is that he is a little inclined to monotony both in rhythm and imagery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 370w.
* =Tyler, John Mason.= Growth and education. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–22411.
The author evidently agrees with Spencer that “man’s first duty is to become a good animal.” “While the book deals mainly with bodily growth and development, the writer is led naturally by his subject into the field of moral and intellectual culture. He recognizes the importance of character-forming agencies in all periods, but justly emphasizes the high school as the time of final determination.” (Dial.)
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“Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer, and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 400w.
“To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical correctives.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 420w.
* =Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.
“Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.
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=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
* =Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.
7–15463.
In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.
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“Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the Protestant church.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 250w.
=Outlook.= 87: 564. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.
An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.” (Spec.)
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“The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let religion altogether go by the board.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 395. O. 5. 1320w.
“His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 600w.
U
=Underwood, Rev. John Levi.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.
6–37621.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 332. F. 7, ’07. 340w.
=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 130w.
=Underwood, Loring.= Garden and its accessories. **$2. Little.
6–45023.
A book full of suggestion to people who make their gardens out-door living rooms. Points of comfort and beauty are adapted to the individuality of the maker and the character of the corner to be developed and adorned. Heavy plate paper and some charming illustrations add attractiveness to the instruction of the text.
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+ + =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 270w.
=Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 240w.
“So far as it goes, it is practical and carries many hints of first-rate importance, but it aims rather to open the subject intelligently than to publish directions.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 54. Ap. ’07. 420w.
“To one who is interested in gardens this work will be found to contain many suggestions of value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 60w.
“Is full of suggestion for rendering the garden more homelike, more livable, and more picturesque by the appropriate addition of accessories.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.
6–38906.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
“The book, being full of errors ... is untrustworthy.”
− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 711. Je. 9. 110w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28. ’07. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Ussher, Sir Thomas, and Glover, John R.= Napoleon’s last voyages; being the diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (on board the Undaunted), and John R. Glover, secretary to Rear-admiral Cockburn (on board the Northumberland); new ed., with introd. and notes by J. Holland Rose. *$3. Scribner.
7–15907.
“The personality of Napoleon is as fascinating to the present generation as it has been to any since his death. And no part of his life is more fascinating than the story of his adversity. The two books before us, of very unequal value, illustrate this period of his career. The first contains the journal of his voyage to Elba, and of his slow progress to his prison-island, the other gives the history of his reign at Elba.”—Sat. R.
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“It is annotated, illustrated, indexed and confessed—if the word may serve us—in a manner which disarms criticism.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 631. D. 22, ’06. 1040w.
“The notes are not abundant but are pithy and to the point. By what seems an excess of conscientious editorship Mr. Rose has translated back into what he surmises to have been Napoleon’s actual words the language attributed to him by the diarists.” J. W. T.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 691. Ap. ’07. 240w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 257. Ap. 16, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Rose’s introduction is of no particular importance, but several of the illustrations are new and interesting.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 50w.
“These documents are historically valuable, because they were written without partisan bias, or the desire to prove anything.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 580w.
“Dr. Rose will not enhance his reputation by his editing of this volume. His notes consist mainly of pen-knife digs at the hero of the narrative, and in the emphatic denial of everything asserted by Napoleon in the slightest degree favourable to himself.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.
=Uzanne, Louis Octave.= Ingres. (Newnes’ art lib., no. 23.) *$1.25. Warne.
W 7–57.
A brief sketch of Ingre’s life and works is followed by reproductions of sixty-five of the artist’s paintings.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.
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=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–24581.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is delightfully written, and the people and places stand clearly before us.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 83. Mr. ’07. 960w.
“The book must be called successful, if only for the very striking background which Mr. Vachell gives to a drama otherwise lacking in intrinsic interest.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 836. My. 26. ’06. 290w.
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Her son: a chronicle of love. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–31481.
The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of action.” (Bookm.)
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“This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author treat them.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w.
“For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this wantonly sentimental manner.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w.
“The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w.
“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only the properties of his art.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w.
“No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind. It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy way of speech.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w.
“Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm discussion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w.
“A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in England.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of purpose.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
“We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an unearthly idiot.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w.
=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–25742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof. Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w.
* =Vance, Rev. James Isaac.= Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.
7–13923.
An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a citizen of the eternal world.
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“A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w.
“Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Brass bowl. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–12274.
A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the resemblance of the two men.
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“A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read. Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting glimpses into American life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.
“Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w.
“A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
=Vanderlip, Frank Arthur.= Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–17640.
A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions. The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of business judgment.
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Reviewed by J. C.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w.
“We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced in more permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in finance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w.
“Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone.= How to find Happyland: a book of children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–16944.
A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.
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“Charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w.
“A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.
6–34847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.
