The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of
morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic problems which characterize the present.
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“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it. These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the general utility of the work both as to form and content. The references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics, politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.
“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.
“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society, amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=Dewey, Thomas Emmet.= Poetry in song, and some other studies in literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M. Harger, Abilene, Kan.
7–41998.
“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.
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“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest and best.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Diamant, Sidney.= Curves for calculating beams, channels and reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers, draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.
8–21493.
A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)
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“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such computations to make.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.
“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and, since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite economical.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo. il. *$1.25. Jacobs.
7–42350.
“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Light but interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of word-painting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.
Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the Platonic type, which is founded on status, or hereditary caste.... Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals, if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)
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“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets that it was founded on slavery.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= True story of my life: an autobiography. **$3.50. Lane.
Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)
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“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in Mme. Diehl’s stories.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.
“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a ‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us about the stormy period of her marriage.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.
=Dillon, John M.= Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.
8–20148.
An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings, sacred and profane, of historical interest.
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“There is no justification for its being offered to the general public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations familiar.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
“A document of considerable general interest, with informing descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer will want to know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dinger, Henry C.= Handbook for the care and operation of naval machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–8476.
A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks, feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant, gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)
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“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals and worthiness for the profession of teaching.
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“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Charm of the English village. *$3. Scribner.
8–20520.
A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns, mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.
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“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is disjointed and scrappy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.
“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr. Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.
=Diver, Maud.= Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such wider issues as frontier warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy and power.” (Ath.)
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“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people; and her style shows refinement and distinction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.
“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria rather than realism.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Dixon, E.=, ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250. Putnam.
Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous illustrations by John D. Batten.
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“A capital selection of fairy tales.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Dobson, (Henry) Austin.= De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30143.
A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books, interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh facts about Fielding.
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“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.
“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the standard.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most agreeable prose writers of our time.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Dock, Christopher.= Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S. W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.
8–17821.
“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule of force, long before the change had been made in the school world.”—Nation.
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“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+ =Dial.= 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.
“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.
=Dodd, Anna Bowman.= On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3428.
A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.
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“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
− =Nation.= 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.
“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.
“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have been left to the imagination of the reader.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Dodd, William Edward.= Jefferson Davis. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–820.
A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate his career to the main current of American history.”
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“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not adequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own destruction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= Napoleon: a history of the art of war. (Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.
4–13231.
=v. 3.= Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.
=v. 4.= Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.
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“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature; certainly there is nothing else in English possessing the same scope and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the student may search every other language in vain for a general military history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“A scholarly work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity. In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.
+ =Dial.= 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The author lacks the balanced judgment, wide information, and sense of preciseness in language, without which the attempt at framing historical generalities becomes a snare.”
− =Nation.= 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general merits of the book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 836. Ap. 11, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa. $2.50. Dole.
7–42340.
The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of short poems complete the volume.
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“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for more than an entertaining experiment.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.
“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Teacher of Dante, and other studies in Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.
8–11089.
Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in “The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque, Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.
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“Seven delightful chapters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 130w.
“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little value.”
− =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 270w.
“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the characteristic forms of literary expression.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 170w.
“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Dorland, W. A. Newman.= Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers. **$1. Century.
8–26841.
In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of 400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies between forty and sixty.
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“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements, of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.
=Dorner, Herman B.= Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.
8–11765.
A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of success.
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“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little volume will be a real help.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 352: Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“The instructions are succinct and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Doubleday, Roman.= Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.
8–6663.
A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible for.
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“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author that has appeared in recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not depend on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding there was no murder at all.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.
=Doughty, Charles Montagu.= Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of “Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett. *$4.50. Scribner.
8–21785.
An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago. The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the original volume.
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“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr. Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr. Doughty’s book belongs.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.
“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his insight.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.
“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of desert life ever written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.
“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Douglas, Hugh A.= Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 8–12.
Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks, each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.” (Bookm.)
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“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to Venice should be without it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.
“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.
“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Dow, Earle Wilbur.= Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.
7–29562.
Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the different peoples of Europe.
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“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠
“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best historical map making.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 270. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.
“Excellent work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.
+ − =School R.= 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.
=Dowd, Jerome.= Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–40054.
=v. 1.= The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).
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“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in social studies.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“It is in high degree valuable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.
“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic life of these primitive races.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted scholar.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz Boas.
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.
“An important work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
7–38206.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 49. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28056.
“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost special.
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“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his quite seriously conceived tales.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.
“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders, ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of his genre, he should not attempt them.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough thrills to last him for some time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.
8–16226.
The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never” fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠
“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of the author’s own literary history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.
“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s ‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this kind.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and what he does not like.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.
“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound. A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by pedantry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than greatness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 350w.
=Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Drake, Allison Emery.= Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.
8–448.
A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.
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“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’ will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear, disappointed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.
“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every scientific student of comparative philology.”
− =Bib. World.= 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.
“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”
− =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”
− =Nature.= 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Draper, George Otis.= More: a study of financial conditions now prevalent. **$1. Little.
8–8153.
A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts, tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence, public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible perfection.
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“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in making either a readable or very helpful book.”
− + =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.
“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.
“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or whoever buys or sells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
=Draper, William Franklin.= Recollections of a varied career. **$3. Little.
8–26882.
Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my private life covers invention in important lines, and a business career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is owned by its managers.”
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=Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 700w.
“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.
=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.
8–16563.
“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.
* =Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.
8–30363.
A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The true Christian science.
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“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable, and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Drewitt, Frederick G. D.= Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished documents. $3.50. Longmans.
8–3992.
“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public. It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist. R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr. Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ. Bull.)
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“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.
“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.
=Drucker, Aaron P.= Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.
8–10427.
“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court, that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.
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=Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“Highly interesting brochure.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–28424.
A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his poems.
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“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of ‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Du Bois, Mary R. J.=, comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.
8–33902.
Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.
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=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.
“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.
=Duncan, David.= Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5. Appleton.
8–17798.
By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)
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“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08.
“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.
“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.
“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of Spencer’s character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.
“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in the just proportion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.
“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.
“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included and excluded.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
7–40289.
Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old songs.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious information about minstrelsy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history, but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic curiosity.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26677.
Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is “The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan, tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’ this, now: that I _is_. An’ if I _is_, I _was_ an’ _will be_. But sometimes I misdoubt the _was_; an’ if I loses my grip on the _was_, Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the _will be_?”
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“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of ‘slow Jim Tool.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of steady faith in God and man.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ characterize these tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
=Duncon, John.= Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd. by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.
W8–115.
A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649 edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief and comfort.
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“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity, of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.
“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.
=Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics.= 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.
W 8–14.
=v. 1.= Hydraulic machinery.
This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines; Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.
=v. 2.= Resistance and propulsion of ships.
“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)
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“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will doubtless be corrected in future printings.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 71. Ja. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the material it contains.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the original papers by Rankine and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical of the state of engineering at present.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats. Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last two or three years in this country and the United States.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
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Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Not detailed, but an unprejudiced, comprehensive, and scholarly summary of arguments on a subject of great present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“A well-balanced, carefully-written book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 174. My. ’08. 170w.
“The value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his lucid and careful examination and summary of the causes which led to the loss of the place which the United States once held in the ocean carrying trade, and of the arguments for and against further government aid to the ocean transport business.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 400w.
“To speak in general terms, the discussion is largely a summary of arguments upon the question at issue—a summary which is convenient because of arrangement, (this is marred by typographical errors in