7–20955.
This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears uniform with the “What is worth while series.”
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Days off, and other digressions. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–33932.
Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off” are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably elusive.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w.
“It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w.
“One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w.
“Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Good old way. **30c. Crowell.
7–20954.
An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality, avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference, hypocrisy and indecision.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Music lover. **$1. Moffat.
7–35629.
“Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.
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=Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A beautiful prose poem.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Story of the other wise man. $5. Harper.
A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Particularly well printed and illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–8871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Van Dyke, John C.= Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–9576.
The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place; Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies, forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters; Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art; Landscape and painting.
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“To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture itself.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. S.
+ =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy, had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who enjoy a great reputation as critics.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w.
“Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w.
“Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover of pictures on the right track.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B.= Rejoice always: or, Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.
7–514.
A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.
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“Very optimistic little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly dissipate.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Van Norden, Charles.= Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29008.
Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before Ferdinand awakens her.
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“The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Van Norman, Louis Edwin.= Poland, the knight among nations; with an introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.
7–32871.
“Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr. Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and political and social problems are well worth considering; but his account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.
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“If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores Bacon.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w.
“A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w.
“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w.
=Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M.=, eds. Our Moslem sisters: a cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it. **$1.25. Revell.
7–16363.
“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times, is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame, and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.
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“The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa, India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.
=Van Vorst, Bessie.= Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36049.
Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women “occupying quite different places in the historical development of love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)
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“Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions without injuring society.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.
“There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’ result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
5–8736.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–20363.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Vasari, Giorgio.= Stories of the Italian artists; collected and arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.
W 6–323.
A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in sepia and 8 colored plates.
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+ =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=Vaughan, Charles Edwyn.= Romantic revolt. (Periods of European literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.
7–32815.
A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries, Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.
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=Acad.= 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w.
“The book is exceptionally readable.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.
“It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book which may be read within a comparatively short time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w.
=Vaughan, Herbert M.= Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28488.
“A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism. “Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.
+ + =Am. Cath. Q.= 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w.
“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate references.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w.
“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of their value and usefulness.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written it well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w.
“Interesting and carefully prepared book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w.
=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= The Naples Riviera. il. $2. Stokes.
W 7–197.
“Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera, including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.) “The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)
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“‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr. Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in some is a sad lack of perspective.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
5–37146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes, the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Velvin, Ellen.= Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.
6–40578.
“Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred topics.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.
“The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals which have been bred in captivity.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is enlivened by many capital photographs.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
* =Velvin, Ellen.= Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.
7–31196.
Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on exhibition.” (Nation.)
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“Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of wild animals.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Vernon, Ambrose White.= Religious value of the Old Testament in the light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.
7–10032.
A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.
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“Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w.
“The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read by every minister and Bible student.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature, and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w.
=Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
“Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
“The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Vianney, Joseph.= Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.
“In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.
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“A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the narrative is not free from exaggeration.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w.
“The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely suspect that the version is not an original.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
=Victoria, queen of Great Britain.= Letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.
7–36986.
While there is to be found political history in plenty in these letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business, which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)
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“The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates, though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have extricated them.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w.
“The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr. Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w.
“If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give little enjoyment.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w.
“There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the future historian of the reign.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w.
“It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w.
“It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w.
“It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w.
“Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w.
“Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w.
“Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts and excerpts from letters.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w.
+ + =Spec.= 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Game at love and other plays. †$1.25. Brentano’s.
6–28417.
“A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title, ‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.
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“The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its accomplishment.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w.
“They may be dismissed at once as naught.”
− =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w.
“What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w.
“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle, as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ − =No. Am.= 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat decadent outlook upon life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= House of the vampire. †$1.25. Moffat.
7–28969.
“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates, reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ... Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also embodiments.”
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“Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w.
“The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of large words.”
− =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w.
=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–17378.
“In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)
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“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional part of defiant Titan.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w.
“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w.
“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Ind.= 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w.
“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w.
“With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse there seems little promise in it.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w.
Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.
“He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own. He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w.
“It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w.
“He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his form.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w.
* =Villani, Giovanni.= Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani; tr. by Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.
“Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”
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“Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w.
“Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused struggle of Florentine politics.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w.
=Villari, Luigi.= Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.
7–7543.
“A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.
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“By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w.
“Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author makes few mistakes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w.
“We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards the situation in Russia.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w.
“The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w.
“It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w.
“Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day, however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w.
“He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w.
=Vincent, Charles John=, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib., v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.
6–37861.
The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly sung in the original performances, Settings composed since Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent settings.
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“Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average seeker in any other form.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 214. N. ’06.
“The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on the songs.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w.
=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Nation.= 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Vincent, James Edmund.= Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.
W 7–45.
Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr. Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and “the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)
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“His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes off second best.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w.
“A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w.
“Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days gone by.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w.
“The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce with the southern and eastern sides.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w.
“The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent is never dull.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w.
“The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task, literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy ease of style.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with critical introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50. Scribner.
“As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.
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+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w.
=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Note-books; arranged and rendered into English, with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.
7–15913.
An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record and results of his studies in the theory of art together with fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative character, and much personal and biographical matter.
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“His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be so.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w.
“We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to the volume.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w.
“The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w.
* =Voorhees, Irving Wilson.= Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1. Broadway pub.
7–30873.
“After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education, morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator, full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“A sympathetic interpretation.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the flaws in his theories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.
7–19453.
“After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.
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“Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as well as to the scientific student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w.
“It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w.
“The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be read with satisfaction and profit by all.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w.
“The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly comprehensible by the general reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
“This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w.
“The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of evolution and the lover of plants.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w.
“The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant plants around them.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed. by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.
“Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w.
“All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D. D.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w.
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=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Building the nation: stories of how our fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c. Wilde.
7–26964.
The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught lesson in American patriotism.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.
7–26965.
The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes and their manner of living.
=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.
=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
6–32851.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest in musical drama.”
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
+ =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.
“Is a rather languid performance.”
− =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.
=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31209.
A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested possession of two rival tongs.
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“For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish marked satisfaction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Walford, Lucy Bethia.= Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.
7–31230.
The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas! somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)
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“A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.
“Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot summer’s day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
“It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its mischief nor in England to its circulation.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.
=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
6–30490.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic, and considerable narrative charm.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Walker, Dawson.= Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.
“A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third gospel.”—Sat R.
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“Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly improbable, all are worthy of attention.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.
“The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R. Shoemaker.
− =Bib. World.= 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.
“All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A thoughtful little book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.
=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.
6–39448.
A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how they are made.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 253. D. ’06.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no end of the sort of employment that all children like.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.
=Walker, Rev. William Lowe.= Christian theism and a spiritual monism: God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3. Scribner.
7–12986.
“The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the plain man.’”—Outlook.
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“Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly handled than by this able writer.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.
“A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C. Kierstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.
“Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions, and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.
“However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper treatment to make it convincing.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.
=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–34268.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.
“There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To say that the book is the best biography written in English is not enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert Darling Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.
“A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.
“With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his failings, and he has succeeded well.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John Calvin’ is a model.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is luminous.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.
“His book is admirable in every way.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.
7–17002.
This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.
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“It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the irresistible charm of real exploration.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly independent of literary charm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.
“Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.
“None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too seriously.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.
“It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always above its environment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.
“The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.
=Wallace, Dillon.= Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.
7–29093.
These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador country.
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“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness. Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.
“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of that frozen country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is a record.” (Ath.)
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“It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Wallace, Helen.= Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–20711.
A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story which is full of action and feeling.
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“On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.
− =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.
“The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.
“Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic imagination and good taste in the management of these various faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
6–38539.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.
“The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence, including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults, can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.
“Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some of its vital facts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.
“While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not inconsiderable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.
+ + + =No. Am.= 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.
Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.
=Wallace, W. G.= Locomotive breakdown questions answered and illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.
7–21741.
Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine. “All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)
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“This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition, serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade Hibbard.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il. after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
6–42908.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.
“Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her insight into human nature is quick and deep.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.
“The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full of conviction and enthusiasm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.
=Walling, Robert A. J.= Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. **$1.75. Lane.
A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”
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“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé of uncritical stuff.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.
“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.
“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable and animated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
“Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure, but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.
=Wallington, Nellie Urner.= Historic churches of America; with an introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.
7–31235.
Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely illustrated.
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“Brief but entertaining sketches.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious movements which took their starting point from the days of the colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable edifices thruout the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this kind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
7–29124.
Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden, Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,” concludes the volume.
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“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly presentment of fact.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.
“The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general history.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.
“In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows every inch of it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.
“We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed for the enriching of historical studies in general.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their manifest frankness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.
“Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and breadth of view.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.
“The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical faculty.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in science. *$1. Dolphin press.
6–38910.
In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre, Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.
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“The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and religion are in conflict.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Walsh, James Joseph.= Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham university press.
7–7512.
The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that religion.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three doctors there will be two atheists.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.” W. G. MacCallum.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.
=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
6–37868.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a useful, arraignment of the war system.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
7–35229.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 145. My. ’07.
“The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to the mind of the classical scholar.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.
“As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.
“Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not commented on.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.
* =Waltham, T. Ernest=, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco. $1.50. Macmillan.
The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.” (Spec.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
=Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.= Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.
A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.
=Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.= The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.
In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)
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“This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.
“Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence, contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has seldom been more sadly misapplied.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–32116.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.
“A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at all to sensational methods.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.
“The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.
7–33590.
A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man, is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own reward.
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“Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
6–23549.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
“Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.
“While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr. Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to prove interesting and suggestive.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.
“This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
+ + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.
=Wardle, Jens.= Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.
7–21364.
“Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr. Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its work.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to expect.”
− =Acad.= 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.
“There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Waring, Henry F.= Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–19773.
Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”
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“The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.
“It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
=Waring, Luther Hess.= Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.
7–29710.
A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land, and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus Christ.
=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–9259.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.
=Warner, Horace Everett.= Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1. Lippincott.
7–31376.
Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and thunder of man made things.
=Warren, Ina Russelle=, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.
7–36928.
An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of the little child over its toys.”
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“A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
=Warren, Thomas Herbert.= Magdalen college, Oxford. (College monographs.) *75c. Dutton.
A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor, from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.
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“It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of Magdalen.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.
Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.
“Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.
=Warren, Waldo Pondray.= Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.
7–33622.
A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by prominent business men the country over. The general captions under which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points, Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.
=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–14264.
Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love, and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential woman.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.
“A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important problems of domestic and social life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.
“It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life and character.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=Washington, Booker T.= Frederick Douglass. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
7–8512.
A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship.
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“It will interest both the student of history, and the student of life—the ordinary reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.
“The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright, jr.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.
“The book deserves a better index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.
“The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero, but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a biographer.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.
“A tale at once moving and picturesque.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.
“It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.
“The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.
=Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.= Negro in the South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907. **$1. Jacobs.
7–21310.
An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the South; and Religion in the South.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.
“Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings. anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.
“They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.
=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
6–25624.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.
=Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).= Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.
7–18102.
“Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.
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“It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory, for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are done rather deftly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.
=Waterman, Nixon.= Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25. Forbes.
6–46363.
Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The keynote of the book is sounded in the following:
Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man; Be active and earnest and plucky; Then your work will come out just about as you plan And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”
=Waters, N. McGee.= Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29737.
A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to be added to the simple-life literature of the library.
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“The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.
The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling, had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.
=Watson, Gilbert.= Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.
“While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home.... Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland. Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him, but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen again.”—N. Y. Times.
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“We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise the effect of the whole.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.
“A chatty, descriptive narrative.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.
“The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a placeless world of fancy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
=Watson, Helen H.= Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with the sea.
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“This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has made an interesting choice of characters.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.
“There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy example of a simple thing done well.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.
“It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.
“The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and without much literary art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.
“The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–31656.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows upon his work.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.
“The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w.
“As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never twists it violently for the sake of effect.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
“It is a delicious book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w.
“Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light enough for a successful soufflé.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–2061.
A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and considerably less fatigue.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w.
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w.
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w.
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of the gallery gods.”
− =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w.
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and women are solid wax.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
“Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left her a mere figurehead.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w.
“A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence, though of no substance.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w.
“Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w.
“A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”
− =Outlook.= 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud).= Graham of Claverhouse; il. by Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
7–14589.
“A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.
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“There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
5–41620.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal, poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=Watson, W. Petrie.= Future of Japan; with a survey of present conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not so much one which records achievements or glances at historical perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese development will not materially influence the civilization of the west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon Western lines.” (Ath.)
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“Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w.
“We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more of his information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w.
“If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w.
“Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real Japanese thought or origins.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w.
“No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of the various aspects of Japanese life.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w.
“Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history, but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w.
“Extremely valuable book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book, which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to undertake.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w.
=Watson, William.= Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.
“A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.
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“The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions as to points of minor importance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w.
“Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w.
“Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher work.” S. S.
+ =Nature.= 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w.
“Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w.
* =Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–26961.
The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract. Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been successful enough to endure.
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“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly ingenious and interesting withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam=, ed. Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900—the year of the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ... [there are] comments upon the way the different international troops behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
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“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w.
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the volume.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w.
“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w.
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of horrors.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout, although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his effect.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w.
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full of spirit and picturesqueness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs through all the pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
“He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled in our experience.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w.
“The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers, but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the feeling that they wish to read no more.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w.
“The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in cynicism, and invariably clever.”
+ − =Spec.= 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–12875.
A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the subject-matter of the political chapters.
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“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w.
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w.
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and thought.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w.
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely too seriously.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w.
“An interesting contribution to the discussion.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w.
=Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.
“His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G: Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w.
“Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the same time as accurate and informing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w.
“The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for good or evil—been set in motion.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w.
=Weatherford, W. D.= Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.
7–23628.
“Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted Browning’s interpretation.”
=Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice.= English local government, from the revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county. *$4. Longmans.
6–40962.
The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals methods of great accuracy in the use of material.
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“This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w.
“Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w.
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+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w.
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